Category Archives: culture

Resource: Podcasts – New Books in East Asian Studies

Posted on August 1, 2012 by Paula

We often post new book announcements on Sundays here at Shinpai Deshou, but we rarely have the time to review books we’ve read, especially not recent or up and coming works. Today’s resource does just that, and in convenient podcast … Continue reading →

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Bloomsberg Theatre Ensemble Presents Atsumori by Torchlight

Posted on July 31, 2012 by LM

. Join us at the Bloomsburg Town Park at 7PM on August 3 & 4 at 7 pm for the 2012 Noh Training Project Recital, and stay for the Noh Performance by torchlight of Atsumori. (In case of rain, the … Continue reading →

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Funding: Sumitomo Foundation Japan-related Research Grant

Posted on July 30, 2012 by Paula

http://www.sumitomo.or.jp/e/index.htm Grant for Japan-related Research Projects Purpose of the Program: The program aims at enhancing mutual understanding between Asian countries and Japan through promoting research projects in the field of the social sciences or humanities that are related to Japan. … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: The Premise of Fidelity: Science, Visuality, and Representing the Real in Nineteenth-Century Japan

Posted on July 29, 2012 by LM

http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=20941 The Premise of Fidelity: Science, Visuality, and Representing the Real in Nineteenth-Century Japan Maki Fukuoka Stanford University Press Forthcoming July 2012 ISBN: 9780804777902 The Premise of Fidelity puts forward a new history of Japanese visuality through an examination of … Continue reading →

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Fun Link Friday: “Two Views of the Shikoku Henro Pilgrimage”

Posted on July 27, 2012 by LM

Today’s fun link is “Two Views of the Shikoku Henro Pilgrimage” on Néojaponisme. In the article, W. David Marx interviews two American writers who hiked the 88-temple henro route in Shikoku (separately) and wrote about their experiences. Tucked between the … Continue reading →

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Funding: Saison Foundation (Contemporary Theater and Dance)

Posted on July 23, 2012 by Paula

[The deadline for these grants have passed, but bookmark it for next year!] http://www.saison.or.jp/english/application/01.html Contemporary Theater and Dance: International Project Support Program (For medium to long-term artistic collaboration projects) This program offers grants and/or priority use of space at Morishita … Continue reading →

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Conference: Association for Asian Performance, Washington, DC, August 1-2, 2012

Posted on July 21, 2012 by Paula

The 2012 Association for Asian Performance annual conference will take place in Hyatt Regency Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. from August 1-2 in conjunction with the Association for Theatre in Higher Education. The full conference program (including directions) is now … Continue reading →

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Fun Link Friday: Sapore dei Mobili

Posted on July 20, 2012 by LM

“Baby castella” (ベビー・カステラ), the globular egg cakes cooked in molds at Japanese festivals, were originally brought to Japan from Portugal. Japanese designer Ryosuke Fukusada and Portuguese designer Rui Pereira have collaborated on a design project called Sapore dei Mobili that … Continue reading →

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FLF: The World’s Most Expensive 1 Bedroom Apartment

Posted on July 13, 2012 by Paula

Maybe you checked out our previous Fun Link Friday on the inventive floating Japanese tea house designed by David Jameson in DC. Or maybe you happened upon the CNN report some time back about the guy who designed a house … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Passionate Friendship: The Aesthetics of Girl’s Culture in Japan

Posted on July 8, 2012 by LM

http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/p-8616-9780824836382.aspx Deborah Shamoon University of Hawai’i Press March 2012 ISBN: 978-0-8248-3638-2; 978-0-8248-3542-2 Shojo manga are romance comics for teenage girls. Characterized by a very dense visual style, featuring flowery backgrounds and big-eyed, androgynous boys and girls, it is an extremely … Continue reading →

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