Haruki Murakami And Religion: The Nature Of Religion In 1q84 And Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki And His Years Of Pilgrimage,
2015
Coastal Carolina University
Haruki Murakami And Religion: The Nature Of Religion In 1q84 And Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki And His Years Of Pilgrimage, Ronald S. Green
Philosophy and Religious Studies
This course focuses on underlying religious and philosophical assumptions in the most recent works of Haruki Murakami (1949-), 1Q84 in three volumes and Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage. Murakami is the most popular and widely read novelist in Japan today and a major literary figure worldwide. He cites as his two sources for inspiration in writing 1Q84 George Orwell and the AUM religious cult, responsible for bombing Tokyo subways with sarin gas in the 1990s.
Sex In Japan: It’S A Straight Man’S World,
2015
College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's University
Sex In Japan: It’S A Straight Man’S World, Kaileigh Nicklas
Honors Theses, 1963-2015
Japanese feminism directly impacts the social image of non-male sexuality in Japanese literature and pop-culture through highlighting gender roles, ingrained misogyny, and violence toward non-male oriented sex. This project will specifically focus on the power dynamics of sex in Japanese society through gender roles, female sexuality, and the rise of Japanese feminist movement. An observation of sexuality in Japan from such female works as The Apprenticeship of the Big Toe P and Snakes and Earrings in contrast to male works such as Norwegian Wood and Memoirs of a Geisha provide further insights to the role that sex plays in the …
Lone Wolves And Stray Dogs: The Japanese Crime Film, 1931-1969,
2015
Yale University
Lone Wolves And Stray Dogs: The Japanese Crime Film, 1931-1969, Aaron Gerow, Rea Amit, Samuel Malissa, Noriko Morisue, Hsin-Yuan Peng, Stephen Poland, Grace Ting, Takuya Tsunoda, Justine Wiesinger, Young Yi, Inuhiko Yomota, Jō Ōsawa, Phil Kaffen
Film Series Commentaries
“Lone Wolves and Stray Dogs: The Japanese Crime Film, 1931–1969” is a continuing collaboration between the Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University and the National Film Center of the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. Ever since the success of the French crime film Zigomar in 1911, the Japanese film industry has produced numerous movies depicting criminals and the detectives who try to apprehend them. Chivalric yakuza, modern mobsters, knife-wielding molls, hardboiled gumshoes, samurai detectives, femme fatales, and private eyes populate Japanese cinema, from period films to contemporary dramas, from genre cinema to art film, from the …
Literature And The Remnants Of Feudal Ideology In The Meiji Period: An Analysis Of Ogai, Ichiyo, And Soseki,
2015
Bard College
Literature And The Remnants Of Feudal Ideology In The Meiji Period: An Analysis Of Ogai, Ichiyo, And Soseki, Zhen Yuan Yao
Senior Projects Fall 2015
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.
Like The Moon,
2015
Bard College
Like The Moon, Camille Weisgant
Senior Projects Spring 2015
An adaptation of the traditional Japanese Noh play "Ama," "Like the Moon" explores what it means to die in the 21st century, when death, just like life, is mediated by technology.
Picturing The Flames Of Daimonji,
2015
University of North Florida
Picturing The Flames Of Daimonji, Clark Lunberry
English Faculty Research and Scholarship
Essays and photographs on the fiery calligraphy of Kyoto’s mountainside Daimonji festival.
Compensating The Victims Of Japan’S 3-11 Fukushima Disaster,
2015
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
Compensating The Victims Of Japan’S 3-11 Fukushima Disaster, Eric A. Feldman
All Faculty Scholarship
Japan’s March 2011 triple disaster—first a large earthquake, followed by a massive tsunami and a nuclear meltdown—caused a devastating loss of life, damaged and destroyed property, and left hundreds of thousands of people homeless, hurt, and in need. This article looks at the effort to address the financial needs of the victims of the 3/11 disaster by examining the role of public and private actors in providing compensation, describing the types of groups and individuals for whom compensation is available, and analyzing the range of institutions through which compensation has been allocated. The story is in some ways cause for …
The Demonic Women Of Premodern Japanese Theatre,
2015
Scripps College
The Demonic Women Of Premodern Japanese Theatre, Jasmine C.E. Umeno
Scripps Senior Theses
This thesis aims to examine the ways in which women are used as vehicles within the noh and kabuki theatre traditions to perpetuate moral and religious doctrine. Using the theoretical frameworks of Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, and Jill Dolan, I examine two plays which feature a female demon as their antagonist, Momijigari and Dojoji, and focus on the ways they incorporate Buddhist and Neo-Confucian ideology in their respective noh and kabuki renditions.
Rebecca Riger Tsurumi. The Closed Hand: Images Of The Japanese In Modern Peruvian Literature. West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue Up, 2012. Xv + 314 Pp.,
2015
Washburn University
Rebecca Riger Tsurumi. The Closed Hand: Images Of The Japanese In Modern Peruvian Literature. West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue Up, 2012. Xv + 314 Pp., Miguel Gonzalez-Abellas
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Review of Rebecca Riger Tsurumi. The Closed Hand: Images of the Japanese in Modern Peruvian Literature. West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue UP, 2012. xv + 314 pp.
Endless Dishes: Encounters With The Transmission Of Zen-Buddhist Training From Japan To America,
2015
Bard College
Endless Dishes: Encounters With The Transmission Of Zen-Buddhist Training From Japan To America, Alexandra Garlan White
Senior Projects Spring 2015
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.
Wrestling With Tradition: Japanese Activities At Amache, A World War Ii Incarceration Facility,
2015
University of Denver
Wrestling With Tradition: Japanese Activities At Amache, A World War Ii Incarceration Facility, Zachary Allen Starke
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
I employ archaeological analyses, archival research, and oral histories to investigate traditional Japanese practices that were performed at Amache, a World War II Japanese American incarceration facility. I argue that these inter-generational practices helped to bridge a cultural gap that existed between several generations of Japanese Americans. For many incarcerated Japanese Americans, their first exposure to many traditional activities occurred during incarceration. The resulting social environment incorporated aspects of Japanese, Japanese American, and mainstream American influences, all of which were adapted to conditions during incarceration. Similarly, archaeological analyses allow for the investigation of traditional practice features. These provide evidence regarding …
Ryōan Temple Rock Garden By Murō Saisei,
2014
Denison University
Ryōan Temple Rock Garden By Murō Saisei, Michael Tangeman
Transference
Translated from the Japanese with commentary by Michael Stone Tangeman.
Selections From Man’Yōshū By Various Authors,
2014
University of North Texas
Selections From Man’Yōshū By Various Authors, John G. Peters
Transference
Translated from the Japanese with commentary by John Peters.
Gray Toad And Color Of The Season By Ōte Takuji,
2014
Tamkang University, Taiwan (R.O.C.)
Gray Toad And Color Of The Season By Ōte Takuji, Dean A. Brink
Transference
Translated from the Japanese with commentary by Dean A. Brink.
Mona Lisa, A Deer, That Man, And The Night Of An Artificial Satellite By Murano Shirō,
2014
Saga University Faculty of Medicine
Mona Lisa, A Deer, That Man, And The Night Of An Artificial Satellite By Murano Shirō, Goro Takano
Transference
Translated from the Japanese with commentary by Goro Takano.
Ribbons Of May, Fading, Green, And Angels Of The Sea By Sagawa Chika,
2014
Shiga University
Ribbons Of May, Fading, Green, And Angels Of The Sea By Sagawa Chika, Rina Kikuchi, Carol Hayes
Transference
Translated from the Japanese with commentary by Rina Kikuchi and Carol Hayes.
Style Shifting In First-Encounter Conversations Between Japanese Speakers,
2014
Portland State University
Style Shifting In First-Encounter Conversations Between Japanese Speakers, Kenichi Shinkuma
Dissertations and Theses
This study examines style shift between formal and informal styles in first- encounter conversations between Japanese native speakers and demonstrates how the speakers shifted the speech style in the context. Many researchers have studied this type of style shift and demonstrated that style shifts occur within a single speech context where social factors, such as differences in age, status, and formalness remain constant (e.g., Cook, 2008; Geyer, 2008; Ikuta, 1983; Maynard, 1991; Okamoto, 1999). This study contributed support to these previous studies. In this study, both quantitative and qualitative analyses focusing on Japanese native speakers' use of style shifting in …
Situating A Badiouian Anthropocene In Hagiwara's Postnatural Poetry,
2014
Tamkang University
Situating A Badiouian Anthropocene In Hagiwara's Postnatural Poetry, Dean A. Brink
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
In his article "Situating a Badiouian Anthropocene in Hagiwara's Postnatural Poetry" Dean A. Brink discusses the ecological dimension of the poetry of one of the founding voices in modern Japanese poetry, Sakutarō Hagiwara (1886-1942). Brink argues that Hagiwara developed a poetics characterized by engagements with nonhuman organisms and actants to situate the materiality of these actants in ways that diffuse the binary of "language" and "nature" and present a postnatural relationality that Bruno Latour describes. Drawing on the recent work of Alain Badiou, Brink explores materialist alternatives to representationalism—including the Lacanian triangle of the imaginary real and symbolic—by emphasizing human-nonhuman …
Constructing Abe No Seimei: Integrating Genre And Disparate Narratives In Yumemakura Baku's Onmyōji,
2014
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Constructing Abe No Seimei: Integrating Genre And Disparate Narratives In Yumemakura Baku's Onmyōji, Devin T. Recchio
Masters Theses
The Onmyōji series has had an incredible impact on Japanese fiction. It has created an entire genre of material called onmyōjimono and sold 5 million copies counting only the novel series. Despite this, it has been woefully understudied by both Japanese and English speaking scholars. The Japanese scholars that do acknowledge it use it as a springboard to launch a survey of Abe no Seimei in written and performed media throughout history, and the English speaking scholars have limited their analyses to the form that oni take in the narrative. My research has revealed that Yumemakura Baku utilizes a complex …
Manga History As A Manga Character: The Gekiga Movement's Role In Tatsumi Yoshihiro's A Drifting Life,
2014
Portland State University
Manga History As A Manga Character: The Gekiga Movement's Role In Tatsumi Yoshihiro's A Drifting Life, Jon P. Holt
World Languages and Literatures Faculty Publications and Presentations
Why is manga history so important in Tatsumi's manga biography? Is A Drifting Life an autobiography, or, is it a history of the Japanese comic books, particularly the "mature-audience" gekiga sub-genre? Both? Neither? How do the narratives of history and self intertwine? How should we read the gekiga (dramatic pictures) in this manga?
