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Murakami-Ego : Collective Culpability and Selective Retention
University of Louisville ThinkIR: The University of Louisville's Institutional Repository Electronic Theses and Dissertations 8-2016 Murakami-ego : collective culpability and selective retention. Yun Kweon Jeong Follow this and additional works at: https://ir.library.louisville.edu/etd Part of the Asian Art and Architecture Commons, and the Contemporary Art Commons Recommended Citation Jeong, Yun Kweon, "Murakami-ego : collective culpability and selective retention." (2016). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. Paper 2497. https://doi.org/10.18297/etd/2497 This Master's Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by ThinkIR: The University of Louisville's Institutional Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Electronic Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of ThinkIR: The University of Louisville's Institutional Repository. This title appears here courtesy of the author, who has retained all other copyrights. For more information, please contact [email protected]. MURAKAMI-EGO: COLLECTIVE CULPABILITY AND SELECTIVE RETENTION By Yun Kweon Jeong B.A. JeonJu University, 1997 M.Div. Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2008 A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of the College of Arts and Sciences of the University of Louisville in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in Art (c) and Art History Department of Fine Arts University of Louisville Louisville, Kentucky August 2016 Copyright 2016 by Yun Kweon Jeong All Rights Reserved MURAKAMI-EGO: COLLECTIVE CULPABILITY AND SELECTIVE RETENTION By Yun Kweon Jeong B.A. JeonJu University, 1997 M.Div. Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2008 A Thesis Approved on August 8, 2016 By the following Thesis Committee: Dr. -
Otorisama Continues to Be Loved by the People
2020 edition Edo to the Present The Sugamo Otori Shrine, located near the Nakasendo, has been providing a spiritual Ⅰ Otorisama continues to be loved sanctuary to the people as Oinarisama (Inari god) and continues to be worshipped and by the people loved to this today. Torinoichi, the legacy of flourishing Edo Stylish manners of Torinoichi The Torinoichi is famous for its Kaiun Kumade Mamori (rake-shaped amulet for Every November on the day of the good luck). This very popular good luck charm symbolizes prosperous business cock, the Torinoichi (Cock Fairs) are and is believed to rake in better luck with money. You may hear bells ringing from all held in Otori Shrines across the nation parts of the precinct. This signifies that the bid for the rake has settled. The prices and many worshippers gather at the of the rakes are not fixed so they need to be negotiated. The customer will give the Sugamo Otori Shrine. Kumade vendor a portion of the money saved from negotiation as gratuity so both The Sugamo Otori Shrine first held parties can pray for successful business. It is evident through their stylish way of business that the people of Edo lived in a society rich in spirit. its Torinoichi in 1864. Sugamo’s Torinoichi immediately gained good reputation in Edo and flourished year Kosodateinari / Sugamo Otori Shrine ( 4-25 Sengoku, Bunkyo Ward ) MAP 1 after year. Sugamo Otori Shrine was established in 1688 by a Sugamo resident, Shin However, in 1868, the new Meiji Usaemon, when he built it as Sugamoinari Shrine. -
Japan Between the Wars
JAPAN BETWEEN THE WARS The Meiji era was not followed by as neat and logical a periodi- zation. The Emperor Meiji (his era name was conflated with his person posthumously) symbolized the changes of his period so perfectly that at his death in July 1912 there was a clear sense that an era had come to an end. His successor, who was assigned the era name Taisho¯ (Great Righteousness), was never well, and demonstrated such embarrassing indications of mental illness that his son Hirohito succeeded him as regent in 1922 and re- mained in that office until his father’s death in 1926, when the era name was changed to Sho¯wa. The 1920s are often referred to as the “Taisho¯ period,” but the Taisho¯ emperor was in nominal charge only until 1922; he was unimportant in life and his death was irrelevant. Far better, then, to consider the quarter century between the Russo-Japanese War and the outbreak of the Manchurian Incident of 1931 as the next era of modern Japanese history. There is overlap at both ends, with Meiji and with the resur- gence of the military, but the years in question mark important developments in every aspect of Japanese life. They are also years of irony and paradox. Japan achieved success in joining the Great Powers and reached imperial status just as the territo- rial grabs that distinguished nineteenth-century imperialism came to an end, and its image changed with dramatic swiftness from that of newly founded empire to stubborn advocate of imperial privilege. Its military and naval might approached world standards just as those standards were about to change, and not long before the disaster of World War I produced revul- sion from armament and substituted enthusiasm for arms limi- tations. -
Collecting Karamono Kodō 唐物古銅 in Meiji Japan: Archaistic Chinese Bronzes in the Chiossone Museum, Genoa, Italy
Transcultural Perspectives 4/2020 - 1 Gonatella Failla "ollecting karamono kod( 唐物古銅 in Mei3i Japan: Archaistic Chinese 4ronzes in the Chiossone Museum, Genoa, Ital* Introduction public in the special e>hibition 7ood for the The Museum of Oriental Art, enoa, holds the Ancestors, 7lo#ers for the ods: Transformations of !apanese and Chinese art collections #hich Edoardo Archaistic 4ronzes in China and !apan01 The e>hibits Chiossone % enoa 1833-T()*( 1898) -athered during #ere organised in 5ve main cate-ories: archaistic his t#enty-three-year sta* in !apan, from !anuary copies and imitations of archaic ritual 2ronzes; 1875 until his death in April 1898. A distinguished 4uddhist ritual altar sets in archaistic styleC )aramono professor of design and engraving techniques, )od( hanaike, i.e0 Chinese @o#er 2ronzes collected in Chiossone #as hired 2* the Meiji -overnment to !apan; Chinese 2ronzes for the scholar’s studioC install modern machinery and esta2lish industrial !apan’s reinvention of Chinese archaismB 2ronze and production procedures at the Imperial Printing iron for chanoyu %tea ceremony), for 2unjincha %tea of 4ureau, T()*(, to instruct the youn- -eneration of the literati,, and for @o#er arrangement in the formal designers and engravers, and to produce securit* rik)a style0 printed products such as 2anknotes, state 2ond 4esides documenting the a-es-old, multifaceted certificates, monopoly and posta-e stamps. He #as interest of China in its o#n antiquit* and its unceasing #ell-)no#n also as a portraitist of contemporaneous revivals, the Chiossone 2ronze collection attests to historic 5-ures, most nota2ly Philipp-7ranz von the !apanese tradition of -athering Chinese 2ronzes 9ie2old %1796-1866, and Emperor Meiji %1852-1912, r. -
Timely Timeless.Indd 1 2/12/19 10:26 PM Published by the Trout Gallery, the Art Museum of Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania 17013
Timely and Timeless Timely Timely and Timeless Japan’s Modern Transformation in Woodblock Prints THE TROUT GALLERY G38636_SR EXH ArtH407_TimelyTimelessCover.indd 1 2/18/19 2:32 PM March 1–April 13, 2019 Fiona Clarke Isabel Figueroa Mary Emma Heald Chelsea Parke Kramer Lilly Middleton Cece Witherspoon Adrian Zhang Carlisle, Pennsylvania G38636_SR EXH ArtH407_Timely Timeless.indd 1 2/12/19 10:26 PM Published by The Trout Gallery, The Art Museum of Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania 17013 Copyright © 2019 The Trout Gallery. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written permission from The Trout Gallery. This publication was produced in part through the generous support of the Helen Trout Memorial Fund and the Ruth Trout Endowment at Dickinson College. First Published 2019 by The Trout Gallery, Carlisle, Pennsylvania www.trougallery.org Editor-in-Chief: Phillip Earenfight Design: Neil Mills, Design Services, Dickinson College Photography: Andrew Bale, unless otherwise noted Printing: Brilliant Printing, Exton, Pennsylvania Typography: (Title Block) D-DIN Condensed, Brandon Text, (Interior) Adobe Garamond Pro ISBN: 978-0-9861263-8-3 Printed in the United States COVER: Utagawa Hiroshige, Night View of Saruwaka-machi, from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (detail), 1856. Woodblock print, ink and color on paper. The Trout Gallery, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA. 2018.3.14 (cat. 7). BACK COVER: Utagawa Hiroshige, Night View of Saruwaka-machi, from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (detail), 1856. -
The Kokuryūkai and the Russo-Japanese
Anti-Russian Secret Actions – The Kokuryūkai and the Russo-Japanese War by Frank Jacob INTRODUCTION The image of a country is mainly a construction of its popular perception.1 Many stereotypes2 are just the consequence of prejudices or single experiences, which have been made public and are responsible for the creation of resentment with regard to a particular country. Russia. During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Russia became Japan’s number one enemy for a possible forthcoming war. This image was mainly created and supported by the nationalist circles, led by the Amur society (Kokuryūkai),3 which was founded to enforce a war against Russia. This society tried to influence Japanese politicians as well as public opinion by reporting about Russia and frequently demanding a more aggressive course against the tsarist enemy. Russia’s expansive course in East Asia was stigmatized as a threat to Japanese imperial aspirations with regard to the Asian mainland, especially for its influence in Korea. A war was declared to be suitable, and for the Kokuryūkai’s planning a war seemed to be sure. Its leader, Uchida Ryōhei (1873–1937),4 published 1 For this topic see Anderson 2006. 2 For a general introduction see Qeybullayeva 2010. 3 The works on the Kokuryūkai in Western languages are Jacob 2013 and Jacob 2014. 4 For a detailed biography of Uchida the before mentioned works of Jacob are recommended. Saggi/Ensayos/Essais/Essays N. 11 – 05/2014 111 pamphlets and books5 that underlined the anti-Russian ideology of the society and helped broaden support for a war against the tsarist empire. -
Mother of the Nation: Femininity, Modernity, and Class in the Image of Empress Teimei
Mother of the Nation: Femininity, Modernity, and Class in the Image of Empress Teimei By ©2016 Alison Miller Submitted to the graduate degree program in the History of Art and the Graduate Faculty of the University of Kansas in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. ________________________________ Chairperson Dr. Maki Kaneko ________________________________ Dr. Sherry Fowler ________________________________ Dr. David Cateforis ________________________________ Dr. John Pultz ________________________________ Dr. Akiko Takeyama Date Defended: April 15, 2016 The Dissertation Committee for Alison Miller certifies that this is the approved version of the following dissertation: Mother of the Nation: Femininity, Modernity, and Class in the Image of Empress Teimei ________________________________ Chairperson Dr. Maki Kaneko Date approved: April 15, 2016 ii Abstract This dissertation examines the political significance of the image of the Japanese Empress Teimei (1884-1951) with a focus on issues of gender and class. During the first three decades of the twentieth century, Japanese society underwent significant changes in a short amount of time. After the intense modernizations of the late nineteenth century, the start of the twentieth century witnessed an increase in overseas militarism, turbulent domestic politics, an evolving middle class, and the expansion of roles for women to play outside the home. As such, the early decades of the twentieth century in Japan were a crucial period for the formation of modern ideas about femininity and womanhood. Before, during, and after the rule of her husband Emperor Taishō (1879-1926; r. 1912-1926), Empress Teimei held a highly public role, and was frequently seen in a variety of visual media. -
Design Variations to the Popular Area
September 12, 2018 More design variations to the popular area-exclusive bottles! Niigata, Shonan, Hida-Takayama, Osaka, and Hakata versions of the Coca-Cola Slim Bottle Regional Design to be released on Monday, October 1 Tokugawa design with the “triple hollyhock” crest also to be released on the same day. Coca-Cola Bottlers Japan Inc. (Head office: Minato-ku, Tokyo; President: Tamio Yoshimatsu) will on Monday, October 1, 2018 release Niigata, Shonan, Hida-Takayama, Osaka, and Hakata versions of the "Coca-Cola" Slim Bottle Regional Design, which features stylish packaging specially designed with illustrations of regional tourist spots. The company will also release a Tokugawa design as this year marks the 150 years since the Fall of Edo. A total of 21 variations of the "Coca-Cola" Slim Bottle Regional Design have been so far marketed as special packaging to make travel more enjoyable. Since June 2017, the company has designed bottles with symbols and tourist spots of each region, and released in respective regions only. Because those designs enjoyed popularity among lots of people in all of those regions, as a bottle perfect for a drink with meal or for refreshment during travel, as well as for a souvenir, the company has decided to roll out additional five regional bottles following the previous designs released in August this year. Each bottle is iconically designed with illustrations of region's symbols and signature tourist spots - the Bandai bridge, Niigata Geisha, and willow for Niigata design; the Great Buddha of Kamakura, Enoshima Island, and a yacht for Shonan design; a house with steep rafter roof for Hida-Takayama design; Osaka Castle, the Umeda Sky Building, and Takoyaki balls for Osaka design; Canal City Hakata and food stalls for Hataka design. -
2022 Cherry Blossoms
photo © japan-guide.com photo © kumamoto-guide.jp ate n Off the Be n Path: A Different Side of Japa 2022 CHERRY BLOSSOMS GUARANTEED! SAIGO TAKAMORI HISTORY TOUR RISK FREE! Very Unique Tour Itinerary! Fly Non-Stop to Fukuoka and Return from Osaka! Cancel for Any Reason by 12/29/21! 10 Nights / 12 Days • 23 Meals (10 Breakfasts, 7 Lunches, 6 Dinners) No Penalties & No Cancellation Fees! Escorted from Honolulu • English-Speaking Local Guide April 01 – 12, 2022 • Tour Manager: Lana Ige Saigō Takamori (1828–1877) was one of the most influential samurai in Japanese history. As a leader COMPLETE in the Meiji Restoration, he was instrumental in the overthrow of the Tokugawa shogunate (military government) and the return of the control of the country to direct imperial rule under Mutsuhito (the PACKAGE! emperor Meiji). While this brought about the modernization and Westernization of the country, it also meant the abolishment of the privileged social status of Saigō’s beloved samurai class. $4588* Disenfranchised with his new government, Saigō escaped to Kagoshima and opened a private military INCLUDES ROUNDTRIP AIRFARE FROM academy as a way to employ the faithful samurai who had also left Tokyo to follow him. As tensions grew HONOLULU, 10 NIGHTS HOTEL, 23 MEALS, between the imperial government and the samurai class, Saigō was reluctantly persuaded by his peers to TIPS FOR LOCAL TOUR GUIDES AND lead a revolt against the government just 9 years after helping to place it in power. The rebellion lasted BUS DRIVERS, ALL TAXES & FEES just 9 months before Saigō was shot and mortally wounded. -
Navy, Modernized 1868-1894 [Encyclopedia Entry] Michael Wert Marquette University, [email protected]
Marquette University e-Publications@Marquette History Faculty Research and Publications History Department 1-1-2013 Navy, Modernized 1868-1894 [Encyclopedia Entry] Michael Wert Marquette University, [email protected] Published version. "Navy, Modernized 1868-1894," in Japan at War: An Encyclopedia. Publisher Link. Japan at War: An Encyclopedia by Louis G. Perez, Editor. © 2013 by ABC-Clio, LLC. All rights reserved. Reproduced with permission of ABC-CLIO, LLC, Santa Barbara, CA. Navy, Modernized I 267 . a naval squadron led by U.S. Commodore 2. Japan's emperor, not China's, invested Matthew Perry forced the bakufu to sign Tokugawa shoguns with ruling author a treaty that ended national isolation by ity but did so on condition that they allowing a consul-general to reside in Japan, uphold national isolation, which per and Townsend Harris came to take up this force meant preserving sovereignty post in 1856. He demanded and got a and territorial integrity. shogunal audience at which he extorted 3. That point required shOguns to expel a full-blown trade pact from bakufu leader unauthorized foreigners who forced Ii Naosuke-just as China was suffering their way into Japan and the ruling defeat in the second. Opium War in 1858. warrior class to live up to its Bushido Ii signed the treaty, in a decision that counter ideology. manded the orders of the emperor in Kyoto, 4. Failure on those counts would justify not the emperor in Beijing. This defiant act ending bakufu rule and the warrior stirred up violent nationalistic opposition, class in the name of imperialloyalism, first among samurai from Mito domain, who and creating a new polity and a com murdered Ii in 1860, and later throughout moner conscript army better suited to the nation as well. -
Japan Has Always Held an Important Place in Modern World Affairs, Switching Sides From
Japan has always held an important place in modern world affairs, switching sides from WWI to WWII and always being at the forefront of technology. Yet, Japan never came up as much as China, Mongolia, and other East Asian kingdoms as we studied history at school. Why was that? Delving into Japanese history we found the reason; much of Japan’s history was comprised of sakoku, a barrier between it and the Western world, which wrote most of its history. How did this barrier break and Japan leap to power? This was the question we set out on an expedition to answer. With preliminary knowledge on Matthew Perry, we began research on sakoku’s history. We worked towards a middle; researching sakoku’s implementation, the West’s attempt to break it, and the impacts of Japan’s globalization. These three topics converged at the pivotal moment when Commodore Perry arrived in Japan and opened two of its ports through the Convention of Kanagawa. To further our knowledge on Perry’s arrival and the fall of the Tokugawa in particular, we borrowed several books from our local library and reached out to several professors. Rhoda Blumberg’s Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun presented rich detail into Perry’s arrival in Japan, while Professor Emi Foulk Bushelle of WWU answered several of our queries and gave us a valuable document with letters written by two Japanese officials. Professor John W. Dower’s website on MIT Visualizing Cultures offered analysis of several primary sources, including images and illustrations that represented the US and Japan’s perceptions of each other. -
A New Interpretation of the Bakufu's Refusal to Open the Ryukyus To
Volume 16 | Issue 17 | Number 3 | Article ID 5196 | Sep 01, 2018 The Asia-Pacific Journal | Japan Focus A New Interpretation of the Bakufu’s Refusal to Open the Ryukyus to Commodore Perry Marco Tinello Abstract The Ryukyu Islands are a chain of Japanese islands that stretch southwest from Kyushu to In this article I seek to show that, while the Taiwan. The former Kingdom of Ryukyu was Ryukyu shobun refers to the process by which formally incorporated into the Japanese state the Meiji government annexed the Ryukyu as Okinawa Prefecture in 1879. Kingdom between 1872 and 1879, it can best be understood by investigating its antecedents in the Bakumatsu era and by viewing it in the wider context of East Asian and world history. I show that, following negotiations with Commodore Perry, the bakufu recognized the importance of claiming Japanese control over the Ryukyus. This study clarifies the changing nature of Japanese diplomacy regarding the Ryukyus from Bakumatsu in the late 1840s to early Meiji. Keywords Tokugawa bakufu, Bakumatsu, Ryukyu shobun, Commodore Perry, Japan From the end of the fourteenth century until the mid-sixteenth century, the Ryukyu kingdom was a center of trade relations between Japan, China, Korea, and other East Asian partners. According to his journal, when Commodore Matthew C. Perry demanded that the Ryukyu Islands be opened to his fleet in 1854, the Tokugawa shogunate replied that the Ryukyu Kingdom “is a very distant country, and the opening of its harbor cannot be discussed by us.”2 The few English-language studies3 of this encounter interpret this reply as evidence that 1 16 | 17 | 3 APJ | JF the bakufu was reluctant to become involved in and American sources relating to the discussions about the international status of negotiations between Perry and the bakufu in the Ryukyus; no further work has been done to 1854, I show that Abe did not draft his guide investigate the bakufu’s foreign policy toward immediately before, but rather after the Ryukyus between 1854 and the early Meiji negotiations were held at Uraga in 1854/2.