JAHQ-V2-cover-final-v3.pdf 1 3/20/17 7:41 AM JOURNAL OF ASIAN HUMANITIES AT KYUSHU UNIVERSITY AT ASIAN HUMANITIES OF JOURNAL Journal of Asian VOLUME 2, SPRING 2017 Humanities at Kyushu University CYNTHEA J. BOGEL Editorial Foreword PAWEL PACHCIAREK HENNY VAN DER VEERE Kusama Yayoi in the Context of e Importance of Kōden in the Establishment Eastern and Western ought of Identity: e Title of the Dainichikyō in the Opening Sequence of the Hizōki ELIZABETH TINSLEY e Composition of Decomposition: e Kusōzu PETER KORNICKI WITH T. H. BARRETT Images of Matsui Fuyuko and Itō Seiu, and Buddhism Buddhist Texts on Gold and Other Metals in East Asia: C in Erotic Grotesque Modernity Preliminary Observations M ANNE VINCENT-GOUBEAU RADU LECA Y Chen Zhen and the Obviousness of the Object Turning “Sites of Remembrance” into CM “Sites of Imagination”: e Case of Hideyoshi’s MY UGO DESSÌ Great Buddha Recent Developments in the Japanese Debate CY on Secularization Review CMY K EVA SEEGERS BOOK REVIEW BY BRYAN D. LOWE A Tibetan Stupa within the Flow of Cultural Heather Blair. Real and Imagined: e Peak Transformations: e Opportunities and of Gold in Heian Japan. Cambridge, MA: Challenges of Transplanting Buddhist Architecture Harvard University Asia Center, 2015. from Asia to Europe Kyushu and Asia ELISABETTA PORCU Tenrikyō’s Divine Model through the TAKESHI SHIZUNAGA Manga Oyasama Monogatari Dr. Sun Yat-sen’s Visit to Fukuoka and the History Journal of Asian of China-Japan Academic Cooperation at Kyushu VOLUME 2, SPRING 2017 University Humanities at Kyushu University VOLUME 2, SPRING 2017 Journal of Asian Humanities at Kyushu University VOLUME 2, SPRING 2017 The Journal of Asian Humanities at Kyushu University (JAH-Q) is a peer-reviewed journal published by Kyushu University, School of Letters, Graduate School of Humanities, Faculty of Humanities 九州大学文学部 大学院人文科学府 大学院人文科学研究院. Copyright © 2017 Kyushu university JAHQ-V2-interior-final-v2.indd 1 3/20/17 7:40 AM Journal of Asian Humanities at Kyushu University Editorial Board Information about the journal and submissions editor Cynthea J. Bogel (Kyushu University) The Journal of Asian Humanities at Kyushu University (JAH-Q) is available in print and web-accessible PDF Managing editor on the Kyushu University library website at Tomoyuki Kubo (Kyushu University) https://www.lib.kyushu-u.ac.jp/en advisory MeMbers We accept research articles, reviews (book, exhibition, Karl Friday (Saitama University) film), short reports (conferences and other events) and Seinosuke Ide (Kyushu University) state-of-the-field essays. Fabio Rambelli (University of California, Santa Barbara) Yasutoshi Sakaue (Kyushu University) Potential contributors should request the JAH-Q Sub- Takeshi Shizunaga (Kyushu University) mission Guidelines. Melanie Trede (Heidelberg University) Ellen Van Goethem (Kyushu University) If you have an article to submit or would like your Catherine Vance Yeh (Boston University) book to be reviewed, please contact us at cjbogel@lit. kyushu-u.ac.jp and [email protected]. design Thomas Eykemans JAHQ-V2-interior-final-v2.indd 2 3/20/17 7:40 AM Contents VOLUME 2, SPRING 2017 TOMOYUKI KUBO Prefatory Note . iv CYNTHEA J. BOGEL Editorial Foreword . v PAWEL PACHCIAREK HENNY VAN DER VEERE Kusama Yayoi in the Context of The Importance of Kōden in the Establishment Eastern and Western Thought . 1 of Identity: The Title of the Dainichikyō in the Opening Sequence of the Hizōki . 95 ELIZABETH TINSLEY The Composition of Decomposition: The Kusōzu PETER KORNICKI WITH T. H. BARRETT Images of Matsui Fuyuko and Itō Seiu, and Buddhism Buddhist Texts on Gold and Other Metals in East Asia: in Erotic Grotesque Modernity . 15 Preliminary Observations . 111 ANNE VINCENT-GOUBEAU RADU LECA Chen Zhen and the Obviousness of the Object . 47 Turning “Sites of Remembrance” into “Sites of Imagination”: The Case of Hideyoshi’s UGO DESSÌ Great Buddha . 125 Recent Developments in the Japanese Debate on Secularization. 57 Review EVA SEEGERS BOOK REVIEW BY BRYAN D. LOWE A Tibetan Stupa within the Flow of Cultural Heather Blair. Real and Imagined: The Peak Transformations: The Opportunities and of Gold in Heian Japan. Cambridge, MA: Challenges of Transplanting Buddhist Architecture Harvard University Asia Center, 2015. 137 from Asia to Europe . 67 Kyushu and Asia ELISABETTA PORCU Tenrikyō’s Divine Model through the TAKESHI SHIZUNAGA Manga Oyasama Monogatari . 85 Dr. Sun Yat-sen’s Visit to Fukuoka and the History of China-Japan Academic Cooperation at Kyushu University . 143 JAHQ-V2-interior-final-v2.indd 3 3/20/17 7:40 AM Prefatory Note TOMOYUKI KUBO dean sChool of letters, graduate sChool of huManities, faCulty of huManities he Faculty of Letters (currently the School of Letters, Graduate School of Humanities, and Faculty of Humanities) of Kyushu University Tcelebrated its 90th anniversary in 2014. In order to commemorate this anniversary and share our research and accomplishments with the global academic com- munity, we decided to publish an international journal annually. This second volume represents our ongoing effort. I am confident that this journal will make a con- tribution to a greater understanding of the humanities and will continue to make its influence felt in the inter- national academic world. Thanks are due to all who have helped to make this journal possible. I would especially like to acknowledge the work done by professors Cynthea J. Bogel, journal editor, and Ellen Van Goethem; their creativity and ef- forts have been critical to realizing the journal. I sincerely hope this journal will contribute to the vital history of Asian Humanities in the world. IV JAHQ-V2-interior-final-v2.indd 4 3/20/17 7:40 AM Editorial Foreword CYNTHEA J. BOGEL elCoMe to Volume 2 of JAH-Q. In addi- painting” (Pachciarek) and performances that “oblit- tion to nine essays on visual culture and erate nature and our bodies” (Kusama) to eastern and religious studies subjects, this volume western philosophies—some of them set forth by launchesW two new sections that we hope to include in Kusama, others suggested by the author. He contrasts every issue. The Review section will offer book, film, with these the artist’s not infrequent refutation of influ- exhibition, conference, and event reviews. Kyushu and ence from any creed or context. Tinsley gives us a dis- Asia will feature a short piece or research essay on cerning study of forty-three-year-old Matsui’s work, at some aspect of Kyushu in the context of Asian human- once disturbing and beautiful, and its visual and con- ities. In this issue Bryan Lowe reviews Heather Blair’s ceptual sources. She introduces the post-WWII paint- original study of Mt. Kinpusen, a nuanced exploration ings of Itō Seiu and the aesthetics of an erotic grotesque of real and imagined space(s) on a natural monument born of modernity—and all that it entails and derails. In of sacred activity; for Kyushu and Asia we feature a doing so Tinsley situates the work of Matsui both within thought-provoking piece by Takeshi Shizunaga detail- and beyond the Buddhist decomposition works for con- ing Sun Yat-sen’s visit to Kyushu University in 1913. templation (kusōzu) that are usually cited as her primary The first three essays present contemporary art and inspiration. The third essay by Anne Vincent-Goubeau its reception by multiple publics. In the first two, Pawel on the late French émigré Chinese artist Chen Zhen Pachciarek and Elizabeth Tinsley offer considerations also explores art, religion, and the artist’s perception of of celebrated Japanese contemporary artists Kusama worldly objects. Chen’s body of work, like that of the late Yayoi and Matsui Fuyuko, respectively. Sexuality, Bud- Montien Boonma, was deeply affected by his serious ill- dhism and philosophy, self-obliteration, and the art- ness and by Buddhism—in Chen’s case his contact with ist’s self-representation are shared themes. Pachciarek Tibet and its people. Vincent-Goubeau focuses on the scrutinizes a long history of responses to eighty-eight- artist’s installations, which she sees as predicated on “the year-old Kusama’s artistic output, focusing on her time self-evidence of mundane objects.” in New York during the 1950s and ’60s. He probes con- The fourth essay takes us away from art and artis- nections between “her distinct meditative approach to tic allusion to scholarly debates about secularization V JAHQ-V2-interior-final-v2.indd 5 3/20/17 7:40 AM (and post secularity) in Japan and theories of secular- Buddhist sutras and sutra excerpts on gilded or plain ization within and outside Japan. Ugo Dessì’s critical metal plates from East Asia. Just as the use of the first survey of the literature highlights certain mechanisms line from a key Shingon text in van der Veere’s study that inform scholars’ resistance to Western method- is understood to hold the true meaning of the whole, ologies, the “contested, misused, and misunderstood” the textual passages on one or more metal plates serve discourses on the secular and secularization, and the as the embodiment of the sutra. Like the Buddhist implications of new Japanese models. Placed before es- stupa, the metal document with its text is understood says by Eva Seegers, Elisabetta Porcu, and Henny van as embodying the body of the Buddha. Also like the der Veere, Dessì’s serves to remind us of relationships stupa, the plates sometimes travel far from their place between secular society (or differently religious societ- of creation. ies) and Buddhism or Buddhist icons, and of emic and Radu Leca’s contribution on Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s etic viewpoints. late-sixteenth-century Great Buddha Hall at Hōkōji Seegers’ study of a four-meter-high Tibetan stupa and its lost twenty-four-meter-high icon in the former in Germany considers the migration and globalization capital of Kyoto uses visual archaeology to tease out the of Buddhism on one hand and the cultural appropri- essentializing gaze of the outsider.