Global Japanese History and Culture De-Isolating Japan from Past to Present

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. Power & Influence

1.1 ‘Koreans’ in Satsuma Domain

Rebekah Clements

1.2 Tokugawa Ieyasu and Seventeenth-Century Globalism

Frederik Cryns

1.3 Chiang Kai-Shek and Japan: An Epitome of Modern Sino-Japanese History

Tzu-chin Huang

1.4 Tokugawa Yoshimune’s Investigations of the Qing Dynasty

and their Implications for Japan

Michifumi Isoda (trans. Oliver White & Timon Screech)

1.5 Modern Japan from the Colonial Perspective: Issues in the Study of ‘Imperial History’

Toshihiko Matsuda

1.6 Translating Blackness: Framing ‘Black Literature’ in Japan

Deanna T. Nardy

1.7 Negotiating Asymmetry: Natsume Sōseki’s Reading of Hōjōki and Projecting Japanese Culture

Gouranga Charan Pradhan

1.8 Embassies from the Ryūkyū Kingdom: Tokugawa Japan and Diplomatic East Asia

Travis Seifman

2. Border & Movement

2.1 Ainu and the Borders of Japan

Edward Boyle

2.2 Conservative Movements and Immigration Politics in Japan

Yoojin Koo

2.3 Reconsidering ‘Vicarious Consumer Travel’: A Comparison of Travelogues by Murakami Haruki and Furuichi Noritoshi

Ryōta Nishino

2.4 The Social Impact of the ‘Healing’ Drama Oshin in 1980s Iran
Alireza Rezaee (trans. Oliver White and Mai Kataoka)

2.5 The Weaving of Translocal Networks: Gender, Dékasegi, and Livelihood within and beyond the Japanese Archipelago

Yukari Takai

2.6 The Fezzes in Japan: Japanese Media Reflections on the Ertuğrul Frigate's Visit

Hasan Topaçoğlu

2.7 The Usual Exercise of Fine Arts: Baroque Humanism in the Pre-Modern Non-West and Japan

Akihiko Watanabe

3. Body & Sense

3.1 Defying the Nation: Nuclear Disasters and Japan

Rachel DiNitto

3.2 Questions on the Oversea Deployment of ‘Martial Arts’: The Case of Aikidō in the West in the Post-War Period

Shigemi Inaga

3.3 No Cloud-Boat as a Guide: On Navigating the Affective Proximity of ‘China’ in Genji Monogatari’s Construction of Grief

Ekaterina (Kate) Komova

3.4 The Curious Case of Ms. Tommy Japan: Non-Colonial Intimacy and Oceanic Affect among Hyakushō, 1895

Manimporok

3.5 Japan as Portrayed in 19th century Western Music

Yuki Mitsuhira

3.6 The Significance of Excrement in the Buddhist Narratives of Medieval Japan

Rajyashree Pandey

3.7 Il tamburo di panno: An Italian Adaptation of the Nō Aya no tsuzumi

Diego Pellecchia

3.8 Flowing Between the Bogwood Boulders: A Shinsaku Ai-Kyōgen Case Study

Jane Kamjing Traynor

3.9 Proust in Japan and Japan in Proust: Notes on Yoshida Jō and the École japonaise of Proust Studies

J. Keith Vincent

4. Ecology & Technology

4.1 From Vishwakarma to Lu Ban to Shōtoku Taishi: Indian and Chinese Deities in Japanese Carpentry Mythology

Nicolle Marr Bertozzi

4.2 The Role of Travel in the Formation of Japanese Modernism in Interwar Visual Art and Architecture
Helena Čapková

4.3 Hiruko: Myth’s Identity in Tawada Yoko

Dennitza Gabrakova

4.4 Isolating the Global in the Prehistory of the Ryūkyū Islands

Mark Hudson

4.5 Moveable Type in Japan and the World

Peter Kornicki

4.6 Soil, Symbol, and Synecdoche: The Albert Kahn Garden as a Reflection of Global Japanese Culture

Hiromi Matsugi

4.7 Seaweed, Science, and Sushi: Cross-cultural Knowledge Transmission between Japan and the UK

Giulia Nicolini and Celia Plender

4.8 Fermentation, Hospitality & Planetary Dwelling in Contemporary Japanese Comics

Christophe Thouny

5. Ritual & Belief

5.1 The Blossoming of Buddhist Art During Nara Period

Sampa Biswas

5.2 De-Isolating Ise in Early Meiji Japan

John Breen

5.3 Imperial Sacrifice to an Uncrowned King

James McMullen

5.4 Buddhism in Japan from a Global Historical Perspective in the Early 12^th Century Fusō ryakki

Daniel F. Schley

5.5 Monuments of Hindu-Buddhist Kingship in Medieval Japan

Matthew Stavros

5.6 ‘After The Manner of This Land’: The Dutch East India Company’s Envoys Pay Homage to the Emperor of Japan

Cynthia Vialle

6. Beauty & Pleasure

6.1 Chikushiji, a Lyrical Lingua Franca of the Late-Edo Period

Stephen Roddy

6.2 The Mingei Movement and World Crafts: A Perennial Attraction

Ricard Bru

6.3 Kuroiwa Ruikō’s Suteobune: The Japanese Adaptation Bridging Western and Chinese Literature

Linghong Chen

6.4 Tea in the History of Japan’s Global Interfaces

Robert Hellyer

6.5 Hybrid Origins of Japanese Animation and Manga

Alvaro David Hernandez Hernandez

6.6 Making Modernism: American Audiences and Post-war Japanese Prints

Christopher Reed

6.7 Chinoiserie in Early Modern Japan

Yuko Tanaka (trans. Timon Screech)

Index

Biography

Oliver White is Specially Appointed Assistant Professor at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken) in Kyoto, Japan.

Mai Kataoka is Associate Professor at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken) in Kyoto, Japan.

Timon Screech is Professor at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken) in Kyoto, Japan.