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As modern classifications separated sho (calligraphy) from its traditional partner ga (painting), calligraphy as bijutsu (fine art) was being questioned. As a calligrapher, Nakamura Fusetsu (1866-1943) studied the works of the Stele School in China, introducing an archaic style that was unfamiliar to the Japanese audience at the time. In so doing, not only did he establish links to leading Chinese calligraphers and theorists, notably Kang Youwei, he also brought sho closer to fashionable notions of “art” predicated on inventiveness and historicism. This paper focuses on the theoretical and...
Death and what lies beyond is unknowable for those who are alive: “After all, no one has ever come back from there to tell us what it’s like.” However, death and the world beyond is imagined in this world, and this imagination may itself be of considerable analytical importance, in understanding not just individuals, but the sociocultural structurings of society. In this paper, based on extensive interviews with Japanese adults about death and what lies beyond, I examine the Japanese dialectic of individual and society in the imagination of the other world and the ongoing creation of society...
Films of Fury: KICK Start My Art, A Special Screening and Discussion – Akira Kurosawa’s Judo Saga (Sanshiro Sugata) 1943, and Bruce Lee in Fist of Fury (Jingwu Men), 1972An informal discussion on the roles of actor and auteur in martial arts cinema.
SPELLBINDING MUSIC FROM CENTRAL ASIA Alash ensemble will perform and conduct a throat-singing workshop on Tuesday, January 22, 2008, at 8:00 PM at the Joseph Slifka Center (2nd floor) at 80 Wall Street. This event is free and open to the public. The tiny republic of Tuva is a giant when it comes to mastery of the human voice. The ancient tradition of throat singing (xoomei in Tuvan) developed among the nomadic herdsmen of Central Asia. Passed down through the generations, but largely unheard by the outside world, xoomei is now the subject of international fascination and has become Tuva...
Into a Dream (Yume no naka e)Directed by Shion Sono, 2005 (100 min., digital video, color)Nippon Connection FestivalNippon Connection, the largest showcase of Japanese cinema outside of Japan, comes to Yale! A cornucopian selection of the best works shown at the 2007 edition, held in Frankfurt, Germany, will be screened over two weeks, featuring major studio films, indie features and shorts, and experimental animation. Highlights include Maison de Himiko, the winner of the Nippon Connection Audience Award, a video feature by Sono Shion (Suicide Circle), and an outrageous “pink film” (soft...
Maison de Himiko (Mezon do Himiko)Directed by Isshin Inudo, 2005 (130min., 35mm English subtitles)Nippon Connection FestivalNippon Connection, the largest showcase of Japanese cinema outside of Japan, comes to Yale! A cornucopian selection of the best works shown at the 2007 edition, held in Frankfurt, Germany, will be screened over two weeks, featuring major studio films, indie features and shorts, and experimental animation. Highlights include Maison de Himiko, the winner of the Nippon Connection Audience Award, a video feature by Sono Shion (Suicide Circle), and an outrageous “pink film” (...
IMAGE RINGS PRESENTS IMMORAL FILMSMastif (Maschifu) Directed by Tetsuya Mariko, 2006 (video, 22 min.) Dear Ms.Ôgi (Haikei Ôgi Chikage sama)Directed by Kenji Murakami, 2006 (video, 32 min.) How I Produced A Cherry Boy (Dotei wo prodyusu) Directed by Tetsuaki Matsue, 2006 (video, 32 min. English subtitles)Nippon Connection FestivalNippon Connection, the largest showcase of Japanese cinema outside of Japan, comes to Yale! A cornucopian selection of the best works shown at the 2007 edition, held in Frankfurt, Germany, will be screened over two weeks, featuring major studio films, indie features...
German + Rain (Jâman + Ame)Directed by Satoko Yokohama, 2007 (Video, 71 min., English subtitles)Nippon Connection FestivalNippon Connection, the largest showcase of Japanese cinema outside of Japan, comes to Yale! A cornucopian selection of the best works shown at the 2007 edition, held in Frankfurt, Germany, will be screened over two weeks, featuring major studio films, indie features and shorts, and experimental animation. Highlights include Maison de Himiko, the winner of the Nippon Connection Audience Award, a video feature by Sono Shion (Suicide Circle), and an outrageous “pink film” (...
FLOWERS OF WASEDAKû-Soku-Ze-ShikiDirected by hiichan (2004, Video, 5 min., English subtitles) Night Of Pig’s Trotters (Tonsoku no yoru)Directed by Naoto Kaneko (2005, Video, 24 min., English subtitles)Running Girl (Hashiru onna)Directed by hiichan (2003, Video, 4 min., English subtitles) Ordinary People (Futsû no hitotachi)Directed by Hisashi Wakamatsu (2006, Video, 27 min. English subtitles) Karopa SkaDirected by Yukiko Nakane (2005, Video, 40 Min., English subtitles) Nippon Connection FestivalNippon Connection, the largest showcase of Japanese cinema outside of Japan, comes to Yale! A...
OPEN ARTBones Directed by Shinsaku Hidaka (2006, video, 3:51 min.) The Naked ApeDirected by Daihiti Hashimoto (2006, video, 2 min.) The Goblin’s SecretDirected by Yuko Miyahira (2006, video, 7 min.) A Man Who Became an UndertakerDirected by Shuhei Sibue (2006, video, 4:55 min.) Takashi’s SeasonsDirected by Takashi Kawashima (2006, video, 15:45 min.) Deer ModeDirected by Junpei Mizokawa (2006, video, 1:20 min.) Bad Morning.MamaDirected by Daisuke Imai (2006, video, 4:09 min.) Magic By The Line Red And BlueDirected by Dino Sato (2006, video, 3:30 min.) ScraplandDirected by Dino...
Hundreds of Okinawans still pay annual memorial pilgrimages to Micronesian island sites where their loved ones perished in the American attack in June, 1944. Their reception by indigenous communities is partly conditioned by postwar patterns of Japanese investment and tourism, as well as by widely sensed bonds of enduring kinship across many indigenous and Okinawan family networks. On Saipan, an elderly Chamorro man, who still speaks fluent Japanese learned during the Japanese colonial period from 1914-1944, explains his continuing efforts to care for a Shinto shrine on his land in terms of...
Uncle’s Paradise (Ojisan Tengoku)Directed by Shinji Imaoka (2006, 64 min., 35mm., English Subtitles, Content advisory) Nippon Connection FestivalNippon Connection, the largest showcase of Japanese cinema outside of Japan, comes to Yale! A cornucopian selection of the best works shown at the 2007 edition, held in Frankfurt, Germany, will be screened over two weeks, featuring major studio films, indie features and shorts, and experimental animation. Highlights include Maison de Himiko, the winner of the Nippon Connection Audience Award, a video feature by Sono Shion (Suicide Circle), and an...
Come and celebrate the Year of the Rat and enjoy wonderful music and food! The Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University cordially invites you to attend our 2008 Spring Festival Celebration. At 4:00 PM in the Luce Auditorium, we will be hosting a very special Chinese Zither (Guqin) Music Performance featuring Yale students and Ms. Shin-Yi Yang, founder of the Boston Guzheng Ensemble. Come meet members of the championship Yale Chinese Debate Team and hear festive traditional Chinese music. The concert will be followed by a reception in the 2nd Floor Common Room, Henry R. Luce Hall,...
Ann M. Altman will discuss her experiences in UlaanBaatar in the summer of 2007, when she lectured to members of the Mongolian Democratic Party on local government, elections, and town planning. At private meetings, she talked about these issues with ex-Prime Minister Ts. Elbegdorj, the leader of the Party, who hopes to regain a majority in parliament after the general election next year, and with a member of parliament, who is working on the possibility of moving the seat of government from UlaanBaatar to Karakorum. Ann M. Altman is an elected member of the Legislative Council (the...
This talk highlights the underground world of Japan’s increasingly popular host club scene, where mostly young, working-class men “sell” romance, love, and sometimes sex to indulge their female clients’ fantasy, often for exorbitant sums of money. I explore this commercialization of feelings, emotions, and romantic relationships - what I call “affect economy”- in the context of Japan’s recent socioeconomic restructuring, a reaction to globalization that is reshaping the nation’s labor and commodity forms. Based on ethnographic fieldwork I conducted in Tokyo between 2003 and 2005, I argue that...
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