This presentation will focus on the life of Kawai Koume, an artist and housewife from a lower-ranking samurai family of Kishu domain (now Wakayama prefecture), from the 1830s throuRead More →
The Ashio copper mine incident is one of Japan’s rst and most famous industrial pollution cases. An industrialist close to the government took charge of the mine in the TochiRead More →
Shin Buddhism is often considered to be the tradition that most radically disassociates itself from Shintō from the very beginning of its history. This is evident in one of the mosRead More →
Various entrepreneurs experimented with producing cultured pearls from the early 1890s, but it was only after the First World War that Japan began to export round specimens on any Read More →
There is a surprising similarity in the enormous success the novels of Murakami Haruki and Elena Ferrante are enjoying on a global scale. The narratives of both authors are built oRead More →
Kim Taegŏn is usually remembered as the first Korean-born Catholic priest and a martyr. A product of three centuries of Catholic missions in East Asia, he stood as a tremendous figRead More →
Initially, the so-called “Japanese myths” were a textual product of the Kojiki (712) and the Nihon Shoki (720). In the course of the centuries, these myths were altered, re-writ-teRead More →
Scholarship has rarely, if ever, treated Japan’s seven medi-eval historiographic Mirrors as a set. The Great Mirror, The New Mirror, and The Clear Mirror have typically been talkedRead More →
From the late nineteenth century until at least the end of the Second World War and the immediate postwar period-in a period marked by uncertainty and rapid development-East Asia wRead More →
