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These burial mounds have been identified as being the tombs of members of the Iwai family ruling over the Tsukushi region, in Northern Kyūshū. ©Wikimedia Commons, Saigen Jiro. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/d3b961da-fc2a-4c5a-ba8e-e19adfa763ea/Empress_Suiko_2.jpg Discovering Japan - A Journey Through History: Toward a Political Complexification - Make it stand out Empress Suiko, daughter of emperor Kinmei and Soga no Kitashime – daughter of Soga no Iname – ruled from 593 until her death in 628. The Japanese book ‘The Prince Shotoku exhibition (聖徳太子展)’, NHK (NHK promotion), 2001. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/3a2f9786-af9b-455c-9343-544ed9ed386c/Yomeitenno.jpg Discovering Japan - A Journey Through History: Toward a Political Complexification - Make it stand out Emperor Yōmei, son of emperor Kinmei and Soga no Kitashime – daughter of Soga no Iname – ruled from 585 until his death in 587. https://www.wasshoimagazine.org/blog/discovering-japan/yamato monthly 0.5 2021-11-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1621883405431-2H4CSSY5BL09W47X14YP/EmpressJinguInKorea.jpg Discovering Japan - A Journey Through History: Rise and Fall of the Yamato Kingdom - Make it stand out Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839–1892), Empress Jingu Leading the Invasion of Korea from the series ‘Concise Illustrated History of Imperial Japan’ (Dai Nihon shi ryaku zue 大日本史略図会). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1629887079031-3B7Q6TP1FWTHQPEV8P6O/517810001.jpg Discovering Japan - A Journey Through History: Rise and Fall of the Yamato Kingdom - Make it stand out Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858), The Emperor Nintoku surveying the countryside for signs of fires in his subjects’ dwellings, from the series ‘Honcho Nenreki Zue’. © The Trustees of the British Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1629887302634-OMHZ483I66S7N3NMVL2U/1627px-Sumiyoshi-taisha%2C_keidai.jpg Discovering Japan - A Journey Through History: Rise and Fall of the Yamato Kingdom - Make it stand out The Sumiyoshi-taisha (Great Shrine of Sumiyoshi) in Osaka prefectur is often mentioned as an important landmark in Japanese mythology; the local deities have often been associated with the imperial family. © Saigen Jiro https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1629887580964-TT5LYPJXTIDEP6IGEGBT/1440px-Kuboizumi-Maruyama_Kofun_east.JPG Discovering Japan - A Journey Through History: Rise and Fall of the Yamato Kingdom - Make it stand out Kuboizumi-Maruyama Kofun, Saga prefecture (5th–6th century CE). © Pekachu https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1629889022158-DTY0HXTER7I0P8FD40QM/483px-%E5%A4%AA%E7%94%B0%E5%B8%82%E9%A3%AF%E5%A1%9A%E7%94%BA%E5%87%BA%E5%9C%9F_%E5%9F%B4%E8%BC%AA_%E6%8C%82%E7%94%B2%E3%81%AE%E6%AD%A6%E4%BA%BA-2%281%29.jpg Discovering Japan - A Journey Through History: Rise and Fall of the Yamato Kingdom - Make it stand out Haniwa clay statue of a Yamato soldier (6th century), Tokyo National Museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1629888786230-L678VKFGFLYJ96ZVQ1DA/1620px-Ishibutai-kofun_Asuka_Nara_pref05n4592.jpg Discovering Japan - A Journey Through History: Rise and Fall of the Yamato Kingdom - Make it stand out Ishibutai Kofun, believed to be the tomb of a member of the Soga clan, in Asuka, Nara prefecture. © 663highland https://www.wasshoimagazine.org/blog/discovering-japan/yamato-takeru monthly 0.5 2021-11-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1629652662387-9OB97GPKKEEJ9ARIVFFY/merge_from_ofoct%281%29.jpg Discovering Japan - People from Japanese Lore: Yamato Takeru - Make it stand out Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839–1892), Yamato-Takeru-no-mikoto from the series ‘Concise Illustrated History of Imperial Japan’ (Dai Nihon shi ryaku zue 大日本史略図会). © The Trustees of the British Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1632320192834-H2KMM7HHX86NNJ56XWGW/Empress_Gemmei.jpg Discovering Japan - People from Japanese Lore: Yamato Takeru - Make it stand out Empress Genmei (660–721) requested the first compilation of myths, later known as Kojiki. Author Unknown, 1894. © San’ei-sha https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1632319132509-TC9QKO4VI5HT8HXFH3MD/Ono-Yasumaro.jpg Discovering Japan - People from Japanese Lore: Yamato Takeru - Make it stand out Ō no Yasumaro (???–723), one of the compilers of the Kojiki whose name can be found in the incipit: ‘I Yasumaro say…’ Kikuchi Yōsai (1788–1878) Ō no Yasumaro in Zenken kojitsu vol. 2. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1632321268888-2TEQ1FHJP4VSAKCII6QQ/759691001.jpg Discovering Japan - People from Japanese Lore: Yamato Takeru - Make it stand out Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839–1892), Moon over the bandits’ lair - Prince Ousu (Zokuso no tsuki – Ousu no miko 賊巣の月 小碓皇子) from the series ‘One Hundred Aspects of the Moon’ (tsuki no hyakushi 月百姿). © The Trustees of the British Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1632323901267-PBCLIARKP6CURG1EHQN2/service-pnp-jpd-00000-00036v.jpg Discovering Japan - People from Japanese Lore: Yamato Takeru - Make it stand out Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839–1892), Prince Yamato Takeru (Yamato Takeru 日本武尊) from the series ‘Yoshitoshi’s Courageous Warriors’ (Yoshitoshi Musha Burui 芳年武者旡類). © Library of Congress https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1632322853446-ZWSR1LJ3BQWCC3XHVD38/435652001.jpg Discovering Japan - People from Japanese Lore: Yamato Takeru - Make it stand out Ogata Gekkō (1859–1920), Kusanagi no tsurugi, Yamato takeru no mikoto (草薙剣 日本武尊) from the series ‘Gekko zuihitsu’ (月耕随筆). © The Trustees of the British Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1632323729126-6WIMY1WLCU3EPHF6U20F/1280px-%E6%98%8E%E6%B2%BB%E7%B4%80%E5%BF%B5%E4%B9%8B%E6%A8%99%EF%BC%91.jpg Discovering Japan - People from Japanese Lore: Yamato Takeru - Make it stand out Statue of Yamato Takeru in Kenroku-en gardens, Kanazawa, Ishikawa prefecture. © 漱石の猫 https://www.wasshoimagazine.org/blog/discovering-japan/kofun monthly 0.5 2021-10-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1629652662387-9OB97GPKKEEJ9ARIVFFY/merge_from_ofoct%281%29.jpg Discovering Japan - A Journey Through History: Kofun Period, an Era Defined by Burial Mounds - Make it stand out Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839 - 1892), Yamato-Takeru-no-mikoto from the series: Concise Illustrated History of Imperial Japan (Dai Nihon shi ryaku zue 大日本史略図会). © The Trustees of the British Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1629654618128-UKAW8854W6L30A4HMSJA/1511px-%E8%A5%BF%E9%83%BD%E5%8E%9F%E5%8F%A4%E5%A2%B3%E7%BE%A4%E5%87%BA%E5%9C%9F_%E5%9F%B4%E8%BC%AA_%E5%AD%90%E6%8C%81%E5%AE%B6.JPG Discovering Japan - A Journey Through History: Kofun Period, an Era Defined by Burial Mounds - Make it stand out Haniwa clay statue of a house, excavated in Miyazaki prefecture, Tokyo National Museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1629653588356-CYJMIT0CWT3GI8ST7PF1/769px-NintokuTomb.jpg Discovering Japan - A Journey Through History: Kofun Period, an Era Defined by Burial Mounds - Make it stand out Daisen-kofun in Sakai, Osaka, Japan. Supposedly the tomb of the 16th emperor of Japan, Nintoku. © National Land Image Information (Color Aerial Photographs) Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1629654091399-4U6L0456UXIPC3WD7OG3/1017px-%E5%9F%BC%E7%8E%89%E7%9C%8C%E7%86%8A%E8%B0%B7%E5%B8%82%E4%B8%8A%E4%B8%AD%E6%9D%A1%E6%97%A5%E5%90%91%E5%B3%B6%E5%87%BA%E5%9C%9F_%E5%9F%B4%E8%BC%AA_%E9%A6%AC-2.JPG Discovering Japan - A Journey Through History: Kofun Period, an Era Defined by Burial Mounds - Make it stand out Haniwa clay statue of a horse excavated in Saitama prefecture, Tokyo National Museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1629655970077-5OVBJK5OHFSEHY3LB2TE/1625px-Konda_Gobyoyama_Kofun%2C_haisho-2.jpg Discovering Japan - A Journey Through History: Kofun Period, an Era Defined by Burial Mounds - Make it stand out Shinto shrine and mausoleum honoring Emperor Ōjin (201 - 310), first emperor recognized as a ‘probably real’ historical figure. Konda Gobyoyama Kofun, Osaka prefecture. © Saigen Jiro https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1629655493444-7CVABG5GSSXN16Y34ABA/1618px-Mount_Miwa.jpg Discovering Japan - A Journey Through History: Kofun Period, an Era Defined by Burial Mounds - Make it stand out Mount Miwa, Sakurai in Nara Prefecture. © A photographer https://www.wasshoimagazine.org/blog/discovering-japan/tanabata-part-2 monthly 0.5 2021-07-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1624792514423-GFKB3WBD6WB8BQB6GBRN/Actor+Sawamura+Kodenji+as+a+Woman+at+the+Time+of+the+Tanabata+Festival.jpg Discovering Japan - Tanabata - An Excursus Through Arts and Popular Culture (Part 2) - Make it stand out Torii Kiyonobu I (1664–1729), Actor Sawamura Kodenji as a Woman at the Time of the Tanabata Festival, 1698. ©The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1624799098817-9TJKAM5JP2W8JEH1GTP7/Actor+Sanogawa+Ichimatsu+%281722%E2%80%931763%29+as+a+Courtesan+during+the+Tanabata+Festival+CA+1730.jpg Discovering Japan - Tanabata - An Excursus Through Arts and Popular Culture (Part 2) - Make it stand out Okumura Toshinobu (active ca. 1717–1750), Actor Sanogawa Ichimatsu as a Courtesan during the Tanabata Festival, 1730. ©The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1624799383733-BL1DZ630AHIN2A2TUOOF/The+Crossing+of+the+Tanabata+Boat+%28Tanabata+no+towataru+fune%29.jpg Discovering Japan - Tanabata - An Excursus Through Arts and Popular Culture (Part 2) - Make it stand out Okumura Masanobu (1686–1764), The Crossing of the Tanabata Boat (Tanabata no towataru fune), 1715. ©Art Institute Chicago. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1624801001545-JNK7DRA69GRQ21G8GGRH/Inro+1.jpg Discovering Japan - Tanabata - An Excursus Through Arts and Popular Culture (Part 2) - Make it stand out Nomura Kyūkoku (active first half of the 19th century), Inrō with Tanabata Story of the Weaver and the Herdboy. Tanabata Makie Inrō (七夕蒔絵印籠) ©The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1624801034383-QXD08YDM3KN73IDBU5RD/Inro+2.jpg Discovering Japan - Tanabata - An Excursus Through Arts and Popular Culture (Part 2) - Make it stand out Three cases; lacquered wood with gold hiramaki-e and ivory inlay on mother-of-pearl ground; Netsuke: carved ivory; flowers and grasses with silver butterflies; Ojime: silver and gold quail in autumn grasses https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1624801873955-JILOESBLTVZN13XGHFR4/Tsuba+1.jpg Discovering Japan - Tanabata - An Excursus Through Arts and Popular Culture (Part 2) - Umetada Muneyoshi (1600 – 16??), Tsuba (sword hand gard). © The Walters Art Museum The front of the tsuba shows objects associated with the story and celebrations of the festival. Along the lower edge are spools of thread used by the Weaving Maiden and maple leaves which form a bridge for the lovers to cross. Along the top and left edge are papers with poems. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1624801869396-7BKSFL7T9RGF8DF085MG/Tsuba+2.jpg Discovering Japan - Tanabata - An Excursus Through Arts and Popular Culture (Part 2) - Umetada Muneyoshi (1600 – 16??), Tsuba (sword hand gard). © The Walters Art Museum The back of the tsuba shows the stars and the Milky Way. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1624803115770-47L40WV77YAP6JPRE1EO/Tsuba+3.jpg Discovering Japan - Tanabata - An Excursus Through Arts and Popular Culture (Part 2) - Kikuchi Tsunekatsu (1704 – 17??), Tsuba (sword hand guard). © The Walters Art Museum The celestial lovers are depicted on the front of the tsuba within a square frame. The Weaving Maiden is shown at the upper right spinning thread. The Shepard is shown with cattle on the lower left https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1624803108864-W14N9QONCGWUTWA332IX/Tsuba+4.jpg Discovering Japan - Tanabata - An Excursus Through Arts and Popular Culture (Part 2) - Kikuchi Tsunekatsu (1704 – 17??), Tsuba (sword hand guard). © The Walters Art Museum On the reverse of the tsuba, rooftops of houses can be seen. Stalks of bamboo hung with paper strips decorate the houses for Tanabata. Mount Fuji is shown in the background at the upper right. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1624803396314-NJBZQZ34W9S65BQTGO95/Tsuba+5.jpg Discovering Japan - Tanabata - An Excursus Through Arts and Popular Culture (Part 2) - Ichinomiya Nagatsune (1722 – 1787), Tsuba (sword hand guard). © The Walters Art Museum Four dancers are depicted on this tsuba. Above them hang bamboo branches with poems on slips of paper. These poems are part of the celebration of Tanabata. On the front of the tsuba, two dancers appear at the right, a third is at the lower left. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1624803396571-L9ML335Q4OVMVYD6SE2S/Tsuba+6.jpg Discovering Japan - Tanabata - An Excursus Through Arts and Popular Culture (Part 2) - Ichinomiya Nagatsune (1722 – 1787), Tsuba (sword hand guard). © The Walters Art Museum Four dancers are depicted on this tsuba. Above them hang bamboo branches with poems on slips of paper. These poems are part of the celebration of Tanabata. On the back can be seen the fourth dancer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1624803832027-RLYXIWJFI2XZ5IQB8XO1/Kashira+e+Fuchi.jpg Discovering Japan - Tanabata - An Excursus Through Arts and Popular Culture (Part 2) - Make it stand out Oishi Akichika (active mid 19th century), Kashira (sword pommel) the yearly meeting of the celestial lovers the Weaving Maiden and the Shepard. ©The Walters Art Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1624876702906-9GCFXN6FAQQ5D58PCHA8/Fuchi-page-001.jpg Discovering Japan - Tanabata - An Excursus Through Arts and Popular Culture (Part 2) - Make it stand out Oishi Akichika (active mid 19th century), Fuchi (sword hilt collar), Three magpies are shown on a bridge over a stream. ©The Walters Art Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1624816334851-GPYHA3A79WBGI92TNWGA/Tanabata+Matsuri+1915.jpg Discovering Japan - Tanabata - An Excursus Through Arts and Popular Culture (Part 2) - Make it stand out Festival of the Weaver (Tanabata – Matsuri), Tokyo, c.a. 1915-1920. ©Library of Congress https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1624877447779-6CA3U1L3XESMDL9NNM4L/P1030094.JPG Discovering Japan - Tanabata - An Excursus Through Arts and Popular Culture (Part 2) - Make it stand out Tanabata decorations. ©Luigi Zeni https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1624830854016-24MQ2HWPG6APJHGZFKYK/Jirachi-RS.png Discovering Japan - Tanabata - An Excursus Through Arts and Popular Culture (Part 2) - Make it stand out Can you spot all the details relating this Pokémon to the legend of the weaver girl and the oxherd? Official art by Ken Sugimori of #385 Jirachi, released in Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire. ©The Pokémon Company ©Game Freak ©Ken Sugimori https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1624831738525-U3M7DLZAQJRODTXGR0W4/harui+suzumiya.jpg Discovering Japan - Tanabata - An Excursus Through Arts and Popular Culture (Part 2) - Make it stand out The Harui Suzumiya novel series: first volume ‘The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya’. © Nagaru Tanigawa ©Noizi Ito ©Kadokawa Shoten ©Yen Press https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1624832536877-59J1HV8IPA32Y0LY6PHR/anime+2.jpg Discovering Japan - Tanabata - An Excursus Through Arts and Popular Culture (Part 2) - Make it stand out The Harui Suzumiya animated series: first serie ‘The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya’. ©Nagaru Tanigawa ©Kyoto Animation ©Tatsuya Ishihara ©Funimation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1624834652212-P0L293CR525G07QYDK72/P1030131.JPG Discovering Japan - Tanabata - An Excursus Through Arts and Popular Culture (Part 2) - Make it stand out Dances performed during the celebrations of Tanabata at Dazaifu Tenmangu shrine, Fukuoka prefecture. ©Luigi Zeni https://www.wasshoimagazine.org/blog/discovering-japan/tanabata monthly 0.5 2021-07-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1624718512548-FDMVBC72AQ926JME1DJ8/IMG_20180707_194958.jpg Discovering Japan - Tanabata - An Excursus Through Arts and Popular Culture (Part 1) - Make it stand out People hanging wishes during a Tanabata festival. On the orange paper in front of the picture can be read the following inscription: Please turn on my switch for motivation to study. © Luigi Zeni https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1624783136924-AYGXZCCCVZ39431JULFT/Screenshot+%281%29.png Discovering Japan - Tanabata - An Excursus Through Arts and Popular Culture (Part 1) - Make it stand out Position of Vega and Altair separated by the Milky Way. © Stellarium Web Online https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1624638980430-F2OL6RF2XHNPOXOYHU8V/Tanabata+classic+print.jpg Discovering Japan - Tanabata - An Excursus Through Arts and Popular Culture (Part 1) - Make it stand out Katsukawa Shunʾei (1762 - 1819), Weaver maiden and the ox herder (Kengyū shokujo). Between 1796 and 1815. Orihime, the weaver princess, standing next to a loom and a man, Kengyuu, the cow-herder, standing next to an ox, both on clouds separated by a gap, with the top of a building visible through the clouds. © Library of Congress https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1624727194654-SCWPZ8I4N3WYZ0L6XZQW/Ginga+no+tsuki+%E9%8A%80%E6%B2%B3%E6%9C%88+%28The+Moon+of+the+Milky+Way%29+1886.jpg Discovering Japan - Tanabata - An Excursus Through Arts and Popular Culture (Part 1) - Make it stand out Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839–1892), The Moon of the Milky Way (Ginga no tsuki), from the series One Hundred Aspects of the Moon (Tsuki no hyakushi), September 1886. The lovers of the Tanabata festival. © 2021 The Trustees of the British Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1624743655217-MOPMTY5MOTX4CNQQU7LH/1398461001.jpg Discovering Japan - Tanabata - An Excursus Through Arts and Popular Culture (Part 1) - Sumiyoshi Gukei © The Trustees of the British Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1624743652196-11XIL5HLUPD14S8DZ6HD/1398463001.jpg Discovering Japan - Tanabata - An Excursus Through Arts and Popular Culture (Part 1) - Sumiyoshi Gukei © The Trustees of the British Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1624743653195-UIXN2RI8DPKD9SQ7HCBL/1398464001.jpg Discovering Japan - Tanabata - An Excursus Through Arts and Popular Culture (Part 1) - Sumiyoshi Gukei © The Trustees of the British Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1624744063944-CYLI5KJFSJAF04N04Q75/1398466001.jpg Discovering Japan - 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Tanabata - An Excursus Through Arts and Popular Culture (Part 1) - Make it stand out Isoda Koryūsai (1735–ca.1790), Making Ornaments for the Tanabata Festival, 1773. © The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1624745472942-O78SCH6EJ338UR3KU0PS/Tanabata+Chikanobu.jpg Discovering Japan - Tanabata - An Excursus Through Arts and Popular Culture (Part 1) - Make it stand out Yōshū (Hashimoto) Chikanobu (1838–1912), Chiyoda Castle from the Album of Women, 1895. © The Metropolitan Museum of Art. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1624744910333-1KM4A7PGDPKDTXGKBDN5/The+Tanabata+Festival%2C+from+the+from+the+series+%E2%80%9CPrecious+Children%E2%80%99s+Games+of+the+Five+Festivals+%28Kodakara+gosetsu+asobi%29%E2%80%9D.jpg Discovering Japan - Tanabata - An Excursus Through Arts and Popular Culture (Part 1) - Make it stand out Torii Kiyonaga (1752–1815), The Tanabata Festival, from the series: Precious Children’s Games of the Five Festivals (Kodakara gosetsu asobi) 1801. © Art Institute Chicago https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1624745134798-GTYPPZBE9O9T4RK9PY92/Tanabata+kids.jpg Discovering Japan - Tanabata - An Excursus Through Arts and Popular Culture (Part 1) - Make it stand out Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797–1861) Tanabata, from the series: Children at Play during the Five Seasonal Festivals (Osana asobi go sekku no uchi), about 1840. © The Trustees of the British Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1624746126908-FXCBG8MFH8SLUIXZB1M0/Tanabata%2C+from+the+series+Fashionable+Children+of+the+Five+Festivals+%28F%C5%ABry%C5%AB+kodomo+gosekku%29%2C+c.+1809-29.+Kikukawa+Eizan+%28Japanese%2C+1787-1867%29.+Color+woodblock+print%3B+35.3+x+23.1+cm+%2813+78+x+9+18+in.%29.+The+Clevelan.jpg Discovering Japan - Tanabata - An Excursus Through Arts and Popular Culture (Part 1) - Make it stand out Kikukawa Eizan (1787–1867), Tanabata, from the series: Fashionable Children of the Five Festivals (Fūryū kodomo gosekku), 1809-29. © 2021 Cleveland Museum of Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1624747181137-OCCINLMTSUOH1QORUEV0/Group+of+four+Yoshiwara+women+in+a+room+in+a+joroya..jpg Discovering Japan - Tanabata - An Excursus Through Arts and Popular Culture (Part 1) - Make it stand out Kitao Shigemasa (1739–1820) and Katsukawa Shunsho (1726–1792), Group of four Yoshiwara women in a room, 1776. © The New York Public Library https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1624746749739-S3VBZAS89UMXLHFVAIWA/Shichi-gatsu+Sanmai-zuzuki.jpg Discovering Japan - Tanabata - An Excursus Through Arts and Popular Culture (Part 1) - Make it stand out Utagawa Toyohiro (1773–1828), Shichi-gatsu Sanmai-zuzukii, from the series: Toyokuni-Toyohiro Ryoga Juni-ko. © The Trustees of the British Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1624747470333-V0LOPOJTAXCNGMBM3EV7/The+Tanabata+Festival%2C+from+the+series+%E2%80%9CAmusements+of+the+Five+Festival+Days+%28Gosetsu+asobi%29%E2%80%9D.jpg Discovering Japan - Tanabata - An Excursus Through Arts and Popular Culture (Part 1) - Make it stand out Katsukawa Shuncho, Tanabata Festival, from the series: Amusements of the Five Festival Days (Gosetsu asobi), 1790. © Art Institute Chicago https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1624747999295-MZO0O4SKXG0WLQSPL2X4/The+Tanabata+Festival%2C+from+the+series+One+Hundred+Famous+Views+of+Edo+Hiroshige+1857.jpg Discovering Japan - Tanabata - An Excursus Through Arts and Popular Culture (Part 1) - Make it stand out Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858), Tanabata Festival, from the series: One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, 1857. © The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.wasshoimagazine.org/blog/discovering-japan/people-from-the-japanese-lore-queen-priestess-himiko monthly 0.5 2021-06-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1621886197058-474XEJ7P6HJKNKKQ67AG/himi.jpg Discovering Japan - People from Japanese Lore: Queen-Priestess Himiko - Make it stand out Queen Himiko as portrayed in the game Okami, inspired by Japanese folklore (2006). © Capcom - Fair Use https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1621883286719-3U0I7L6XGF6B4A2SO7HR/Handmade+copy+of+a+portion+of+Nihon+Shoki+of+early+Heian+period.jpg Discovering Japan - People from Japanese Lore: Queen-Priestess Himiko - Make it stand out A page from a handmade copy of the Nihon-shoki, early Heian period. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1621883405431-2H4CSSY5BL09W47X14YP/EmpressJinguInKorea.jpg Discovering Japan - People from Japanese Lore: Queen-Priestess Himiko - Make it stand out Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839 – 1892) Great Japan (Dai-Nihon) History Briefing Session, the 15th Empress Jingu, 1880. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1621883467282-STKUYWPKFZCWV95UGI6J/Motoori_Norinaga_self_portrait.jpg Discovering Japan - People from Japanese Lore: Queen-Priestess Himiko - Make it stand out Motoori Norinaga (1730 – 1801), self-portrait, 1773. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1621883613980-HRFZGYWXKC7LRBUZPHR6/Naka_Michiyo.jpg Discovering Japan - People from Japanese Lore: Queen-Priestess Himiko - Make it stand out Naka Michiyo (1851 – 1908), historian and doctor of letters. Said to be at the origin of the concept of ‘Oriental History’. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1621883631250-D3OPGC1J2LOAJCN24QN9/NAITO_KONANN19340409.JPG Discovering Japan - People from Japanese Lore: Queen-Priestess Himiko - Make it stand out Naitō Torajirō (1866 – 1934), historian, sinologist and journalist. Founder of the Kyoto School of historiography. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1621883759299-8ATC332EMELBXKW0JKTD/607674001.jpg Discovering Japan - People from Japanese Lore: Queen-Priestess Himiko - Make it stand out Prince Arthur of Connaught Offering the Order of the Garter to the Emperor Meiji, on behalf of King Edward VII, lithograph by unknown Japanese artist, 1906, British Museum. © The Trustees of the British Museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1621884232027-RYV9HR19GD4FOF3AMT9S/Inkedhi+no+tori+1+-+Copy_LI.jpg Discovering Japan - People from Japanese Lore: Queen-Priestess Himiko - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1621884326446-BP995DJ1VH3NXDQT5NKV/InkedInkedHi+no+tori+2_LI.jpg Discovering Japan - People from Japanese Lore: Queen-Priestess Himiko - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1621884840225-OATOHX2OI9ULNF0UPQWO/himeka.jpg Discovering Japan - People from Japanese Lore: Queen-Priestess Himiko - Make it stand out Queen Himika, demonic ruler of the Jamatai. ©Go Nagai ©Tatsuya Yasuda ©Toei Animation – Fair use. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1621885260988-YBOTAA2LLF6S9Z3UIUKK/Hashihaka-kofun_zenkei-2.jpg Discovering Japan - People from Japanese Lore: Queen-Priestess Himiko - Make it stand out Side view of Hashihaka Kofun. ©Saigen Jiro https://www.wasshoimagazine.org/blog/discovering-japan/a-journey-through-history-an-intermezzo-of-war monthly 0.5 2021-06-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1621672829440-P385YLSA0752ACQ7TZ8P/A_Fragment_of_Biography_of_Bu_Zhi_History_Books_of_Three_Kingdoms_01_2012-12.JPG Discovering Japan - A Journey Through History: An Intermezzo of War - Make it stand out A Fragment of the Books of Three Kingdoms; part of the Dunhuang manuscripts. © 猫猫的日记本 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1621933452847-J6X70T89N517OY2XYX02/Mappa+vera+1.PNG Discovering Japan - A Journey Through History: An Intermezzo of War - Make it stand out A simplified map highlighting some relevant regions for Yayoi culture at the time. Base map provided by Google, infographic effectuated by Marty Borsotti. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1621672945882-UI83DTJMIVAB72IGMW10/wajinden.jpg Discovering Japan - A Journey Through History: An Intermezzo of War - Make it stand out The incipit of the Wajinden reads ‘the Japanese people (the Wajiri) are located in the Lo-lang seas, have more than 100 states, and are periodically received [at the Lo-lang court]’. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1621673116357-VCF5R213N0OY3DYTPKKC/Handmade+copy+of+a+page+of+Kojiki+%281371%29.png Discovering Japan - A Journey Through History: An Intermezzo of War - Make it stand out Handmade copy of a page of the Kojiki (1371). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1621673966068-UQZ21KRZW2MPWUJKINDQ/King_of_Na_gold_seal_face.png Discovering Japan - A Journey Through History: An Intermezzo of War - Make it stand out Reproduction of the Golden seal with the inscription 漢委奴國王 ([the Dynasty] Han, [Land of] Wa, [Kingdom of] Na, State, Ruler), probably hinting at an official recognition from the Han emperor of the authority of the King of Na over his kingdom. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1621674081020-AF6VMBEHKUZ0SPAZ6VLF/YoshinogariIseki.jpg Discovering Japan - A Journey Through History: An Intermezzo of War - Make it stand out Watchtower reconstruction from Yoshinogari Archeological site. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1621934844795-HBI4WE5SHZV7GGJB9ZET/mappa+vera+2.PNG Discovering Japan - A Journey Through History: An Intermezzo of War - Make it stand out The three chiefdoms mentioned in the article below, the disputed Kibi region and the location of sites bearing traces of armed conflicts. Base map provided by Google, infographic effectuated by Marty Borsotti. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1621674298005-AMWH4GF0S9L8ELBFA51U/Tenn%C5%8D_Jimmu.jpg Discovering Japan - A Journey Through History: An Intermezzo of War - Make it stand out Emperor Jinmu - Stories from "Nihon Shoki" (Chronicles of Japan) 1891, by Ginko Adachi. Woodblock print depicting legendary first emperor Jimmu, who saw a sacred bird flying away while he was in the expedition of the eastern section of Japan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1621674358087-6VL94PGRWDRP286IPP2E/%C5%8Ckuninushi_Bronze_Statue.jpg Discovering Japan - A Journey Through History: An Intermezzo of War - Make it stand out Okuninushi bronze statue at Izumo shire, in Izumo city, Shimane prefecture. ©Flow in edgewise https://www.wasshoimagazine.org/blog/discovering-japan/a-journey-through-history-yayoi-second-part-social-stratification monthly 0.5 2021-06-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1619443821803-GGW5XHQMBUVEYQ82BCYA/Reconstructed_raised-floor_warehouse_in_Yoshinogari.jpg Discovering Japan - A Journey Through History: Yayoi – Part Two (Social Stratification) Reconstruction of a storehouse from the middle stage Yayoi at Yoshinogari site, Saga prefecture. © Wae35244 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1619444645208-SY6P5V43BBQ1DZX86PR8/Yoshinogari-iseki_kita-naikaku.jpg Discovering Japan - A Journey Through History: Yayoi – Part Two (Social Stratification) Reconstruction of a huge building from Yoshinogari site, probably used for religious or political purposes, or the house of a chieftain. © Saigen Jiro https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1619446266020-KNTPLWXCCBP897VXMB9H/Yoshinogari_Yayoi_Village_b097.jpg Discovering Japan - A Journey Through History: Yayoi – Part Two (Social Stratification) An example of a horizontal burial jar of the middle stage Yayoi. © Michael Gunther https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1619446066710-3ASFQFH2RDAGGIEZUZPY/Yoshinogari-iseki_funkyuubo.JPG Discovering Japan - A Journey Through History: Yayoi – Part Two (Social Stratification) Burial grounds within the Yoshinogari site, Saga prefecture. A clear example of Yayoi burial practices. © Saigen Jiro https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1619446416449-Z263Z3GXR3P7IJNPGYOS/YayoiBronzeSpearTip1-2ndCenturyKyushu.jpg Discovering Japan - A Journey Through History: Yayoi – Part Two (Social Stratification) Yayoi bronze spears from the 1st or 2nd century AC, excavated from a Kyūshū site, on display at Musée Guimet, Paris. © I, PHGCOM https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1619448802157-JNV39UEKPERGRWEI1OAY/Templates_of_bronze_sword_1c_Yasunagata_Saga.JPG Discovering Japan - A Journey Through History: Yayoi – Part Two (Social Stratification) Moulds of bronze sword from the 1st century, excavated in Yasunagata site, Tosu city, Saga prefecture, on dispaly at Saga Prefectural Museum. ©Pekachu https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1619449331417-H75KVZ0WIACV3ZFT5WN0/Koujindani_Remains_03%281%29.JPG Discovering Japan - A Journey Through History: Yayoi – Part Two (Social Stratification) Bronze bells and spears unearthed at Kojindani site, Shimane prefecture. ©Reggaeman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1619448147527-24LCVRK2Z81AMAPZQSAR/%E6%A1%9C%E3%83%B6%E4%B8%984%E5%8F%B7%E9%8A%85%E9%90%B8-1.JPG Discovering Japan - A Journey Through History: Yayoi – Part Two (Social Stratification) Middle Yayoi bronze bell, unearthed at Sakuragaoka, Kobe prefecture, on display at Kobe City Museum. © Saigen Jiro https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1619450082818-5F7KZG2S3VOWPVDPWX38/%25E8%25A5%25BF%25E6%25B5%25A6%25E9%258A%2585%25E9%2590%25B8.jpg Discovering Japan - A Journey Through History: Yayoi – Part Two (Social Stratification) Late Yayoi bronze bell, unearthed at Habikino, Osaka prefecture, preserved at Habikino Municipal Ryonan-no-Mori General Center. © Saigen Jiro https://www.wasshoimagazine.org/blog/discovering-japan/a-journey-through-history-yayoi-first-part-the-spread-of-rice-culture monthly 0.5 2021-06-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1619427907036-48U7NTS3Y9CJU1M00KUW/Neil_Gordon_Munro.jpg Discovering Japan - A Journey Through History: Yayoi – Part One (The Spread of Rice Culture) Neil Gordon Munro, 1863–1942 a Scottish physician and anthropologist who defended the theory of a transitional period between Jōmon and the Yamato kingdom. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1619452673867-KW44QPOHSYJ0IJCABGOZ/Toro_Site_1%25281%2529.jpg Discovering Japan - A Journey Through History: Yayoi – Part One (The Spread of Rice Culture) A view of the Toro archeological site as it looked like upon its discovery, Shizuoka prefecture. © 江戸村のとくぞう https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1619432581570-H35OCNVFTY6Q3Q1RTB7D/Yoshinogari-iseki_minami-naikaku.jpg Discovering Japan - A Journey Through History: Yayoi – Part One (The Spread of Rice Culture) Reconstruction of a middle Yayoi village at the Yoshinogari site in Saga prefecture, Kyūshū. ©Saigen Jiro https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1619432108586-XL84RA4VQI14W0RDI5RX/map+1000+BC-page-0.jpg Discovering Japan - A Journey Through History: Yayoi – Part One (The Spread of Rice Culture) The probable expansion path of wet rice culture from the Yangtze delta region to the Japanese archipelago https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1619452321094-PLZ5KMY02AJWB1OGS6TU/Toro_site_1.JPG Discovering Japan - A Journey Through History: Yayoi – Part One (The Spread of Rice Culture) Rice fields surrounding the reconstructed Yayoi site of Toro, Shizuoka prefecture. © Halowand https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1619454235320-6VA695UCOETPFVFPACK2/unsplash-image-7h1gRWaBiqk.jpg Discovering Japan - A Journey Through History: Yayoi – Part One (The Spread of Rice Culture) Mount Fuji, Kitayama, Fujinomiya, Shizuoka, Japan. © Kvnga https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1619456525839-D7U6JFBVQWZ6UBBKUK4O/map+yayoi-page-0.png Discovering Japan - A Journey Through History: Yayoi – Part One (The Spread of Rice Culture) A simplified map of Yayoi culture expansion path https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1619456904421-7KXPTLUQ5FY2U141NTJN/Jar_from_Kugahara%2C_Ota-ku%2C_Tokyo%2C_Yayoi_period%2C_1st-3rd_century_-_Tokyo_National_Museum_-_DSC05639.JPG Discovering Japan - A Journey Through History: Yayoi – Part One (The Spread of Rice Culture) A cord marked Yayoi pottery, 1st–3rd century BC, unearthed at Kugahara, Tokyo metropolitan area, in dispaly at Tokyo National Museum. ©Daderot https://www.wasshoimagazine.org/blog/discovering-japan/dogu monthly 0.5 2021-11-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1616607510237-RONNCEI0RRD7TV2M5WKV/DP246469.jpg Discovering Japan - Dogū – Japan’s Oldest Mystery Dogū bust from the Late Jōmon period. © The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1616607707667-NM0SP10HLPLSQENMBH68/Dog%C5%AB_of_J%C5%8Dmon_Venus.JPG Discovering Japan - Dogū – Japan’s Oldest Mystery ‘Jōmon Venus’ dogū, Middle Jōmon, Nagano Prefecture. ©Takuma-sa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1616607683399-MRFTDZIYQQRIC2P5HPBT/Venus_von_Willendorf_01.jpg Discovering Japan - Dogū – Japan’s Oldest Mystery ‘Venus of Willendorf’ from 25,000 BC in Austria. ©MatthiasKabel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1616606887802-H9BX6SXMYRLHVXLJP2DB/Figurine_Dogu_Jomon_Mus%25C3%25A9e_Guimet_70608_3.jpg Discovering Japan - Dogū – Japan’s Oldest Mystery ‘Snow goggle’ dogū, Latest Jōmon, Guimet Museum, Paris. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1616606570950-AY3VT87X9VNDKXQ7755R/Dogu_%2528clay_figurine%2529_with_heart-shaped_face%252C_Jomon_period%252C_2000-1000_BC%252C_from_Gobara%252C_Higashi_Agatsuma-machi%252C_Gunma_-_Tokyo_National_Museum_-_DSC06322.jpg Discovering Japan - 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Having an MA in History and a BA in Japanese Studies and History, his interests are modern history (particularly that of Japan), global history, jazz, and cultural exchanges. His doctoral project - with a case study of the record company Nippon Victor – focusses on how jazz disseminated and developed in Japan between 1927 and 1954. Aside from studying the complexities of the world, he enjoys playing the renaissance lute and discovering the beauty of nature. Publications Locating Jazz in Interwar Japan - Dance Halls, Jazz Coffeehouses and Cafés. Issue 1, Autumn 2020. https://www.wasshoimagazine.org/luigi-zeni daily 0.75 2023-06-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/b8264183-cd50-41dd-b93e-b53947af5713/Luigi+Zeni.jpg Luigi Zeni - Luigi Zeni MA degree in Japanese Studies and East-Asian Art History from the University of Zürich. Currently, Luigi is researching the topic of mingei 民芸 – folk art/crafts – with a focus on Japanese ceramics and the contemporary scene of Japanese craftsmanship. He spent one year at Osaka University as an exchange student and acquired an insight into the fascinating and complex world of Japanese arts and crafts. His other fields of interest are Japanese purification practices, such as misogi 禊 and ōharae 大祓. He suggest you try drinking green tea from a Kyusu pot! Publications Netsuke 根付: A Lost Tradition - An Accessory out of Fashion. Issue 1, Autumn 2020. https://www.wasshoimagazine.org/julian-bentham daily 0.75 2023-06-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1600035558815-5934BQTLS0VDAKXWLH51/Julian_Bentham.jpg Julian Bentham - Julian Bentham Julian has a BA in Japanese Studies from the University of Sheffield, and spent a year at Osaka University studying Japanese language and culture. His research interests include Japanese linguistics, language-learning, psychology, sociology, and pop-culture, with his graduation thesis focusing on the representation of foreigners in Japanese television, as well as the in-group–out-group dynamics of Japanese society. His other interests include Kore-eda films, anime, Coolish ice cream, and travelling across Japan while eating his way into financial ruin. https://www.wasshoimagazine.org/sian-bentham daily 0.75 2026-02-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/01e56cee-6bc1-4526-a147-cb720d3ea9b1/Siam.jpeg Sian Bentham - Sian Bentham A Masters student in International Relations at Aberystwyth University, Sian is fascinated by art and literature from all over the world, with a particular fondness for the works of Tolstoy and Murakami. Ever since she was small she's enjoyed Japanese film and music, from Studio Ghibli’s Whisper of the Heart to the all-female rock band Zone. 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It was his love of J-Horror classics, such as Nakata Hideo’s Ringu, that drew him to Japan in the first place; and his ongoing obsession with Studio Ghibli films has led him up and down the country in search of the locations that inspired them. https://www.wasshoimagazine.org/amelia-lipko daily 0.75 2023-06-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1600033796851-T64YCH0A354CTJ0R0MKL/Schermata+2020-09-13+alle+23.41.42.png Amelia Lipko - Amelia Lipko Amelia graduated from English Philology and Japanology in Poland, and has also studied for a year at Osaka University. Her research interests include, though are not limited to, literature, social sciences, and gender studies. One of her favorite writers is Dazai Osamu. 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Contacts and socials Publications On Shinto’s Sacred Botany - When Myths Speak about Long Forgotten Pasts. Issue 1, Autumn 2020. Otomo Katsuhiro’s views on brotherhood and childhood in his animated movie, Akira. Issue 2, Summer 2021. https://www.wasshoimagazine.org/paola-citterio daily 0.75 2023-06-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1600117045128-PUXZJGPGQZO8Y59PPM19/paola_citterio.jpg Paola Citterio - Paola Citterio Paola concluded her BA in Psychology and Japanese studies at the University of Zurich, after spending one year in the fascinating city of Kyoto, doing an exchange year at Kyoto University of Foreign Studies in Japan. She also concluded her MA in Psychology and is currently working as a psychologist. However, she is not letting go of her passion for Japan! Her interests regarding Japan vary from popular culture such as anime and manga (of course) to more academic areas, such as psychology, religion, and the differences or similarities between our societies and mentalities. Publications Kitsune (狐): The Japanese Fox – Its Ambivalent Presence in Japanese Religion, Mythology and Culture. Issue 1, Autumn 2020. https://www.wasshoimagazine.org/manuel-flores daily 0.75 2023-06-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1600117751881-TFC5BZKD059KI1NV5IVH/Schermata+2020-09-14+alle+23.06.17.png Manuel Flores - Manuel Jose Flores Aguilar Manuel Jose graduated with a degree in Anthropology and Japanese studies from the University of Zurich, and is now doing his master’s in Linguistics. In 2016 he worked as a volunteer at a Farm in Yamanashi, and also spent a year as an exchange student studying Japanese at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies in 2018-19. He is interested in Nikkei communities and the Ainu. His hobbies are many, but what he likes to do most is to play the pan flute and learn about music. Publications Review: Drunkel Angel. Issue 1, Autumn 2020. https://www.wasshoimagazine.org/jannick-scherrer daily 0.75 2023-06-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1600871860834-VV79K7YP83QP6WAZSEX2/Jannick_Scherrer.jpg Jannick Scherrer - Jannick Scherrer Jannick obtained her double-BA in Japanology and German literature and linguistics in 2020. In her studies she has developed a particular interest in Japan’s use of self-portrayal as a kind of political strategy during times of early contact with western countries. Since 2017 she has been working as a student assistant for an EU grants project at the University of Zurich, called ‘Time in Medieval Japan’, in which researchers are analysing how the concept of time shaped the lives of people from medieval Japan and vice versa. In 2018, she travelled from Kagoshima in the South all the way up to Sapporo in the North, where Jannick visited the beautiful Daisetsuzan National Park. She is an enthusiastic visitor of the annual Ginmaku Japanese Film Festival in Zurich, where she had the pleasure of seeing one of her now favourite movies, An, by Naomi Kawase (2015). https://www.wasshoimagazine.org/kimberly-schlegel daily 0.75 2023-06-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1600873038777-36I2Z58HJUVN46SPNDQH/Kimberly_Schlegel.jpg Kimberly Schlegel - Kimberly Schlegel Kimberly is in the middle of her MA in English and Japanese Studies at the University of Zurich. In 2017/18, she was able to spend a year at Keio University in Tokyo, and she is generally interested in the inner and outer workings of the Japanese language. Kimberly likes exploring English language issues in Japan as well as Japanese issues abroad. She has been listening to Amazarashi recently and enjoy all things Ghibli. A friend’s book recommendation, Pachinko, which is about zainichi Koreans in Japan, blew her away. Publications Gender Roles and Philippine Brides in Tōhoku. Issue 1, Autumn 2020. https://www.wasshoimagazine.org/riccardo-lopes daily 0.75 2023-06-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/1614787047516-CM11NJS4HYIEWDA75OZQ/Foto_CV_Ok.jpg Riccardo Lopes - Riccardo Lopes Graphic designer. From 2017 to 2019 Riccardo studied computer animation at the SSSAA in Lugano, where he also attended a web design course. He graduated in early 2020 after a short internship as visual designer. His hobbies include illustration, both traditional and digital, and playing video games – mainly from Nintendo, in particular Pokémon. The latter have helped to bring him closer to Japan, thus making him fall in love with Japanese culture and design. 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He grew up in Beijing and ventured out for college in Wisconsin, studying fine arts and Japanese literature. After he embarked on his M.A in Transcultural Studies in Heidelberg, Fengyu researched Mishima Yukio 三島由紀夫, got fed up, and was proselytized by East Asian Art History. Though his research interests have moved on to the Karmic Origins of the Tenjin Deity (Tenjin engi 天神縁起) and medieval Japanese paintings, Mishima has managed to hold on to his spot on Fengyu’s bookshelf among other whimsical, pedantic authors like Márquez and Nabokov. Other significant distractions from writing his dissertation include graphic design, Chopin and Shostakovich, and deciphering komonjo 古文書 or Japanese paleography. https://www.wasshoimagazine.org/aurelia-antonini daily 0.75 2023-06-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/c8e55e3d-6c04-4c2d-900a-0cb0bf37ca6f/Antonini_Aurelia_n%26b+copie.jpg Aurelia Antonini - Aurelia Antonini Her passion for everything Japanese started during high school when every Wednesday Aurelia would go to a local manga shop with her friends and spend all the money she had. Unsurprisingly, this interest continued well after graduation – for her Bachelor's degree she chose to study Art History and Japanese language, literature and civilisation at the University of Geneva. Aurelia then continued with a Master's Degree in Museum Studies at the University of Neuchâtel. Thanks to an exchange program during her last year she was able to study at the Ecole du Louvre in Paris specializing in Art Collections History. This was also a great occasion for her to try every Japanese restaurant around the Petit Palais area, where she found okonomiyaki almost as good as the ones eaten in Japan. Aurelia loves Meiji era Japanese photography and two of her all-time favourite writers are Haruki Murakami and Banana Yoshimoto. https://www.wasshoimagazine.org/enrico-bachmann daily 0.75 2023-06-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaabc4f9a004e60a011f800/4d2214cc-59d8-47ba-ba51-edadfdecbc8c/IMG-20220323-WA0000.jpg Enrico Bachmann - Enrico Bachmann After having graduated from a professional school in 2014 and having worked in several ateliers as a goldsmith, Enrico is now completing his diploma at the Zurich University of the Arts as a scientific illustrator. 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