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Zilia Papp
HOSEI UNIVERSITY, TOKYO
KEY FEATURE(S) Japanese anime plays a major role in modern popular visual culture and aesthetics, yet this is the first study which sets out to put today’s anime in historical context by tracking the visual links between Edo- and Meiji- period painters and the post-war period animation and manga series ‘Gegegeno Kitaro’ by Mizuki Shigeru.
Through an investigation of the very popular Gegegeno Kitaro series, broadcast from the 1960s to the present time, the author is able to pinpoint the visual roots of the animation characters in the ... |
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Yulia Mikhailova
HIROSHIMA CITY UNIVERSITY
KEY FEATURE(S) This volume recognizes the growing awareness of the importance of images in international relations, exploring the phenomenon over three centuries as it relates to Russia and Japan.
The general perception of one country by another – the ‘stereotypical collective mentality’ – is an historic phenomenon that continues to be a fundamental component in international relations at all l... |
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Contemporary Expressions of Cultural Identity
Henry Johnson
UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO
KEY FEATURE(S) For the first time, using an interdisciplinary, theoretical and ethnographic approach, the editors have brought together a rich collection of current research on contemporary Japanese performance practices. Topics covered include theatre, music, art, fashion and technology, media, architecture and tourism.
Well illustrated, Performing Japan will provide added-value in introductory courses on the Japanese language, history, or culture, as well as Asian Studies in general. In addition, it offers valuable... |
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Won-oh Choi
SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY
KEY FEATURE(S) Published in full colour throughout, this highly engaging volume - the first of its kind in English - by one of Korea’s leading scholars on comparative mythology, provides a valuable introduction to centuries-old beliefs, myths and folk tales relating to individual destiny, love and family, the birth of heroes, the universe and ghosts, gods and exorcists. The illustrations comprise a wide variety of old Korean art, including rare shamanist paintings, as well as some contemporary paintings.
The text is divided into two parts: (1) The Bridge Connecting This Life and Eternity, which includes the story of Daebyeol-wang and Sobyeol-wang’s role in the origin of the world, and (2) Humanistic M... |
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Sources, Sentiment and Society
David W. Hughes
SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
KEY FEATURE(S) The Japanese say that ‘folk song is the heart’s home town’. Traditional folk songs (min’yo) from the countryside are strongly linked to their places of origin and continue to play a role there. Today, however, they are also taught as a quasi-art music, arranged for stage and television, quoted in Westernized popular songs and so forth. This book is the first in English to take a holistic view of this genre.
The study moves from tradition to modernity, explores a range of topics such as: song life in the traditional village; rural–urban tensions; local min’yo ‘preservation societies’; the effects of natio... |
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Sight and Word
Mark Gresham (Photography), A. Robert Lee (Text)
KEY FEATURE(S) Organized thematically, Mark Gresham’s many images of contemporary Japan taken over the last twenty years offer both a pleasing freshness, even quirkiness, to this genre, as well as a valuable and informative reference point to the many themes covered that will certainly have educational applications. A. Robert Lee’s ‘minimalist’ observations to each picture echo traditional Japanese poetic forms and provide an additional source of inspiration and reflection.
The volume contains over 150 photographs grouped around the following themes: Faces, Train Stations, City, Food Markets, Bamboo Straw Water, Walls, Umbrella Parasols, Stone Sand Wood, Japan Blues, C... |
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Selected Papers from the British Association for Korean Studies BAKS Papers series, 1991–2004. In two volumes
J.E. Hoare and Susan Pares
CHARGÉ D'AFFAIRES, PYONGYANG, 2001-2002
Established in 1982, the British Association for Korean Studies has published nine sets of Papers in the period 1991–2004 – the outcome of conferences, study days and workshops. The themes of Korea pa... |
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The articulation of pictorial space
David Bell
UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO
This new study on the great ukiyo-e artist Hokusai is not so much about who he was or what he did, but an in-depth appreciation of why his works appear the way they do and how he created them. Though ... |
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Riding the Wave
EDITED by Keith Howard
AHRB RESEARCH CENTRE, SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
Korean popular music has in the last decade become a significant model for youth culture throughout Asia. Yet, although the Korean music industry is both vibrant and massive, this is the first book-le... |
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Francis Mullany
This volume is the first of its kind to explore the vast heritage of Korean brush and ink paintings, in particular during the classical period, which runs from the mid-seventeenth to the end of the ni... |
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