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We are very pleased to draw your attention to vol. 7 (Spring, 2022) of the Journal of Asian Humanities at Kyushu University (JAH-Q), 

an annual peer-reviewed, Open Access, Scopus-indexed journal available in print and Open Access formats. 

 

For volume 7 see: https://www2.lit.kyushu-u.ac.jp/en/impjh/jahq/publishedvolumes.html

 

For a cover-to-cover PDF of any year see:  https://www2.lit.kyushu-u.ac.jp/en/impjh/jahq/

 

For individual article and item PDFs for each year see:  https://www.lib.kyushu-u.ac.jp/publications_kyushu/jahq 

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Table of Contents (Volume 7)

 

SATOSHI IMAZATO

Inter-Changeable Religions: A Style of Japanese Religious Pluralism in Hirado Island Villages, Northwestern Kyushu

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AKIKO WALLEY

The Power of Concealment: Tōdaiji Objects and the Effects of Their Burial

 in an Early Japanese Devotional Context  . .  .   .  .  . 23

 

AKIKO HIRAI

Structural Analysis of the Dance Within the Odaidai Ceremony of Kawaguchi Asama Shrine: 

Choreography, Music, and Meaning  .  .    .  .  .  .  .  . 47

 

MEW LINGJUN JIANG

A Short Visual History of Abstraction in Early Modern

Japanese Karuta: Simplification, Reinterpretation, and Localization . . . . . . . 61

 

 

Report

Kyushu, Asia, and Beyond

YOSHINORI IWASAKI

TRANSLATED BY KAZUHIRO MURAYAMA

Book Collecting by a Literati Daimyo in Early Modern Japan, and the Exchange of Information: 

An Investigation into Catalogues of the Rakusaidō Collection in Hirado Domain . .  .  .  . 85

 

Reviews

Kyushu and the World, on the Fiftieth Anniversary of

International Awareness of Minamata Disease

MULTIPLE BOOK REVIEW BY TIMOTHY S. GEORGE

W. Eugene Smith and Aileen Mioko Smith. Minamata (in Japanese). Trans. Nakao Hajime 中尾ハジメ. 

With contributions by Ishikawa Takeshi 石川武志, Yamagami Tetsujirō 山上徹二郎, 

Saitō Yasushi 斉藤靖史, and Yorifuji Takashi 頼藤貴志. Crevis, 2021.

Seán Michael Wilson (text) and Akiko Shimojima (illustrations). The Minamata Story: An EcoTragedy.

Berkeley: Stone Bridge Press, 2021.      . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . 95

 

BOOK REVIEW BY MARILYN ROBERT

Reiko Sudo. NUNO: Visionary Japanese Textiles. Edited

by Naomi Pollock. London: Thames & Hudson, 2021.

       . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

 

BOOK REVIEW BY MARIA CĂRBUNE

Eduard Klopfenstein, ed. Sprachlich-literarische ‘Aggregatzustände’ im Japanischen: 

Europäische Japan-Diskurse 1998–2018. Berlin: BeBra Wissenschaft Verlag, 2020.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

 

BOOK REVIEW BY MALLY STELMASZYK

Laurel Kendall. Mediums and Magical Things: Statues, Paintings, and Masks in Asian Places

University of California Press, 2021. .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .   119

 

BOOK REVIEW BY SUSAN NAQUIN

Alain Arrault. A History of Cultic Images in China: The Domestic Statuary of Hunan

Translated by Lina Verchery. The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 2020

 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

 

Research Report

MECHTILD MERTZ, SUYAKO TAZURU, SHIRŌ ITŌ, AND CYNTHEA J. BOGEL

A Group of Twelfth-Century Japanese Kami Statues and Considerations of Material Intentionality:

Collaborative Research Among Wood Scientists and Art Historians .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .   127

 

Notice of Corrections .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .   159

 

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For a printed volume for your library please contact me at this email.

 

Sincerely,

 

Cynthea J. Bogel 

  and the Editorial Board for JAH-Q vol. 7

 

Cynthea J. Bogel

   •Professor, Buddhist visual culture in East Asia and Japanese Art History

Kyushu University, Graduate School of Humanities (until March 31, 2023)

  • Journal of Asian Humanities at Kyushu University (JAH-Q).  Editor, 2016–2022 except 2020, Group Editor.  

  •The Eastern Buddhist, Advisory Board member. https://ebs.otani.ac.jp/

  •Visiting Scholar, The Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard University (Feb. 2022–Jan. 2023)