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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.
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BOOK REVIEW BY MARIA CĂRBUNE
Eduard Klopfenstein, ed. Sprachlich-literarische ‘Aggregatzustände’ im Japanischen:
Europäische Japan-Diskurse 1998–2018. Berlin: BeBra Wissenschaft Verlag, 2020.
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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
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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)
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