Comprehensive Report on Research Activities

Symposium

3rd COE International Symposium

The first international symposium entitled “What are Nonwritten Cultural Materials?” and the second international symposium entitled “Interpreting Human Culture through Nonwritten Materials” proved to be successful. In line with the spirit of the two symposiums, the third international symposium will lay out new ways to publicize our findings. The overall research activities under the program will also be summarized. The third international symposium aims to present our study results by means of a newly-developed system, with special focus on regional studies and physical techniques.

On Day One, we focus on what a regional “place” tells us about human activities that have been inscribed there. On Day Two, we show how to interpret the memory of human culture inscribed in our bodies. A general discussion will be held on the afternoon of the second day to summarize the entire program. We hope that a large number of people from inside and outside the program will take part in the symposium, and wish for the third international symposium to become a solid milestone in opening up new horizons in the study of nonwritten cultural materials. We hope that it will become an event befitting the program’s final year.

Theme “Memories Inscribed in Places and the Body – New Horizons in the Study of Nonwritten Cultural Materials”
Date Saturday 23 February and Sunday 24 February, 2008
Venue Celeste Hall (Building 16), Yokohama Campus, Kanagawa University
Purpose The Kanagawa University 21st Century COE Program, launched with the grand objective “Systematization of Nonwritten Cultural Materials for the Study of Human Societies,” will be concluded this fiscal year. We have developed studies on nonwritten cultural materials such as illustrated materials, folk implements and landscapes, but are still left with the task of integrating and systematizing the study results and giving them back to society at large.
Details Poster, leaflet
Day 1: 23 February, 2008

Program

<Chair> NISHI Kazuo (Professor, Kanagawa University / COE Sub-Leader)

10:00-10:05 Opening Speech
NAKAJIMA Michio (President, Kanagawa University)
10:05-10:20 Welcome Speech
FUKUTA Ajio (Professor, Kanagawa University / COE Program Leader)
10:20-11:40 Session 1 “Multilingual Version of Pictopedia of Everyday Life in Medieval Japan: Compilation and Significance”
Coordinator:
MAEDA Yoshihiko (Associate Professor, Kanagawa University / COE Program Representative)
Panelists:
MAEDA Yoshihiko (Associate Professor, Kanagawa University / COE Program Representative) “The Compilation and Significance of the Pictorial Dictionary of Japanese Folk Culture (original version)”
KIMI Yasumichi (Lecturer, University of Tokyo / COE Joint Researcher) “The Compilation and Significance of the Pictorial Dictionary of Japanese Folk Culture (multilingual version)”
Commentators:
HAN Dong soo (Professor, College of Architecture, Hanyang University, Korea)
LAFFIN Christina (Assistant Professor, Department of Asian studies, University of British Colombia)
12:50-14:40 Session 2 “Interpreting History through Japanese Concessions and Shrine Remains in China”
Coordinator:
OSATO Hiroaki (Professor, Kanagawa University / COE Program Representative)
Panelists:
TOMII Masanori (Assistant Professor, Kanagawa University / COE Joint Researcher)
“Housing Environment for Former Japanese Companies in China: Focusing on Company Housing Areas of the Koudai Spinning Industry”
Son An Suk (Associate Professor, Kanagawa University / COE Program Representative)
“The Life of Japanese People at the Japanese Settlement in Hankou (1941-1944): Focusing on Materials Provided by Mr. Hiroshi Kikuchi”
TSUDA Yoshiki (Research Associate, Kanagawa University / COE Joint Researcher)
“Shinto Shrines in Manchukou”
MIKI Seiichiro (Former Professor, Kanagawa University / COE Joint Researcher)
“Wajo (Japanese-style Castles on the Korean Peninsula) and Early-modern Castles”
Commentators:
LI Baihao (Professor, Wuhan University of Technology, China)
TSAI Chin-Tang (Associate Professor, National Taiwan Normal University)
14:55-16:55 Session 3 “Prospects for Internet Eco-museums: Collaboration of Regional Studies and Information Technology”
Coordinator:
SANO Kenji (Professor, Kanagawa University / COE Program Representative)
Case Study:
ONO Hiroshi (President, Contents, Co., Ltd.)
“Internet Eco-Museum at Tadami, Fukushima Prefecture”
Panelists:
SANO Kenji
“Nonwritten Cultural Materials and the Local Community: The Internet Eco-museum as a System to Transmit a Community’s Integrated Information”
KINOSHITA Hirotsugu (Professor, Kanagawa University / COE Program Representative)
“Integration of Regional Information: Case Study of Data on Tadami Town Folk Implements”
KUTSUKI Ryo (Associate Professor, Chiba University of Commerce)
“Turning a Region into a Museum: Local Cultural Assets in the Form of Memories”
SHIBAYAMA Mamoru (Professor, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University)
“Development of Area Informatics: with Case Study on Hanoi Urban Transition”
Commentators:
YIN Shao ting (Professor, Yunnan University)
IM Jang Hyuk (Associate Professor, Chung-Ang　University, Korea)
16:55-17:35 Q&A session
17:35-17:40 Closing Speech
Day 2: 24 February, 2008

<Chair>TAGAMI Shigeru (Professor, Kanagawa University / COE Secretary-General)

10:00-11:30 Session 4 “Arrangement and Systematization of Physical Techniques and Sensibility”
Coordinator:
HIROTA Ritsuko (Professor, Kanagawa University / COE Program Representative)
Panelists:
KAWADA Junzo (Former Professor, Kanagawa University / COE Joint Researcher)
“Towards the Systematic Documentation of Physical Techniques and Sensibility”
HIROTA Ritsuko(Professor, Kanagawa University / COE Program Representative)
KAIGA Takaaki (Chief Engineer, Warabiza Digital Art Factory / COE Research Collaborator)
“Motion Capture Technology and Physical Techniques”
WATANABE Shinichi (Professor, Tohoku University)
“Can Techniques used in Folk Arts be Passed on by means of Digital Technology?”
Commentators:
AKOHA Albert Bienvenu (Professor, Abomey-Calavi University, Republic of Benin)
NAKAMURA Minako (Associate Professor, Ochanomizu University)
KOJIMA Kazunari (Associate Professor, Kanagawa Institute of Technology)
13:00-14:10 Session 5 “The Experimental Exhibition of Physical Techniques”
Coordinator:
NAKAMURA Hiroko (Professor, Kanagawa University / COE Faculty Member,)
Panelists:
NAKAMURA Hiroko “Creating Exhibits I: Potential Device for Presenting Research Results”
AOKI Toshiya (Curator, Matsudo City Museum / COE Faculty Member, Kanagawa University)
“Creating Exhibits II: ‘Memories of Walking’ Experiment”
Commentators:
SASAHARA Ryoji (Associate Professor, National Museum of Ethnology)
MURAI Ryoko (President, Planning Lab Limited Company)
14:20-15:20 Q&A session
15:40-17:40 Final Discussion
First half: Summary of the international symposium
(Chaired by SANO Kenji)
Second half: Summary of the overall COE Program
(Chaired by KITSUKAWA Toshitada, Professor, Kanagawa University / COE Sub-Leader)
17:40-17:45 Closing Speech

2nd COE International Symposium

Theme “Interpreting Human Culture through Nonwritten Materials: Perspectives on Illustrated Materials, Folk Implements and Landscapes”
Date Saturday 28 October and Sunday 29 October, 2006
Venue Celeste Hall (Building 16), Yokohama Campus, Kanagawa University
Day 1: 28 October, 2006

Program

10:00-10:05Opening Speech
YAMABI Masanori (President, Kanagawa University)
10:05-10:20Welcome Speech
FUKUTA Ajio (Professor, Kanagawa University / COE Program Leader)
10:20-12:00 Session 1 “Methodological Problems concerning Systematization of Nonwritten Cultural Materials”
Coordinator:
MATOBA Akihiro (Professor, Kanagawa University / COE Program Representative)
Panelists:
MARC RIEU Alain (Professor, Jean Moulin University Lyon 3)
“Digital Anthropology: The Internet as a Virtual Museum”
MATOBA Akihiro “Epistemology of Nonwritten Cultural Materials: Some Philosophical Problems concerning Perception”
Commentator / Chair:
KITSUKAWA Toshitada (Professor, Kanagawa University / COE Program Representative)
13:30-15:30 Session 2“Lives and Culture Depicted in Illustrated Materials: The Early Modern Period in East Asia” (First half)
Coordinator:
KIM Jeong Ah (Lecturer, Kanagawa University / COE Faculty Member)
Panelists:
FUKUTA Ajio “Global Significance of Compiling a Pictorial Dictionary of Folk Culture”
TAJIMA Yoshiya (Professor, Kanagawa University / COE Program Representative)
“An Attempt to Compile a Pictorial Dictionary of Japanese Folk Culture in the Early Modern Period based on the Pictures of Farmers and Their Lives by Matasaburo Tsuchiya”
WANG Cheng-hua (Assistant Professor, Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica)
“Cityscapes, Urban Culture, and the Rise of Genre Paintings in Late Imperial China”
KIM Jeong Ah “The Pictorial Dictionary of Joseon Period Folk Culture in Korea: Source Materials and Banquet for the Governor of Pyeongyang”
Moderator:
NISHI Kazuo (Professor, Kanagawa University / COE Program Representative)
16:00-16:55 Session 2“Lives and Culture Depicted in Illustrated Materials: The Early Modern Period in East Asia” (Second half)
Coordinator:
KIM Jeong Ah (Lecturer, Kanagawa University / COE Faculty Member)
Commentators:
MOSTOW Joshua (Professor, University of British Columbia, Canada)
TREDE Melanie (Professor, University of Heidelberg, Germany)
Moderator:
NISHI Kazuo (Professor, Kanagawa University / COE Program Representative)
16:55-17:00 Closing Speech
Day 2: 29 October, 2006
10:00-12:00 Session 3 “Tracing the Migration of East Asian Peoples through a Comparative Study of Plow Shapes”
Coordinator / Chair:
KONO Michiaki (Professor, Kanagawa University / COE Program Representative)
Panelists:
WATANABE Takeshi (Professor, Tokai University)
“Traditional Chinese Plows and Transfer of their Technology”
KIM Kwang-eon (Professor Emeritus, Inha University, Korea)
“Shapes of Korean Plows and their Regional Features”
KONO Michiaki “Japanese Plows of Korean, Chinese and Mixed Origin”
Commentator:
YIN Shao ting (Professor, Yunnan University)
13:30-15:30 Session 4 “Possibilities of Photographs as Materials for Analysis of Landscape and Space Organization”
Coordinator / Chair:
HACHIKUBO Koshi (Associate Professor, Kanagawa University / COE Joint Researcher)
Panelists:
FUJINAGA Go (Lecturer, Saga University / 2003-2005 Post-Doctoral Fellow, Kanagawa University COE Faculty Member (PD))
“Possibilities of Photographs as Materials for Landscape Analysis”
HAMADA Hiroaki (Associate Professor, J.F. Oberlin University / Lecturer, Kanagawa University / COE Faculty Member)
“The Present-day Significance of the ‘Shibusawa Films’ for Landscape Research Data: The Example of South Korea”
Commentators:
JUNG Mee Ae (Lecturer, Heisei International University)
OKUNO Shii (Professor, University of Marketing and Distribution Sciences)
15:45-17:25 Final Discussion
Chair:
KITAHARA Itoko (Lecturer, Kanagawa University / COE Program Representative)
Panelists:
MATOBA Akihiro
KIM Jeong Ah
KONO Michiaki
HACHIKUBO Koshi
17:25-17:30 Closing Speech

1st COE International Symposium

Theme “What are Nonwritten Cultural Materials? – Memorizing and Documenting Human Culture”
Date Saturday 26 November and Sunday 27 November, 2005
Venue Celeste Hall (Building 16), Yokohama Campus, Kanagawa University
Day 1: 26 November, 2005

Program

10:00-10:05 Opening Speech
YAMABI Masanori (President, Kanagawa University)
10:05-10:20 Welcome Speech
FUKUTA Ajio (Professor, Kanagawa University / COE Program Leader)
10:20-12:00 Keynote Speech “Studying Human Cultures through Nonwritten Materials”
KAWADA Junzo (Professor, Kanagawa University / COE Sub-Leader)
13:00-14:45 Session 1
10：00～12：00　“Symbol and Representation: Impact Generated by the Media in the Latter Part of 19th Century Japan”
Coordinator / Chair:
KITAHARA Itoko (Lecturer, Kanagawa University / COE Program Representative)
Panelists:
HARASHIDA Minoru (International Ukiyo-e Society member / 2003 COE Joint Researcher, Kanagawa University)
“Invisible City: A Ukiyo-e Series Depicting Events”
DOBSON Sebastian (Independent Photo-historian)
“Images of Japan under the Western Photographic Gaze”
GUBER Konstantin (Chief Artist, Central Navy Museum, Russia)
“The Artistic and Scientific Legacy of Alexander Mozhaiskiy: The Sailor, the Artist and the Inventor”
Commentators:
WATANABE Toshio (Professor, Research Center for Transnational Art, Identity and Nation, University of the Arts London)
KANEKO Ryuichi (Curator, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography / COE Joint Researcher, Kanagawa University)
15:00-16:45 Session 2 “Physical Techniques and Religious Performing Arts: Movements of Man and Kashira Puppets related to Religious Rituals”
Coordinator:
HIROTA Ritsuko (Professor, Kanagawa University / COE Program Representative)
Panelists:
ZHANG Jin Song (Vice-Chairman, Chinese Folk Literature and Art Society of Hunan / Researcher, Hunan Federation of Literary and Art Circles)
“Physical Techniques of Yao Ethnic Group (China) related to Religious Rituals”
JEON Kyung-Wook (Professor and Director, Institute of Folklore, Korea University)
“Physical Techniques Displayed by Divine Characters in Korean Mask Dramas”
OHYATSU Sanae (Associate Professor, Showa Women’s University)
“Analysis of Physical Techniques through Kashira Puppets: A Comparison of Japanese and Chinese Puppets”
Commentators:
KANG Bao cheng (Professor, National Sun Yat-sen University, China)
YAMAGUCHI Kenji (Professor, Kanagawa University / COE Program Representative)
Day 2: 27 November, 2006
10:00-12:00 Session 3 “Folk Implements and Folk Techniques”
Coordinator / Chair:
KONO Michiaki (Professor, Kanagawa University / COE Program Representative)
Panelists:
ZHOU Xing (Professor, Aichi University)
“What Chinese Folklore can Learn from the Study of Folk Implements in Japan”
YIN Shaoting (Professor, Yunnan University / Curator, Museum of Anthropology)
“The Source, Types and Distribution of Chinese Plows”
KOH Kwang-Min (Curator, Cheju National University Museum, Korea)
“Folklore and Folk Implements for Discharge: A Comparison of Discharge Habits of Zhoushan Island, Cheju Island and the Korean Peninsula”
Commentators:
KONDO Masaki (Professor, National Museum of Ethnology)
YASUMURO Satoru (Associate Professor, National Museum of Japanese History)
13:00-14:45 Session 4 “Development of Innovative Technology and New Education Method for Disseminating Nonwritten Materials”
Coordinator / Chair:
MATOBA Akihiro (Professor, Kanagawa University / COE Joint Researcher)
Panelists:
BAI Geng Sheng (Vice-Chairman, Chinese Folk Literature and Art Society)
“Preservation of Cultural Heritage in China”
GALLOT Geneviève (Director, Institut National du Patrimoine, France)
“Cultural Heritage Professionals in France: New Focuses, New Challenges”
NOTO Masato (Associate Professor, Kanagawa University / COE Joint Researcher)
“Prospect of Establishing a Database of Nonwritten Cultural Materials based on Ontological Principles”
Commentators:
MARC RIEU Alain (Professor, Jean Moulin University Lyon 3)
KITSUKAWA Toshitada (Professor, Kanagawa University / COE Program Representative)
15:00-16:45 Final Discussion
Coordinator:
SANO Kenji (Professor, Kanagawa University / COE Program Representative)
Reports of Each Session:
Session 1: KITAHARA Itoko
Session 2: HIROTA Ritsuko
Session 3: KONO Michiaki
Session 4: MATOBA Akihiro
Discussion
Summary
16:45-17:00 Closing Speech

Related Event

“How to Savour the Reprinted Ukiyo-e: ‘One Hundred Famous Views of Edo’”

Date 18-30 Nov., 2005 12:00-16:30
*Closed 23 Nov.
*20, 26 and 27 Nov. 10:00-18:00

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