Imperial ceremony was a vital form of self-expression for late antique society. Sabine MacCormack examines the ceremonies of imperial arrivals, funerals, and coronations from the late third to the ...late sixth centuries A.D., as manifest in the official literature and art of the time. Her study offers us new insights into the exercise of power and into the social, political, and cultural significance of religious change during the Christianization of the Roman world.
The overwhelming majority of tea practitioners in contemporary Japan are women, but there has been little discussion on their historical role in tea culture ( chanoyu ). In Cultivating Femininity, ...Rebecca Corbett writes women back into this history and shows how tea practice for women was understood, articulated, and promoted in the Edo (1603–1868) and Meiji (1868–1912) periods. Viewing chanoyu from the lens of feminist and gender theory, she sheds new light on tea’s undeniable influence on the formation of modern understandings of femininity in Japan. Cultivating Femininity offers a new perspective on the prevalence of tea practice among women in modern Japan. It presents a fresh, much-needed approach, one that will be appreciated by students and scholars of Japanese history, gender, and culture, as well as by tea practitioners.
By examining chanoyu – the custom of consuming matcha tea – in the Meiji period, Gathering for Tea in Modern Japan investigates the interactions between intellectual and cultural legacies of the ...Tokugawa period and the incoming influences of Western ideas, material cultures and institutions. It explores the construction of Japan’s modern cultural identity, highlighting the development of new social classes, and the transformation of cultural practices and production-consumption networks of the modern era. Taka Oshikri uses a wealth of Japanese source material – including diaries, newspaper, journal articles, maps, exhibition catalogues and official records – to explore the intricate relationships between the practice and practitioners of different social groups such as the old aristocracy, the emerging industrial elite, the local elite and government officials. She argues that the fabrication of a cultural identity during modernisation was influenced by various interest groups, such as the private commercial sector and foreign ambassadors. Although much is written on the practice of chanoyu in the pre-Tokugawa period and present-day Japan, there are few historical studies focusing on the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Gathering for Tea in Modern Japan thus makes a significant contribution to its field, and will be of great value to students and scholars of modern Japanese social and cultural history.
In Iwate prefecture, in Okutama, Senmaya-cho, Ichinoseki-city, Iwate prefecture, “discipline dojo” was held until the mid-1960s. At “discipline dojo”, young people learned about the protocols of ...wedding ceremonies. I investigated a lecture book used in the dojo. Explanations and figures of the protocols were described in the book. The room where the wedding took place, the method of pouring Japanese alcohol into cups, and the order of pouring were shown in detail. The goods which were part of the ceremony were “hanpi”, “sangozakana”, “otyou”, “metyou”, and cups with their respective roles. “Hanpi” was a pair of cups for Japanese alcohol. “Sangozakana” on a tray was ritual cuisine consisting of three foods, peeled Japanese radish, small dried fishes and kelp. “Otyou” and “metyou” were two kettles for Japanese alcohol decorated with folded papers. “Otyou” and “metyou” referred to a boy and a girl who poured Japanese alcohol into cups for the bride and bridegroom. This survey revealed that there were typical protocols of wedding ceremonies unique to Okutama.
Problematyka związana z kontaktami dyplomatycznymi na przestrzeni wieków między Rzeczypospolitą a Rosją budzi od zawsze ogromne zainteresowanie wśród wielu badaczy zarówno polskich, jak i rosyjskich. ...Historycy, politolodzy stale pogłębiają wiedzę dotyczącą relacji pomiędzy oboma państwami. Temat ten nie doczekał się jednak wnikliwych opracowań od strony historii sztuki. Celem niniejszego artykułu jest zaprezentowanie rezultatów przeprowadzonych badań nad oprawą audiencji przyjęcia posłów Rzeczypospolitej do Państwa Moskiewskiego w 1667 roku. Przedstawienie głównej części audiencji od strony oprawy: dekoracji i wyglądu komnaty, strojów oraz prezentów dyplomatycznych wręczonych carowi. Cały problem badawczy został opracowany za pomocą metody opisowej, porównawczej oraz analitycznej. Przeprowadzone badania pomogły zebrać i przeanalizować w szczególności źródła archiwalne. W wyniku pracy nad tematem nasuwa się następujący wniosek: mimo tak obszernych historiografii relacji dyplomatycznych między narodami, niewiele jest źródeł dotyczących oprawy artystycznej tego tematu.
Chanoyu is a popular culture today even though this culture has been around for a long time. This study aimed to describe the problem of terms, especially their relationship with the culture of the ...speakers in the chanoyu procession. This research was a qualitative descriptive study. The approach used was an ethnolinguistic approach. The result of this research showed that the tea ceremony has become an important part of Japanese culture. The terms found in the procession indicate that the guest and the host respect each other and give meaning to the journey of life. The use of terms in the lexicon in the tools used is also seen in terms of form, its manufacture and use creates perfect harmony in the chanoyu process.
Why is the tea-room entrance, or nijiriguchi, so narrow? How did the practice of “passing the bowl,” or mawashinomi, come about? And what hidden meaning lies behind the ritual purification of hands ...and mouth, or chōzu? Chanoyu, the art of preparing tea, developed against a backdrop of social turmoil in late medieval Japan. Through the singular figure of Sen no Rikyū, it found expression as wabi-cha, or wabi tea, the foundation of Japanese tea culture today. Here, scholar and curator Kumakura Isao investigates the unique cultural value of tea. He examines its rituals and behaviors, elaborates its structure, spaces, and style, and delves into the history of everything from the tea whisk to the tea room itself. Drawing on folklore studies and performing-arts history, Kumakura develops a new perspective on Japan’s culture of tea.
The fundamental educational issue in the cultural tradition of the indigenous Otomí population of Mexico concerns Mother Earth which cannot be understood as private property, therefore it cannot be ...sold or bought, as a resource that is the foundation of the common good. However, this is fully understandable only starting from a cosmovision, where the harmonious relationship between man and nature is central to giving meaning to the vital horizon. Therefore, it is necessary to offer continuity, even in the present time, to the ceremonies that translate into real forms of education in generational continuity. When the harmony between tradition and current needs reaches a breaking point, chaos can only be generated in community existence. Our research, which has training as its fulcrum, for the epistemological elements that characterize it, has used the support of ethnographic and anthropological research methods in the context.
The literature on organisational culture suggests that ceremonies or rituals reinforce control. By contrast, this article contributes to the literature on resistance, culture and ceremony by arguing ...that ceremony can also be understood as a form of resistance. It does so through drawing on ethnographic research, first, to explore how a ceremonial 1-day rally during an academic dispute was productive for frontline employee resistance (ceremony as resistance). Second, it considers how such resistance can also be productive in generating consent, for it is infused with and reproduces established norms, subjectivities and power relations (resistance as ceremony). Finally, it is asserted that resistance can be productive in fostering a subjectivity characterised by stability and instability and so practices such as a rally are necessary to try to stabilise both the organisation and the subjectivity of resistance. The article therefore illustrates the ambiguity of productive resistance which has been neglected to date. These insights and arguments indicate that all forms of workplace resistance are decaf, for they are imbued with the context and norms through which they arise. Nevertheless, resistance remains dangerous for those in positions of authority because it means that power is never totalising and so outcomes continue to be uncertain.
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