The heteromorph ammonite Pravitoceras sigmoidale Yabe, of the family Nostoceratidae, is the zonal marker of the upper Campanian P. sigmoidale Zone in southwest Japan, and is the main component of ...ammonite assemblages in this zone. We explain the taphonomic processes underlying the occurrence of P. sigmoidale in the Izumi Group, specifically in the Minato (Awaji Island), Anaga (Awaji Island), Koike–Omoizaki (Shikoku), and Hidonodani sections (Shikoku). The first two sections consist mainly of the non-turbiditic Northern Marginal Facies (NMF), while the latter two sections comprise the Main Facies (MF), a turbiditic facies deposited in waters deeper than those of the NMF. We recognise three modes of occurrence of P. sigmoidale, as follows: (1) In nodules crowded with P. sigmoidale (NCP); this mode occurs only in the NMF, and includes juvenile and adult specimens, together with other ammonites such as Solenoceras (Oxybeloceras) aff. humei (Douvillé), (2) In mudstone with isolated P. sigmoidale (MIP), which is found in all of the sections studied, (3) In sandstone with isolated P. sigmoidale (SIP), which occurs only in the MF. Adult individuals of P. sigmoidale are dominant in most of the sections, while juveniles were observed only in the Minato section, which originally was closer to land areas. The number of specimens of P. sigmoidale and Solenoceras spp. tends to increase in sections representing depositional environments proximal to terrestrial areas. Ammonite assemblages could have been transported from shallow- to deep-water settings by turbidity currents. The sorting of components by transport processes likely contributed to the formation of these fossil assemblages in different areas. This is an important clue to understanding the habitat of heteromorph ammonite life assemblages consisting mainly of P. sigmoidale.
•Taphonomic processes and habitat of heteromorph ammonite Pravitoceras sigmoidale Yabe.•Three modes of occurrence of P. sigmoidale are observed in the Izumi Group.•Fossil assemblages were transported by turbidity currents.•Ammonite life assemblages existed in northern marginal part of the basin.
Six oyster-shell beds of exclusively Crassostrea sp. are exposed in a thick estuarine unit in the Campanian (Late Cretaceous) upper part of the Shiroyama Formation, Izumi Group, along the Doki River, ...Mannou area, Kagawa Prefecture, SW Japan. Five modes of fossil occurrence are observed in the oyster beds: (I) Relay type, (II)single-generation cluster type, (III) mixed type in upright and lying positions, (IV) closely packed side-lying type, and (V) scattered side-lying type. Five of the shell beds consist of more than one type of fossil occurrence, indicating a heterogeneous origin (i.e., both autochthonous and allochthonous), with the beds being of variable size, thickness, and shape. The sixth bed yields only allochthonous oysters (type IV). The former five shell beds were formed on a sandy tidal flat by the intermittent accumulation of autochthonous and allochthonous shells. The combined effects of (1) clustered oyster growth, (2) subsequent destruction by tidal currents or storms and short-distance transportation, and (3) renewed clustered growth over several generations resulted in the formation of thick shell beds. These modes of fossil occurrence, formed under high-energy conditions on a sandy tidal flat, are in contrast to the oyster reefs of modern Crassostrea, which dwells in a sheltered muddy estuary environment. The thick estuarine unit in the section along the Doki River suggests that in this part of the Izumi Basin, the rates of subsidence and sediment supply were in balance during the Campanian. Moreover, the heterogeneous oyster beds may have formed in an estuarine environment during occasional stagnation phases during a transgression related to syn-depositional subsidence of the Izumi Basin.
Well-preserved upper and lower jaws of the aptychus-type found inside the body chambers of two specimens of the heteromorph ammonoid Pravitoceras sigmoidale Yabe, 1902 (Nostoceratidae, ...Ancyloceratina) are described from the Upper Cretaceous Izumi Group in Southwest Japan. They are similar in overall morphology to those of other nostoceratid and diplomoceratid ammonoids currently known, suggesting the morphological stability of the jaw features among these taxa. The equal size of the upper and lower jaws with beak-like rostral projection suggests that the jaw apparatus of this species might function to bite and cut up prey.
Seven species of decapods are described from the Izumi Group (Upper Cretaceous: Campanian–Maastrichtian) of Hyogo and Osaka Prefectures, central Japan. Archaeopidae, a new family of Retroplumoidea ...embraces the monotypic Late Cretaceous genus Archaeopus. Hinecaris simplex, a new genus and species is the first record for the axiidean family Axiidae from the Cretaceous rocks of Japan. “Callianassa” (s.l.) masanorii Karasawa, 1998, is re-described and is moved from Callianassidae to Gourretiidae. A re-description is given for Linuparus japonicus Nagao, 1931, and Archaeopus ezoensis (Nagao, 1941). The lectotype for Linuparus japonicus Nagao, 1931, is herein designated.
On the eve of deinstitutionalization, a group of professionals, including an architect, a psychiatrist, and a psychologist, joined together in pursuit of a middle ground between outright closure of ...long-stay hospitals and the introduction of out-patient services in general hospitals. Augmented by the use of the hallucinogenic drug LSD, these men produced a trenchant critique of modern psychiatry and the changing mental health system without subscribing to antipsychiatry. Caught among shifting psychiatric paradigms, fiscal constraints, and political pressure to situate mental health within an encroaching system of publicly funded health care reforms, their proposed mental hospital designs failed to stem the tidal wave of post-World War II changes in mental health care.
Come, You Spirits Ingham, Michael; Nakao, Kaoru
Asian theatre journal,
03/2018, Letnik:
35, Številka:
1
Journal Article
Recenzirano
This study will explore the potential of nō theatre as a form in which adaptations, or more accurately transcultural transformations and appropriations, of Shakespearean drama can flourish in a ...Japanese cultural context. With reference to specific performance examples we will argue that transculturation of Shakespearean drama through the vehicle of the transcendently metaphysical and ritualized nō in combination with the more dramatically mimetic, if similarly stylized, kyōgen can offer fresh perception of theatrical possibility for both western and Japanese audiences. The practice invites both audience constituencies to share in alternative ways of seeing and feeling about the iconic and sometimes culturally conservative constructs of Shakespeare and nō, respectively. Bearing in mind the phenomenon of cultural mobility and transmission, as proposed by Stephen Greenblatt and others, we will discuss three principal case studies, Izumi Noriko’s 2006 nō Macbeth and 2013 nō Othello productions and Nomura Mansai’s 2010 Tokyo mixed-mode production and subsequent touring version of Macbeth. They serve as very good illustrations of how, in spite of the apparent aesthetic restraints arising out of the formality of its theatricality and codification, nō and kyōgen theatre can afford new insights into Shakespeare as a contemporary global theatre practice.
