Overview

Furusato (home, hometown, and/or place of origin) is a revered and idealized concept in Japan. On an individual level, it plays a central role in personal identity; in a broader social and cultural milieu, it is constitutive of a sense of nostalgia for a romanticized and impossible past; and in the political and legal realms, it connects with ideas of Japaneseness and the construction of foreign others. While the specific forms it takes in context provide a Japanese veneer to the idea of furusato, it in fact finds close analogues in ideas of ‘home’ and ‘origin’ around the world. This volume collects essays exploring furusato and its cognates in other languages and regions. 14 scholars from Japan and Europe employ a diverse array of disciplinary tools, drawing from history, philosophy, literature, anthropology, religious studies, and art history, to map out the contours of home and elucidate the meanings contained within it.

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Author:   Christopher Craig ,  Enrico Fongaro ,  Aldo Tollini
Publisher:   Mimesis International
Imprint:   Mimesis International
ISBN:  

9788869772771

ISBN 10:   8869772772
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   31 March 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Editors’ Preface Furusato in Japanese Buddhism as a spiritual place   PART I FURUSATO IN IMAGE AND IMAGINATION Dutch art theory at home in Japan: an abridged history of Gerard de Lairesse’s Groot Schilderboek’s presence in Japan and its influence on Japanese Art   The Great East Japan Earthquake and Furusato/Home. Towards furusato as a Sacred Space   The Rediscovery of Furusato and the Inheritance of Folklore: A Case Study of Yamashiro, Tokushima Prefecture   PART II BEING AT HOME The Place and the Way: Heidegger, Matsuo Bashō, and Art as Being-at-Home   Building a Home in the World: Belonging in the Wilderness   Transience and the Promise of Home: Reconceptualising Homelessness through Heidegger and Nietzsche   PART III FURUSATO ACROSS SPACE Qiaoxiang and Furusato: A Comparative Study of Homes of Overseas Chinese and Japanese Emigrants   Escaping home, Finding Home: The Search for Identity in Recreational Travel in the Late Edo Period   From Ibaraki to Edo/Tokyo: How the Earthquake Catfish Found a New Home in the Capital   PART IV FURUSATO IN LITERATURE Furusato in the first Japanese translation of the Song of Roland by Ban Takeo   “Homeland” in the Discourses of Collective Identity of the Early 19th Century in Japan and Central Europe   Reasoning about Furusato as the Origin of Life (生命) and Spirit (心)   Modern Yucatec Mayan Literature and the Concept of Home, Mayab

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Christopher Craig is Associate Professor of Japanese History at Tohoku University in Japan. Enrico Fongaro is Associate Professor of Italian and Western Aesthetics at Tohoku University in Japan. Aldo Tollini is Retired Professor at the Department of Asian and North African Studies at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.

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