Hakata [electronic resource] the cultural worlds of northern Kyushu / edited by Andrew Cobbing.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cobbing, Andrew.

Series:

Regional Spaces, Cultures and Identities of East Asia 1.

Regional Spaces, Cultures and Identities of East Asia ; Volume 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City and town life--Japan--Fukuoka-ken--History.

City and town life.

Intercultural communication--Japan--Fukuoka-ken--History.

Intercultural communication.

Cosmopolitanism--Japan--Fukuoka-ken--History.

Cosmopolitanism.

Fukuoka-ken (Japan)--Civilization.

Fukuoka-ken (Japan).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (263 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, Mass. : Brill, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Hakata: The Cultural Worlds of Northern Kyushu , experts in various fields have collaborated to produce an interdisciplinary collection offering diverse insights on a region yet to be fully addressed in English. A historic port situated in a strategically vital region as the closest point of contact with the Asian continent, Hakata has long served as a key hub in the transcultural networks linking Japan with the outside world. This volume explores the rich legacy of these wider interactions, in particular the cosmopolitan, international dimension deeply embedded in Hakata's urban culture. With an identity all its own and quite distinct from other regions in Japan, it is a culture once again increasingly relevant in today's world of borderless communications.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Introduction

1. Hakata and Dazaifu: Crossroads, Boundaries, and Identity Formation in Ancient Kyushu / Bruce L. Batten

2. Michizane, Tenjin, and Dazaifu / Robert Borgen

3. Zen in Northern Kyushu / Nobuyoshi Yamabe

4. The Hakata Merchant’s World: Cultural Networks in a Centre of Maritime Trade / Andrew Cobbing

5. Chanoyu in Hakata: Zen, Karamono and the Reception of Tea Ceremony / Kazushige Horimoto

6. Fictocritical Momentum: Yamakasa Masculinity as Hakata Tradition / Tim Cross

7. Imagining Regional, National and Local Identities: ‘Asianism’ in Fukuoka / Reiko Ogawa

8. Matsumoto Jiichirō and Fukuoka / Ian Neary

9. Traditional Craft Industries in Fukuoka Prefecture / Yasushi Yonemitsu

10. Staging the Local and Sacramental: Yamakasa as New Noh / Tim Cross

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed May 28, 2013).

ISBN:

90-04-24308-9

OCLC:

846679694

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004243088 DOI