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This edited collection explores the historical dimensions, cultural practices, socio-economic mechanisms and political agendas that shape the notion of a national cuisine inside and outside of Japan. Japanese food is often perceived as pure, natural, healthy and timeless, and these words not only fuel a hype surrounding Japanese food and lifestyle...
In December 2013, washoku was added to the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage list of the United Nations, and Japanese cuisine was thereby acknowledged as a social practice that provides the Japanese people with a sense of identity. Starting from this perception of Japanese cuisine, this introduction shows that food not only contributes to a perso...
‘Traditional’ cuisine and food in Japan is regularly linked to questions of identity: to ideas of health and purity, to the creation of a specific Japanese landscape and the uniqueness of Japanese culture and society. Several studies have already rightly argued that the specific ‘Japaneseness’ of the Japanese cuisine was invented only during the pr...
Rogers Brubaker remarks that “as a category of practice, ‘diaspora’ is used to make claims, to articulate projects, to formulate expectations, to mobilize energies, to appeal to loyal- ties.” It is in times of crisis and trauma, we will argue in this paper, that these practices con- struct and intensify an awareness of community, generated by emoti...
This book clarifies and verifies the role sport has as an alternative marker in understanding and mapping memory in Japan, by applying the concept of lieux de mémoire (realms of memory) to sport in Japan. Japanese history and national construction have not been short of sports landmarks since the end of the nineteenth century. Western-style sports...
This paper will analyse the swimming events of the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics in the framework of collective memory. Olympic Games are memorable moments in the
history of a nation. As moments they are a unit of time, but they are equally part of an Olympic as well as a national narrative sequence: Each Olympic Games continues the established rituals...
Western sports had been increasingly introduced to Japan by the middle of the nineteenth century. Sport became a symbol of the new, modern times and was adopted by the intellectual elite of Japan as a way to participate in and incorporate the physical culture of modernity. As a result pre-modern Japanese body techniques were considered to be inferi...
Kôdôkan judo was included in the Olympic programme for the first time in the 1964 Tokyo Games. Japanese efforts to have judo staged as an Olympic discipline had failed earlier. When judo was accepted as an Olympic sport during the 58th IOC meeting in 1960 at the Excelsior Hotel in Rome this was symbolically tantamount both to the fundamental rehabi...
"Schwert und Samurai" ist eine Sammlung von historischen Texten aus dem 17. und 18. Jahrhundert zur japanischen Schwertkunst, die erstmals in deutscher Sprache vorliegen. Diesen Texten geht eine umfassende Einleitung zur Entwicklung des japanischen Schwertes und der mit ihm eng verbundenen Geschichte der Samurai voraus.
Aus dem Pinsel von Japans w...
Das Geijutsu futaba no hajime ("Das Keimblatt der Kunst") ist ein Lehrtext zur Schwertkunst, verfaßt im Jahre Tenmei 7 (1787) von Kokenken Ryokusui 古萱 軒緑水. Der Text, der deutlich in der Tradition des Tengu geijutsuron ("Diskurs über die Kunst der Bergdämonen") von Issai (Shissai) Chozan (1659-1741) steht, kann der Gattung der budôsho ("Kampfkunst-S...
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Funakoshi Gichin 富名腰義珍: Karatedō Kyōhan Kyōhan 空手道教範, 1935 shall be translated into German and published as an annotated edition.
From the point of view of the author, who is regarded as the 'father of modern karate', the book is his most comprehensive textbook and, thus, represents a valuable contribution to understanding the Japanese movement culture of the early 20th century. It marks the historically interesting transition of the distinction between karate and judo, as it focuses on typical karate fighting from a distance, but at the same time still keeps an eye on judotypical grabbing and throwing. In addition, the book proves to be a prototype of the didactic-methodical work in an art of movement, which---if this comparison of genres was to be made---corresponds in meaning to the "Natürliches Turnen (Natural Gymnastics)" by Karl Gaulhofer and Margarete Streicher, 1930. Last but not least, the first edition of 1935 contains photographs showing Funakoshi Gichin himself "in action", so that, in combination with the text, analyses of movement science could also be connected. Raising this sporting historical treasure and making it accessible to the German-speaking public - both scientific and interested in the subject - seems to be a highly worthwhile undertaking.
Funakoshi Gichin 富名腰義珍: Karatedō Kyōhan 空手道教範, 1935 soll ins Deutsche übersetzt und als kommentierte Ausgabe publiziert werden.
Aus der Sicht des Autors, der als „Vater des modernen Karate“ gilt, ist das Buch sein umfassendstes Lehrbuch. Es stellt einen wertvollen Beitrag zum Verständnis der japanischen Bewegungskultur des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts dar. Es markiert den historisch interessanten Übergang der Abgrenzung des Karate vom Judo, insofern es zwar das karatetypische Kämpfen aus der Distanz fokussiert, zugleich aber das judotypische Fassen und Werfen noch im Blick behält. Außerdem erweist sich das Buch als Prototyp des didaktisch-methodischen Werks in einer Bewegungskunst, das - wollte man diesen Gattungsvergleich anstellen - in seiner Bedeutung dem „Natürlichen Turnen“ von Karl Gaulhofer und Margarete Streicher, 1930, entspricht. Nicht zuletzt beinhaltet die Erstausgabe von 1935 Fotographien, die Funakoshi Gichin selbst „in Aktion“ zeigen, sodass in Kombination mit dem Text auch bewegungswissenschaftliche Analysen anschlussfähig wären. Diesen sporthistorischen Schatz zu heben und der deutschsprachigen - wissenschaftlichen wie sachinteressierten - Öffentlichkeit zugänglich zu machen, erscheint als ein höchst lohnenswertes Unterfangen.
Within "Why Martial Arts?" I'm currently developing a research project called "A Fighter's Life". „A Fighter’s Life“ in an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural approach aims at understanding why and how people become fighters, dedicate their lives to fighting and (have to) retire from it.
Except for boxing there is little knowledge concerning development and transitions in martial arts and combat sports athletes’ lives. Particularly we don’t know why young people decide upon certain types or styles, why they change between them, how they develop into competitive sportsmen/-women, why they switch from olympic types of combat sports into being professionals or choose types/styles in which they can become professionals (such as Muay Thai, Kickboxing or MMA), or why and how—at the same time or instead—become coaches, „teachers“, „sensei“ oder „sifu“. Just as little we know about developments within lives as fighters, or transitions out of it, respectively what specific kinds of lives exist in this field at all.
By the research project „A Fighter’s Life“ I’d like to bring some light into this darkness and for that purpose build an international team of colleagues who are ready to deal with this topic.
