"Mōko Shūrai Ekotoba" (Illustrated Account of the Mongol Invasions)

Eikon / Imago ◽

10.5209/eiko.73275 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 9 ◽

pp. 35-57

Author(s):

Giuseppina Aurora Testa

Keyword(s):

Edo Period ◽

Kamakura Period

This paper is a study of a Japanese illustrated handscroll produced in the late Kamakura period (1185-1333), the Mōko Shūrai Ekotoba, that provides an invaluable pictorial account of the two attempted Mongol invasions of Japan in the years 1274 and 1281. It was copied and restored, with some images significantly altered, during the Edo period (1615-1868). While in the original handscroll the appearances of the foreign Mongols were depicted as accurately as possible, the figures added later show exaggerated features and distortions that correspond to new modes of imagining and representing peoples reflecting a new language and the shifting cosmologies brought about by the Japanese encounter with more “different” Others (Europeans).

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Die einheimische Religion Japans. Teil 2: Synkretistische Lehren und religiose Entwicklungen von der Kamakura: bis zum Beginn der Edo-Zeit [Japan's Indigenous Religion. Part 2: Syncretistic Doctrines and Religious Developments from the Kamakura Period to the Beginning of the Edo Period]

Asian Folklore Studies ◽

10.2307/1178868 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 55 (1) ◽

pp. 160

Author(s):

Jan van Bragt ◽

Nelly Naumann

Keyword(s):

Edo Period ◽

Indigenous Religion ◽

Kamakura Period

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Sonic Movements – Spatial Reflexivity

Somatechnics ◽

10.3366/soma.2014.0116 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 133-148

Author(s):

Johanna Hällsten

Keyword(s):

Alarm System ◽

Edo Period ◽

Public Places ◽

Ongoing Research ◽

Site Specific ◽

Rural Environments ◽

The World ◽

Architectural Structures ◽

Sonic Environment ◽

Sonic Structures

This article aims to investigate the creation of space and sound in artistic and architectural fields, with particular emphasis on the notions of interval and duration in the production and experience of soundscapes. The discussion arises out of an ongoing research project concerning sonic structures in public places, in which Japanese uguisubari ([Formula: see text]) – ‘nightingale flooring’, an alarm system from the Edo period) plays a key role in developing new kinds of site-specific and location-responsive sonic architectural structures for urban and rural environments. This paper takes uguisubari as its frame for investigating and evaluating how sounds create a space (however temporary), and how that sound in turn is created through movement. It thus seeks to unpick aspects of the reciprocal and performative act in which participant and the space engage through movement, whilst creating a sonic environment that permeates, defines and composes the boundaries of this space. The article will develop a framework for these kinds of works through a discussion on walking, movement, soundscape and somatechnical aspects of our experience of the world, drawing upon the work of Merleau-Ponty, Bergson and the Japanese concept of Ma (space-time).

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