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Cultural Fluidity/First Experiences
“What is your oldest memory of something Japanese? What cultural product, news story, food, or schoolbook can you recall encountering as a child?”
To expand on the theme of cultural flow, we asked this question of all KJ 106 contributors and staff. Their answers, a small sampling of experiences, are microcosms of how Japanese culture has diffused around the globe and how this flow has changed over the last century. In many cases, those things remembered were only later discovered to be Japanese.
Kyoto Journal 106: Cultural Fluidity (Digital)
KJ 106 dives into the theme of ‘Cultural Fluidity,’ the accelerating flow and blend of cultures across borders. From Japonisme to Pokémon, contributors illuminate this subject from diverse viewpoints, through a mix of essays, poetry, photography, and illustrations. Guest Editor: Lane Diko.
Read MoreFinding Home
Lauren Deutsch finally found her long-lost slide of the shopfront she describes in Kyoto View 18, ‘Finding Home’ — after KJ100 went to the printer. So, we’re posting her reminiscence again here, together with the photo. The MIPPW—Most Important Piece of Paper in the World—was a hand-drawn map of a neighborhood in north-east quadrant of…
Read MoreWe Are What We Eat…So It Might As Well Be Delicious
There is general consensus that “You are what you eat,” yet there are many interpretations of what “you” and perhaps also “we” actually mean. At a minimum, what, and even how, humans eat creates our corporeal selves. Looking deeper, we can see that our choices of foodstuffs and, it appears, foodways, also enable us to know who we are, how others know us and, even further, who we think others might be…
Read MoreKyoto Journal Issue 66
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Pico Iyer is Lost
The Dancing Dead: Travels through Buddhist China
Buddhist Statues of the Kathmandu Valley
Filming the Foreigner in Japan
Master Rumi: The Path to Poetry, Love & Enlightenment
Kyoto Journal Issue 31
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John, Yoko & the Great Western Cultural Revolution
The Art of Immortality
Conversation with Eric Lloyd Wright
Interview with Documentary Film-maker Tatsumura Jin
Japanese Garden Design
