Surfaces for Reflection: Nanban Lacquer in the Iberian World

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 152-190
Author(s):  
Samuel Luterbacher
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Unique Type ◽  
Japanese Archipelago ◽  
The Japanese Archipelago ◽  
European Export

Abstract In response to the arrival of Iberian traders and missionaries on the Japanese archipelago in the sixteenth century, local craftsmen developed a unique type of lacquer, called today Nanban, for European export. They adapted traditional techniques to produce chests, writing desks, reliquaries and oratories for this new peripatetic clientele. This paper will explore the assimilation of East Asian lacquered objects within the Iberian world, treating the physical and ontological transformations that occurred as they travelled throughout the vast Iberian mercantile empire in the Indo-Pacific. The very portability of such lacquered objects engendered new realms of artistic experimentation. Like the layered quality of lacquer itself, these mobile works served as vehicles of material assemblage and hermeneutic accumulation, gathering new receptions and identities as they traveled through these Pacific networks and beyond.

Morphometric studies of polyploid Cardamine species (Brassicaceae) from Japan: solving a long-standing taxonomic and nomenclatural controversy

2010 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judita Lihová ◽  
Hiroshi Kudoh ◽  
Karol Marhold
Keyword(s):  
Ploidy Level ◽  
Morphological Variation ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Species Boundaries ◽  
Morphometric Data ◽  
Evolutionary Mechanism ◽  
Taxonomic Treatment ◽  
Japanese Archipelago ◽  
Level Data ◽  
The Japanese Archipelago

Polyploidy is an important evolutionary mechanism and speciation mode in plants; however, delimitation of species boundaries in polyploid complexes is often a difficult task. In the present paper, we explore morphological variation in a group of East Asian Cardamine polyploids that have long been shrouded in taxonomic and nomenclatural confusion. We relate the present morphometric data of 41 sampled populations with recently published ploidy-level data, and propose a revised taxonomic treatment, including the designation of several lectotypes. The following species are recognised in Japan: C. schinziana O.E.Schulz (2n = 6x, 8x), C. torrentis Nakai (2n = 8x), C. valida (Takeda) Nakai (2n = 4x) and C. yezoensis Maxim. (2n = 6x−12x). C. amariformis Nakai (2n = 4x) from Korea is also discussed, although it may be conspecific with C. valida, pending further studies. Distribution of these taxa in the Japanese Archipelago is characterised, including comments on their occurrence outside of Japan.

scholarly journals Contrasting allelic distribution ofCO/Hd1homologues inMiscanthus sinensisfrom the East Asian mainland and the Japanese archipelago

2015 ◽  
Vol 66 (14) ◽  
pp. 4227-4237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hironori Nagano ◽  
Lindsay V. Clark ◽  
Hua Zhao ◽  
Junhua Peng ◽  
Ji Hye Yoo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
East Asian ◽  
Japanese Archipelago ◽  
Allelic Distribution ◽  
The Japanese Archipelago ◽  
Asian Mainland

scholarly journals Temperature-related cline in the root mass fraction in East Asian wild radish along the Japanese archipelago

2020 ◽  
Vol 70 (3) ◽  
pp. 321-330 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wataru Ishizuka ◽  
Kouki Hikosaka ◽  
Motomi Ito ◽  
Shin-Ichi Morinaga
Keyword(s):  
Mass Fraction ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Root Mass ◽  
Wild Radish ◽  
Japanese Archipelago ◽  
The Japanese Archipelago

Maxims of Foreign Policy

Itinerario ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 62-79
Author(s):  
W.J. Boot
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Foreign Relations ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Cultural Sphere ◽  
Japanese Identity

In the pre-modern period, Japanese identity was articulated in contrast with China. It was, however, articulated in reference to criteria that were commonly accepted in the whole East-Asian cultural sphere; criteria, therefore, that were Chinese in origin.One of the fields in which Japan's conception of a Japanese identity was enacted was that of foreign relations, i.e. of Japan's relations with China, the various kingdoms in Korea, and from the second half of the sixteenth century onwards, with the Portuguese, Spaniards, Dutchmen, and the Kingdom of the Ryūkū.

‘Do you think you're at the Gresham?’: Accepting Imperfection in ‘The Dead’

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Randi Saloman
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Secondary Quality ◽  
The Dead

Dublin's Gresham Hotel, where Gabriel and Gretta Conroy end their evening in Joyce's most famous short story, has a fascinating history. It was founded in 1817 by Thomas Gresham, who began life as a foundling rescued from the steps of London's Royal Exchange and was thereby given the name of the Renaissance statesman who built that exchange. This sixteenth-century Thomas Gresham was even better known, however, for his eponymous ‘Gresham's Law’. Both Gresham's Law and the hotel setting and history enter into and help to shape ‘The Dead’. Questions of value and valuing suggested by Gresham's Law are shown to be more complicated than they initially appear, as they intersect with the various forms of hospitality traced in the story. The ‘secondary’ quality of the famous Dublin hotel (built by the second, unknown Thomas Gresham) underscores – and ultimately redeems – the theme of secondariness that runs through ‘The Dead’.

Origin and formation of Yaponesians based on genome sequences

Impact ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (7) ◽  
pp. 56-58
Author(s):  
Naruya Saitou
Keyword(s):  
Population Genetics ◽  
Human Migration ◽  
Human Populations ◽  
Genome Sequences ◽  
Japanese Archipelago ◽  
Broad Term ◽  
The Japanese Archipelago ◽  
Ebb And Flow ◽  
National Institute Of Genetics

The ebb and flow of human migration across the planet can nowadays be probed with advanced archaeology, linguistics, anthropology and genomics. Together, these can provide a convincing picture of the various divergences and convergences of different human populations across vast areas. It is now possible to better understand how, why and where a particular group or society arose. Professor Naruya Saitou of the Population Genetics Laboratory at the National Institute of Genetics in Mishima has dedicated his career to the synthesis of these disciplines. The current focus of his research is on understanding the origins and formation of the Yaponesian people. This broad term was coined by writer Toshio Shimao in 1960s to encompass the diverse peoples of the Japanese Archipelago over its many thousands of years of inhabitation. Saitou's research is helping to uncover Japan's ancient past.

Geographical variation in the cranial and external characters of the little tube-nosed bat,Murina silvatica in the Japanese archipelago

2005 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 309-322 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dai Fukui ◽  
Kishio Maeda ◽  
David A. Hill ◽  
Sumiko Matsumura ◽  
Naoki Agetsuma
Keyword(s):  
Geographical Variation ◽  
Japanese Archipelago ◽  
The Japanese Archipelago
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