Asien-Afrika-InstitutSprache und Kultur Japans

Der erste japanische Samurairoman „HEIKE MONOGATARI – Der Sturz des Hauses Taira“ ist das bedeutendste, literarisch wertvollste und ausgewogenste Werk seiner Gattung. Entstanden im 12. bis 14. Jahrhundert aus mündlicher Tradition blinder fahrender Sänger, war es zur Zeit seiner Niederschrift im Jahre 1370 durch Diktat eines...

In recent scholarship, the formation of the "Asian world religion Buddhism" has commonly been studied as having occurred in a discursive space informed, or rather deformed, by Western colonial ambitions in Asia. Today's presentations seeks to go beyond this East/West axis and instead to consider how relationships between...

In the early 1950s, Tanaka Kinuyo, one of Japan’s most beloved stars, shook the industry by turning to film direction at the age of 43. Tanaka went on to direct six feature fiction films between 1953 and 1962, becoming a trailblazing figure in the history of world cinema. As her films are being reappraised in recent years...