Asien-Afrika-InstitutSprache und Kultur Japans

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...

Standard accounts claim that Buddhism in the eighth and ninth centuries was limited to courtly and aristocratic circles, only becoming popular in later times. But recent archaeological evidence shows that Buddhism had spread to villages across the archipelago by the start of the ninth century. Preachers often traveled...

Es gibt wohl kaum keine andere lyrische Form, die sich weltweit so großer Beliebtheit erfreut wie das japanische Haiku. Daher verwundert es nicht, dass in jüngerer Zeit durch Organisationen wie die Haiku International Association (Kokusai haiku kyôkai) vermehrt Anstrengungen unternommen werden, das Haiku offiziell als...