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The Diary of Kawaji Takako from National Diet Library : Text, Bibliographical Introduction and Name Index
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Structural Properties of Island Films of Indium on Si(111) and the Sputter-Etching Profile
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Detecting Key Frame scheme from New susing Common Features to News Topics
Get PDFWhile a hard disk drive and a flash memory became high capacity, it is not easy to watch all the recorded programs in limited time. Therefore in this paper, we propose a key frame detection method for TV news program. In stead of using features specific to certain news topics, our proposal is to extract important features which are common to news topics, and togenerally detect the key frame which represent each news topic. We show the validity of our proposed method by a simulation experiment.departmental bulletin pape
Linguistic Gender and Feminist Movement
Get PDFEvery human language may be classified into two groups: one has a strictly categorized grammatical gender, and the other has no such grammatical notion at all. Grammatical gender is characteristic to the Indo-European languages, of which contemporary German and Russian, for example, preserve it through all grammatical systems, whereas English has lost it completely. In languages such as English, linguistic feminism pursued the equality of sexes in social life through eliminating linguistic distinction of gender. For example, 《chairman》 was replaced by the neutral expression 《chairperson》. In contrast, German has a complete pair of grammatical gender counterparts. So it is impossible to neutralize the distinction of gender and the feminist strategy pursued equal representation of both sexes. In case a German word lacks feminine counterpart, a new word had to be created according to grammatical gender distinction. For example, 《Presidentin - female President》 was created as a counterpart to 《President - male President》. Because the Japanese feminist movement received its idea almost exclusively from that of the USA, its linguistic aspects also took English model of eliminating gender distinction. This model has fit the Japanese traditional mental climate in the sense that people prefer to conceal the truth under ambiguity, rather than expressing the state of things distinctly. Such tendency cannot be expected to contribute reforming the Japanese traditional attitudes of sexism. We should learn more from German and Russian experiences than that of English.departmental bulletin pape
Introduction to Special Issue 1 : “Possibilities of Film as Recording Medium : What Is ‘Videographing Culture’?”
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The Saishô Shi-Tennô-in and the Poems for its Sliding Doors as an Affirmation of the Legitimacy of Imperial Power
Get PDFThe Saishô Shi-Tennô-in residence was built for Retired Emperor Gotoba in 1207. The purpose of this paper is to understand the symbolic and political aspects of this exceptional undertaking, which combined architecture, religion, painting and poetry. First of all it is important to note how certain elements of the construction, such as the location and name of the building and its chapels, suggest this residence was conceived in order to affirm the legitimacy of the Emperor's power over the whole Japanese nation in a period when the Kamakura Bakufu was ruling the eastern provinces, and to obtain the intercession of Buddhas and kami in recovering and reasserting that power. Next, I analyse the poems produced for display on the sliding doors of the residence. In fact, one of the most striking characteristics of this residence is that it was adorned by sliding doors representing forty-six Japanese famous places (meisho), with one poem on each. Ten major poets, including Retired Emperor Gotoba, composed forty-six poems each, that is to say a total of 460 waka, of which, 46 were selected by Gotoba to be actually written on the sliding doors. Three meisho — Minasegawa, Shikama-no-ichi and Oshioyama have given rise to a particularly high number of poems celebrating the emperor. I focus on these poems in order to analyse the image of the emperor, and how the relation between the monarch and his subjects was portrayed. Lastly, I analyse the poems written on the meisho Ôigawa, which seems to have been particularly important to Gotoba.departmental bulletin pape