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Contemporary Art in Japan and Cuteness in Japanese Popular Culture
No full textThis thesis is an art historical study focussing on contemporary Japan, and in particular the artists Murakami TakashL Mori Mariko, Aida Makoto, and Nara Yoshitomo. These artists represent a generation of artists born in the 1960s who use popular culture to their own ends. From the seminal exhibition 'Tokyo Pop' at Hiratsuka Museum of Art in 1996 which included all four artists, to Murakami's group exhibition 'Little Boy: The Arts of Japan's Exploding Subculture' which opened in April 2005, central to my research is an exploration of contemporary art's engagement with the pervasiveness of cuteness in Japanese culture.
Including key secondary material, which recognises cuteness as not merely something trivial but involving power play and gender role issues, this thesis undertakes an interdisciplinary analysis of cuteness in contemporary Japanese popular culture, and examines howcontemporary Japanese artists have responded, providing original research through interviews with Aida Makoto, Mori Mariko and Murakami Takashi. Themes examined include the deconstruction of the high and low in contemporary art; sh6jo (girl) culture and cuteness; the relation of cuteness and the erotic; the transformation of cuteness into the grotesque; cuteness and nostalgia; and virtual cuteness in Japanese science fiction animation, and computer games.
Director of Studies: Toshio Watanabe
Supervisors: David Ryan and Omuka Toshihar
High working memory performers have efficient eye movement control systems under Reading Span Test
No full textAzuma Miyuki, Ikeda Takashi, Minamoto Takehiro, et al. High working memory performers have efficient eye movement control systems under Reading Span Test. Journal of Eye Movement Research 5, (2012); https://doi.org/10.16910/jemr.5.3.1
High working memory performers have efficient eye movement control systems under Reading Span Test
No full textAzuma Miyuki, Ikeda Takashi, Minamoto Takehiro, et al. High working memory performers have efficient eye movement control systems under Reading Span Test. Journal of Eye Movement Research 5, (2012); https://doi.org/10.16910/jemr.5.3.1
Beyond Consumption: the art and merchandise of a superflat generation
No full textThis thesis investigates the impact of Superflat theory and practice of the artist and curator, Takashi Murakami. The thesis aims to analyse how contemporary transnational artistic activity functions via the work of Murakami and Superflat artists, including Chiho Aoshima and Aya Takano. From the blockbuster group exhibition, Super Flat, curated by Murakami, which debuted in the United States in 2001 at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, to the 2007-2009 ©MURAKAMI retrospective traveling from Los Angeles to Brooklyn then Frankfurt to Bilbao, the synthesis of ideas is showing the way to unprecedented directions in contemporary art. This investigation also links Murakami’s work to that of American Pop artists Andy Warhol and Jeff Koons and explores how Superflat art functions within and contributes to the already distorted area between parallel structures, such as high and low, fine art and commercial production, or East and West.
When peeling back the layers of Superflat, there is a rich, beautiful and violent history. Recognising the fusion of tradition and technology, my research explores how Superflat artists are achieving international success by engaging in multiple outlets of creative expression and collaboration in the continuing context of globalisation and a consumer-driven art market. Images of anxiety and destruction are disguised as playful and marketable characters, and three-dimensional animation figures become cultural icons. Superflat explores the simulated, sensuous, colourful and obsessive “realities” that we inhabit on a global scale and captures a twenty-first century aesthetic. With reference to the representation of violence and disaster in art and popular culture, contemporary Japan’s construction of national identity and the postwar “Americanization” of Japan, this thesis examines how the layering of ideas via cross-cultural exchange produces a new form of hybrid and hyper Pop art
Letter from Takashi Matsuura to Mrs. and Mrs. S. Okine, October 19, 1948 [in Japanese]
No full textA letter from Takashi Edwin Matsuura to his uncle, Seiichi Okine. Takashi thanks Seiichi for his hospitality during his visit to the the Okines' place as well as the gift of the flowers. He informs that he arrived home safely at 9:00 PM on Monday and that Mr. Freitas was pleased to hear about Takashi's visit to the Okines. He also writes about an upcoming New Years performance in Los Angeles, and informs that his children, Shizuka and George will visit the Okines when Jokichi Yamanaka returns to the U.S. The arrival of the letter, October 22, 1948, and the reply date, [October] 25, are recorded on the backside of the envelope.The Okine Collection contains materials collected by Seiichi and Tomeyo Okine who were Issei flower growers in Whittier, California. It includes correspondence, photographs, financial documents, and a photo album. A large portion of the collection consists of family correspondence with Seiichi and Tomeyo Okine, including letters from their Nisei children, Masao and Makoto Okine, both soldiers overseas during World War II, to their Issei parents incarcerated in the Rohwer incarceration camp in McGehee, Arkansas. The correspondence also includes letters from their relatives and friends who are former incarcerees in the camps during the war and have “resettled” in Chicago, Illinois as well as letters from the Okines’ family members in Hiroshima, Japan during the Allied occupation of Japan. In addition, the collection includes a family photo album compiled by Dorothy Ai Aoki, a Nisei daughter to the Okines
Letter from Takashi Matsuura to Mr. and Mrs. S. Okine, February 12, 1948 [in Japanese]
No full textA letter from Takashi Matsuura to his uncle and aunt, Seiichi and Tomeyo Okine. He stayed in the Okines' place while he was performing in Los Angeles. In the letter, he apologizes for the delay in writing to them because of his community work at his place. He informs that he got on a train at night, arrived in Watsonville at 5 AM in the following morning, and got home safely. He thanks them for their hospitality during his stay and also for the gifts that they gave him. The arrival date of the letter, February 16, is recorded on the backside of the envelope.The Okine Collection contains materials collected by Seiichi and Tomeyo Okine who were Issei flower growers in Whittier, California. It includes correspondence, photographs, financial documents, and a photo album. A large portion of the collection consists of family correspondence with Seiichi and Tomeyo Okine, including letters from their Nisei children, Masao and Makoto Okine, both soldiers overseas during World War II, to their Issei parents incarcerated in the Rohwer incarceration camp in McGehee, Arkansas. The correspondence also includes letters from their relatives and friends who are former incarcerees in the camps during the war and have “resettled” in Chicago, Illinois as well as letters from the Okines’ family members in Hiroshima, Japan during the Allied occupation of Japan. In addition, the collection includes a family photo album compiled by Dorothy Ai Aoki, a Nisei daughter to the Okines
Enzyme-Like Catalysis via Ternary Complex Mechanism : Alkoxy-Bridged Dinuclear Cobalt Complex Mediates Chemoselective O-Esterification over N-Amidation
No full textHydroxy group-selective acylation in the presence of more nucleophilic amines was achieved using acetates of first-row late transition metals, such as Mn, Fe, Co, Cu, and Zn. Among them, cobalt(II) acetate was the best catalyst in terms of reactivity and selectivity. The combination of an octanuclear cobalt carboxylate cluster [Co-4(OCOR)(6)O](2) (2a: R = CF3, 2b: R = CH3, 2c: R = Bu-t) with nitrogen-containing ligands, such as 2,2'-bipyridine, provided an efficient catalytic system for transesterification, in which an alkoxide-bridged dinuclear complex, Co-2((OCOBu)-Bu-t)(2)-(bpy)(2)(mu(2)-OCH2-C6H4-4-CH3)(2) (10), was successfully isolated as a key intermediate. Kinetic studies and density functional theory calculations revealed Michaelis-Menten behavior of the complex 10 through an ordered ternary complex mechanism similar to dinuclear metallo-enzymes, suggesting the formation of alkoxides followed by coordination of the ester.</p
遠隔非破壊パリティ測定に基づく長距離量子通信理論
No full textKoji Azuma, Naoya Sota, Ryo Namiki, Şahin Kaya Özdemir, Takashi Yamamoto, Masato Koashi, and Nobuyuki Imoto, Optimal entanglement generation for efficient hybrid quantum repeaters, Phys. Rev. A 80, 060303 – Published 15 December 2009, Copyright (2009) by the American Physical Society.Koji Azuma, Naoya Sota, Masato Koashi, and Nobuyuki Imoto, Tight bound on coherent-state-based entanglement generation over lossy channels, Phys. Rev. A 81, 022325 – Published 25 February 2010, Copyright (2010) by the American Physical Society.Koji Azuma, Hitoshi Takeda, Masato Koashi, and Nobuyuki Imoto, Quantum repeaters and computation by a single module: Remote nondestructive parity measurement, Phys. Rev. A 85, 062309 – Published 12 June 2012, Copyright (2012) by the American Physical Society
Long-distance quantum communication with remote nondestructive parity measurement
No full textKoji Azuma, Naoya Sota, Ryo Namiki, Şahin Kaya Özdemir, Takashi Yamamoto, Masato Koashi, and Nobuyuki Imoto, Optimal entanglement generation for efficient hybrid quantum repeaters, Phys. Rev. A 80, 060303 – Published 15 December 2009, Copyright (2009) by the American Physical Society.Koji Azuma, Naoya Sota, Masato Koashi, and Nobuyuki Imoto, Tight bound on coherent-state-based entanglement generation over lossy channels, Phys. Rev. A 81, 022325 – Published 25 February 2010, Copyright (2010) by the American Physical Society.Koji Azuma, Hitoshi Takeda, Masato Koashi, and Nobuyuki Imoto, Quantum repeaters and computation by a single module: Remote nondestructive parity measurement, Phys. Rev. A 85, 062309 – Published 12 June 2012, Copyright (2012) by the American Physical Society
A Case of Fistula of Small Intestine and Ileal Conduit Urinary Diversion Improved by Conservative Therapy
No full textA 71-year-old male was admitted for bladder cancer, and we performed a radical cystectomy and urinary diversion by means of an ileal conduit. Twenty days postoperatively, we identified the presence of stool in the stoma and noted the existence of a fistula of the small intestine and ileal conduit urinary diversion. Treatment with fasting, intravenous hyperalimentation and intravenous drip administration of octreotide acetate were performed. The fistula was closed completely 47days after the surgery. The early complications of urinary diversion by means of an ileal conduit were reported to be urinary tract infections, bowel obstruction, and delayed wound healing, but a fistula between the small intestine and ileal conduit is very rare. We herein report a case of a fistula between the small intestine and ileal conduit used for urinary diversion which thereafter healed by conservative treatment
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