294 research outputs found
Japanese Modernism And Cine-Text : Fragments And Flows At Empire\u27s Edge In Kitagawa Fuyuhiko And Yokomitsu Riichi
No full textThis article notes that Kitagawa Fuyuhiko\u27s writings from the 1920s and 1930s, together with the contemporaneous works of prose author Yokomitsu Riichi, are strongly marked by the confluence of the literary and the cinematic. Kitagawa and Yokomitsu\u27s engagement with film was not limited to a fascination with the precision, objectivity, or mobility of the “camera eye.” Rather, it extended to the entire ability of the cinematic apparatus to capture the temporality of objects in motion, and of the ability of the filmmaker to organize segments of space into a new synthetic whole. The article explores this confluence through a brief examination of four instances of “cine-text”: Kitagawa\u27 poetry collection War, Yokomitsu\u27 novel Shanghai, the concept of literary formalism Yokomitsu proposed around the year 1930, and the theory of the “prose film” that Kitagawa unveiled in the following decade
The Whereabouts of "Falling" Stories\n―About the modernist YOKOMITSU Riiich and KITAGAWA Fuyuhiko
No full textpdfYOSHIDA Seiichi evaluated YOKOMITSU Riichi and KITAGAWA Fuyuhiko because in Japanese literature “the novels of the 20th century” started with the former and the latter created “the spirit and style of poetry in the 20th century”. Not only YOKOMITSU and KITAGAWA had many common points - their fathers were railroad engineers, both of them had a connection in Otsu, Shiga Prefecture, for instance - but they also influenced each other in the concept of literature and admitted each other. That can be proved from the letter from YOKOMITSU to KITAGAWA, possessed in National Institute of Japanese Literature. In this letter YOKOMITSU praised KITAGAWA’s new prose poem Pigs, because this showed “a scene like a novel”. This poem, expressing the situation dynamically and visually, in which a freight train that carries pigs ran off the rails on the embankment and fell in the bottom of a valley, reminds of a thrilling movie scene. This really raised his honor, who also acted as a film critic later. Wanting to observe is that the motif of ‘falling’ or ‘tumbling down’ has appeared in Pigs, which also appears quite frequently in YOKOMITSU’s works. The construction whose story is cut off by the ‘fall’ of a character is fully pointed out by earlier studies about YOKOMITSU, however, also in KITAGAWA's work, poems that shockingly express the impact of the fall and the malfunction of the body sensation are seen here and there. Such a motif can be comprehended as a literary experiment for eliminating pathos thoroughly and expressing a sense of speed, or can be understood by relating to the view of life and death or difference between an artistic ideal and reality which are inside the author. If based on the fact that many of the Russian Revolution Dramas in the same era was performed using stairs, however, there may be the necessity which considers this motif of ‘falling’ as a cultural phenomenon beyond the individual intention . In The Battleship Potemkin, one of the classics in the film history, the director Sergei Eisenstein made the crowd fall by the famous ‘Odessa Steps’ sequence, too.
In this presentation, I would like to pay attention to the motif of YOKOMITSU and KITAGAWA who are called the modernist of Japanese literature, and reexamine the influence that the ‘fall’ gives to the whole story, also considering drama and movie in the same era.conference pape
THE IMAGE OF WOMEN IN JAPANESE CULTURE BASED ON WORKS KITAGAWA UTAMARO
No full textУ публікації розглянуто образ жінки в японській культурі на основі робіт Кітаґава Утамаро. Зазначено, що Кітаґава Утамаро майстерно зображує жінку, роблячи акцент на зачісці, одязі, обличчі та руках. Все це ставало предметом естетизму, виробленого художником, у своїх роботах автор виділяв не окремі особистості чи соціальні стани, а красу, формуючи свій власний образ жінки. Перед нами постають картини із буденного життя японських пані, проте вони самі наділені неземною легкістю, елегантністю, чуттєвістю та смаком. The publication examines the image of women in Japanese culture based on the works of Kitagawa Utamaro. It is noted that Kitagawa Utamaro skilfully portrays a woman, focusing on hair, clothing, face and hands. All this became the subject of aestheticism, developed by the artist, in his works the author did not single out individual personalities or social classes, but beauty, forming his own image of a woman. We are presented with pictures of the everyday life of Japanese ladies, but they are are themselves endowed with unearthly lightness, elegance, sensuality and taste
Photochromic Reaction Behavior and Solid State Property Changes of Diarylethene Crystals
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(The Right to Escape: Migration, Citizenship, Globalization)
No full textOriginally published in Italian in 2001, The Right to Escape was published in an enlarged edition in 2006. Since its publication it has spurred lively debates at the international level. This Japanese edition is a proof of its lasting originality and influence. Japanese translation by Shin'ya Kitagawa.
Starting with the discussion of a specific case study (the young Max Weber's analysis of German and Polish migration from and to Eastern Prussia at the end of the 19th century), the book proposes to take a crucial focus in the analysis of migratory movements their subjective dimension, which means the whole set of behaviors and imaginaries that make migration a social movement. Through the discussion of several historical studies on the management of labor mobility in capitalism, the author investigates the contemporary situation, which is characterized by a steady process of removal of the obstacles to the circulation of commodities and capitals and at the same time by the a multiplication and a hardening of borders for migrants and refugees. This is also an effective angle on the implications of globalization on the shape of citizenship in Western democracies. The book further analyzes migration in the framework of a set of questions at the center of theoretical debates on globalization - from the transformations of citizenship to the meaning of the "postcolonial" condition
Dual-tasking over an extended walking distance is associated with falls among community-dwelling older adults
No full textKenichi Hirashima,1,2 Yumi Higuchi,1 Masakazu Imaoka,1 Emiko Todo,1 Tomomi Kitagawa,1 Tetsuya Ueda11Graduate School of Comprehensive Rehabilitation, Osaka Prefecture University, Habikino Campus, Habikino City, Osaka, Japan; 2Faculty of Health and Welfare, Department of Physical Therapy, Tokushima Bunri University, Nishihamaboji, Yamashiro Town, Tokushima City, Tokushima, Japan Aim: Dual-task methods, in which walking is the primary task, are not sufficient for accurately screening for the risk of falls among healthy older adults. Therefore, the goal of this research was to investigate whether using a dual-task method over an extended walking distance can predict falls among community-dwelling older adults.Methods: We enrolled independent community-dwelling adults aged ≥65 years. Physical performance, cognitive function, psychological function, and a dual-task test were assessed at baseline. Our dual-task test required the subjects to walk 60 m while stepping over lines. The intervals between the lines ranged from 50–100 cm and were unequal. Falls and fall-related injuries were measured over a 12-month follow-up period using monthly postal surveys. Results: Ninety-two of 118 subjects (mean age, 75.4±5.5 years) completed the 12-month follow-up. Sixteen (17.4%) of fallers had injurious falls or fell more than or equal to two times. There were no significant differences between the fallers and non-fallers, except in age and in the number of missteps during the dual-task test when walking ≥40 m. The Kaplan–Meier analysis revealed that those who had more than one misstep while walking ≥40 m had a significantly higher incidence of injurious or multiple falls than those who had no missteps.Conclusion: Our findings suggest that the dual-task method with an extended walking distance may be able to predict falls among community-dwelling older adults. Keywords: cohort study, community-dwelling older adults, dual-task, fall
Magnetic-field cycling instrumentation for dynamic nuclear polarization-nuclear magnetic resonance using photoexcited triplets
No full textThis article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and AIP Publishing. This article appeared in Akinori Kagawa, Makoto Negoro, Kazuyuki Takeda, and Masahiro Kitagawa, Review of Scientific Instruments 80, 044705 (2009) and may be found at https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3123346.To advance static solid-state NMR with hyperpolarized nuclear spins, a system has been developed enabling dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) using electron spins in the photoexcited triplet state with X -band microwave apparatus, followed by static solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiments using the polarized nuclear-spin system with a goniometer. In order to perform the DNP and NMR procedures in different magnetic fields, the DNP system and the NMR system are spatially separated, between which the sample can be shuttled while its orientation is controlled in a reproducible fashion. We demonstrate that the system developed in this work is operational for solid-state NMR with hyperpolarized nuclear-spin systems in static organic materials, and also discuss the application of our system
Analysis of Mechanisms of T-2 Toxin Toxicity Using Yeast DNA Microarrays
No full textT-2 toxin is a mycotoxin that belongs to a group of type A tricothecenes found in agricultural products. The cytotoxicity of T-2 toxin was characterized by analysis of the yeast transcriptome upon challenge with T-2 toxin. Interestingly, T-2 toxin-induced yeast gene expression profiles were found to be similar to profiles obtained following cycloheximide treatment. Moreover, T-2 toxin treatment was found to activate facilitators, gluconeogenesis and cell arrest related genes such as mitogen-activated protein kinase genes (FUS3). T-2 toxin attacks the membrane and as a result the membrane transport system was disturbed. A large number of genes are induced to restore the toxicity caused by T-2 toxin. However, the data did not suggest that DNA damage by alkylation (Mag1, a gene 3-methyl-adenine DNA glycosylase, 0.46-fold down regulated), no induction of DNA repair mechanisms such as recombination (RAD26, RAD52 and etc.) and excision repair (RAD7, RAD14, RAD16, RAD23 and etc.). These results suggested that the toxicity of the T-2 toxin was due to the disturbance of the cell membrane of the yeast cell and that T-2 toxin caused mild mutagenesis
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