292 research outputs found
Designs on “Old Seto” Porcelain
No full textIt is widely known that the porcelain ware called Ko (Old) Seto, produced in the Seto area around the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, shows the influence of Sung China in its shapes and designs. It has not been studied thoroughly, however, how the Chinese inspiration was accepted. Believing that such studies will be valuable, the author has made some researches on the subject. The existing pieces of the Old Seto ware are numerous, and ornamental designs on them cover a wide variety. The author chose, as the basis of his researches, jars and vases which are believed to be genuine and typical, and studied designs which appear frequently on these.
As space does not allow discussions on all individual pieces, the author herein reports only the results of his researches. Designs on them include those imitating ornaments of Chinese Lung-ch‘üan celadon and Ching-tê-chên pale-white porcelain (ying-ching) of the Southern Sung period, and of the Korean Kōrai (Koryo) celadon ; Chinese- and Korean-style ones to which Japanese-style motifs are added, or which are modified into Japanese style, and those consisting of Japnese-style motifs only. Through these designs the author found that they attest to considerably creative, original ideas of Seto potters.
It is evident that the Old Seto pieces were made during the last part of the Kamakura Period, but the chronological order of individual specimens is hard to tell ; it is therefore impossible exactly to describe how these designs developed. Nevertheless they are very significant from the viewpoint of designs in Japanese ceramics, and in Japanese handicrafts in general.
Pre-historic and proto-historic earthenwares are left out here. There are a few examples of Heian Period pottery which have ornaments in line-engraving, but the Old Seto ware has no ornaments either similar to or apparently derived from them. Furthermore, pottery pieces with decorative patterns prior to the Kamakura Period are mostly in shapes imitating those of metal objects, and their patterns, also following metal examples, are hardly ones peculiar to pottery. Designs on the Old Seto ware, however, are desings characteristic of ceramics, and are diferent in character from earlier ones. It cannot be denied that the tradition of the Sué Type Pottery of the Heian Period carried on partly into the Old Seto, but in decorative designs the Old Seto potters, instead of following old tradition, chose imported continental-style ornaments which they improved with their original ideas and which were laden with the vigorous spirit of the Kamakura Period of the warriors' rule. It is notable, too, that designs on the Old Seto ware are the first examples of pottery designs in the true sense of the term in Japan.
Comparison of Old Seto ornaments with designs in other fields of decorative arts is interesting. In lacquer art, the Kamakura-bori imitated the effect of the Chinese carved lacquer just as the Old Seto copied continental designs, but it did not achieve notable development. Designs in maki-e lacquer and in metalwork were traditional cnes flavoured with the taste of the time. Those on mirror-backs also adhered to tradition, though only a very few of them imitated Chinese Han-style mirrors of the Sung Dynasty. The novel designs in Old Seto discussed above are remarkable achievements of the then newly-risen ceramic industry in the Seto area.journal articl
Navigating Digital Borders: Seto Community in the Virtual Territory of the VK Social Network
No full textReceived 30 September 2024. Accepted 5 March 2025. Published online 30 April 2025.The paper examines the digital geography of the virtual Seto community in the VK social network (also known as VKontakte), focusing on how dispersed Seto people in Russia and Estonia use digital spaces to communicate, as well as express, preserve, and promote their cultural identity. By applying a multi-sited ethnographic methodology, the research involves both online explorations and offline semi-structured interviews, with fieldwork conducted in the Pechory District. Using the network and territory approaches to digital ethnography, the study highlights how the VK serves as a digital territory where Setos, divided by distances and physical borders, connect, share cultural practices, and foster a sense of community. Special attention is given to the Seto traditions of leelo polyphonic singing and festive costumes, both of which serve as vital markers of ethnic identity in this digital landscape. Through content analysis of Seto personal profiles and public pages, the research reveals how social networks help maintain connections and how digital geographies are constantly shaped and reshaped by cultural exchanges. This study underscores the adaptability of online spaces in sustaining fragmented ethnic communities across physical distances.This work was supported by the Russian Science Foundation under Grant 23-78-10079, https://rscf.ru/project/23-78-10079/The author is grateful to the assistance of the Museum Reserve Izborsk, Manor Museum of the Seto people in the village of Sigovo, Pechory Museum of History, and the “Flax Province” Museum. The author is also highly appreciative of the valuable consultations and recommendations provided by Elena Variksoo, Tatiana Ogareva, Mare Piho, Malle Bogacheva, and Vera Fest
The experimental realism of William Dean Howells
No full textThe “experimental” in my title refers to Howells’s self-conscious development of a literary form that could give the most complete, deepest account of a reality characterized by the ordinary and even the banal. For the middle class, Howells’s perennial subject, the norm is to aspire to transcend, and the ordinary can appear elusive, even nonexistent. Of course, in political terms, a middle class culture considers everyone basically the same, this resemblance defining the ordinary. It is assumed that everyone shares the same economic goals, and the same desire for familial and individual success. Being ordinary is therefore a moral quality. This means, paradoxically, that ordinariness can only prove itself in exceptional individuals. To strive is virtuous, to fail is shameful; either way one’s ordinariness is subsumed to a greater drama. The drama at the center of middle class art is the plight of the exceptional individual demonstrating a Platonic ordinariness. It is hard to think of characters in novels who are not exceptional financially or morally. In Henry James’s The Portrait of a Lady and The Wings of the Dove finance and morality go together. The novels of Eliot, Dickens, even those of the French realists unfold stories in which ordinary characters, by some exceptional moral quality, try to transcend their economic and historical situations. Howells called this story romantic and insisted on writing about the most mundane aspects of ordinary life. His novels were not about the exceptional who rise above the crowd but about ordinary people who do not transcend but stay on the ground. Howells described this divide between moral ideals and actual economic circumstance as “the infernal juggle of the mind. ” This contradiction at the heart of everyday life was what he wanted to depict. His design of characters and plots, even his sentences, develop continuously into further complexity as they discover the tensions and self-betrayal inherent in middle class optimism. “Discover” is the key term: Howells wrote in order to find out the truth about ordinary life, and the more he discovered the more his novels tended toward disjunction. In resisting the urge to reaffirm middle class morals, he was having not only a political argument with the dominant ideology of late-nineteenth century America but a formal argument with the conventional novel. Down the critical years, Howells’s trust in the novel form to do its own work has been difficult to see because his way of demonstrating it was so unusual. To the extent that his form was un-transcendent, descriptive rather than theoretical, it has been unapparent. My dissertation is an attempt to make evident and describe the working of Howells’s unapparent form. I have used a method of analysis congruent with his practice. I proceed as he wrote, historically, by following the unfolding events of his style and form.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical referencesIncludes vitaby Brian Seto McGrat
Chemical composition of pond waters on the ilands located in the Seto Inland Sea
No full textFreshwater ponds are found on a number of islands located in the Seto Inland Sea. The author made observation of the chemical properties of pond water at some of the ponds located on the islands in the western part of the Seto Inland Sea. The primary purpose of this survey was to know the effect of the "sea breeze" from the chlorine contents of pond water. Some of the surveyed ponds were utilized for irrigation. Almost all the surveyed ponds were relatively shallow, and dissolved oxygen was poor in the bottom layer. Chlorine contents were considerably lower than expected. Other chemical compositions and their contents in each pond were not extraordinary; they were of the same order as the average values reported by Dr. S. YOSHIMURA for the lake waters of Japan. The results of the observation and water analysis are shown in Table I.
It seemed that all the surveyed ponds could be utilized for the culture of freshwater fishes
Dynamics of social trust and human capital in the learning process: The case of the Japan garment cluster in the period 1968-2005
No full textThis paper examined how and the extent to which human capital and social trust are associated with the learning process of a manager in making operations decisions through experience. To this end, using a data set originally and purposively constructed by the author, I investigate the development and transformation of the garment industry cluster region of Kojima, Japan. The major findings through statistical estimations are as follows. (1) In the cluster development stage, the social trust of an enterprise and its manager’s experiences in firm operations could be regarded as forming a complimentary association. (2) In the stage following cluster development, however, a manager’s human capital as accumulated through schooling and personal experience becomes complimentary instead of social trust.Social trust, Human capital, Bayesian learning
マウス ミサイボウ ノ ニガミ ジョウホウ デンタツ ケイロ ニ カンスル デンキ セイリガクテキ ケンキュウ
No full text京都大学0048新制・課程博士博士(農学)甲第9011号農博第1193号新制||農||822(附属図書館)学位論文||H13||N3530(農学部図書室)UT51-2001-F341京都大学大学院農学研究科応用生命科学専攻(主査)教授 森 友彦, 教授 伏木 亨, 教授 北畠 直文学位規則第4条第1項該当Doctor of Agricultural ScienceKyoto UniversityDA
General pattern of the turbid water in the Seto-inland sea extracted from multispectral imageries by the LANDSAT-1 and 2
No full textThe author has identified the following significant results. Each distribution pattern of turbid water changes with the time in accordance with daily tides, seasonal variation of tides, and occasional rainfall. Two cases of successfully repeated LANDSAT observations for the same sea regions suggested a general pattern of turbid water could be extracted for each region. Photographic and digital processes were used to extract patterns of turbid water separately from the cloud and smog-layer in MSS 4, 5, and 7 imageries. A mosaic of image-masked imageries displays a general pattern of turbid water for almost the entire Seto Inland Sea. No such pattern was extracted for the Aki-Nada south of Hiroshima City where the water is fairly polluted, nor for the Iyo-Nada where the water is generally clearer than in other regions of the Seto Inland Sea
SEJARAH PERKEMBANGAN HOMESCHOOLING KAK SETO (HSKS) SEBAGAI BENTUK PENDIDIKAN ALTERNATIF DI INDONESIA TAHUN 2007-2023
No full textSkripsi ini berjudul "Sejarah Perkembangan Homeschooling Kak Seto (HSKS) sebagai Bentuk Pendidikan Alternatif di Indonesia Tahun 2007-2023". Penelitian ini dilatarbelakangi dari ketidaksesuaikan masyarakat pada pendidikan formal yang ada di Indonesia. Dari ketidaksesuaian tersebut muncullah pendidikan alternatif dalam bentuk homeschooling sebagai jawaban dari keresahan masyarakat akan pendidikan formal. Homeschooling hadir sebagai salah satu metode dari pendidikan alternatif dan semakin populer di Indonesia, terutama dalam kebutuhan pendidikan yang beragam. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk menjelaskan mengenai sejarah dan perkembangan HSKS yang dipelopori oleh Kak Seto, dan mengetahui bagaimana kendala yang dihadapi HSKS pada saat menyelenggarakan pendidikan
alternatif dari tahun 2007-2023. Dalam melakukan penelitian, penulis menggunakan metode historis yang terdiri dari empat tahapan, yaitu heuristik, kritik, interpretasi, dan historiografi. Penelitian ini memperoleh hasil bahwa latar belakang didirikannya HSKS adalah sebagai respon untuk menjawab masyarakat akan ketidaksesuaian yang dialami pada dunia pendidikan formal. Dalam keberlansungan proses pembelajaran HSKS memberikan berbagai aktivitas kegiatan yang membantu peserta didik dalam proses belajar sehingga proses pembelajaran tersebut menjadi lebih menyenangkan. Semakin lama perkembangan dalam minat peserta didik dan orang tua terhadap HSKS semakin meningkat.
This thesis is entitled "History of the Development of Homeschooling Kak Seto (HSKS) as a Form of Alternative Education in Indonesia in 2007-2023". This research is motivated by the incompatibility of society with formal education in Indonesia. From this incompatibility, alternative education emerged in the form of homeschooling as an answer to the public's concerns about formal education. Homeschooling is present as one method of alternative education and is increasingly popular in Indonesia, especially in diverse educational needs. The purpose of this study is to explain the history and development of HSKS pioneered by Kak Seto, and to find out what obstacles HSKS faced when organizing alternative education from 2007-2023. In conducting the research, the author used a historical in method consisting of four stages, namely heuristics, criticism, interpretation, and historiography. This study obtained the result that the background of the establishment of HSKS was as a response to answer the community about the incompatibility experienced in the world of formal education. In the continuity of the learning process, HSKS provides various activities that help students in the learning process so that the learning process becomes more enjoyable. Over time, the interest of students and parents in HSKS has increased
Stabilization of irradiated allografts via crosslinking and free radical scavenging
No full textCurrently, the risk of disease transmission from allografts has been reduced through a system of screening methods organized by tissue banks. Terminal sterilization is possible with the use of ionizing irradiation, which has shown high efficiency for neutralizing pathogens. Unfortunately, irradiation is known to cause chain scission and crosslink degradation in collagen, leading to weakened mechanical properties and increased susceptibility to enzymatic digestion.
Two methods of stabilizing allografts against the effects of irradiation were studied in this research. These methods included crosslinking via EDC or glucose, and free radical scavenging using mannitol, ascorbate, or riboflavin. The overall objective of this study was to assess the protective ability of each treatment in the presence of increasing irradiation dose based on mechanical properties and enzyme digestion. These studies also investigated the influence of tendon water content, and combination of crosslink and scavenging methods after exposure to irradiation. Our hypothesis was that crosslinking and free radical scavenging would aid in maintaining mechanical integrity and enzymatic resistance after gamma or ebeam irradiation.
In general, crosslinking and free radical scavenging improved the mechanical properties and collagenase resistance of irradiated tendons. Glucose crosslinked tendons irradiated at 25 kGy were comparable in terms of strength to native tendon. Similarly, at 50 kGy EDC crosslinked tendons were comparable to untreated tendons irradiated at 25 kGy. Ascorbate and riboflavin were successful at protecting mechanical properties especially at 25 kGy. Most noteworthy were the combined treatments irradiated at 50 kGy, which matched native tendons mechanically and were highly resistive to collagenase.
These treatments were unable to completely maintain properties at 50 kGy, which is closer to a clinically useful dose. The majority of treatments displayed improvements at 25 kGy. If allografts could be successfully stabilized from damage, ionizing irradiation could ensure not only disease free tissues, but also faster availability.M.S.Includes bibliographical references (p. 80-85)
YFL1
No full textIncludes some 11 fables from Aesop and 4 from LaFontaine (and Piers Plowman's Belling the Cat). Abundant black and white illustrations, done by a variety of people: Doré, Fellman?, Prunair?. Colored illustrations elsewhere in the book.This is a hardbound book (hard cover)Ernest Thompson-Seto
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