363 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
A New Approach to Design Pedagogy Fostering Learning of Visual Design Principles Through M-Learning: Applying Algorithms to Visual Design Principles
No full textThis research revealed promising results by merging old principles to new approaches in visual design education. Initial empirical analysis of participants who tested the mDes application applying four of the principles of design in comparison to conventional methodologies showed the most significant results of retention for the m-learning application. This approach fosters visual literacy in students through the application of theories of cognition, learning, and m-learning with design thinking principles.
Visual communications design or graphic design has always had an awkward relationship with technology. One of the many tasks that designers undertake is to find connections that allow them to organize visual, spatial, and typographic content to create new meaning and experiences for the viewer. Visual language syntax is often called the elements and principles of design.
The Bauhaus called this a “language of vision,” a concept based on linguistic theory, that continues to shape design education today. The principles of design are often quoted with varying lists of graphic elements, amongst the most commonly used in compositions are rhythm, balance, scale, proximity, similarity, and contrast.
By exploiting the brain’s innate capacity to find and create visual order amongst patterns, designers create unity and direct attention through the skilled application of these design principles. The question that arises, “are the conventional methods of graphic design teaching practices optimized for the digital age?”
To answer this question, a mobile application, mDes, was developed using guidelines based on various affordances of mobile technology and learning theories. Algorithms translated classic Bauhaus design principles into an interactive mobile app that incorporates real-time and relational-topic feedback, mobile technology heuristics of touch, repetition, self-directed learning, personalization, as well as, active learning theory. A between-subject empirical analysis with traditional methodologies suggests that the mDes app is an effective method for teaching visual design principles.
This research intends to help fill the neglected area of research found in current literature for m-learning applications in visual arts focused on design pedagogy. This project produced guidelines that form a 4R Framework, which applies design thinking strategies to ways of discovery through mobile technology. A more dynamic pedagogical method will hopefully be encouraged in our complex visual world. By tackling the “wicked problems” confronted by visual arts research from various perspectives and disciplines, we hope to produce a more robust dialogue amongst interdisciplinary domains and explore implications for designers, researchers, and practitioners of design. From a more global perspective, this research aims to foster a higher level of aesthetics in all disciplines that participate in visual communication
Photochromic Reaction Behavior and Solid State Property Changes of Diarylethene Crystals
No full text(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
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
A Multivariate Analogue of Pooling of Data
No full textIn this paper the author attempts to extend the inferences of a -dimensional mean vector on the basis of pooling data in a multivariate normal case and to give concretely certain formulae and properties of them. The principle and some statistical methods of pooling data have been discussed by Bancroft [1], Kitagawa [1], [2], Bennet [1], Asano [1] and various authors and developed mainly in case when the observations were obtained from the univariate populations. Recently Asano and the author of this paper [1] dealt the inference of a mean vector and a dispersion matrix on the basis of pooling data in the bivariate case. And in their Introduction it has been noted that the inference of a mean vector may be also expressed by the similar formulae and properties in the general -dimensional multivariate case. Hence this paper may be considered to be partially an extension of the previous paper of Asano and Sato [1]. Type 1 of this paper gives us the inference of population mean vector with known population dispersion matrix and Type 2 with unknown population dispersion matrix. In conclusion the author wishes his hearty thanks to Prof. T. Kitagawa and Mr. C. Asano for their kind suggestions and encouragement
H2-decoupling-accelerated H1 spin diffusion in dynamic nuclear polarization with photoexcited triplet electrons
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 M. Negoro, K. Nakayama, K. Tateishi, A. Kagawa, K. Takeda, and M. Kitagawa, J. Chem. Phys. 133, 154504 (2010) and may be found at https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3493453.In dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) experiments applied to organic solids for creating nonequilibrium, high H1 spin polarization, an efficient buildup of H1 polarization is attained by partially deuterating the material of interest with an appropriate H1 concentration. In such a dilute H1 spin system, it is shown that the H1 spin diffusion rate and thereby the buildup efficiency of H1 polarization can further be enhanced by continually applying radiofrequency irradiation for deuterium decoupling during the DNP process. As experimentally confirmed in this work, the electron spin polarization of the photoexcited triplet state is mainly transferred only to those H1 spins, which are in the vicinity of the electron spins, and H1 spin diffusion transports the localized H1 polarization over the whole sample volume. The H1 spin diffusion coefficients are estimated from DNP repetition interval dependence of the initial buildup rate of H1 polarization, and the result indicates that the spin diffusion coefficient is enhanced by a factor of 2 compared to that without H2 decoupling
Pulsatory rise of microbubble swarm along a vertical wall
No full textBased on the experimental finding that microbubble swarms dramatically promote heat transfer from a vertical heated wall, despite their potentially adiabatic nature, tests of microbubble fluid mechanics in the isothermal state are performed to clarify the unique motion characteristics of microbubble swarms. At constant bubble flow rate, the microbubble swarm shows a significant pulsatory rise along a vertical flat wall, particularly for small bubbles. Particle tracking velocimetry applied to the microbubbles shows that a two-way interaction between the microbubbles and the liquid flow self-excites the pulsation during their co-current rise. The sequence consists of the following processes: (i) increase in the bubble number density close to the wall as a result of the liquid velocity gradient driven by the microbubbles themselves; (ii) wave generation inside the microbubble swarm to induce the pulsatory rise of the swarm; and (iii) amplification of the waves, which results in void-bursting motion in the final stage
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