IMAP Students

 

Souleymane BURGO
Second-year MA student
Guadeloupe, French West Indies, France
The adaptation and reception of premodern literary myths in Meiji society

 

Zayd JABER
Second-year MA student
Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Synchronicity in the Southern Isles: Analyzing Cultural Transmission Between Kyushu and Ryukyu Using Archaeological Findings

 

Shalini KANCHANAMALA
Second-year MA student
Kalutara, Sri Lanka

 

Isaac LEE
Second-year MA student
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America
Painting Hegemony: Diplomatic Folding Screens of the Late Tokugawa

Sam RIN
Second-year MA student
Singapore
Kendi and other Japanese Export Porcelain to Southeast Asia

 

Georgia MACDONALD
Second-year MA student
Melbourne, Australia
The Taikō’s Hanami: Commemorative Folding Screens Depicting Toyotomi Hideyoshi in the Azuchi-Momoyama

 

Dino VAN DE VELDE
Second-year MA Student
Ghent, Belgium
Framing the Periphery: Postcards of Taiwan’s Indigenous Peoples in the Colonial Japanese Empire

 

Kary, Ka Wai CHAN
Second-year MA student
Hong Kong SAR
The Battle of Hong Kong in Japanese war paintings and national policy films

 

Deborah YEO
Second-year MA Student
Singapore
Mediating Monsters: The Discourse on Yōkai and the Supernatural in Touhou Project

 

Yuening ZHANG
First-year MA Student
Gansu, China
Creative prints in Japan, the New Woodcut Movement in China

 

Caleb HUPPERT
First-year MA Student
Holly Springs, North Carolina, United States of America
Showa Period Japanese Children’s Literature

 

João MIRANDA CARVALHO
First-year MA Student
Religious and political history of late medieval Japan, the life and writings of Fabian Fukan

 

Genís SORIANO FANLO
First-year MA Student
Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain
“Transmissions of the Extraordinary” (伝奇): Sinitic writing and popular culture between the late Muromachi and early Edo

 

Isabel SCHMIDT
First-year MA Student
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Late Edo and early Meiji-era woodblock prints

 

Sijia HUANG
First-year MA Student
Shanghai, China
The Fox in a Modern Cage— Inari in the Modernity of Imperial Japan (1867-1945), from the Mass Media Perspectives of State Shinto, New Religion Movements, and Folk Belief

 

Jana SYCHROVA
First-year MA Student
Prague, Czech Republic
Tenjin worship, Usokae ritual, folk and Shinto luck charms

 
 

IDOC Students

 

Jan Frederik HAUSMANN
PhD student
Münster, Germany
Changing Beliefs and Organizations: The Modern Transformation of Confraternities in Japan
Email: hausmann.jan.200@s.kyushu-u.ac.jp

  • Jan is a PhD student in Japanese humanities and religious studies at Kyushu University. His research explores the developments of Japanese religious confraternities from the Edo to the Meiji period. Specifically, he compares the developments of confraternities associated with different religious sites across Japan, among them Mount Fuji, Mount Ishizuchi and Ise Grand Shrine. His research relies primarily on written sources.

    Research Interests: Popular religion, confraternities, new religions, pilgrimage, modernity, Edo period, Meiji period.

    Professional Activities:

    Conference Presentations:

    Hausmann, Jan Frederik. “Hagiographies in Japanese New Religions: An Example from Nakayama Shingoshōshū.” Paper presented at “EAJS 2023, the 17th International Conference of the European Association for Japanese Studies,” Ghent University, Ghent, 2023.08.18

    Journal Articles:

    Hausmann, Jan Frederik. ハウスマン ヤン フレデリック. “Shinshūkyō to sono shūso: Nakayama shingoshōshū o rei ni” 新宗教とその宗祖：中山身語正宗を例に. Shingoshō kenkyū 身語正研究 4 (2023), 45–58.

    Book Reviews:

    Hausmann, Jan Frederik. Review of Faith in Mount Fuji: The Rise of Independent Religion in Early Modern Japan, by Janine Anderson Sawada. Asian Ethnology 82:1 (2023), pp. 181–83.

 

Jacob RITARI
PhD student
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Eiketsu：The Making of Bakumatsu Heroes

  • Jacob's research focuses on the heroes or "eiketsu" of the Bakumatsu period, in particular Sakamoto Ryōma, and their depiction in media and popular culture. He is interested in the cultural meaning of heroism, and his MA thesis explored a similar issue through the lens of Japanese detective fiction.

Alejandra ROJAS
PhD student
Morelos, Mexico
Crafting the Past: Media Representations and the Cultural Memory of Arita
Email: rojas.barrera.alejandra.590@s.kyushu-u.ac.jp

  • Alejandra's Masters' thesis focused on the reception of Japanese porcelain in 18th centure Europe. Her main fields of interest are material culture, art history and cultural memory studies. Particularily, she is interested in the study of Arita, Saga Prefecture and the construction of an identity of this town based on its history on porcelain production.

 

KIKKAWA Takurō
PhD student
Okayama, Japan
The History of budō and its Ethical, Religious, Intellectual and Aesthetic Evaluation in Transition

 

Norman TIETZ
PhD Student
Duisburg, Germany
Rewriting History from the Periphery: A Comparative Study of Early Modern Japanese and Manchu Historiography, 1644–1849

 

Alessandra SOLIMENE
PhD student
Naples, Italy
A Silent Koto String: Retracing the Memory of a Perfectly Virtuous Woman
Email: solimene.alessandra.098@s.kyushu-u.ac.jp

  • Alessandra investigates the role played by ‘voiceless’ women in Japanese cultural memory. Since 2015, she has been focusing on the reception of Lady Kogō's story. Her current research integrates visual and textual sources to explore the evolution of the memory of Lady Kogō from the medieval to the early modern period.

    Research Interests:

    Heian literature, Heike monogatari, Japanese premodern literature, Japanese art, translation.

 

Research Students