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Anatomical Sciences Education, Volume 18, Issue 4, Page 415-419, April 2025.Abstract This study investigates the intriguing choice of frontispiece design in Kaitai Shinsho (1774), the first systematic Japanese translation of a Western anatomical text. While the main content of Kaitai Shinsho was translated from Johann Adam Kulmus's “Ontleedkundige Tafelen” (1734), its frontispiece notably deviates from Kulmus's original design,
Chuan‐Hang Yu, Toshihide Sato
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Does culture matter in corporate cash holdings?
International Review of Finance, Volume 25, Issue 1, March 2025.Abstract This paper identifies culture as an important factor affecting corporate cash holdings by using China and its national culture, Confucianism, as the setting. We find that firms located in regions with stronger Confucian culture hold persistently higher levels of cash. We employ an instrumental variable to draw causal inference.
Yongning Deng, Sipeng Zeng
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Variations in Hiroshige’s Print “The Plum Garden at Kameido”
HeritageThis work examines variations in Utagawa Hiroshige’s “The Plum Garden at Kameido” by studying 82 surviving impressions of the print. Through comparative analysis, differences were observed across printings, driven by changes in woodblocks, block wear ...
Capucine Korenberg
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Illusions of textuality: The semiotics of literary memes in contemporary media
Literature Compass, Volume 21, Issue 4-6, April-June 2024.Abstract This article seeks to account for the phenomenon where cultural productions are able to transcend different chronotopes and masquerade in myriad forms while sustaining an illusion of itself as a text. Using the Barthian distinction between work and Text as its framework, the article argues that multimodal semiotics offers a theoretically ...
Tong King Lee
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To Hell with Devotion: Buddhism in Senjafuda
ArtsThis article concerns nōsatsu, also known in Japanese as senjafuda and generally known as “votive slips” in English. Nōsatsu emerged in the 18th century out of popular practices related to pilgrimage in the city of Edo.
Glynne Walley
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Historical subjects represented in the Feliks Jasieński collection of Japanese woodblock-prints
Art of the Orient, 2013 Jasienski started to buy Japanese woodblock-prints, lacquerware, bronzes and other kind of art pieces. This interest became a passion which he deepened by studying Japanese culture. He was interested in its history, aesthetics, and symbolism. Thanks to his knowledge and the sound advice of experts, Jasienski created a collection of high quality art ...
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Japanese woodblock color prints exhibit
, 2018 Black and white photograph shows students and faculty members in suits and ties, looking at an exhibit of Japanese wood block color prints, all matted.
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Why is the Geisha Hitting the Westerner? The Japanese Woodblock Print Genre of awate-e [PDF]
Vienna Journal of East Asian Studies, 2014 This paper attempts to bring to light a little-known genre of ukiyo-e (Japanese woodblock prints), the awate-e (hysteria pictures). This genre of polychrome ukiyo-e (nishiki-e) belongs among caricatures because it treats current events in a satirical way.
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Kabuki: Japanese Theatre Prints
, 2013 The popular form of traditional theatre in Japan, known as kabuki, combines drama, music and dance and is presented on spectacular stage settings in lavish costumes. In 19th-century Japan people eagerly acquired pictures of their favourite actor in the
Buckland, Rosina
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Conservation and Restoration Two Ukiyo-e Woodblock Prints
, 2020 U ovom završnom radu promatra se povijesno umjetnička pozadina japanskih ukiyo-e drvoreza u sklopu provedenog konzervatorsko-restauratorskog postupka na dva drvoreza u privatnom vlasništvu.
Tonc, Mirta
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