Bimonthly Magazine "REKIHAKU"

Contents

Special Feature
Memories and Records
Correlating "Memories" and "Records"
- An attempt at recapturing memories and records as a macrocosm of representation
Satoko Yoshimura

A Witness to History
A photographic introduction to items from the collection
Geographical information in Ryusen's maps of Japan
Hiro'o Aoyama

Special Feature:
Memories and Records

Recalling "memories" from "records" - the use of satellite images in anthropology
Masahiro Umezaki

Memories and records in historical studies
Naoki Haruta

The power of transmission - the transformation of language and behavior into words and images
Satoko Yoshimura

Reconstruction and representation in photographs
Kimiyoshi Miyata

Column
Historical exploration from the sky
Masahiro Mikawa

An Invitation to History
"Japanese Deities and Festivals - What are Shinto Shrines?"
Takanori Shintani and Takeharu Yamada

Introducing our Researchers -- Part 22
Archaeology and Me
Shin-ichiro Fujio

Museum displays today -- Part 5: Kyushu National Museum
Welcome to the "Ajippa" Hands-On Education Center
Yoshihiro Miki

Exhibition Review
Special Exhibition: "Wetland and Jomon People - Archaeology in the Wetlands"
Working out the techniques and skills of Jomon people
Reviewed by Yoshihiro Shimizu

Rekihaku Chat (readers' page) January 30, 2006

Rekihaku News

Contents

Special Feature
Body Image
Body image and personal identity
Shinya Yamada

A Witness to History
A photographic introduction to items from the collection
Exported lacquer dishes
Kaori Hidaka

Special Feature:
Body Image

The unborn -- The fetus in criminal law
Katsuya Miyashita

The importance of the spirit -- The concept of the spirit and the concept of the body
Kiyoshi Umeya

The hearts and bodies of organ transplant patients -- The stories of living kidney transplant patients
Akira Deguchi

The theory of the body in "Honzo Komoku"
Masaya Takeda

Column
Bodies that are nursed
Taku Shinmura

Column
The power of the eyes -- The one-eyed monster and daimanagu
Jun-ichi Koike

The 23rd Rekihaku Update
Outcomes of the Special Exhibition "Jomon Versus Yayoi"
Shin-ichirou Fujio

Introducing our Researchers -- Part 21
Researcher Introduction
Koichi Matsuo

Museum displays today -- Part 4: Iida City Museum and the Yanagita Kunio Annex
A museum that nurtures the power of local development
Hiroto Sakurai

Book Introductions by the Author
"Ancient Japan -- The Route Taken by Written Language: From Ancient China and Korea to Japan"
edited by Minami Hirakawa, National Museum of Japanese History

"The Frontline of Historical Research, Vol. 3, 2004
-- Toward New Research on Early Modern and Modern History"
edited by Tsuneo Yasuda, published by Department of Japanese Historical Research, Graduate University for Advanced Studies, and the National Museum of Japanese History

Rekihaku Chat (readers' page) November 20, 2005

Rekihaku News

Contents

Special Feature
Fashion
Glimpsing society through fashion ...
Kazuto Sawada

A Witness to History
An exhibition mounted in partnership with the National Institutes for the Humanities
The Power of Poetry -- Japanese Poetry through the Ages
Masayuki Yoshioka

Special Feature:
Fashion

The popularity of Sesshu
Minoru Watada

The "form" of Sukeroku -- Its relationship with "daitsu" fashion
Masae Yasui

The energy of fashion and creation
Keiko Fujimoto

Expeditions and adventures and the fashion of journeys on foot without money
Mitsumasa Yamamoto

Column
Shogakai
Jun'ichi Ohkubo

Column
Ashikaga Yoshimitsu as a leader of fashion
Kazuto Sawada

The 22nd Rekihaku Update
Rekihaku collaborative research / Project of the President of the Graduate University for Advanced Studies
Report on the joint publication research committee
Looking at a museum from the perspective of visitors -- How best to display research findings?
Fumio Adachi

Introducing our Researchers -- Part 20
A "young archaeologist's" subsequent career -- The journey to Edo
Reiji Iwabuchi

Museum displays today -- Part 3 Hiroshige Museum of Art, Ena
The things we bring back from an art museum
Mayumi Sugawara

Book Review
"Edo Sightseeing and Tokyo Tourism" by Mitsumasa Yamamoto
Reviewed by Kunio Sakurai

Rekihaku Chat (readers' page) September 20, 2005

Rekihaku News

Contents

Special Feature
Diaries and History Important documentary value for not only historical studies, but for folklore studies and archeology as well
Atsushi Nito

A Witness to History
A photographic introduction to items from the collection
Diaries from the Middle Ages
Kesao Ihara

Special Feature:
Diaries and History

"Burui-ki" - Materials for the study of court nobles
Masayuki Yoshioka

Diary of the training of a young armored vehicle soldier
Toshiya Ichinose

The diary and war of Nobuo Naora
Hideji Harunari

Reading farming diaries - A study of the "Magotsuki"
Satoru Yasumuro

Column
Reading regional history from the diaries of court nobles from the Middle Ages
Kazuki Takahashi

Column
The fascinating aspects of diaries
Masato Miyachi

An Invitation to History
Scenes of summer - -
"yukata, ukiyo-e and ghost stories"
Yoshifumi Ueno

Japanese Musical Instruments:Heirloom of Kishu-Tokugawa Family
Kaori Hidaka

Introducing our Researchers -- Part 19
From a fascination in a "beautiful planet" to the delights of analysis, research and verification
Emi Koseto

Museum displays today -- Part 2 Lake Biwa Museum
Special exhibitions at a place for experimental trials
Kazuo Nunotani

Exhibition Review
Special Exhibition: "Sea Routes of East Asia During the Middle Ages
- - Maritime Commerce, Ports and Sunken Ships"
People and objects that crossed the oceans - A stirring exhibition
Reviewed by Mitsuo Hagiwara

Rekihaku Chat (readers' page) July 20, 2005

Rekihaku News

Contents

Special Feature
Destruction and Non-destruction -- Getting to know cultural assets
Things that can be done for the purpose of preservation
Minoru Sakamoto

A Witness to History
A photographic introduction to items from the collection
"Reitokaku-shukocho"
Atsushi Nito

Special Feature:
Destruction and Non-destruction -- Getting to know cultural assets

Age Dating of remnants of old manuscript works
Hirotaka Oda

The preservation and management of the Kitora burial mound
Chie Sano

Things we learn and don't learn from non-destruction
Sadatoshi Miura

Is the collection of materials tantamount to the destruction of materials?
Masaharu Nagashima

Column
"Seals" as cultural assets
Toshiya Torao

An Invitation to History
-- Special Exhibition
"Wetland and Jomon people in the Wetlands Archaeology"
Toyohiro Nishimoto

Introducing our Researchers -- Part 18
I'd like to talk about old techniques in the language of natural science
Tsutomu Saito

Museum displays today -- Part 1 National Science Museum
New permanent exhibitions in the new building of the National Science Museum
Seiji Saito

Book Review
Reiji Iwabuchi's "The Samurai Districts of Edo"
Reviewed by Akio Tanigawa

Rekihaku Chat (readers' page) May 30, 2005

Rekihaku News