Publication
No.125 July 20.2004
Cover Graphics
Scroll depicting a funeral procession for Koudou-koji (Museum Collection)
Pictures, portraits and photographs commemorating the dead
(Chosen-ji Temple, Miyamori-mura, Iwate Prefecture)
People try to remember the dead through various means. It is also a process of naturalizing various individual memories.
(1) shows pictures, portraits and photographs commemorating the dead that hang on the walls of the outer chamber of a family temple.
(2) is a scroll depicting a funeral procession in Tokyo during the Meiji period (Museum collection). The procession is walking in the direction of the end of the scroll.
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(Shinya Yamada, Museum Research Department)
Index
Special Feature:Memories of the Dead
| * Diversity and historical development of "Memories of the Dead" | （Shinya Yamada） |
A Witness to History
| A photographic introduction to items from the collection "Photo Album of the Funeral of Teru Araki" |
（Shinya Yamada） |
Special Feature:Memories of the Dead
| From oblivion to memory - Commemorating the names of the dead | （Michiya Iwamoto） |
| Ceremonies for worshipping the souls of the dead from the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate | （Satoru Kishimoto ） |
| Where was the other world during the Kofun period? - Memories of the dead represented by decorated tombs | （Kazuo Hirose） |
| Who are the dead? - Memories and representations | （Motomitsu Uchibori） |
Column
| The incongruity of "Earthquake Victims" | （Takeshi Sori） |
| Making good memories - From the perspective of the work of funeral directors | （Daisuke Tanaka） |
An Invitation to History
| 47th Rekihaku Forum "Flowers that Crossed the Seas 2004 - The History of People and Flora in Japan" | （Sei-ichiro Tsuji） |
Introducing Our Researchers - Part 13
| Self-introduction of an image engineer working at the Museum | （Kimiyoshi Miyata） |
Book Review
| Kazuki Takahashi's "The Shoen System of the Middle Ages and the Kamakura Shogunate" Reviewed by Yasunori Koyama |
Book Introductions by the Authors
| "What are Historical Exhibitions? Rekihaku Forum - the Present and Future of History Museums" edited by the National Museum of Japanese History "The Frontline of Historical Research Vol. 1: The Wavering Common Sense of Archaeologists - The Problem of Fake Early and Middle Period Stoneware and the Beginning of the Yayoi Period" edited by Hiromi Shitara |
Exhibition Review
| Exhibition Commemorating the 20th Anniversary of the Opening of the Museum "Popular Culture and Invented Heroes: A History of Outlaws at the End of the Tokugawa Shogunate" Outlaws - Between reality and representations |
（Yoshio Yasumaru） |
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