Lindsey DeWitt Prat, PhD

Sacred Heritage in Japan (and Beyond)

Kyushu University · Fall 2018

Course flyer for Sacred Heritage in Japan (and Beyond), with course description.

Check out the syllabus here and peruse scrollable slides (progressing to the right) from 3 class sessions below.

Class session one

Title slide: Sacred Heritage in Japan (…and Beyond), Ghent University.

Slide: how can we distinguish heritage, history, culture, and tradition? Word cloud.

Slide: terminology—patrimony, cultural property, cultural heritage, tradition, culture.

Slide: some heritage problematics.

Slide: Leonardo’s Vitruvian Man.

Slide: Robert Wood’s The Ruins of Palmyra (1753).

Slide: Borobudur—Raffles watercolor and photographs of the ruins.

Slide: Borobudur as UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Slide: heritage and historicism—Schlegel, Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger.

Slide: the French Revolution (1789) and heritage.

Slide: Regimes of Historicity—idealized, modern, current.

Slide: European heritage days collage.

Slide: “Are You an Atheist, Agnostic or a Believer?”

Slide: video link—the value of heritage.

Slide: Eric J. Hobsbawm, “Inventing Traditions.”

Slide: David Lowenthal, The Past Is a Foreign Country.

Slide: Tessa Morris-Suzuki, Re-Inventing Japan.

Slide: Gotenjiku zu, Map of the Five Regions of India, Hōryūji.

Slide: the same map with a schematic overlay of its world regions.

Slide: Jambudvīpa detail with Xuanzang quotation.

Slide: portrait of Xuanzang, Tokyo National Museum.

Slide: map detail with a region circled.

Slide: detail of Japan from the Map of the Five Regions of India, 1364.

Slide: two Bankoku sōzu world maps, hand-colored woodblock.

Slide: woodblock chart of the peoples of the world.

Slide: Nansenbushū woodblock world map, 1710.

Slide: woodblock map detail.

Slide: an Edo-period atlas open to a map page.

Slide: printed book illustrations.

Slide: Fukuzawa Yūkichi (1835–1901).

Slide: “civilization and enlightenment” (bunmei kaika).

Slide: Yanagita Kunio (1875–1962).

Slide: Ishida Eiichirō (1903–1968).

Slide: book covers—Mirror of Modernity and Japan Review.

Slide: digital resources for the case study project.

Class session two

Title slide of the second class session.

Slide: 1868–1897 timeline, from the separation of kami and buddhas to the Ancient Temples and Shrines Preservation Law.

Slide: hidden buddhas (hibutsu) and their unveiling (kaichō).

Slide: National Treasure (kokuhō) statues.

Slide: shinbutsu bunri and haibutsu kishaku.

Slide: Zaō Gongen.

Slide: shrine and temple photographs with deity images.

Slide: the 1868–1897 timeline revisited.

Slide: the University Declaration (Daigaku kengen), April 24, 1871.

Slide: Japanese document text.

Slide: Heritage Management in Korea and Japan.

Slide: discussion quotations from Ruskin and Freud.

Slide: Sir Rutherford Alcock (1809–1897).

Slide: engraving of the 1873 Vienna Exposition.

Slide: woodblock print of an exposition.

Slide: the national museum (hakubutsukan).

Slide: Meiji-era guardian figure and painting, Tokyo National Museum.

Slide: in-class presentation of supplemental readings.

Slide: photograph of a Meiji-era survey team in a forest.

Slide: the 1868–1897 timeline once more.

Slide: preservation laws, 1919–1950.

Class session three

Title slide of the third class session.

Slide: preservation laws timeline.

Slide: global and local definitions of “cultural heritage.”

Slide: chart of cultural property categories.

Slide: schematic diagram of Japan’s cultural properties system.

Slide: the designation process.

Slide: tables of designated buildings and fine arts.

Slide: designation statistics table.

Slide: designated historic sites tables.

Slide: Agency for Cultural Affairs budget chart.

Slide: World Heritage and Japan Heritage compared.

Slide: Japan Heritage list, 2018.

Slide: map of World Heritage sites in Japan.

Slide: properties inscribed on the World Heritage list.

Slide: the Mozu-Furuichi kofun cluster.

Slide: UNESCO’s definition of cultural heritage.

Slide: “Outstanding Universal Value.”

Slide: World Heritage designation process diagram.

Slide: countries with the most UNESCO World Heritage sites.

Slide: thatched shrine architecture.

Slide: Watanabe Yoshio (1907–2000).

Slide: Watanabe Yoshio photograph of Ise Grand Shrine.

Slide: Ise Grand Shrine, photographed by Watanabe Yoshio.

Slide: Ise shrine buildings in black and white.

Slide: aerial photograph of Ise amid forest.

Slide: Notre-Dame engravings.

Slide: street festival performance.

Slide: contesting heritage—comfort woman memorial statues.

Course group photo outside a temple gate.

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