「明治の建築家 伊東忠太 オスマン帝国をゆく」書評 安松みゆき 早稲田学報 in Japanese, Book Review on "Meiji Architect Ito Chuta's Travel Throughout the Ottoman Empire" by Yasumatsu Miyuki, Waseda Gakuho Monthly magazine (original) (raw)
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2019
The interdisciplinary joint seminar will compare the perceptions of Japan and the Ottoman Empire in the Holy Roman Empire in a workshop taking place at the University of Kyoto from May 31st to June 3rd, 2019. The research situation is as diverse as the focused regions: In the German-speaking lands research on the perceptions of the Ottoman Empire in the Holy Roman Empire has long been established and is increasingly being promoted. More systematic investigations as well as new methods are being undertaken, which in particular use the new possibilities of digitization and digital humanities: FWF projects “The Mediality of Diplomatic Communication: “Habsburg Envoys in Constantinople in the middle of the 17th Century“, (2017–2021); “Perceptions of the Other in Travelogues 1500–1875 – A Computerized Analysis”, (2018–2021); “Continent Allegories in the Baroque Era”, (2012–2016). While perceptions of the Ottoman Empire are increasingly being investigated, those of Japan have so far hardly been analyzed. The research interest is recent and first results are published in highly selective studies. The few studies that deal with relations between early modern Japan and Europe focus on the missionary work of the Jesuit order in the 16th and 17th centuries and the work of the Europeans in the wake of the Dutch East India Company in the 17th and 18th centuries in Japan. The Joint Project "Japan on the Jesuit Stage: German-speaking Areas and Beyond" (2017–2019) shows the added value of such international projects as well as their necessity. Within the framework of the joint seminar, the varied material basis of these projects, ranging from diplomatic correspondence to travelogue to sculptural and visual sources, will now be presented comparatively in view of the articulated perceptions of the Ottoman Empire and Japan. Through their systematic and comparative study, the mechanisms of perceptions of otherness and its representations in the Holy Roman Empire can be analyzed much more clearly than before. Ultimately, the joint seminar will enable a deepening of scientific cooperation between Japan and Austria as well as further development of methods and results of each participants. The importance of the seminar also lies in the challenges of today. Each of us is constantly confronted with diversity due to global phenomena such as globalization and international migration. The analysis of the treatment of otherness in the past offers historical orientation for today and tomorrow. The Joint Seminar is financed cooperatively by the Austrian Science Funds FWF and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS).
[conference report] Japan and the Ottoman Empire in the Eye of the European Beholder: A Comparison
2019
The interdisciplinary joint seminar, which took place at the University of Kyoto on 1st and 2nd June 2019, compared perceptions of Japan and the Ottoman Empire in the Holy Roman Empire during the Early Modern Period. By doing so, the seminar responded to a researched desideratum: While perceptions of the Ottoman Empire have been the focus of research for decades, interest in the perception of Japan is recent and research has focused mostly on Jesuit missions and the Dutch East India Company (VOC). Comparisons of Japan and the Ottoman Empire, however, are lacking. Organised by Haruka Oba (Kurume University, Japan), Arno Strohmeyer (ÖAW, INZ, Vienna and University of Salzburg), Marion Romberg and Doris Gruber (both ÖAW, INZ, Vienna), the seminar brought together specialists from Europe and Japan as well as their broad material base, ranging from diplomatic correspondence to travelogues, plays, and sculptural and pictorial sources.
Ito Chuta and the narrative structure of Chinese architectural history
The Journal of Architecture, 2015
This article examines the intellectual and political environment that gave rise to the basic narrative structure in the writing of Chinese architectural history during the formative stage of the discipline through the career and works of the Japanese architectural scholar Ito Chuta (1867–1954). The author argues that the heavy emphasis on pre-Tang history in the early literature on Chinese architecture was a result of the power shift in late-nineteenth to early-twentieth-century East Asia, namely, the decline of China and the rise of Japan. By analysing the textual and visual information in Ito's major scholarly works, this article reveals the political agenda behind the methodological discrepancy between Shina kenchikushi and Shina kenchiku soshoku: the former is more historical and the latter is more anthropological, which echoes the cultural contradictions in Japanese colonialism, and shows how Ito's scholarships on Horyuji helped to identify such a shift in the mantle of East Asian tradition from ancient China to modern Japan.
Global Perspectives on Japan, 2020
In the historiography of Japan’s Interaction with the Turkish and the Muslim World, Ahmed Münir İbrahim (1887-1941) has been overshadowed by his father, Abdürreşid İbrahim (1857-1944). Abdürreşid, a Russian Tatar scholar and journalist, spent five months in Japan in the first half of 1909. After his journey, he published a two-volume travelogue entitled Alem-i İslam ve Japonya’da İntişar-ı İslamiyet in Istanbul in 1910. This travelogue has remained one of the most important sources for the history of early Turkish-Japanese relations and has predominantly been regarded as an expression of pan-Islamist and pan-Asianist thinking. Similar to his father, Münir too traveled to Japan in December 1910 as a member of the first Ottoman student delegation. Münir and his two companions, Hasan Fehmi and Mehmed Tevfik, were sent to Japan at the request of the pan-Asianist society Ajia Gikai to take up their studies in Tokyo. After his arrival in Japan, Münir published a brief, serialized travelogue in the Kazan newspaper Beyanülhak, which relates the students’ journey from Harbin to Tokyo, alongside other articles on Harbin and Japan. While Münir’s articles in the Ottoman journal Sebilürreşad and the Japanese journal Daitō have recently been scrutinized by historians, his travelogue in Beyanülhak has to date remained completely obscure. This article will, first, provide a concise discussion of the Ottoman student delegation to Japan and, second, examine key aspects of Münir’s travelogue, which may provide historians with important insights into the more mundane aspects of Turkish- Japanese exchanges behind the idealizing visions of pan-Islamism and pan-Asianism.
Travelers and Painters on Byzantine-Seljuk-Ottoman Territory
This data base is developed as a by-product of the author's river-research titled The Evolution of the Ottoman House . 4 parts of this independent work, which is evolving into a book , have been published as conference proceedings and articles. The study started with a research presented at the Conservation and Implementation of Wooden Structures Symposium of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality, KUDEB (Conservation, Implementation, Supervision Bureau) and was published in Turkish and English in the proceedings book. Although this presentation has a distinctive structure in itself, it was understood that some sections should be examined and detailed. These were the problems of how the transition from the Byzantine house to the Ottoman house was and why the " çardak", an Iranian masonry building style, was started to be used for wooden structures by the Ottomans . The findings and propositions of this research were published as two separate articles. During all these studies, it was seen that the limited research and publications of architectural historians could only provide healthy clues for the recent times, since the house was always overshadowed by monumental structures. On the other hand, we were experiencing that the Ottoman houses that we restored had evolved through testing/error processes that stretch back far back . Evolutionary processes, on the other hand, could only be read on a very limited number of 18th and 19th buildings that survived and were not damaged by restorations. Another important source for a full understanding of the process was the results of archaeological research. We saw that the architectural whole, which we call the Ottoman house, dates back to the Neolithic in the Eastern Balkans and Anatolia. On the other hand, it was seen that the Turks (Seljuks and Turkmens) had never used such a wooden structure system before Anatolia, that the Ottoman house (Anatolia) was local and spread to Anatolia and the Balkans, especially after its development in Constantinople . These processes would also need to be carefully studied. The research had to cover not only Ottoman lands but also pre-Eastern Roman, Byzantine and Seljuk civil architectures. Still, archeology, history, architecture and art history, and the buildings themselves were insufficient to fully read the process. For example, there were important gaps that could not be filled, such as the period when Byzantium was interrupted by the Latin Empire. The reason why the Ottomans continued the wooden building system in Constantinople despite the great fires was another paradox that we had difficulty in understanding. As you move away from the capital, there is very little documentation about the Ottoman house. We should have also investigated the emergence and spread of the Ottoman house as a concept. At this point, it was understood that travelogues and engravings could provide clues to complete the missing links. Based on this need, we started to examine the previously studied travel books. For this purpose, it turned out that travelogues should be read as much as possible and their traces should be sought in any secondary source. In some travel books, the traveler's references to previous travelers not only enabled the author to reach another first source that had not been noticed before, but also gave important clues about the changes in the structure in question over time. The process of using travelogues and engravings to write the history of the Ottoman house was presented as a paper in Sarajevo (Bosnia-Herzegovina). While it is thought that the development of the Ottoman house ended due to the transition from wood to masonry due to fires, especially in Constantinople , 18.-19. We have come to the conclusion that the notables, who emerged as a necessity in the centuries and became stronger, extended their lives with the ayan palaces they erected or gathered using the architectonics of the Ottoman house. The presentation will be included as a chapter in the proceedings book of the symposium. The fifth and final river-studies will cover the development of the house in the Balkans and Anatolia from the Neolithic to the Middle Ages, based on archaeological research. It has been shaped as a by-product of the database we share in this process. The database we have prepared with Excel is constantly updated, corrected and developed. In the last column, accessible primary sources are given in APA format (as far as possible). Secondary sources are given collectively in another bibliography at the end of this report. We are currently publishing the bibliographies as PDF ( Portable Document File ) while avoiding our copyrights to some extent . We archive the PDFs of the accessible first and second references as big data and index them using Adobe Acrobat program. In this way , we can easily access the information we are looking for by doing data mining .