*Lecture in Japanese only.
In 1971, Kodo’s antecedant group, “Sado no Kuni Ondekoza,” was founded on Sado Island. Their powerful music and original performance styles based on Japanese performing folk arts had a sensational impact both at home and abroad. In this seminar, we search for Kodo’s spiritual roots by studying the Ondekoza’s 1950s 70s ideologies and historical background that deeply influenced the group’s principles and contemporary culture of Sado Island.
Lecturers’ profiles
Kodai Konishi (Research Fellow, Contemporary Indian Area Studies at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
Kiyoshi Sugimoto (Assistant Professor, Department of Asian Civilization, Tokai University)
Takehisa Kadota (Assistant teacher, College of Tourism, Rikkyo University)
Kodai Konishi is a research fellow of Contemporary Indian Area Studies at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies and specialist in social anthropology. Kiyoshi Sugimoto is a full-time lecturer in history at the School of Letters, Department of Asian Civilization at Tokai University. Takehisa Kadota is an assistant professor at the College of Tourism, Culture and Tourism Studies at Rikkyo University. His specialties are cultural anthropology and folklore.
Konish and Sugimoto have studied Indian culture for many years while Kadota has done fieldwork in Sado Island for about 10 years. Sugimoto is originally from the island. Each lecturer has his own field of study but they found common ground on Sado island. Since 2009, they have been working together on a research project called the “Haiko Project” (closed school project) with a mission to utilize closed schoolhouses and revitalize local areas in southern Sado. One of their focal points is the Ogi Folk Museum, a former Shukunegi Elementary School. In August 2012, the lecture “Shukunegi and Tsuneichi Miyamoto” was held as a part of EC at the museum. Kadota and Sugimoto co-wrote a thesis “Campaign and development 1970s, establishment of a folk museum in Sado and social practice of Tsuneichi Miyamoto “ (“Gendai Minzoku Kenkyu” vol. 5, 2013).
Course Details
- Date & Time
- Aug. 25 (Sun) 9:30 12:30
- Venue
- Ogi Folk Museum, Shukunegi
- Assemble/Drop Off
- In front of Marine Plaza Ogi
- Fee
- 3,000 yen
- Requirements
- Ages 13 & over.
- Capacity
- 20 people
- Itinerary (TBC)
- 9:30 Meet in front of Marine Plaza Ogi, registration
Travel by bus
9:45-12:15 Lecture, Look around the Ogi Folk Museum
Travel by bus
12:30 Drop-off in front of Marine Plaza Ogi
- Lecturers
- Kodai Konishi (Research Fellow, Contemporary Indian Area Studies at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
Kiyoshi Sugimoto (Assistant Professor, Department of Asian Civilization, Tokai University)
Takehisa Kadota (Assistant teacher, College of Tourism, Rikkyo University)
- Cooperation
- Shukunegi Jichikai
- Notes:
- Lecture will be held in Japanese only.
If you wish to meet or finish at Ogi Folk Museum instead, please inform the organizer in advance. - *Shukunegi Village is the only designated “important traditional building preservation area” in Niigata. Please look around the area before or after the lecture.
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