MIMESISINTERNATIONAL		HASEKURA LEAGUE INTERCULTURAL STUDIES EDITIONS 				 n. 1		 Editorial Board
Raffaele Milani (University of Bologna), Rolando Minuti (University of Florence), Ikuko Sagiyama(University of Florence), Andreas Niehaus (Ghent University), Judit Arokay (Heidelberg University),
Harald Fuess (Heidelberg University), Ivo Smits (Leiden University), Franco Mazzei (University ofNaples “L’Orientale”), Giangiorgio Pasqualotto (University of Padua), Matilde Mastrangelo (Sapienza
University of Rome), Glenn Hook (University of Sheffield), Akihiro Ozaki 尾崎彰宏 (TohokuUniversity), Ryūsaku Nagaoka 長岡龍作 (Tohoku University), Hiroo Satō 佐藤弘夫 (TohokuUniversity), Yoshimichi Satō 佐藤嘉倫 (Tohoku University), Akinori Takahashi 高橋章則(Tohoku University), Paul Ziche (Utrecht University), Bonaventura Ruperti (Ca’ Foscari University ofVenice), Georg Stenger (University of Vienna)

HOW TO LEARN?

学びの作法

NIPPON/JAPAN ASOBJECT, NIPPON/JAPANAS METHOD

対象としてニッポン、方法としてニッポン
Acts of the 1st Symposium of the Hasekura
League University of Florence
Palazzo Marucelli-Fenzi,
29-30 October 2015
Edited byChristopher Craig, Enrico Fongaro and Akihiro Ozaki

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Greeting Address
by Luigi Dei			 11Opening Remarksby Toshiya Ueki 植木俊哉		 13KEYNOTE LECTURE
The Birth of Ghosts.
In Search of a New Perspective of Japanese Culture
by Hiroo Satō 佐藤弘夫

19

INTERCULTURAL AESTHETICS AND VISUAL ARTS
Methodological Questions of Intercultural
Understanding Between Japan and Europe
by Georg Stenger		 37Some Ideas for an Intercultural Dialogue
by Giangiorgio Pasqualotto		 53The Aestethic Categories
by Raffaele Milani			 63Vermeer’s Love Letter and the East
by Akihiro Ozaki 尾崎彰宏			 73

Buddhist Belief and Imagery in Ancient Japanby Ryūsaku Nagaoka 長岡龍作		91
HISTORY AND POLITICAL THOUGHT
Filling the Gaps: Japan in Early Modern Knowledge
by Francesco Campagnola

109

Japan as an Object of Study:
Historical and Institutional Context
by Glenn D. Hook

125

Some Reflections on Takeuchi Yoshimi’s Asia as Method
by Noemi Lanna		135New Light on Tohoku University Library’s
Collection of Chinese Stone Rubbingsby Kōji Ōno 大野晃嗣

145

PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE
IN INTERCULTURAL CONTEXTThe Signs of Thought (Thought and Method)by Marcello Ghilardi

161“Sahō” as a Method?
Some Reflections on “Nippon/Japan as Method”
by Enrico Fongaro		177
“Feelings” and the “Background” of Rationality.
Nishida Kitarō and Schellingon Integrating Rationality and Feelings
by Paul Ziche			 191

Does “Taste” Matter in History?
Making Sense of the Senses as Reflected inJapan’s Modern Alcoholic Transition
by Harald Fuess		

203

Japan Studies in the Netherlands:
Japan as Texts, Japan as People
by Ivo Smits			 223Conceptual and Methodological Parallelsof Kokugaku and Philologie
by Hiroyuki Etō 江藤裕之		229Border-crossing Methods: A Tentative Linkingof Italian Medieval Literature and Heian Literatureby Edoardo Gerlini		 241IDENTITY AND IDENTITIESTHROUGH LANGUAGE AND HISTORYJapan in Global History: Questioning Europe,Questioning Japanby Patrick Pasture		 255Japanese Historical Linguistics as a Methodology
by Kazuo Ōki 大木一夫		 265Constructional Reduplication in Japaneseby Naoyuki Ono 小野尚之

285

Colors in Culture Interchanges from Heiankyō
to the City of Edo and London
by Ikuko Sagiyama, Matilde Mastrangelo, Luca Milasi		 295The Symbolic Value of the Colors in Heian Literature
by Ikuko Sagiyama 鷺山郁子  297

Enchō’s Colors in Ghost Story Descriptions
by Matilde Mastrangelo 		 305A Sun Soaked in Blood: The Symbolic Value of Colors
in Natsume Sōseki’s London Diaries
by Luca Milasi		
311
Closing Remarksin the International Symposium in Florence
by Takashi Kuroda 黒田卓

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We are proud to present this book as the inaugural volume in a newJapanese Studies series. It is a collection of the papers presented atthe International Symposium “How to Learn: Nippon/Japan as Object,Nippon/Japan as Method,” held on 29-30 October 2015 at the Universityof Florence. While offering a breathtaking array of scholarship on
Japan and its connections with the world, the symposium also marked
the formation of the Hasekura League for Japanese Studies. Reflecting
the diversity of the League’s membership and its goals, the works
contained herein represent scholarship from a variety of disciplines
and specialities united by a common concern with Japan and its placein global studies.
We envision this series as a forum to offer the latest and best researchand scholarship on Japanese Studies from the Hasekura League and its
affiliates. The League is at an exciting point in its development, witha series of meetings scheduled in 2017 and preparations underway for
future publications in this series. Moving forward in pursuit of its goalsof promoting integrated and interdisciplinary collaboration in pursuitof a new direction in Japanese Studies, we hope that the Hasekura
League will become a leading force in international scholarship.
September, 2016
The Editors