Ikuho Amano
Biographic Data
| ID | 1246513 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ikuho Amano |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ikuho |
| FAMILY NAME | Amano |
| SIGNATURE | AMANO I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nebraska–Lincoln |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8350-1657 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
From Rice to Barley
As a latecomer to Western modernity in the late nineteenth century, Japan launched the domestic production of whisky in the 1920s. Through the unswerving efforts of Torii Shinjirō of Suntory and Taketsuru Masataka of Nikka, Japan's whisky industry has become a globally competitive component of the nation's economy. Undergoing several decades of effort and wartime hardship, the quality of Japanese whisky has been internationally recognized, as pro…
Poetics of Acculturation
The article examines Orikuchi Shinobu’s novella, Shisha no sho [The Book of the Dead] (1939), as a discursively constructed amalgamation of multiple cultural and historical sources. Whereas Orikuchi tends to be considered the exponent of cultural nativism, the novella resists a nationalist impulse of extolling the legend of Taima Mandala and Princess Chūjō (Chūjōhime) as a paragon of the Japanese reception of Buddhism. According to the widely-kno…
In praise of iron grandeur
Since the late 1980s, sci-fi fans and machinery aficionados in Japan have expressed their fascination with factories, projecting an imagination that sites of industrial facilities are simulacra of futuristic urban technoscape portrayed in Hollywood films. Although factory watching used to be an activity for a limited population, in the past decade organized factory night tours are becoming increasingly popular in Japan. This type of tour has expa…
Visualizing the self in comedic pathos
Since the 1960s, Japanese artists have utilized manga as an effective platform for life writing. In the twenty-first century the genre has visibly evolved around the theme of the transnational/cultural experience of each author, developing a significant size of readership and cultural market in Japan. One of the most prolific authors is Yamazaki Mari (1967–), whose fame is attributed to the success of her manga on comparative bath cultures, Therm…
From mourning to allegory
Since 1977, when the first movie version was premiered, Uchūsenkan Yamato (Space Battleship Yamato) has fueled the continuance of an earlier anime boom in Japan, and in the past decades, the anime text has generated multifarious interpretations. One of the most widely embraced readings contextualizes Yamato within Japan's defeat in the Second World War and this approach to the anime not only celebrated its scientific imagination but also legitimi…
Decadent Literature in Twentieth-Century Japan
Decadence is a concept that designates a given historical moment as a phase of decay and valorizes the past as an irretrievable golden age. This study offers an innovative examination of a century of
Semiotic Encounters
As leading contributor Mary Orr's plenary essay suggests, Semiotic Encounters is an intrepid reassessment of literary concepts, “interdisciplinarity, intermediarity, [and] interdiscursivity” (15). Mainly made up of articles on early modern to contemporary anglophone fiction, the book examines texts primarily as historico-cultural documents that result from transmigration of a source text into another milieu. Within these parameters, the book devo…
From mourning to allegory
Since 1977, when the first movie version was premiered, Uchūsenkan Yamato (Space Battleship Yamato) has fueled the continuance of an earlier anime boom in Japan, and in the past decades, the anime text has generated multifarious interpretations. One of the most widely embraced readings contextualizes Yamato within Japan's defeat in the Second World War and this approach to the anime not only celebrated its scientific imagination but also legitimi…
Decadent Literature in Twentieth-Century Japan
Decadence is a concept that designates a given historical moment as a phase of decay and valorizes the past as an irretrievable golden age. This study offers an innovative examination of a century of
Semiotic Encounters
As leading contributor Mary Orr's plenary essay suggests, Semiotic Encounters is an intrepid reassessment of literary concepts, “interdisciplinarity, intermediarity, [and] interdiscursivity” (15). Mainly made up of articles on early modern to contemporary anglophone fiction, the book examines texts primarily as historico-cultural documents that result from transmigration of a source text into another milieu. Within these parameters, the book devo…
From mourning to allegory
Since 1977, when the first movie version was premiered, Uchūsenkan Yamato (Space Battleship Yamato) has fueled the continuance of an earlier anime boom in Japan, and in the past decades, the anime text has generated multifarious interpretations. One of the most widely embraced readings contextualizes Yamato within Japan's defeat in the Second World War and this approach to the anime not only celebrated its scientific imagination but also legitimi…
Visualizing the self in comedic pathos
Since the 1960s, Japanese artists have utilized manga as an effective platform for life writing. In the twenty-first century the genre has visibly evolved around the theme of the transnational/cultural experience of each author, developing a significant size of readership and cultural market in Japan. One of the most prolific authors is Yamazaki Mari (1967–), whose fame is attributed to the success of her manga on comparative bath cultures, Therm…
In praise of iron grandeur
Since the late 1980s, sci-fi fans and machinery aficionados in Japan have expressed their fascination with factories, projecting an imagination that sites of industrial facilities are simulacra of futuristic urban technoscape portrayed in Hollywood films. Although factory watching used to be an activity for a limited population, in the past decade organized factory night tours are becoming increasingly popular in Japan. This type of tour has expa…
Poetics of Acculturation
The article examines Orikuchi Shinobu’s novella, Shisha no sho [The Book of the Dead] (1939), as a discursively constructed amalgamation of multiple cultural and historical sources. Whereas Orikuchi tends to be considered the exponent of cultural nativism, the novella resists a nationalist impulse of extolling the legend of Taima Mandala and Princess Chūjō (Chūjōhime) as a paragon of the Japanese reception of Buddhism. According to the widely-kno…
From Rice to Barley
As a latecomer to Western modernity in the late nineteenth century, Japan launched the domestic production of whisky in the 1920s. Through the unswerving efforts of Torii Shinjirō of Suntory and Taketsuru Masataka of Nikka, Japan's whisky industry has become a globally competitive component of the nation's economy. Undergoing several decades of effort and wartime hardship, the quality of Japanese whisky has been internationally recognized, as pro…
Art (7 works) · History (6 works) · Literature (6 works) · Japanese History and Culture (5 works) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)