Satsuki Kawano
Biographic Data
| ID | 178511 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Satsuki Kawano |
| GIVEN NAMES | Satsuki |
| FAMILY NAME | Kawano |
| SIGNATURE | KAWANO S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Notre Dame |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Scattering Ceremonies
Ritual Practice in Modern Japan: Ordering Place, People, and Action
Capturing Contemporary Japan: Differentiation and Uncertainty
Capturing Contemporary Japan: Differentiation and Uncertainty
What are people's life experiences in present-day Japan? This timely volume addresses fundamental questions vital to understanding Japan in the first decade of the twenty-first century. Its chapters collectively reveal a questioning of middle-class ideals once considered the essence of Japaneseness. In the postwar model household a man was expected to obtain a job at a major firm that offered life-long employment; his counterpart, the "profession…
Who will care for me when I am dead?” Ancestors, homeless spirits, and new afterlives in low-fertility Japan
A growing number of older people in Japan lack reliable future caretakers for their family grave. By performing numerous memorial rites and maintaining their family grave, the bereaved typically transform the family dead into benevolent ancestors. However, what will happen to those whose ashes are not interred in a family grave? In this article, I examine one alternative to the family grave system – the scattering of ashes conducted by a citizen-…
A sociocultural analysis of childrearing support for mothers of preschoolers living in Tokyo
Drop-in play centres have been developed by the state since 2002 to provide better environments for childrearing in Japan's low fertility society. This study examines the centres' value and role in relation to the support provided by kin and non-kin in the lives of preschoolers’ mothers living in Tokyo. Beyond the practical support users receive in the form of helpful childrearing tips from staff and volunteers, drop-in centres are particularly v…
A Sociocultural Analysis of Death Anxiety among Older Japanese Urbanites in a Citizens' Movement
By examining the experiences of death anxiety and attitudes toward personal deaths among members of a citizens' movement, the Grave-Free Promotion Society (GFPS), this study considers the applicability of the view that culture and high self-esteem serve as defenses against death anxiety in Japan's changing society. The GFPS promotes the scattering of ashes over the conventional interment of cremated remains in a family grave. GFPS members often l…
Nature's Embrace: Japan's Aging Urbanites and New Death Rites
Nature's Embrace: Japan's Aging Urbanites and New Death Rites
Based on extensive fieldwork, this book reveals the emerging pluralization of death rites in postindustrial Japan. Low birth rates and high numbers of people remaining permanently single have led to a shortage of ceremonial caregivers (most commonly married sons and their wives) to ensure the transformation of the dead into ancestors resting in peace. Consequently, older adults are increasingly uncertain about who will perform memorial rites for …
John W. Traphagan, The Practice of Concern: Ritual, Well-Being, and Aging in Rural Japan
Scattering Ashes of the Family Dead: Memorial Activity among the Bereaved in Contemporary Japan
Challenging normative practice of interment, scattering ashes emerged as a new ritual in Japan during 1990s. Both sensational and controversial, practice has met with cries of protest and enthusiastic support. As an expression of their respect and affection, people in Japan are expected to venerate family dead at a family altar and a family grave. Because maintaining grave evokes cherished notion of filial piety, some regard scattering ashes as a…
Pre-Funerals in Contemporary Japan: The Making of a New Ceremony of Later Life among Aging Japanese
Managing an increasingly negative view of old age as the time of decline, older persons in Japan have shaped pre-funerals as ceremonies of later life celebrating their agency, self-sufficiency, and personal pleasure in steering their remaining years. Whereas new policies have been employed to handle the growing social and economic stress of eldercare on the nation's shrinking younger population, pre-funerals ceremonially engage Japan's aging soci…
Perfectly Japanese: Making Families in an Era of Upheaval:Perfectly Japanese: Making Families in an Era of Upheaval
Perfectly Japanese: Making Families in an Era of Upheaval
Perfectly Japanese: Making Families in an Era of Upheaval. Mary Isaacs White. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. 255 pp
The Price of Death: The Funeral Industry in Contemporary Japan
The Price of Death: The Funeral Industry in Contemporary Japan. Hikaru Suzuki. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. 266 pp
Enduring Identities: The Guise of Shinto in Contemporary Japan
Enduring Identities: The Guise of Shinto in Contemporary Japan. John K. Nelson. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2000. vii + 324 pp., figures, photographs, notes, references, glossary, index
The Price of Death: The Funeral Industry in Contemporary Japan
The Price of Death: The Funeral Industry in Contemporary Japan. Hikaru Suzuki. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. 266 pp
Scattering Ashes of the Family Dead: Memorial Activity among the Bereaved in Contemporary Japan
Challenging normative practice of interment, scattering ashes emerged as a new ritual in Japan during 1990s. Both sensational and controversial, practice has met with cries of protest and enthusiastic support. As an expression of their respect and affection, people in Japan are expected to venerate family dead at a family altar and a family grave. Because maintaining grave evokes cherished notion of filial piety, some regard scattering ashes as a…
Who will care for me when I am dead?” Ancestors, homeless spirits, and new afterlives in low-fertility Japan
A growing number of older people in Japan lack reliable future caretakers for their family grave. By performing numerous memorial rites and maintaining their family grave, the bereaved typically transform the family dead into benevolent ancestors. However, what will happen to those whose ashes are not interred in a family grave? In this article, I examine one alternative to the family grave system – the scattering of ashes conducted by a citizen-…
Pre-Funerals in Contemporary Japan: The Making of a New Ceremony of Later Life among Aging Japanese
Managing an increasingly negative view of old age as the time of decline, older persons in Japan have shaped pre-funerals as ceremonies of later life celebrating their agency, self-sufficiency, and personal pleasure in steering their remaining years. Whereas new policies have been employed to handle the growing social and economic stress of eldercare on the nation's shrinking younger population, pre-funerals ceremonially engage Japan's aging soci…
A sociocultural analysis of childrearing support for mothers of preschoolers living in Tokyo
Drop-in play centres have been developed by the state since 2002 to provide better environments for childrearing in Japan's low fertility society. This study examines the centres' value and role in relation to the support provided by kin and non-kin in the lives of preschoolers’ mothers living in Tokyo. Beyond the practical support users receive in the form of helpful childrearing tips from staff and volunteers, drop-in centres are particularly v…
Enduring Identities: The Guise of Shinto in Contemporary Japan
Enduring Identities: The Guise of Shinto in Contemporary Japan. John K. Nelson. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2000. vii + 324 pp., figures, photographs, notes, references, glossary, index
The Price of Death: The Funeral Industry in Contemporary Japan
The Price of Death: The Funeral Industry in Contemporary Japan. Hikaru Suzuki. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. 266 pp
Scattering Ashes of the Family Dead: Memorial Activity among the Bereaved in Contemporary Japan
Challenging normative practice of interment, scattering ashes emerged as a new ritual in Japan during 1990s. Both sensational and controversial, practice has met with cries of protest and enthusiastic support. As an expression of their respect and affection, people in Japan are expected to venerate family dead at a family altar and a family grave. Because maintaining grave evokes cherished notion of filial piety, some regard scattering ashes as a…
Pre-Funerals in Contemporary Japan: The Making of a New Ceremony of Later Life among Aging Japanese
Managing an increasingly negative view of old age as the time of decline, older persons in Japan have shaped pre-funerals as ceremonies of later life celebrating their agency, self-sufficiency, and personal pleasure in steering their remaining years. Whereas new policies have been employed to handle the growing social and economic stress of eldercare on the nation's shrinking younger population, pre-funerals ceremonially engage Japan's aging soci…
Perfectly Japanese: Making Families in an Era of Upheaval:Perfectly Japanese: Making Families in an Era of Upheaval
Perfectly Japanese: Making Families in an Era of Upheaval
Perfectly Japanese: Making Families in an Era of Upheaval. Mary Isaacs White. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. 255 pp
John W. Traphagan, The Practice of Concern: Ritual, Well-Being, and Aging in Rural Japan
Nature's Embrace: Japan's Aging Urbanites and New Death Rites
Nature's Embrace: Japan's Aging Urbanites and New Death Rites
Based on extensive fieldwork, this book reveals the emerging pluralization of death rites in postindustrial Japan. Low birth rates and high numbers of people remaining permanently single have led to a shortage of ceremonial caregivers (most commonly married sons and their wives) to ensure the transformation of the dead into ancestors resting in peace. Consequently, older adults are increasingly uncertain about who will perform memorial rites for …
A Sociocultural Analysis of Death Anxiety among Older Japanese Urbanites in a Citizens' Movement
By examining the experiences of death anxiety and attitudes toward personal deaths among members of a citizens' movement, the Grave-Free Promotion Society (GFPS), this study considers the applicability of the view that culture and high self-esteem serve as defenses against death anxiety in Japan's changing society. The GFPS promotes the scattering of ashes over the conventional interment of cremated remains in a family grave. GFPS members often l…
Capturing Contemporary Japan: Differentiation and Uncertainty
Capturing Contemporary Japan: Differentiation and Uncertainty
What are people's life experiences in present-day Japan? This timely volume addresses fundamental questions vital to understanding Japan in the first decade of the twenty-first century. Its chapters collectively reveal a questioning of middle-class ideals once considered the essence of Japaneseness. In the postwar model household a man was expected to obtain a job at a major firm that offered life-long employment; his counterpart, the "profession…
Who will care for me when I am dead?” Ancestors, homeless spirits, and new afterlives in low-fertility Japan
A growing number of older people in Japan lack reliable future caretakers for their family grave. By performing numerous memorial rites and maintaining their family grave, the bereaved typically transform the family dead into benevolent ancestors. However, what will happen to those whose ashes are not interred in a family grave? In this article, I examine one alternative to the family grave system – the scattering of ashes conducted by a citizen-…
A sociocultural analysis of childrearing support for mothers of preschoolers living in Tokyo
Drop-in play centres have been developed by the state since 2002 to provide better environments for childrearing in Japan's low fertility society. This study examines the centres' value and role in relation to the support provided by kin and non-kin in the lives of preschoolers’ mothers living in Tokyo. Beyond the practical support users receive in the form of helpful childrearing tips from staff and volunteers, drop-in centres are particularly v…
Scattering Ceremonies
Ritual Practice in Modern Japan: Ordering Place, People, and Action
History (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Japanese History and Culture (7 works) · History (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Genealogy (4 works) · Japan (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (3 works)