Hirochika Nakamaki
Biographic Data
| ID | 282814 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hirochika Nakamaki |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hirochika |
| FAMILY NAME | Nakamaki |
| SIGNATURE | NAKAMAKI H |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9878-1030 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A historical sketch of cultural anthropology in Japan
The aim of my presentation is to introduce a brief history of anthropological studies in Japan, particularly focusing on the associations, museums, research projects and textbooks. As for associations, I will describe about the Anthropological Society of Nippon (founded in 1884), the Japanese Society of Ethnology (founded in 1934) and its renamed association, the Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology (since 2004). JASCA has approximately 2000…
The Genesis of Keiei Jinruigakuat the National Museum of Ethnology in Japan
This article aims to discuss the origin and development of Keiei Jinruigaku (anthropology of administration/management) in Japan, with a special focus on the joint research group, that belongs to the National Museum of Ethnology, in Osaka, since 1993. It is not merely a branch of anthropology but an amalgam of business administration and anthropology. Major targets of research of this group were company museum, company funeral, company mythology …
Enterprise as a Carrier of Culture
Globalizing Asian Religions
Enterprise As an Instrument of Civilization
En
En is originally a Buddhist concept for indicating causal relations, but it is also a term that is used regularly in Japanese social life. It has also proved to be a very convenient term in academic analysis. In Buddhist terms, the term “en” is used as a common idiom to refer to an individual's destiny from a previous reincarnation. En , however, refers to an indirect causal relationship, rather than a direct causal relationship. In Buddhist usag…
Modern Japanese religions from the perspective of "civilization studies"
Once one’s ways of thinking and conceptualizing are set, however, it is not a simple task to shift to thinking in terms of a different model. Even with the addition or exchange of certain parts, conceptual transformation is not easy. This is true for those who have been trained in “culture studies:” their changeover to civilization studies is very difficult. As such, this chapter can be considered no more than an attempt to apply a civilization s…
Dialectics of Japanese religious thought and organization
Generally speaking, religions as social existences are established based on the founders’ original ideas or basic principles, but they do not always develop as purely closed systems. Islam was founded by the prophet Mohammed, based on the revelation of Allah. Hinduism was formed in close association with what is called the caste system. But Muslims regard the Jews and the Christians as their fellow believers of the Holy Scriptures, and Hinduism, …
“Ethnic identity” and Japanese Christian churches in the USA
In this chapter, the religious and ethnic identity of Japanese Christians in the USA is examined along with the historical development of Japanese Christian churches. The first half of the chapter traces the formation of the churches, focusing on institutional aspects, and the second half considers the consciousness and identity of the believers. In my previous research among Japanese mediums in Hawaii I have discussed the continuation of Japanes…
“Continuity and change” in Japanese funeral customs
Changes in funeral customs in modern Japan are examined in three areas, while simultaneously investigating a change in their accompanying concep tions, namely a diminishing awareness of defilement. The three areas are those of the organizations which manage funerals, the methods for disposing of corpses, and the burial grounds. Each of these are currently undergoing major changes, with shifts from traditional funeral cooperatives (sōshiki-gumi) …
Metaphors of initiation and pilgrimage in Japan
The wave of internationalization has visibly spread, not only in big cities such as Tokyo, Osaka, and Kyoto, but in cities, towns, and villages throughout Japan. Even in so-called rural areas, opportunities to make contact or associate with foreigners have considerably increased. These opportunities include: foreign workers getting jobs in Japan, Japanese men marrying brides from abroad, and events held on an international scale, not to mention e…
A consumer’s perspective of religious habitat segregation in Japan
What is religion to the Japanese? The answer to this question depends on how “religion” is defined. Ordinarily, a religion is considered a system comprised of teachings (faith), rituals (practice), and congregation (organi zation). That this definition applies equally to the Roman Catholic Church and the Tendai School of Buddhism bears out its utility as a general index. However, when one starts speaking of Christianity or Buddhism as a whole, R…
The “life history” of a Buddhist leader in Brazil
In studying Honmon Butsuryūshū in Brazil, with a focus on religion and migration, three aspects are especially worthy of attention. First, a certain religious person was aboard the first migrants’ ship to Brazil with the inten tion of spreading a religion there. Secondly, after having suffered initial difficulties, this person eventually decided to dedicate himself solely to the expansion of the religion; and thirdly, the religion successfully t…
Ecological and immunological aspects of Japanese Buddhism in the Americas
I saw a similar statuette in a taxi in the Netherlands, in front of the driver. He told me that he had had it for some ten years and it was called Geluk, which in Dutch is “good luck.” The taxi drivers in Mexico City hang pictures of La Virgen de Guadalupe (the Virgin of Guadalupe) inside their cars, and in São Paulo, I have seen pictures of Nossa Senhora da Aparecida (Our Lady of Aparecida) and São Cristovão (St Christopher) in taxis. There is n…
Perfect Liberty, Kyddan as a multinational enterprise
In 1964 the group purchased a building at Rua Pirapitingui 204 in the Liberdade section, and they moved the South American Headquarters there from Jabaquara. There was a church in the same building, and in 1972 it became independent under the name Central Church, and is now known as the Liberdade Church. The old headquarters building was later demolished, and an eight-story New Brazil Head Office was completed in 1981.
The “symbol analysis” of a Shinto festival
Japanese festivals involve a wide variety of symbolic contents, composed broadly of the two aspects “ritual worship” (saigi) and celebration (shukusai),1 and are supported by unique organizations, based on the princi ples of “harmony” and “opposition.”2 In this chapter I want to interpret the relationship between such symbols and organizations through the medium of a theory of cognition.
Japanese Religions at Home and Abroad
In this important book, a leading authority on Japanese religions brings together for the first time in English his extensive work on the subject. The book is important both for what it reveals about Japanese religions, and also because it demonstrates for western readers the distinctive Japanese approaches to the study of the subject and the different Japanese intellectual traditions which inform it. The book includes historical, cultural, regio…
Opinions
No available abstract
Japanese Religions, Calendars, and Religious Culture in Brazil
En
En is originally a Buddhist concept for indicating causal relations, but it is also a term that is used regularly in Japanese social life. It has also proved to be a very convenient term in academic analysis. In Buddhist terms, en is used as a common idiom to refer to an individual's destiny from a previous reincarnation. En , however, refers to an indirect causal relationship rather than a direct causal relationship. In Buddhist usage, the conce…
A religião nas empresas japonesas
The indigenization and multinationalization of Japanese religion
N a k a m a k i Hirochika Why did Brazilians of non-Japanese descent accept a Japanese religion? Through what processes did that acceptance pass, and against what so cial background? The first objective of this article is to provide the data needed to answer such questions related to the indigenization of a reli gion from Japan. A second objective is to consider the religion's exten sion of a multinational network, from Brazil as its base, to Sou…
Continuity and change
The purpose of this article is to examine changes in funeral customs in modern Japan in three areas, while simultaneously investigating a change in their accompanying conceptions, namely a diminishing awareness of defilement. The three areas are that of the organizations which manage funerals, the methods for disposing the corpse, and the burial grounds. Each of these are undergoing major change, with shifts from traditional funeral cooperatives …
The “separate” coexistence of kami and hotoke
The "Separate" Coexistence of Kami and Hotoke -A Look at Yorishiro-NAKAMAK1 Hirochika SH1NBUTSU SHUGO is often called a major ch a ra c te ris tic of Japanese re lig io n . Probably the most appropriate English tra n sla tio n fo r shinbutsu shugd would be "syncretism ."
A festival with anonymous kami
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No available abstract
A festival with anonymous kami
The “separate” coexistence of kami and hotoke
The "Separate" Coexistence of Kami and Hotoke -A Look at Yorishiro-NAKAMAK1 Hirochika SH1NBUTSU SHUGO is often called a major ch a ra c te ris tic of Japanese re lig io n . Probably the most appropriate English tra n sla tio n fo r shinbutsu shugd would be "syncretism ."
Continuity and change
The purpose of this article is to examine changes in funeral customs in modern Japan in three areas, while simultaneously investigating a change in their accompanying conceptions, namely a diminishing awareness of defilement. The three areas are that of the organizations which manage funerals, the methods for disposing the corpse, and the burial grounds. Each of these are undergoing major change, with shifts from traditional funeral cooperatives …
The indigenization and multinationalization of Japanese religion
N a k a m a k i Hirochika Why did Brazilians of non-Japanese descent accept a Japanese religion? Through what processes did that acceptance pass, and against what so cial background? The first objective of this article is to provide the data needed to answer such questions related to the indigenization of a reli gion from Japan. A second objective is to consider the religion's exten sion of a multinational network, from Brazil as its base, to Sou…
A religião nas empresas japonesas
En
En is originally a Buddhist concept for indicating causal relations, but it is also a term that is used regularly in Japanese social life. It has also proved to be a very convenient term in academic analysis. In Buddhist terms, en is used as a common idiom to refer to an individual's destiny from a previous reincarnation. En , however, refers to an indirect causal relationship rather than a direct causal relationship. In Buddhist usage, the conce…
Japanese Religions, Calendars, and Religious Culture in Brazil
Modern Japanese religions from the perspective of "civilization studies"
Once one’s ways of thinking and conceptualizing are set, however, it is not a simple task to shift to thinking in terms of a different model. Even with the addition or exchange of certain parts, conceptual transformation is not easy. This is true for those who have been trained in “culture studies:” their changeover to civilization studies is very difficult. As such, this chapter can be considered no more than an attempt to apply a civilization s…
Dialectics of Japanese religious thought and organization
Generally speaking, religions as social existences are established based on the founders’ original ideas or basic principles, but they do not always develop as purely closed systems. Islam was founded by the prophet Mohammed, based on the revelation of Allah. Hinduism was formed in close association with what is called the caste system. But Muslims regard the Jews and the Christians as their fellow believers of the Holy Scriptures, and Hinduism, …
“Ethnic identity” and Japanese Christian churches in the USA
In this chapter, the religious and ethnic identity of Japanese Christians in the USA is examined along with the historical development of Japanese Christian churches. The first half of the chapter traces the formation of the churches, focusing on institutional aspects, and the second half considers the consciousness and identity of the believers. In my previous research among Japanese mediums in Hawaii I have discussed the continuation of Japanes…
“Continuity and change” in Japanese funeral customs
Changes in funeral customs in modern Japan are examined in three areas, while simultaneously investigating a change in their accompanying concep tions, namely a diminishing awareness of defilement. The three areas are those of the organizations which manage funerals, the methods for disposing of corpses, and the burial grounds. Each of these are currently undergoing major changes, with shifts from traditional funeral cooperatives (sōshiki-gumi) …
Metaphors of initiation and pilgrimage in Japan
The wave of internationalization has visibly spread, not only in big cities such as Tokyo, Osaka, and Kyoto, but in cities, towns, and villages throughout Japan. Even in so-called rural areas, opportunities to make contact or associate with foreigners have considerably increased. These opportunities include: foreign workers getting jobs in Japan, Japanese men marrying brides from abroad, and events held on an international scale, not to mention e…
A consumer’s perspective of religious habitat segregation in Japan
What is religion to the Japanese? The answer to this question depends on how “religion” is defined. Ordinarily, a religion is considered a system comprised of teachings (faith), rituals (practice), and congregation (organi zation). That this definition applies equally to the Roman Catholic Church and the Tendai School of Buddhism bears out its utility as a general index. However, when one starts speaking of Christianity or Buddhism as a whole, R…
The “life history” of a Buddhist leader in Brazil
In studying Honmon Butsuryūshū in Brazil, with a focus on religion and migration, three aspects are especially worthy of attention. First, a certain religious person was aboard the first migrants’ ship to Brazil with the inten tion of spreading a religion there. Secondly, after having suffered initial difficulties, this person eventually decided to dedicate himself solely to the expansion of the religion; and thirdly, the religion successfully t…
Ecological and immunological aspects of Japanese Buddhism in the Americas
I saw a similar statuette in a taxi in the Netherlands, in front of the driver. He told me that he had had it for some ten years and it was called Geluk, which in Dutch is “good luck.” The taxi drivers in Mexico City hang pictures of La Virgen de Guadalupe (the Virgin of Guadalupe) inside their cars, and in São Paulo, I have seen pictures of Nossa Senhora da Aparecida (Our Lady of Aparecida) and São Cristovão (St Christopher) in taxis. There is n…
Perfect Liberty, Kyddan as a multinational enterprise
In 1964 the group purchased a building at Rua Pirapitingui 204 in the Liberdade section, and they moved the South American Headquarters there from Jabaquara. There was a church in the same building, and in 1972 it became independent under the name Central Church, and is now known as the Liberdade Church. The old headquarters building was later demolished, and an eight-story New Brazil Head Office was completed in 1981.
The “symbol analysis” of a Shinto festival
Japanese festivals involve a wide variety of symbolic contents, composed broadly of the two aspects “ritual worship” (saigi) and celebration (shukusai),1 and are supported by unique organizations, based on the princi ples of “harmony” and “opposition.”2 In this chapter I want to interpret the relationship between such symbols and organizations through the medium of a theory of cognition.
Japanese Religions at Home and Abroad
In this important book, a leading authority on Japanese religions brings together for the first time in English his extensive work on the subject. The book is important both for what it reveals about Japanese religions, and also because it demonstrates for western readers the distinctive Japanese approaches to the study of the subject and the different Japanese intellectual traditions which inform it. The book includes historical, cultural, regio…
Opinions
No available abstract
Enterprise As an Instrument of Civilization
En
En is originally a Buddhist concept for indicating causal relations, but it is also a term that is used regularly in Japanese social life. It has also proved to be a very convenient term in academic analysis. In Buddhist terms, the term “en” is used as a common idiom to refer to an individual's destiny from a previous reincarnation. En , however, refers to an indirect causal relationship, rather than a direct causal relationship. In Buddhist usag…
Enterprise as a Carrier of Culture
Globalizing Asian Religions
The Genesis of Keiei Jinruigakuat the National Museum of Ethnology in Japan
This article aims to discuss the origin and development of Keiei Jinruigaku (anthropology of administration/management) in Japan, with a special focus on the joint research group, that belongs to the National Museum of Ethnology, in Osaka, since 1993. It is not merely a branch of anthropology but an amalgam of business administration and anthropology. Major targets of research of this group were company museum, company funeral, company mythology …
A historical sketch of cultural anthropology in Japan
The aim of my presentation is to introduce a brief history of anthropological studies in Japan, particularly focusing on the associations, museums, research projects and textbooks. As for associations, I will describe about the Anthropological Society of Nippon (founded in 1884), the Japanese Society of Ethnology (founded in 1934) and its renamed association, the Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology (since 2004). JASCA has approximately 2000…
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