Ceremony and symbolism in the Japanese home. Photographs by Urata Hoichi.

Gutes Exemplar; Umschlag etwas berieben. - Englisch. - � This delightful yet thoughtful book relates the experience of living in Tono, a small town in the Japanese Tibet, and combines vivid description with informed analysis of ritual and customs, marriage procedures, festivals, house planning and building and the routines of day-to-day life in a hostile environment far removed from the sophistication of Tokyo. Anthropologists, cultural geographers, sociologists and architects will find much of interest here, while the dramatic photographs will be a provocative eye-opener for anyone who sees Japanese culture in terms of microchips and flower-arranging. (Verlagstext) // INHALT : List of tables ----- List of figures ----- List of plates Preface ----- Introduction ----- 1 Tono ----- 2 The ie and family life ----- 3 Ceremonial and the ie ----- 4 Marriage in the ie ----- 5 Housebuilding in Tono ----- 6 Reflections ----- Bibliography ----- Glossary and index of principal Japanese terms ----- General index. // Abbildungen: Tono: location - The Tada kamidana - Shinto papers in the Tada kamidana - Translated Tada hirden seating plan - Cyclic changes in kaso symbolism - Summary of kaso symbolism - Summary of kaso advice - Shinto jichinsai used by the Hachiman shrine - Buddhist jichinsai - Full tatemae display - Tatemae arrowhead display - Crosswork capital - Otatami musubi - Tatemae plaque and inscriptions - Tatemae offerings and seating - The magariya of Matsuma Yoshitsugi - Matsuma Yoshitsugi house - The hiroya - Sengai tsukuri design and eaves detail - Suggested arrangements of tatami mats - Horiuchi house: elevations - Horiuchi house: view of genkan - Horiuchi house: framework and features - Detail of wall construction - The Tada tokonoma and chigaidana - The Tada sboin - Kimoya and shachihoko tilework - Examples of irimoya construction - Detail of eaves tile and tomoe-maru // The horizon is serrated with lines of receding hills. - In the event that grandparents are able to serve as a surrogate, - the extent of disapproval is somewhat lessened. - Families who distinguish little between the old and the new. - Many old women are bent double, permanently shaped by a - regime of work in the fields. - These winter conditions preclude farm work. - Those few households which continue the tradition of horse - breeding do so out of love for the horse. - People do not feel the same attachment to tobacco that the rice - plant engenders. - Departed ancestors continue to live as real members of the ie. - The family gather together in a group which conveys the most - powerful visual image of the ie. - Old people remain as active as possible as long as health permits. - In the farming ie it is common to see children in the fields in the - care of their grandmother. - The Buddhist altar is a reminder of ie lineage. - The purpose of obon is to mark the return of the souls of - deceased forebears. - In 1982 the victor in Tono's mayoral elections triumphantly - painted in the second eye of a large daruma doll. - Steamed rice was pounded in large wooden pestles. - The girls are all dressed in their finest kimonos. - The simple square of bright material that is used to clothe the - mulberry stick dolls is not removed and replaced, but merely - added to each year. - In Iwate the carved head is allowed to protrude through the hole. - The dancer wears a shishi mask. - The height allows for an impressive mizu ki display, while its - blackness serves as sombre contrast. - 'O ta we' anticipates the first work of planting. - When the men arrive the atmosphere develops quickly under the - usual influence of sake and beer. - Both dolls have fearsome faces painted on paper. - The bride is called hana yome or 'flower bride'. - (u.a.) ISBN 0719025060