JVCampus
JVCampus

Subject | Humanities & Social Sciences

  • Learning

Body and mind in Japanese culture

  • Religion
  • Aikido
  • Martial Arts
  • Buddhism
  • History

This presentation considers Japan’s ideological history and its expression in martial arts. Thus Japan’s creative reworkings of Shintō, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Western thought are the primary themes. The historical development of these ideas will be examined. This presentation will consider examples of how these ideas are manifest in Japanese arts and culture, and how Japan’s past aids to explain Japan’s present. The martial art of AIkido will then be used as one example of the conncetion of mind and body in Japan.

  • Target
    Bachelor, Master, Doctor, General, High school
  • Language
    English
  • Caption
    English
  • Lecture time
    45-60min.
  • Start month
    Anytime
  • Length
    Short
  • Delivery method
    Ondemand
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  • Content
    学習内容
  • Staff
    スタッフ
  • Competency
    コンピテンシー
  • Related Contents
    関連コンテンツ

Content／学習内容

Staff／スタッフ

    • Teacher
    Curtis Andrew Rigsby
    Associate Professor
    Graduate School of Humanities and Social Science, Hiroshima University
    • Teacher
    Werner Steinhaus
    Visiting Associate Professor
    Education Headquarters All-School Education Management Department, Hiroshima University

Competency／コンピテンシー

Learning Goal</h3

  • Students will understand basic ideas of Shintō, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Western thought in Japanese intellectual history
  • Students will know possible expressions of these ideas in Japanese arts and behaviors, both past and present
  • Students will be able to explain background and concepts of Aikido
  • Students will be able to connect mind concepts with concepts of body and movement

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