2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A Passage to India: Pan-Asianism, the Yellow Peril, and Anglo-Japanese Travelogues in the 1920s
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22520361
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Literatures/Literary theories in other countries and areas
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| Research Institution | Osaka University |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2010 – 2012
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| Keywords | 黄禍論 / アジア主義 / オリエンタリズム / 日英関係 / トゥーリズム / 日本郵船 / 神智学 / 仏蹟巡礼 |
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| Research Abstract |
Kanokogi Kazunobu, Japan’s pioneer of the modern Buddhist pilgrimage, was deported from India in 1919 on a charge of supporting the Indian independence movement. Research into diplomatic papers in Britain and Japan make it clear that almost every Japanese tourist after the Kanokogi case was monitored and reported on by the Indian people with regard to whether they were making contact with revolutionaries or Pan-Asianists. By contrast, Irish theosophist James Cousins came to Japan and worked with the Black Dragon Society. Although Cousins had been suspected of propagating Pan-Asianism, his activities, including setting up the Tokyo lodge in 1920, turned out to be more international and complicated. For instance, Gurcharan Singh, the founder of Indian pottery, was inspired by the universal brotherhood of theosophy through Cousins and, produced ceramics imitating Korean white porcelain which Muneyoshi Yanagi and Takumi Asakawa had highly appraised.
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Research Products
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