「Matsuri」 Photo Exhibition Accessibility and Barrier-free Information 「祭り」 写真展 アクセシビリティ・バリアフリーについて

Matsuri

「Through Multi-sighted Photographies」

祭り

「多視点からの写真を通して」

2024 February 10 (Sat) ~ 13 (Tues)

2024年2月10日(土) ~ 13日(火)

11:00 - 18:00

(last day / 最終日は 11:00 - 16:00)

JARFO Art Square

Kyoto, Japan

Gallery Info: https://jarfo.jp/jarfo

See the promo flyer: http://visualanthropologyofjapan.blogspot.com/2024/01/matsuri-photo-exhibition.html

English (英語の後に日本語の案内が表示されます):
Where to go, how to get there, and what to expect along the way...

JARFO Art Square
Higashiyama-ku, Furukawachō 545
605-0026 Kyōto

JARFO Art Square is 3 minutes away from the Tozai Line Higashiyama Station and 10 minutes away from the Keihan Sanjo Station.

Kyoto Tozai Line stations are largely accessible and wheelchair-friendly, with elevators, narrow gaps between platform and train, and no height differences at places like restrooms. At Higashiyama Station, take Exit 2. There are elevators and barrier-free restrooms inside the station available near Exit 2.

The gallery is about 3 minutes away from the station. Upon reaching the street level, turn left. Turn left again when you reach the nearby shopping arcade.

After the first intersection, the gallery will be on the right side.

Keihan Sanjo Station has elevators and a barrier-free restroom on the ticket gate level near the central exit (on the Osaka-bound side).

You can transfer to the Tozai Line, but it is also easy to walk or roll (about 10 minutes) to the gallery from Sanjo. Walk/roll south on Sanjo Dori (opposite direction of the bridge) on the right side of the street until you get to the Furukawa shopping arcade.

Turn right into the arcade. After the first intersection, the gallery will be on the right side.

The gallery has a wide entrance and plenty of space inside.

The gallery's restroom is not wheelchair accessible.

The photos will be A3 size color prints.

Available languages: Japanese, Japanese Sign Language (日本手話), English, French

日本語 (English directions are above):
どこに行くか、どうやってそこに行くか、そして途中で何を期待するか...

JARFO Art Square
〒605-0026　
京都府京都市東山区古川町545

JARFO Art Squareは東西線東山駅から3分、京阪三条駅からは10分です。

京都東西線の駅は、エレベーターの設置、ホームと電車の隙間が狭い、トイレの高低差がないなど、バリアフリーで車椅子でも利用しやすい駅となっています。 東山駅2番出口を出てください。 駅構内2番出口付近にエレベーターとバリアフリートイレがあります。

ギャラリーは駅から約3分です。 エレベーターを出たら左折してください。 近くの商店街に出たら、再び左折します。

最初の交差点を過ぎた後、ギャラリーは右側にあります。

京阪三条駅は中央口（大阪方面）付近の改札階にエレベーターとバリアフリートイレがあります。

東西線に乗り換えることもできますが、三条からも徒歩や車椅子（約10分）で行くことができます。 三条通りの右側を古川商店街に向かって南（橋の反対側）に進み、アーケードを右折。

ギャラリーは最初の交差点を過ぎて右側にあります。

ギャラリーは入り口が広く、内部も広々としたスペースがあります。

ギャラリーのトイレは車椅子対応ではありません。

写真はA3サイズのカラープリントとなります。

対応言語：日本語、日本手話、英語、フランス語

Wired! Walking to the printer's shop on a crisp sunny day to pick up our photo panels...

We have photos to be exhibited! The photos have been blurred so as not to ruin your Photo Exhibition Experience.

Matsuri

「Through Multi-sighted Photographies」

祭り

「多視点からの写真を通して」

2024 February 10 (Sat) ~ 13 (Tues)

2024年2月10日(土) ~ 13日(火)

11:00 - 18:00

(last day / 最終日は 11:00 - 16:00)

JARFO Art Square

Kyoto, Japan

Gallery Info: https://jarfo.jp/jarfo

See the promo flyer: http://visualanthropologyofjapan.blogspot.com/2024/01/matsuri-photo-exhibition.html

Only 2 Weeks Until... / まであと2週間…

Photo Exhibition 写真展

Matsuri

「Through Multi-sighted Photographies」

祭り

「多視点からの写真を通して」

2024 February 10 (Sat) ~ 13 (Tues)

2024年2月10日(土) ~ 13日(火)

11:00 - 18:00

(last day / 最終日は 11:00 - 16:00)

JARFO Art Square

Kyoto, Japan

Gallery Info: https://jarfo.jp/jarfo

See the promo flyer: http://visualanthropologyofjapan.blogspot.com/2024/01/matsuri-photo-exhibition.html

Sketch Art Exhibition::「立呑み絵日記」 (Standing Bar Diary) by Syuhei Shibukawa

Photo courtesy of Syuhei Shibukawa via his Facebook.

I learned of this exhibition through the 関西酒場研究会 (Kansai Bar Study Group) on Facebook. Syuhei Shibukawa likes to go to tachinomiya, drink sake, eat food and make sketches of the setting. Looks like a good example of visual anthropology to me. Many of the shops featured are close to Gallery Yongou (see the map sketch below).

Most of the visitors to the exibition were young women. There was sake at the exhibition as well. I got a set of 4 different kinds - they were all good!

Shibukawa-san was very generous with his work, allowing everyone to take photos of his sketches. Unfortunately, the exhibition is over. But you can check out his work on social media.

Syuhei Shibukawa on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/syuhei.shibukawa

Syuhei Shibukawa on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/syuheishibukawa/

Gallery Yongou on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yongou2019

蜜香屋 / みっこうや / Mikkouya: A sweet potato shop located in the Tengo Nakazakicho shopping street (I like the logo...). I will have to return to sample the sweets...

Shop website: http://mikkouya.com/

This weekend I am going to Tokyo to meet with a sake expert; I want to give him a bottle of high quality sake from Osaka. So I went to Inada Sake Shop and not only found a great present but also the Foo Fighters sake that I have looking for since its debut in 2021!

Katano Sakura Junmai Ginjo Nama Genshu Super Dry and
Foo Fighters×TATENOKAWA JUNMAIDAIGINJO HANSHO Blue

Inada Sake Shop is over 90 years old and has a great selection of sake. They also have a small tachinomiya next door. On Saturday in the late afternoon, the place was packed (12 customers or so) and very lively. Lots of great sake, oden and other food, too.

Information about Inada Sake Shop: https://zaubee.com/biz/inada-liquor-store-oagrx5ub

About the sake I bought as a present for _________:

Katano Sakura Junmai Ginjo Nama Genshu Super Dry (720ml)

Characteristics:

Low-temperature fermented Ginjo brewed junmai unprocessed sake. A refreshing dry sharpness and a powerful flavor unique to raw unprocessed sake. It has a strong personality and flavor that is worth drinking. Although it is raw sake, you can enjoy its unique charm not only cold but also hot.

Kuramoto Yamano Sake Brewery:

In the Heian period, Katano no Sato was loved by aristocrats as a place to play in the fields such as picking cherry blossoms. This area, blessed with the clear waters of the Amano River and the fertile fields that spread across its basin, gave birth to many sake brewers during the Edo period. Inheriting that history and tradition, we are working hard to create a sake brewery with a ``bloomy'' atmosphere that resembles cherry blossoms.

Source: Osaka Prefecture Sake Brewers Association.
http://osaka-sake.com/index.html

Kuramoto Yamano Sake Brewery website: https://www.katanosakura.com/

「Anthropology through the Experience of the Physical Body 」There's nothing like holding the real book for the first time...

Anthropology through the Experience of the Physical Body
Editors: Kaori Fushiki, Ryoko Sakurada (2023)

Book information: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-99-5724-8

See also: http://visualanthropologyofjapan.blogspot.com/2023/12/new-book-announcement-long-time-in.html

Chapter 4, p. 42-60

The Embodiment of the Deaf in Japan: A Set of Heuristic Models for Identity, Belonging and Sign Language Use

Steven C. Fedorowicz

Abstract: This chapter is an ethnographic and linguistic exploration of deaf people in Japan organised around Mark Johnson’s (2007) philosophy of embodied meaning where meaning and worldview are created, interpreted and expressed through the body and bodily interactions. The application of this holistic approach to the body treats deafness as a condition that affects human behaviour rather than a deficiency/impairment. The situations of deaf people in Japan, including academic models, social welfare policies and Deaf/deaf politics, are organised and presented through the use of Mikhail Bakhtin’s (1990) architectonics. The language use of Japanese deaf people, especially their preferred language of Japanese Sign Language (JSL), is contextualized through the use of David F. Armstrong et al.’s (1995) gestural approach to communication. How do deaf people in Japan deal with limits—or challenges—of communication with hearing people and among themselves? The chapter concludes that for deaf people, the body is a medium they use to create text and discourse through the performance of sign language, ultimately displaying a perceived notion of Deaf identity.

Keywords: Deaf/deaf, Japanese Sign Language, Ethnography, Embodiment, Gestural linguistics, Architectonics