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Conference Paper: Dwelling in Eccentricity: Nagai Kafū and the Henkikan, 1920–1945
| Title | Dwelling in Eccentricity: Nagai Kafū and the Henkikan, 1920–1945 |
|---|---|
| Authors | |
| Issue Date | 2018 |
| Citation | Urban Narratives in Modern Japan: Space, Technology, and Material Culture International Conference, L' Orientale University of Naples, Napoli, Italy, 5-6 November 2018 How to Cite? |
| Abstract | My paper considers the Henkikan ('Eccentricity House'), the secluded Tokyo residence of the Japanese writer Nagai Kafū (1879–1959) from 1920 to 1945. Perched on a hilltop overlooking the city, this Western-style house offered ample seclusion and natural beauty to a writer who had famously withdrawn from society. In surveying these two and a half decades in Kafū’s life and career, I argue that the Henkikan should be understood both as a place of solitude for the reclusive Kafū and as a vantage point for his descriptions of Tokyo. My research explores the relationships between domestic space and urban space, dwelling and writing, high city (yamanote) and low city (shitamachi). As the title of my paper implies, I focus on eccentricity as an organizing principle, represented both in the name of the house itself and in Kafū’s cultivated image as a reclusive gesakusha. |
| Description | Session 3: Nagai Kafū, the Tōkyō flâneur |
| Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/273210 |
| DC Field | Value | Language |
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| dc.contributor.author | Goddard, TU | - |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-08-06T09:24:35Z | - |
| dc.date.available | 2019-08-06T09:24:35Z | - |
| dc.date.issued | 2018 | - |
| dc.identifier.citation | Urban Narratives in Modern Japan: Space, Technology, and Material Culture International Conference, L' Orientale University of Naples, Napoli, Italy, 5-6 November 2018 | - |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/273210 | - |
| dc.description | Session 3: Nagai Kafū, the Tōkyō flâneur | - |
| dc.description.abstract | My paper considers the Henkikan ('Eccentricity House'), the secluded Tokyo residence of the Japanese writer Nagai Kafū (1879–1959) from 1920 to 1945. Perched on a hilltop overlooking the city, this Western-style house offered ample seclusion and natural beauty to a writer who had famously withdrawn from society. In surveying these two and a half decades in Kafū’s life and career, I argue that the Henkikan should be understood both as a place of solitude for the reclusive Kafū and as a vantage point for his descriptions of Tokyo. My research explores the relationships between domestic space and urban space, dwelling and writing, high city (yamanote) and low city (shitamachi). As the title of my paper implies, I focus on eccentricity as an organizing principle, represented both in the name of the house itself and in Kafū’s cultivated image as a reclusive gesakusha. | - |
| dc.language | eng | - |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Urban Narratives in Modern Japan: Space, Technology, and Material Culture International Conference | - |
| dc.title | Dwelling in Eccentricity: Nagai Kafū and the Henkikan, 1920–1945 | - |
| dc.type | Conference_Paper | - |
| dc.identifier.email | Goddard, TU: goddard@hku.hk | - |
| dc.identifier.authority | Goddard, TU=rp01956 | - |
| dc.identifier.hkuros | 300771 | - |