A Semiotic Approach to Geographical Space

Senda, Minoru

doi:10.4200/jjhg1948.32.47

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“…Yamano introduced to Japanese geography the recently appearing humanistic movement in geographies of Anglophone countries and sug gested the possibility of its application to Japa nese traditional cultural and historical geogra phy (Yamano 1979), and this was followed by Takeuchi's discussion on radical movements in European and American geographies (Takeuchi 1980). Structuralism in geography and the semiotic approach to geographical space were also reviewed almost at the same time (Senda 1980;Kushiya 1984).…”

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Recent Developments in Japanese Cultural Geography, 1980-1995

Hisatake

1996

Geogr. Rev. Jpn, Ser B

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The author elucidates three distinct currents of research trends arising during the period 1980-1995 in Japanese cultural geography. First to be noted is the growing concern of the cultural geographer with methodological discussion on the culture concept in cultural geography and on its applicability to data organization in practical work. Next is the rejuvenation of traditional study of subsistence activities in the peasant society, in which a large proportion of Japanese cultural geographers have single-mindedly engaged, through the dominant influence of ethnoscience and the cognitive sciences during this period. And finally, cultural studies and other critical theories came to have an impact on the formation of new interest in the issues of the politics of culture and cultural representation in recent Japanese cultural geography.

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Recent Developments in Japanese Cultural Geography, 1980-1995

Hisatake

1996

Geogr. Rev. Jpn, Ser B

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“…More recently, in the 1970s and 80s, French semiotics flourished in the humanities and social science departments of Japanese universities. In this context, some geographical studies tried to establish semiotic theories on such settlement spaces as ancient cities and villages (Senda 1980(Senda , 1982, historical landscapes (Suizu 1982(Suizu , 1984, and religious places in villages (Shimazu 1989;Matsuoka 1992;Ohshiro 1992). However, these spatial semantic studies, as mentioned above, have tended to lack the perspective and logic needed to synthesize the domains of village landscape and space (Yagi 1988a:64-65;Imazato 2006:99).…”

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Semiotic Structure of Traditional Japanese Rural Space: Hagikura Village, Suwa Basin

Imazato

2007

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This paper analyzes the semiotic structure of rural space in a traditional Japanese village, with an economic base of agriculture and forestry, mainly before the end of the country's era of rapid economic growth. This examination defines the interrelationships among the domains of spatial classifications within the village: social space, land-use zones, folk taxonomy, places, village boundaries, symbolic space, and orientation. An abstract system of relationships can be regarded as the spatial deep structure (langue), in contrast to the surface-level structure of rural landscape (parole).

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Progress in Japanese historical geography

Senda

1982

Journal of Historical Geography

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A Semiotic Approach to Geographical Space

Cited by 7 publications

References 5 publications

Recent Developments in Japanese Cultural Geography, 1980-1995

Recent Developments in Japanese Cultural Geography, 1980-1995

Semiotic Structure of Traditional Japanese Rural Space: Hagikura Village, Suwa Basin

Progress in Japanese historical geography

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