Spinning Silk, Weaving Selves: Nostalgia, Gender, and Identity in Japanese Craft Vacations

Creighton, Millie

doi:10.1080/10371390120048722

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“…Some non-Japanese feminist scholars have also come to Japan to try and "rescue" those Japanese women by advocating a critique of patriarchy. However, in raising the issue of patriarchy in Japan, they often failed to locate their privilege as Westerners, and they did not center the voices of the Japanese women they researched (e.g., Creighton, 2001;Gergely, 2004;Goldstein-Gidoni, 1999). Many of the descriptions of Japanese women or Japanese cultural knowledge reproduce a dynamic of constructing the "other" from a relative position of power.…”

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“…The author's description of her interviewee is ethnocentric and perpetuates the orientalist images of Japanese women as being young and cute (Yoshihara, 2004). In another example, Creighton (2001) legitimized her position as an "insider" cultural anthropologist because of the apprenticeship situation created by a silk-weaving seminar she attended. She believed that the apprenticeship made her point of view emic (i.e., privy to what and how the natives think).…”

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“…They did not perform the tea ceremony as a discipline for "good women," nor did they attempt to fulfill a patriarchal nationalist ideology. There are also other Japanese women who are involved in learning cultural knowledge, such as silk weaving (Creighton, 2001) and farming (Gergely, 2004) to search for something at a turning point in their lives. There are other authors who strive to bring their cultural knowledge forward in their writing (see Matsunobu, in press;Yoshida, 2005).…”

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The Tea Ceremony as a Decolonizing Epistemology

Mayuzumi

2006

Journal of Transformative Education

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In this article, the author explores and shares with readers her writing exercise about and for "healing" as a transformative process, using a "tea ceremony" metaphor. The author argues that healing, interlocking with cultural and indigenous knowledge and identity, must be explored for those who are oppressed by social and cultural hegemonies in their societies. On the basis of appropriate literature and her own experiences as a Japanese woman, the author discusses social and historical constraints that Japanese women face. Using the Japanese tea ceremony as a metaphor, the author goes through three transformative steps in the writing journey: identifying what to heal from, looking at the historicity of Japanese women, and reclaiming who she is. Finally, the author reflects on this writing exercise as a transformative process and foregrounds the significance of understanding healing as a decolonizing epistemology and its implications for transformative learning.

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The Tea Ceremony as a Decolonizing Epistemology

Mayuzumi

2006

Journal of Transformative Education

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Development of an enzyme-linked-immunosorbent-assay technique for accurate identification of poorly preserved silks unearthed in ancient tombs

Zheng

et al. 2015

Anal Bioanal Chem

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We report the preparation of a specific fibroin antibody and its use for the identification of unearthed ancient silk relics. Based on the 12-amino-acid repeat sequence "GAGAGSGAGAGS", which is found in fibroin of the silkworm Bombyx mori, a specific antibody against fibroin was prepared in rabbits through peptide synthesis and carrier-protein coupling. This antibody was highly specific for fibroin found in silk. Using this antibody we have successfully identified four silk samples from different time periods. Our results reveal, for the first time, a method capable of detecting silk from a few milligrams of archaeological fabric that has been buried for thousands of years, confirming that the ancient practice of wearing silk products while praying for rebirth dated back to at least 400 BCE. This method also complements current approaches in silk detection, especially for the characterization of poorly preserved silks, promoting the investigation of silk origins and of ancient clothing cultures.

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Re-Making the Makerspace: Body, Power, and Identity in Critical Making Practices

Gollihue

2019

Computers and Composition

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Spinning Silk, Weaving Selves: Nostalgia, Gender, and Identity in Japanese Craft Vacations

Cited by 12 publications

References 18 publications

The Tea Ceremony as a Decolonizing Epistemology

The Tea Ceremony as a Decolonizing Epistemology

Development of an enzyme-linked-immunosorbent-assay technique for accurate identification of poorly preserved silks unearthed in ancient tombs

Re-Making the Makerspace: Body, Power, and Identity in Critical Making Practices

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