It highlights the social features of oblivion, processes in the creation of memories and discourses of war, and their entanglement in the “meshwork” that constitutes a particular place. This article provides an analysis of the relation between tourists’ experiences, affect, and bodily perceptions, together with processes of remembering and forgetting, focusing on (dark) touristic practices in haunted places in contemporary Japan. 271–297)ĭown in a Hole: Dark Tourism, Haunted Places as Affective Meshworks, and the Obliteration of Korean Laborers in Contemporary Kyoto The article below first appeared in Japan Review 33 (Special Issue: War, Tourism, and Modern Japan, 2019: p. And for the original poster, click here (see below). See here.įor another Beat connection with Japan, see the poster below for Gary Snyder reading with Shuntaro Tanikawa at the Shinjuku Meiji-Yasuda Seimei Hall in Tokyo, organised by Shinchosha in 2011. Kai Fusayoshi’s photos can currently be seen in an outdoor exhibition by the river at Demachiyanagi. Ginsberg starts after about six minutes into the video… See here.) (Kyoto’s Beat connection can be seen in a 1988 video of Allen Ginsberg at Seika University. March 9 th From 18:30 :Opening event: Butoh performance by Decalco MarieĪt : 2 nd floor of Gallery Hill gate 535 Tenshojimae-cho, Nakagyo-ku Kyoto (Stands on Teramachi, North of Sanjo).(Katagiri Yuzuru, poet, translator, and former head of Seika Univ. According to the flyer, the galley owner, Junko Hitomi was a school mate of Kai at Doshisha Univ. He is going to have a photo exhibition of (mainly Japanese) poets, artists, and writers at the Gallery Hill Gate. Since Kai himself is a part of Dankai-no-Sedai(Sort of beat generations in Japan), a lot of friends related to Labor Gakuen (Artist, writers, activists, and former colleagues) of that generation know the café, the bar, and Kai.Ĭurrently the owner and the finest photographer, Kai Fusayoshi is managing reputedly “the dirtiest bar in Japan”, Hachimonji-ya on Kiyamachi St.
In early 70’s to 90’s, there were several poetry readings, by both Japanese and foreign poets, (including Gary Snyder, Kenneth Rexroth, and Allen Ginsberg) held at the legendary café Honyarado where writers, activists, students, artists and musicians used to go.
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