KARASAWA Taisuke

Teaching Staff (Arts & Roots)

唐澤2020
Title Associate Professor
Research Fields Philosophy / Cultural anthropology
Education
2012
Ph.D. (Social Sciences), Waseda University
2007
M.A. (Social Sciences), Waseda University
2002
Bachelor’s (Letters), Keio University
Selected Professional Experience
2019-Present
Associate Professor, Akita University of Art
2018-2019
Adjunct Lecturer, Japanese Culture and Language Program (JCLP), Ryukoku University, Kyoto
2017-2019
Adjunct Lecturer, Faculty of Letters, Ryukoku University
2016-Present
Joint Research Fellow, Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University
2016-2022
Visiting Researcher, International Research Center for Philosophy, Toyo University, Tokyo
2015-2019
Postdoctoral Fellow, Research Center for World Buddhist Cultures, Ryukoku University
2013-2016
Visiting Researcher, Transdisciplinary Initiative for Eco-Philosophy, Toyo University
2013-2015
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, Waseda University
Recent Activities <Single-author books>

2020
‘Ura-Nihon’ bunka-ron: Kan-nihonkai no bunka, shinkō, and shizen [The Cultural Theory of ‘Opposite Japanese’ Culture: It’s Culture, Faith, and Nature]. Nu-su publishing, Tokyo.
2015
Minakata Kumagusu: Nihonjin no kanousei no kyokugen [Minakata Kumagusu: The Ultimate Possibility of the Japanese]. Chuokoron-shinsha, Tokyo.
2014
Minakata Kumagusu no mita yume: Passage ni tatsu mono [Dreams That Minakata Kumagusu Saw: The Man Standing on the Passage]. (Winner, 13th Yuasa Yasuo Prize) Bensei, Tokyo.

 

<Co-authored book>

2011
‘Ura-Nihon’ bunka runessansu [Renaissance of the ‘Opposite’ Japanese Culture] (with ISHIZUKA Masahide, KUDO Yutaka and ISHIKAWA Iori). Shakaihyoronsha, Tokyo.

 

<Selected Essays>

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2022
Nenkin tetsugaku no shiza [Perspective of Slime Mold Philosophy: Tactility and Cytoplasmic Streaming]. Eureka, vol. 789, pp.309-316. Seidosha, Tkyo.
2022
Tact ni Kansuru tetsugaku teki kousatsu: Minakata Kumagusu no gensetsu kara [Philosophical Deliberation on tact: From the Discourse of Minakata Kumagusu].Eco-Philosophy, vol.16, pp.81-94. Transdisciplinary Initiative for Eco-Philosophy, Toyo University, Tokyo.
2021
Minakata Kumagusu ni yoru Nagiran no hakken [Discovery of Cymbidium nagifolium by Minakata Kumagusu]. Eco-Philosophy, vol. 15, pp.69-89. Transdisciplinary Initiative for Eco-Philosophy, Toyo University, Tokyo.
2020
Myōe no yume ni okeru doubutsu no imi [The Meaning of Animals in Dreams of Myōe]. Eco-Philosophy, vol. 14, pp.93-105. Transdisciplinary Initiative for Eco-Philosophy, Toyo University, Tokyo.
2019
Minakata Kumagusu wa ‘Yudaya-kyo no Mikkyo no Mandala’ de nani wo hyogen shiyou to shita ka: Sephirot no ki to no hikaku [What Minakata Kumagusu reveals through his ‘Kabbalistic Mandala’: A comparison with the Sephirothic tree]. Studies in Comparative Philosophy, vol. 45, pp. 109-117. Japanese Association for Comparative Philosophy, Tokyo.
2018
Bricoleur Kumagusu: “Yariate” to Bricolage wo megutte [Bricoleur Kumagusu: Concerning “Yariate” and Bricolage]. Eco-Philosophy, vol. 12, pp.25-38. Transdisciplinary Initiative for Eco-Philosophy, Toyo University, Tokyo.
2017
Minakata Kumagusu ni yoru ‘Sekai ninshiki kouzou zu’ no kaidoku to kousatsu: ‘Na’ to ‘In’ wo meguru gensetsu wo cyushin ni [A Diagram for Recognizing the World Structure by Kumagusu Minakata: Analyzing its elements]. The Bulletin of Kubikino Institute of Folk-Archive, vol. 2-8, pp.1-22, Kubikino Institute of Folk-Archive, Niigata.
Shintou suru ba aruiwa <Cyūkan> no shiza: Doubutsu, Youji, Myōkōnin [A Perspective of Interpenetrative Place: Animals, Infants, and Myōkōnin]. Eco-Philosophy, vol. 11, pp.35-45. Transdisciplinary Initiative for Eco-Philosophy, Toyo University, Tokyo.
2016
Nachi-zan ni okeru cyoukankaku teki gensyou: Minakata Kumagusu ni yoru kijutsu to “Human Personality” to no hikaku wo tūjite [Parapsychological Phenomena at Mt. Nach: A Comparison of Kumagusu Minakata’s descriptions and Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death]. Eco-Philosophy, vol. 10, pp.35-52. Transdisciplinary Initiative for Eco-Philosophy, Toyo University, Tokyo.
2015
Minakata Kumagusu to ‘Telepathy’ to iu kotoba ni kansuru kousatsu [A Study about Kumagusu Minakata and the Word ‘Telepathy’]. Eco-Philosophy, vol. 9, pp.61-74. Transdisciplinary Initiative for Eco-Philosophy, Toyo University, Tokyo.
2014
Ima Shinto wo minaosu: Something Great eno kantan to sūkei no nen [Re-consideration about Shinto: A Sense of Admiration and Veneration to Something Great]. Eco-Philosophy, vol. 8, pp.47-60. Transdisciplinary Initiative for Eco-Philosophy, Toyo University, Tokyo.
2013
Minakata Kumagusu no ‘Naikan’ ni kansuru kousatsu: Jung shinrigaku wo enyou shite [A Study about Kumagusu Minakata’s Introspection: Jungian Psychological Approach]. Japanese Journal of Transpersonal Studies, vol. 12, pp.3-18. Japan Transpersonal Association, Tokyo.

 

<Special Presentations/Lctures>

2022
Fukugo-Geijyutsu to seisei sareru ‘aida’ ni tsuite [About Transdisciplinary art and the creation of ‘betweenness’]. Conference on Transdisciplinary Arts 2022: Trans/Trance-disciplinary Art, Graduate School of Transdisciplinary Arts, Graduate School of Transdisciplinary Arts, Akita University of Art.
2020
Minakata Kumagusu no yume-kenkyu [Minakata Kumagusu’s dream research]. Association of Jungian Analysts, Japan (AJAJ) Seminar 156. Co-op Inn Kyoto, Kyoto.
2017-18
Kumagusu to art [Kumagusu and art]. reading club vol. 2 (reading club series). KYOTO ART HOSTEL kumagusuku, Kyoto.
2015
Kumagusu: Yume ni tsuite [Kumagusu: About his dreams]. THE BOX OF MEMORY (FUJIMOTO Yukio exhibition), KYOTO ART HOSTEL kumagusuku, Kyoto.

 

<Other>

2022
Art work. Mijikahokori wo totonoeru (with Research Club for Slime Mold, Akita University of Art). Special exhibition. Nichijyō wo totonoeru. Hajimari art center, Fukushima.
2021
Talk session. Komoru to hiraku: Chi no kyojin Minakata Kumagusu to Art [Seclusion and Openness: Kumagusu Minakata, the Giant of Knowledge and Contemporary Art] (with MAEDA Kōhei). Kinan Chemistry Session vol.2, Kinan Art Week 2021, Wakayama.
2019-2021
Research associate. Special exhibition ARTS & ROUTES: Awai wo tadoru tabi. Akita University of Art and Arts Center Akita, Akita Museum of Modern Art, Akita.
2018
Interviewee, Taiyo no to [Tower of the Sun] (feature documentary film; dir. SEKINE Kosai). Parco, Spoon, Tokyo.
2017-2018
Academic research support. Nou no naka no mori: Minakata Kumagusu no hakken [A section of forest of the brain: Kumagusu Minakata’s discovery method]. Wild: Untamed Mind. 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT, Tokyo.
Courses Taught Introduction to Arts & Roots
Arts & Roots Seminar
Project Planning and Presentation
Art Project
Philosophy
Cultural Anthropology
Advanced Cultural Anthropology
Contemporary Art Seminar (Arts & Roots)
Graduation Project (Arts & Roots)

(Graduate School of Transdisciplinary Arts)
Transdisciplinary Arts Theory
Applied Transdisciplinary Arts :Theory
Transdisciplinary Arts Seminar
Guided Research I, II (Master’s Program)
Transdisciplinary Arts Research: Theory I, II
Production Skills Workshop I, II, Ⅲ
Guided Research I, II (Doctoral Program)

 

Example Works
Minakata Kumagusu no mita yume: pasaji ni tatsu mono [Dreams that Minakata Kumagusu saw: The Man Standing on the Passage]. (2014)  Minakata Kumagusu: Nihonjin no kanousei no kyokugen [Minakata Kumagusu: The Ultimate Possibility of the Japanese]. (2015)
  Ura-Nihon’ bunka-ron: Kan-nihonkai no bunka, shinkō, and shizen [The Cultural Theory of ‘Opposite Japanese’ Culture: It’s Culture, Faith, and Nature]. (2020)  Mijikahokori wo totonoeru, Special exhibition: Nichijyō wo totonoeru.（2022）

Further details (in Japanese) can be found at the following link: KARASAWA Taisuke (Japanese page)