TAISUKE KARASAWA
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- ・Transdisciplinary Arts Theory
- ・Applied Transdisciplinary Arts Theory C
- ・Transdisciplinary Arts Seminar
- ・Production Skills Workshop I, II
- ・Guided Research I, II (Master’s Program)
- ・Transdisciplinary Arts Research: Theory I
- ・Guided Research I, II, III (Doctoral Program)
Profile
Born 1978. Bachelor’s (Letters) from Keio University, with a Master’s and Ph.D. in Social Sciences from Waseda University. After teaching in Waseda’s Faculty of Social Sciences, Assoc. Prof. Karasawa served as a postdoctoral fellow at the Research Center for World Buddhist Cultures of Ryukoku University (Kyoto), before joining AUA in 2019. He specializes in philosophy and cultural anthropology, specifically the fundamental ways in which mankind constructs customs, beliefs and cultures, based on the thought of Japanese intellectual Kumagusu Minakata (1867-1941). Recently his research has concentrated on comparative studies of Minakata and artistic thought, as well as the modernistic potential of Kegon Buddhist thought.
Research
activities
・Single-author books
2015
Minakata Kumagusu: Nihonjin no kanousei no kyokugen [Minakata Kumagusu: The Ultimate Possibility of the Japanese]. Chuokoron-shinsha
2014
Minakata Kumagusu no mita yume: passage ni tatsu mono [Dreams That Minakata Kumagusu Saw: The Man Standing on the Passage]. Bensei
・Co-author
2011
‘Ura-Nihon’ bunka renaissance [Renaissance of the ‘Opposite’ Japanese Culture] (with Masahide Ishizuka, Yutaka Kudo and Iori Ishikawa). Shakaihyoronsha
・Special talks and lectures
2017-2018
Kumagusu to art [Kumagusu and art]. reading club vol. 2 (reading club series). KYOTO ART HOSTEL kumagusuku
2015
Kumagusu: Yume ni tsuite [Kumagusu: About his dreams]. THE BOX OF MEMORY (Yukio Fujimoto exhibition). KYOTO ART HOSTEL kumagusuku
・Other
2017-2018
Nō no naka no mori: Minakata Kumagusu no hakken [A section of forest of the brain: Kumagusu Minakata’s discovery method] (Academic research support). Wild: Untamed Mind. 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT, Tokyo
‘Ura-Nihon’ bunka renaissance [Renaissance of the ‘Opposite’ Japanese Culture] (co-author; 2011)
Minakata Kumagusu no mita yume: passage 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)