Hakata and Dazaifu: crossroads, boundaries, and identity formation in ancient Kyushu / Bruce L. Batten -- Michizane, Tenjin, and Dazaifu / Robert Borgen -- Zen in Northern Kyushu / Nobuyoshi Yamabe -- The Hakata merchant's world: cultural networks in a centre of maritime trade / Andrew Cobbing -- Chanoyu in Hakata : Zen, Karamono and the reception of tea ceremony / Kazushige Horimoto -- Fictocritical momentum : Yamakasa masculinity as Hakata tradition / Tim Cross -- Revisiting the globalism of the periphery : "Asianism" in Fukuoka / Reiko Ogawa -- Matsumoto Jiichiro and Fukuoka / Ian Neary -- Traditional craft industries in Fukuoka Prefecture / Yasushi Yonemitsu -- Staging the local and sacramental : Yamakasa as New Noh / Tim Cross
Summary
In Hakata: The Cultural Worlds of Northern Kyushu, experts in various fields present an interdisciplinary collection offering diverse insights on a region that has long served a key hub in the transcultural networks linking Japan with the outside world
