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Community, Democracy, and Performance
The Urban Practice of Kyoto’s Higashi-kujo Madang
Higashikujo-no-Ima photographs are the property of their respective photographers and are used with permission.
Nearly all the other photographs and video in this work are the author’s. Other materials are used as cited with permission, or, occasionally under provisions of fair use. Translations of Japanese texts and other materials are by the author unless otherwise noted. The opinions expressed in this text are those of the author alone, and not of the organizations that have offered to host this information on the Internet. These contents are provided for educational, non-commercial use only.
Dedication
This work is dedicated to my family, whose patience and support made it possible.
Tinka and Louis: this is for you.
To the States
To the States or any one of them, or any city of the
States, Resist much, obey little,
Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved,
Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this
earth, ever afterward resumes its liberty.
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855
Acknowledgments
There are many people in many places who have helped to make this work possible. My committee [Mat, Mayfair, Chungmoo, Allan (and Tony too)] was patient with my efforts to make this digital text possible, and supported my desire to make this effort in urban cultural critique.
This work was made possible by the extraordinary cooperation of the Executive Committee of the Higashi-kujo Madang, and of the individual cooperation of dozens of Madang participants and residents of Higashi-kujo.
Support for the research came from several sources, notably, the Department of Anthropology, Graduate Division, and the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center of the University of California, Santa Barbara and the Nihon Kagaku Kyokai (Japan Science Society)’s Sasakawa Research Grant program. My work was also supported by the Isbell Memorial Fund, and by a generous gift from the ANSCO Photo-Optical Products Corporation.
In Japan, my work was made possible by the generous cooperation of the Higashi-kujo Madang Executive Committee, and by dozens of individuals in Higashi-kujo. My association with this festival was made possible by the suggestion of Professor Nobukiyo Eguchi of Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto. I would also like to thank Professor Sato Ikuya of Saitama University for his support.
Nakamura Mayu and Nami Lee were very helpful associates in this research. The Namikawa family in Kyoto was most generous in allowing my family to rent such a wonderful Kyoto machiya. The help of Bill and Yoko Powell and Robert Singer during our stay in Kyoto is also much appreciated, as are the many kindnesses of Yoshiro Masada. Some of this work has been published in the Kyoto Journal. I want to thank John Einarsen for his work in this important publication. The Kyoto International School made this time in Kyoto a positive experience for my son.
I will always remember Tabata Hideomi, whose recent death in Higashi-kujo takes from the Madang one of its pioneering forces.
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