{"id":160,"date":"2018-01-08T13:20:49","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T18:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18w-japn-025-kyoto\/?p=160"},"modified":"2018-01-08T13:24:16","modified_gmt":"2018-01-08T18:24:16","slug":"final-preparations-before-our-departure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18w-japn-025-kyoto\/kyoto-2018\/final-preparations-before-our-departure\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Preparations before Our Departure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello everyone!\u00a0 We only have one more full day on campus before our departure to Kyoto.\u00a0 I spent the weekend delving into my research and I hope to fill in whatever gaps I can between today and tomorrow.\u00a0 My focus in the Zen and Zen Priests research has been on the transmission of Zen on a global scale, investigating the reasons why Zen practice has become a prevalent phenomenon in the last fifty years, particularly in the United States.\u00a0 I also have been investigating Zen priesthood &#8211; what it means to be a priest and how this role may differ across times and cultures.\u00a0 I was able to find much detailed information on the history of the transfer of Zen across cultures, which I have provided in Breelyn&#8217;s and my update of the Zen and Zen Priests page.\u00a0 My hope is to learn more about modern Japanese Zen priesthood before we depart for Kyoto, but I also think that I will be able to learn about this during our interview with Yukei Isobe.<\/p>\n<p>I also plan to finish packing and to start exploring the course readings about Noh theatre and tea ceremony.\u00a0 I have already started the Book of Tea and will finish that today.<\/p>\n<p>After our discussion in class about films we watched over the weekend, I&#8217;m also hoping I&#8217;ll have time to see <em>The Makioka Sisters<\/em>.\u00a0 It sounds very detailed and touches on many aspects of Japanese culture and some of the conflicts between tradition and modernity.\u00a0 I had watched <em>Rashomon<\/em> by Akira Kurosawa and <em>The Zen Mind<\/em>, which is a documentary about the fundamentals of Zen practice in contemporary Japanese society.\u00a0 I enjoyed both movies and recommend them to anyone looking\u00a0to watch something thought-provoking.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m psyching myself up for the impending jet lag.\u00a0 I will make my next post either on the plane or shortly after we arrive.\u00a0 For now I just have to make sure I do everything I can so that I&#8217;ll be ready.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello everyone!\u00a0 We only have one more full day on campus before our departure to Kyoto.\u00a0 I spent the weekend delving into my research and I hope to fill in whatever gaps I can between today and tomorrow.\u00a0 My focus &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18w-japn-025-kyoto\/kyoto-2018\/final-preparations-before-our-departure\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1849,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,11,7,8,9],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kyoto-2018","tag-films","tag-final-preparations","tag-research-progress","tag-zen","tag-zen-and-zen-priests"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18w-japn-025-kyoto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18w-japn-025-kyoto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18w-japn-025-kyoto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18w-japn-025-kyoto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1849"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18w-japn-025-kyoto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18w-japn-025-kyoto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18w-japn-025-kyoto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions\/164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18w-japn-025-kyoto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18w-japn-025-kyoto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18w-japn-025-kyoto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}