Visual Reception of Ainu Folklore Hima Na Konabe

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10.2991/assehr.k.200321.069How to use a DOI?

Keywords

visual reception, folklore illustration, Ainu people

Abstract

Ainu people live in Hokkaido archipelago, Northern Japan and Southern Russia. Ainu are the Japanese indigenous people sustainably maintaining the local wisdom in their folklores. The folklores carry information on their predecessors’ social life and knowledge. Ainu folklores contain the local wisdom preserved by the supporting society. The local wisdom of the Ainu people is their belief on the God of Bear. Each of things possesses soul (kamui) and every offering ritual is the effort to protect the nature. This study is aimed to reveal how an illustrator comprehends the story and interprets it into visual reception. The illustration is the process of depicting the object or visualization from the process of text reception to make the content or the message of the text clearer. The visual representation here is the form of the text reception and understanding toward the story of the God of Bear and the God of Pan on the Ainu folklore entitled Hima Na Konabe. The study applied the method of aesthetic reception and visual semiotic analysis. The result shows that the folklore illustration is determined by the beginning of the paragraph and the summary of the story. The visual production as the interpretation result of the story is more dominant than the understanding on the cultural reference of the story. In fact, the tradition of reception is a two-way dynamic process between text and context. Besides the whole understanding on the text, good illustration is also influenced by the cultural context of where the folklore is from.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Wanda Listiani
AU  - Ida Ayu Laksmita Sari
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/03/24
TI  - Visual Reception of Ainu Folklore Hima Na Konabe
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Arts and Design Education (ICADE 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 297
EP  - 300
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200321.069
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200321.069
ID  - Listiani2020
ER  -