The Creation of Fabricated Myths in the Medieval Age : An Examination of \u27\u27Shintōshū\u27\u27, Histories (\u27\u27Engi\u27\u27), Noh plays, and Other Sources

ハワイ州マウイ, 2000年11

La conjonction de l'approche par les textes et de l'archéologie en histoire du Moyen Âge japonais

Wakita Haruko. La conjonction de l'approche par les textes et de l'archéologie en histoire du Moyen Âge japonais. In: Bulletin de l'Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient. Tome 88, 2001. pp. 340-344

L'histoire des femmes au Japon. La « maison », l'épouse et la maternité dans la société médiévale

Women's History in Japan. Wakita H. After retracing the different points studied by the Japanese historians since the 1920's concerning the history of Japanese women, the author tries to stress the impact of matrimonial position of the women in the Japanese society. For her, the central point is the creation of the ie (family) system which determines the rank of the women in the society. The discrimination of women is harder when the woman is not a member of the ie (mother, or wife). In the Middle Ages, the married woman is in charge in the ie of a part of the production and this explains the interference of the women of that time in different levels of the society (including the political decision-making). With the early modern period, the most part of the social production is developped outside the ie system and this phenomenon brings a loss of position for the women. The Western women's history may not have stressed this problem as it has been studyed in Japan. It could be a new direction for the gender studies in Europe.Wakita Haruko, Bouchy Anne. L'histoire des femmes au Japon. La « maison », l'épouse et la maternité dans la société médiévale. In: Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales. 54ᵉ année, N. 1, 1999. pp. 29-53

La montée du prestige impérial dans le Japon du XVIe siècle

Wakita Haruko, Bouchy Anne. La montée du prestige impérial dans le Japon du XVIe siècle. In: Bulletin de l'Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient. Tome 84, 1997. pp. 159-179

Fêtes et communautés urbaines dans le Japon médiéval. La fête de Gion à Kyôto

Festivals and Urban Communities in Medieval Japan: the Festival of Gion in Kyoto. Wakita H. First of all, Wakita Haruko demonstates how and why the Japanese historians of the post war period neglected the field of the urban studies during the Middle Ages. She analyses the process of the birth and growth of the cult of the deity Gozutennô and the Gion festival with the social transformations of Kyoto. During the end of the Heian period, the god protects the people of the capital against epidemic diseases and the cult is managed by the Gion's sanctuary. But the deity becomes also the protector of the growing classes of shopkeepers during the Muromachi period. During the festival, each year, the city people organize a parad through the streets of the city and so the deity can visit particular places downtown. The Gion festival describes a symbolic geography of the struggling powers for the control of the capital. But taking control of the parad by the growing urban classes during the 15th and 16th century means also that they expel women and parias groups of the festival, reflecting by the way a keynote of the modern Japanese society.Haruko Wakita, Souyri Pierre-François. Fêtes et communautés urbaines dans le Japon médiéval. La fête de Gion à Kyôto. In: Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales. 52ᵉ année, N. 5, 1997. pp. 1039-1056