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Delineation of Salt Water Intrusion through Use of Electromagnetic-Induction Logging: A Case Study in Southern Manhattan Island, New York
Groundwater with chloride concentrations up to 15,000 mg/L has intruded the freshwater aquifer underlying southern Manhattan Island, New York. Historical (1940–1950) chloride concentration data of glacial aquifer wells in the study area indicate the presence of four wedges of saltwater intrusion that may have been caused by industrial pumpage. The limited recharge capability of the aquifer, due to impervious surfaces and the 22.7 million liters per day (mld) of reported industrial pumpage early in the 20th Century was probably the cause for the saltwater intrusion and the persistence of the historical saltwater intrusion wedges over time. Recent drilling of wells provided new information on the hydrogeology and extent of saltwater intrusion of the glacial aquifer overlying bedrock. The new observation wells provided ground-water level, chloride concentration, hydraulic conductivity, and borehole geophysical data of the glacial aquifer. The glacial sediments range in thickness from less than 0.3 m to more than 76.2 m within the study area. A linear relation between Electromagnetic-induction (EM) conductivity log response and measured chloride concentration was determined. Using this relation, chloride concentration was estimated in parts of the glacial aquifer where sampling was not possible. EM logging is an effective tool to monitor changes in saltwater intrusion wedges.
Shōtoku : ethnicity, ritual, and violence in the Japanese Buddhist tradition
Prince Shōtoku, the purported founder of Japanese Buddhism, was one of the greatest cultural icons of pre-modern Japan. The cult that grew up around his memory is recognized as one of the most important religious phenomena of the time. This book examines the creation and evolution of the Shōtoku cult over the roughly 200 years following his death—a period that saw a series of revolutionary developments in the history of Japanese religion. It highlights the activities of a cluster of kinship groups who claimed descent from ancestors from the Korean kingdom of Silla. It places these groups in their socio-cultural context and demonstrates their pivotal role in bringing continental influences to almost every aspect of government and community ideology in Japan. It argues that these immigrant kinship groups were not only responsible for the construction of the Shōtoku cult, but were also associated with the introduction of the continental systems of writing, ritual, and governance. By comparing the ancestral legends of these groups to the Shōtoku legend corpus and Imperial chronicles, the book shows that these kinship groups not only played a major role in the formation of the Japanese Buddhist tradition, they also to a large degree shaped the paradigms in terms of which the Japanese Imperial cult and the nation of Japan were conceptualized and created.
Sh-otoku: ethnicity, ritual, and violence in the Japanese Buddhist tradition
Prince Shotoku (573?-622?), the purported founder of Japanese Buddhism, was one of the greatest cultural icons of pre-modern Japan. The cult that grew up around his memory is recognized as one of the most important religious phenomena of the time. This book examines the creation and evolution of the Shotoku cult over the roughly 200 years following his death - a period that saw a series of revolutionary developments in the history of Japanese religion.
Shotoku: Ethnicity, Ritual, and Violence in the Japanese Buddhist Tradition: Ethnicity, Ritual, and Violence in the Japanese Buddhist Tradition
Prince Shotoku (573?-622?), the purported founder of Japanese Buddhism, is widely referred to as Japan's first national hero. The cult that grew up around his memory is recognized as one of the most important phenomena in early Japanese religion. This book examines the creation and evolution of the Shotoku cult over the roughly 200 years following his deatha period that saw a series of revolutionary developments in the history of Japanese religion. Michael Como highlights the activities of a cluster of kinship groups who claimed descent from ancestors from the Korean kingdom of Silla. He skillfully places these groups in their socio-cultural context and convincingly demonstrates their pivotal role in bringing continental influences to almost every aspect of government and community ideology in Japan. He argues that these immigrant kinship groups were not only responsible for the construction of the Shotoku cult, but were also associated with the introduction of the continental systems of writing, ritual, and governance. By comparing the ancestral legends of these groups to the Shotoku legend corpus and Imperial chronicles, Como shows that these kinship groups not only played a major role in the formation of the Japanese Buddhist tradition, they also to a large degree shaped the paradigms in terms of which the Japanese Imperial cult and the nation of Japan were conceptualized and created. Offering a radically new picture of the Asuko and Nara period (551794), this innovative work will stimulate new approaches to the study of early Japanese religion focusing on the complex interactions among ideas of ethnicity, lineage, textuality, and ritual.
Horses, Dragons, and Disease in Nara Japan
Although the introduction of horses into the Japanese islands has long been a topic of interest for scholars concerned with political and military relations between the Japanese islands and the Korean peninsula, their role in shaping cultic life in the Japanese islands has received surprisingly little attention. Because horses were a central node within the technological, political and ritual systems that formed the material and ideological basis of the Japanese court, however, they helped engender a series of cultic developments that were essential for the formation of what later generations would come to consider native Japanese religious and cultic identity. This article argues that myths and legends of deadly horse-riding spirits were most likely shaped not by the memory of ancient horse riding armies, but rather by a host of forces that included immigrant deities, natural disasters and plagues from which even rulers were hard pressed to escape.
Onmyōji, the Earth God and Ghosts in Ancient Japan
Dans cet article, l'auteur suggère quelques directions nouvelles pour réfléchir à la façon dont le rituel et les pratiques divinatoires rassemblés sous le terme onmyōdō furent d'abord absorbés et transmis dans l'archipel japonais. Parce que l'on conçoit d'ordinaire l'onmyōdō comme ayant été, à l'origine, principalement contrôlé par des spécialistes religieux (onmyōji 陰陽師) qui avaient accès à des rites particuliers et à des textes philosophiques, la majorité des études récentes ont recherché ses racines les plus anciennes dans des institutions officielles telles que le Bureau du Yin et du Yang (Onmyōryō 陰陽寮). L'existence de pratique du Yin et du Yang répandeus dans les sources ultérieures et dans les études folkloriques a été expliquée en termes de diffusion, s'opérant des classes dirigeantes vers le peuple. Selon l'auteur, lorsqu'on conçoit l'onmyōdō en termes de pratiques technologiques et de discours rituels, on en vient à percevoir les gouvernants nonplus comme des producteurs mais comme des consommateurs de concepts et de pratiques onmyōdō qui étaient dans une large mesure contrôlés par des lignées de services immigrantes. L'auteur examine tout d'abord l'émergence des onmyōji dans la vie religieuse japonaise du point de vue du contexte social et matériel qui a fait des arts géomantiques, divinatoires et calendériques une partie intégrante et nécessaire de la vie quotidienne dans le Japon de l'époque de Heian. Il s'attarde sur les changements survenus dans les paysages écologique et culturel avec l'urbanisation de l'époque de Nara et du début de l'époque de Heian, changements qui engendrèrent, tant pour l'élite que pour les gens du peuple, de nouveaux espaces et motivations pour interagir avec et manipuler les esprits et les forces du Yin et du Yang. En second lieu, l'onmyōdō était un élément essentiel dans l'ensemble des croyances politiques et religieuses de l'ancien Japon, précisément parce qu'il ne s'agissait pas simplement de croyances, mais également de la mise en pratique de savoirs liés à la guérison, à l'astrologie, voire même à la technologie. Ces savoirs, bien que nécessaires à l'existence de la Cour, étaient contrôlés par des lignées de services (en majorité immigrantes). Parce que la connaissance de ces pratiques tendait à se transmettre au sein de lignées de génération en génération, ces groupes de services étaient idéalement positionnés pour former le vocabulaire conceptuel selon lequel étaient organisés puis affichés les systèmes de pouvoir et de savoir dont dépendait la Cour. L'auteur suggère que les pratiques religieuses qui avaient lieu, non pas dans les temples et les sanctuaires, mais plutôt dans les foyers et sur les routes du Japon, servirent de médiateurs avec des forces puissantes de contestation et de production, et contribuèrent à former les nouvelles conceptions de la pureté et des kami qui caractérisent cette époque. Un thème récurrent de cet essai est le rapport étroit qui existe entre l'urbanisation et la deforestation d'une part, et entre la nature chronique des famines et des épidémies de l'autre. L'auteur retrace les conséquences religieuses de ce rapport, en montrant tout d'abord que l'urbanisation et la centralisation politique furent rendues fondamentalement possibles par les technologies continentales de la géomancie et de l'ingénierie, elles-mêmes ancrées à leur tour dans les systèmes rituels et divinatoires qui étaient au centre des activités des onmyōji. À mesure que la déforestation, les famines et les épidémies produisaient des légions d'esprits courroucés et de cadavres abandonnés, le souci de la pureté et la demande de protection envers les esprits errants devinrent l'une des principales préoccupations religieuses de l'époque. Un second thème en relation avec le premier est celui des réponses rituelles des laïcs face aux multiples défis posés par cette dynamique. L'auteur pense que ces réponses étaient d'ordre éminemment stratégique ; dans certains cas, les maîtres de maison recherchaient l'aide de divinités domestiques de style chinois, chargées de protéger le foyer de toute intrusion des esprits malveillants, alors que dans d'autres cas, ils cherchaient à manipuler les espnts maraudeurs par des offrandes faites au bord des routes, dans l'espoir que ceux-ci les aident à réaliser leurs ambitions mondaines.
To Our Readers
Como Michael. To Our Readers. In: Cahiers d'Extrême-Asie, vol. 16, 2006. Rethinking Medieval Shintō – Repenser le shintō médiéval. pp. 3-10.