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Invitation to Walking Inquiry Along the Kumano Kodo Pilgrimage Trails: An A/r/tographic Travelogue Re/braided with Walkers’ Inquiries

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Abstract

This chapter is a travelogue and research paper by eight walkers on the World Heritage Kumano Kodo. At first glance, this journey appears as a sightseeing and pilgrimage trip. However, the eight walkers are artists, educators, and researchers—that is, they are ‘a/r/tographers’. This chapter therefore asks: What kind of trip/journey did the walkers make on the Kumano Kodo Pilgrimage Trail? What kind of possibilities for art education practice were created? The eight walkers are like a group of tourists often seen at tourist attractions, but they are also independent a/r/tographers, and their ‘I’ is also ‘we’ at the same time, which is a complex relationship.

“I am a person, this is the earth, I am walking with you…”

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Notes

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    Travel companion and a/r/tographer, Koichi Kasahara.

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    Diviners who could wield magic and control elemental forces.

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    The following text and images are the a/r/tographic works by the eight walkers that were exhibited at The University of British Columbia at the InSEA 2019 World Congress.

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    Reflective re/braiding response by travel companion and a/r/tographer, Koichi Kasahara.

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    Kukai is also known posthumously as Kobo Daishi.

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    Reflective re/braiding response by travel companion and a/r/tographer, Koichi Kasahara.

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    Written at Nachi Falls on August 30, 2018.

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    Reflective re/braiding response by travel companion and a/r/tographer, Koichi Kasahara.

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    Reflective re/braiding response by travel companion and a/r/tographer, Koichi Kasahara.

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    Reflective re/braiding response by travel companion and a/r/tographer, Koichi Kasahara.

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    Reflective re/braiding response by travel companion and a/r/tographer, Koichi Kasahara.

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    Reflective re/braiding response by travel companion and a/r/tographer, Koichi Kasahara.

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Acknowledgments

We would like to express the deepest appreciation to the members of ‘Mapping A/r/tography: Transnational Storytelling Across Historical and Cultural Routes of Significance’ grant support by Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada 890-2017-0006 (PI: Irwin, Rita L.), and JSPS Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (18H0101; 18H00622; 18H01007, 20KK0045).

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  1. Tokyo Gakugei University, Tokyo, Japan

    Koichi Kasahara, Toshio Ishii, Takashi Takao, Minako Kayama & Minori Inoue

  2. Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan

    Satoshi Ikeda

  3. Nagaoka Institute of Design, Niigata, Japan

    Kayoko Komatsu

  4. Atomi Univdersity, Saitama, Japan

    Kazuji Mogi

  5. Toho Gakuen Primary School, Tokyo, Japan

    Kaho Kakizaki

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Kasahara, K. et al. (2021). Invitation to Walking Inquiry Along the Kumano Kodo Pilgrimage Trails: An A/r/tographic Travelogue Re/braided with Walkers’ Inquiries. In: Walking with A/r/tography. Palgrave Studies in Movement across Education, the Arts and the Social Sciences. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88612-7_4

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