Yame City: Cinema and Intangible Cultural Heritage through the Experience of Modernity

This chapter questions how culture becomes recognised as Intangible Cultural Heritage in Japan, and in what context people have, and continue to collectively practise, ‘tradition’ through their experience of modernity? The community’s involvement in the production of ‘The Who’s Who of the Machiya’ and ‘Unagino Nedoko’ films is proposed as one of the catalysts to a metamorphic character in the building and craft traditions in Yame City. Ultimately, film is suggested as a way to reconsider possible relationships between past and present and as a tool to unearth new knowledge, communicate a shared understanding of spaces, and change the scope of the ‘architectural project’.

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