The project that I have focused on is a film made by Noritaka Kawaguchi and Genki Kawamura called Kimi No Na Wa or in English, Your Name. Kimi No Na Wa and the course Art History 105 correlate with each other through the takeaways of Akira Y. Yamamoto’s article on ghosts and demons, where he talks about the six themes that explains the “belief, psyche, and imagination of the Japanese in artworks” (Yamamoto 11). Kimi No Na Wa contrasts with what we learned from Bargen Spirit Possession in The Tale of Genji, where it includes Bargen spirit possession (Yamamoto xvii). After my research and readings, I believe that spirit possession only takes place when a spirit feels a connection with an earthly connection - when their lives have been intertwined in the past or even in the present era.
