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Japan Research Centre ANNUAL REVIEW ISSUE 61: September 2010 - August 2011 SOAS STUDYING AT SOAS

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OUTGOING CHAIR INCOMING CHAIR ANGUS LOCKYER STEPHEN DODD (Sept 2008 - July 2011) (Aug 2011 - July 2014)

Time flies. It hardly seems more Let me first of all say what an than a few terms since I took honour it is to welcome everyone over as Chair from Tim Screech, back to SOAS at the beginning but the time has come to step of a new academic year as the down and hand things over to new Chair of the Japan Research Steve Dodd, who will take us on Centre. I have been a regular to bigger and better things. The participant of the JRC since I first JRC is blessed to have so many came to teach modern Japanese engaged and active staff working literature at SOAS in 1994, and in Japanese Studies, urged on by our energetic students and by our I am very aware of the important role that the centre plays in the good friends around the world. lives of all of us with our extraordinary range of interests in things Japanese. In particular, the Wednesday evening seminars are an Looking back over the last three years, it’s clear how much we have opportunity not only to improve our specialist areas of knowledge, been able to do thanks to their support, underpinned by the generous but also to gain entirely new insights into Japan. And of course, funding of Kayoko Tsuda and Meiji Jingu, enriched through our the JRC provides a fantastic opportunity for those based in the UK relationships with the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese to get to know visiting scholars from Japan and other countries. Arts and Cultures and many others, and enlivened by the presence of “Community” is a horribly overused word, but in our case it rings our colleagues as Research Associates and Visiting Scholars. true. During the next three years, I will do my best to ensure that the JRC community remains a focal point for our study and our friend- Among the many highlights have been the ongoing series of work- ships. shops connected to Drew Gerstle’s project on shunga, soon to come to fruition in an exhibition; the SOAS translation workshop headed by But first things first. I know that everyone will wish to join me in Chris Gerties, now in its second year; and the triennial conference of offering heart-felt thanks to Angus Lockyer for the three years of hard the British Associate of Japanese Studies, shepherded in large part effort he has put in to ensure that the JRC has gone from strength by Helen Macnaughtan, which saw some 200 Japanologists gather to strength. Not only has he been an outstanding ambassador for at SOAS in September last year. our centre at home and abroad, he has also (very impressively!) left the JRC in an enviable financial position. Though humbled by his The conference was only the beginning of another busy year, with accomplishments, I will do my best to continue the good work. annual lectures by Professors Richard Bowring and Josh Fogel, an I have barely begun to settle into my role as Chair, but already I international workshop on postwar Japan, again organized by Chris have experienced one of the pleasures of that position. I am Gerteis, soon to become an edited volume, and our regular series of delighted to note that Prof. Cecile Sakai, from the University of Paris, seminars, with speakers from London, the UK, Europe and beyond, has agreed to be our speaker at this autumn’s Meiji Jingu lecture. the details of which you can find in the following pages. The annual Meiji lecture, together with the Tsuda lecture that takes place in the New Year, provide celebratory highpoints for our JRC But the year as a whole was overshadowed by the tragic events in calendar. But let me make it clear that I am also very open to any northeast Japan earlier this year. SOAS students were immediately other suggestions about events under the JRC umbrella, so any sug- active in raising funds for relief activities and we have held a num- gestions are welcome. ber of events since to reflect on the disaster and provide support for those affected. We are now planning a photography exhibition in the In my first letter as Chair, let me finish with some general reflections Brunei Gallery early next year to coincide with the first anniversary of on why I think our participation in the JRC is particularly relevant at the disaster on 11 March. the moment. During the previous year, I was on sabbatical in Japan. I was there when the terrible disasters hit on March 11th. I was We are also sorry to have said farewell to two of our most active far from the centre of the disaster in Kyoto, so I was not affected JRC members. John Breen has taken up a permanent position at directly. However, every one of us is very aware of the huge impact the International Research Centre for Japanese Studies in Kyoto and that the events continue to have on the people of Japan. Not least, John Carpenter at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Envy the ongoing crisis related to nuclear power stations continues to im- aside, we wish the two Johns all the best in their new positions and pact on the daily lives of the Japanese. My own studies have taught are delighted that they have agreed to remain Associates of the JRC. me how profoundly the Great Kantô earthquake of 1923 changed Japanese culture, and it is clear that this present disaster will also The final words must be ones of thanks, to my colleagues for their influence events in Japan in unforeseen ways for years to come. For support over the last three years, but above all to Jane Savory and those of us with close ties to Japan but watching events from afar, Rahima Begum in the Centres and Programmes Office, without the question is how we can help. People respond in their individual whom nothing would be done. Visitors to SOAS are always a little ways, but as members of the JRC we are in a very special position surprised by how much what seems like a small institution is able to of being able to keep a spotlight on Japan at this difficult time, and accomplish. That we can is due in largest part to the efforts of Jane ensure that its people, its history, its language, its art and its litera- and Rahima, to whom we all remain indebted. ture continue to matter, now and in the future.

I have left the most shocking news to the end. Since there will be times when it might be required, I am thinking of buying a suit.

3 SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON CURRENT JRC MEMBERS MEMBERS NEWS

Professor Timothy H BARRETT Dr Yuka KOBAYASHI Professor of East Asian History Lecturer in Chinese Politics Department of the Study of Religions Department of Politics and [email protected] International Studies [email protected] Dr Alan CUMMINGS Teaching Fellow in Japanese Professor Costas LAPAVITSAS Department of the Languages and Professor of Economics Cultures of Japan and Korea Department of Economics [email protected] [email protected]

Dr Stephen H DODD Dr Angus LOCKYER Senior Lecturer in Japanese Lecturer in the History of Japan Chair of Japan Research Centre Department of History Department of the Languages and [email protected] Cultures of Japan and Korea [email protected] Dr Helen MACNAUGHTAN Lecturer in International Business John BREEN Dr Lucia DOLCE and Management (Japan) Senior Lecturer in Japanese Religion Department of Financial and John Breen spent 2010-2011 at Nichibunken and Japanese Management Studies in Kyoto, his third year of unpaid leave from Department of the Study of Religions [email protected] SOAS. In autumn 2010, he got an offer [email protected] from Nichibunken he could not refuse, and Dr Dolores P MARTINEZ decided the time had come for him to change Professor Andrew GERSTLE Reader in Anthropology with Professor of Japanese Studies reference to Japan tack, leave SOAS with feelings of great Department of the Languages and Department of Anthropology and Sociology sadness and spend the rest of his academic Cultures of Japan and Korea [email protected] life in Kyoto. He remains attached to the JRC [email protected] in his capacity as Research Associate. Mr Satoshi MIYAMURA Dr Chris GERTEIS Lecturer in Economics In the last year, he has given talks and Lecturer in History of Contemporary Japan Department of Economics participated in conferences in Jakarta, Department of History [email protected] Honolulu, London, and Jerusalem. Within [email protected] Japan, he gave papers at Nichibunken, Dr Barbara PIZZICONI Dōshisha, Ocha no mizu joshi daigaku, Dr Noriko IWASAKI Senior Lecturer in Applied Meiji jingū and Tsurugaoka hachimangū. At Lecturer in Language Pedagogy Japanese Linguistics present, he is working on a history of the Ise Department of Linguistics Department of the Languages and shrines (in English, with Mark Teeuwen of [email protected] Cultures of Japan and Korea Oslo University), and a modern history of Ise [email protected] (in Japanese). Ms Misako KANEHISA Senior Lector in Japanese Dr Nicole ROUSMANIERE Publications Department of the Languages and Research Director, Sainsbury Institute for the ‘Shinto: kindai Ise kō’, Hikaku bungaku kyōiku Cultures of Japan and Korea study of Japanese Arts and Cultures kenkyū senta- kenkyū nenpō, 7 (2011). [email protected] (Honorary Lecturer) Department of the History of ‘Chōhei kensa kō’ in Susuki Sadami ed., Ja- Mrs Miwako KASHIWAGI Art and Archaeology Senior Lector in Japanese [email protected] pan to-day: senjiki Bungei shunjū no kaigai Department of the Languages and hasshin, Tokyo: Sakuhinsha, 2011. Cultures of Japan and Korea Ms Sonja RUEHL [email protected] Fellow in Financial and Management Studies ‘Shōwa tennō to Yasukuni jinja’ in Susuki Department of Financial and Sadami ed., Japan to-day: senjiki Bungei Dr Griseldis KIRSCH Management Studies shunjū no kaigai hasshin, Tokyo: Sakuhinsha, Lecturer in Contemporary Japanese Culture [email protected] 2011. Department of the Languages and Cultures of Japan and Korea Professor Timon SCREECH ‘Senkyōshi Jon Bachera no isan’, in Susuki [email protected] Professor of the History of Art Sadami ed., Japan to-day: senjiki Bungei Department of the History of shunjū no kaigai hasshin, Tokyo: Sakuhinsha, Dr Mika KIZU Art and Archaeology 2011. Lecturer in Japanese [email protected] Department of the Languages and ‘Kanō Jigorō to Nihon no orinpikku mu-bu- Cultures of Japan and Korea Dr Isolde STANDISH mento’ in Susuki Sadami ed., Japan to-day: [email protected] Senior Lecturer in Film and Media Studies senjiki Bungei shunjū no kaigai hasshin, To- Centre for Media and Film Studies kyo: Sakuhinsha, 2011. Ms Fujiko KOBAYASHI [email protected] Librarian (Japan and Korea) ‘Resurrecting the sacred land of Japan: the Library and Information Services Dr Akiko YANO state of Shinto in the 21st century’, Japanese [email protected] Research Fellow Journal of Religious Studies, 37, 2 (2010). Department of the Languages and Cultures of Japan and Korea ‘Hie sha kinsei no kaimaku’, Happyō [email protected] ronbunshū, Tokyo: Shintō kokusai gakkai, 2010.

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the weeks following the Tohoku Earthquake. He also moderated the roundtable discus- sion ‘After the Shock: Prospects for Recovery and Reconstruction in Post-Quake Japan,’ a co-production of the JRC and the Japan Society.

Steve DODD Andrew GERSTLE Christopher also advised a variety of pro- ductions touching on the subject of Japan. Stephen Dodd was on sabbatical during the Andrew Gerstle was involved again this past Most recently he has served as historical academic year 2010-2011, thanks to two year in the International Shunga Project (see advisor to the Universal Pictures production awards. With a long-term research fellow- page 10), giving four presentations, includ- ‘47 Ronin’ starring Keanu Reeves, Hiroyuki ship from the Japan Society for the Promo- ing a JRC seminar in November 2010, and Sanada and Ko Shibasaki, which will be tion of Science, he carried out research at in March 2011 he published Edo onna no released in November 2012. Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, during term shunga-bon: tsuya to warai no fûfu shinan one in collaboration with Prof. Shigemi 『江戸をんなの春画本—艶と笑の夫婦指 Nakagawa. An AHRC Fellowship allowed him 南』from Heibonsha, an analysis of erotic to continue his research in Kyoto during the parodies of 18th-century women’s and other second term. practical textbooks. He participated in the conference “Publishing the Stage: Print Talks and Performance in Early Modern Japan” Stephen also participated in a workshop, at the University of Colorado in early March Griseldis KIRSCH entitled The Abe Kobo International Work- 2011. His paper ‘Creating Celebrity: Poetry in shop, at Ritsumeikan, on 3rd March. In Osaka Actor Surimono and Prints’ was then Griseldis Kirsch was invited to introduce Japa- June, 2011, he visited the Yugashima Onsen published in Keller Kimbrough and Satoko nese TV drama at the Japanese film festival region in the Izu Peninsula as part of his re- Shimazaki, Publishing the Stage: Print and Nippon Connection in April 2010 in Frank- search into Kajii. Performance in Early Modern Japan, Univer- furt. Later that year, she presented her new During the year, he has had the opportunity sity of Colorado Center for Asian Studies, July research on representations of the memory to discuss his research with a number of 2011. of the Second World War on German and professors from Waseda University, Tokyo, Japanese TV at the conference of the Brit- and Nichibunken, in Kyoto. ish Association for Japanese Studies at SOAS in September 2010. In January 2011, she On June 24th, 2011, he gave a presentation was invited to give a lecture on Visions of a on Itô Sei’s story, “Yûki no machi” (“Streets Heterogeneous Japan? Imagi(ni)ng Asian of Fiendish Ghosts”), as part of the Architec- Others in Japanese TV Drama,” at the Nissan ture and Literature Study Group (Kenbunken) Institute for Japanese Studies in Oxford. at Doshisha University. This was in prepara- Griseldis is co-convening the Anthropology tion for a paper, entitled “Architecture of a Christopher GERTEIS City: Memories Unchained in Itô Sei’s Streets and Sociology section for the conference of of Fiendish Ghosts,” that he gave in August the European Association of Japanese Stud- This academic year Christopher Gerteis host- ies. Griseldis will be on sabbatical in 2011/12. 2011 as a member of a panel around the ed a workshop that brought to SOAS all the theme of architecture and literature (title, contributors to the edited book Mirror of an Publications Tangible Narratives: The Significance of - Ar Uncertain Age: Revisiting the History of Post- chitecture in Modern Japanese Literature) at Together with Hilaria Gössmann: “Cross- war Japan, which he is co-editing with Timo- ing Borders, Building Bridges: ‘Asian Stars’ in the EAJS Conference in Tallin, Estonia. His thy S. George (University of Rhode Island). article, “Modernism and its Endings: Kajii Japanese TV Drama.” In: Kim Jeongmee (ed.): Reading Asian Television Drama. Crossing Motojirô as Transitional Writer,” appears in With Angus Lockyer, Christopher also ran the the edited book, Rethinking Japanese Mod- Borders and Breaking Boundaries. London: I.B. second year of the Translation Workshop in Tauris. (forthcoming February 2012) ernism (ed. Roy Starrs, Global Oriental, due Japanese Studies, sponsored by the Nippon August, 2011). Foundation, which brought 16 post-graduate “Visionen eines heterogenen Japan? Internation- students and four academics to SOAS in Publications alität im japanischen Fernsehdrama.” (Visions order to workshop their translations of as- Most of the time, Steve has been writing of a Heterogeneous Japan? Internationality signed Japanese language academic books a book manuscript, entitled The Youth of in Japanese TV Drama) In: Köhn, Stephan and and articles for publication in English. Things: Life and Death in the Age of Kajii Mo- Michael Schimmelpfennig (ed.): China, Japan tojirô, which he aims to complete during the und das „Andere“: Ostasiatische Identitäten He gave lecturers at Columbia University, autumn, 2011. The book includes a series im Zeitalter des Transkulturellen . (China, Ja- Yale University, the University of Rhode Island of essays related to Kajii, and the first full pan and the Other. East Asian Identities in the and the Free University, Berlin, and appeared translation into English of his twenty major Age of the Transcultural) Wiesbaden: Harras- as a regular commentator for the BBC during short stories. sowitz. (forthcoming October 2010)

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Talks, Travels & Publications

Angus appeared on a number of programmes in the week following the earthquake, includ- ing BBC Breakfast, News 24, Radio 4, and the World Service, as well as Sky News and CCTV, trying to provide some context for the horrific images coming out of Japan, to prevent the recourse to familiar stereotypes Mika KIZU Angus LOCKYER and to forestall the rush to judgment. One opportunity to do this at greater length was a Mika Kizu continues to work on syntax and Angus Lockyer came to the end of his twin talk at the Reform Club in May on ‘The many second language acquisition in Japanese, terms as Chair of the Japan Research Centre gods of modern Japan’. focusing on null subject constructions, style and as Senior Editor of Japan Forum, the shifting (with Noriko Iwasaki) in L1 and L2 journal of the British Association of Japanese Much of the second half of the year, however, spoken Japanese, and L2 acquisition of Studies. A serendipitous pleasure is that was devoted to things global. In February, modality in Japanese (with Barbara Pizziconi the forthcoming final issue of the journal for Angus gave a seminar, ‘What might a global and Noriko Iwasaki). which he is responsible will include the first history of the twentieth century look like?’ fruits of the first SOAS Translation Workshop, to the Global History Seminar hosted by the Talks including a series of articles on the curious Institute for the Historical Research and the 2011 - ‘A new perspective on subject place that was Tokyo in the 1980s and one University of Notre Dame. In May, he was omission in Japanese: some implications on the birth of banzai. invited to the annual conference of the LSE for L2 pedagogical practice,’ (in the colloqui- project on Useful and Reliable Knowledge um: Half a century on: what relevance does The first term was largely taken up with in East and West (URKEW), at Cumberland generative SLA have for language teaching?), teaching and trying to come to terms with Lodge. Finally, in June, visitors to the first American Association for Applied Linguistics a new job as UG Tutor for History, subject to SOAS Alumni Weekend suffered through ‘A 2011 Conference, Chicago, USA. siege by some 300 students wanting to know Short History of the World (in 50 minutes)’. 2011 - ‘Shifting styles to express empathy and the meaning of life, or at least regulations. emotion in Japanese: L1 and L2 style shifts,’ But the term was also punctuated by a (with N. Iwasaki), American Association for short but busy trip to Japan with Paul Applied Linguistics 2011 Conference, Chi- Webley, the Director of SOAS. They were cago, USA. invited by Meiji Jingu to join their 90th anniversary celebrations, which culminated 2010 - ‘The acquisition of modal expressions with speeches in full academic regalia in in L2 spoken Japanese,’ (with B. Pizziconi and front of an audience in the four figures, N. Iwasaki), Center for Linguistics Colloquium/ followed by a symposium for some 400 or so. Faculty of Humanities Special Lecture, The day set the tone for a busy and exciting week, meeting partners, colleagues, alumni Nanzan University, Japan. Helen MACNAUGHTAN and friends both in Tokyo and further south. 2010 - ‘The development of modality mark- Helen Macnaughtan is currently researching ers during study abroad in Japan,’ (with B. Later in November, Angus found himself in the development and history of the auto- Pizziconi and N. Iwasaki) the British Associa- Germany, giving a talk about Japanese golf matic electric rice cooker, as a key Japanese tion of Japanese Studies Conference. SOAS, at the Free University in Berlin, followed by a household appliance. She has presented her University of London. seminar in Frankfurt on academic publishing research on this titled "Building up Steam as for the German Association for Social Science Consumers: women, rice-cookers and the Publications Research on Japan. He was talking about golf consumption of everyday household goods in (forthcoming) “Chapter 10: Modern Japa- again in December for the Japan Society here Japan" at a JRC seminar on 24th November nese” (with N. Tranter, U of Sheffield) in The in London, in March at Cardiff University, in 2010 and at the Geffrye Museum, London on Language of Japan and Korea. Nicolas Trant- May in Hamburg, in July at a summer school 14th May 2011 as part of their "At Home in er (ed.), Routledge. in Heidelberg on the cultures of consump- Japan" exhibition. tion, and finally at the European Association 2010 - ‘Nihongo-bunretsu-bun ni okeru of Japanese Studies meetings in Tallinn in It will be published early 2012 in: Hunter, chookyori-izon no yoonin-do nit suite August, with some useful fieldwork in North- Janet & Penelope Francks eds., The Histori- (On the degree of acceptability of long ern Ireland in May. An essay on the history of cal Consumer: Consumption and Everday Life distance dependencies in Japanese cleft Japanese golf will soon be appearing in an in Japan, 1850-2000, Palgrave Macmillan, constructions),’ in N. Hasegawa (ed.), edited volume on consumption in Japan. Scientific Approaches to Language: Pragmatic forthcoming 2012. Functions and Syntactic Theory –in view March was taken up in large part with the of Japanese main clauses- (2), pp. 61- aftermath of the tragedy in northeast Japan. 76, Center for Language Sciences, Kanda Like many colleagues here and overseas, University of International Studies.

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Barbara PIZZICONI Timon SCREECH Isolde STANDISH

Following up on their earlier study on Modality Timon Screech continues to be Permanent Isolde Standish’s most Acquisition (completed in 2010), Mika Kizu Visiting Professor at Tama Art University, recent publication ‘Poli- and Barbara Pizziconi are currently carrying in Tokyo, and his visiting professor status tics, Porn and Protest: out another project which will investigate at Meiji University has been renewed for a Japanese Avant-Garde more closely the way in which the year of study fourth year. Cinema in the 1960s abroad impacts on students’ understanding and 1970s’ reconsiders of modality-related concepts and forms. The Publications the question of international team of collaborators involves ‘Kutsuki Masatsuna – A Life’ in, Sakuraki dissent in the cultural their esteemed former colleague Mrs Kazumi Shin’ichi, Helen Wang & Peter Kornicki landscape of Japan in Tanaka (now at ICU, Japan), Dr Keiko Ikeda (eds.), Catalogue of the Japanese Coin the post-war period. (Kansai University, Japan), and, internally, Collection (Pre-Meiji) at the British Noriko Iwasaki (Department of Linguistics), Museum (with special reference to Kutsuki Misako Kanehisa, Miwako Kashiwagi, Miki Masatsuna), British Museum Research Kawabata (all in the Department of Japan Publication No. 174 (London: British Museum and Korea) Press, 2010) ‘The Cargo of the New Year’s Gift: Paintings Talks from London for Asian Buyers, 1614’, 2011 Cognitive cultural models of in Lieselotte Saurma, Monika Juneja & notions of ‘rudeness’ in Japanese language, Anja Eisenbeiss (eds.), The Power of Things Akiko YANO 6th International conference on Linguistic and the Flow of Cultural Transformations Akiko Yano gave a paper titled ‘Worship, Politeness, Ankara, Turkey (Frankfurt: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2010). Legend and Humour in Medieval Japan: The 2011 Japanese language pedagogy at SOAS, Background for “The Phallic Contest (yôbutsu AIDLG (Italian Association of Teachers of kurabe)” Handscrolls’ in one of the project’s Japanese), Cultural Institute of Japan/”La workshops at SOAS in May 2011. Sapienza” Rome University, Rome, Italy. She also translated a book authored by July 2011 Co-organized with Mika Kizu the Dr Rosina Buckland into Japanese, Daiei workshop on the Acquisition of Modality. Hakubutsukan Shozô Shunga (Heibonsha, Peter SELLS 2010). Publications 2011 Honorifics: the cultural specificity of a Talks Publications universal mechanism in Japanese, in Polite- Negation at the Syntax-Semantics Interface. Her most recent publication is the article ness in East Asia - Theory and Practice, Sara 9th workshop on Inferential Mechanisms ‘Capturing the Body: Ryûkôsai’s Notes Mills and Dániel Z. Kádár (eds.), Cambridge and their Linguistic Manifestation (Kyunghee on “Realism” in Representing Actors on University Press Korea-Japan workshop on linguistics and lan- Stage’ in Keller Kimbrough and Satoko guage processing). Kyoto, Japan, December Shimazaki, eds., Publishing the Stage: Print 2010. and Performance in Early Modern Japan (Boulder: University of Colorado Center for NEWS BITES: The 2011 SOAS Scoping in Relation to Base Order in Asian Studies, 2011). Director’s Teaching Prize Japanese and Korean. With Shin-Sook Kim. Linguistics Association of Great Britain, Dr Angus Lockyer was a runner-up for this University of Leeds, September 2010. year’s Director’s Teaching Prize, which recognises excellence in teaching, the Publications promotion of learning within the School Verb Semantics and Argument Realization in and the enrichment of our curriculum. Pre-Modern Japanese: A Preliminary study Its purpose is to stimulate teaching and of Compound Verbs in Old Japanese. Bjarke teaching-related scholarly and/or creative activities, particularly at undergraduate level. Frellesvig, Stephen Horn, Kerri Russell and Peter Sells. 2010. Gengo Kenkyuu 138, 25-65.

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Guests of Meiji Jingu Autumn 2010

ANGUS LOCKYER, JRC CENTRE CHAIR

For the last three years, the JRC has 1,000 people, which incorporated a film In the afternoon, I chaired a public benefitted enormously from the generosity of narrating the links between Meiji Jingu and symposium on ‘Meiji Japan as seen from Meiji Jingu, one of the most important Shinto SOAS, an address by Professor Webley (in full home and abroad’, with keynote addresses shrines in Japan, located in an extraordinary academic regalia) and a short speech by Dr from Hirakawa Suehiro of Tokyo University forest on the west of Tokyo. Meiji Jingu has Emma Cook, a recipient of one of the Meiji on spirits and Yoshida Kenji of the National generously provided funding for postgraduate Jingu studentships. Museum of Ethnology on museums and studentships, small grants and an annual exhibitions, followed by a panel discussion lecture, without which the JRC’s activities In his address, Professor Webley under- including Inaga Shigemi and John Breen, would be much constrained. lined the School’s gratitude to Meiji Jingu both of the International Research Centre and emphasized how both institutions were for Japanese Studies, and Princess Akiko of 2010 was the 90th anniversary of the linked by their common determination ‘to Mikasa, of Ritsumeikan University. enshrinement of the Meiji emperor in foster links across national borders, to the shrine and was marked by a number develop a real understanding of what it is to In addition to the events at Meiji Jingu, the of ceremonies, in which Professor Paul be human, to encourage the informed study week also provided an opportunity to visit a Webley, the Director of SOAS, was invited to of the world in which we live and, above all, to number of partners, colleagues and friends, participate, together with myself, and Craig support the new generation of young people not least the SOAS Alumni in Japan, who held Pollard, Head of Development. The visit to who will continue our work’. a reception at the British Embassy in Tokyo, Meiji Jingu also provided the opportunity to with speeches from Professor Webley and Sir sign the renewal of the agreement between Graham Fry, a former Ambassador to Japan the School and the shrine, ensuring the and a member of the SOAS Governing Body. latter’s continued support for another three years. As with the ceremonies at Meiji Jingu, the evening provided a vivid reminder of the 1 November began with a ritual in the main extent to which SOAS both feeds and thrives shrine building, followed by a celebration in on its links with the world. We are grateful to the main hall, in front of an audience of some all our friends in Japan for a wonderful week and their continued support.

PAUL WEBLEY, SOAS DIRECTOR & PRINCIPAL

Last autumn, Angus Lockyer (Head of the those who are interested in their activities Japan Research Centre), Craig Pollard (Head might like to look at their facebook page: of Development and Alumni relations) and I www.facebook.com/SOAS.alumni.japan spent a fascinating and productive week in Japan as guests of Meiji Jingu. Then it was off to Kyoto on the bullet train, for meetings with Osaka University and The celebrations of the 90th Anniversary Ritsumeikan University, followed by a visit of the Enshrinement of Meiji Jingu were to Agon Shu. Agon Shu generously fund a magnificent, and as well as ritual events lectureship in Buddhist Studies at SOAS and that were moving and beautiful, there was the visit to their temple was fascinating. In an academic celebration and a brilliant the evening, we had an unforgettable dinner symposium in the afternoon, chaired by hosted by his Holiness Kiriyama Kancho Angus, and with contribution from (among “The celebrations of the complete with Geishas and Maikos. For others) Princess Akiko and John Breen. 90th Anniversary of the Craig (on his first visit to Japan) and I, this Enshrinement of Meiji Jingu was an extra-ordinary cultural experience – My experience of the ritual made me want to Angus appeared to take it all (particularly the find out more and John was kind enough to were magnificent” games) in his stride. send me a copy of his book (co-authored with Mark Teeuwen) ‘A New History of Shinto’. I Warren (also a SOAS alumnus). It was a very After a side trip to Kobe University (where have read this with great pleasure – it is a jolly occasion, and as well as lots of alumni, Angus gave us the low down on the very accessible guide to the development of there were also a number of distinguished development of golf in Japan and I gave an Shinto, and strongly recommended. guests, including Sir Graham Fry (a previ- academic talk, for a change), it was back ous British Ambassador to Japan and now a to Tokyo for a final visit (to the Sasakawa The next highlight of our trip was the Alumni member of the SOAS Governing Body). The Foundation). Here we had a great final reception, this year held in the British SOAS Alumni in Japan (SAIJ for short) is one evening (more eating and drinking, this time Embassy courtesy of His Excellency David of the most active alumni groups we have – with Kenta Kuribayashi and his wife, to commemorate his stepping down from the Chairmanship of SAIJ).

8 SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON Academic Events September 2010 - August 2011

Seminar Series 9 March 2011 11 and 12 November 2010 State Capacity and Reproductive Workshop 11 September 2010 Freedom in Imperial Japan Mirror of an Uncertain Age: Revisiting Postwar Anime, manga and virtual worlds: Fabian Drixler (Yale) Japan at the Dawn of the Post-Industrial Era a conversation on the state of the field Angus Lockyer (SOAS) 16 March 2011 12 November 2010 Ueno Toshiya (Wako University) Discrimination after the Dowa Projects Zipangu Fest Ian Neary (Oxford) Putting the ‘I’ in Independent Filmmaking: 13 October 2010 An Introduction to ‘Jishu Eiga’ followed Those restless little boats: on the uneasiness 23 March 2011 by a screening of Tetsuaki Matsue’s of Japanese power boat gamblers Sacred Landscape under the Moonlight: Annyong Kimchee (1999) Tom Gill (Meiji Gakuin University) Kasuga & Kumano Mandara from Jasper Sharp (Producer, Director) the Nezu Collection 27 October 2010 Yukiko Shirahara (Nezu) 24 November 2010 Revisiting Paradise: Buddhist Painting in Zipangu Fest Modern Japan 4 May 2011 Voices from Japanese Independent John Szostak (University of Hawaii / Recording Daily Life: Illustrated Cinema: Tetsuaki Matsue in Conversation Sainsbury Institute) ‘Genre Books’ in Japan, 1795-1835 Tetsuaki Matsue in conv with Jasper Sharp Ellis Tinios (Leeds) 17 November 2010 18 April 2011 Analysing the Outrageous: Takehara Shunchô- 1 June 2011 JRC & Japan Society Lecture sai’s Shunga Book, ‘Pillow Book for the Young’ “夏目漱石と日露戦争” [How did Natsume Art Historicism’ & Contemporary Japanese Art Professor Andrew Gerstle (SOAS) Soseki respond to the Russo-Japanese War?] John Szostak (University of Hawaii at Manoa Kengo Fujio (Daito Bunka University) Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Fellow 2010-2011) 24 November 2010 Building up steam as consumers: women, Stylometry in Japanese Language 26 April 2011 rice-cookers and the consumption of Mingzhe Jin (Doshisha University) The Annual Tsuda Lecture 2011 everyday household goods in Japan The Afterlife of a Material Object: Dr Helen MacNaughtan (SOAS) 20 June 2011 The Gold Seal (金印) of 57 C.E. Midwife and Manga Heroine: Oine Siebold, Professor Joshua Fogel (York University, Toronto) 1 December 2010 Nagasaki and the Birth of Modern Japan Unfinished Fascist: Ôkawa Shumei Ulrich Heinze (Sasakawa Lecturer in Japanese 16 May 2011 and the Film Never Made Visual Media, SISJAC, University of East Anglia) JRC & Japan Society Lecture Jonathan M Hall (Pomona College) After the Shock: Prospects for Recovery Events and Reconstruction in Post-quake Japan 8 December 2010 The Making of “Child Soldiers” 9-10 September 2010 20 and 21 May 2011 in Japan and Elsewhere Triennial Conference Workshop Sabine Fruhstuck (International Research British Association For Japanese Studies Shunga - erotic art in a comparative context Center for Cultural Studies, Vienna) (BAJS) 17-23 July 2010 15 December 2010 13-14 September 2010 JRC & Japan Society Lecture Silk Roads, Patchworked Histories: Kaminoseki Workshop SOAS Translation Workshop in and the Making of Modern Japan Shunga in its Social and Cultural Context Japanese Studies Martin Dusinberre (Newcastle University) 20 September 2010 18 July 2011 26 January 2011 JRC & Japan Society Book Launch JRC & Japan Society, Carmen Blacker Lecture The Secret Iconography of Empowerment: Personalities: Britain and Japan ‘Initiatic landscape’ and Triads and Other Ritual Bodies from Shugendo’s mountain-entry Mediaeval Japanese material 6 October 2010 Anne Bouchy Lucia Dolce (SOAS) Meiji Jingu Autumn Lecture Crafting a new warrior for a new age: 15 August 2011 9 February 2011 Yamaga Soko and the Way of the Samurai JRC & Japan Society Lecture From miniature to monumental: exhibiting Richard Bowring (University of Cambridge) Japanese Enamels: The Seven Treasures dogu and haniwa from Gowland to Gormley Gregory Irvine Simon Kaner (SISJAC) 5 November 2010 SISJAC Toshiba Lecture in Japanese Art 16 August 2011 23 February 2011 Some Peacocks, A Parrot, and the JRC & Japan Society Lecture Art and Design in Asia Heian World in Global Perspective Double Victim of the Atomic Bomb. Professor Haruhiko Fujita (Osaka University) Mimi Hall Yiengpruksawan (Yale University) Testament of Yamaguchi Tsutomu Hidetaka Inazuka (Film Producer) 2 March 2011 10 November 2010 Esoteric uses of the I-ching in SISJAC Toshiba Lecture in Japanese Art medieval Soto Zen Two Supernovae and the Buddhist Astronomi- Kigen-san Licha (SOAS, Tsuda Bursary cal Imagination in Japan of the 11th Century recipient 2010-2011) Mimi Hall Yiengpruksawan (Yale University)

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BAJS Triennial Conference

Conference participanst on the steps of SOAS main entrance british association of japanese studies 9 - 10 SEPTEMBER 2010

The British Association for Japanese of the impersonal agency evident in new Association’s Annual General Meeting, Studies (BAJS) is a UK-based association of online communities, and the Japan Forum which saw the Presidency pass from Mark scholars and researchers dedicated to the Toshiba prize lecture by Aurelia George Williams of Leeds University to Chris Hughes development of Japanese Studies. Our aim is Mulgan, a professor at the University of of Warwick, as well as a reception and to promote teaching and research on Japan New South Wales, on Ozawa Ichirō. Since dinner, which was addressed by Paul Webley, by coordinating events such as academic Professor Mulgan could not be present in the Director of SOAS. Professors Williams, conferences and circulating information person, she participated through video link Hughes and Webley all underlined the about the field. to Australia, with a number of participants commitment of the Association and School subsequently commenting that the virtual to Japanese Studies, at a time when higher The JRC was honoured to host the triennial extension of the conference added quite a bit education both in the UK and globally are conference of the British Association of to the proceedings. facing new constraints. Japanese Studies (BAJS) on 9 and 10 September, 2010. BAJS, formed in 1974, These were only two of numerous attractions, The Centre, School and the Association recently decided to hold its major conference however, with panels on subjects covering the are grateful to the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese on a triennial basis, alternating with the full range of Japanese studies, from business Foundation, the Toshiba International European Association for Japanese Studies to Buddhism, linguistics to international Foundation, the Japan Foundation, and and the Joint East Asian Studies Conferences, relations, and shunga to the history of the the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation, with smaller events during the other two violin. Current issues in Japanese politics all of whom have long been supporters of years. The SOAS conference was the first and society, such as the new DPJ government, Japanese studies in the UK and without such triennial event and proved to be a great higher education reform, and the declining whose support the conference would not success, attracting some 200 participants countryside prompted extensive debates, but have been possible. We are looking forward from the UK, Europe, Asia and beyond for two no less did sessions on classical Buddhism, to its next incarnation in 2013 in Nottingham. full days of lectures, panels and discussions medieval literature and prewar history. about all aspects of Japanese Studies. The conference as a whole testified to the Angus Lockyer vibrancy of the field of Japanese Studies Two highlights of the conference were a and the value of building on our links with plenary lecture by Ueno Toshiya, a leading colleagues in Europe and further afield. scholar of media theory and cultural studies, who discussed various earlier manifestations The conference also incorporated the

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Meiji Jingu Autumn Lecture

Richard bowring Crafting a new warrior for a new age: Yamaga Soko and the Way of the Samurai

6 October 2010

This year’s activities got off to a wonderful start with the Meiji Jingu Autumn Lecture, on 6 October, delivered by Richard Bowring, an old friend of SOAS, who is Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Cambridge and Master of Selwyn College. Professor Bowring’s work ranges across the whole span of Japanese history, with books on both Mori Ōgai and Murasaki Shikibu. From left: Angus Lockyer, Richard Bowring and Andrew Gerstle

His lecture however drew on his current thereby was how to transform a warrior’s project, a successor volume to his recently vision of himself during a time of peace. published The Religious Traditions of Yamaga’s answer was to try to join together Japan, 500-1600, which will explore the the traditional rhetoric of the samurai and development of Japanese thought during the contingent circumstances in which they the early modern period. Professor Bowring found themselves, to produce a discipline chose to focus his talk on Yamaga Sokō, a he identified as shidō. The martial values key figure at the end of the 17th century in with which they were familiar could also be the emerging discussion on what it meant to civil values, he argued. It was possible to rule be a samurai. both by the sword and by example. The lecture began by noting that as a term Yamaga’s ideas had a mixed history. During bushido (the ‘way of the samurai’) was his own life, they were seen as a threat and unknown until the 20th century, but that its caused him to be sent into exile. Soon after formulation was inspired by a number of 17th his death, they were identified as one of the century texts. This was a period when Bud- inspirations for the revenge of the 47 ronin. dhist influence was waning in institutional And for the remainder of the Tokugawa terms, but predominant in spiritual terms. period, they had little influence. It was only In order to critique this influence, a number in the mid-19th century that Yamaga was of scholars turned to Sung Confucianism, rediscovered, notably by Yoshida Shōin, and including most famously Hayashi Razan. his shidō gradually became transformed into modern bushidō. Yamaga studied with Razan as a child, but Angus Lockyer gradually broke away from his teacher’s attachment to Neo-Confucian thought (and so in the process becoming a target for arrest and exile). Neo-Confucianism, he said, was premised on the idea that virtue was innate and that a quasi-Buddhist passivity was sufficient to ensure harmony. Yamaga insisted instead that virtue had to be studied and practised.

The problem that Yamaga sought to address

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Zipangufest

Putting the ‘I’ in Independent Voices from Japanese Inde- Filmmaking: An Introduction pendent Cinema: Tetsuaki to ‘Jishu Eiga’ followed by a Matsue in Conversation screening of Tetsuaki Matsue’s Tetsuaki Matsue in Annyong Kimchee (1999) conversation with Jasper Sharp Jasper Sharp (Producer, Director) 24 November 2010 12 November 2010

The first UK-wide festival devoted to Japanese SOAS and Zipangufest film, Zipangu Fest’s goal is to introduce SOAS became an important collaborator of works, both new and old, previously unseen Zipangu Fest first’s years edition, not only by mainstream UK film audiences, to as an active sponsor through the Alumni demonstrate the many identities of Japan & Friends Fund but also as a host venue as depicted by some of the country’s most thanks to the JRC support. exciting and revered talents. The first event organised during the The first edition was held during the last week previous week of the festival was a lecture of November 2010 in several venues across at the Brunei Gallery Theatre by Jasper London, with an inaugural Halloween special Sharp about the Japanese Independent night at the Barbican and with parts of the Filmmaking and the importance of “self- line-up eventually brought to Leeds, Coventry made” films (jishu eiga). The lecture and Bristol. explored the history of this most vibrant of independent filmmaking subcultures The programme was mainly curated by looking at representative works such as Jasper Sharp, an established writer and film Naomi Kawase, Kenji Murakami and the critic specialising in Japanese cinema who most recent work of Matsue Tetsuaki. has programmed a large number of high The talk was followed by the screening of profile seasons and retrospectives around Matsue’s Annyong Kimchee (1999), an the world, the Japanese strand of Raindance investigation into the importance of ethnic Film Festival in London (2005-2009) and who and cultural roots and what it means to be works as an advisor on the Japan Foundation Japanese. Uk’s touring programme since 2005. During the festival at Vernon Square the The core organising team of the festival student community had the opportunity included two curators; two general operations to meet Matsue and watch on premiere and another two (SOAS postgraduate The Virgin Wildsides. The director was students) covering student liaison and in conversation with Zipangu’s main volunteer coordinator. During the festival the programmer, Jasper Sharp talking about team grew with 12 festival assistants mainly Japanese Independent filmmaking culture from SOAS’ student community, including a and presenting his two most recent titles: dedicated film crew and a photographer. Annyong Yumika (2009), a documentary portrait of the adult performer Yumika For more info on Zipangu Fest visit: Hayashi, and Live Tape (2009), the one www.zipangufest.com guitar, one camera, one tape and one take live concert film of Kenta Maeno’s street performance.

Almudena Escobar López Zipangufest’s volunteer coordinator & venues liaison

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Japan Society Lectures

Building on previous collaborations, the specialists from a range of backgrounds, Japan Society partnered with the SOAS focused on the need for long term recovery Japan Research Centre to present a series of and reconstruction aid to the northeastern monthly lectures beginning in Spring 2011. rural communities most affected by the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear Reflecting London’s status as an international crisis. Roundtable members included a centre for scholarship on Japan, the JRC and geo-physicist with expertise in earthquake Japan Society have welcomed a diverse mitigation, an NPO director working with group of researchers based in the UK as well community and voluntary organisations in as visiting scholars from abroad. The lecture Japan, a nuclear industry analyst, and an series aims to present the most recent and historian whose research examines rural life topical scholarship from all disciplines to its in Japan and community relationships with membership and a general public audience the nuclear industry. as part of the Japan Society’s objective to promote learning and advance education in The Japan Society is grateful to the Japan The Japan Society is the leading body in regards to Japan. Research Centre for its support. We would the United Kingdom dedicated to the en- like to extend a special thanks to Chair Dr hancement of the British-Japanese rela- As part of a joint response to the Great East Angus Lockyer and staff members Jane tionship. With a history stretching back Japan Earthquake, the Japan Society co- Savory and Rahima Begum. to 1891, its members are committed organized with JRC member Dr Christopher to promoting deep and lasting under- Gerteis, a moderated discussion in support Jennifer Anderson standing between our two countries. of the Japan Society Tohoku Earthquake Japan Society Relief Fund. The panel, which comprised

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Annual Tsuda Lecture

Joshua Fogel The Afterlife of a Material Object: The Gold Seal (金印) of 57 C.E.

26 April 2011

This year’s Tsuda Lecture was delivered by of Naito Konan (1866-1934). Subsequent a seal and ribbon by the emperor, indicating Professor Joshua Fogel of York University in work has tended to focus on the dynamic investiture in the Han ritual system. That Toronto. Born in Brooklyn, raised in Berkeley, interaction between these two cultural gold seal promptly disappeared from with a BA from the University of Chicago, an spheres. His sixth single-author book, history for over seventeen centuries. It was MA and PhD from Columbia University, and Articulating the Sinosphere: Place and Time discovered in 1784 by a farmer beneath his graduate student study at Kyoto University in Sino-Japanese Relations, was published by rice paddy in Kyushu when he was repairing (1976-87), Professor Fogel has since taught Harvard University Press in spring 2009. He an irrigation ditch. He turned it over to the at Harvard University (1981-88) and the has also published 17 edited volumes and local magistrate who summoned a local University of California, Santa Barbara (1989- 14 volumes of translation, with three more in Confucian scholar who took one look at the 2005), with visiting stints at the Institute for press. For 15 years, he served as editor-in- inscription and knew immediately that this Advanced Study in Princeton (2001-03), chief of Sino-Japanese Studies (1989-2004), was none other than the seal mentioned in Kyoto University (1996-97), British Inter- which was revived as an online journal in the Later Han history. Over the following two- University China Centre (2007), and Kansai 2009 and for which he now serves as editor plus centuries, over 350 books and articles University (2008). Trained initially in Chinese again. have been written directly or indirectly history, he developed an abiding interest in about every conceivable aspect of the gold Japanese history, too, and after many years Professor Fogel’s lecture explored the ways seal--what state the emissary represented, of language study, found a way to integrate in which an 18th century discovery has been how the gold seal ended up where it was the two: the study of Sino-Japanese relations. used over the last two and more centuries. found, the meaning of the inscription, what According to the standard Chinese history of the snake-shaped handle means, and much Professor Fogel’s first major project was a the Later Han Dynasty, in the year 57 C.E. an more. The debate continues to this day, as biographical study of Japan premier prewar emissary from somewhere in the land that is evident in the lively discussion that followed Sinologist, Naito Konan, which appeared now called Japan appeared at the court of Professor Fogel’s lecture. in 1984 as Politics and Sinology: The Case the Later Han in Luoyang and was awarded Angus Lockyer

22 AUGUST 2011 Tenri University Delegation to SOAS

Left to right Nick Butler, Head of Student Recruitment Professor Drew Gerstle, Head of Japan and Korea Department Reverend President Masahiko Iburi, Tenri University Professor Paul Webley, Director & Principal Professor Toshihiro Yoshikawa, Dean, Faculty of International Studies, Tenri University Mr Takeuchi Nobuyuki, Secretary and Director of Tenrikyo UK centre Mr Takayuki Onoue, Head of Tenrikyo UK centre

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Translation Workshop SOAS Translation Workshop in Japanese Studies 17-23 July 2011

In July 2011 the JRC held the second year of a training event for students to engage in an intensive process of critiquing and revising their English translation of an assigned The goal of the workshop was to aide Japanese-language scholarly article. The participants in developing advanced skills workshop, sponsored by the Nippon particular to translating scholarly work. Foundation, ran for four days and brought This was achieved through the process of 16 selected post-graduate students from UK producing a translated academic article from and overseas to SOAS. first draft to final publication.

The programme was taught by 6 specialists: The workshop included activities of one-on- 2 from overseas universities Professor one sessions between students and faculty Timothy George (University of Rhode Island) members, roundtable discussions of general and Professor Paul Midford (Norwegian difficulties in translation and small group University of Science and Technology) and 4 discussions based on topics ranging from from SOAS. The workshop was headed by Dr broad disciplinary distinctions, to particular Chris Gerteis and Dr Angus Lockyer. translations.

The participants enjoyed a group outing visiting St Paul’s Cathedral and other famous London landmarks. Jane Savory

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Shunga

Erotic Art International and conduct books aimed at women and books, prints and paintings in these men. Professor Hayakawa published several collections. Research Project REPORT books on shunga including『現代語訳・春 画』 新人物往来社. Amaury Garcia has During the last half year the project has been In May 2009 Andrew Gerstle of SOAS and published a book on shunga in Spanish, focused on the planning for the exhibition on Timothy Clark of the British Museum, together reaching out to a new market: El control de la shunga to be held at the British Museum in with Monta Hayakawa of the International estampa erótica japonesa shunga, El Colegio 2013. We have now an outline of the themes, Research Centre for Japanese Studies, Kyoto, de México, México, D.F., 2011. Ricard Bru questions and works to be included. The next and Ryo Akama of Ritsumeikan University and others have published in English, Secret stage will be to write the catalogue essays began a three-year research project on Images: Picasso and the Japanese Erotic and entries. Japanese erotic art, ‘Shunga’, funded by the Print, Thames and Hudson, based on the Leverhulme Trust. Below is a report on the Spanish catalogue for the exhibition at the Our research activities and the efforts to put second year of this project. Picasso Museum in Barcelona. Aki Ishigami on a shunga exhibition in London and have it continued to publish articles on shunga, also travel to Japan, have shown us that the Ryoko Matsuba (August 2010 to March such as ‘Poetry and Palimpsest in Suzuki ‘taboo’ in Japanese society against shunga 2011) and Aki Ishigami (April 2011 to March Harunobu’s Eight Modern Views of Interiors is still very powerfully active. There are many 2012) joined the project as Research Fellows (Furyu Zashiki Hakkei),’ in Andon No. 90, individuals in Japan, it seems, especially in attached to the British Museum. June 2011, pp. 5-17, and ‘Chushingura mono positions of authority, who do not wish to see no ehon (Erotic Editions of Chushingura shunga acknowledged as part of Japan’s The project is based on the hypothesis [The Forty-seven Loyal Retainers]),’ in Art cultural heritage. The research work of the that shunga books, paintings and prints Research, No. 11, March 2011, pp. 17-36. many individuals in the project, however, are important sources of Japanese history, has shown that shunga was an integral literature and art, and that research on This past year the group was able to continue element of the culture/society of all classes shunga helps us understand Japanese surveying private collections in Japan and the of Japanese society across the land until the society better. This past year the project US, and to examine a previously unknown early 20th century. hosted two workshops at SOAS, one collection in Denmark. As part of our ‘Shunga in its social and cultural context’ activities, Aki Ishigami is adding information We hope that the publications and exhibition in September 2010 (details at http:// on these collections to her database on on shunga will help to change this ‘taboo’ www.soas.ac.uk/jrc/events/13sep2010- shunga books, which is open access. The view, and to encourage more scholars to workshop-shunga-in-its-social-and-cultural- site is on the Ritsumeikan Art Research study aspects of shunga within the context of context.html) and the second ‘Shunga - erotic Center website:http://www.dh-jac.net/db13/ related non-shunga art and literature. art in a comparative context’ in May 2011 ehoncatalogue/FMPro?-db=ehoncatalogue. (details available at http://www.soas.ac.uk/ fp5&-lay=layout2&-format=index.html&-view Andrew Gerstle jrc/events/20may2011-shunga---erotic-art- It has been exciting to discover unrecorded in-a-comparative-context.html). We also had a panel of five presentations at the British Association of Japanese Studies, held at SOAS on 9-10 September 2010. During the final year of the project we plan to hold one more workshop/conference and prepare papers for publication. One aim will be to analyse shunga in a comparative context.

Rosina Buckland, a member of the group and now Curator of Japanese Art at the National Museum of Scotland published Shunga: Erotic Art of Japan, British Museum Press, November 2010. A Japanese version was published at the same time by Heibonsha as『春画 Erotic Art in Japan - 大英博物 館所蔵』, translated by Akiko Yano, also a member of the project. Andrew Gerstle published a book in Japanese in March 2011, 『江戸をんなの春画本―艶と笑の 夫婦指南』, also published by Heibonsha. This book examines four shunga books that were parodies of practical textbooks Workshop Speakers

16 SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON HONORARY APPOINTMENTS Sep 2010 - Aug 2011

Professorial Research Associates Dr Nicola LISCUTIN Visiting Scholars MA(HAMBURG) PHD(CANTAB) Professor Gina BARNES 5 March 2004 - 31 August 2012 Professor David BURLEIGH PHD(MICHIGAN) MPHIL(UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX) 22 May 1996 - 31 August 2012 Dr Jonathan MACKINTOSH BSC(UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER) BA(LETHBRIDGE) MA(SOAS) PHD(CANTAB) 1 April 2010 - 31 March 2011 Professor Neil JACKSON 1 November 2007 - 31 August 2011 MA(COURTAULD INSTITUTE) Professor Kengo FUJIO PHD(SOUTH BANK) Princess Akiko MIKASA BA MA(WASEDA) 23 June 2009 - 31 August 2012 BA(GAKUSHUIN) 1 April 2011 - 31 March 2012 17 February 2011 - 31 August 2012 Professor Peter KORNICKI Dr Misa Okumura HIRASHIMA MA MSC PHD(OXON) Ms Mami MIZUTORI PHD MA BA(SOPHIA UNIVERSITY) 1 November 2007 - 31 August 2011 BA(HITOTSUBASHI) 1 April 2010 - 31 March 2011 9 April 2010 - 31 August 2011 Professor Ian NISH Professor Guanglin JIN PHD MA(UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO) MA PHD(LONDON) Dr Rajyashree PANDEY BA(NORTHEAST NORMAL UNIVERSITY 28 April 2010 - 31 August 2011 MA(WASHINGTON) PHD(AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL) 1 June 2011 - 31 August 2011 Professor Evgeny STEINER 1 July 2007 - 31 August 2012 BA MA(MOSCOW STATE) PHD(USSR ACADEMY OF Professor Mingzhe JIN BA(NORTHEAST NORMAL UNIVERSITY) SCIENCES, MOSCOW) Dr Maria ROMÁN NAVARRO PHD(INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL MATHEMATICS) 9 June 2008 - 31 August 2012 BA MA(VIENNA) PHD(HEIDELBERG) 1 April 2011 - 30 September 2011 8 February 2006 - 31 August 2011 Professor Yuriko TAKAHASHI Professor Iwao MAIDA BA(KEIO) MA(OCHANOMIZU) Dr Lone TAKEUCHI MA(KANAGAWA UNIVERSITY) MA(HOKKAIDO 1 April 2007 - 31 August 2012 BA(COPENHAGEN) MA(BERKELEY) UNIVERSITY) MA(UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO) PHIL(COPENHAGEN) 1 April 2010 - 31 March 2011 Research Associates 18 September 2007 - 31 August 2011 Ms Chika MUROTA Dr Penelope FRANCKS Dr Sarah TEASLEY MA BA(UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO) BA(PRINCETON) MA(MUSASHINO ART) MSC PHD(LONDON) PHD(TOKYO) 1 April 2010 - 31 March 2011 1 September 2003 - 31 August 2012 1 February 2009 - 31 August 2012 Ms Kazue NAKAMURA Dr Christine GUTH Dr Ellis TINIOS BA(TOKYO) BA(OCHANOMIZU) PHD(HARVARD) PHD(MICHIGAN) 15 June 2011 - 15 March 2012 25 January 2008 - 31 August 2011 23 January 2002 - 31 August 2012 Dr Mikio YOSHIDA Dr Monika HINKEL Dr Stephen TURNBULL MA BA(UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO) MA BA PHD(BONN) BA(CANTAB) MA PHD(LEEDS) 1 April 2010 - 31 March 2011 4 June 2010 - 31 August 2011 1 March 2011 - 31 August 2012 Post Doctoral Research Associate Dr David W HUGHES Dr Akiko YANO MA(CANTAB) MPHIL(YALE) PHD(MICHIGAN) MA PHD(KEIO) Dr Shino ARISAWA 28 August 2008 - 31 August 2012 PHD MMUS(SOAS) BA(TOKYO UNIVERSITY 24 May 2007 - 31 August 2012 OF FOREIGN STUDENTS) Dr Olga KHOMENKO 10 November 2008 - 10 November 2010 BA(KIEV STATE) PHD MA(TOKYO) 4 December 2009 - 31 August 2011 JRC Visitor

Dr Barak KUSHNER Dr Nahoko ARAI BA(BRANDEIS) PHD(PRINCETON) BA(MIYAGI GAKUIN) PHD(YAMAGATA) 19 January 2010 - 31 August 2011 1 March 2011 - 1 April 2011

An up-to-date list of honorary appointments is available on the JRC web page: www.soas.ac.uk/jrc/members/

17 SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON HONORARY APPOINTMENTS

Christine GUTH Gina BARNES Peter KORNICKI Research Associate Professorial Research Associate Professorial Research Associate

In July 2010, Christine gave a keynote talk Talks Publications on “Intoxication and Otherness in Japanese 2011 Invited Paper “Vulnerable Japan: the 2010 The female as subject: Women and the Visual Culture” at the conference at Christ’s volcanic setting of life in the archipelago.” book in Japan, edited with Mara Patessio and College, Cambridge on “Intoxicants and Conference on Environmental History in Gaye Rowley (Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Intoxication in Cultural and Historical Japan, 28-29 March 2011, Honolulu Studies, University of Michigan), pp. x + 279. perspectives” co-organized by her colleague at the V&A, Angela McShane. She began the 2011 Opening Comments and Moderator 2010 Catalogue of the Japanese coin 2010-2011 academic year by presenting for panel on European Studies in Europe. collection (pre-Meiji) in the British Museum, a paper on masterpiece merchandise at Yonsei-Yeongwol Forum, 22-26 May 2011, compiled with Shin’ichi Sakuraki and Helen the Museums and Galleries History Group Yeongwol, Korea Wang (London: British Museum Publications), conference at the University of Leeds. pp. vi + 218 2011 Invited Paper, “State Formation in the In October she travelled to Krakow to Three Kingdoms.” Yonsei-Yeongwol Forum, 2011 Catalogue of pre-modern Japanese participate in the conference “Art of Japan, 22-26 May 2011, Yeongwol, Korea maps held in the British Library (published Japonisms, and Polish-Japanese Art as a pdf on the British Library website), pp. Relations” held at the Manggha Museum Publications vii + 110 where she spoke about the political 2010 “Earthquake archaeology in Japan: implications of Yokoo Tadanori’s mobilization an overview.” In Sintubin, M.; Stewart, 2010 ‘A note on Sino-Japanese: a question of of Hokusai’s great wave in the early 1960s. I.S.; Niemi, T.M.; and Altunel, E., eds. terminology’, Sino-Japanese Studies 17: 1-17 In the spring term she spoke on other as- Ancient Earthquakes. Geological Society of pects of her ongoing research on the social America Special Paper 471, p. 81-96, doi: 2010 European interest in Japanese coins life of “The Great Wave” at the Nissan Insti- 10.1130/2010.2471(08). before 1853’, in Catalogue of the Japanese tute at Oxford University, in the Art History coin collection (pre-Meiji) in the British Department at Cambridge University, and at 2010 “Landscape and subsistence in Museum, compiled with Shin’ichi Sakuraki the conference “Americanists Abroad” held Japanese history.” Pp. 321-340 in Land- and Helen Wang (London: British Museum at the Courtauld Institute. scapes and societies: selected cases, ed. Publications), pp. 27-32. by P. Martini and W. Chesworth. Dordrecht: In February, she gave a paper in the Springer. 2010 ‘Nữ tiều học và các sách nữ huấn của anthropology department at University Việt Nam – dưới góc nhìn của thư chí học so College, London based on a forthcoming 2011 “古墳時代前期における統治支配権仮 sánh’, with Nguyen Thi Oanh, Tạp chí hán nôm article entitled “Layering: Materiality, Touch, 説 [A hypothesis of rulership authority in the 103: 23-36 and Time in Japanese Lacquer.” Her article Early Kofun period].” 古代学研究 190: 1-14, “Import Substitution, Innovation and the Tea 2010. 2010 ‘European interest in Japanese coins Ceremony in Fifteenth and Sixteenth-century before 1853’, in Catalogue of the Japa- Japan” appeared in Global Design History, Book Reviews nese coin collection (pre-Meiji) in the British a publication edited by colleagues Sarah 2011 Early Korea 1: Reconsidering Early Museum, edited with Shin’ichi Sakuraki and Teasley and Glenn Adamson published in Korean History through Archaeology, edited Helen Wang (London: British Museum Publi- 2011 by Routledge. by Mark E. Byington. International Journal of cations), pp. 27-32. Asian Studies 8.1: 108-11. 2011 ‘A transnational approach to East 2011 Early Korea 2: The Samhan Period in Asian book history’, in Swapan Chakravorty Korean History, edited by Mark E. Byington. and Abhijit Gupta, eds, New word order: International Journal of Asian Studies 8.2: transnational themes in book history (Delhi: 225-226. Worldview), pp. 65-79.

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Evgeny STEINER Olga Khomenko Professorial Research Associate Research Associate

In 2010-11 Evgeny’s main project Languages of Description vs. Languages Olga’s scientific interests include history of was Hokusai Manga – researching its of Culture’, The Analytical Report,” // NLO global consumer culture, consumerism and compositional structure and writing full, page (New Literary Observer), #109, 2011 (May), changing trends in XX century consumer by page, commentaries for the complete pp. 414-422. Currently Evgeny is editing the behavior. Her research has been focusing edition of Manga’s 15 volumes. For this pro- volume of proceedings with articles based on on the development of consumer society in ject the Japan Foundation awarded Evgeny selected papers. post-war Japan and the role of advertising in with a publication grant (April 2011). Interim the process of changing women’s identity in results have been published in a number His other publications include: “The Kitaev Japan. of essays and papers: “Manga-manga” // Collection of Japanese Art in the Pushkin Zerkalo (International Journal of Art & Lit- Museum” // Impressions, # 32, 2011, pp. Olga is presenting her research results at erature, Tel-Aviv), #35, 2010, pp. 124-162; 37-63; “The Aura of Alphabet: The Cyrillic the conference of European Association of “Hokusai Manga: The Principles of the ‘Word is Goodness’ vs. Japanese ‘World of Japanese Studies in August, 2011 in Tallinn, Composition”, a paper at the Conference Shallow Dreams’” // Iskusstvo i Kultura [Art call “Japanese women during post-war “History & Culture of Japan”, Russian State & Culture] #2 (2), 2011, pp. 7-13. period: between Advert and Reality: longing University for the Humanities, Moscow, Feb., for “Happiness” via “Goods”. 13, 2011; “Hokusai Manga: Reconstructing His Japan-related papers and guest lectures the Composition”, a paper at the 13th EAJS include: “’Second Only to Chiossone’s’: The Olga is teaching history courses about Conference, Tallinn, August 24-27, 2011; Kitaev Collection of Japanese Art,” a paper Japan from Meiji period toward period of “Manga: the Global Phenomenon with East- at the 21st Conference of European Assoc. of High Economical Grow is senior lecturer at West-East Roots,“ a paper at the Conference Japanese Recourses Specialists, Genoa, Italy, National University of “Kyiv Mohyla Academy”. “The Inspiration by the Old Art in the Art of Sep. 3, 2010; Opening address: Orientalism/ Also at the moment she is translating her 20-21st cc.” Torun Univ., Poland, December Occidentalism: Languages of Culture vs. Lan- dissertation thesis written in Japanese into 1-3, 2011. guages of Description. International Confer- English. ence held at the Russian Institute for Cultural During 2009-10 Evgeny envisioned, Research, Moscow, Sept. 23-25, 2010; “Hid- Also Olga published her first book of novels organised and chaired a big international den Dragons, Secret Weapons and Smiling from biggest publishing house in Ukraine conference “Orientalism/Occidentalism: The Buddhas: The Lost Museum of the World in her native Ukrainian language. The book Languages of Culture vs. the Languages of Art,” the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, call “K(iev)-T(okyo)-L(ove)-S(tory). Japanese Description” which took place in the Russian 29 April 2010. story” and it is fiction about life, people Institute for Cultural Research (Moscow), and process of growing up in two different 24-27 September, 2010. Among about In the end of May a new book, Approaching countries, Folio Publishing house, Ukraine, 80 participants there were scholars from Mt. Fuji, was published in Moscow (Slovo September 2010. Europe, USA, Japan, Australia and other Publishers, 362 pp.). A book launch party countries with Profs Timon Screech and was held at The House of Russian Diaspora She is Senior Scholar at History department, Toshio Watanabe as keynote speakers. (aka Solzhenitsyn House) on 6 June, 2011, Faculty of Humanity of National University On the results of the conference Evgeny where Evgeny delivered a presentation titled of Kyiv Mohyla Academy (Kyiv, Ukraine) published: “’Orientalism/Occidentalism: and Associate Research at SOAS, London University, UK.

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Alfred HAFT Gyewon KIM ABOUT SISJAC

Alfred Haft is a Project Curator in the Gyewon Kim specializes in modern and The Sainsbury Institute (SISJAC) was Japanese Section of the Department of contemporary art of Japan and Korea. She founded in 1999 through the generosity Asia at the British Museum. In 2010, he completed her PhD in Art History in 2010 from of Sir Robert and Lady Sainsbury to was awarded the first Anne van Biema McGill University, on the topic of the mutual promote knowledge and understanding Postdoctoral Fellowship, offered jointly by the formations of photography and historic sites of Japanese arts and cultures. As it Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler in late nineteenth-century Japan. approaches its tenth anniversary the Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, Institute has formulated a renewed D.C. During the fellowship, he conducted In 2010-11, she held a post-doctoral mission statement, which not only research on the Pulverer Collection of fellowship in Japan-Korean studies from reflects the benefactors' intentions and is pre-modern Japanese illustrated books, History of Art and Architecture and Asian grounded in their original vision, but aims which now forms part of the Freer Gallery’s Studies Center at University of Pittsburgh, to expand its intellectual horizons. collection, added to the revisions of his where she taught Space and Place in Japan, dissertation for publication, and delivered a and Modern and Contemporary Korean Art. The mission of the Sainsbury Institute paper for the Freer’s Research-in-Progress Her work centers on vision, media and the is to be an active source of and conduit series. politics of knowledge and representation for innovative research: positioning, in modern Japan and Korea. Her essay on revealing and interpreting the arts and Prior to leaving for the fellowship, he colonial photography and archive in Japan cultures of the Japanese archipelago presented his research at the workshop held and Korea has been published in positions: from the present to the past in regional, to celebrate the Sainsbury Institute’s tenth east asian cultures critique (18:1, Spring, European and global contexts. anniversary, and a separate paper at one of 2010), and work in progress includes a the workshops connected with the shunga manuscript on composite portrait, facial type project, which is scheduled to culminate in and imperial subjectivity in wartime East an exhibition at the British Museum in 2013. Asia. He also researched and wrote the chapter on Japanese art for The Art Museum (forth- At the Sainsbury Institute, she is working coming, Phaidon), and has since assisted in on her book manuscript, Registering the editing several volumes in the new Japanese Real: Photography and Historic Sites in Late Visual Culture series published by Brill. Nineteenth Century Japan.

Over the next year, in addition to working on research and editing projects, he looks forward to contributing to the research, curatorial and collections activities of the British Museum’s Japanese Section. The Institute continues its close collaborations with institutional partners including schools of study at the University of East Anglia (UEA), the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, and the British Museum. It maintains its programme of fellowships, public lectures and international workshops as well as its commitment to the web and web publications.

20 SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON RESEARCH STUDENTS pursuing projects on Japan

Ryoko AOKI Noriko HORSLEY Fumi OUCHI The Construction of Japanese Noh Court Patronage and the Collecting of The vocal arts in medieval Japan Theatre as a Masculine Art: an Analysis of Art in 12th century Insei-period Japan and Tendai hongaku thought its Traditional and Modern Discourse Supervisor: Dr John CARPENTER Supervisor: Dr Lucia DOLCE Supervisor: Professor Andrew GERSTLE Kigensan LICHA Jenny PRESTON Midori ATKINS The Esoterization of Soto Zen Nishikawa Sukenobu: The Engagement Time and Space Reconsidered: in Medieval Japan of Popular Art in Socio-political Discourse Literary Landscape in the Literature Supervisor: Dr Lucia DOLCE in 18th Century Japan of Murakami Haruki Supervisor: Dr John CARPENTER Supervisor: Dr Steve DODD Tullio LOBETTI Faith in the flesh: body and ascetic Ivan RUMANEK Kristian BERING practices in contemporary Japanese The appropriation of Noh by Joruri Bakin and the Theatre religious context and Kabuki Supervisor: Professor Andrew GERSTLE Supervisor: Dr Lucia DOLCE Supervisor: Professor Andrew GERSTLE

Lucy GLASSPOOL Benedetta LOMI Ryosuke SHIBAGAKI Japanese Role Playing Games: Batô Kannon/Matou Guanyin: cult, images Secondary Predicates in Japanese Gender and Fandom and rituals of the Horse-Headed One Supervisor: Professor Peter SELLS Supervisor: Dr Isolde STANDISH Supervisor: Dr Lucia DOLCE Martyn SMITH Haruhisa HANDA Shinya MANO Nationalism in postwar Japan Calligraphy and Religious Personality Yôsai and the development of Supervisor: Dr Christopher GERTEIS in Early Modern Japan: Hakuin’s Life Zen-Esoteric Buddhism and Writings Supervisor: Dr Lucia DOLCE Nobuaki TAKASE Supervisor: Dr John CARPENTER Mutsu Munemitsu and the formation Barbara MICYK of the state in modern Japan Mami HATAYAMA The supernatural in pre-modern Supervisor: Dr Angus LOCKYER The Meiji Painter and Lacquer Japanese illustrated fiction Artist Shibata Zeshin Supervisor: Professor Andrew GERSTLE Eriko TOMIZAWA-KAY Supervisor: Dr John CARPENTER The Nihonga (Japanese-Style) Artist Yaara MORRIS Hishida Shunso (1874-1911) Makiko HAYASHI The Cult of Tenkawa Benzaiten Supervisor: Dr John CARPENTER Constructing the Legal Profession – her rituals, texts, and mandalas in Meiji Japan Supervisor: Dr Lucia DOLCE Shino TOYOSHIMA Supervisor: Dr John BREEN Making Kunsan Home: Community Building Doreen MUELLER by Japanese Settlers in Colonial Korea Katsuyuki HIDAKA Documenting Disaster: Pictorial Records Supervisor: Dr Angus LOCKYER Consuming the Past in Film and Television of the Late Edo Period (draft title) Supervisor: Dr Isolde STANDISH Supervisor: Professor Timon SCREECH Carla TRONU MONTANE The Construction of the Japanese Satomi HORIUCHI Masaaki OKADA Christian Community in Nagasaki in Contemporary Japanese Christianity: Salvation by beauty and nature: the sixteenth & seventeenth centuries Ancestors, rites and graves Okada Mokichi’s practices Supervisor: Dr Angus LOCKYER Supervisor: Dr Lucia DOLCE Supervisor: Dr Lucia DOLCE

Taka OSHIKIRI Gathering for tea in Meiji Japan Supervisor: Dr Angus LOCKYER

21 SOAS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON AWARDS AND GRANTS

Award Recipients, 2010-11: Final Reports

Kigensan LICHA Ivan RUMANEK Martyn SMITH Tsuda Bursary Meiji Jingu Studentship Meiji Jingu Studentship

Thesis Title Working title Working title Esoteric traditions in late medieval Japanese Edo Period Theatre – Offspring of Nō? The Discourse on the Nation in Postwar Sôtô Zen Buddhism Etymology of genre. Japan 1952-1972

Thanks to the Tsuda Bursary, Kigensan The aim of his research is to shed more light has been able to complete his Ph.D. Thesis into the issue of to what extent the emergence My research focuses on the debate and for examination. He has written two main of new theatrical genres of kabuki and jōruri discussion of ideas of nation in Japan in the chapters from the body of the thesis. The at the beginning of the Edo shogunate were 1950’s and 1960’s. By looking at popular first is an extended discussion of Sôtô Zen connected with the nō tradition. magazines and newspapers at four specific Dharma transmission rituals. The second points in the postwar period I examine how presents a historical and textual overview During his research, Ivan has found out differing ideas of nation reflected and shaped of Sôtô Zen kôan traditions. As well, he has that there exist materials referring to the the huge social and economic changes which formulated a theoretical approach to the in- initial stage of kabuki development, the so constituted the everyday experience of the terpretation of kôan. This approach treats called Okuni sōshi that were only publicised Japanese people. them as fully linguistic artifacts and analyzes relatively recently – at the beginning of the their function in terms of performative and 20th century. Using popular magazines aimed at metaphorical modes of discourse. housewives (Fujin Kōron, Fujin Gaho) and Further study also disclosed a possible young people (Shukan Heibon, Heibon In addition to completing his Ph.D., Kigensan Western connection in the process. The Punch), as well as picture magazines such as also had the opportunity to present his Jesuits who were active in Japan in the Asahi Graph and Mainichi Graph, my research research at a number of international latter half of the 16th century, seem to have broadens the debate over postwar Japanese workshops held at SOAS. In February, he been pretty familiar both with the Japanese ideas of nation by looking at the way these delivered a paper on the worship of the deity language and the culture, including the ideas developed within the context of rapid of Mt. Hakusan in the Sôtô school. In March, dramatical arts. The Portuguese dictionaries social, economic, and cultural change from he presented part of his Ph.D. research at compiled in the period testify to it. By them, 1952-1972 focusing on four pivotal historical the Japan Research Centre Seminar un- nō was regarded as a general representa- moments: the end of the Allied Occupation in der the title “Esoteric Uses of the Yijing in tive of the dramatical art, even the Western 1952; the protests leading up to the renewal medieval Sôtô Zen”. In May he participated concepts of “theatre” and “drama” were of the security treaty (ANPO) in 1960; the in the “Words, Deities and Icons” workshop, translated by means of the Japanese term Tokyo Olympics of 1964; and student and presenting his research on embryology in “nō”. This situation faithfully reflects the anti-war protests from 1968 to the ‘return’ of Sôtô Zen. In addition to putting the final previous knowledge because there was no Okinawa. touches on his thesis and preparing for his other contemporary counterpart of “theatre” oral examination, Kigensan is currently writ- outside nō at the turn of the 16th century. Over the past academic year I have been ing a paper on embryology based on his Ph.D. Things were about to change soon, though, able to examine a wide range of sources research. He is preparing a second paper on and the emergence of Izumo no Okuni and which have helped to show the ambiguous the use of the work of Italian philosopher her advance onto the stages of the Imperial and continually changing nature of ideas of Giorgio Agamben in the study of pre-modern Capital marked a breakthrough in the history nation. With the rapid growth of the economy Japanese religions. of Japanese theatre, on which Ivan’s further and the emergence of a mass consumer research will go on fucusing. society after the hardship of the immediate Kigensan would like to express his gratitude post-surrender, ideas of nation broadened to Ms Kayoko Tsuda and the award committee from the domain of intellectual discussion to for their generosity which enabled him focus more a popular and contingent identification. on his work in its final stages and bring it to a My research will continue to focus on the successful conclusion. intersection of these ideas with a rapidly developing consumer society.

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Award Recipients, 2011-12

Jenny PRESTON Radu LECA Alessia COSTA Tsuda Bursary Meiji Jingu Studentship Meiji Jingu Studentship

Thesis title Working Title Working Title Nishikawa Sukenobu: the engagement of Images of alterity in the Japanese spatial Body Assemblages: Bioethics and Organ popular art with socio-political discourse imaginary of the 17th century Donation in Japan

Abstract Outline of the project Outline of the project This research focuses on the illustrated My research aims at a reconsideration of the My research aims at investigating issues books (ehon) of the eighteenth century Kyoto genesis of Genroku period art, by focusing on of body ownership in the light of the recent artist Nishikawa Sukenobu. Between 1710 visual representations of alterity in popular revision of the Japanese policy on organ and 1722, Sukenobu published some fifty culture. I study the role of exotic tropes in donation. The project draws on the growing erotic works; following the Kyôhô reforms of the emergence of a national visual identity debate on bioethics and biotechnologies 1722 outlawing erotica, he began producing formulated in terms of a Japan-centered in anthropology and social sciences, and works generally categorized as fûzoku ehon worldview. involves a period of ethnographic research in ¬- versions of canonical texts, poems and Tokyo starting in September 2011. riddles, all executed in a contemporary Introduction to the research idiom. This study contends that these works The first part of the research analyzes Introduction to research were an expression of political disaffection; the geographic imaginary of 17th century In Japan, organ transplantation and the so- that Sukenobu used first the medium of the Japan, by tracing the abundance and the called ‘brain-death problem’ (nōshi mondai) erotic, then the image-cum-text format of the iconographical amalgamations between have been the subject of a widespread children’s book to articulate anti-bakufu and various types of imaginary places, such as debate since the late 1960s, encompassing pro-imperialist sentiment. Mount Hōrai and Nyogonoshima. Because patients’ organizations, medical experts and of the ambivalent utopic/dystopic character political institutions. The Japanese debate This radical re-reading of Sukenobu’s work of many of these places, Radu proposes to on transplantation technology shed a new is supported by close reference to the discuss them in terms of Foucault’s concept light on un-examined assumptions which literary output of his numerous collabora- of heterotopias. had gone largely un-challenged in many tors, to contemporary diary and pamphlet western countries. However, whereas the literature, and to the corpus of Edo and Kyoto The second part will discuss the liminal disputes that lead to the endorsement, in machibure edicts. The study will hopefully character of the feminine image, epitomized 1997, of Law 104 on Organ Transplants shed new light on the role of popular art in by the female-only island of Nyogonoshima. (Zōki Ishoku Ni Kansuru Hōritsu) have been the eighteenth century, and its profound The relationship between the ‘Chinese’ exotic widely discussed, very little has been written political engagement. and female heterotopias will be explored in about more recent developments. the work of Asai Ryōi and Ihara Saikaku. Radu will then examine the role of this heterotopic In 2009, the law has been amended imagery in the development of the feminine introducing important changes. In the light imagery of ukiyo-e, focusing on the work of of such developments, this project aims to Hishikawa Moronobu. investigate the current policy on donation focusing in particular on issues of body Radu’s research is therefore aimed at ownership and next of kin rights. The project deepening the understanding of Japa- builds on the growing body of research on nese images of alterity, and exploring their biomedical science and technologies in influence on Genroku period art. social sciences, while also engaging critically with the anthropological literature on Japan. The main sources for this research will be text Furthermore, it involves an extensive period illustrations which reveal elements of the of ethnographic research in Tokyo starting popular imagination otherwise ‘invisible’ in from September 2011. written texts. While employing elements of lit- erary and art history, Radu aims to use these visual sources as pivots for a cultural studies approach to the popular spatial imaginary of the period.

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Sixth Annual MEIJI JINGU Meiji Jingu Japanese Studies KAYOKO TSUDA BURSARY Scholarships 2012 - 13 Research Grants 2012-2013 for SOAS Staff Two awards are offered annually, either for The Japan Research Centre is pleased to PhD students at SOAS, or newly enrolling Grants are offered to assist full-time invite applications to the bursary created full-time MPhil students, who have been academic staff members of the JRC, through the generosity of Ms Kayoko accepted by SOAS. SOAS, to promote Japanese Studies. Tsuda. Students may be registered in any Funds may be used for personal research, Applicants may be of any nationality and department, and be of any nationality, conferences, etc, or to purchase in need of the bursary to fund completion but must be working on some aspect of research-level books for the SOAS Library. of their thesis. The bursary will be Japanese Studies. PhD candidates must Group projects are acceptable, but awarded to students writing up their be resident in SOAS: the award cannot be should be submitted in the name of one PhD dissertations at SOAS in either their used elsewhere. representative individual. third or fourth year during the academic session 2011/12. Those working on any Studentships are worth £5,000, and carry Total subsidy of up to £2,200 will be aspect of Japanese studies are eligible. a 20% reduction of fees (EU or Overseas). offered in any one calendar year, for the duration of the agreement, to be One bursary is offered per year, carrying a divided between successful applicants. value of £7,000 (untaxed). Closing Date Awards will be assessed according to Friday, 25 May 2012 their importance for Japanese studies, as interpreted by the Steering Committee Closing Date How to Apply of the JRC. The Committee, together with Friday, 25 May 2012 More information can be obtained from: the approval of Meiji Jingu, will decide who the successful applicant will be. How to Apply www.soas.ac.uk/registry/scholarships More information can be obtained from: Closing Date The Scholarships Officer The first closing date for applications www.soas.ac.uk/registry/scholarships Registry will be Friday, 25 May 2012. SOAS, University of London The Scholarships Officer Thornhaugh Street If not all funds have been allocated, a Registry Russell Square second round will be held, with a closing SOAS, University of London London WC1H 0XG date in late October, 2012. Thornhaugh Street Russell Square Email: [email protected] How to Apply London WC1H 0XG The application form is available to download from the JRC web page, or Email: [email protected] email Jane Savory, [email protected]

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Research & Enterprise

Executive Training Programme (ETP) for Japan and Korea

At the beginning of this year SOAS was delivering intensive Japanese and Korean awarded a contract worth almost €600,000 language training to up to 60 executives from by the European Commission to deliver across the European Union. The revamped the next 3 cycles of the Executive Training programme will be delivered in Autumn 2012 Programme (ETP) for Japan and Korea. The and will entail a 3-week programme to provide SOAS bid was coordinated by the Enterprise a similar cohort with a broad overview of the Research Office: Office, bringing together academics from key historical, economic, political, business External Grant Applications the Japan Research Centre and Centre and cultural issues relating to Japan or for Korean Studies and drawing on a wide Korea. Participants will then progress to an 1 Sept 2010 - 31 July 2011 range of subject expertise including history, immersion module at Waseda University in politics, economics, religion, business and Tokyo or Yonsei University in Seoul where Christopher Gerteis management, culture and the arts. Feedback they will undertake intensive language and The SOAS / Japan Forum European from the European Commission indicated management training, develop a business Translation Initiative that the existence of regional centres to pool plan and attend a 3-month internship in a Funding Body: Nippon Foundation and coordinate this expertise was one of the Japanese or Korean company related to their Fundable Amount: £56,800 key reasons for success. business.

The ETP is a prestigious year-long programme The Enterprise Office are working closely with Gaynor Sekimori for executives from European companies who the 2 regional centres over the coming months Documenting Religion: A Festival of are looking to establish or further develop to prepare the first programmes, which will Films about Shugendo, in memory of business relations with Japan or Korea. The be coordinated on the academic side by Dr Carmen Blacker Japan programme has been running for Angus Lockyer and Helen Macnaughtan for over 30 years and has produced over 1,000 the Japan programme and Jaehoon Yeon and Funding Body: Japan Society alumni, many of whom are now working Anders Karlsson for the Korean programme. Fundable Amount: £500 at the most senior levels in Japan-based Funding Body: Japan Foundation companies. The Korean programme was Further information: Fundable Amount: £1,000 launched seven years ago to capitalise on Louise Roberts, [email protected] the success of the Japan programme and to Funding Body: Great Britain take advantage of the business opportunities Sasakawa Foundation between EU countries and Korea. Fundable Amount: £1,500

SOAS was involved in the 3 previous cycles of the Executive Training Programme,

Research and Enterprise activities are central to SOAS’ mission. Not only do they enhance teach- ing and learning, they are also a crucial part of the services that we provide to the world around us. Research establishes new knowledge which extends the frontiers of human understanding and informs and sharpens scholarly debate. When this knowledge is transferred externally it shapes the policy and practice of governments, businesses, NGOs and informs the wider community. The Research and Enterprise Office (REO) at SOAS works across the School to secure external funding and income, to support research excellence and to facilitate knowledge transfer.

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Japanese Roof Garden

The Japanese-inspired roof garden at the ples to the British environment and climate, raked silver grey granite chippings has regu- School of Oriental and African Studies was conceived the garden as a place of quiet lar slabs of basaltic rock alluding to a bridge built during the Japan 2001 celebrations contemplation and meditation as well over flowing water; the island stones in the and was officially opened by the sponsor, Mr as a functional space complementary to gravel areas are Larvikite from Norway ; dark Haruhisa Handa (Toshu Fukami), an Honorary the Gallery and its artistic activities. grey pebbles from a contrast in colour and Fellow of the School, on 13 November 2001. texture to the formal granite edging and to It provides an area away from the noise and A small stage can be used for dramatic or the chequerboard planting. bustle of London streets, where visitors can musical productions, for tea ceremonies or relax and meditate. displays. Or it can be used simply as seating. The garden is open to the public and can be Planting has been kept to a minimum, with enjoyed as a place of peace and meditation. The garden is dedicated to Forgiveness, lemon thyme used in a chequerboard pattern It may also be used for events such as which is the meaning of the Kanji character at the north end of the garden and the receptions, small plays, Noh dramas, sculp- engraved on the garden’s granite water climbing wisteria to provide cool shade during ture exhibitions and flower displays. basin. the summer. Various types of stone are used in the garden: a sweeping curve blends the For visiting times and more information: Peter Swift, a designer with experience of original rectangular sandstone with the www.soas.ac.uk/visitors/roofgarden/ adapting Japanese garden design princi- irregular green slate; the central area of

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