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January 2009 Issue 58 JRC MEMBERS

Professor Timothy BARRETT Mrs Miwako KASHIWAGI Mr Satoshi MIYAMURA Professor of East Asian History Lector in Japanese Teaching Fellow in Economics Department of the Study of Religions Department of the Languages and Department of Economics [email protected] Cultures of Japan and [email protected] [email protected] Dr John L BREEN Dr Barbara PIZZICONI Reader in Japanese Dr Griseldis KIRSCH Lecturer in Applied Japanese Department of the Languages and Lecturer in Contemporary Linguistics Cultures of Japan and Korea Japanese Culture Department of the Languages and [email protected] Department of the Languages and Cultures of Japan and Korea Cultures of Japan and Korea [email protected] Dr John CARPENTER [email protected] Reader in the History of Japanese Art Ms Sonja RUEHL Department of Art and Archaeology Dr Mika KIZU Deputy Director (Distance Learning) [email protected] Lecturer in Japanese Department of Financial and Department of the Languages and Management Studies Dr Stephen H DODD Cultures of Japan and Korea [email protected] Senior Lecturer in Japanese [email protected] Department of the Languages and Professor Timon SCREECH Cultures of Japan and Korea Ms Fujiko KOBAYASHI Professor of the History of Art [email protected] Assistant Librarian Japan and Korea Department of Art and Archaeology Library and Information Services [email protected] Dr Lucia DOLCE [email protected] Senior Lecturer in Japanese Professor Peter SELLS Religion and Japanese Dr Costas LAPAVITSAS Professor of Linguistics Department of the Study of Religions Reader in Economics Department of Linguistics [email protected] Department of Economics [email protected] [email protected] Professor Andrew GERSTLE Dr Isolde STANDISH Professor of Japanese Studies Dr Angus LOCKYER Senior Lecturer in Film and Department of the Languages and Chair of the Japan Research Centre Media Studies Cultures of Japan and Korea Lecturer in the History of Japan Centre for Media and Film Studies [email protected] Department of History [email protected] [email protected] Dr Noriko IWASAKI Mrs Kazumi TANAKA Lecturer in Language Pedagogy Dr Helen MACNAUGHTAN Senior Lector in Japanese Department of Linguistics Lecturer in International Business Department of the Languages and [email protected] and Management (Japan) Cultures of Japan and Korea Department of Financial and [email protected] Ms Misako KANEHISA Management Studies Lector in Japanese [email protected] Ms Yoshiko YASUMURA Department of the Languages and Assistant Librarian Art and Music Cultures of Japan and Korea Dr Dolores P MARTINEZ Library and Information Services [email protected] Reader in Anthropology with [email protected] reference to Japan Department of Anthropology and Sociology [email protected]

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A New Year, A New Chair

t is a pleasure to wish everyone a This year’s programme is already well happy new year as the new Chair of the under way. It began with the first such Japan Research Centre, having taken Meiji Jingu lecture, which I gave to over from Tim Screech in September. coincide with the opening of a small I exhibition at the Japanese Embassy, Over the last six years Tim and John which celebrated the 150th anniversary Breen have made the JRC one of the of the opening of formal diplomatic School’s most active and interesting relations between Japan and the United Centres. They are going to prove a hard Kingdom in 1858. act to follow. A big thank you therefore to Tim and John, both of whom are The Annual Tsuda Lecture will take place spending a well-deserved year in Japan. as usual on the Wednesday after Read- Thank you also to Jane Savory and ing Week. This year we are delighted Rahima Begum, who run the Centres to welcome Professor Tomiko Yoda, of and Programme Office and without Duke University, a distinguished scholar whom the work of the Centre would be of Japanese literature, cultural studies impossible. and gender.

We are happy to welcome a number We will also be holding two small work- of new colleagues. Noriko Iwasaki, Tanaka, who received the Foreign shops toward the end of the year, one on a new JRC member, has joined the Minister’s Certificate of Commendation rethinking the 1930s and one on critical Department of Linguistics as a Lecturer for her great contribution in promoting theory and emerging media, such in Language Pedagogy, having previous- Japanese language teaching in the UK as manga, anime, and cyberculture. ly taught at the University of California at and Europe; to John Breen for his pro- Details of all these events, together with Davis. Dr Iwasaki is an expert in second motion to Reader; and to Jane Savory our regular Wednesday seminar series, language acquisition, psycholinguistics on her recent wedding! will be announced on our website and and language testing and convenes the distributed via email. MA in Applied Linguistics and Language As Tim mentioned in the last newsletter, Pedagogy. one of the most heartening aspects Finally, you may have noticed that of the JRC at present is our relatively this is the first JRC News of the We also have two new Research secure financial position. We are most current academic year. Since we now Associates, Christine Guth and Evgeny grateful to our benefactors, whose rely increasingly on email and the Steiner. Christine has recently taken generosity supports the Tsuda Bursary website for announcements of upcoming up a joint appointment at the Royal and Meiji Jingu Studentships, the Meiji events and other opportunities, we College of Art and the and Jingu small grants for staff research, have decided to make the JRC News Albert Museum in Japanese design and the Annual Tsuda Lecture. Further an annual report on the activities of history. Evgeny is a Senior Research details about the funding opportunities the Centre and its members. The next Associate of the Sainsbury Institute for and this year’s awardees can be found edition, this coming autumn, will include the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures later in this newsletter and on the JRC a complete report of the activities of (SISJAC), with whom SOAS enjoys a website. this academic year. Please let us know thriving partnership. Details about this if you do not yet receive emails about year’s SISJAC fellows, who are based We were delighted to welcome Reverend upcoming events and we will add you to at SOAS, can be found later in this Miyazaki Shigehiro, the Vice Chief-Priest our mailing list. newsletter. of Meiji Jingu, in October for a ceremony to inaugurate the Meiji Jingu studentships. Angus Lockyer It is also a real pleasure to congratulate And I am happy to announce that Meiji Lecturer in the History of Japan colleagues and students on achieve- Jingu have generously agreed to support Centre Chair, 2008-2011 ments and milestones over the last year, an annual Autumn Lecture, with which a number of which deserve particular to inaugurate our year’s programme of mention. Congratulations to Kazumi events. 3 MEMBERS

Travels, Talks & Publications

John BREEN facilitating his research: Takagi Hiroshi John has had a busy and eventful at the Jinbunken, Rev Suhara at Hiyoshi 2008. He spent the last academic year Taisha and Yamaguchi Yukitsugu, a as a Visiting Fellow at Kyoto University, local historian. attached to the Institute for Research in the Humanities (Jinbunken). Just as John was preparing to come back to , he was offered a position at John was researching and writing about the Kyoto-based International Centre Hiyoshi Taisha (Hie jinja as it was known for Japanese studies (Nichibunken). As before 1945), a cluster of seven major John puts it, ‘SOAS is, as we all know, shrines in Sakamoto, a small town in the best place to study Japan (outside Shiga prefecture, which extends from Japan), and my years at SOAS have the foot of Mt.Hiei to the shores of Lake been happy and stimulating. In fact, it Biwa. His research focused on how the gets better all the time… Still, I have shrines and their priests coped with the been at SOAS now for more than 20 recurrent disruptions of the early modern years and thought it was a time for a and modern periods—their destruction change.’ by Oda Nobunaga at the end of the 16th and the Tokugawa settlement at John will therefore be on unpaid leave the beginning of the 17th centuries, the for the next three years—and much ‘clarification’ of early Meiji by which the missed. But he will stay in touch through shrines were stripped of all traces of the newsletter and encourages anyone Buddhism, and the postwar changes in passing through Kyoto to get in touch at: the Japanese religious landscape. [email protected]

John spent much of his time in archives Publications John T. CARPENTER in Shiga, which proved a goldmine, Editor, ‘Introduction: a Yasukuni John was re-appointed as Head of the including rich material on the Sanno genealogy’, and ‘Yasukuni and the loss London Office of the Sainsbury Institute festival, one of the focal points of of historical memory’, in Yasukuni, the for the Study of Japanese Arts and his investigations. He gave a number of war dead and the struggle for Japan’s Cultures. He was also appointed as presentations on the research during past, Hurst/Columbia University Press, an International Advisor for the Digital the year: in Kyoto, Otsu, and Sakamoto 2007. Humanities Center for Japanese Art itself; in Ise; and at Meiji Jingu and Culture, part of the Global Center and Ochanomizu Women’s University ‘Shinto’ in Bonk, Jonathan J.,ed., Encyclo- of Excellence program at Ritsumeikan in Tokyo. (He was also called back to paedia of missions and missionaries, University, Kyoto and was a Visiting London in February to brief the Prime Routledge, 2007. Professor at the Institute for East Asian Minister’s strategy unit here in London Art Studies, University of Heidelberg on issues facing Shinto in the new ‘Inside Tokugawa religion: stars, planets during the summer. In February and century.) and the calendar-as- method’, Culture March John gave lectures on surimono and cosmos, 10, 1-2, 2007. at the Royal Asiatic Society and the John’s findings on Hiyoshi Taisha Universidad Autonoma de Madrid and will appear in a short history of 「明治天皇を読む」 [Reading the in September he delivered a paper at Shinto, which he is co-authoring with Meiji emperor], in Ueda Tetsuyuki, ed., an international conference celebrating Mark Teeuwen, to be published by 『ラチオ３: 日本の近代とは何か』 the 1000th anniversary of The Tale of Blackwells, as well as a couple of (2007) . Genji in Venice. forthcoming articles in Japanese. He would like to thank the Jinbunken and 「イギリスの王子文化と『星の王 Publications the for making the 子様』」[British princely culture and Editor and ‘Inventing New Iconographies: year possible, as well as a number Le petit prince in Japan] 『図書』694 Historcist and Nativist Motives in Late of individuals who were very helpful in (2007) . Edo Surimono’, in Surimono: The 4 MEMBERS

Interplay of Text and Image in Japanese Prints, Rietberg Museum and Brill/Hotei Publishing, 2008.

‘Hiroshige’s Actor Surimono of the Bunsei Era’, Andon, Autumn 2008.

‘The Literary Network: Private Commissions for Hokusai and his Circle’, in Julia Meech and Jane Oliver, Designed for Pleasure: The World of Edo Japan in Prints and Paintings, 1680–1860, Asia Society and University of Washington Press, 2008, pp. 142–167.

Steve DODD Steve is presently working on his second book, tentatively entitled ‘The Youth of Things: Life and Death in the Work of Kajii Motojiro’. He attended the EAJS conference at Lecce, Italy, in September, to present a paper, ‘Winter’s Day: Modernism in the work of Kajii Motojiro’.

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Lucia DOLCE 2005), co-authored with Timothy Clark In the spring Lucia organized two and Akiko Yano, was chosen by the workshops at SOAS on Researching Nippon Foundation as one of 100 books Japanese Religions and Japanese for understanding contemporary Japan. Portraiture, in which she also presented a paper on a portrait of Go-Daigo; she Publications gave a special graduate seminar on ‘Kinsei no Nihongo: miryoku to nansho’ Esoteric Buddhism at the University of (Keynote address), Japanese Language Venice Ca Foscari and a lecture on the Education in Europe (Yo-roppa Nihongo Lotus Sutra at the University of Naples; Kyôiku), no. 12, 2008, pp. 37-45. and she was an invited discussant at an international conference on Shugendo Kinsei enpon shiryo shusei IV: Tsukioka at Columbia University. Settei 1: ‘Onna shimegawa oeshi-bumi’ [Collected Erotic Texts of the Early During the summer she delivered the Modern Period IV: Tsukioka Settei keynote speech at an international 1: ‘Love Letters and a River of Erect conference on Japanese Religious Texts Precepts for Women’], Kokusai Nihon at Nagoya University, gave a lecture at Bunka Kenkyu Centre, 2007. Ritsumeikan University on ‘How can we study Japanese religion?’ and presented a paper at the EAJS conference in Lecce. In the autumn she delivered Griseldis KIRSCH a paper and was the invited chair for a In the spring, Griseldis gave panel at an international conference on presentations on TV advertising at ritual in Heidelberg. She also delivered the European Spring Academy in papers at a workshop in Ragusa and Otzenhausen and a JRC seminar on an international conference on Tantra ‘Representations of China, Taiwan at the Freie Universitat Berlin. and Hong Kong in Japanese Film and TV Drama’. She gave a paper on the Lucia was the recipient of a Meiji Jingu ‘densha otoko phenomenon’ at the small research grant for the project EAJS conference in Lecce in September ‘Contemporary shinbutsu shugo’ and, and a presentation on ‘hafu identity’ at with Drew Grestle and John Carpenter, the Bodhi Gallery in London in October. of a Research Cooperation Award from the Prime Minister’s Initiative for a Publications project on healing and divinatory ritual ‘Partner oder Gegner? Begegnungen with Ritsumeikan University. She is on mit China, Taiwan und Hongkong in sabbatical during the academic year Kinofilm und Fernsehdrama in Japan’ 08-09 thanks to AHRC Research Leave (Partner or Opponents? Encounters grant. with China, Taiwan and Hong Kong in Cinema and TV Drama in Japan), in Wieczorek, Iris and Manfred Pohl, eds., Japan Jahrbuch 2008. Politik, Andrew GERSTLE Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, Hamburg: Drew continues to serve as Associate Vereinigung für Sozialwissenschaftliche Dean for Masters’ programmes in the Japanforschung, 2008, pp. 75-99. Faculty of Languages and Cultures. ‘The poet-lover Ariwara no Narihira’ His book, Kabuki Heroes on the Osaka from Onna shimegawa oeshi-bumi Stage: 1780-1830 (British Museum ~ © Andrew Gerstle Press and University of Hawaii Press,

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Angus LOCKYER The exhibits drew on a number of Angus spent the 07-08 academic year collections in the UK, including the as a Visiting Professor at the National National Archives, the Victoria and Museum of Ethnology (Minpaku) in Albert Museum and the SOAS special Osaka. His research and writing focused collections. Angus gave a lecture on the on three projects: a long-standing exhibition as the first Meiji Jingu JRC project on the history of Japan and Autumn Lecture in October. exhibitions, from the 1860s to the present day; and two new projects, on Angus continues to serve as Senior the history of Japanese golf and on Editor of Japan Forum, the official journal the comparative history of Japan in the of the British Association of Japanese 1930s. He delivered papers in November Studies. 07 at the inaugural conference of the School of Global Japanese Studies at Meiji University and the inaugural Beyond meeting of the International Asakusa Studies project. Diplomacy

In December 07 he gave a presentation 外交を越えて to Museum Network 21 in Osaka on the

new Japanese galleries at the British An Exhibition Commemorating Museum and in January 08 he gave the 150th Anniversary of Diplomatic Relations between a paper at an Asiascape conference Japan and the on Futurism and Nostalgia in Oxford. Toward the end of the year he gave two papers on Japanese golf, the first on gender and globalization for the White Rose Centre in Sheffield, the second on ‘golf clubbing’ at Ochanomizu Women’s University.

During 2008 Angus was also involved in the planning of two exhibitions. Publications The first was ‘Self and Other: ‘Peopling landscapes, ethnographic and Portraits from Asia and Europe’, a otherwise: European images of Asians major international travelling exhibition from the 15th to the 19th centuries.’ organized by the Asia-Europe Museum In: Yoshida, Kenji and Durrans, Brian, Networks (ASEMUS), which opened at (eds.), Self and Other: Portraits from two locations in Osaka in September Asia and Europe. Osaka: The Asahi and will subsequently move on to Shimbun,2008,pp.282-290. Fukuoka, Kanagawa, South-East Asia and Europe, before arriving at the ‘National Museums and Other Cultures Brunei Gallery in 2010. The second in Modern Japan.’ In: Sherman, Daniel was ‘Beyond Diplomacy’, a small J., (ed.), Museums and Difference. exhibition at the Embassy of Japan in Indiana University Press, 2007, pp. the UK in September and October, to 97-123. commemorate the 150th anniversary of the formal opening of diplomat- ‘The Logic of Spectacle c. 1970.’ ic relations between Japan and the UK. Art History, 30 (4), 2007, pp. 571-589.

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Barbara PIZZICONI Naomi Noble and Donald Brix, eds, The With Levin, Beth. ‘Unpredicated Particles.’ Publications: History of Painting in East Asia: Essays In: Uyechi, Linda and Wee, Lian Hee, ‘Danwa modariti’ [Discourse Modality]. on Scholarly Method, Taipei: Rock (eds.), Reality Exploration and Discovery: BATJ Journal, 9, 2008. pp. 31-37. Publishing, 2008. Pattern Interaction in Language & Life. Stanford: CSLI Publications, 2008. ‘Nihon to Kaigai no Kyoikukikan no Ky- oiku Renkei no Mosaku – Tanki Kookan With Kim, Jong-Bok and Wescoat, Michael Ryugaku Puroguramu no Gakushuusha T. ‘Korean Copular Constructions: A no Ankeeto kara.’ In: Papers of the Japa- Lexical Sharing Approach.’ In: Clancy, nese Language Teaching Association in P. and Hudson, M. E. and Jun, S.-A. honour of Professor Fumiko Koide. To- and Sells, P., (eds.), Japanese/Korean kyo: Koide Kinen Nihongo Kenkyuukai, Linguistics. Vol.13. CSLI Publications, Tokyo Joshi Daigaku Gendai Bungaku- 2008. Also with Kim, Jong-Bok. English bu, 2008. Syntax: An Introduction. Stanford: CSLI Publications, 2008. ‘Japanese language learning in the UK – Notes on the social and educational background to the year of study in Japan in higher education programmes, and the case of SOAS.’ In: Towards a global standard in Japanese Language Pedagogy. Tokyo: Japanese Ministry of Education, 2008, pp. 74-84.

Timon SCREECH Peter SELLS Tim visited San Francisco twice in the Peter is co-investigator on a major spring, giving a lecture on Edo erotica AHRC-funded research project on ‘Verb at the Asian Art Museum and a paper semantics and argument realization in on 17th-century international trade pre-modern Japanese’, based in Oxford, with Japan at the annual meeting of which will begin in 2009 and aims to the Association of Asian Studies. In give a comprehensive account of the June, he gave two regular lectures at basic grammar of each of the stages of Tama University of the Arts in Tokyo the language, from the beginning of its in his capacity of Permanent Visiting recorded history in the 8th century until Professor. In July he gave a presentation the beginning of the 17th century. at Warwick University on Japanese internationalism in the Edo period. Tim Publications is spending the 08-09 academic year With Gerassimova, Veronica. on leave in Japan. His first book, ‘Edo ‘Long-Distance Dependencies in no ijin ôrai’ (Maruzen 1995) has just Tagalog: The Case for Raising.’ In: been given the signal honour of being Chang, Charles B. and Haynie, Hannah reissued in bunko-bon format by Chiku- J., (eds.), Proceedings of the 26th West ma Gakujutsu Bunko (2008). Coast Conference. Somerville, Mass.: Cascadilla Proceedings Project, 2008, Publications pp. 190-198. ‘A Japanese Construction of Chinese Painting in the Eighteenth Century’, in

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Contributions to the study of Japan

Professor Andrew GERSTLE single-sheet illustrations, all displaying Mrs Kazumi TANAKA Professor of Japanese Studies the different ways in which actors and Senior Lector in Japanese their performances were interpreted. Drew Gerstle’s Kabuki Heroes In commemoration of the 150th on the Osaka Stage: 1780-1830 ‘Such was the intention of the 2005 anniversary of the relationship between (British Museum Press / University of British Museum exhibition of which Japan and the UK, the Ministry Hawaii Press, 2005), co-authored with this volume is a reproduction of the of Foreign Affairs has conferred Timothy Clark and Akiko Yano, was cho- catalogue. Most of the exhibits are here the Foreign Minister’s Certificate of sen by the Nippon Foundation in Japan to reproduced, along with authoritative Commendation to Mrs Kazumi Tanaka, promote understanding of contemporary texts, focusing on Kabuki culture in Senior Lector in Japanese at SOAS, at Japan. Osaka and Kyoto during the liveliest the Embassy of Japan in the UK. period of the adulation of the actors Drew’s book was chosen among from around 1780 until the 1830s. the 100 Books for Understanding Contemporary Japan ‘The creation of celebrity and fame is actually a statement about collective participation required by urban culture. In traditional Japan this included the stage, the art studio, the poetry salon and the fan club. We here recognize (some 300 woodblock print reproductions are included) our own obsession with celebrity and may realize that this is not merely a modern phenomenon.’

Japanese Imperialism: 1894-1945 Mrs Tanaka was one of nine individuals (Clarendon Press, 1987) by William recognized for making significant contri- G. Beasley (1919-2006), who spent his butions to the improvement of bilateral career at SOAS as the first Professor relations between Japan and the UK. of East Asian History, was also chosen among the 100 books. Mrs Tanaka was recognized for “her contribution in promoting Japanese language teaching 100 Books for Understanding Contem- both in the UK and Europe. She porary Japan (Nippon Foundation, was also the core founder of the 2008) describes the book as follows: British Association of Teaching Japanese.” ‘Kabuki was, and remains, an actors’ theatre. The audience comes to see Mrs Tanaka has been a pioneer in the someone in a play more often than development of Japanese language it comes to see the play itself. The teaching in Britain. She has been phenomenon is familiar to us in our a teacher and teacher-trainer at age of movie stars and pop-idols but it SOAS, assisting in the development is not always remembered that Japan of teaching materials and the School’s has long entertained a superstar language programme. She has concept. Kabuki actors have, from the established herself as one of the most inception of the drama, been a stimulus respected Japanese language teachers for actor-prints, for lavish albums, for in Britain.

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Shino ARISAWA and creativity within tradition; and the Shino recently completed her PhD at impact of the legislation on the artists, SOAS under the supervision of David e.g. their understanding of their own Hughes. Her dissertation was the first arts and traditions. ethnographic study on jiuta-sôkyoku, a type of Japanese instrumental ensemble In 2004, Shino founded the music (shamisen and koto) originating SOAS Japanese Music Society and has in the 17th century. It examined the been teaching the koto, shamisen, image of ‘traditional’ music, which is and singing. The aim of the society is popularly seen in contemporary society to learn and enjoy sankyoku ensemble as a static art form, with a high degree (koto, shamisen, and shakuhachi), of continuity from the past. and is open to all SOAS students as well as members of staff. Japanese Through fieldwork, however, she music enthusiasts from outside SOAS discovered that leading performers are also welcome though places are of traditional music are almost limited. The group is also extremely always innovators who have happy to performweddings and private encouraged changes and development, parties (!). Please email Shino Arisawa: and have pushed the boundaries of [email protected]. tradition. By examining the discrepancy between image and reality, she analysed how contemporary musicians Gina BARNES negotiate the construction of their musi- Between July and November Gina cal identities. This was the project to was Visiting Research Fellow at the study several major musical lineages International Research Center for of jiuta-sôkyoku and Shino was given Japanese Studies (Nichibunken) exceptional permission to learn from in Kyoto. Her research topic was the head musicians and to film and ‘Immigrant craft techologies in the late document traditions that are generally 4th-5th centuries. In late October she closed to outsiders. acted as the Lecturer for Archaeological Tours (New York), visiting several Shino’s next project as a Postdoctoral archaeological sites in Kyushu and Research Associate at SOAS is the many museums in Kanto, Kyushu, impact of Japan’s 1954 legislation and Kinai, among other attractions. concerning the protection of ‘intangible In November she gave presentations cultural properties’ (mukei bunkazai), at Kyoto University on cross-straits in particular the title of ‘Living National relations between Japan and Korea in Treasure’ (ningen kokuhô), which the 4th century, at Osaka University on is given to artists considered to be the ‘Territory and ideology in the early Kofun most significant transmitters of Japan’s period’, and at the Museum of Natural cultural traditions. history on Japanese geohistory.

The study will contain a range of Publications in-depth case studies of Living National ‘The Making of the Japan Sea and the Treasures in the performing arts. Key Japanese Mountains: Understanding questions include: the role of culture Japan’s Volcanism in Structural in the construction of national identity; Context’. Nichibunken Japan Review 20: Kusama Yayoi the use of technology, media and the 3-52 (2008). ‘Tender are the stairs to heaven’ (2004) market for the dissemination of culture In situ at NGV International, Melbourne as commodities; aspects of innovation 30 June 2008.

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David HUGHES Evgeny STEINER David retired from SOAS in August 2008 Evgeny began the year with a series of and is now a Research Associate of the lectures in Moscow, on the alphabet, JRC and the Department of Music. In Dharma and Japanese prints. He gave a March he gave a book launch lecture JRC seminar in January on ukiyo-e and a for Traditional Folk Song in Modern guest lecture at UEA in February on his Japan (Global Oriental, 2007), at new project on displaced art following Daiwa House in London and in June he WWII. He gave a lecture at the delivered a paper on oral mnemonics at Courtauld Institute in March on Victory the Performance, Orality and Historical over the Sun, a seminal futurist text of Memory symposium at SOAS. Between 1913, and gave papers on Orientalism July and December he was Overseas at the Courtauld Institute in April Visiting Professor at the International and in Moscow in July. He gave talks Research Center for Japanese Studies on Japanese prints at an international in Kyoto, researching Japanese folk song conference at the Russian State contests and preservation societies. In University for the Humanities in June September he was a guest performer and as a Third Thursday lecture at the at the 26th Columbia Records national Sainsbury Institute in Norwich in July. folk song contest in Osaka. For the academic year 08-09 Evgeny Publications has been awarded a grant by the Co-editor (with A. Tokita), ‘Folk music: American Council of Learned Societies from local to national to global’, and for his project on ‘“special collections” with A. Tokita, ‘Context and change of far eastern art in Moscow museums’ in Japanese music’, in The Ashgate and will be sharing his time between research companion to Japanese London, Berlin and Moscow. music. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2008. Publications Victory Over the Sun. Ed. by P. Railing. Peter KORNICKI London: Artists.Bookworks, 2008. Peter spent some of May in Italy, delivering lectures on ‘Women and the Japanese Prints in the Pushkin Museum book in Japan’ in Florence and ‘Textual of Fine Arts. Moscow, 2008. 2 vols. variants in the Tosa nikki’ in Venice. In July and August he visited Japan, Korea and Vietnam for library research on the printing of Chinese texts outside China, focusing in Japan on the Cabinet Library in Tokyo.

Publications ‘Books in the service of politics; Tokugawa Ieyasu as custodian of the books of Japan’, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 18: 71-82.

‘Ikeda Kikan and the textual tradition of Tosa nikki: European influences on Japanese textual scholarship’, Revue d’histoire des textes 8: 263-282.

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Dreams & Visions

Ive Aaslid COVACI occupied an important place in both lay other illustrated scrolls of the thirteenth Ive completed her Ph.D. in Art History at and monastic religious practice in the and fourteenth centuries, arguing that Yale University in the spring of 2007 with a Heian and Kamakura periods. Because dissertation entitled “The Ishiyamadera accounts of dreams and visions appear the ways in which scrolls pictorially engi and the representation of dreams repeatedly throughout varied sources in construct a dream space reveal a and visions in pre-modern Japanese medieval Japan, her approach to works great deal about the boundaries art.” The dissertation considered depic- of art commissioned or produced after between waking, dreaming, and tions of dreams and visions in illustrated inspirational dreams considers a wide envisioning in pre-modern Japan. scrolls of the Kamakura period, as variety of materials, including Buddhist well as the broader relationship texts, literary works, courtiers’ diaries, The theme of dreaming also allows an between dreaming and image making setsuwa, and documentary records of investigation of the relationship be- in pre-modern Japan. the time. tween narrative forms of paintings, such as illustrated scrolls, and more iconic At Yale, she studied under Mimi Yieng- Covaci’s current research on narrative forms, such as images of deities used in pruksawan, with a concentration in depictions of dreams focuses on ritual settings, another central concern Japanese Buddhist art and narrative the Ishiyamadera engi, an illustrat- of her research. painting. She also holds a BA in Art His- ed handscroll composed in the early tory and an MA in East Asian Studies fourteenth century and illustrated over from Stanford University. As a Robert the course of many centuries. and Lisa Sainsbury Fellow, she will be revising her dissertation for publication The scroll depicts the numerous dreams as a book. experienced by pilgrims to the temple, famous for its deity’s propensity for A main theme of Covaci’s research dream revelations. Her research on is the relationship between material this scroll examines the role these and immaterial images, and she aims depictions play in the visual and textual to understand how this relationship narrative of the scroll as a whole, as operates in the production and use of well as how the artists cope with the icons and narrative paintings. In the problem of representing the internal book, she will investigate this topic from experience of dreaming. She extends the angle of dreams and visions, which this analysis further to dream scenes in

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Representation & Experience

Maki FUKUOKA copper-etching, ink-rubbing, and and religious understandings of death Maki received her Ph.D in Art History hand-copying in tandem with specific in years between Sino-Japan War from the University of Chicago in language and other practices that and Russo Japan War, to ask in what 2006, and comes to London from permeated within the group. Particularly way photographic portraits allowed The University of Michigan in Ann central to this project is the concept for or constricted experiencing and Arbor, where she is an Assistant of shashin, which ultimately came to accepting the death of an individual Professor of Japanese Humanities in designate photography in Japanese during these perilous wars. From the Department of Asian Languages in the late 1870s, but conveyed vastly a concomitant yet diametrically and Cultures. Maki’s research looks different conceptual meaning among opposed stance, she is also writing an at various manifestations of visual the members of the group. Navigating article on the photographic portraits culture in 19th and 20th century Japan, the texts and illustrations that hinged of the Meiji Emperor and the ways in the reciprocal relationship between upon this concept, Maki traces the which his performative presence was them and shifting meanings associated with the orchestrated and experienced through term, and analyzes representational these images and cultural practices the ways in which perception (real strategies explored, articulated, and that surround them. Her other research or imagined) is utilized to conform questioned collectively by this group interests include the history of exhibi- and/or challenge person’s to bring to the fore the relationship tion and collection, the institutional and experience of the world. between perception and knowledge discursive formulation of “art history,” that these scholars challenged and and the history of photographic albums. Her current book project, for instance, overcame. examines botanical illustrations from the late Tokugawa period to show how Maki’s project on iei (photographic illustrations executed in various media portrait of the deceased) in modern enabled different kinds of seeing and Japan, emerges from a similar interest knowing of the world of plants. in the intersection between vision and pictorial representation on one hand, Tentatively titled “Between Seeing and and the experience of the real on the Knowing: Representing the Real in other. Japan between 1830-1872”, it focuses on a group of honzō-gaku scholars She is exploring the funeral practices, in Owari domain known as Shōhyaku reproductions of iei in popular media, sha, analyzing their illustrations in 13 VISITING SCHOLARS

Their Final Resting Places

ne of my goals while I was a summary of my earlier research!) At Gwynedd council and asked them to in London on my sabbatical that time I hadn’t paid much attention to confirm that Evans was buried at the during 2007 was to find the some notes in the file written by Rees’s church in question, then St. Bodfin’s, graves of two members of the daughter and Evans’s wife, Janet. But now St. Mary’s. The senior archivist OLondon Missionary Society. Lao She one of these, a long letter written after replied in the affirmative, enclosing two would go on to become one of the Evans’s death, described his funeral article from the local press. Despite my great novelists of modern China, but in in detail: Evans was buried ‘in the little discovery, I did not have the time to visit 1924 he arrived in London to take up old parish church at Llanaber, only 200 St Mary’s, since I was only in the UK for a position teaching Chinese at SOAS. (It yards from the sea’, near where he four months. One day I will visit Evans’s was while working at SOAS that he began drowned. grave and pay my tribute to the man working on his first novel.) The job had without whose support we may not have been arranged by Evans, a missionary Rees’s grave took a little more time to had Lao She the novelist. in China, together with his father-in-law, find. The relevant microfilm of the local William H. Rees, who had resigned from paper, the Barnet Press, was missing Professor Yuriko Takahashi the Society and was working as head at the local history museum, but the (Sophia University) original was held in the reference Visiting Scholar, 2007 of Chinese at SOAS. Tragically, both Professorial Research Associate (SOAS) Rees and Evans died shortly after Lao room of the paper’s office. Finally, in She’s arrival, deeply affecting his work. the edition for 9 August 1924, I found Despite their significance, the locations Rees’s obituary, including the location of their graves have never been known of the funeral, the Bells Hill cemetery. to Lao She scholars. A few days later I contacted the cemetery. Before I arrived in London I assumed Ms Baker, the caretaker, confirmed that that the search would be fairly the cemetery included the graves of Dr straightforward. I had an address in Rees and his wife and met me at the sta- Barnet where Rees and Evans had tion. Eventually, with the help of ceme- both lived and I knew the dates when tery’s record book, we found Rees’s they had died. I also assumed that grave in one of the furthest corners of the London Missionary Society would the graveyard. have had its own cemetery and records. Little did I know. On a large stone cross was inscribed in large Chinese characters: I started at SOAS, with its rich 瑞牧師 collection of missionary archives. I The pedestal had an inscription must emphasize how much easier in English, ‘In Loving Memory of the collections are to use, compared William Hopkyn Rees’, and under- to my earlier visits. Being able to make copies with a digital camera, having neath, ‘Missionary and Sinologue, more archivists to consult have all born at Cwmavon, Wales, April made the researcher’s work much more 24th 1859, died at Barnet Aug. efficient and pleasant. 1924’.

The archivists were unable to give me Lao She arrived in London one month any leads, but the first clue did in fact later. There is no way of knowing who come from a file in the archives. This wrote the Chinese characters, but to was Rees’s SOAS personnel file. I had me they were not unlike Lao She’s seen it before, in 1994, when it was held handwriting. in the Human Resources department. It now included a note I had written to the Evans died roughly one year later. To department after my visit, together with corroborate Janet’s letter, I wrote to 14 VISITING SCHOLARS

New Perspectives was lucky enough to be able to A month ago, a general of Japan’s research at SOAS from April to October Self-Defense Force wrote an 2008. When I arrived in London, I was article denying the fact that Japan had surprised by the speed with which invaded any of its neighboring countries. Ipeople walked; I was constantly over- He was dismissed. This is one of the taken. Crowded and lively restaurants, many examples of Japan’s inability to many kinds of delicious food in Waitrose, accept the less glorious moments in its and sushi bars, all this was very different history. to the memories of London I had from twenty years ago. The discussions at SOAS appeared to be firmly based in historical fact One day in May, I went to Canary Wharf. and free from any ideology. Many young people in black suits were excitedly watching the prices of As this financial crisis has shown shares on a gigantic electric screen. globalisation is a matter of everyday life. Things have changed since then. However, while Japan is still struggling Throughout September I watched the to come to terms with memories, financial turmoil start to change London. SOAS is moving toward new historical perspectives—participating actively While London boomed, SOAS appeared in the phenomenon of globalization. to have expanded. I never saw so I was lucky to have seen firsthand the many students from so many different potential of the interconnected world for backgrounds. The buildings always enlightened unbiased study. seemed crowded with students and teachers. But SOAS appeared to be as Professor Reishi Tayama calm as before. (Bukkyo University) Visiting Scholar 2007-2008 I went as many academic meetings as possible. I was interested in how ideas such as ‘tradition’, ‘nation’, and ‘ethnicity’ were being treated in discussions relating to religious rituals, art history, and so on.

British historians have been producing fascinating arguments prompting reconsiderations of these ideas. Their arguments should not be taken as a reason for rejecting cultural continuity, but some people do. Thus some Japanese who feel guilty about the conduct of their own country, for example, atrocities committed by the army during the Second World War, disdain “Japanese tradition”, “Japanese culture”, etc, because these words were frequently used as tools to build a national consciousness and justify the war.

15 16 AWARDS

Emma Cook Francesca Di Marco Taka Oshikiri MEIJI JINGU STUDENTSHIP TSUDA BURSARY MEIJI JINGU STUDENTSHIP

Emma came to SOAS after degrees Francesca’s dissertation examines the Taka’s research focuses on Chanoyu at Liverpool and Edinburgh, followed discourse on suicide patterns in post-war during the Meiji period. Chanoyu is a by four years teaching English in Japan, investigating the formation of cultural activity which revolves around Hamamatsu. the image of suicide throughout the the consumption of powdered green tea post-war period in non-fictional media, and includes various cultural practices. Her dissertation is preliminarily titled, in particular in newspaper coverage, Chanoyu-related-industries produced a Japanese ‘Freeters’: Moving Beyond suicide how-to manuals and suicide number of material objects, which later the Salaryman ‘Model’ of Masculinity. websites. became referred to as ‘art objects’. Through participant-observation at a nine-screen cinema and Non-Profit The thesis covers the whole post- Since Chanoyu consists of a variety Organisation (that aimed to help youth war period, from 1946 to 2005, of cultural practices and a range into employment), and through intensive focusing particularly on the 1990s when of material objects, Chanoyu has been interviews and life histories, she ex- there was a rapid growth of Internet studied from various perspectives. Yet, plores the lives and masculinities of associations, suicide pacts, and web its full potential as an object of study young Japanese men who are working suicide groups. At the same time, suicide has been overlooked until recently. as freeters (‘part-time’ workers who are became a much-reported topic in the neither housewives nor students). mass media. The result of these new First, there have been relatively few trends has been a striking increase in studies of the period after the Meiji Men in Japan have been seen, typically, suicide clusters and in new methods Restoration. Second, tea historians to define themselves and be defined of suicide, as well as the emergence seem to put their emphasis on stylistic largely through their work. Though there of new dynamics such as group suicide analysis and connoisseurship and to be have always been many alternatives and suicide communities. less interested in exploring the social to working in ‘regular’ full-time aspects of this practice. Third, it seems work (as a ‘salaryman’), dominant Most existing research, despite that tea historians unquestioningly Japanese masculinity remains that a variety of theoretical approaches, relate the role of Chanoyu in modern of the responsible middle-class has analysed suicide largely as an society through the concept of tradition. salaried worker, breadwinner, and unchanging expression of traditional However, as a number of recent father. Male freeters, by dint of Japanese values. By contrast, Francesca historical studies have illustrated, the their irregular/unstable employment wants to analyse the changing idea of tradition arises from an intricate situation, are consequently unable relationship between suicide and its relations between the state, nation and to live up to mainstream ideals of representation, unveiling the conditions industry. Taka’s research therefore Japanese masculinity. Through looking under which the historical appearance aims to examine the social aspects of at individuals’ lives my current research of suicide is formed, reinterpreted and Chanoyu, which is deeply rooted in the explores the contradictions and tensions reinvented. life of Japanese elites. She hopes to that arise from the contrasting expecta- contribute not only to the literature on tions on and opportunities available to the history of tea but also to the broader male freeters, and how these young cultural and social history of modern men are consequently negotiating and Japan. constructing their masculinities and identities.

17 RESEARCH STUDENTS

From Colonial Community to Cold War Film Duncan ADAM Makiko HAYASHI Tullio LOBETTI Schoolboys, toughs and adultresses: Supervisor: Dr John Breen Faith in the flesh: body and ascetic Representations of desire in the practices in contemporary Japanese fiction of Mishima Yukio Deidre HEALY religious context Supervisor: Dr Steve Dodd Contemporary compositions Supervisor: Dr Lucia Dolce for the shakuhachi Jane ALASZEWSKI Supervisor: Dr David Hughes Benedetta LOMI Supervisor: Dr David Hughes Bato Kannon/Matou Guanyin: cult, Katsuyuki HIDEKA images and rituals of the Ryoko AOKI Consuming the Past: Nostalgia in Japa- Horse-Headed One Women Noh Performers nese Television and the the Supervisor: Dr Lucia Dolce Supervisor: Prof Andrew Gerstle 1960s Retro-Theme Park. Supervisor: Dr Isolde Standish Shinya MAEZAKI Midori ATKINS Qing-style Porcelain in Meiji Japan: Time and space reconsidered: Satomi HORIUCHI The Ceramic Art of Seifū Yohei III Literary landscape of Murakami Haruki Contemporary Japanese Christianity: (1851-1914) Supervisor: Dr Steve Dodd Ancestors, rites and graves Supervisor: John Carpenter Supervisor: Dr Lucia Dolce Kristian BERING Shinya MANO Kyokutei Bakin and Theatre Noriko HORSLEY Eisai and the development of Supervisor: Prof Andrew Gerstle Court Patronage and the Collecting Zen-Esoteric Buddhism of Art during the Insei Period Supervisor: Dr Lucia Dolce Kiku DAY Supervisor: Dr John Carpenter Remembrance of things past: Barbara MICYK the archaic shakuhachi in Christopher HOWARD The Supernatural in Edo contemporary contexts From the Reverse-Course Policy illustrated Fiction Supervisor: Dr David Hughes to High-Growth: Japanese International Supervisor: Prof Andrew Gerstle Film Trade in the Context of the Francesca DI MARCO Cold War Carla Tronu MONTANE The Discourse of Suicide in Supervisor: Dr Isolde Standish The Construction of Christian Space Postwar Japan in Nagasaki, 1567-1633 Supervisor: Dr Angus Lockyer Eric KWONG Supervisor: Dr Angus Lockyer Kōminka Movements in Taiwan and Lucy GLASSPOOL Korea, 1937-1945 Yaara MORRIS Japanese Video Games and Supervisor: Dr Angus Lockyer The Cult of Tenkawa Benzaiten – International Fandom her rituals, texts, and mandalas Supervisor: Dr Isolde Standish Kigensan LICHA Supervisor: Dr Lucia Dolce The Esoterization of Soto Zen in Mami HATAYAMA Medieval Japan Doreen MUELLER The Meiji Painter and Lacquer Supervisor: Dr Lucia Dolce Kirokuga: record paintings in Artist Shibata Zeshin the Edo Period Supervisor: Dr John Carpenter Supervisor: Prof Tim Screech

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Tamiko NAKAGAWA Christopher ROBERTS Supervisor: Prof Tim Screech British Extraterritoriality in Japan, 1858-1899 Takako NEGISHI Supervisor: Dr Angus Lockyer An examination of the drama performed by Japanese actress Ivan RUMANEK Hanako’s company in the West in Kabuki’s appropriation of Noh theatre the early 20th century Supervisor: Prof Andrew Gerstle Supervisor: Prof Andrew Gerstle Ryosuke SHIBAGAKI Yukiko NISHIMURA Resultative Constructions in Japanese Worship of Avalokitesvara in Japan Supervisor: Prof Peter Sells Supervisor: Dr Lucia Dolce Martyn SMITH Jane OKSBJERG Ethnic and Civic Nationalism in Religious Imagery of Middle Yayoi Early Meiji Japan Settlements: An Iconology of Supervisor: Dr Angus Lockyer Engraved Drawings on Kinai Pottery and Bronze Bells Nobuaki TAKASE Supervisor: John Carpenter Mutsu Munemitsu and Meiji Japan Supervisor: Dr Angus Lockyer Taka OSHIKIRI Gathering for Tea in Early Meiji Japan Eriko TOMIZAWA-KAY Supervisor: Dr Angus Lockyer The Nihonga Artist Hishida Shunso (1874-1911) Fumi OUCHI Supervisor: John Carpenter The vocal arts in medieval Japan and Tendai hongaku thought Terumi TOYAMA Supervisor: Dr Lucia Dolce Pictorial discription of sacred spaces of reconstructed religious architecture in Galia PETKOVA the early Edo period Kyoto, Japan Gender Construction in Kabuki Supervisor: Prof Tim Screech Supervisor: Prof Andrew Gerstle Shino TOYOSHIMA Jenny PRESTON Making Kunsan Home: Nishikawa Sukenobu: Community Building by Japanese The Engagement of Popular Art Settlers in Colonial Korea in Socio-Political Discourse Supervisor: Dr Angus Lockyer Supervisor: Dr John Carpenter

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KAYOKO TSUDA BURSARY MEIJI JINGU PHD STUDENTSHIPS MEIJI JINGU SMALL GRANTS

The Kayoko Tsuda Bursary has been Two awards are offered annually, either Grants are offered to assist full-time created through the generosity of Ms for PhD students at SOAS, or newly academic staff members of the JRC, Kayoko Tsuda. enrolling full-time MPhil students, who SOAS, to promote Japanese Studies. have been accepted by SOAS. Applicants may be of any nationality, Funds may be used for personal must be entering their last (normally Students may be registered in any research, conferences, etc, or to 4th) year of a PhD degree at SOAS, and department, and be of any nationality, purchase research-level books for in need of the bursary to fund the final but must be working on some aspect the SOAS Library. Group projects are writing-up of their thesis. Those working of Japanese Studies. PhD candidates acceptable, but should be submitted in on any aspect of Japanese studies are must be resident in SOAS: the award the name of one representative individ- eligible. cannot be used elsewhere. ual.

One bursary is offered per year, carrying Studentships are worth £5,000, and Total subsidy of up to £2,200 will be of- a value of £7,000 (untaxed). carry a 20% reduction of fees (EU or fered in any one calendar year, for the Overseas). duration of the agreement, to be divided Closing Date between successful applicants. Awards Friday, 29 May 2009 Closing Date will be assessed according to their im- Friday, 29 May 2009 portance for Japanese studies, as inter- How to Apply preted by the Steering Committee of the For more information and to download How to Apply JRC. The Committee, together with the an application form, please visit the For more information and to download approval of Meiji Jingu, will decide who SOAS Scholarship Office web page: an application form, please visit the the successful applicant will be. http://www.soas.ac.uk/registry/schol- SOAS Scholarship Office web page: arships/meiji-jingu-studentships.html http://www.soas.ac.uk/registry/schol- Closing Date arships/meiji-jingu-studentships.html The first closing date for applications The Scholarships Officer will be 29 May 2009. If not all funds Registry The Scholarships Officer have been allocated, a second round SOAS Registry will be held, with a closing date in late Thornhaugh Street SOAS October, 2009. Russell Square Thornhaugh Street London Russell Square How to Apply WC1H 0XG London To download an application form UK WC1H 0XG please visit the JRC website: UK http://www.soas.ac.uk/jrc/awards-and- grants/awards-grants.html

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