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It has been another busy year for the Japan Research Centre, not least in terms of com- ing and going. A number of colleagues have CONTENTS been on leave in Japan and elsewhere, but we were joined by Dr Chris Gerteis, as Lecturer 4 Centre Members in Contemporary Japanese History, and are 5 Members News happy to report that Dr Satoshi Miyamura has been appointed as the Japan Foundation 9 News Lecturer in the Economy of Japan. We are 10 Events 2009-10 also fortunate in having a substantial number 12 Reports of Research Associates and Visiting Scholars, who do much to enrich our programmes. 22 Honorary Appointments 27 SISJAC Fellows Our weekly seminars remain the core of our activities, which this year have ranged from 29 Research Students Buddhist ritual to J-horror and Japanese lac- 30 Awards & Grants quer to NYK. 34 Join the Centre The highlight, as ever, was our two annual lectures, made possible by the generosity of our donors. We were honoured to welcome Reverend Nakajima, the Chief Priest of Meiji Jingu, for the Meiji Jingu Autumn lecture at the beginning of the autumn term. Professor Sepp Linhart of the University of Vienna spoke about the mutual reception of popular music in Japan and the West, liberally illustrating his talk with striking musical examples.

We were also delighted that Professor James McClain, of Brown University, agreed to give the Annual Tsuda Lecture in February, not least because he is an old friend of Mrs Tsuda and her husband. Professor Brown gave a wide-ranging talk on the significance of the middle-class in twentieth-century Japan, focusing on Tokyo, the changing lifestyles in the city over the course of the last century and how they might prompt us to reconsider our ideas about modern Japan.

We are increasingly supplementing our weekly seminars with a range of other activities. This last year saw a number of workshops, on comparing London and Tokyo, on Minakata Kuma- gusu’s time in London, and on shunga in its social and cultural context. We have also hosted a number of performances of kabuki, noh and shinnai and a couple of film screenings, the first of a recent documentary on the problem of unemployment in Japan, the second on the life of Beate Sirota Gordon. We were delighted that Ms Sirota Gordon could join us for the latter event.

This year promises to be as busy as ever. We will be hosting the triennial conference of the British Association for Japanese Studies this September, followed by a second workshop on shunga, organized by Professor Drew Gerstle as part of a long-term project funded by the Leverhulme Trust. In November, Dr Gerteis is organizing a workshop on postwar Japan, which will include a number of speakers from Japan and the United States.

We look forward to seeing you in the coming year. Angus LOCKYER Chair, Japan Research Centre

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Professor Timothy H BARRETT Ms Misako KANEHISA 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 Cultures Department of Economics [email protected] of Japan and Korea [email protected] [email protected] Dr John L BREEN Dr Barbara PIZZICONI Reader in Japanese Mrs Miwako KASHIWAGI Senior Lecturer in Applied Department of the Languages and Cultures Lector in Japanese Japanese Linguistics of Japan and Korea Department of the Languages and Cultures Department of the Languages and Cultures [email protected] of Japan and Korea of Japan and Korea [email protected] [email protected] Dr John CARPENTER Reader in the History of Japanese Art Dr Griseldis KIRSCH Dr Nicole ROUSMANIERE Head of London Office, Sainsbury Institute Lecturer in Contemporary Director, Sainsbury Institute for the study for the Study of Japanese Arts Japanese Culture of Japanese Arts and Cultures and Cultures Department of the Languages and Cultures (Honorary Lecturer) Department of the History of Art & Archaeology of Japan and Korea Department of the History of Art [email protected] [email protected] and Archaeology [email protected] Mr Alan CUMMINGS Dr Mika KIZU Teaching Fellow in Japanese Lecturer in Japanese Ms Sonja RUEHL Department of the Languages and Cultures Department of the Languages and Cultures Deputy Director (Distance Learning), of Japan and Korea of Japan and Korea Department of Financial and [email protected] [email protected] Management Studies Department of Financial and Management Dr Stephen H DODD Ms Fujiko KOBAYASHI Studies Senior Lecturer in Japanese Librarian (Japan and Korea) [email protected] Department of the Languages and Cultures Library and Information Services of Japan and Korea [email protected] Professor Timon SCREECH [email protected] Professor of the History of Art Dr Yuka KOBAYASHI Department of the History of Art Dr Lucia DOLCE Lecturer in China and International Politics and Archaeology Senior Lecturer in Japanese Religion Department of Politics and International Studies [email protected] and Japanese [email protected] Chair, Centre for the Study of Professor Peter SELLS Japanese Religions Professor Costas LAPAVITSAS Professor of Linguistics Department of the Study of Religions Professor of 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 Media Studies Department of the Languages and Cultures Lecturer in the History of Japan Centre for Media and Film Studies of Japan and Korea Chair, Japan Research Centre [email protected] [email protected] Department of History [email protected] Mrs Kazumi TANAKA Dr Chris GERTEIS Senior Lector in Japanese Lecturer in History of Contemporary Japan Dr Helen MACNAUGHTON Department of the Languages and Cultures Department of History Lecturer in International Business of Japan and Korea [email protected] and Management (Japan) [email protected] Department of Financial and Management Dr Noriko IWASAKI Studies Ms Yoshiko YASUMURA Lecturer in Language Pedagogy [email protected] Librarian (Art and Music) Department of Linguistics Library and Information Services [email protected] Dr Dolores P MARTINEZ [email protected] Reader in Anthropology with reference to Japan Department of Anthropology and Sociology [email protected]

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Travels, Talks & Publications

John BREEN John T. CARPENTER Steve DODD Steve attended the 25-28 March 2010 John is coming to the end of his 2nd year at During the 2009-10 academic year John has AAS conference at Philadelphia. He was Nichibunken in Kyoto. It has been a good been based in Japan as a Visiting Professor in a discussant for a panel entitled, “Material year, not least because he got to see quite a the Department of Cultural Resource Stud- Objects in Postwar Japanese Literature.” few SOAS academics out in Kyoto as well as ies at the University of Tokyo. He conducted a host of others from Europe, the States and weekly seminars (in Japanese) at the graduate Steve Dodd will take a sabbatical from Asia. Volume 23 of Japan Review, the journal level on topics related to his recent research September 2010. He has been awarded a JSPS he edits, is out at the end of July. It is available on late Edo surimono (poetry prints) and on Longterm Fellowship. Steve intends to be at in hard copy, on the Nichibunken website the paintings, prints and illustrated books of Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, for 6 months. and, now for the first time, on JSTOR. Among Katsushika Hokusai. He also gave lectures on His plan is to complete a new book MS related the talks he has given recently, the most the topic of collections of Japanese painting to Kajii Motojirô. enjoyable involved participating in a panel on and calligraphy in Western collections. early modern religion as seen through visual He has continued to work on various research He has applied for an AHRC scholarship that images. John’s major project now is writing a projects under the auspices of the Sainsbury would give him a second term off in Spring history of the Ise shrines with Mark Teeuwen. Institute and organized an international 2011, following his sabbatical. The result will colloquy celebrating the tenth anniversary of not be heard until Autumn. Publications the Institute and its fellowship programmes. A new history of Shinto (co-authored with Held at SOAS on 20 March 2010, speakers Publications Mark Teeuwen) Wiley-Blackwell, 2010 included Sainsbury Fellows past and present "Tsukurareta rekishi: ‘Shunkinshô’ ni okeru and other researchers who have worked with kako to iu kyokô" in Chiba, S. and Bayard-Sakai, “’Conventional wisdom’ and the politics of the Institute in the past. His own paper was on A. (eds.), Tanizaki Jun’ichirô: kyôkai o koete, Shinto in postwar Japan”, Politics and religion his recent work for a digital display of illustrat- pp.303-318. Tokyo: Kasama shoin, 2009. 4,1 (2010). ed books by Utamaro for the Fitzwilliam Mu- seum, Cambridge University. “Popes, bishops and war criminals: reflections on Catholics and Yasukuni in post-war Japan," In May 2010 he traveled to Italy to participate The Asia-Pacific Journal, 9-3-10, 2010. in the conference “Body and Spirit in Writing in the East and the West” sponsored by the ‘”Shinto is the great way of the universe”: Cini Foundation, based on the Island of San historical notes on Shinto-Christian negotia- Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, and gave a talk on tions’, Japan Mission Journal, 63, 4 (2009) the ‘Materiality and Rhythmic Forms of Japa- nese Calligraphy’.

John was recently appointed as managing editor of the Japanese Visual Culture Series, a new academic series being published by Brill devoted to the visual culture of the Japanese archipelago of every era. The first volume in the series, a study of the Monk Chōgen and the transformation of Buddhist art in early medieval Japan by John M. Rosenfield, will come out in autumn 2010; Brill plans to pub- lish three or four volumes a year in the series.

Publications “Hiroshige no yakusha-e surimono: Patoron toshite no kyōka ren” (Actor Surimono by Hiroshige: Kyōka Circles and the Patronage of Poetry Prints), translated by Kobayashi Fumiko. Ukiyo-e geijutsu, no. 160 (summer 2010) pp. 36-49

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Lucia DOLCE Andrew GERSTLE

Lucia Dolce spent six months (October Grammars and Morphologies of Ritual Practic- Andrew Gerstle received a Japan Foundation 09-March10) at the International Research es in Asia: Section II: Ritual Discourse, Ritual fellowship to spend the year from September Consortium for Research in the Humanities, Performance in China and Japan, Wiesbaden: 2009 at the Art Research Center at Ritsumeikan Ruhr University, Bochum (Germany), Harrasowitz Verlag, 2010 (co-edited with with University in Kyoto. The purpose was research as an invited Research Fellow in the Raz and Triplett). on Japanese erotic art (shunga) as part of the project Dynamics in the History of Religions three-year Leverhulme International Research between Asia and Europe. “The Contested Space of Buddhist project on shunga (see the note on this public rituals: The shunie of Tōdaiji”, in ibid., project in this JRC Annual Report). Through the academic year she was invited to pp. 433-458. present research papers at various universities, He presented papers at the Shunga conferenc- including Heidelberg, Halle, Munich and “Girei ni yori seisei sareru kanzen naru shintai es in Dec 2009 in Kyoto (‘Tsukioka Settei’s Zurich, on topics ranging from Buddhist heret- –chūsei mikkyō no ‘hiseitōteki zuzō’ to shuhō Erotic Parodies of 18th-Century Wom- ical material to shinbutsu contemporary ritu- o megutte,” in Abe Yasurō, ed., Nihon ni en’s Conduct Books: Their Significance in als and the function of religious iconography. okeru shūkyō tekisuto no shoisō to tōjihō, Women’s History’), and April 2010 at SOAS She delivered the paper “The Ritual Body: Nagoya daigaku bungakubu gurobaru COE (‘Sex Education for Boys and Girls?: Takehara Somatic Presence, Representation and puroguramu, pp. 58-71 Shunchôsai’s Makura-dôji nukisashi manben Performativity in Japanese Buddhism” at the tamaguki 『枕童児抜差万遍玉茎』1776). international conference Le corps comme “Duality and the kami: The Ritual Iconography He published (with Hayakawa Monta) the objet at the Centre européen d’études and Visual Constructions of Medieval Shinto,” ‘sex-education guidebook’ Bidô nichiya jo- japonaises d’Alsace, October 31-Nov 3. Cahiers d’Extrême-Asie 16, special issue on hôki 『艶道日夜女宝記』 (A treasure Medieval Shinto, pp. 119-150. book for women on the way of love – day She co-organised a workshop on Minakata and night), (Kinsei enpon shiryô shûsei, no. Kumagusu (Soas, March 2010), dedicated to the 5). Kyoto, International Research Center for memory of Carmen Blacker. She also organised Japanese Studies, 2010. an international workshop on Healing and Divination (Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, The volume contains a facsimile of 25-26 June 2010). This was the final segment the original, a transcription of the text, an of a cooperative project with Ritsumeikan English translation and an Introduction. He is supported by a PMI2 award from British completing a book in Japanese for Heibonsha Council, which several Soas PhD students in focussed on four shunga books, thought Japanese religion participated. to be by Tsukioka Settei. The four shunga books parody two conduct books for women, Publications a marriage guidebook, as well as a medical Girei no chikara –chūsei shūkyō no jissen text. He argues that these shunga books sekai [The Power of Ritual. The World of Re- were aimed as much for a female readership ligious Practice in Medieval Japan], Kyoto: as for men, and form a counter discourse to Hōzōkan, 2010 (co-edited with I. Matsumoto). the popular ‘Neo-Confucian’ conduct books for women such as Onna daigaku and Onna “Nihon shūkyō kenkyū ni okeru gireigaku imagawa. no ronten” [Ritual Theories and the Study of Japanese Religious Practices] (co-authored with I. Matsumoto) and “Nigenteki genri no girei: Fudō Aizen to chikara no hizō [Ritualizing Duality: Fudō, Aizen and the Secret Iconography of Empowerment] in ibid., pp. 3-28 and 159- 206.

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Christopher GERTEIS Griseldis KIRSCH Mika KIZU

Christopher had a very pleasant first year at Griseldis gave a paper in a lecture series at the Mika has been working on Japanese syntax and SOAS. His classes were rewarding to teach University of Erlangen in June 2009, on 'Visions gave a talk on “Mixed chains in long distance and he was pleased by the warm reception he of a heterogeneous Japan? Internationality and dependencies in Japanese’ at the Linguistics received from the members of the JRC. constructions of identity in Japanese television Colloquium, Kanda University of International drama' and in April 2010, she gave Studies in July 2009, “Bare echo wh-ques- His book Gender Struggles: Wage earning an introduction to Japanese television drama tions” at York Workshop on Syntax of East Women and Male-dominated Unions at the Nippon Connection Film Festival in Asian Languages, University of York in August in Postwar Japan (Harvard) came out in Frankfurt. 2009, and “Short wh-questions in Japanese” the autumn, and he has since had the oppor- at the 4th Brussels Conference on Generative tunity to explore a variety of new research Griseldis was on maternity leave from Linguistics: Ellipsis, Hogeschool-Universiteit projects including an edited volume on post September 2009 to January 2010. Brusselss in November 2009. industrialism in Japan as well as a new book on consumerism and memory. Publications She has also been working for the joint project 'Japanisch chinesische Begegnungen with Barbara Pizziconi and Noriko Iwasaki on im Genre Yakuza-Film [Japanese-Chinese modal expressions in L2 spoken Japanese, Encounters in the yakuza-film genre].' In: part of which was presented at the 18th Inter- Distelrath, Günther, (ed.), Refereate des 13. national Conference on Pragmatics and Lan- Deutschsprachigen Japanologentags, Band guage Learning at Kobe University in July 1 Kultur und Sprachwissenschaft. Bonner 2010 and will be presented at the BATJ Annual Asienstudien Band 8/1. Berlin: EBVerlag, pp. Conference and the BAJS Triennial Conference 177-192. in September 2010. Mika was involved in the SOAS Translation Workshop hosted by Chris Gerteis and Angus Lockyer in July 2010.

Publications “Nihongo-no bunretsubun ni okeru chookyori-izon ni tsuite (On long distance dependencies in Japanese clefts),” in Scientific Approaches to Language, Center for Language Sciences, Kanda University of International Studies. (forthcoming)

“Japanese modals at the syntax pragmatics interface,” in Japanese Modality: Exploring its scope and interpretation, Barbara Pizziconi and Mika Kizu (eds.), Palgrave Macmillan.

Japanese Modality: Exploring its scope and interpretation. (eds. with B. Pizziconi, SOAS) Palgrave Macmillan (300 pages)

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Angus LOCKYER Helen MACNAUGHTAN Tim SCREECH

Angus was kept busy during 2009-10 with Helen Macnaughtan participated in a Timon Screech’s groundbreaking book, my duties in the classroom and department workshop on “The Economic History of Shunga, was first published in 1998 and is and as editor of Japan Forum, as well as the Everyday Life in Japan”, held at LSE on 29/30 now available in English and Polish as well pleasures that come with being JRC Chair. He July 2010 where she presented a paper titled as the original Japanese. Having sold some visited Berlin in November with his editor’s hat ‘Building up Steam as Consumers: women, 30,000 copies, it was re-issued in June 2010 on to talk and give advice about publishing rice-cookers and the consumption of every- in Japanese bunko-bon (pocket book) format, and perishing at a graduate student workshop day household goods in Japan’. This work- with a new preface and foreword by the not- organized by VSJF, the German Association shop is a Research Project funded by the ed feminist scholar Ueno Chizuko. The English for Social Science Research on Japan. He British Association for Japanese Studies and translation, published in 1999, reworked and did the same in Cambridge in March for a the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, and with a new chapter, was also republished in similar workshop organized by the European led by Professor Janet Hunter and Dr Penny January. Association of Japanese Studies. Francks. Tim continues to serve as Permanent Visiting In December, he went to Tokyo to participate Helen and Angus Lockyer have organised this Professor at Tama Art University. Autumn 2010 in an international workshop organized by year’s British Association for Japanese Studies will bring him to the third and final year of his Ochanomizu University, one of our partner Annual Conference, which will be hosted by the post as Visiting Professor at Meiji University. institutions, on ‘Who owns Japanese Studies?’ Japan Research Centre, and held at SOAS (for These roles are carried out concurrently with (Nihongaku wa dare no mono ka). Angus the first time in the BAJS conference history) his SOAS work, which is not affected by them. argued that we need to stop studying on 9th and 10th September 2010. Japan as if it is a closed country, which I During the past session he has lectured in nu- called sakokugaku, and start embedding Publications merous institutions, including the University Japan in the disciplines and putting it in Janet Hunter & Helen Macnaughtan (2010). of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Columbia, Heidelberg conversation with other parts of the world. "National Histories of Textile Workers: Japan" and Frankfurt Universities. He also gave the In February he was back in Berlin to give a (Chapter 12) and "Gender and the Global annual Princess Chichibu Memorial Lecture talk at the Free University about the dilemma Textile History" (Chapter 28) in The Ashgate in Tokyo. that Japan faced at international exhibitions Companion to the History of Textile Workers, in the late 19th century. He developed 1650-2000, Ashgate. Tim is currently completing a 75,000-word the talk for a paper at a workshop at book on the painting and prints of the the International Institute for Asian Studies Edo Period, which could be used as a text in Leiden in July, on ‘Asian Countries at book, or by the generally interested reader, World Expositions’, which will be published and is due out from Reaktion Books in 2011. as an edited volume next year. He brought the story into the twentieth century for a conference and workshop on ‘Forgotten Japonisme’ at the V&A and the University of the Arts, also in July.

Angus is also beginning to talk and write about golf. He gave a talk at the University of Vienna in May on ‘golf clubbing’ and developed this for a paper at a workshop in July at the LSE on the history of consumption in Japan, which will also be published next year.

Publications ‘Arthur Hesketh Groom (1846-1918): emblem- atic Edwardian, compulsive clubman, accidental ancestor’, in Hugh Cortazzi, ed., Britain and Japan: Biographical Portraits, vol. 7 (2010).

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Shinbutsu Rituals in Contemporary Japan

Meiji Jingu Small Grant 2008-2009 2009, when I attended the omizutori held at Nigatsudo. The performance emphasises Nigatsudô. the secrecy that surrounds kami: the well REPORT is kept completely in the dark and monks This ritual, more properly called shunie, lit. stand in front of the door preventing anyone Postwar studies of Japanese religion have “ceremonies of the second month,” as it from seeing what happens inside. The ritual focused on the process of separation of was performed in the second month of the enacts the mythological underpinning of the Buddhism and kami worship that started in lunar calendar, is a repentance liturgy (keka) repentance, according to which Onyu myojin, the late nineteenth century, emphasizing devoted to the Eleven-headed Kannon, the god of Wakasa district, was invited to the extent to which it distorted the nature the honzon of Nigatsudô, performed for attend the liturgy for Kannon at Nigatsudô, of Japanese religiosity in its ritual and spatial an extended period (27 days). Through the but arrived later and to compensate for his aspects. In this narrative the associative centuries different ritual segments were delay expressed the desire to offer scented practices that characterized pre-Meiji Japan added to the basic action of repentance water to Kannon. Two cormorants, one black have been relegated to just one aspect of and by the medieval period the omizutori and the other white, took off from a rock and the historical heritage of Japan, which has consisted of a complex ritual protocol sacred water began springing from that spot. been completely wiped out by modernity. constructed around a variety of Buddhist But to what extent does this depiction of textual sources, canonical and not, discursive 4) The ‘small Kannon’ matsuri. This ritual the religious landscape of contemporary (mythological) narratives, symbolic actions segment exemplifies how some devotional Japan correspond to reality? Field evidence and performance devices. Although this is a actions directed to Kannon are constructed and a close analysis of the liturgical calendar Buddhist ritual, several segments devoted to with the symbolic framework used for the in temples and large Shinto institutions the kami are crucial to the conception of the kami. In the night of March 7 the small Kannon suggest that several shrines as well temples liturgy and its contemporary performativity. image enshrined in the inner sanctuary have maintained associative rituals, and that These are also the ritual segments that attract is brought in procession from the inner attempts at reversing the implementation the interest of a larger number of believers. I sanctuarium to the prayer hall, in a mikoshi, of shinbutsu bunri are at work in various shall here mention the most important: and there is venerated by the ritualists and contexts. the clerics of Todaiji at the light of torches, 1) The recitation of the dai Nakatomi harae, and at the sound of kagaku (rather than This project has as its main objective to performed by the ‘master of spells’ on the Buddhist) music. The portable altar is guarded document and analyse specific rituals at evening of February 28. The recitation by the kannushi of the nearby Hachimangû. well-known religious centres, in order to map of this formula betrays the influence of out the forms that contemporary associative esoteric rituals for the kami that developed Preliminary results of my research have been practices take. I have identified two trends in the medieval period. At the same time, presented at two international conferences of this phenomenon: a) Associative practices its performance reveals an attempt to and published in the article ”The contested have been maintained, in particular at large distinguish actions directed to the kami from space of Buddhist public rituals: the shûnie shrines and temples that have century-long those directed to the Buddhas. of Tôdaiji,” in the volume Grammars and traditions of performance of such rituals. morphologies of ritual practices in Asia, vol Eminent examples of this trend are the 2) The reading of a jinmyôcho. The reading of 1 of Ritual Dynamics and the Science of Sannô raihai at Hiyoshi Taisha, the hôjôe at this list of names of kami and other deities Ritual, Wiesbaden: Harrasowitz Verlag, 2009. Iwashimizu Hachimangu, and the omizutori at takes place every day at the beginning of the Tôdaiji. b) New associations between shrines night, announced by the blowing of conch I wish to thank Kojima Yasuko for guiding and temples are being created, which focus shells. It is performed in the inner sanctuary, me through the liturgy, providing practical on rituals performed together by Buddhist lightened only by a lamp, by monks who have information and occasionally a blanket for and Shinto clergy. Such are the associations trained for three years and who have been the cold nights. I am grateful to Meiji jingu for between Iwashimizu and Kiyomizudera, and given an oral transmission. sponsoring part of the fieldwork. Yoshida Shrine and Nanzenji in Kyoto. 3) ‘Omizutori.’ This segment, which gives Lucia Dolce The Meiji jingu small grant I received last the liturgy its popular name, takes place in Senior Lecturer in Japanese Religion and Japanese Chair, Centre for the Study of Japanese Religions year was used to fund part of my fieldwork the middle of the night of March 12. Water at Todaiji from February 25 to March 15, is drawn from the well at the bottom of the

9 ACADEMIC EVENTS, SEPT 2009 - AUG 2010

From Buddhist Icons to Screen Paintings

SEMINAR SERIES

Autumn Term Spring Term Summer Term

21 October 2009 13 January 2010 7 May 2010 Lola Martinez (SOAS) Raj Pandey (Goldsmiths) Toru Ito (Kyoto Institute of Technology) Mommy Dearest: gender in J-horror films The Body and Erotic Desire in Genji The industrialisation of the arts in modern and their translations Monogatari Japan - myths during the age of technology

28 October 2009 27 January 2010 19 May 2010 Sharalyn Orbaugh (UBC/SISJAC) Angus Lockyer (SOAS) Hirashima Misa (Chukyo University) and Fujita Killer Kitsch: Kamishibai in the Fifteen Year Momoko in America, Ryō-kun back Masaya (Kansai University) War, 1931-45 home: Golf, Gender and Globalization in Ikai toshite no Kyoto (Kyoto through the Contemporary Japan and Beyond looking glass) 4 November 2009 Nihon ni okeru jūtaku-shi no saikōu narabi Matthew P McKelway 3 February 2010 ni rekishi-teki kenchiku no chōsa ni tsuite Poetry and Enlightenment in Screen Joshua Mostow (UBC / SISJAC) (Rethinking the history of housing in Japan, Paintings by Kano Sansetsu Allusion and Authority: ‘The Love-Song of researching historical architecture Lord Takafusa’ and Its Illustrated Scroll 18 November 2009 26 May 2010 Sarah Teasley (RCA) 10 February 2010 Yoshida Mikio (Seikei University) and Murota Display by Design: Japanese Products and Dr Kristin Surak (SISJAC) Chika (Jissen Women’s University) American Curators, 1950-60 Re-Making Japanese Tea Waka ni tsuite (On waka) Genji monogatari no ‘shi’ ni tsuite (Images of 2 December 2009 23 February 2010 ‘death’ in the Tale of Genji) Chris Gerteis (SOAS) His Excellency Shin Ebihara (Japanese The NYK Story: A Brief History of Ambassador to the United Kingdom) 2 June 2010 Corporate Nostalgia and Consumerism in Anglo-Japanese Relations Kanai Shizuka (Kagoshima Unviersity) and Contemporary Japan Mitsuhashi Tadashi 3 March 2010 Kōke to buke (The aristocracy and the 9 December 2009 Benedetta Lomi (2009-2010 Tsuda Bursary military elite) Christine Guth (V&A/RCA) Winner) Kokiroku to shinbutsu shūgō shiryō no Out of Touch: Toward a Haptic History of What Embodies the Venerated One? On the chūshaku ni tsuite (On annotating a Heian Japanese Lacquer faceted ritual functions of Buddhist Icons noble’s diary and syncretic religious texts through an analysis of Batō Kannon 16 December 2009 9 June 2010 Timon Screech (SOAS) 10 March 2010 Takubo Yukinori (Kyoto University) The Church of England and the Control of Yuichi Hosoya (Keio / Sciences-Po) Modal questions in Korean and Japanese Christianity in the Early Edo Period The Atlantic Community and the Restoration of the Global Balance of Power: The Western 16 June 2010 Alliance, Japan, and the Cold War, 1947- Mizuo Jun’ichi (Surugadai University) and 1951 Mizumoto Terumi (University of Kitakyushu) BOP senryaku ni yoru jizoku kanō-na 17 March 2010 bijinesu (Business sustainability through Bjarke Frellesvig, Stephen Horn, Kerri Russell BOP [base of the pyramid] strategy) (Oxford) and Professor Peter Sells (SOAS) Gender no kanten kara nihongo-kyōkasho Introducing the project “Verb Semantics wo kangaeru: Onna-kotoba no shiyō to and Argument Realization in Pre-Modern Nihonjosei no byōsha (Reconsidering Japanese” Japanese language)

10 EVENTS 2009 - 2010

7 October 2009 24 February 2010 4 March 2010 Japan Research Centre Meiji Jingu Autumn JRC Annual Tsuda Lecture Colloquium Lecture Tokyo Modern: Some Reflections on In conjunction with the exhibition ‘Posing Mikado, Tipperary, Bouquet d’Amour and the Significance of the Middle Class in Questions: Being and Image in Asia and Sukiyaki: On the Mutual Reception of Twentieth-Century Japan Europe’ at the Brunei Gallery, SOAS Popular Music in Japan and the West Professor James McClain (Brown University) Face in Asia and Europe Professor Sepp Linhart (University of Vienna) Speakers: Angus Lockyer, Kenji Yoshida, 25 February 2010 Brian Durrans, Emma Chambers, Tania String, 13 October 2009 Workshop Crispin Branfoot, Patrick D Flores, Jan Stuart, A Shinnai Performance by Living National Organised with the Centre for Metropolitan Professor Timon Screech Treasure Tsuruga Wakasanojo History, Institute of Historical Research Organised with Department of Music, SOAS London and Tokyo: The Prospect of 9 March 2010 Ran’cho (Wakagi no Adanagusa): Omiya’s Comparison Film Screening & Panel Discussion Lament Speakers: Matthew Davies (IHR); Angus Organised with Centre for Gender Studies Explanatory presentation by Professor Tim Lockyer (SOAS); Tim Screech (SOAS); Vanessa The Gift from Beate Screech (SOAS) and discussion with Dr David Harding (Birkbeck); Richard Dennis (UCL); Ms Beate Sirota Gordon Hughes (SOAS) James McClain (Brown University); Paul Waley (Leeds University); Michael Hebbert 22- April 2010 14 October 2009 (Manchester University) and Derek Keene Workshop Discussion (IHR) Shunga in its Social and Cultural Context Organised with The Japan Foundation Speakers: Rosina Buckland (National Museum Translating Japanese Poetry: A discussion 2 March 2010 of Scotland); Professor Andrew Gerstle on the occasion of the re-publication of the Performance (SOAS); Dr Alfred Haft (SOAS); Dr Monika Penguin Book of Japanese Verse Organised with Department of Music, SOAS Hinkel (SOAS); Christophe Marquet (INALCO, Anthony Thwaite (co-author) and Joshua Kabuki: Acting, Music, Costumes, Staging Paris); Joshua Mostow (British Columbia); Ms Mostow (University of British Columbia / Nakamura Fukusuke Jenny Preston (SOAS); Dr Ellis Tinios (Leeds SISJAC) Nakamura Fukusuke University)

3 November 2009 12 June 2010 Film Screening and Director Q&A Demonstation and Workshop Organised with The Japan Society Organised with and Kachōkai Amateur Noh Story of Love and Hate Group from Japan Sean McAllister (Director) Noh Drama Mr Masahide Hirato and the Kachokai Noh 26 November 2009 group from Tokyo Film Screening and Director Q&A Organised with the SOAS Centre for the Study 5-9 July 2010 of Japanese Religions and the SOAS Centre of Workshop Buddhist Studies Translation Workshop in Japanese Studies DT Suzuki: A Life - The Life and Thought of Paticipants: Polly Barton (SOAS); Lynsey Clark Buddhist Philosopher Daisetsu Suzuki (University of Leeds); Rebekah Clements A Documentary by Michael Goldberg (University of Cambridge); Mick Deneckere (University of Cambridge); Iztok Ilc (Universtiy 19 February 2010 of Ljubljana); Joanna Lingwood (White Workshop Concierge); Joseph Lumley (Newcastle Organised with the SOAS Centre for the Study University); Ruselle Meade (University of of Japanese Religions Manchester); Kyoung-Hee Park (Leiden Minakata Kumagusu and London University); Galia Petkova (SOAS) and Asa Speakers: Professor Ryugo Matsui; Professor Yoneda (SOAS) Komine (Rikkyo University); Professor Okuyama (Koyasan University); Monsieur 13July 2010 Boussemart (Ecole Francais d’Extreme Orient) Student Discussion Day with Professor Nakamura Fukusuke IX and Mr Tamura (Minakata Archive) Donald Keene

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Meiji Jingu

On 7 October, we welcomed a party from Meiji Jingu, led by Chief Priest Seitarō Nakajima, for a ceremony to acknowledge this year’s recipients of the Meiji Jingu studentships and small grants. The ceremony was held in the Director and Principal’s office and attended by members of the JRC steering committee, the Development Office and the Centres and Programmes Office.

Following welcoming remarks from Professor Webley, Reverend Nakajima made some remarks underlining the significance of the re- lationship with SOAS in building links between Meiji Jingu and the wider world. He then presented certificates and medals to Barbara Micyk and Ryo Shibagaki, the two studentship recipients, and to Dr Christopher Gerteis, who received a small grant for a workshop this coming autumn. Further details about the recipients’ projects can be found elsewhere in the newsletter. Professor Paul Webley with Chief Priest Seitarō Nakajima

The ceremony was followed by the Meiji Jingu Autumn Lecture, delivered by Professor Sepp Linhart of the University of Vienna, on the mutual reception of popular music in Japan and the West. The day concluded with a reception and a dinner, during which Reverend Nakajima commented on how research on Japan at SOAS and in Europe often broaches topics, such as Edo-period monsters and popular song, that are per- haps harder to imagine being pursued in a Japanese context.

During his visit to SOAS, Reverend Nakajima also met with last year’s recipients of the Meiji Jingu studentships and held discussions about the renewal of the agreement with SOAS. Following the success of the first three years of the studentship and small grants programme, both Meiji Jingu and the School are looking forward to strengthening our relationship in the years to come.

Angus Lockyer Lecturer in the History of Japan

Professor Paul Webley and Chief Priest Seitarō Nakajima with JRC members

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Popular Music

Our annual programme of events began with the Meiji Jingu Autumn Lecture, which was delivered on 7 October by Professor Sepp Linhart of the University of Vienna, with the title ‘Mikado, Tipperary, Bouquet d'Amour and Sukiyaki: On the Mutual Reception of Popular Music in Japan and the West’.

Professor Linhart has spent his career at the University of Vienna, where he is currently Professor and Director of the Department of East Asian Studies. He has published widely on various aspects of Japanese society and culture and has been honoured numerous times, not least with the Order of the Rising Sun.

Professor Linhart’s lecture was based on many hours of collecting ephemera in Kanda and elsewhere, and was liberally illustrated both with visual material and numerous musical excerpts. The lecture emphasized that while much of the existing work on musical exchange emphasizes the flow of classical music into Japan, popular Western music made substan- tial inroads into Japanese schools and the broader Japanese repertoire, preparing the way for its classical predecessors. By contrast, Japanese music only seems to have made its way into the Western repertoire once it had assumed a Western guise.

Professor Linhart’s lecture prompted a lively question and answer session. It has since been published in Kamizono, the journal of the Meiji Jingu Research Institute. We are grateful as ever to Meiji Jingu for their continued support for the activities of the JRC

Angus Lockyer Chair, Japan Research Centre

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Translating Japanese Poetry

On 14 October the JRC hosted the event, Translating Japanese Poetry: A discussion on the occasion of the re-publication of the Penguin Book of Japanese Verse. The main impetus for this talk was to celebrate the re-pub- lication of the book, co-authored by Prof. Geof- frey Bownas and Anthony Thwaite, but it also served as an opportunity to mark our appreciation for the many years of service that Geoffrey has given to Japanese Studies.

Steve Dodd acted as chair. Professor Joshua Mostow spoke eloquently about the profound significance of poetry in the Japanese literary tradition. Anthony Thwaite, a highly respected poet in his own right, offered fascinating insights into his encounter with the Japanese poetry that Geoffrey first introduced him to. Geoffrey was highly entertaining as he recounted the problems of trying to translate a whole range of poems, from classical to modern, in a way that was both “true” to the meaning of the original Japanese but also retained a poetic element even in the English translation.

Professor Makoto Goi added a special flavour to the evening by reading the poems in the original Japanese, after which Prof. Bownas explained the process of trying to retain the essence of the poems in translated form.

The event was very well attended, drawing at least 35 people. Following the presentations, questions were directed at all three main speakers; on topics ranging from practical details of translation to aspects of Japan’s long literary tradition. It was thanks to Jane and Rahima from the Centres & Programmes Office (REO) that the event went so smoothly. Dr Wiesia Cook also helped greatly in the planning. Steve Dodd Senior Lecturer in Japanese

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Film Screenings

On 3 November, the JRC screened ‘A Story of Love and Hate’, a On 26 November 2009, SOAS Centre of Buddhist Studies & Centre for documentary by Sean McAllister, who answered questions following the Study of Japanese Religions hosted the film screening of ‘A Zen the screening. The film had been televised earlier in the year as part of Life - D.T. Suzuki’ an award-winning 77-minute documentary about BBC Four’s Japan season, attracting unanimous critical acclaim, and at Suzuki Daisetsu Teitaro (1870-1966), a prolific writer and teacher cred- SOAS, too, it attracted a full and enthusiastic house. ited with introducing Zen Buddhism to the West. Suzuki practised Zen under Abbot Shaku Soen at Enkakuji Temple in Kita-Kamakura, Sean McAllister graduated from the National Film School in 1996, since produced a wide range of articles in English and Japanese and wrote when he has made films for both the BBC and Channel 4, working over 100 books, including An Introduction to Zen Buddhism. in the UK, Israel, Iraq, and most recently Japan. He describes his films as intimate portraits of survivors. They have received multi- The film was directed by Michael Goldberg, who was born in 1945 in ple nominations and awards worldwide. Montreal, and subsequently moved to Tokyo, where he has lived for 30 years. His standpoint is that of “un minoritaire dans la minorité”, ‘A Story of Love and Hate’ tells the story of Naoki, now 56, who had and he has been known since the early 1970s as an initiator of non- it all during the bubble economy, but lost everything in the early profit, cross-cultural video projects. ‘A Zen Life’ intertwines and 1990s crash, ending up divorced and penniless. He was saved from moulds together Suzuki’s personal and intellectual life, and projects homelessness by his new girlfriend, 29-year-old Yoshie, who took him images of his Zen thought through rare cuttings from his lectures and in despite living in a tiny one-room apartment. The only job Naoki interviews. could find was part-time at the post office and so Yoshie took on extra work to support him, working 15 hours a day in three jobs. The film was followed by a Q&A with Mr. Goldberg, and a roundtable discussion on Suzuki’s cultural heritage. The event concluded with a The documentary provides an intimate portrait of two individuals light reception. The Organising Committee included: Michael Barrett, trying to survive the wrenching transformation of Japanese economy Tsugumi Ota Cawley. Lucia Dolce and Tadeusz Skorupski and was and society and provoked a lively and lengthy question and answer kindly sponsored by Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation and the session following the screening. As Mr McAllister emphasized, his Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation. purpose is never to provide an expert portrayal of a country, but unaccustomed access, both for viewers into societies that might otherwise remain beyond the pale and for individuals, whose stories might otherwise never be told, to an audience.

Angus Lockyer, Sean McAllister & Jamil Jivanjee

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Diplomacy Minakata Cities

On 23 February, we were honoured to On 19 February, the Centre for the Study In collaboration with the Centre for welcome to SOAS His Excellency Shin Ebi- of Japanese Religions (CSJR) and the Metropolitan History at the Institute for hara, the Japanese Ambassador to the UK, JRC held an international workshop on Historical Research, the JRC organized a together with a number of members of his ‘Minakata Kumagusu and London’. The workshop on 25 February on ‘London and staff, for an informal briefing and discussion workshop was organized by Professor Ryugo Tokyo: The Prospect for Comparison’, with students and staff. Matsui of Ryukoku University, a Visiting inviting a number of distinguished speakers Scholar at the CSJR. and observers for a day of presentations and Prior to arriving in London in 2008, Ambassador discussion about the possibility of a research Ebihara served as Ambassador to Indonesia. Minakata Kumagusu (1867-1941) lived project comparing the two cities. Having joined the Ministry of Foreign in London from 1892 to 1900 and was quite Affairs in 1971, he has spent much of his active in academic circles during his time The starting point for the workshop was the career working on security issues and has here, contributing numerous essays to Nature admission that the two cities share much. Both also served as Executive Secretary to Prime magazine and other journals. Following his beginning to grow explosively in the second Minister Keizo Obuchi and as Assistant Chief return to Japan, he became some isolated half of the last millennium, both exhibiting an Cabinet Secretary in Prime Minister Junichiro from the academic mainstream, but he is now obdurate resistance to centralized planning, Koizumi’s administration. regarded as a pioneer in comparative folklore their economic dynamism, social complexity studies, Buddhist studies, and the history of and cultural centrality go a long way towards Ambassador Ebihara’s remarks outlined science, as well as nature conservation. explaining their position as global cities today. the current situation facing Japan at home and abroad, focusing particularly on The workshop was dedicated to the late The day was organized chronologically, with the challenges of political reform and climate Dr Carmen Blacker (1924-2009), who Tim Screech of SOAS and Vanessa Harding of change. The questions following his presenta- was a pioneer in studying Minakata. We Birkbeck comparing the early modern cities, tion also raised the issues of regional security were honoured that Dr Blacker’s husband, Dr Richard Dennis of UCL and Jim McClain of and global realignment, prompting a lively Michael Loewe, joined us for the day and in- Brown the modern city, and Paul Waley of discussion about what the rise of China might augurated the workshop with a few remarks. Leeds and Michael Hebbert of Manchester mean for Japan. the contemporary city. Concluding remarks The workshop comprised five papers, by Derek Keene, the founding director of the The discussion continued over a reception, from scholars in Japan and Europe, on Centre for Metropolitan History, underlined during which the Ambassador emphasized various aspects of Minakata’s life and work, the rich possibilities that the day had the growing importance for the Embassy of including his activity at the British Museum, uncovered. public diplomacy, not least its links with uni- his publications in English journals, and his versities. We look forward to working with the contributions to Buddhist and folklore schol- We are grateful to Dr Matthew Davies, the Ambassador and his staff on various events in ars. The workshop was followed by a day spent current Director of the Centre, and his staff for the years to come. tracing Minakata’s footsteps through London. hosting the workshop. We are now planning Angus Lockyer a grant application that will allow us to take Chair, Japan Research Centre Ryugo Matsui and Tullio Lobetti the project forward to its next stage.

Angus Lockyer Chair, Japan Research Centre

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Annual Tsuda Lecture

This year’s Annual Tsuda Lecture was Professor McClain underlined how the middle delivered on 24 February by Professor class led the way in introducing new models James McClain, of Brown University, on the of family organization and novel conceptions topic ‘Tokyo Modern: Some Reflections of gender roles and asserting itself as cul- on the Significance of the Middle Class tural arbiters in regard to housing, fashion, in Twentieth-Century Japan’. recreation, and consumerism.

Professor McClain received his PhD from Yale Professor McClain’s remarks provided rich and has taught the history of early modern food for thought, not only with reference Japan at Brown for nearly a quarter century. to Japan but also in comparison with He has pioneered the English language developments elsewhere, and provoked a study of Japan’s urban history, writing lively discussion during the reception that an award winning book on Kanazawa Mr and Mrs Tsuda, Professor McClain & Angus Lockyer followed. We are as ever grateful to Kayoko and co-editing volumes on both Edo and Tsuda and Stan Guy, old friends of Professor Osaka. McClain, for making it possible to invite such a distinguished scholar to SOAS. The lecture traced how the twentieth century became the Age of the Middle Class in Japan, Angus Lockyer with Tokyo as its starting point. Chair, Japan Research Centre

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Performances Portraits

Since summer 2009, a wondrous wave of Japanese traditional performers has On 4 March the JRC hosted a one-day colloquium inundated the UK. Most of them have come ashore at SOAS at some point, to our to accompany the exhibition ‘Posing Questions: Being absolute delight. It has been a pleasure and an honour for me to be involved in all and Image in Asia and Europe’, which was then on of these events in some way (as lecturer, interviewer, MC, facilitator etc). display in the Brunei Gallery.

On 13 October the Living National Treasure Tsuruga Wakasanojo XI who chose both tragically emotive and lightly comical items from the repertoire of Shinnai, a shamisen-accompanied narrative genre. This event, whose lyrics were usefully subtitled in English, was introduced by a contextualising talk on Edo-period arts and culture by SOAS’s Professor Timon Screech. The interacting of high- and low-pitched shamisen parts in this genre is particularly unique.

On 2 March 2010 the JRC hosted a Performance: Kabuki: Acting, Music, Cos- tumes, Staging. The renowned Kabuki actor Nakamura Fukusuke IX (2mar2010), gave the audience at SOAS amazing insights - both via his performance and in conversation with SOAS’s Alan Cummings - into the world of the onnagata, the male actors who play female roles.

The exhibition was part of a long-term collaboration or- ganized by ASEMUS, the Asia-Europe Museum Network, and sponsored by ASEF, the Asia-Europe Foundation, which began with an earlier version of the exhibition, ‘Self and Other: Portraits from Asia and Europe,’ which toured five Japanese venues in 2008-9.

The purpose of both exhibition and workshop was to use portraits, loosely defined, to initiate debate on the part played by the visual representation of human identity in the emergence of Asian and European modernisms. Three issues are central: the difference between (abstract) individual and (social) person; how and why such difference finds cultural expression; and finally how modernisms, with their distinctive selves and others, are shaped by the circumstances in which they emerge.

The colloquium began with an introduction by Brian Durrans of the British Museum and Kenji Yoshida of the The evening also included a talk on Kabuki costumes and staging by Sakurai National Museum of Ethnology in Osaka, the co-leaders Kumi, and an introduction to Kabuki music by Tokiwazu Mojibei V and Kineya of the larger project. This was followed by sessions Gokichiro, leaders of the supporting musicians. During this lovely evening, I exploring the place of the portrait in Europe, South, somehow came away stunned by one fact: an onnagata’s costume can weight Southeast and East Asia, by Tim Screech and Crispin over 30kg! No wonder Fukusuke-san could barely drag himself upstairs to the Branfoot from SOAS, Jan Stuart from the British Museum, reception after his lengthy performance. Emma Chambers from UCL, Tania String from Bristol David W. Hughes University and Patrick D Flores from the University of the Research Associate, Centre for Japanese Studies and Department of Music, SOAS Philippines.

Angus Lockyer Chair, Japan Research Centre

Nakamura Fukusuke IX

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Portraits Noh A Gift from Beate

Amateur performances are an important part of the Noh tradition in Japan. As a practitioner of Noh for the past fifty years, Masahide Hirato has dedicated himself to promoting amateur participation in Noh drama and spreading appreciation of the refined beauty and emotional impact of this ancient form of theatre among a broader public. His Kachōkai group of amateur Noh performers (the name means “Society of Flowers and Birds”) is based in Japan and has made several appearances in Europe.

The demonstration sponsored by the Japan Research Centre at SOAS (on June 12, 2010) was attended by over eighty people. Mr Hirato explained the history and conventions of Noh, and the audience had the opportunity to handle masks, fans and Noh manuscripts. Members of the group then presented On 9 March, we were honoured to welcome Beate Sirota Gordon to a succession of “shimai” and “utai”. “Shimai” is Noh dance SOAS for a screening of ‘The Gift from Beate’. The screening was performed in formal kimono but without masks or full organized by the Centre for Gender Studies and the JRC, in association costumes, while “utai” is the accompanying chant. There with the London branch of the Tsuda Colleage Alumni. It was were also video presentations of group member Junko sponsored by the Japan Foundation and the GB-Sasakawa Foundation Osaki in a full dress performance of Kakitsubata (“The and supported by the Embassy of Japan in the UK. Iris”) and Mr Hirato himself playing the energetic role of Beate Sirota Gordon was born in Vienna, the only child of Leo Sirota, the robber Kumasaka. The demonstration ended with a a concert pianist, who subsequently moved to Japan to teach at the lively question and answer session. Imperial Academy of Music. After ten years in Tokyo, she moved to California, but returned to Japan in 1946 as one of 25 members of the The live performances were as follows: Government Section of GHQ. The ‘only woman in the room’, in the Shimai: Naniwa (Keiko Kameda), words of her memoir, she was responsible for drafting Article 24 of the Ami-no-dan (Keiko Tatsuta), postwar Japanese Constitution, establishing a basis for the equality of Kasa-no-dan (Junko Osaki), the sexes in Japan. Hanagatami (Miyoko Tsutsumi), Unrin-in (Misao Harada), The film documented both Ms Sirota Gordon's early life and Akogi (Misao Nakao), and Tenko (Chieko Kato). the transformation that ensued in women’s lives following the promulgation of the Constitution. The screening attracted Utai: Sasa-no-dan (Shizuka Kunihiro, an overflowing house and was followed by a panel discussion, with Sachiko Matsumoto and Noriko Suzuki). Ms Sirota Gordon, Professor Nadje Al-Ali and Dr Christopher Gerteis of SOAS, and Professor Lisa Yoneyama of the University of California at The chorus also included Keisuke Aoyama and San Diego. We are grateful to all the participants and the sponsors for Kusuo Ohara. their support for the event. Angus Lockyer Paul Courtney Chair, Japan Research Centre

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Shunga

two half-time three-year Research Fellows, Dr See the website for details: Symposium: Akiko Yano (based at SOAS) and Dr (based vwww.arc.ritsumei.ac.jp/symposium/091204/ at the British Museum, who has from April about_symposium.html and Web Exhibition: this year taken up a curatorial position at the www.dh-jac.net/db12/shunga/index.html National Museum of Scotland). The aim of the project is to survey private and public collec- We expected that our Shunga project would tions of shunga to determine the range of have a considerable impact in the world but extant works, to analyse critically the works we did not expect a volcanic eruption to occur – both texts and images – in their social in Iceland in April 2010. The volcanic ash and cultural contexts, to conduct research closed European airports and the overseas meetings, to produce publications and to speakers were not able to attend. So, we had create exhibitions in London and Japan. The a one-day conference on 23 April. We have, British Museum Shunga exhibition has now however, rescheduled this symposium for 13- been firmly scheduled for spring 2013, and 14 September 2010. In May 2009 Andrew Gerstle of SOAS and we hope that this exhibition will also be able Timothy Clark of the British Museum, together to be held at a major Japanese venue. One aim of the project, led by team member with Monta Hayakawa of the International Ishigami Aki of Ritsumeikan, is to create an Research Centre for Japanese Studies, Kyoto, Why start an international and interdiscipli- online database of shunpon, with details on and Ryo Akama of Ritsumeikan Univer- where each book exists and whether dig- sity began a three-year research project nary three-year research project on shunga? I had known about shunga in a general ital images are available. This database is now on Japanese erotic art, ‘Shunga’. Below is online: www.dh-jac.net/db13/ehoncatalogue/ a report on the background to the project and sense and even been part, along with Tim Clark, of an international research project FMPro?-db=ehoncatalogue.fp5&-lay=layout2&- the activities thus far. format=index.html&-view on shunga led by Sumie Jones of Indiana University in the mid-1990s, but my interest Readers will, of course, know that a large A Leverhulme Research Fellow based at really only began with a chance encounter amount of shunga was produced in Japan the British Museum, has completed a book with Tsukioka Settei’s Onna shimegawa from before the Edo period until well into the on Shunga, based on the British Museum oeshi-bumi (c. 1768), a shunga parody of the Meiji era, but few will be aware of the extent collection. Akiko Yano, Leverhulme Research ôraimono Onna imagawa oshie-bumi (1768). and importance of shunga, especially shunga Fellow based at SOAS, is translating this book The content, both text and images, of the books (shunpon), in Japanese culture, due to into Japanese and the two publications will book was both fascinating and serious in the the suppression and censorship of shunga come out together this autumn. from the late Meiji era. It is not unusual to sense of presenting sexual pleasure as natu- hear Japanese say today that they did not ral and essential for both men and women, Andrew Gerstle, with Hayakawa Monta, even know about the existence of shunga, in contrast to the Neo-Confucian conduct published a translation and short study of the much less the extent of its production. This book aimed at women, which it parodied. shunga book, Bidô nichiya johôki (A treasure shunga research project rests on the premise After exploring this and other 18th-century book for women on the way of love – day that it is unhealthy and even dangerous shunpon by Settei such as Onna dairaku and night). (Kinsei enpon shiryô shûsei, no. to deny the existence of elements of one’s takara beki, as well as the works of Nishikawa 5). Kyoto, International Research Center for cultural heritage or history, and that shunga, Sukenobu, it became very clear that without Japanese Studies, 2010. like any other aspect of cultural/social history, a comprehensive examination of shunga should be researched and debated in the production, our understanding of Edo and We hope that over the next few years in the open by scholars. Meiji-period culture and society remains lead up to the British Museum exhibition (and distorted. The continuous publication of hopefully an exhibition in Japan) that we can With the aim of getting an international team this ‘underground’ discourse on sexual life, count on the co-operation of individuals in of researchers to focus on different aspects of our research has begun to show, was through Japan and around the world to make available shunga, particularly the content of shunpon, the agency of kashihonya an integral part materials and to assist in getting research not just the images, and ask critical questions of the social/cultural life of both men and on shunga published in Japanese and in about these works as literature and cultural women from aristocrat through samurai, to English. The recent exhibition, led by the artifacts, Timothy Clark of the British Museum farmer and townsmen. work of Ricard Bru, in Barcelona at the Picasso and I applied for and received funding from the Museum on ‘Secret Images: Picasso and Leverhulme Trust (UK) for a three-year project The research team is truly international, with Japanese Erotic Prints’, from 5 November 2009 on shunga, a collaboration between SOAS, participants from Italy, North America, Spain, to 14 February 2010, has shown for the first University of London, the British Museum, France, Britain, Mexico and Japan. The first time how important shunga were for Picasso Kokusai Nihon Bunka Kenkyû senta- (Hay- workshop introducing the project was held in and many other Western artists in the late akawa Monta) and Ritsumeikan (Akama Ryô). London and SOAS on 6 August 2009. The sec- 19th and early 20th centuries. It is time for We have also received funding from the Japan ond meeting was a symposium held at Ritsu- these ‘secret’ works to be brought out into Foundation and the Prime Ministers Initiative meikan’s Art Research Centre on 4-5 Decem- the light and examined critically as social, 2 (PMI2 British Council), as well as from Ritsu- ber 2009. This symposium was accompanied historical and artistic sources. meikan and Nichibunken. The grant supports by an exhibition of shunga. Andrew Gerstle Professor of Japanese Studies

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Translation Donald Keene

The 2010 SOAS Japanese Translation SOAS students were treated to a memo- him with solace during dark times amid Workshop, sponsored by the Nippon Foun- rable afternoon with Professor Donald disturbing news reports. Following the dation, took place between the 5th and 9th Keene on 13 July. Professor Keene, Pro- question and answer session, he shared of July at the SOAS campus in Thornhaugh fessor Emeritus and Shincho Professor some of his beguiling memories of the Square, London. The event was the pilot Emeritus at Columbia University, is one war as a U.S. intelligence officer, including for what is hoped will be three such events of the most influential and prodigious asking nervous Japanese prisoners, hosted over the next two years. Participants translators of Japanese literature, a field ‘So, what books have you been reading included some from the UK, but many where in which in which he has worked for over lately?’ from as far afield as Slovenia, Bulgaria, and, of half a century. Professor Keene answered course, from Japan itself. many questions from the assembled stu- The discussion day was organised as part dents, replying to each with characteristic of Professor Keene’s visit to Britain to de- The workshop was structured around the grace and wit on topics ranging from his liver the inaugural Carmen Blacker Lec- objective of encouraging participants to views on the future of literature and his tures. These lectures honour the mem- engage in a process of producing, critiquing own literary output, to memories of his ory and scholarship of Carmen Blacker and revising an English translation of an many Japanese literary friends, includ- (1924-2009) and are supported through assigned Japanese language scholarly article. ing Mishima Yukio. He also offered advice a bequest from Carmen Blacker and the Applicants did not propose particular articles on questions such as what to do when executors of her estate. for translation – instead, the articles were select- stuck with a particularly tricky sentence ed and assigned by the workshop organizers. to translate. The student discussion was chaired by Dr Stephen Dodd and organised by Active and intensive application of their During his long career, Professor Keene the Japan Society with support from translating skills helped the participants has transformed scholarship on Japanese the Sainsbury Institute for the Study gain a sense of how to account for the literature in the English-speaking world. of Japanese Arts and Cultures. We are issues particular to translating scholarly Professor Keene’s long association with grateful to Hayashi Miwako of SOAS for work. The five-day event featured Japan began during World War II when, her assistance. roundtable discussions of general difficulties by chance, he picked up a copy of Arthur Kazuko Morohashi in translation, small group discussions based Waley’s translation of the Tale of Genji Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures on topics ranging from broad disciplinary which, as he told the students, provided distinctions, to particular translations, and one on one sessions between students and faculty members.

Activities took place under the guidance of members of the Japanese Studies faculty from the social sciences and humanities. Participants receive a modest honorarium, reimbursement for accommodation for the duration of the workshop, transport from within the EU, and a modest subsistence allowance.

Chris Gerteis Lecturer in History of Contemporary Japan

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Professorial Research Associates Dr Christine GUTH Ms Kyoko OKAMOTO PHD(HARVARD) BA(SCHOOL OF EDUCATION) Professor Gina BARNES Art and design history; collecting and “Memoirs of a Japanese Ambassador” and PHD(MICHIGAN) collections “Birth of the Constitution after World War II: State formation; agricultural transition; 25 January 2008 - 31 August 2011 Maintaining the Emperor System” urganisation; landscapr archaeology; East Asian [email protected] 1 June 2009 - 31 August 2010 archaeology especially Japanese archaeology and prehistory/photohistory. Dr Monika HINKEL Dr Rajyashree PANDEY 22 May 1996 - 31 August 2012 MA BA PHD(BONN) MA(WASHINGTON) PHD(AUSTRALIAN [email protected] Meiji period prints especially prints by Toyohara NATIONAL) Kunichika (1835-1900) Medieval Japanese literature and Buddhism Professor Neil JACKSON 4 June 2010 - 31 August 2011 1 July 2007 - 31 August 2012 MA(COURTAULD INSTITUTE) PHD(SOUTH BANK) [email protected] [email protected] C19 and C20 Architecture 23 June 2009 - 31 August 2012 Dr David W HUGHES Dr Maria ROMÁN NAVARRO [email protected] MA(CANTAB) MPHIL(YALE) PHD(MICHIGAN) BA MA(VIENNA) PHD(HEIDELBERG) Ethnomusicology; music of East Asia especially Early tea ceremony especially utensils (mainly Professor Peter KORNICKI Japan; Japanese folk and theatre music; music concentrated on ceramics) and poems (16th- MA MSC PHD(OXON) Cultural history of Japan and linguistics; Indonesian gamelan and 17th century). before 1900, with special interests on the Javanese street music 8 February 2006 - 31 August 2011 history of the book in East Asia (Korea and 28 August 2008 - 31 August 2012 [email protected] Vietnam as well as Japan), women’s education [email protected] and literacy, and the history of medicine and of Dr Lone TAKEUCHI cartography. Dr Olga KHOMENKO BA(COPENHAGEN) MA(BERKELEY) 1 November 2007 - 31 August 2011 BA(KIEV STATE) PHD MA(TOKYO) Post PHIL(COPENHAGEN) [email protected] war Japanese history of advertisement & Narrative patterns in 10th-11th century consumerism in Japan Japanese texts with particular reference to the Professor Ian NISH 4 December 2009 - 31 August 2011 practice of Nasake. MA PHD(LONDON) International history of [email protected] 18 September 2007 - 31 August 2011 northeast asia in 19th and 20th centuries [email protected] 28 April 2010 - 31 August 2011 Dr Barak KUSHNER [email protected] BA(BRANDEIS) PHD(PRINCETON) History of Dr Sarah TEASLEY Japanese propaganda, Sino-Japan relations, BA(PRINCETON) MA(MUSASHINO ART) Professor Evgeny STEINER comedy, and food history PHD(TOKYO) BA MA(MOSCOW STATE) PHD(USSR ACADEMY 19 January 2010 - 31 August 2011 History of design and built space in modern OF SCIENCES, MOSCOW) Muromachi epoch arts [email protected] Japan, with an emphasis on media, technology (especially Ikkyu and his circle); Ukiyo-e prints; and institutional formation; design and history of Western collections of Japanese arts Dr Nicola LISCUTIN architectural theory; gender and design; 9 June 2008 - 31 August 2012 MA(HAMBURG) PHD(CANTAB) the history of new materials research and [email protected] Japanes Cultural Studies application 5 March 2004 - 31 August 2012 1 February 2009 - 31 August 2012 Professor Yuriko TAKAHASHI [email protected] [email protected] BA(KEIO) MA(OCHANOMIZU) Classical Chinese philology and phonology (Shuowen Jiezi Dr Jonathan MACKINTOSH Dr Ellis TINIOS focusing on the process of annotation by Duan BA(LETHBRIDGE) MA(SOAS) PHD(CANTAB) PHD(MICHIGAN) Yucai and computerization of the Xu Yuan’s Gender and sexuality in modern/contemporary The illustrated woodblock-printed book in the Text) and modern Chinese literature (Lao She Japan; Japanese social and cultural history; Edo period; representing China in Edo-period focusing on his Christian background) Japanese diaspora in the Americas books and prints; the actor prints of Kunisada 1 April 2007 - 31 August 2012 1 November 2007 - 31 August 2011 23 January 2002 - 31 August 2012 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Ms Mami MIZUTORI Dr Akiko YANO Research Associates BA(HITOTSUBASHI) MA PHD(KEIO) Governmental funding for international culture Cataloguing of paintings and prints Ryukosai, Dr Penelope FRANCKS and academic exchange the Japanese artist active from the late 18th to 9 April 2010 - 31 August 2011 MSC PHD(LONDON) Japanese economic history, the early 19th centuries. [email protected] especially rural economic development and the 24 May 2007 - 31 August 2012 history of consumption and the consumer [email protected] 1 September 2003 - 31 August 2012 [email protected]

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VISITING SCHOLARS Dr Shizuka KANAI Professor Xiaogang ZHANG PHD MA BA(KYOTO UNIVERSITY) PHD KINJO GAKIUN UNIVERSITY Professor Mari BOYD Kagoshima University Kinjo Gakuin University PHD(HAWAI’I, MANOA) MA(MT HOLYOKE History of medieval Japan; medieval court Chinese literature and cultural comparison COLLEAGE) BA(JAPAN WOMEN’S UNI) nobles who had influence on society and many between Japan and China. Relation between Sophia University estates Japan ukiyoe and Chinese culture Playwriting: metapatterns in modern Japanese 29 March 2010 - 31 July 2010 1 April 2009 - 31 March 2010 theatre. Connections between British and Japanese drama and between Western and Professor Iwao MAIDA Japanese puppetry POST DOCTORIAL RESEARCH MA(KANAGAWA UNIVERSITY) MA(HOKKAIDO 1 April 2009 - 31 March 2010 ASSOCIATES UNIVERSITY) MA(UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO) Senshu University Professor David BURLEIGH Field research in British Isles and regional Dr Shino ARISAWA MPHIL(UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX) BSC(UNIVERSITY characteristics of land-use and rural Britain in PHD MMUS(SOAS) BA(TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF OF ULSTER) comparison with that of Japan FOREIGN STUDENTS) Ferris University 1 April 2010 - 31 March 2011 Ethnomusicology, music of Japan, specifically Haiku, in Japan and overseas; Irish writers and [email protected] Koto and Shamisen music, jiuta-sokyoku and Japan and India: James H Cousins (1879-1956) sankyoku ensemble, music and gender, cultural and Helen Waddell (1889-1965) Professor Terumi MIZUMOTO policy and identity 1 April 2010 - 31 March 2011 MA(NEW YORK) 10 November 2008 - 10 November 2010 [email protected] University of Kitakyushu [email protected] Sociolinguistics and Japanese language Professor Masaya FUJITA education focusing on the usage of female PHD MA BA(KYOTO UNIVERSITY) sentence-final particles and gender issues in Kansai University Japanese language textbooks Aristocratic residences during the Heian and 16 September 2009 - 30 September 2010 Kamakura periods. The history of Japanese domestic architecture in Europe Professor Junichi MIZUO 1 April 2010 - 30 September 2010 PHD(SENCHU UNIVERSITY) BA(KOBE COLLEGE OF COMMERCE, JAPAN) Associate Professor Makoto GOI Surugadai University Nishogakusha University Building good relations between corporate Tayama Katai, Natsume Soseki and other governance, productivity and stakeholders in authors in Meiji era from the viewpoint European countries of narratology, nation-building, and post 1 March 2010 - 30 September 2010 colonialism. Japanese studies, especially those of modern Japanese literature in the UK Ms Chika MUROTA 1 April 2009 - 31 March 2010 MA BA(UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO) Jissen Women’s University Professor Hisanori HINO Japanese classical literature with a focus on MA BA(HOSEI UNIVERSITY) Meikai University Heian-era literature including ‘The Tale of Genji’ Race relations between white British citizens and Japanese poetry (Waka) of the same era. and their non-white compatriots, especially The comparative study of images of ‘women’ those from Afro-Caribbean and Muslim and ‘time’ in Chinese and Japanese classical backgrounds. History of racial disturbance in literature Britain after the Second World War. 1 April 2010 - 31 March 2011 1 April 2010 - 31 September 2010 [email protected]

Dr Misa Okumura HIRASHIMA Dr Mikio YOSHIDA PHD MA BA(SOPHIA UNIVERSITY) MA BA(UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO) Chukyo University Seikei University Inheritance and acculturation of the traditional Japanese classical literature with particular cultures in Kyoto in comparison with British interest in love stories and love poems from the and European examples, focusing especially on 7c-11c; and clarifying their charactertistics from cultural tourism and heritage industry the view point of literary history 1 April 2010 - 31 March 2011 1 April 2010 - 31 March 2011 [email protected] [email protected]

23 HONORARY APPOINTMENTS

Gina BARNES Mari Boyd Penelope FRANCKS

Invited Lecture “Kofun period politics Mari deeply appreciates receiving the November 2009 saw the publication of The and religion”, Department of Archaeology, academic visitor status at SOAS, which Japanese Consumer by Cambridge University Asian Archaeology MA Seminar, University of enabled her to conduct research in various Press, which described the book as follows. Leiden, 19 Nov 09 ways. With access to the SOAS library, she was able to complete her chapter on “The ‘By the late twentieth century, Japanese Discussant at “Early Korea-Japan Interactions: Overseas Reception of Kishida Kunio” for people were renowned as the world’s new perspectives on old issues”. Early Korea The World of Kishida Kunio ( 2010) edited by most avid and knowledgeable consumers Project Workshop, Korea Institute, Harvard the Japan Modern Theatre History Research of fashion, luxury and quality, while the University, 3-5 May 10 Group. She also managed to view sixty goods that embodied their tastes and lifestyle plays. It was fascinating to find how artists were becoming a part of global culture. Invited Lectures: six lectures in the SOAS have appropriated bunraku manipulation Penelope Francks’ book offers an alternative Diploma in Asian Art course (Japanese techniques, combined them with object account of Japan’s modern economic history & Korean Art), summer term 2010 theatre, and opened up new possibilities in from the perspective of the consumer. Western theatre. Invited Lecture: "Thoughts on the Kazuraki, Reaching back into pre-industrial times Emperor Ojin, the Paekche-Yamato alliance, The highlight of her research was in and tracing Japan’s economy from the and Koguryo horseriders" Osaka University experimental theatre. She participated as eighteenth century to the present, she artistic consultant in the Told by the Wind shows how history has conditioned what Invited Lecture “Reinterpreting Himiko and project. Conceived and performed by the Japanese people consume today and com- Early Kofun Political Ideology” Kobe Women’s Lanarth Group, the play was inspired by noh pares their experiences with those of their University, 13 July 2010 and post-dramatic aesthetics. Rehearsals, European and North American counterparts. which she attended, were held in April and In so doing the author presents a lucid and Invited Lecture “Himiko, Yamatai and May 2009. Then for a trial run, the company informed account of everyday life in Japan, Makimuku” Kyoto Tachibana University, 17 took the show to an open-air festival in exploring what people eat, how they dress, July 2010 Portugal. The main production was at the the household goods they acquire and their Chapter Arts Centre in Cardiff from January preferred shopping and leisure activities. 29 to February 6, 2010. This beautifully illustrated book succeeds The Cardiff black-box venue proved to be in making economic history palatable and a testing circumstance for the company’s entertaining. It will be a treat for students and process-centred explorations. In Mari’s view, all those interested in Japanese society and two changes became necessary to make culture.’ the performance viable in the new space. One was to erase the boundary line drawn on the cork floor as the black walls already sufficiently delimited the performance. The second was to modify the “Gothic” lighting to a quieter ambience. While the company quickly understood that the lighting was too stark, it was only in the morning of the opening night that the lead actor finally accepted the idea of erasing the boundary completely with- out substituting gravel or other substances. Collaborative art runs high risks. Fortunately this production turned out to be worthy of the concept of “the experimental.”

24 HONORARY APPOINTMENTS

Monika Hinkel Peter Kornicki Mami MIZUTORI

In 2006 Monika received her PhD from Bonn Peter has been on sabbatical from January, Mami Mizutori is the former Director for Fi- University. She wrote her thesis on Toyohara and spent January in Japan, February in Vi- nancial Affairs at the Japanese Ministry of For- Kunichika and the notion of bunmei kaika etnam and since March he has been living in eign Affairs, and was Minister of Culture at the (Civilization and Enlightenment) on his prints. Venice with his wife, Francesca Orsini, who is Embassy of Japan in the UK in 2005-8. The dissertation focuses on the impact of on sabbatical from SOAS at the same time. Japan’s modernization on Kunichika’s work; in They are spending their days in the historic She graduated in law from Hitotsubashi particular the paper illustrates how Kunichika Biblioteca Querini Stampalia, which has only University, and has taught international policy depicted the changes and to what extent his one snag - the singing gondoliers who pass at Waseda University. She is now developing designs were affected by the Westernization every 15 minutes! He is working on a book her academic and professional expertise into process. She is currently preparing an English provisionally entitled 'Sinographic states: a research project on the Japanese funding book manuscript on the topic.Her ongoing Chinese texts and vernacularization in East of international cultural organisations. Ms research on Kunichika focuses on his print Asia'. Mizutoro is also a research associate of the sets of beautiful women. Sainsbury Institute for the study of Japanese In early May he spent a week in New York to Arts and Cultures (SISJAC) Before moving to London in 2004 Monika give a talk on Hayashi Razan at Columbia and was Assistant Curator at the Museum of East to run a one-day workshop on cultural and Asian Art in Cologne, Guest Researcher at linguistic exchange in premodern East Asia at Gakushuin University/Tokyo and PhD fellow Princeton for graduate students from Princ- at the German Institute for Japanese Studies eton, Columbia and Harvard, and at the end (DIJ), Tokyo. From 2008 to April 2010 she of May he took part, along with Dr Ellis Tinios joined the JRC as Postdoctoral Research and others, in a workshop organised by Dr Associate. Since 2008 she contributes to the Laura Moretti of Venice for advanced Italian SOAS Diploma Courses with lectures on Meiji students on Edo-period books and prints at period prints and on late Edo period Utagawa the Pontifical Salesian University in Rome. school artists. Publications Her new research area is Utagawa Kunisada’s ‘The Lesser learning for women and other shunpon (erotic book), in particular the 1842 texts for Vietnamese women: a bibliographical publication “Shunshoku hatsune no ume” and comparative study’ (with Nguyen Thi (Spring Love: Six women of the First Cry), Oanh), International journal of Asian studies, which she analyses for the research project 6 (2009): 147-69. “Sexuality and Eroticism in Japanese Shunga”, led by Andrew Gerstle and Tim Clark. ‘Narrative of a catastrophe: Musashi abumi and the Meireki fire’, Japan forum, 21 (2009 [2010]): 347-361

‘The history of the book in Japan’, ‘Monastic libraries in Japan’, ‘Akitaya Ichibei’, ‘Eirakuya Tôshirô’, ‘Hachimonjiya Hachizaemon’, ‘Izumoji Bunjirô’, ‘Katsumura Jiemon’, ‘Kawachiya Mohei’, ‘Murakami Kanbei’, ‘Obiya Ihei’ & ‘Su- waraya Mohei’, The Oxford companion to the book (Oxford University Press, 2010), pp. 375- 85, etc

‘The latter days of Genji’ (with Rebekah Clem- ents), Monumenta Nipponica 64 (2010): 363-372

25 HONORARY APPOINTMENTS

Ian Nish Sarah TEASLEY Ellis Tinios

Ian attended the conference for BAJS et al. at Sarah Teasley began the academic year with In 2009/2010 Ellis Tinios had two opportunities Sheffield University in September 2009. a lecture at Osaka University in September, to discuss the role of on-line image da- then travelled twice to Harvard for a workshop tabases in widening access to Edo He has worked broadly on Japan's foreign rela- on Tange Kenzo in October, and a seminar period illustrated books before international tions between 1890 and 1919, with a focus on on ‘architectural histories of organization’ audiences, first at the Annual Meeting of the relations with north-eastern China (Manchu- in February. European Association of Japanese Research ria). Specialists (EAJRS) at Norwich (16-19 Sep- In April, she presented her research on Meiji tember 2009), and then at the International Ian contributed papers to conferenc- period technical drawing at the Annual Meet- Conference on Culture and Computing held es celebrating the centenary of the Japan ing of the Society of Architectural Historians at Kyoto University (22-23 February 2010). British Exhibition at Shepherds Bush, London, in Chicago. Lectures closer to home included in 1910. a Saturday Seminar for the Design Real exhi- He also participated in the work- bition at the Serpentine Gallery in December, shops and symposia that are part of an a JRC Wednesday lecture in November and a ongoing three-year Leverhulme Trust-funded paper at the Forgotten Japonisme conference project devoted to Edo-period erotic books (TrAIN/V&A) in July. and prints (shunga). He explored ‘Erotic Books in the Context of Edo-period Illustrated Her co-edited volume Global Design History Book Production’ (Shunga Symposium, Ritsu- will appear from Routledge in early 2011, and meikan University, 4-5 December 2009) and an article on technical drawing run in the ‘Shunga in a comparative context: Japan and inaugural issue of architectural theory and Europe’ (Shunga Workshop, SOAS, 23 April history journal Propositions in autumn 2010. 2010). She has also become Associate Editor of the journal Design and Culture and, as part of her His most recent publications are ‘Pushing ongoing inquiry into history’s contribution the Boundaries: Kuniyoshi and China’ in to design practice, co-ordinated the collabo- Impressions: The Journal of the Japanese Art ration between the Royal College of Art, the Society of America, Inc., Number 31 (2010) Lone Takeuchi V&A and architect Fujimori Terunobu to build and ‘Maruyama-Shijô ha gafu no mokuteki’ and furnish the Beetle House, a new project (‘The Purpose of Maruyama-Shijô School Lone Takeuchi is working on an article on by Fujimori on display June-September gafu’) in Edo no ehon: gazô to tekisuto no acrostics and the metaphory of insight in re- 2010 in the V&A’s ‘1:1 Architects Build Small ayanaseru sekai (Ehon in the Edo Period: a lation to a poem by Kûkai, and a monograph Spaces’ exhibition. splendid world of interwoven image and text) with the provisional title The dialectic of pow- (2010). er in some tenth century wabun – a tantric Buddhist vision? He has published Zhuangzi and the search for coherence in Ise monoga- tari, Bulletin of SOAS 72.2 (2009), 357-388.

26 SISJAC FELLOWS

Alfred HAFT Ryoko MATSUBA Akira MATSUDA Research Associate Research Associate Archaeology Fellow

Alfred Haft completed his PhD at SOAS with A post-doctoral research fellow of Handa Japanese Archaeology Fellow work- a thesis titled, ‘Patterns of Correspondence the Kinugasa Research Organization, ing for the Sainsbury Institute for the Study between the Floating World and the Classical Ritsumeikan University, Ryoko will be based of Japanese Arts and Cultures (in B404, SOAS). Tradition: A Study of the Terms Mitate, Yat- at SOAS for the 2010-11 academic year, and sushi, and Fûryû in the Context of Ukiyo-e’ be affiliated with the Sainsbury Institute and Akira Matsuda works as a Handa Japanese (2005). British Museum. Archaeology Fellow at the Sainsbury Institute. His research interests are in the relationship The thesis examined how elements from the She will assist the British Museum with between archaeology - and more broadly East Asian classical tradition were incorporated preparation for the major international cultural heritage - and the general public, into Japanese popular culture during the Edo exhibition ‘Shunga: Sex Art in Japan 1650- and he recently submitted his doctoral thesis period (1615-1868), considering in particular 1880’, which is scheduled to go on view at in public archaeology at University College the different interpretive strategies repre- the British Museum in the spring of 2013. She London. sented by the three terms mitate, yatsushi is also working on a joint project between and fûryû. the Japanese Section of the British Museum Previously, he completed his master degree and the Art Research Center, Ritsumeikan in Cultural Resources Studies at the University In 2001 he assisted the National Museum University, to digitize the Japanese collections of Tokyo and worked as a consultant in Cardiff and the Birmingham (UK) of the Museum and publish these online. UNESCO’s Division of Cultural Heritage. Museum and Art Gallery in cataloguing their collections of Japanese prints. His She is also organizing an international sympo- publications include ‘Harunobu and the sium, scheduled for December 2010 at SOAS, Stylishly Informal: Fûryû Yatsushi as Aesthetic tentatively entitled “Digital Iconography and Convention’, in Impressions 28 (2006-2007); Image Database’, which aims to review icon- ‘Immortalizing the Yoshiwara Courtesan: ographic approaches and methodologies, Mitate in a Surimono Series by Gakutei’, in and to discuss how image databases John T. Carpenter, ed., Reading Surimono: can contribute to international research The Interplay of Text and Image in Japanese on Japanese art history. Prints (2008); and two book reviews for The Burlington Magazine (2009). Recent publications include ‘Edo no Gekijō zu: Hishikawa-ha o chūshin ni’, Fūzoku kaiga For most of this academic year, Alfred will no bunkagaku, June 2009, pp. 211-242; “Im- be conducting research in Washington, DC, age Databases and Early Modern Kabuki having been awarded the Anne van Biema Performance Research’, Image-databases Fellowship for research in Japanese art history and the Study of Japanese Art and Culture, at the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. March 2010, pp. 227-240; “Seigen Sakurahime Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution. mono ni miru sode no hataraki, Ronkyū nihon bungaku, vol. 92 (May 2010).

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John D. SZOSTAK Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Fellow

John Szostak is an Assistant Professor of Japanese Art History at The University of Hawai’i at Manoa, in Honolulu, Hawaii. His bachelor degree is from Colgate University, and he completed his masters and doctor- ate degrees at the University of Washington. He specializes in the art history of the Meiji, Taisho and early Showa eras (1860s-1930s), with special focus on the modernization of pre-Meiji Japanese painting modes.

He has published on the subject of propaganda imagery in Meiji-era woodblock prints, the adaptation of traditional Buddhist motifs by modernist Japanese artists, and on Toshiba Lectures on Japanese Art the influence of Ruskin’s Modern Painters on fin de siècle Kyoto Nihonga (“Japanese-style 5, 10, 18 November 2010 painting”). Heian Japan in the East Asian World: As a Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Fellow, Cross Currents in Art and Culture his research will focus on the activities of the Kokuga Society (Kokuga Sōsaku Mimi Hall Yiengpruksawan Kyōkai, “Society for the Creation of Japanese Yale University Painting”), a reformist Nihonga exhibition collective that was active from 1918 to 1928. Modern day scholarship have been too focused on putative insularity to realize just how The resulting monograph will also consider amazing—and “modern”—the Kyoto world was, with leaders like Michinaga and Yukinari, the history of the juried art exhibition in Japan who were confident enough to send Japanese statues to the Song emperor Zhenzong. and its consequences, the impact of Western Post-Impressionism on neo-traditional paint- This series of lectures demonstrates that Kyoto in the Heian period was one of the most ers, and the changing paradigm and social important players in the politics, commerce, and culture of a transmarine cultural system in role of the artist in Japan in the early decades East Asia after the fall of the Tang dynasty in 907. of the twentieth century. Mimi Hall Yiengpruksawan has taught at Yale University since 1990. In her work Yiengpruksawan focuses on Buddhist art and iconography with emphasis on political and social perspectives in the analysis of imagery and ritual.

All Welcome. Admission Free. For information T: 01603-624-349 www.sainsbury-institute.org

28 RESEARCH STUDENTS 2009-2010

Ryoko AOKI Kigensan LICHA Fumi OUCHI The Construction of Japanese Noh Theatre as The Esoterization of Soto Zen in Medieval The vocal arts in medieval Japan and Tendai a Masculine Art: an Analysis of its Traditional Japan hongaku thought and Modern Discourse Supervisor: Dr Lucia DOLCE Supervisor: Dr Lucia DOLCE Supervisor: Professor Andrew GERSTLE Tullio LOBETTI Jenny PRESTON Midori ATKINS Faith in the flesh: body and ascetic practices Nishikawa Sukenobu: The Engagement of Time and Space Reconsidered: Literary in contemporary Japanese religious context Popular Art in Socio-political Discourse in Landscape in the Literature of Murakami Supervisor: Dr Lucia DOLCE 18th Century Japan Haruki Supervisor: Dr John CARPENTER Supervisor: Dr Steve DODD Benedetta LOMI Batô Kannon/Matou Guanyin: cult, images Christopher Roberts Kristian BERING and rituals of the Horse-Headed One British Extra-territoriality in Japan, 1859-1899 Bakin and the Theatre Supervisor: Dr Lucia DOLCE Supervisor: Dr Angus LOCKYER Supervisor: Professor Andrew GERSTLE Shinya MANO Ivan RUMANEK Lucy GLASSPOOL Yôsai and the development of Zen-Esoteric The appropriation of Noh by Joruri and Japanese Role Playing Games: Gender and Buddhism Kabuki Fandom’ Supervisor: Dr Lucia DOLCE Supervisor: Professor Andrew GERSTLE Supervisor: Dr Isolde STANDISH Barbara MICYK Ryosuke SHIBAGAKI Haruhisa HANDA The supernatural is pre-modern Japanese Secondary Predicates in Japanese Calligraphy and Religious Personality in Early illustrated fiction Supervisor: Professor Peter SELLS Modern Japan: Hakuin’s Life and Writings Supervisor: Professor Andrew GERSTLE Supervisor: Dr John CARPENTER Martyn Smith Yaara MORRIS Nationalism in postwar Japan Mami HATAYAMA The Cult of Tenkawa Benzaiten – her rituals, Supervisor: Dr Christopher GERTEIS The Meiji Painter and Lacquer Artist Shibata texts, and mandalas Zeshin Supervisor: Dr Lucia DOLCE Nobuaki Takase Supervisor: Dr John CARPENTER Mutsu Munemitsu and the formation of the Doreen MUELLER state in modern Japan Makiko HAYASHI Documenting Disaster: Pictorial Records of Supervisor: Dr Angus LOCKYER Constructing the Legal Profession in Meiji the Late Edo Period (draft title) Japan Supervisor: Professor Timon SCREECH Eriko TOMIZAWA-KAY Supervisor: Dr John BREEN The Nihonga (Japanese-Style) Artist Hishida Takako NEGISHI Shunso (1874-1911) Katsuyuki HIDAKA The Japanese Geisha ‘Madame Hanako’ : A Supervisor: Dr John CARPENTER Consuming the Past in Film and Television’. Renowned Actress on the European Stage Supervisor: Dr Isolde STANDISH (1902-21) Shino Toyoshima Supervisor: Professor Andrew GERSTLE Making Kunsan Home: Community Building Satomi HORIUCHI by Japanese Settlers in Colonial Korea Contemporary Japanese Christianity: Masaaki OKADA Supervisor: Dr Angus LOCKYER Ancestors, rites and graves Salvation by beauty and nature: Okada Supervisor: Dr Lucia DOLCE Mokichi’s practices Carla Tronu Montane Supervisor: Dr Lucia DOLCE The Construction of the Japanese Christian Noriko HORSLEY Community in Nagasaki in the sixteenth & Court Patronage and the Collecting of Art in Taka Oshikiri seventeenth centuries 12th century Insei-period Japan Gathering for tea in Meiji Japan Supervisor: Dr Angus LOCKYER Supervisor: Dr John CARPENTER Supervisor: Dr Angus LOCKYER

29 AWARD AND GRANTS

Award Recipients, 2009-10 - Final Reports

Bernedetta LOMI Barbara Micyk Ryosuke SHIBAGAKI Tsuda Bursary Meiji Jingu Studentship Meiji Jingu Studentship

Thanks to the Tsuda Bursary, Bernedetta has The feeling of fear is one of the most basic First of all, the thesis has been progressing been able to work on two crucial chapters of instincts that every human being possess. and as planned. Ryosuke conducts his her thesis and completed the final draft of her One of the most basic methods of fighting research on secondary predicates of several research. She is thankful to Mrs Tsuda to her it is by binding it with words. That is how languages, including Japanese as my core kind generosity, and to the JRC committee “Tales of strange” are born. Barbara’s research chapter of the thesis, Chinese (Mandarin) and for giving me the possibility of focusing focuses on introducing the problem of 'evil' Mongolian. In the 2009/10 academic session, on concluding my work. and 'parody of evil', in the context of Japanese he has completed the data part of all three kusazôshi ( Edo period graphic novels) that languages as well as some theoretical Her research analyses the worship of Batō features monsters. analyses especially in the Chinese and Kannon (S. Hayagrīva), the horse headed, Mongolian sections. wrathful form of the Bodhisattva of First term of the year 2009-2010 she spent Compassion, stressing the interactions and doing her final research on kusazôshi. Currently he is focusing on the formal analysis discontinuities of its occurrences within the In the Autumn, she visited Tokyo and of the secondary predicate of each language esoteric and folkloristic tradition. explored the Tokyo Metropolitan Library, (particularly on Japanese), which will in the the Gakushuin Daigaku Library and the end reveal what are the common features Given the diversity of sources, the research Waseda Daigaku Library. She also had the of secondary predicates and what are has required a multiplicity of approaches, ultimate pleasure of visiting Meiji-Jingu the language specific characteristics in the from textual hermeneutics, to visual and during the harvest festival and receiving the phenomena around secondary predicate. ritual studies, to collection of anthropologi- most heart-warming welcome there. cal and ethnographic data. This has high- Conference Presentations lighted aspects Batō Kannon’s worship never Barbara spent the second term sieving Lexical Account of Causation in Mandarin. addressed by previous scholarship. Initially through kusazôshi which she gathered during 23ème Journées de Linguistique de l’Asie worshipped as part of the Six Kannon group, her stays in Japan. After choosing the most Orientale (JLAO23), University of Paris. France. Batō Kannon became associated, in the late appropriate for her theme, she started medieval period, with the valorous horses of translating and editing. She has also finished Semantic Properties of Chinese Change of important military leaders, as suggested by her active research on the genre of fairy tale, State Predicate. VIII Work Shop on Formal legends and temples engi. This developed evil, bakemono and history of kusazôshi. Linguistics. University of Sao Paulo. Brazil. into the practice of erecting a Batō Kannon stele on the ground were a horse had died, During the third term she focused on putting Causation in Mandarin Secondary Predicates. popular throughout the Tokugawa period the results of her research in words. Barbara The 51st Linguistic Association of Great Brit- in the Honshû area. She argues that this has also started the project of setting up a web ain (LAGB). University of Leeds. UK. practice is aimed at identifying the deceased page (in both english and polish language) animal with the horse-headed deity, as part where everyone interested can read the With Guntsetseg, D. Resultatives in of a memorial ritual. translated and edited bakemono kusazôshi. Mongolian: between Japanese and Korean?. The 7th Workshop of Altaic Formal Linguistics On a broader level, the research project (WAFL7). University of Southern California. tackles issues relating to the nature US. and interpretation of the sources; the com- plex process of contextualization of images Journal Publication to ritual texts and ritual practices; the way Shibagaki, R. 2009. Resultatives and Causation visual response and interpretation of sacred in Cantonese. Journal of Language and images have informed the liturgical and re- Culture Vol.33 (2). The Japan Association of ligious functions over the so-called textual Language and Culture. Japan. authorities; and the layered meanings of the ritual performances still carried out today to protect and memorialise animals.

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Award Recipients, 2010-11

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

Kigensan’s research focuses on the secret Ivan’s research examines how the emergence Martyn’s research looks at the concept of the transmissions handed down in late medieval of kabuki and jōruri symbolized the new era nation in postwar Japan at particular points and early modern Japanese Soto Zen Bud- in Japanese history, the Edo shogunate, and over a twenty year period. It examines how dhism. These traditions are based on two He would like to see to what extent these new two terms, kokumin and minzoku, usually to closely related genre of texts known as the theatrical forms were linked to the nō tradi- taken to imply the ‘civic and ‘ethnic’ nation kirigami and monsan. tion which was the epitomy of the previous respectively, emerged at different moments Muromachi period. over a period of twenty years from the end of Kirigami are brief records of oral transmission, the Occupation to the ‘return’ of Okinawa in often involving diagrams and illustrations Ivan wants to shed more light to the process- 1972. He will examine how these two terms of various kinds. They mostly deal with es behind the formation of kabuki during the were being used during a critical period of matters of ritual and cosmology. Monsan are 17th century, further implications they had flux, before the full-blown emergence of Ni- collection of koan arranged into standardized for the character the “classical” kabuki and honjinron in the 70s and 80s, and show the hierarchies. Both genre are based on an jōruri acquired during the time of Chikamatsu extent to which use of the terms was more di- innovative and distinctive use of koan. This Monzaemon, and see the role of nō in these verse than existing accounts have suggested use was based on the need of Japanese Zen processes. by including an emerging popular discourse monks to come to terms with increasingly as a means of taking into account the rapid incomprehensible Chinese koan material. The first part will focus on the changes in Japanese society which character- Koan, their use and acquisition, become radical transformation that took place in ised the 1950’s and 60’s. increasingly ritualized in Japan. Not only were kabuki in the 17th century. Within several koan learned in ritualized, performative ex- decades in the middle of this century, kabuki The dissertation focuses on four pivotal changes between master and disciple, but changed from light erotically based dance historical moments in post-war Japan: the their use grew to encompass encoding mate- and skit to a whole-day performance with a end of the Allied Occupation in 1952; the rial objects with hidden meanings and they mature score and script. My question is how protests and demonstrations leading up to even were employed directly as ritual utter- much was this linked to changes in a purely the renewal of the security treaty in 1960; the ances endowed with magical force. linguistic etymology and how much in an ety- Tokyo Olympics of 1964; and the return of mology of genre? The second part will deal Okinawa to Japanese rule in 1972. Kigensan’s research focuses on the concep- with jōruri and kabuki as legacy of the devel- tual, ontological and cosmological structures opment treated in the first part and I would The debate and discussion of intellectuals that allowed these developments to occur. In like to concentrate on particular plays derived within the more established ‘general interest the course of this, he argues that any defini- from nō plays. magazines,’ such as Chūō Kōron has been the tion of the “esoteric” has to pay attention to basis for much of the scholarship on post-war the subjectivity of the practitioner generated Ivan’s long-distance aim is to see, in light of nō Japanese nationalism. By adding ‘housewife through its practices. itself getting fossilized as the elite art, wheth- magazines’ such as Fujin Kōron and popular er, and to what extent, the new Edo period magazines such as Heibon, Heibon Punch, His other academic interests include theatre genres could be viewed as “new lively and the Mainichi and Asahi Graph, among philosophy, especially pre-modern thought offsprings of nō” besides “the old nō” repre- others, he will explore the conjunctions and and logics, Western magical traditions and sented by the official shogunate-sponsored disjunctions between use of the terms within linguistics. Five Schools (goryū) of nō . the intellectual and popular media.

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KAYOKO TSUDA BURSARY MEIJI JINGU PHD STUDENTSHIPS MEIJI JINGU SMALL GRANTS

The Japan Research Centre (JRC) is pleased Two awards are offered annually, either for Grants are offered to assist full-time academic to invite applications to the bursary created PhD students at SOAS, or newly enrolling staff members of the JRC, SOAS, to promote through the generosity of Ms Kayoko Tsuda. full-time MPhil students, who have been Japanese Studies. accepted by SOAS. one bursary is offered total subsidy of up to Students may be registered in any per year, carrying a value department, and be of any nationality, £2,200 will be offered in any of £7,000 (untaxed) but must be working on some aspect of one calendar year Japanese Studies. Applicants may be of any nationality and in Funds may be used for personal research, need of the bursary to fund completion of studentships are worth £5,000, conferences, etc, or to purchase research-level their thesis. The bursary will be awarded to books for the SOAS Library. Group projects students writing up their PhD dissertations and carry a 20% reduction of are acceptable, but should be submitted in at SOAS in either their third or fourth year fees (EU or Overseas) the name of one representative individual. during the academic session 2010/11. Those working on any aspect of Japanese studies Normally awards are for one year only, but Awards will be assessed according to are eligible. where a recipient of the Studentship has their importance for Japanese studies, as demonstrated outstanding potential for interpreted by the Steering Committee of Candidates will be assessed based on a research, the recipient of the Studentship the JRC. The Committee, together with the combination of fi nancial need and academic can reapply up to a maximum of three times. approval of Meiji Jingu, will decide who the merit. Selection will be made by the Steering successful applicant will be. Committee of the JRC. PhD candidates must be resident in SOAS: the award cannot be used elsewhere. Closing Date Closing Date The first closing date for applications will Friday, 27 May 2011 Studentships are worth £5,000, be 27 May 2011. If not all funds have been and carry a 20% reduction of allocated, a second round will be held, with a How to Apply fees (EU or Overseas). closing date in late October, 2011. More information can be obtained from: Closing Date How to Apply www.soas.ac.uk/registry/scholarships Friday, 27 May 2011 The Meiji Jingu Research Small Grants for 2011 application form is available to download The Scholarships Officer How to Apply from the JRC website: Registry More information can be obtained from: www.soas.ac.uk/jrc School of Oriental and African Studies University of London www.soas.ac.uk/registry/scholarships Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square London WC1H 0XG The Scholarships Officer Email: [email protected] Registry School of Oriental and African Studies University of London Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square London WC1H 0XG Email: [email protected]

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

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