As part of the international joint research project Creative Collaborations: Salons and Networks in Kyoto and Osaka 1780-1880 (「上方文化サロン：人的ネットワークから解き明かす文化創造空間 1780-1880」), supported by UK Research & Innovation (UKRI) and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), an online workshop was held at the Art Research Center (ARC), Ritsumeikan University on May 2, 2024.

The research project--a collaborative scholarly enterprise among researchers and institutions in Japan and the UK--aims to analyse the cultural and social impact of art and literary salons and the collective creation of art (gassaku) in early modern Japan, particularly in the Kyoto-Osaka region during 1780-1880.

Date: May 2 (Thurs), 2024, 18:00 - 20:00 JST

Venue: Online via ZOOM

The program was as follows:

1. Speaker: Shin'ichi IWASA (岩佐 伸一)

Title: Introducing examples of collaborative calligraphy and painting in the late Edo period--focusing on production space, participants and related figures「江戸時代後期の合作書画の作例紹介－制作の場や関係者に注目して－」

2. Speaker: Yoshihisa SUGIMOTO (杉本 欣久)

Title: Watanabe Nangaku and Nakamura Hōchū going to Edo--Communication through haikai and painting「渡辺南岳と中村芳中の江戸行―俳諧と絵画の交流」

※This was a closed workshop.