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December 17, 2011
1st Nishikawa Sukenobu Conference
The 1st Nishikawa Sukenobu Conference will be held as below. All are welcome to attend.
Date: December 17, 2011 – December 18, 2011 (Saturday and Sunday)
Location: International Research Center for Japanese Studies, 2nd Joint Research Room (Daini kyōdō kenkyūshitsu)
–Ishigami, PD
December 17, 2011
13:30 Introduction to the History of Scholarship on Nishikawa Sukenobu (Aki Ishigami, Ritsumeikan University PD)
13:45 “Woman at the Water’s Edge”: Water Currents and Beautiful Women in Sukenobu’s Prints (Yukari Yamamoto)
14:45 Break
15:00 Nishikawa Sukenobu as Book Illustrator: On Bookstores and Ukiyozōshi (Takashi Nakajima, Professor at Waseda University)
16:00 Discussion (Moderator: Ishigami)
17:00 End
December 18, 2011
13:00 Sukenobu’s Influence on Edo Shunga (Yoshihiko Shirakura, Editor)
14:00 The Reception of Classic Texts During the Early Modern Period: From Sukenobu Ehon to Edo Shunpon (Aki Ishigami)
15:00 Break
15:15 Female Readers of the Early Modern Period and the Popularization of the Classics: On Nishikawa Sukenobu’s Gahon Asahiyama (Gergana Ivanova, Lecturer at Washington University in St. Louis)
16:15 Discussion (Moderator: Monta Hayakawa, Professor at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies)
17:15 Concluding Remarks (Ishigami)
17:30 End

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