Shunga Books and Prints in Context

Symposium

"Shunga Books and Prints in Context"

This symposium is the first step in a three-year research project on shunga books, prints and paintings. The aims of the symposium are to introduce the project and to raise questions on the method and direction of shunga research. In August 2009 a similar workshop was held in London at the School of Oriental and African Studies in collaboration with the British Museum to inaugurate the British side of the project. This symposium takes a step further by bringing together a wide range of specialists to analyse and examine shunga from different perspectives.

Scholars of ukiyoe and literature will examine shunga from the perspective of their own disciplines and genres. This kind of comparative research putting shunga books and prints into the broader cultural and social context has not been attempted before.

【Time and Date】

 1:00-5:30PM, December 4 (Fri.), 2009 ※ The Reception: 6:00PM-8:00PM
 9:30AM-5:30PM, December 5 (Sat.), 2009

【Place】

 Nakano Memorial Hall, Kyoto Museum for World Peace, Ritsumeikan University ＞ Access map
 The Reception: Restaurant Calme, Suekawa Memorial Hall, Ritsumeikan University ＞ Access map

【Admission】

 Free
 The Reception: 5,000 yen for non-student participants; and 3,000 yen for students (Please bring your Student ID).

You can to go to each presenter's abstract from the following link.
 ＞ List of Symposium Presenters' Abstracts. ※ Japanese Only.

Program

Day 1　1:00-5:30PM, December 4 (Fri.)

12:30PM	Open /Place: Nakano Memorial Hall, Kyoto Museum for World Peace, Ritsumeikan University
1:00-1:10PM	Opening Speech
	Andrew Gerstle /Professor, SOAS, University of Londen; Visiting Scholars, Ritsumeikan University
1:15-1:35PM	Rakuchurakugai-zu (Funaki-bon) Relative to Ukiyo-e Shunga
	Monta Hayakawa /Professor, International Research Center for Japanese Studies
1:35-1:55PM	The Shunga of Hishikawa Moronobu
	Yoshihiko Shirakura /Trustee, International Ukiyo-e Society
1:55-2:15PM	Erotic Discourse as Political Rhetoric in the Shunpon of Nishikawa Sukenobu
	Jenny Preston /Doctoral Student, SOAS, University of London
2:15-2:45PM	Discussion
2:45-3:00PM	Break (15 minutes)
3:00-3:20PM	Tsukioka Settei's Erotic Parodies of 18th-Century Women's Conduct Books: Their Significance in Women's History
	Andrew Gerstle /Professor, SOAS, University of Londen; Visiting Scholars, Ritsumeikan University; Leader, Shunga Project
3:20-3:40PM	The Image of Japanese Women in Onna teikin gesho bunko
	Akiko Yano /Postdoctoral Fellow, SOAS, University of Londen; Visiting Scholars, Ritsumeikan University
3:40-4:00PM	Shokumotsu Bakahonzo by Isoda Koryusai
	Shugo Asano /Director, The Museum Yamatobunkakan
4:00-4:30PM	Discussion
4:30-4:45PM	Break (15 minutes)
4:45-5:30PM	Panel Discussion
	Moderator: Yukari Yamamoto /Member of Editorial Board, International Ukiyo-e Society
6:00-8:00PM	The Reception /Place: Restaurant Calme, Suekawa Memorial Hall, Ritsumeikan University

Day 2　9:30AM-5:30PM, December 5 (Sat.), 2009

9:00AM	Open /Place: Nakano Memorial Hall, Kyoto Museum for World Peace, Ritsumeikan University
9:30-9:50AM	Shifting Viewpoints on Shunga: How Contemporary Social Changes Transform the Past
	Paul Berry /Professor, Kansai Gaidai University
9:50-10:10AM	Illustrated Erotic Book Production in the Edo Period ※ English
	Ellis Tinios /Professor Emeritus, University of Leeds
10:10-10:30AM	Shunga in the British Museum
	Rosina Buckland /Curator and Postdoctoral fellow, The British Museum
10:30-11:00AM	Discussion
11:00-11:20AM	Japanese Porn Books and Pictures Published by Nishimura-Ichirowemon --The Commercialization of the Publishing Industry in the Latter Part of the 17th-Century Japan
	Takashi Nakajima /Professor, Waseda University
11:20-11:40AM	Shunpon and Curing Book: Koso Myoron
	Aki Ishigami /Postdoctoral Fellow, GCOE; Organizer
11:40AM-12:00PM	Discussion
0:00-1:45PM	Lunch Time
1:45-2:05PM	The Shunpon of Kitao Shigemasa
	Kenji Hinohara /Chief Curator, Ukiyoe-Ota Memorial Museum of Art
2:05-2:25PM	In Preparation...
	Fumiko Kobayashi /Associate Professor, Hosei University
2:25-2:45PM	Hiraga Gennai, "Nagamakura shitone kassen"; a new finding edition, and the relationship between text and picture.
	Ryo Akama /Professor, Ritsumeikan University; Director, ARC, Ritsumeikan University; Director, DH-JAC
2:45-3:15PM	Discussion
3:15-3:30PM	Break (15 minutes)
3:30-3:50PM	Shunga by Utagawa School and Toyokuni
	Kazutaka Higuchi /Curator, Mitsui Memorial Museum
3:50-4:10PM	Digests and Parodies in Robun's Erotica
	Gen Takagi /Professor, Chiba University
4:10-4:30PM	Discussion
4:30-4:45PM	Break (15 minutes)
4:45-5:25PM	Panel Discussion
	Moderator: Andrew Gerstle /Professor, SOAS, University of Londen; Visiting Scholars, Ritsumeikan University; Leader, Shunga Project Commentator: Masatomo Kawai /Professor Emeritus, Keio University
5:25-5:30PM	Closing speech
	Ryo Akama /Professor, Ritsumeikan University; Director, ARC, Ritsumeikan University; Director, DH-JAC

You can to go to each presenter's abstract from the following link.
 ＞ List of Symposium Presenters' Abstracts. ※ Japanese Only.