The Art Research Center (ARC) is pleased to announce the Chūshingura Ukiyo-e International Symposium. (*This event is held in Japanese)

Date: February 11 (Friday), 2022

Time: 13:30 Japan Standard Time (approx. 3 hours)

Topic: Spreading the Legend of Chūshingura to the World

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Part 1：Individual Presentations

Ryo Akama (Professor, Ritsumeikan University)

'Revisiting the 12-sheets series of Chūshingura ukiyo-e focused on Kuniyoshi'

Kenichiro Ishibashi (Kabuki Researcher)

'Reading ukiyo-e of Kanadehon chūshingura from a perspective of the History of Performing Arts'

Satoko Shimazaki (Associate Professor, UCLA)＊

'From World to Character: Chūshingura Prints in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century'

Annegret Bergmann (Project Associate Professor, The University of Tokyo)

'Chūshingura of the Meiji period reflected in ukiyo-e'

Part 2：Keynote Speech　

Andrew Gerstle (Emeritus Professor, SOAS, University of London)＊

ʻAre the Depictions of Loyalty, Heroism, Tragedy in Kanadehon chūshingura universal?ʼ

Part 3： Panel Discussion

Andrew Gerstle / Kenichiro Ishibashi / Annegret Bergmann / Satoko Shimazaki＊

Coordinator: Ryo Akama

*Remote participation

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Organizer:

Chūshingura Ukiyo-e International Symposium Executive Committee

Co-organizers:

Ako City, Ako City Board of Education, Ako Culture and Midori Foundation, Ako Gishikai, International Joint Digital Archiving Center for Japanese Art and Culture (ARC-iJAC), Art Research Center, Ritsumeikan University