April 19, 2011
The 103rd GCOE Seminar
1. “Location of the Edo-Period Kyoto Lacquer Workshops: GIS Analysis Based on Historical Sources”
Lecturer: Tsukamoto Akihiro (PD/Historical Geography Information Research Group)
2. “Tracing the “Whose sleeves?” motif through various fashionable art forms”
Lecturer: Kamo Mizuho (RA1/Japanese Culture Research Group/Ritsumeikan University Graduate School of Letters D3)
3. “Naturalistic or not Naturalistic?: 19th century British Understanding of Maruyama-Shijo School”
Lecturer: Princess Akiko of Mikasa (PD/Kyoto Culture Research Group)
4. “Patronage and Viewership of Art in the Hokke-sect Temples: Rissho Ankoku-ron by Hon'ami Koetsu”
Lecturer: Takahashi Nobushiro (RA2/Japanese Culture Research Group/Ritsumeikan University Graduate School of Letters D2)
Time: April 19 (Tues.), 18:00-19:30 (6th Period)
Place: (Kinugasa) Ritsumeikan University Art Research Center Multipurpose Room (BKC) Please use the Internet (Power Live)
Free of charge (no reservation required)
* The general public may also participate in the seminar through the Internet.
* Those who wish to participate on the Internet, please contact tkiri@fc.ritsumei.ac.jp (Attn: Kirimura)
* GCOE research members and those who already have ID and passwords do not need to contact us.
* Starting in the afternoon on the day of the event, materials can be viewed at the following link (for a limited time):
http://www.arc.ritsumei.ac.jp/dhjac/GCOESeminar/haihusiryo-index.html
To view presentation abstracts, please click on “more” below.
2. Kamo Mizuho, “Tracing the “Whose sleeves?” motif through various fashionable art forms”
“Whose sleeves?” is an artistic genre that depicts sleeves hung on a clothing rack. Particularly famous examples of this subject are the “Whose Sleeves Folding Screens” produced in the Edo period. The “Whose Sleeves Folding Screens,” on which no humans are depicted, and which utilizes a technique that gazes at meticulously-depicted sleeves and luxury, have been the subject of much debate even now. However, the genre of “Whose sleeves?” was spread broadly to other media such as lacquerware, hanpon and
ukiyo-e. In this presentation, while I examine the “Whose sleeves?” genre and its spread
into various media, I will clearly articulate its special characteristics.
3. Princess Akiko of Mikasa, “Naturalistic or not Naturalistic?: 19th century British Understanding of Maruyama-Shijo School”
The Maruyama-Shijo School was a school of painting engaged in a type of depiction that blossomed in Kyoto during the 18th and 19th centuries. As opposed to past schools of painting, which attempted to improve their technique by repeated sketching and mimicking, the Maruyama-Shijo School tried actually tried to come face to face with their subjects and to express them in as natural a form as possible. The works of the Maruyama-Shijo School were highly praised among 19th-century British collectors of Japanese art. In this presentation, using works authored by three representative British art collectors, I make clear their thoughts on the Maruyama-Shijo School.
2. “Tracing the “Whose sleeves?” motif through various fashionable art forms”
Lecturer: Kamo Mizuho (RA1/Japanese Culture Research Group/Ritsumeikan University Graduate School of Letters D3)
4. “Patronage and Viewership of Art in the Hokke-sect Temples: Rissho Ankoku-ron by Hon'ami Koetsu”
Lecturer: Takahashi Nobushiro (RA2/Japanese Culture Research Group/Ritsumeikan University Graduate School of Letters D2)
Question and Answer Session
