From Landscape Theory to Media Theory: Metamorphosis of Cinema and Revolutionary Theory in the Early 70s Japan
Colloquium
Speaker: Go Hirasawa, Meiji Gakuin University/NYU
Date: February 9, 2015 | 4:00 p.m.
Location: 180 Doe Library
Masao Matsuda (critic), Masao Adachi (director) and Takuma Nakahira (photographer) proposed "landscape theory" (Fûkeiron) as film/image and revolutionary theory during the end of 1960s and early 1970s in Japan. Joined by Takashi Tsumura (critic), they developed the theory into something that argues the metamorphosis from landscape theory to Media/reportage theory during that time. Go Hirasawa will shed light on the significance of such arguments presented in their writings and works in pioneering conceptual changes in how directors, photographers, artists, critics, and radical movements understood the influence of the state and capital conglomeration in everyday life at this time.
Go Hirasawa is a visiting scholar at NYU and a researcher at Meiji Gakuin University in Tokyo, Japan. He has coordinated a workshop on landscape theory at NYU and Ghent University and Goldsmiths. Hirasawa has organized a retrospective of Masao Adachi at The Cinématheque Française and The Harvard Film Archive, exhibitions of Wakamatsu and Oshima around the world. With Nicole Brenez at Paris 3, he edited "Le bus de la révolution passera bientôt près de chez toi" and has republished Masao Matsuda's "Fukei no Shimetsu" in Japan.
Volunteer Tourism and Public Anthropology: In the Aftermath of the 3.11 East Japan Disaster
Colloquium
Speaker: Shinji Yamashita, The University of Tokyo/The UCLA Center for Japanese Studies
Date: February 13, 2015 | 4:00 p.m.
Location: 180 Doe Library
Sponsors: Center for Japanese Studies, Tourism Studies Working Group
On March 11, 2011, a mega-earthquake of 9.0 magnitude struck East Japan, followed by a huge tsunami and the meltdown of several nuclear reactors in Fukushima. This was a disaster of unprecedented complexity. The disaster left approximately 20,000 dead, including missing people, and it is said that the damage can be estimated at 17 trillion Japanese yen. However, what we should understand is that disaster is a long process. As of August 2014, more than three years after the disaster, there were about 250,000 evacuees and displaced people and the local economic situation is still shaky. In this situation, this paper first pays special attention to tourism that could play a positive role in the reconstruction of devastated communities. In particular, it examines the implications of "volunteer tourism," as a new form of tourism that emerged after the disaster and helped form kizuna or "social ties" between the devastated areas and the rest of the world. At the same time, the paper discusses new developments of anthropological practices in Japan in the post-disaster context. Reviewing what role anthropology can play in the process of reconstruction, I argue that anthropologists should engage in the public issues in pursuit of a new relationship of anthropology and society. In so doing, we could practice a kind of public anthropology that contributes to the understanding and solution of contemporary social issues. The East Japan Disaster is exactly the kind of challenge we have to respond to.
Shinji Yamashita is Emeritus Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Tokyo, Professor of Tourism Studies at Teikyo Heisei University, Japan, and currently Terasaki Chair of the UCLA Center for Japanese Studies (until March 31, 2015). He was a former president of the Japanese Society of Ethnology (Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology since 2004) 1996-98. His research focuses on the dynamics of culture in the process of globalization with a special reference to international tourism and transnational migration. His regional concern is with Southeast and East Asia, particularly Indonesia, Malaysia, and Japan. His books include Tourism and Cultural Development in Asia and Oceania (co-ed. with Kadir H. Din and Jerry S. Eades, Malaysia National University Press, 1997), Globalization in Southeast Asia: Local, National, and Transnational Perspectives (co-ed. with Jerry S. Eades, Berghahn Books, 2003), Bali and Beyond: Explorations in the Anthropology of Tourism (translated by J.S. Eades, Berghahn Books, 2003), The Making of Anthropology in East and Southeast Asia (co-ed. with Joseph Bosco and Jerry S. Eades, Berghahn Books, 2004), Kanko Jinruigaku no Chosen: "Atarashii Chikyu" no Ikikata [The Challenges of the Anthropology of Tourism: Transnational Lives on the "New Globe"] (Kodansha, Tokyo, 2009), and Wind over Water: Migration in an East Asian Context (co-ed. with David W. Haines and Keiko Yamanaka, Berghahn Books, 2012).
Interpreting the flexibility in music meter of Japanese Noh drama
Colloquium
Speaker: Professor Takanori Fujita, Kyoto City University of Arts
Date: February 24, 2015 | 4:00 p.m.
Location: 180 Doe Library
The music meter of Japanese Noh drama has attracted scholars because of its flexibility, which, according to Professor Takanori Fujita, is related to Noh's learning process. Faithful imitation of a teacher for life is the central moral in lesson community. In performance, players are taught not to synchronize too much with each other. Especially, singers are strictly kept ignorant of basic music meter that underlies songs. How do players, under such condition, coordinate with each other beat by beat and develop the flexibility of meter? Showing basic variants of the original 8 beats meter produced by drummers, Fujita will first demonstrate the range of flexibility in beats. Then he will introduce players' devices to allow for occasionally enormous flexibility in performance. The sound track no. 22 in Music in Japan (Bonnie Wade, 2004) will be focused on for analysis and explanation.
Professor Takanori Fujita (Ph.D.) teaches ethnomusicology in the Graduate School of Music and the Centre for Japanese Traditional Music, Kyoto City University of Arts. As a participant observer, he has developed unique historical studies on musical production of Japanese Noh drama and related folk ritual music and dances. His papers translated in English include "No and Kyogen: Music from the Medieval Theater," (The Ashgate Research Companion to Japanese Music, 2009), "Continuity and Authenticity in Japanese Traditional Music" (The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, Volume 7: East Asia, 2002).
Kōmeitō: Politics and Religion in Japan
Colloquium
Speakers: Levi McLaughlin, NC State University; Steven Reed, Chuo University
Discussants: Mark Blum, UC Berkeley; T.J. Pempel, UC Berkeley
Moderator: Steven Vogel, UC Berkeley
Date: March 13, 2015 | 4:00 p.m.
Location: 180 Doe Library
Levi McLaughlin and Steven R. Reed will discuss their new book, Kōmeitō: Religion and Politics in Japan, co-edited with George Ehrhardt and Axel Klein. The Soka Gakkai (the Value Creation Study Association), a lay Buddhist organization and Japan's largest collective of active religious participants, began supporting political candidates in 1955 and founded the Kōmeitō (Clean Government Party) in 1964. The Kōmeitō has been a significant player in Japanese politics since 1967. It has participated in coalition governments off and on since 1993, including the current ruling coalition since December 2014. McLaughlin and Reed will discuss the role of religious groups in politics in Japan, review the history of the party, and analyze the party's evolving strategies and roles.
T.J. Pempel and Mark Blum will serve as discussants.
Polling, Public Opinion, and Political Responsiveness in Korea and Beyond
Colloquium
Speaker: Taeku Lee, Political Science, UC Berkeley
Moderator: T.J. Pempel, Political Science, UC Berkeley
Date: March 18, 2015 | 12:00–1:00 p.m.
Location: 180 Doe Library
"Political responsiveness" is a foundation stone of modern democracies, entailing an expectation that governments will heed and reckon the interests and demands of their polities with some regularity. To date the political science study of responsiveness is largely the province of scholars of American politics and its presence sought by matching the timing of changes in public opinion (as measured by opinion polls) to the timing of legislative debate and decision. In this presentation, we extend the parameters of political responsiveness in several aspects. First, we examine responsiveness in non-U.S. contexts, beginning with South Korea and with focused comparison to Taiwan and Japan. Second, we examine the context in which electoral surveys are conducted, with a critical eye toward the contrasting uses of polling for the purposes of "manufactured publicity" and maintaining the status quo of political elites, contra the purposes of expanding the boundaries of the political and engendering greater democratic contestation. Third, rather than relying on the quantitative analysis of extant survey data, we draw primarily on an extensive set of in-depth qualitative interviews of pollsters, journalists, scholars, and party officials.
The Sixth International Ryūkoku Symposium on Buddhism and Japanese Culture
Symposium
Speakers:
• Yukio Kusaka, Professor of the Department of Japanese Literature,
Ryukoku University
• Sei Noro, Lecturer of the Department of Buddhist Studies, Ryukoku
University
• Jijun Yoshida, Adjunct Lecturer of the Department of Buddhist Studies,
Ryukoku University
• Takahiko Kameyama, Former Postdoctoral Research Fellow of Institute
of Buddhist Studies
• "Tatsuo" Florian Saile, Buddhist Studies Graduate Student, UC Berkeley;
Koufukuji Temple Monk
• Mark Blum, Buddhist Studies and Shinjo Ito Distinguished Professor in
Japanese Studies, UC Berkeley
Date: March 21, 2015 | 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Location: Jodo Shinshu Center, 2140 Durant Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94704
Sponsors: Center for Japanese Studies, Institute of Buddhist Studies, Ryukoku University
SCHEDULE
Each talk will last 50 minutes, followed by 10 minutes of Q&A
Morning Session | 9:00a.m.–12:00p.m. (conducted in Japanese)
1. 真宗の唱道勧化本について
日下幸男氏（龍谷大学文学部教授）
Revealing the Teachings: Popular Sermons (shōdō kange bon 唱道勧化本) in Shin Buddhism
Yukio Kusaka
(Professor of the Department of Japanese Literature, Ryukoku University)
2. 日本華厳における「論義」について
野呂 靖氏（龍谷大学文学部専任講師）
"Doctrinal Debate" (rongi 論義) in Kegon School
Sei Noro
(Lecturer of the Department of Buddhist Studies, Ryukoku University)
3. 初期日本天台における他宗との論争
吉田慈順氏（龍谷大学文学部非常勤講師）
Early Tendai Buddhist Disputes with Other Schools
Jijun Yoshida
(Adjunct Lecturer of the Department of Buddhist Studies, Ryukoku University)
Afternoon Session | 2:00–5:00p.m. (conducted in English)
4. 中世真言密教における「信」
亀山隆彦氏（前IBS博士研究員）
The Significance of "Faith" in Medieval Shingon Buddhism
Takahiko Kameyama
(Ex-Postdoctoral Research Fellow of Institute of Buddhist Studies)
5. 日本中世の法相教学の展開―法相論義における「一乗」の解釈を中心として―
The One or the Three, the One and the Three, and/or the One as the Three: Observations on the Evolution of the Relationship between the 'Single Vehicle' and the 'Three Vehicles' in Medieval Japanese Hossō Thought
"Tatsuo" Florian Saile
(Buddhist Studies Graduate Student, UC Berkeley; Koufukuji Temple Monk)
6. 講演: Contextualizing Posthumous Kaimyō Ritual in Japan: Indian and Chinese Precedents for Renaming the Dead.
Mark Blum
(Buddhist Studies and Shinjo Ito Distinguished Professor in Japanese Studies, UC Berkeley)
Screening of Our Homeland and Q&A with filmmaker Yang Yonghi
Feature Film
Speaker: Yonghi Yang, Filmmaker
Discussants: John Lie, UC Berkeley; Byung Kwang Yoo, UC Davis
Date: April 10, 2015 | 2:00–6:30 p.m.
Location: Sutardja Dai Hall, 310 Banatao Auditorium
The Center for Japanese Studies is proud to present a screening of Our Homelandfollowed by a Q&A sessions with the director, Yonghi Yang. The film screening will start at 4:00 pm.
Preceding the film will be a round table discussion of "zainichi," or Ethnic Koreans, in Japan. The discussion will be led by Professor John Lie and will include Director Yonghi Yang, and Professor Byung Kwang Yoo from UC Davis. This discussion will take place from 2:00-4:00 pm.
Zainichi
Ethnic Koreans in Japan (often called "Zainichi") have experienced struggles for recognition in and by mainstream Japanese society as well as over loyalty to and identification with the divided Koreas. Zainichi writers have produced a library of outstanding writings, many of them about Zainichi struggles, but Zainichi cinematic expressions and representations have been scant. The discussion will seek to place Director Yang's oeuvre against the backdrop of Zainichi life in general and Zainichi visual representations in particular.
Our Homeland
One hot summer day, Rie, a 31-year-old second-generation Korean born and raised in Japan was looking forward for her brother Sungho's return. Sungho, 10 years her senior, was relocated to North Korea in the 1970's under the "repatriation program." After 25 years, he was finally allowed to return to Japan for three months to get medical treatments. The night that the family reunites, Rie realizes how difficult his life must have been in North Korea. In this trip, Sungho recognizes the dramatic differences of the town that he grew up in. Also, he reunites with his old friends and his first love. This gathering brings up mixed emotions among the friends. When a North Korean surveillance agent, Yang, asked Sungho to give a "job" to his beloved sister Rie, everyone reprimands Sungho. Despite the conflict among the family, Sungho's medical test result comes out... Will the family and friends be able to make up for the 25 years' lost time?
Director Yang Yonghi is a second generation Korean resident in Japan who was born in Osaka to a family of activist parents belonging to Chongryon (General Association of Korean Residents in Japan). Her film Our Homeland is fiction, with an original script that was loosely based on the director's real-life experiences. It is the story of a beloved brother who never had choices in life and the younger sister who always enjoyed freedoms. There exist heartrending emotions that are universal to all, regardless of any differences in individual ideals or values.
In Yonghi's work as a visual artist devoted to challenging traditional stereotypes, her imagery is never overwhelming; rather, it captivates audiences in a uniquely gentle, non-intrusive manner. Our Homeland is a tale of the unbreakable bond and deep love of one family, bridged across two countries.
Click here to visit the official film website (Japanese only).
Japan as a "Silver Democracy"
Colloquium
Speaker/Performer: John Creighton Campbell, Professor Emeritus, University of Michigan
Date: April 14, 2015 | 4:00 p.m.
Location: 180 Doe Library
It is often argued that Japan is the world's leading example of a "silver democracy." It provides generous benefits to older people because there are so many of them, they vote at such a high rate, and they often live in over-represented rural areas. On closer examination, this depiction of Japanese old-age policy does not stand up to comparisons with other advanced nations; moreover, the timing of policy changes indicates that older people did better when they were fewer. The old-age vote does have policy implications but these are much narrower than implied by "silver democracy" as an analytic hypothesis — it is better understood as a motto for conservative politicians.
John Creighton Campbell is professor emeritus of political science at the University of Michigan and is currently a faculty member at the Institute of Gerontology, Tokyo University. He is the author of How Policies Change: The Japanese Government and the Aging Society (Princeton, 1992) and recently has been studying Japan's Long-Term Care Insurance system as well as social policy more generally.
When Modernity Hits Hard: Redefining Buddhism in Meiji-Taisho-Early Shōwa Japan
Conference
Speakers:
• Mark Blum, UC Berkeley
• Melissa Curley, University of Iowa
• Jessica Main, University of British Columbia
• John Maraldo, Indiana University
• Ama Michihiro, University of Alaska Anchorage
• Yoshinaga Shin'ichi, Maizuru National College of Technology
• George Tanabe, University of Hawai'i
Discussants:
• Jim Heisig, Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture
• Richard Jaffe, Duke University
Date: April 17–18, 2015 | Fr: 7:00–9:00 | Sa: 9:30–7:00
Location: Jodo Shinshu Center — 2140 Durant Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94704
Sponsors: Center for Japanese Studies, Center for Buddhist Studies, BDK America
This conference aims to present new research on the turbulent period between the Meiji Restoration and the onset of full-scale warfare in 1931 when the central government of Japan expressed open hostility toward Buddhism for the first time since its introduction in the 6th century. These papers explore various efforts made in response to powerful pressures to redefine Buddhism's place in a redefined Japanese society.
FRIDAY 4/17
7:00–7:15pm — Introductory Remarks
Mark Blum (UC Berkeley)
George Tanabe (University of Hawai'i)
7:15–7:55pm — The Creation and Impact of the Journal, New Buddhism (Shin Bukkyō), Published 1900-1915
Yoshinaga Shin'ichi (Maizuru National College of Technology)
8:00–9:00pm — Shakyamuni for Modern Japan, Hawaii and California
George Tanabe (University of Hawai'i)
SATURDAY 4/18
9:30–10:30am — Kurata Hyakuzō's Priest and His Disciple
Melissa Curley (University of Iowa)
10:30–11:30am — Shinran as "Other": Revisiting Priest and His Disciple
Michihiro Ama (University of Alaska Anchorage)
11:45am–12:45pm — To Myth or Not to Myth—Introducing the Concept of Myth into Japanese Buddhhist Discourse 1897–1925
Mark Blum (UC Berkeley)
2:30–3:30pm — Pure Fire, A Revolutionary Play by Saikō Mankichi
Jessica Main (University of British Columbia)
3:30–4:30pm — D.T. Suzuki and Inter-War Ecumenicalism: The Genesis of Zen and Its Influence on Japanese Culture
Richard Jaffe (Duke University)
5:00–6:00pm — Kuki Shūzō's Fourfold Conversion of Pure Land Buddhism
John Maraldo (Indiana University)
6:00–7:00pm — Nishida's search for Philosophical Equivalents of Enlightenment and No-Self
Jim Heisig (Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture)
Media and Transmission: UC Berkeley Japan Studies Graduate Student Conference
Conference
Date: April 17–18, 2015 | Fr: 2:00–3:45 | Sa: 10:30–4:45
Locations: Friday — Stephens Hall, Geballe Room, Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities
Saturday — Faculty Club, Heyns Room / Howard Room
This conference will bring together graduate students from all disciplines in the field of Japanese Studies to explore the past and present role of media in Japan. What can the examination of various media (including images, texts, discourses, objects, and anything else that functions as a medium of transmission) tell us about the formation and transmission of culture and knowledge in Japan?
FRIDAY 4/17
MEMORY: SUBJECTS, OBJECTS, AND OBJECTIVES (2:15-3:45p)
Sebastian Peel
Tiger Hunting and Long Sleeved Courtiers: Historical Memory and Toyotomi Hideyoshi's Invasions of Korea
Lisa Reade
Mori Ogai's Archive Fever
Pedro Bassoe
Invisible Bridges and Empty City Centers: Izumi Kyōka, Komura Settai, and the Art of Nihonbashi
Daryl Maude
Queerly Remembered: Historical Mediations of Mishima Yukio
Keynote: Professor Susan Burns (Department of History, University of Chicago)
Marketing Health, Marketing Modernity: Advertising Pharmaceuticals in the Japanese Empire
SATURDAY 4/18
Opening Remarks (10:30am-10:45am)
Saturday Room #1
FAMILY AND EMPIRE (10:45am-12:00pm)
Andrea Horbinski
A Children's Empire: The Club Magazines and the Prewar "Media Mix"
Alison Miller
Mass Media Monarchy: The Image of Empress Teimei in Taishō Period Newsmedia
Emily Barrass Chapman
The imperial household as a family photographed
BODIES (12:15pm-1:30pm)
Marguerite V. Hodge
Mediating the Body: Anatomical Models and Images in Early Modern Japan
Shelby Oxenford
Encountering the War in Postwar Japan: Ōe Kenzaburō's "Lavish Are the Dead"
Caitlin Casiello
Drawing Sex: Pages, Bodies, and Sighs in Japanese Adult Manga
IMAGINARIES AND COMMODIFICATION (2:00pm-3:15pm)
Irene González
Imaging Prostitution in Post-Occupation Japanese Melodrama (1952-1964)
Saeedeh Asadipour
Beato, Photography of Japanese Woman and Nineteenth Century Commodity Culture
Michelle Ho
Black Face, Bihaku Skin: Consuming Femininity and Racial Otherness in Japanese Advertising
PERFORMING THE SUPERNATURAL (3:30pm-4:45pm)
Michael E. Crandol
Hello Kitty from Hell: Vernacular Modernism in Prewar Japanese Horror Film
Jon Pitt
Supernatural Subversions of Pre-Modern Nostalgia: Ichikawa Kon's Taketori monogatari and Takahata Isao's Kaguya hime no monogatari
Matthew Chudnow
Female-Spirit Noh and 'The Lotus Sutra': 'Tamakazura' and 'Bashō'
Saturday Room #2
SILENCE AND SOUND (10:45am-12:00pm)
Noémie Adam
Drumming out resistance in Japan: How the Burakumin identity is erased through policy-making and written back through music
Edwin K. Everhart
Yamaura's Kesen: nation, class, and Tōhoku language in/as media
Mia Lewis
Rumble, Race, and Crash: Space and Movement through Sound Effects in Akira, American Flagg, and Tsubasa
DICHOTOMIES AND DIALECTICS (12:15pm-1:30pm)
Margi Burge
Re-Negotiating Literary Boundaries: The Wa-Kan Dialectic in the Shinsen Man'yōshū
Christopher Lowy
The Architecture of Script: Rethinking Ruby and Its Relationship to Written Japanese
Matthew Mewhinney
The Burden of Female Talent: The Kanshi of Ema Saikō
PUBLIC OPINION (2:00pm-3:15pm)
Oana Kuznetov
The impact of Civil Society Organizations on Foreign Policy in Japan Case study: Japan's Foreign Policy toward North Korea
Joonbum Bae
Impossible Allies? — Korean views of Japan in a Changing World Order
Joshua A. Williams; Douglas Miller
Netizens Decide 2014? A Look at Party Campaigning Online
ATMOSPHERE (3:30pm-4:45pm)
Magdalena Kolodziej
Between Shinkyo and Tokyo: Maeda Seison's Viewing Painting and the Fine Arts of the Japanese Empire
Nora Usanov-Geissler
Depicting Transport in a Transportable Medium: The Politics of Patronage in Japanese nanban byōbu
Stephanie M. Hohlios
Picture-Storytelling: Heroes of Disruption in Kurama Ko-tengu and the Postwar Japanese Public Sphere
Unwilling to Work under a 'Zombie': Mass Dictatorship and Normative Voluntarism in Japan and North America during WWII
Colloquium
Speaker: Takashi Fujitani, University of Toronto
Date: April 24, 2015 | 4:00 p.m.
Location: 180 Doe Library
Sponsor: Center for Japanese Studies
During the Second World War "zombies" were said to be taking part in the Canadian war effort, but in ways that the mainstream population and press mocked as cowardly and insufficiently patriotic. Above all, these strange beings apparently lacked the will to fight. In fact, these were not the undead but real live men who had been drafted into the military but who were labelled zombies because they did not step forward to volunteer for overseas duty. This talk takes the figure of the zombie — the soulless and enslaved monstrosity of popular culture dating from the 1930s — as an allegory of the insufficient national subject (hikokumin) during wartime. It attempts to show that both the Allied and the Japanese wartime regimes insisted that the mindless cooperation of its people, including colonial subjects and minorities, was not enough — that everyone should actively participate in the war effort as conscious and self-reflexive subjects. The talk addresses the tension between coercion and volunteerism by thinking critically about "freedom" and what might be called normative volunteerism during wartime. The talk's primary examples come from North America and Japan, and aims to disrupt the usual binary categories through which we often find comfort and complacency such as fascist/non-fascist, freedom/enslavement, and liberal democracy/totalitarianism.
Takashi Fujitani is a Professor of History and the the Dr. David Chu Chair in Asia Pacific Studies. Professor Fujitani's research focuses especially on modern and contemporary Japanese history, East Asian history, Asian American history, and transnational history (primarily U.S./Japan and Asia Pacific). His major works include: Race for Empire: Koreans as Japanese and Japanese as Koreans in WWII (2011), the runner-up for the 2012 American Studies Association's John Hope Franklin Prize, Perilous Memories: The Asia Pacific War(s) (2001, co-edited), and Splendid Monarchy (1996).
Kanji, Katakana, and Hiragana: 「漢字・片仮名と平仮名」
Colloquium
Speaker: Yuichiro Imanishi, Professor, Director General of the National Institute of Japanese Literature
Date: May 8, 2015 | 3:00–5:00 p.m.
Location: 180 Doe Library
Sponsor: Center for Japanese Studies
This talk will be given in Japanese.
日本語は、漢字、片仮名、平仮名という3つの文字体系の混在した、世界でも珍しい言語である。しかし、その3つは、最初から対等な文字だったわけではない。2種類の仮名は「仮名」ということばが示しているように、もともとは「仮」すなわち、かりそめの文字、本当の文字ではない文字、であり、漢字に対して価値の劣る文字であった。前近代においては、「文字を知っている」ということは、「漢字」を知っているということを意味した。
また、同じ仮名でも片仮名と平仮名との間にも優劣があった。片仮名は漢文訓読から生まれた学術的文字であり知識階層が使用した文字、それに対し、平仮名は漢字を極端に簡略にし、漢字を使用できない階層の人々も使用できる平易な文字として、片仮名より低く見られた文字であった。文字にも身分があったのである。平仮名が使用され始めた平安時代中期には、平仮名は「女手（おんなで）」、すなわち女性文字と見なされていたのである。
そのような文字観のもとで、学問や宗教、歴史といった知的な書物は漢文や漢字片仮名交じりで書かれ、読み物や啓蒙的な書物は平仮名で書かれるというのが基本であった。
しかし、その基本は必ずしも厳密に守られたわけではない。読書人口の増加とともに、また宗教の分野では女性信者を対象として、本来は片仮名で書かれていた書物が、徐々に平仮名でも出版されるようになる。そして、平仮名の持つ啓蒙性は、その理解を助けるために多くの場合挿絵を取り入れることになった。
このような日本古典籍の表記の移り変わりを、江戸時代の版本を例に見ていきたい。
Soseki's Diversity: A Workshop
Workshop
Speakers:
• Reiko Abe Auestad, University of Oslo
• Brian C. Dowdle, University of Montana
• Sarah Frederick, Boston University
• Andre Robert Haag, University of New Mexico
• Sayumi Harb, Cornell University
• Brian Riley Hurley, UC Berkeley
• Ken Ito, University of Hawaii
• Seth Jacobowitz, Yale University
• Stephen Poland, Yale University
• Kristin Sivak, University of Toronto
• Robert Tuck, University of Montana
• Leslie Winston; Hitomi Yoshio, Florida International University
Discussants:
• Alan Tansman, UC Berkeley
• Keith Vincent, Boston University
• Chris Weinberger, San Francisco State University
Dates: May 21–23, 2015
Location: Stephens Hall, The Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities
Sponsors: Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Japanese Studies, Townsend Center for the Humanities, Boston University
Soseki's Diversity: A Workshop, is a three day workshop event in which 16 scholars who have written essays on various aspects of the work of the novelist Natsume Sôseki gather to closely read and critique one another's work. This follows upon a conference held in 2014 at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
THURSDAY, MAY 21
4:00–7:00p.m. — GENDER
4:00–5:00p.m.
Robert Tuck, University of Montana, Doubled Visions of Desire: Gender Ambiguity, Homosociality, and Fujimura Misao in Kusamakura
5:00–6:00p.m.
Sayumi Harb, Cornell University, Penning the Mad Man in the Attic: Women Writers and Imperial Subjects in Soseki's Fiction
6:00–7:00p.m.
Seth Jacobowitz, Yale Univeristy, In the Key of Minor Literature: Mortification in the Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas and Kokoro
FRIDAY, MAY 22
9:00a.m.–Noon — INDIVIDUAL PAPERS
9:00–10:00a.m.
Hitomi Yoshio, Florida International University, National Literature, Authorship, and the New Woman in Sôseki's Kusamakura
10:00–11:00a.m.
Kristin Sivak, University of Toronto, Domestic Servants and the Narration of Character in Natsume Sōseki's Higan sugi made
11:00a.m.–Noon
Leslie Winston, Modernity, Boredom, and Decadence in Natsume Sôseki's Sorekara and Mon and the Exorcising/Exercising of Morality
2:00–5:00p.m. — KOKORO
2:00–3:00p.m.
Ken Ito, University of Hawaii, Kokoro in the High School Text
3:00–4:00p.m.
Reiko Abe Auestad, University of Oslo, Affect that disorients Kokoro
4:00–5:00p.m.
Brian Riley Hurley, UC Berkeley, Kokoro Confidential:Literary Language in the Conservative Mind of 1930s Japan 1950s America
SATURDAY, MAY 23
10:00a.m.–Noon — SOSEKI AND MEDIA
10:00–11:00a.m.
Sarah Frederick, Boston University, Arriving in Sōseki's Kyoto: A Digital Humanities Approach in Sōseki?"
11:00a.m.–Noon
Brian C. Dowdle, University of Montana, Judging Books by Their Covers 表紙を見た目で評価している：夏名漱石と書物の描写表現
1:00–4:00p.m. SOSEKI AND ASIA
1:00–2:00p.m.
Matthew Mewhinney, UC Berkeley, The Poetics of Suspension in Omoidasu koto nado
2:00–3:00p.m.
Stephen Poland, Yale University, I Am A Dog: Toward a Deimperial Reading of Natsume Sōseki's Here & There in Manchuria and Korea
3:00–4:00p.m.
Andre Robert Haag, University of New Mexico, Why Was He...Well, Killed? — Natsume Sōseki Between Empire, Nation and (Anti-) Colonial Violence
Cross-Currents Forum: Intra-Asian Mobility Past and Present
Conference
Dates: June 23 – 25, 2015
Location: 1995 University Avenue — IEAS Fifth Floor Conference Room
TUESDAY, JUNE 23
9:30a.m. — Opening Remarks
Kevin O'Brien (Director, Institute of East Asian Studies, UC Berkeley)
Wen-hsin Yeh (Co-editor, Cross‑Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review)
9:45a.m. — Session 1. The Movement of Intellectuals in and out of Modern East Asia
Chair and discussant: John Lie, Professor of Sociology, UC Berkeley
"Mobility of Knowledge and Policy: American Behavioral Sciences and Family Planning Programs in Taiwan and South Korea in the 1960s"
Yu-Ling Huang, Project Assistant Professor of Sociology, National
Taiwan University
"Russian Revolutionaries in Japan and China, 1880s to 1900s: A Focus on Nikolai Sudzilovsky-Russel"
Vladimir Tikhonov, Professor of Culture Studies and Oriental
Languages, University of Oslo
"Richard E. K. Kim and His Ontology of Exile: Focusing on Lost Names"
Jooyeon Rhee, Lecturer in East Asian Studies, The Hebrew
University of Jerusalem
"Internal Diaspora: Kang Hang's Japan Experience and Intellectual Isolation in Joseon"
Ingyu Oh, Professor, Research Institute of Korean Studies, Korea
University (co-authored with Sang Soon Kang, Associate Professor,
Research Institute of Korea Studies, Korea University)
2:00p.m. — Session 2. War, Diaspora, and Border Crossers: Chosŏn Korea and Its Neighbors in the Sixteenth to Seventeenth Centuries
Chair: Nam-lin Hur, Professor of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia
Discussant: Kyung Moon Hwang, Assoc. Prof. of History, University of Southern California
"A Korean Spectacle in Sixteenth-Century Fujian: The Story of No In
(1566–1622)"
Christina Han, Assistant Professor of History, Wilfrid Laurier
University
"The Imjin War (1592–1598), War Captives, and the Slave Trade"
Nam-lin Hur, Professor of Asian Studies, University of British
Columbia
"Deserters and the Righteous Militias: The Zhejiang Deserters in Kyŏngsang Province during the Imjin War"
Adam Bohnet, Asst. Prof. of History, King's University College,
University of Western Ontario
"The Life of a Transfrontiersman: Manchu-Korean Translator Gulmahun Chŏng Myŏngsu"
Seonmin Kim, Associate Professor, Research Institute of Korean
Studies, Korea University
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24
9:30a.m. — Session 3. Mobile Medicines: Body, Health, and Cosmologies Across Asia
Chair: Ruth Rogaski, Associate Professor, Dept. of History, Vanderbilt University
Discussant: Timothy K. Choy, Associate Professor of Anthropology, UC Davis
"Ryodoraku (良導絡) in New China: The 1957 Sino-Japanese Medical Exchange and the Role of Machines in East Asian Medical Modernity"
Ruth Rogaski, Associate Professor of History, Vanderbilt University
"Housewives as Kitchen Pharmacists: Dr. Zhuang Shuqi, Gendered Identity, and Traditional Medicine in East Asia"
Sean Hsiang-lin Lei, Research Associate, Institute of Modern
History, Academia Sinica
"The Yellow Emperor and the Medicine Buddha: Twentieth-Century Negotiations of Chinese and Tibetan Medical Cosmologies"
Stacey Van Vleet, PhD, Columbia University
"Materializing Bodies: Acupuncture, Counterculture, and Classical Chinese Medicine through China and Japan"
Mei Zhan, Associate Professor of Anthropology, UC Irvine
1:45p.m. — Session 4. The Korean Diaspora in the Colonial and Post-Colonial Eras
Chair: Byungwook Jung, Professor, Research Institute of Korean Studies,
Korea University
Discussant: Kyu Hyun Kim, Associate Professor of History, UC Davis
"Migrant Labor and Ethnic Conflicts: A Comparison of the 1923 Massacre of Koreans and Chinese during the Great Kanto Earthquake and the 1931 Anti-Chinese Riots in Colonial Korea"
Byungwook Jung, Professor, Research Institute of Korean Studies,
Korea University
"Migrants, Spies, and Homeland Security: The Transnational History of the 'East Berlin Affair' between the Federal Republic of Germany and South Korea, 1967–1970"
You Jae Lee, Junior Professor of Korean Studies, University of
Tübingen
"North Koreans in South Korea: Hierarchical Nationhood and Ethnicized Citizenship"
Jin Woong Kang, Assistant Professor, Research Institute of Korean
Studies, Korea University
4:15p.m. — Optional Tour of the UC Berkeley Campus
6:30p.m. — Forum Dinner, Hong Kong East Ocean Seafood Restaurant
Hosted by the Center for Korean Studies, UC Berkeley
3199 Powell Street, Emeryville
THURSDAY, JUNE 25
9:30a.m. — Session 5. East Asian Waters in the Chosŏn/Qing Era: The Emergence of a Maritime Order
Co-chair and discussant: Wen-hsin Yeh, Professor, Dept. of History, UC Berkeley
Co-chair: Yongchul Choe, Professor of Chinese Literature, Korea University
"Koreans' Experience with China during the Chosŏn Dynasty in P'yohaerok"
Yongchul Choe, Professor of Chinese Literature, Korea University
"Encounters with Foreign Ships and the Ongoing Debate over Ship Design in the Late Chosŏn"
Moon-yong Kim, Associate Professor, Research Institute of Korean
Studies, Korea University
"Traders, Captives, Renegades, and Shipwreckers: Overseas Chinese Informants at the Time of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's Invasion of Korea"
Kuo-tung Ch'en, Research Fellow, Institute of History and Philology,
Academia Sinica
"The Limits of Japanese Sovereignty in Transmarine East Asia, 1894–1904"
Catherine L. Phipps, Associate Professor of History, University
of Memphis
"Drifting and Migration between Vietnam and Two Islands of Taiwan: Kinmen and Penghu"
Yi-yuan Chen, Distinguished Professor in Chinese Literature,
National Cheng Kung University
2:00p.m. — Closing Roundtable Discussion
Kyeong-Hee Choi, Assoc. Professor of Modern Korean Literature & EALC, University of Chicago
Kuo-tung Ch'en, Research Fellow, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica
Ruth Rogaski, Associate Professor of History, Vanderbilt University
Hue-Tam Ho Tai, Professor of History, Harvard University
Wen-hsin Yeh, Professor of History, UC Berkeley