Travel in Japanese Representational Culture: its Past, Present, and Future
Josai International University
July 1 - 2, 2006
Saturday, July 1
Opening Greetings: 10:00 a. m., Conference Hall
Session 1: 10:20 a.m.-12:00 p.m., Conference HallCircular Journeys and Displaced Points of Origin in Modern Japanese NovelsSakaguchi Shu, University of Tokyo"Yokomitsu Riichi's Four Dimensional Travel in Shanghai"
Raquel Hill, Kanagawa University"'Third Space' in Oba Minako's Garakuta Hakubutsukan"
Helen Weetman, University of Colorado, Boulder"Tours of the Womb, Tours of Hell: Circular Journeys in Late Twentieth-century Literature"
Mary A. Knighton, University of Tokyo"Travel Scribe Minds Her Ps and Qs: Kurahashi Yumiko's Amanokoku Ōkanki and Sumiyakist Q no Bōken"
Session 2: 10:20 a.m.-12:00 p.m., Room 301Fantastic Journeys in Muromachi Fiction and DramaR. Keller Kimbrough, University of Colorado"Travel Writing from Hell? Minamoto no Yoriie and the Politics of Fuji no hitoana so^shi"
Monika Dix, University of British Columbia"Ascending Hibariyama: Textual, Physical, and Spiritual Journeys in Chūjōhime and Chūjōhime no honji"
Michael Watson, Meiji Gakuin University"Spirits of the Drowned: Sea Journeys in Bangai Noh from the Genpei War"
Tokuda Kazuo, Gakushuin Women's College, Discussant
Session 3: 10:20 a.m.-12:00 p.m., Room 302近代における旅と恋の諸相
関根英二 Purdue University旅先の恋とその変容
松浦芳子 Purdue University植民者二世の初恋 ――湯淺克衞「カンナニ」再考――
芳賀浩一 University of California, Los Angeles“時間の植民地化と文学メディア”
Session 4: 10:20 a.m.-12:00 p.m., Room 401Gender and National Identity in Women's Travel NarrativesMarilyn Bolles Guggenheim, Montana State University-Bozeman"Singular Women: Hirabayashi and Enchi in 1958 America"
Julia C. Bullock, Emory University"We'll Always Have Iowa: Gender and National Identity in Kurahashi Yumiko's "Virginia"
Robin Tierney, University of Iowa"Travel and bodily flux in Tawada Yoko's train narratives"
Joan Ericson, Colorado College, DiscussantRebecca Copeland, Washington University in St. Louis, Discussant
Major Address I: 12:50 p.m.～13:50 p.m., Conference HallKomatsu Sakyo, Writer人間にとって旅とは何か
Session 5: 14:10 p.m.-15:10 p.m., Conference HallIndividual Papers: Travel in Contemporary LiteratureAtsuko Sakaki, University of Toronto"Tales of Traveling Tongues: Paris as the Capital of the Age of Diaspora in Horie Toshiyuki's Oparaban (Auparavant, 1998)"
Eileen Mikals-Adachi, Eckerd College"Densha Otoko: Commuting to Dreams in Cyber Space"
Session 6: 14:10 p.m.-15:10 p.m., Room 301Individual Papers: Cinema and AnimeTimothy Iles, University of Victoria"Are We There Yet? Traveling Toward the Self in Contemporary Japanese Cinema"
Vivian P.Y. Lee, University of Victoria"Pilgrims at the End of Time: Religion Symbolisms, and the Quest for Redemption in Anime"
Session 7: 14:10 p.m.-15:10 p.m., Room 302Individual Papers: Japan and the West in Meiji Period
河野至恩 Sophia University『東京朝日新聞』の「世界一周」旅行記——明治末期の新聞メディアと異国体験——
Harue Tsutsumi, Indiana University"Kabuki Encounters the West: Iwakura Embassy and Hyōryūkidan Seiyōkabuki"
Session 8: 14:10 p.m.-15:10 p.m., Room 401Individual Papers: Urban RepresentationsErez Golani Solomon, University of Tokyo"Tokyo, the Pathway and Me--Stories of Everyday Itineraries and Practices in the Contemporary Japanese City"
佐藤耕治 Josai International University中上健次『讃歌』におけるセクシュアリティ――路地から「新宿」へ
Keynote Address: 15:30 p.m.-17:00 p.m., Conference HallYoshiaki Shimizu, Princeton University"A Journey's tale and a Tale's journey: Studying Japanese narrative handscrolls abroad"
Dinner Reception: 17:20 p.m.-19:00 p.m., Conference Hall
Sunday, July 2
Session 9: 10:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m., Conference HallPostwar Reformation of "Japan" and Japanese Historical Memory: Physical, Conceptual, and Temporal Travel in post-1945 Japan
Michael Bourdaghs, University of California, Los Angeles"The Performance of Travel: Misora Hibari and Kasagi Shizuko's American Tours"
Richi Sakakibara, Waseda University"The Narrative of Return, the Narrative of Stay: Geopolitical Reformation of Post-Imperial Japan"
Atsuko Ueda, Princeton University"Debates over Politics and Literature: the Trope of Defection and Wartime Responsibility"
Richard H. Okada, Princeton University"Remapping Travel and Post-War Japan in Cafe' Lumie`re"
Session 10: 10:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m., Room 301Travelers and Transients: Critical Explorations of Amerika in Modern Japanese literatureKyoko Omori, Hamilton College"Frantically Walking About the Modern Space With(in) a Magazine: Youth Migrancy and Travel in Early Twentieth-Century Popular Fiction"
Bruce Suttmeier, Lewis and Clark College"Ethnography as Consumption in Oda Makoto's Nandemo mite yarō (I'll Give Anything A Look)"
Jeffrey Angles, Western Michigan University"Legend of a (Un)Holy City: Takahashi Mutsuo's Critique of Queer America"
Suga Keijiro, Meiji University, DiscussantSuzuki Sadami, International Research Center for Japanese Studies,Discussant
Session 11: 10:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m., Room 302Engendering Landscape: Women, Narrative, and Medieval Travel
Naito Mariko, University of Tokyo"Poetic Imagination and Place Names: Women Travelers and the Creation of the Utamakura Shiga"
Christina Laffin, University of British Columbia"The Road Well Traveled: Poetic Expectation in Diary of the Sixteenth Night"
Kimura Saeko, Tsuda College"Traveling through the Narratives: Imagination of Women's Salvation"
Session 12: 10:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m., Room 401Individual Papers: Modern Women Writers
Karen Thornber, Harvard University"Itinerant Clouds, Sooty Trains, and Peripatetic Memories: Travel in Hayashi Fumiko's Ukigumo"
Nadezhda Murray, Ritsumeikan University"Travel as Metaphor: Hirabayashi Taiko's Symbolic Reality"
宮崎紗英子 Josai International University尾崎翠『映画漫想』における幻想空間への「浮遊」
Major Address II: 13:00 p.m.-14:00 p.m., Conference HallHerbert Plutschow, Josai International University"Some characteristics of pre-modern Japanese travel literature"
Session 13: 14:20 p.m.-15:40 p.m., Conference HallIndividual Papers: Travel in Edo Period
Sumie Jones, Indiana University"Traveling/Travel-lying and the Invention of Science Fiction in Japan"
Charles Shirō Inouye, Tufts University"Traveling the To-kaido-: Jippensha Ikku's Hizakurige and the Development of Perspectival/Pornographic Vision"
Dalia Švambaryté, Vilnius University (Republic of Lithuania)江戸時代の「漂流記」における海外のイメージの諸相
Session 14: 14:20 p.m.-15:40 p.m., Room 301Individual Papers: Ancient and Medieval Literature
Paul Schalow, Rutgers University"Exile from Heian"
Carolina Negri, University of Lecce（Republic of Italy)"Travel in Memoirs by Heian Women's Writers: The Sarashina nikki"
Sook Young Wang (王 淑英）, Inha University (Republic of Korea )宗祇と旅－歌枕・名所探訪を超えて
Session 15: 14:20 p.m.-15:40 p.m., Room 302Girls on the Road
Hiromi Tsuchiya Dollase ドラージ土屋浩美 , Vassar College風景としての少女：吉屋信子と川端康成の少女小説
Aoyama Tomoko 青山友子, The University of Queensland, Australia久生十蘭の旅する少女たち
江黒清美, Josai International UniversityTOKYO ― 少女の彷徨と旅 林芙美子『放浪記』・倉橋由美子『聖少女』
高原英理, Discussant
Session 16: 15:50 p.m.～17:10 p.m, Conference HallIndividual Papers: Travel from Comparative Perspectives
Michael F. Marra, University of California, Los Angeles"Place of Poetry, Place in Poetry: On Rulers, Poets, and Gods"
Lewis Dibble, Indiana University Purdue University Columbus“On Not Crossing Over to the Past: Basho- and Benjamin at the Barriers”
中川成美 Ritsumeikan University“海外紀行文と文学の間－往還するジャンル・踉察�
Session 17: 15:50 p.m.～17:10 p.m., Room 301Individual Papers: Travel Writings in Contemporary Japan
Jennifer Scott, Shujitsu University"Furui Yoshikichi-Travel and Liminality"
Mark Meli, Kansai University"'Reconciliation' in Contemporary Japanese Travel Writing on Asia"
Session 18: 15:50 p.m.-17:10 p.m., Room 302Beggars, Tourists, and Conquering Heroes: The Folklore of Strange VisitationsTakashi Lep Ariga, Gakkan International"Forcing a Feast: Cruel Hospitality and the Energy of Renewal"
Michael Dylan Foster, University of California, Riverside"Observing Ritual: Namahage, Toshidon, and the Tourist Gaze"
Robert Tierney, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign"Momotarō's Adventures in the South Seas: Folklore, Propaganda and Parody"
Ending Remarks: 17:10 p.m., Conference Hall
Opening Greetings: 10:00 a. m., Conference Hall
Session 1: 10:20 a.m.-12:00 p.m., Conference HallCircular Journeys and Displaced Points of Origin in Modern Japanese NovelsSakaguchi Shu, University of Tokyo"Yokomitsu Riichi's Four Dimensional Travel in Shanghai"
Raquel Hill, Kanagawa University"'Third Space' in Oba Minako's Garakuta Hakubutsukan"
Helen Weetman, University of Colorado, Boulder"Tours of the Womb, Tours of Hell: Circular Journeys in Late Twentieth-century Literature"
Mary A. Knighton, University of Tokyo"Travel Scribe Minds Her Ps and Qs: Kurahashi Yumiko's Amanokoku Ōkanki and Sumiyakist Q no Bōken"
Session 2: 10:20 a.m.-12:00 p.m., Room 301Fantastic Journeys in Muromachi Fiction and DramaR. Keller Kimbrough, University of Colorado"Travel Writing from Hell? Minamoto no Yoriie and the Politics of Fuji no hitoana so^shi"
Monika Dix, University of British Columbia"Ascending Hibariyama: Textual, Physical, and Spiritual Journeys in Chūjōhime and Chūjōhime no honji"
Michael Watson, Meiji Gakuin University"Spirits of the Drowned: Sea Journeys in Bangai Noh from the Genpei War"
Tokuda Kazuo, Gakushuin Women's College, Discussant
Session 3: 10:20 a.m.-12:00 p.m., Room 302近代における旅と恋の諸相
関根英二 Purdue University旅先の恋とその変容
松浦芳子 Purdue University植民者二世の初恋 ――湯淺克衞「カンナニ」再考――
芳賀浩一 University of California, Los Angeles“時間の植民地化と文学メディア”
Session 4: 10:20 a.m.-12:00 p.m., Room 401Gender and National Identity in Women's Travel NarrativesMarilyn Bolles Guggenheim, Montana State University-Bozeman"Singular Women: Hirabayashi and Enchi in 1958 America"
Julia C. Bullock, Emory University"We'll Always Have Iowa: Gender and National Identity in Kurahashi Yumiko's "Virginia"
Robin Tierney, University of Iowa"Travel and bodily flux in Tawada Yoko's train narratives"
Joan Ericson, Colorado College, DiscussantRebecca Copeland, Washington University in St. Louis, Discussant
Major Address I: 12:50 p.m.～13:50 p.m., Conference HallKomatsu Sakyo, Writer人間にとって旅とは何か
Session 5: 14:10 p.m.-15:10 p.m., Conference HallIndividual Papers: Travel in Contemporary LiteratureAtsuko Sakaki, University of Toronto"Tales of Traveling Tongues: Paris as the Capital of the Age of Diaspora in Horie Toshiyuki's Oparaban (Auparavant, 1998)"
Eileen Mikals-Adachi, Eckerd College"Densha Otoko: Commuting to Dreams in Cyber Space"
Session 6: 14:10 p.m.-15:10 p.m., Room 301Individual Papers: Cinema and AnimeTimothy Iles, University of Victoria"Are We There Yet? Traveling Toward the Self in Contemporary Japanese Cinema"
Vivian P.Y. Lee, University of Victoria"Pilgrims at the End of Time: Religion Symbolisms, and the Quest for Redemption in Anime"
Session 7: 14:10 p.m.-15:10 p.m., Room 302Individual Papers: Japan and the West in Meiji Period
河野至恩 Sophia University『東京朝日新聞』の「世界一周」旅行記——明治末期の新聞メディアと異国体験——
Harue Tsutsumi, Indiana University"Kabuki Encounters the West: Iwakura Embassy and Hyōryūkidan Seiyōkabuki"
Session 8: 14:10 p.m.-15:10 p.m., Room 401Individual Papers: Urban RepresentationsErez Golani Solomon, University of Tokyo"Tokyo, the Pathway and Me--Stories of Everyday Itineraries and Practices in the Contemporary Japanese City"
佐藤耕治 Josai International University中上健次『讃歌』におけるセクシュアリティ――路地から「新宿」へ
Keynote Address: 15:30 p.m.-17:00 p.m., Conference HallYoshiaki Shimizu, Princeton University"A Journey's tale and a Tale's journey: Studying Japanese narrative handscrolls abroad"
Dinner Reception: 17:20 p.m.-19:00 p.m., Conference Hall
Sunday, July 2
Session 9: 10:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m., Conference HallPostwar Reformation of "Japan" and Japanese Historical Memory: Physical, Conceptual, and Temporal Travel in post-1945 Japan
Michael Bourdaghs, University of California, Los Angeles"The Performance of Travel: Misora Hibari and Kasagi Shizuko's American Tours"
Richi Sakakibara, Waseda University"The Narrative of Return, the Narrative of Stay: Geopolitical Reformation of Post-Imperial Japan"
Atsuko Ueda, Princeton University"Debates over Politics and Literature: the Trope of Defection and Wartime Responsibility"
Richard H. Okada, Princeton University"Remapping Travel and Post-War Japan in Cafe' Lumie`re"
Session 10: 10:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m., Room 301Travelers and Transients: Critical Explorations of Amerika in Modern Japanese literatureKyoko Omori, Hamilton College"Frantically Walking About the Modern Space With(in) a Magazine: Youth Migrancy and Travel in Early Twentieth-Century Popular Fiction"
Bruce Suttmeier, Lewis and Clark College"Ethnography as Consumption in Oda Makoto's Nandemo mite yarō (I'll Give Anything A Look)"
Jeffrey Angles, Western Michigan University"Legend of a (Un)Holy City: Takahashi Mutsuo's Critique of Queer America"
Suga Keijiro, Meiji University, DiscussantSuzuki Sadami, International Research Center for Japanese Studies,Discussant
Session 11: 10:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m., Room 302Engendering Landscape: Women, Narrative, and Medieval Travel
Naito Mariko, University of Tokyo"Poetic Imagination and Place Names: Women Travelers and the Creation of the Utamakura Shiga"
Christina Laffin, University of British Columbia"The Road Well Traveled: Poetic Expectation in Diary of the Sixteenth Night"
Kimura Saeko, Tsuda College"Traveling through the Narratives: Imagination of Women's Salvation"
Session 12: 10:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m., Room 401Individual Papers: Modern Women Writers
Karen Thornber, Harvard University"Itinerant Clouds, Sooty Trains, and Peripatetic Memories: Travel in Hayashi Fumiko's Ukigumo"
Nadezhda Murray, Ritsumeikan University"Travel as Metaphor: Hirabayashi Taiko's Symbolic Reality"
宮崎紗英子 Josai International University尾崎翠『映画漫想』における幻想空間への「浮遊」
Major Address II: 13:00 p.m.-14:00 p.m., Conference HallHerbert Plutschow, Josai International University"Some characteristics of pre-modern Japanese travel literature"
Session 13: 14:20 p.m.-15:40 p.m., Conference HallIndividual Papers: Travel in Edo Period
Sumie Jones, Indiana University"Traveling/Travel-lying and the Invention of Science Fiction in Japan"
Charles Shirō Inouye, Tufts University"Traveling the To-kaido-: Jippensha Ikku's Hizakurige and the Development of Perspectival/Pornographic Vision"
Dalia Švambaryté, Vilnius University (Republic of Lithuania)江戸時代の「漂流記」における海外のイメージの諸相
Session 14: 14:20 p.m.-15:40 p.m., Room 301Individual Papers: Ancient and Medieval Literature
Paul Schalow, Rutgers University"Exile from Heian"
Carolina Negri, University of Lecce（Republic of Italy)"Travel in Memoirs by Heian Women's Writers: The Sarashina nikki"
Sook Young Wang (王 淑英）, Inha University (Republic of Korea )宗祇と旅－歌枕・名所探訪を超えて
Session 15: 14:20 p.m.-15:40 p.m., Room 302Girls on the Road
Hiromi Tsuchiya Dollase ドラージ土屋浩美 , Vassar College風景としての少女：吉屋信子と川端康成の少女小説
Aoyama Tomoko 青山友子, The University of Queensland, Australia久生十蘭の旅する少女たち
江黒清美, Josai International UniversityTOKYO ― 少女の彷徨と旅 林芙美子『放浪記』・倉橋由美子『聖少女』
高原英理, Discussant
Session 16: 15:50 p.m.～17:10 p.m, Conference HallIndividual Papers: Travel from Comparative Perspectives
Michael F. Marra, University of California, Los Angeles"Place of Poetry, Place in Poetry: On Rulers, Poets, and Gods"
Lewis Dibble, Indiana University Purdue University Columbus“On Not Crossing Over to the Past: Basho- and Benjamin at the Barriers”
中川成美 Ritsumeikan University“海外紀行文と文学の間－往還するジャンル・踉察�
Session 17: 15:50 p.m.～17:10 p.m., Room 301Individual Papers: Travel Writings in Contemporary Japan
Jennifer Scott, Shujitsu University"Furui Yoshikichi-Travel and Liminality"
Mark Meli, Kansai University"'Reconciliation' in Contemporary Japanese Travel Writing on Asia"
Session 18: 15:50 p.m.-17:10 p.m., Room 302Beggars, Tourists, and Conquering Heroes: The Folklore of Strange VisitationsTakashi Lep Ariga, Gakkan International"Forcing a Feast: Cruel Hospitality and the Energy of Renewal"
Michael Dylan Foster, University of California, Riverside"Observing Ritual: Namahage, Toshidon, and the Tourist Gaze"
Robert Tierney, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign"Momotarō's Adventures in the South Seas: Folklore, Propaganda and Parody"
Ending Remarks: 17:10 p.m., Conference Hall