The Senses and Sensory Experience in Japanese Literature and Culture
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
October 8 - 10, 2015
Friday October 9, 20158:00-8:30 Registration8:30-8:45 Welcoming Remarks
8:45-10:30 Session 1 Panel 1: MUSIC AND SENSORY CULTUREChaired by Michael Bourdaghs, University of Chicago
Joshua Solomon, University of ChicagoSmelling Music: The “Unheard” Sounds of Takahashi Chikuzan
Ayako Horiuchi, The University of Tokyo日本語を歌うこと：日本的なるものとしての詩と音楽を越境する声
Alex Murphy, University of ChicagoRegarding Recitation: Poetry, Technology, and the Politics of the Voice in Japan, 1929 – 1934
Aragorn Quinn, University of Wisconsin, MilwaukeeListening to the Zenshinza: Live and Recorded Sound in 1930s Japanese Rensa-geki
Panel 2: SENSES IN MODERN FICTIONChaired by Makoto Hayashi, University of Illinois
Miho Tajima, Josai International University視覚からの逃避と視覚への逃避：水村美苗『私小説 from left to right』における美苗の主体性構築
Thomas Garcin, IETT, Lyon 3 UniversityFrom Synesthesia to Simulacrum: Japaneseness as a Sensory Experience and Forgery in Yûkoku and Sutâ (1961) by Mishima Yukio
Guohe Zheng, Ball State UniversityDazai Osamu’s Sense and Sensibility
Michiko Suzuki, Indiana UniversityDecoding the Visual Experience of Kimono in the Cinematic Representations of Sasameyuki (1950 and 1983)
10:45-12:30 Session 2Panel 3: THE POST-COLONIAL SENSE REALMChaired by Waïl Hassan, University of Illinois
Toshi Pau, Duke UniversityThe Sublime SENSE(lessness)—La petite mort in Blood and Bones
Nobuko Yamasaki, Lehigh UniversitySensory Experiences of the Empire via Ri Kōran
Yoshihiro Yasuhara, Carnegie Mellon UniversitySensory Experiences Unbound: Ōshima Nagisa’s Poetics of Documentary
Juhee Lee, University of TsukubaOn the Tip of His Tongue: Hail Kim’s Braille experiences described in his texts
Panel 4: PHYSICALITY IN PRE-MODERN LITERATUREChaired by Elizabeth Oyler
Sachi Schmidt-Hori, Dartmouth CollegeOvercoming Lookism: The Crossdressing of the Heroine in New Chamberlain
Otilia Clara Milutin, University of British Columbia“Sweat Pouring Forth Like Water”: Representations of the Violated Female Body in Heian Monogatari
Sijia Gao, Harvard UniversityOlfactory Encounters and Perception of Scent in The Tale of Genji
12:30-1:15 Lunch, served at venue
1:15-3:00 Session 3Panel 5: THE MEANINGS OF SENSORY EXPERIENCE
Pana D. Barova-Ozcan, Independent ScholarContrasting Color Images in the Sarashina Nikki and their Function in the Narrative Discourse
Joannah Peterson, Indiana UniversityCapturing the Light of the Moon: Representations of the Emperor in the Verbal and Visual Texts of Yoru no Nezame
Stephen Miller, University of Massachusetts AmherstThe Buddhist Valorization of the Senses in Jakuzen’s “Hōmon hyakushu”
Irena Hayter, University of LeedsThe Sensuousness of New Sensationism and Other Modernist Myths
Panel 6: THEORIZING SENSORY EXPERIENCE IN EDO PERIOD JAPAN – TREATISES IN MARTIAL ARTS, THEATER, AND INCENSE CEREMONY Chaired by Edith Sarra, Indiana University
Andreas Niehaus, Ghent University“Miwataseba” – Sensual Attentiveness in Early Modern bugei treatises
Andreas Regelsberger, Trier UniversityConveying emotions through sound: How to perform puppet theatre in Early Modern Japan
Benedikt Vogel, Trier UniversityScenting as Performance - Aesthetics of aroma and sensory imagination in the Incense Ceremony
3:15-5:00 Session 4Panel 7: TRAVEL/VISUALITY Chaired by Roderick Wilson
Nobuko Toyosawa, University of ChicagoA Sense of Place, A Sense of History: Kaibara Ekiken (1614-1730) and His 1706 Guidebook of the Capital, Keijō shōran
Eve Zimmerman, Wellesley CollegeOf Roofs and Valleys: Ethnographic Photography, Futagawa Yukio, and the Materiality of Nihon no Minka (1957): second presenter
Kelly Hansen, San Diego State UniversitySong as Cultural Memory: Yokohama and the Little Girl in the Red Shoes
Panel 8: MODERNITY AND AESTHETICS
Juliana Choi, University of California, San DiegoEdogawa’s Phantasmagoria: the Haptic Politics of “The Human Chair.”
Luciana Sanga, Stanford UniversitySeeing and Being Seen in Tanabe Seiko’s Novel Iiyoru (“Approach”)
Fusako Innami, Durham UniversityOlfactory Touch
Douglas Slaymaker, University of KentuckyWhat the horses do not know (Furukawa Hideo's Umatachiyo, Sore demo hikariha muka de)
5:30 An Intangible Sense: The Art of Incense Demonstration, and reception at Japan House
Saturday October 10, 20159:30-11:30 Session 5 Panel 9: PLEASURE AND SENSUALITY
Ikuho Amano, University of Nebraska-LincolnPleasure for Its Own Sake: Sense and Nonsense in Ōshima Nagisa’s In the Realm of the Senses
Joanne Quimby, North Central CollegeNon-genital intimacy and the sense of touch as sexual experience in Oyayubi P no shugyo jidai
Junko Yamazaki, University of ChicagoSense-Hacking: Queer Aesthetics of 1950s Toei Jidaigeki
Motoi Katsumata, Meisei UniversityThe Face of Oiwa: The Evolution of the Visual Effect in the Horror Narratives of Yotsuya Kaidan
Panel 10: POST IMPERIAL LITERATURE AND THE SENSESChaired by Robert Tierney
Andrea Mendoza, Cornell UniversityReading Doku[fu] and Consuming Cannibal: Bodies of Un-Belonging in Post-Imperial Film and Literature
Catherine Ryu, Michigan State UniversityThe Language of Red in Kim Ch’ang-Saeng’s “Akai Mi” (“Crimson Fruit,” 1989)
Christina Yi, University of British ColumbiaDecadence, Double Agents, and a Drunken Boat: Colonial Legacies in Tanaka Hidemitsu’s Yoidorebune
Andre Haag, University of New MexicoVisualizing the Korean Subversive as Detective Work in Taishō Crime Narratives
11:30-1:00 Lunch Break
1:00-3:00 Session 6 Panel 11: MAKING SENSE OF SAGOROMO: BODILY INSIGHTS INTO SENJI’S TEXT Discussant: Edwin Cranston, Harvard University
Steven Hanna, Harvard UniversityRobes Worn By Night: Weight And Dread In Sagoromo monogatari
Michelle Kuhn, Nagoya UniversityScent and Seduction in the Tale of Sagoromo
Daniel F.O. Joseph, Harvard UniversityThe New Voyeurism: Kaimami in Sagoromo monogatari
Charo D’Etcheverry, University of Wisconsin-MadisonThe Tale of Sagoromo in Medieval Song: Sound, Class, and Resistance
3-3:15 Coffee Break
3:15-5:15 Session 8 Panel 12: JAPANESE AESTHETICS, THE SENSES, AND THE STATE Discussant: Michael Bourdaghs, University of Chicago
Lingling Ma, University of TokyoTanizaki’s Siren: The Self-Destructive Avent-Garde and the Vitalist Undercurrent in the Taisho-era
Kyle Peters, University of ChicagoArt, Phenomenology, and Ontological Aidagara: The Sensory and the State in Watsuji’s Early Aesthetics
Justin Wilson, University of California, Los AngelesUtopian Visions/Apocalyptic Anxieties: Taiken and the Restoration of Language in Postwar Japan
Nicholas Risteen, Princeton UniversitySighting Disaster: National Visions and Urban Reconstruction
5:30 Keynote Address
Aaron Gerow, Yale UniversityKawabata and Cinema: The Ambivalence of Knowledge, Medium, and Influence
7:00 Dinner at Bread Company Restaurant