Past, Present, and Future: Evidence, Transmission, and Inheritance in Japanese Literature and Media
University of California, Berkeley
September 6 - 8, 2018
Thursday, September 6 1:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. KOTENSEKI SEMINAR 日本古典籍セミナー (Art History Seminar, C.V. Starr East Asian Library) Sponsored by C. V. Starr East Asian Library and the Center for Japanese Studies, University of California, Berkeley, and the National Institute of Japanese Literature.*Separate registration is required for participation in the Kotenseki Seminar. Some presentations will be in Japanese. 1:00 p.m. - 1:10 p.m. | Introduction 1:10 p.m. - 2:10 p.m. Part A: 仏書について On Buddhist Texts Hiroshi Ochiai, NIJL 日本の仏書の書誌学: UCB東アジア図書館賀蔣（Ho-Chiang）コレクション本を用いて The Bibliography of Japanese Buddhist Texts in the Ho-Chiang Collection in the C. V. Starr East Asian Library Mark Blum, University of California, Berkeley 日本仏教における近代化としての宗派別聖典作成 Inventing Sectarian Canons as Modernization in Japanese Buddhism 2:10 p.m. - 3:10 p.m. Part B: 写本について On Manuscripts Tomoko Koida, NIJL 奈良絵本について: UCB東アジア図書館三井文庫蔵『文正草子』を例として On the Nara-ehon: the Bunshō zōshi of the Mitsui Collection of the C. V. Starr East Asian Library Keisuke Unno, NIJL 写本の生成: 添削、編集、モノとしての三条西家詠草 The Creation of Manuscripts: Editing, Compilation, and the Materiality of Sanjō-nishi Family Waka Poetry 3:20 p.m. - 4:20 p.m. Part C: 刊本について On Printed Books Atsushi Iriguchi, NIJL 刊本を筆写した写本について: UCB東アジア図書館三井文庫蔵本を用いて On Manuscript Copies of Printed Books: Examples from the C. V. Starr East Asian Library’s Mitsui Collection Ken’ichi Kansaku, NIJL 〈刊本の書誌学〉刊記と刊・印・修: UCB東アジア図書館三井文庫蔵『百人一首像讃 抄』を例として An Introduction to the Bibliography of Block-Printed Books, Kanki (Colophons) and Kan, In, Shū: the Hyakunin isshu zōsanshō of the Mitsui Collection of the C. V. Starr East Asian Library 4:20 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. | Special Introduction Tomoyo Arisawa, NIJL 〈ないじぇる芸術共創ラボ〉の紹介 Introducing NIJL’s Arts Initiative 5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. Keynote Address (Morrison Library) Robert Campbell, NIJL, Director General Tales of Transmission in Nineteenth Century Japanese Literature and Visual Art 7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. | Reception Friday, September 7 9:45 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. | Introduction 10:00 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. Panel 1: Sparkling Manuscripts, Sparkling Evidence: The Role of Manuscripts in the Edo Period (190 Doe Library) Motoi Katsumata, Meisei University The Story of a Crazy Katana: The Relation Between Fact and Gossip in the Edo Manuscripts Takahiro Sasaki, Keiō Institute of Oriental Classics The Makura no sōshi Abridged Version from the UC Berkeley East Asian Library Tomohiko Sumiyoshi, Keiō Institute of Oriental Classics TBA Jonathan Zwicker, University of California, Berkeley Manuscript Culture in the Age of Print: Authority and Authorship in the Work of Kyokutei Bakin Matthew Fraleigh, Brandeis University | Discussant 11:45 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Lunch 1:00 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. Panel 2A: Epistemicity and Evidence in Narrating: Case Studies from Heian Monogatari, Kundoku Readings of Sūtras, and Omoro sōshi (180 Doe Library) Charles J. Quinn, The Ohio State University The Epistemic/Evidential Dimension in Heian Japanese Frederick C. Bowman, The Ohio State University Four Narrative Style in Heian Japanese: Aspect, Tense, and Evidentiality John Bundschuh, The Ohio State University Evidence in Heian Buddhist Kundokugo Narration Rumiko Shinzato, Georgia Institute of Technology Evidential Continuum, Point of View, and the Order Pairing of Think and Say Verbs in the Okinawan Shamanic Texts, Omoro sōshi 1:00 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. Panel 2B: The Emergent Populace in Japan’s 1980’s (190 Doe Library) Christopher Lowy, University of Washington Etō Jun and the Literary Subculture: Reconceptualizing the Conservative Ikuho Amano, University of Nebraska, Lincoln An Apologia for Generation “S”: Quiet Social Engagement in Somewhat, Crystal after 33 Years Raechel Dumas, San Diego State University Atsumenia: Strategic Accumulation and Networks of Desire in Collection-Based Smartphone Games Yoshihiro Yasuhara, Carnegie Mellon University The Intersection of Advertising, Poetry, and Media: Amano Yūkichi’s Theorization of Japan’s 1980’s 2:45 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. | Coffee Break 3:15 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Panel 3A: Reading Objects and Images: Material Evidence and the Space of Cultural Production in Contemporary Japan (180 Doe Library) Camila Gutiérrez and Kendra McDuffie, The Pennsylvania State University A Rhizomatic Reading of Literary Transmissions in Material Culture through kimono and jojou-ga shoujo manga Victoria Lapascu, The Pennsylvania State University Graffiti as Listening to the Walls Speak about Dissent: SUIKO, SASU, and KAMI’s How To Guide Luciana Sanga, Stanford University Material Form, Genre and Reception: The Case of Setouchi Jakuchō’s “Kashin” Kelly Hansen, Okayama University Encoding of Gender in the Filmography of Hara Setsuko 3:15 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Panel 3B: Excursions in Style: Allusion as the Site of Past, Present, and Future in Medieval and Early Edo Poetic Practice (190 Doe Library) Bonnie McClure, University of California, Berkeley Undertones of Longing: Honkadori and Figurative Expression in Shinkokinshū-era Waka Kai Xie, Kenyon College Identification with or Distance from Chinese Poetry? ‘Chinese-Style’ Haikai by Bashō’s Circle Kendra Strand, University of Iowa Revisiting Old Souvenirs: Genroku Travel Anthologies, Bashō’s Narrow Road, and the Construction of a Genre Joseph Sorensen, University of California, Davis | Moderator 5:15 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. | Keynote Panel (190 Doe Library) Yoshitaka Hibi, Etsuko Taketani, Indra Levy, Christina Laffin, and Anne McKnight (moderator) Evidence and the Challenges of the Humanities 7:00 p.m. | Reception Dinner Saturday, September 8 9:00 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.Panel 4A: A World of Allusions: Inter-medial and Intertextual Evidence in Modern Japanese Fiction (180 Doe Library) Joanne Quimby, St. Olaf College Performative Citation and Allusion in Matsuura Rieko’s Oyayubi P no shugyō jidai— Interrogating Matsuura’s “Inheritances” Michele Eduarda Brasil de Sá, University of Brasília Murakami on the Shore: A Dialogue Between Japan and the West Yukiko Shigeto, Whitman College Singing with the Voices of the Past: Tsushima Yūko’s Jakka Dofuni Atsuko Sakaki, University of Toronto Picture Imperfect: Gotō Meisei’s Shintoku mondō and the Conundrums of Photodocumentary 9:00 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. Panel 4B: Evidence Interrupted: Broken Lines and Nonlinear Transmission, from Ancient to Modern Times (190 Doe Library) Matthew Mewhinney, Boston UniversityEvincing Experience: Lyric in Natsume Sōseki’s Recollecting and Such Azusa Ōmura, Yamanashi Prefectural UniversityA Successor or a Pioneer: Horiguchi Daigaku and Japanese Poetry in Literary Magazines Marjorie Burge, University of ChicagoThe Tragedy of Failed Transmission: The Ōmi Court in Literary Imagination Lewis Cook, Queens College, C.U.N.Y. Stalking the Untamed Colophon: Scripts for Inheritance, Authorization and Transmission of Medieval Literary Manuscripts 11:00 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. Panel 5A: Visual Evidence: Reconstructing Practice and Performance through Woodblock Prints and Illustrated Books (180 Doe Library) Pedro Bassoe, Willamette UniversityWith a Single Glance: Visual Evidence in the Reconstruction of Historical Reading Practices in Meiji Japan Michael Toole, University of Wisconsin-MadisonThe Body as Evidence: Revisualizing Race in Meiji Japan Junko Yamana, Kawamura Gakuen Women’s UniversityAuthentic Japanese Culture Overseas: The Role of Mary Stopes and Jōji Sakurai and their Plays of Old Japan (1913) Katherine Saltzman-Li, University of California, Santa BarbaraUnderstanding Kabuki through Print Series: Early Modern Theatre and Modern Scholarship 11:00 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. Panel 5B: Re-Figuring Women of the Past in Medieval and Early Modern Japan (190 Doe Library) Gergana Ivanova, University of CincinnatiLiterary Prowess Repackaged for Women of the Late Edo Period: The Case of Onna yūshoku mibae bunko Jamie Newhard, Washington University in St. LouisModular Morals: Biography in Seventeenth-Century Didactic Books for Women Shiho Takai, Waseda UniversityTransmitting Myth and Magic: Early Modern Adaptations of the Dōjōji Legend in Jōruri Puppet Plays Linda Chance, University of PennsylvaniaTrouble All Around: Ichijō Kaneyoshi and Women’s Authority Christina Laffin, University of British Columbia | Discussant 12:45 a.m. – 1:45 p.m. | Lunch 1:45 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. Panel 6: Adaptation as Evidence: Japanese Literary Genres & Their Legal Contexts (190 Doe Library) Raj Lakhi Sen, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies Adaption of Adoption Law on the Verge of Modern-state Building: Decoding Shakespeare’s Tragedies Adapted by Jōno Saigiku Younglong Kim, Waseda UniversityAdapting the Stenographic Record of Tokyo Trial: Reading Kinoshita Junji’s Between God and Man Mamoru Fujita, Keiō UniversityDynamics of Adapting Imperfect Memories and Laws of Indies: Interpreting Tsushima Yuko's Jakkha Dukhni: Stories of Oceans’ Memories Anne McKnight, Shirayuri University | Discussant 3:15 p.m. – 4:45 p.m. Panel 7: Japanese Literature and its Evidentiary Futures (190 Doe Library) Hoyt Long, University of ChicagoLiterary Canon Formation in the Digital Age Molly Des Jardin, University of PennsylvaniaConstructing Our Canon(s): Reprinting & Digitizing Literary Heritage Jonathan E. Abel, The Pennsylvania State UniversityNew Positivism, Same as the Old Positivism Ted Mack | Discussant 4:45 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. | Closing Remarks