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Newsletter of the Japan Research Centre

January 2005

JRCnews

Centre Members

Dr Timon Screech, Centre Chair

Reader in the History of Japanese Art

Department of Art and Archaeology

[email protected]

Professor Timothy Barrett

Professor of East Asian History

Department of the Study of Religions

[email protected]

Professor Brian Bocking

Professor of the Study of Religions

Department of the Study of Religions

[email protected]

Dr John Breen

Senior Lecturer in Japanese

Department of the Languages and

Cultures of Japan and Korea

[email protected]

Dr John Carpenter

Donald Keene lectureship in Japanese

Art

Department of Art and Archaeology

[email protected]

Mr Alan Cummings

Lecturer in Japanese Literature



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Dr Philip Deans

Lecturer in Chinese Politics

Department of Political Studies

[email protected]

Dr Stephen DoddLecturer in JapaneseDepartment of the Languages andCultures of Japan and Korea [email protected]

Dr Lucia DolceLecturer in Japanese Religions Department of the Study of Religions [email protected]

Professor Andrew GerstleProfessor of Japanese StudiesDepartment of the Languages andCultures of Japan and KoreaChair, AHRB Centre for Asian and African [email protected]

Professor Christopher HoweResearch Professor, Chinese BusinessManagementDepartment of Financial andManagement [email protected]

Dr David W. HughesSenior Lecturer in EthnomusicologyDepartment of Music [email protected]

Dr Costas LapavitsasSenior Lecturer in EconomicsDepartment of [email protected]

Dr Angus LockyerLecturer in the History of JapanDepartment of [email protected]

Dr Helen MacnaughtanHanda Fellow in Japanese Business andManagementDepartment of Financial andManagement [email protected]

Dr Dolores Martinez

Lecturer in Anthropology

Department of Anthropology and

Sociology

[email protected]

Dr Barbara Pizziconi

Lecturer in Applied Japanese

Linguistics



[email protected]

Ms Sonja Ruehl

Deputy Director

Department of Financial and

Management Studies

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Dr Isolde Standish

Lecturer in Japanese



[email protected]

Professorial Research AssociatesProfessor Gina Barnes

Professor Harry Harootunian

Research Associates

Dr Penelope Francks

Dr Christopher Jones

Dr P. Ellis Tinios

Dr Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere

Dr Nicola Liscutin

Letter from the Chair

Happy New Year and welcome back toSOAS. Firstly, I must apologise for the lateissuing of this Newsletter. The problemwas caused by a fire at the School webserver just before Christmas, at exactlythe moment when we were preparing to goto press. When the matter was sortedout, our indefatigable office manager,Barbara Lazoi and myself had both leftLondon for the vacation.

Secondly, I should explain what I am doingwriting this letter at all. Many of you willbe aware that I chaired the JRC from2000, for the normal stint of three years,handing over to John Breen in summer2003. John fulfilled one year, but pressureof other School offices made it impossiblefor him to carry on, and an agreementwas reached whereby I would return andthen box and cox with him until we hadboth completed three years each. John willaccordingly chair the JRC from summer2005 – 2007, after which I will return until2009 (inshalla). This is not in strictagreement with the Constitution of theCentre, but we hope there will be noobjections. On which note, I give advancewarning that the JRC’s Annual GeneralMeeting will be held in Term Three. Thedate will be circulated electronically, indue course.

The autumn term saw a new event, butone we hope to repeat. Several colleaguesfrom our sister institution in Paris, INALCO(Institut national des langues etcivilisations orientales) joined us for a two-day staff seminar. The intention was toget to know our opposite numbers acrossthe Channel, and, funding permitting, wehope to hold a similar event with anothersister institution elsewhere in the EU, nextyear. INALCO have also generously offeredto invite us back for a revenge in Paris.

This term has the Second Annual JRCLecture. It will be delivered by JamesKetelaar of the University of Chicago, on23 February. Details are inside thisNewsletter. Pease make a note in yourdiaries.

The annual Research Student Forum willtake place on 6-7 May, in SOAS, co-hostedby the JRC and Birkbeck College. Deadlinefor proposals is 10 March. Could all tutorsof research students (M.Phils as well asPh.Ds), please encourage them to apply.Again, details are below.

Finally, we are in the process of revampingthe JRC website. You are invited to visit itas it now is (soas.ac.uk.centres thenselect ‘Japan Research Centre’ – thisaddress is one of the features we hope toimprove) and to send your comments. Onechange will be that all staff will have theirown page in future, and this will then beextended to all M.Phil and Ph.D students.Please cooperate as swiftly as you canwhen the designer, Raphaelle Malanga,contacts you for details.

Best Wishes for 2005

Timon Screech

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JRC News• January 2005

Japan ResearchCentre Seminars

Wednesdays, 5pmRoom G51, SOASExcept where otherwise stated

26 JanuaryResearch Seminar in EA A&A, and JRC

Dr Tamaki Maeda, Sainsbury Fellow andSOAS From Feudal Hero to National Icon: TheIconography of Kusunoki Masashige fromthe Seventeenth Century to 1945

2 February

Research Seminar in EA A&A, and JRC

Dr John Carpenter, SOASRewriting the History of Heian CourtCalligraphy: Fushimi Tennõ (1265-1317) asCollector and Copyist

9 February

Dr Dolores Martinez, SOAS

Through the Lens of an International School- Some Thoughts on Japanese Education

23 February, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 6pmSecond Annual JRC LectureProfessor James Ketelaar, University ofChicagoThe Aynu Twist in Japan’s BarbarianStudies: Reflections on the work of ChiriMashio

2 March

Professor Gina Barnes, University ofDurham and SOAS

Iron in the Early History of Korea and Japan

9 March

Dr Gustav Heldt, Bard College, USA andSOAS

After the Banquet: The Composition of theKokinshu as an Imperial Anthology.

16 March

Akiko Yano, SOAS

Ryukõsai Jokei: The Founder of OsakaKabuki Portraits

A joint seminar was held in SOAS on10-11 December, 2004. This wasthe first time the JRC has attemptedto host an event with the intentionof getting to know colleagues in asister institution elsewhere in theEU. It was a success, and we hopeto do the same again in a futureyear, with a different place. TheParis side have also undertaken totry and host a return event.

Four scholars from INALCO (Institutnational des langues et civilisationsorientales) joined us for two days oftalks, during which speakers wereasked to present their currentresearch. Although no theme wasspecified, it was noticeable howmany resonances there werebetween the different papers.

Speakers were, Nathalie Kouamé,Michael Lucken, François Macé, andElisabeth de Touchet from Paris,and John Breen, Alan Cummings,Lucia Dolce, Drew Gerstle, AngusLockyer and Timon Screech. Some40 people, including many researchstudents, were present.

We are very grateful to the GreatBritain Sasakawa Foundation forsupport in the funding of this event.


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Joint Paris-London Staff Research Seminar

Second Annual JRC Lecture23 February, 2005, 6pm, Khalili LectureTheatre, SOAS

The Aynu Twist in Japan'sBarbarian Studies: Reflections onthe Work of Chiri Mashio

James Ketelaar, University of Chicago

Professor Ketelaar is Director of theCenter for East Asian Studies at Chicagoand author of many works, including thecelebrated Of Heretics and Martyrs inMeiji Japan: Buddhism and Its Persecution(Princeton University Press, 1990), whichwon the Hans Rosenhaupt Memorial BookAward of the Woodrow Wilson NationalFellowship Foundation, and the HiromiArisawa Award of the Association ofAmerican University Presses. John Breen,reviewing it for Monumenta Nipponica,referred to Ketelaar as, ‘eloquent andprovocative.… one of only a few studiesthat tackle the question of traditionalreligions in modernizing Japan.’

We are delighted to be able to welcomeProfessor Ketelaar, who will speak on hislatest research project, the origins of AynuStudies. The talk will reveal the basis ofhis forthcoming book on the subject.

ALL WELCOMEReception Follows Talk

Lecture by Professor Drew Gerstle11 May 2005Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, SOAS

Drew Gerstle will deliver a talk on CreatingCelebrity: Kabuki Actors, Poets and Artiststo raise funds for the English-SpeakingUnion Chilton Art History Scholarship.

Tickets are £15, to include a glass ofwine, in aid of the scholarship fund.Reception 6.30pm, lecture 7.00pm.

For tickets please send a cheque (payableto ESU) with names of guests and astamped addressed envelope, toJacqueline Abbott, Head of Promotions,The English-Speaking Union, DartmouthHouse, 37 Charles Street, London W1J5ED. (Telephone 020 7529 1550). It isregretted that no refunds can be made forcancellations within 7 working days of theevent.

Admission to the lecture only is free forSOAS staff and students with School ID.Please arrive shortly before 7pm.


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CALL FOR PAPERS

RESEARCH STUDENT FORUM:JAPANESE HUMANITIES

The Japan Research Centre at SOAS andthe Japanese Cultural Studies Programmeof Birkbeck College are co-hosting a two-day workshop for M.Phil and PhD studentsworking on topics in the JapaneseHumanities. This Research Student Forumis intended to offer students theopportunity to present their research to alarger group of like-minded postgraduatestudents and academics. It aims to createan informal and enjoyable atmosphere forstimulating discussions. The event will beheld on 6 – 7 May 2005.

APPLICATIONSStudents registered for an M.Phil or PhDdegree in Japan-related humanities at anyUK university are invited to submitproposals for presentations. Please senda 300 word abstract of your presentationand a short CV by e-mail to Nicola Liscutinon [email protected] (please note, mailto this address is always returned andmust be resent).Students interested in acting as adiscussant for a presentation, are askedto send a brief statement including theirfield/topic of research and a brief CV byemail to Dr Liscutin.The closing date for all applications isTuesday, 8 March.

FORMATThe Research Student Forum will takeplace on Friday 6 May and Saturday 7 May(exact times and place to be announced).The presentations of 20 to max. 30minutes will be followed by discussions ofabout the same length.

The organizers will host a reception for allparticipants on the evening of 6 May;expenses of selected speakers will becovered.

All postgraduate students in JapaneseStudies are most welcome to attend theForum, to meet other students and toparticipate in the discussion of papers.For registration forms and furtherinformation, please contact Dr NicolaLiscutin on [email protected] or DrTimon Screech on [email protected]

Dr Nicola Liscutin, Programme DirectorJCS, Birkbeck CollegeDr Timon Screech, Chair, Japan ResearchCentre, SOAS


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Kabuki Heroes on the OsakaStage, 1780-1830

The creation of celebrity and fame is anexciting topic easily understandable intoday’s world of multi-media and currentvogue for ‘reality’ TV and for competitionsto become instant pop stars. Thisexhibition will focus on a similarphenomenon and show how urban Osakaand Edo (modern Tokyo) in the late 18thand early 19th centuries created superstaractors, and how this was a stimulus forthe creation of theatre, visual arts, andpoetry.

Viewers of the exhibition will bestruck by a colourful and varied visualdisplay of the creation of a cult of theactor as fantastic urban heroes, like filmstars or pop singers today. The dates ofitems will range from about 1780 until the1830s. The core of the exhibition willcover the period 1800-1821 and focus onthe fierce rivalry between the two OsakaKabuki superstars Arashi Kichisaburô II(Rikan I, 1769-1821) and NakamuraUtaemon III (Shikan I, 1778-1838).Exhibits of illustrated books, surimono,

single-sheet actor prints, albums andpaintings will be arranged to highlight thedifferent ways that actors andperformances were represented, and toshow how this was part of complexstrategies to create celebrity and fame forthe actors, poets and artists.

The exhibition will have severaldistinctive features. Firstly, the corematerial will come from a number ofBritish institutions. Secondly, this will bethe first exhibition of Japanese actorprints with a focus on the actorsthemselves, their personalities, and onthe networks of poetry and artistic circlesthat supported them. Thirdly, interactiveand multi-media elements will bedeveloped for the exhibition in co-operation with Japanese scholars.

Exhibition Dates

30 June – 11 September 2005 (BritishMuseum)1 October – 23 November 2005 (OsakaMuseum of History) 1 December – 20 January 2006 (WasedaUniversity Theatre Museum, Tokyo)

Curators: Drew Gerstle (SOAS), TimothyClark (British Museum) and Akiko Yano(SOAS)


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Writing Home: Representations ofthe Native Place in ModernJapanese LiteratureStephen Dodd

This new book from Stephen Doddof SOAS examines the developmentof Japanese literature depicting thenative place, or furusato, from themid-Meiji period through the late1930s as a way of articulating theuprootedness and sense of lossmany experienced as Japanmodernised. The 1890s witnessedthe appearance of fictional worksdescribing a city-dweller who returnsto his native place, where hereflects on the evils of urban lifeand the idyllic past of his childhoodhome. The book concentrates on

four authors who made use of thistrend: Kunikida Doppo, ShimazakiToson, Sato Haruo, and ShigaNaoya.

All four writers may be understoodas trying to make sense ofcontemporary Japan. Their worksreflect their engagement with thesocial, intellectual, economic, andtechnological discourses thatcreated a network of sharedexperience among people of asimilar age. These sharedexperiences allow the author tochart how these writers’ workscontributed to the general debateover Japanese national identity inthis period. By exploring the linksbetween furusato literature and thetheme of national identity, he showsthat the debate over a commonlanguage that might ‘transparently’express the modern experiencehelped shape a variety of literaryforms used to present the nativeplace as a distinctly Japaneseexperience. Furusato proved to be apowerful myth capable of firing theimagination of a broad range ofpeople, including both producersand consumers of literature.


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JRC Members’ Publications

John T. Carpenter, Department of Art andArchaeology,‘L’immagine poetica: dimensioni letterarie delprimo ukiyoe’ (The Poetic Imagination: LiteraryDimensions of Early Ukiyo-e), in Gian Carlo Calza,Ukiyoe: il mondo fluttuante (Milan, 2004). Anexpanded version of this essay has been publishedin English as ‘Poetic Inscriptions on Ukiyo-e Prints’,in Asiatica Venetiana, No. 6/7 (issued spring2004.)

Helen Macnaughtan, Department of Financial andManagement Studies,Women, Work and the Japanese Economic Miracle:The Case of the Cotton Textile Industry 1945-1975(RoutledgeCurzon, January 2005).A book launch will be held at Daiwa House inFebruary 2005.

Timon Screech, Department of Art andArchaeology,'Tobacco in Early Modern Japan', in Sander L.Gilman and Zhou Xun (eds), Smoke: A GlobalHistory of Smoking (London: Reaktion Books,2004).

'L'école Kano au xviiic siècle: splendeur etsclérose', in Pascal Griolet and Michael Lucken(eds), Japon Pluriel: actes du cinquième colloguede la societé française des études japonaise(Paris: Piquier, 2004).

JRC Members Research and Travel

John Breen, Department of the Languages andCultures of Japan and Korea,spoke on 'Yasukuni: a sociological approach', atthe Department of Religious Studies, StirlingUniversity. 18 October 2004;

gave a paper on 'Tokugawa orientations: calendarsand their commentaries in pre Restoration Japan',at the History Department, Rice University,Houston. 18 November;

presided over and was discussant on the panel'Negotiating the boundaries of religion in modernJapan', at the American Academy of Religionannual conference, San Antonio. 21 November;

gave a paper 'On Iemochi’s pilgrimage to Kyotoand the Kômei administration', at the jointJRC/INALCO symposium, SOAS. 11 December.

John T. Carpenter, Department of Art andArchaeology,gave a public lecture ‘Calligraphy of the PleasureQuarters: Poetic Inscriptions by and aboutCourtesans on Ukiyo-e Painting’, at the Institute ofFine Arts, New York, sponsored by the Ukiyo-eSociety of America. 14 September 2004.

‘Shoki Hiroshige to Kyôka ren no kankei – Buseijidai no yakusha, seibutsuga no surimono’(Hiroshige’s Early Kyôka-ren Connections: Actorand Still-life Surimono of the Bunsei Era’), publiclecture for the International Ukiyo-e Society, atGakushuin University, Tokyo. 28 November 2004.

‘Yûri no kaiga to sho – Hokusai no nikuhits bijingani okeru shiika to zuzô no kôshô’ (Calligraphy and Painting of the Pleasure Quarters:Poetic and Pictorial Interaction in Hokusai’sCourtesan Portraits), public lecture at the ArtResearch Center, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto. 3December 2004.

Lucia Dolce, Study of Religions Departmenttook part in the international symposium Theworship of Stars in Japanese Religious Practice,SOAS. 16-17 September 2004;

gave a lecture on ‘Nichiren and EsotericBuddhism’, at the Institute of Oriental PhilosophyEuropean Centre, Berkshire. 6 November;

gave a talk on ‘Praying to kami and buddhas:illness and religious practice in Japan’, for the AsiaHouse exhibition Asia: Body Mind Spirit, 4November;

took part in the London-Paris Seminar in JapaneseHumanities, SOAS. 10-11 December.

Helen Macnaughtan, Department of Financial andManagement Studies,gave a paper ‘Gender and the Global TextileIndustry, 1650-2000’ (co-written with Janet Hunter,LSE) at the conference A Global History of TextileWorkers, 1650-2000, organised by theInternational Institute of Social History,Amsterdam. 11-13 November 2004.

attended and give a paper ‘Cotton Textiles andLabour-intensive Industrialisation’, at the GlobalEconomic History Network (GEHN) Conference heldat Osaka University. 16-18 December.

Barbara Pizziconi, Department of the Languagesand Cultures of Japan and Korea,delivered a lecture on ‘Politeness Theories’, at theseminar of the HRELP (Hans Rausing EndangeredLanguages Project) linguistic seminar. 7 December,2004.

Timon Screech, Department of Art andArchaeology,lectured at the Oriental Studies and Art HistoryDepartments of Cambridge University.October/November 2004.


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New JRC Visitor

We are delighted to welcome a newAcademic Visitor to the JRC, HarryHarootunian, Professor of History anduntil recently Chair of the East AsianProgramme at New York University. He willbe with us at least for the currentcalendar year, and we hope for muchlonger.

Professor Harootunian’s work in the fieldsof Edo intellectual history and the theoryof modernity is already widely known. Hereceived his Ph.D from the University ofMichigan, and then had a long anddistinguished career at the University ofChicago, before moving to New York. Hismajor publications are:

Overcome by Modernity: Historical Surplusand the Search for Cultural Authenticity inInterwar Japan, Duke University Press,2003.Japan in the World, ed. with MasaoMiyoshi, Duke University Press. 1993.Toward Restoration: The Growth ofPolitical Consciousness in TokugawaJapan, University of California Press,1991.Postmodernism in Japan, ed. with MasaoMiyoshi, Duke University Press. 1989.Things Seen and Unseen: Discourse andIdeology in Tokugawa Nativism, Universityof Chicago Press, 1988.

Professor Harootunian will host a specialstudy day at SOAS in the near future.

Letter from Japan

Kazuko Nakagawa, Professor, HokkaiGakuen University and JRC Visitor fromSeptember 2004 to November 2004.

I stayed at the Japan Research Centre forjust three months. Though the length ofmy stay was short, I had a rewarding timeand experience, owing to the warm andgenerous academic environment at JRC,SOAS.

My academic interests have so farinvolved the history of textbooks on theJapanese language from the late 19th andmid-twentieth centuries, authored mainlyby European scholars. In particular, someoutstanding British diplomats and

educators greatly influenced studies ofJapanese language and literature in Japanbefore World War II. I wanted to do furtherresearch on related research materials inBritain during my sabbatical leave.Fortunately, I could have access to theSOAS library where numerous importantliterary materials on Japanese studiesfrom the pre-modern to the present arehoused. Also I was privileged to haveaccess to libraries other than SOAS, suchas King’s College, London, British Library,Bodleian Library, Oxford and the PublicRecord Office, London.

While I was in England, I had theopportunity to attend the BATJ (BritishAssociation of Teachers of Japanese)Conference held at Brooks University,Oxford, in September. Also I was invited togive a lecture on ‘Japanese Grammar andExpressions in Culture’ for the JapaneseTeachers’ Training Course at the SOASLanguage Centre. The lecture ‘JapaneseStudies by Early Westerners: fromPortuguese missions to British scholars’which I gave at St. Paul’s Girl’s Schoollast November was also a goodexperience for me. I had a few moreopportunities to give a talk about studiesof the Japanese language and languageeducation at Japanese voluntary groups inLondon.

London has changed to a moremulticultural and busier city, as comparedwith that of 17 to 18 years ago when Ilived and studied here before. But SOASdoes not seem to have changed much. Ithas such an exciting academicatmosphere because of the many foreignresearch students and researchers withdifferent multicultural backgrounds. Ienjoyed my stay at SOAS and I am gratefulto all the staff for their support.

I am thankful to Dr. John Breen and Dr.Tim Screech for their academic advice,and to Ms Barbara Lazoi for her constantsupport. One thing that I regret is that Icould not have enough time to havemeetings with other academic staff inJRC. I wish I could have stayed longer. Ihope to visit JRC again in the near future.


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JRC Academic Visitors

Koshi Endo, Professor, Meiji UniversityAcademic Hospitality from October 2003to September 2004, extended toSeptember 2005.Recent publication: ‘Are PersonnelAssessments Fair?’ in Masami Nomuraand Yoshihiko Kamii (eds.), JapaneseCompanies: Theories and Realities, (TransPacific Press: Melbourne, Australia,2004).Current research: Labour disputes inJapan and the UK; British Trade Unionsand labour-related NPOs.

Gustav Heldt, Henry R. Luce Jr. Professorof Asian Studies, Bard CollegeAcademic Hospitality from September2004 to August 2005.Recent publication: ‘The Tosa Diary’ inHaruo Shirane (ed.), Early JapaneseLiterature: An Anthology, Beginnings to1600, (New York: Columbia UniversityPress, 2004).Current research: Heian Court poetry.

Satoshi Kitahara, Associate Professor,Kansai UniversityAcademic Hospitality from April 2004 toMarch 2005.Current research: The history of Anglo-Japanese economic relations.

Kazuyoshi Oku, Professor, KansaiUniversityAcademic Hospitality from March 2004 toApril 2005.Recent publication: Global Economy, withTakekazu Iwamoto, Akihiro Ogura, KimChosol, Kaoru Hoshino, (Yuhikaku, Japan,2001).'The Rise and Fall of Japanese Economy',in Yoshihiko Hatori (ed.), Global Keizai,(Sekaishisousha, Japan, 1999).Current research: Globalization andforeign trade of Japan.

Takashi Sengoku, Teacher, WasedaUniversityAcademic Hospitality from April 2004 toMarch 2005.Recent publications:Soseki Ronkõ [TheTreatises of Natsune Soseki's Novels’,with a co-writer], (2002).Akutagawa Ryunosuke Oboegaki [TheTreatises of Ryunosuke Akutagawa'sNovels], (2001).Kusamakura [The Three Cornered World],(2003).Current research: The study of NatsuneSoseki who lived and studied in Londonfor two years, 1900-1902.

Hiroshi Tanaka, Professor, Daito BunkaUniversityAcademic Hospitality from April 2004 toMarch 2005.Recent publications:Nihon-go Fukubun-Hyõgen no Kenkyû: Setsuzoku to Jojutu noKouzou [Study of Japanese Complex-Sentence Expressions: Structures ofConnection and Description], (Hakuteisha,Tokyo, Japan, March 2004.)Tõgo-kõzõ wo chûshin-toshita Nihon-go toTai-go no Taishou-kenkyû (A ContrastiveStudy of Japanese and Thai: FocusingSyntactic Studies), (Hitsuji Shobo, Tokyo,Japan, April 2004.)Current research: (1) Japanese complex-sentence expressions: focusing discoursestudies. (2) Contrastive study ofJapanese and Thai: focusing complex-sentence studies. (3) Studies of “Nanpõ-go” (South-East Asia Languages) in Japanduring the Pacific-War (1941-1945). (4)Responsibility and war. Literature in postwar Japan.


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MA Dissertations at SOAS

The following dissertations were submitted bystudents as part of the MA Japanese Studiesprogramme 2003-04

Midori Atkins, The Matter of the Other SideMurakami Haruki and Magical RealismSupervisors: Dr Stephen Dodd and Dr AlanCummings

Helena Burton, What Constitutes Marginality inJapanese SocietySupervisors: Dr Lola Martinez and Dr Jakob Klein

Annette Gertsen, Women and the West in TanizakiJun'ichiro's WritingsSupervisors: Dr Stephen Dodd and Dr AlanCummings

Jane Harris, Japomo or (How Postmodern wasEighteenth Century Edo Culture?)Supervisors: Dr Timon Screech and Dr JohnCarpenter

Yui Kong Heung, The Controversy Surrounding theNanjing MassacreSupervisors: Dr Richard Sims and Dr GaryTiedemann

Caroline Hutchinson, Nature, Self and Identity inShiga Naoya's "A Dark Night's Passing": The'Traditional' Japanese View of Nature inContemporary ContextSupervisors: Dr Steve Dodd and Dr Jakob Klein

Philomena Keet, What's Japanese about JapaneseAdvertising?Supervisors: Dr William Kelly and Dr. Jakob Klein

Kathryn Kiser, Bushido as a Site of IdeologicalContest Defining Japanese Identity through theSamurai FilmSupervisors: Dr Isolde Standish and Dr AlanCummings

Katharine Logan, The Iconography of Genji inTokugawa JapanSupervisors: Dr Timon Screech and Dr JohnCarpenter

Fergus Macdermot, The Representation of Crimein Samurai Films of the Early 1960'sSupervisors: Dr Isolde Standish and Dr AlanCummings

Maya Nakamura, The Manifestation of CollectiveNostalgia in Japanese Pastoral Films of the LateTwentieth CenturySupervisors: Dr Isolde Standish and Dr AlanCummings

Graham Nelson, Marginal Loyalty: A Study ofExpressions of Loyalty and Dependence on theEdges of Japanese SocietySupervisors: Dr William Kelly and Dr Jakob Klein

Aki Olver, Kato Masanoduke and the Meiji Debateon the Position of WomenSupervisors: Dr Richard Sims and Dr GaryTiedemann

Helen Parkinson, Working Women in Japan: AnAssessment of the Anthropological Literature on

Japanese Women in the Workplace and How ThisRelates to Issues of Gender and Discrimination inJapanSupervisors: Dr William Kelly and Dr Jakob Klein

Elena Russo, Hierarchy and Solidarity in JapaneseSociolinguistic BehaviourSupervisors: Dr Gary Scott and Dr BarbaraPizziconi

Katharina Schendel, The Role of the TripleIntervention in the Context of German-JapaneseRelations During the Meiji PeriodSupervisors: Professor Richard Sims and Dr GaryTiedemann

Victoria Siepel, Enchi, Fumiko; Feminist or AntiFeminist?Supervisors: Dr Stephen Dodd and Dr AlanCummings

Rika Talbot, A Study on OzumoSupervisors: Dr William Kelly and Dr Jakob Klein

Elizabeth Tinsley, Power and Perspective inJapanese Art: The Significance of Uki-e inEighteenth Century JapanSupervisors: Dr Timon Screech and Dr JohnCarpenter

The following dissertations were submitted bystudents as part of theMA Applied Japanese Linguistics programme2003-04

Junko Abe, Japanese Personal Pronouns inConversation - Japanese Concept of "Watashi-Anata" is not "I-You"-Supervisor: Dr Barbara Pizziconi

Shigetoshi Hoshi, Japan's Language EducationPolicies: Considering Overseas/ReturneeImmigrant ChildrenSupervisor: Dr Barbara Pizziconi

Tomomi Masumoto, Optionality and Adjacency inJapanese Case Alignment from an Analysis of theJapanese Zero Case Particles.Supervisor: Dr Gary Scott

Sayako Miyataki, Language Policy and Practice:English Language Education in Elementary Schoolsin JapanSupervisor: Dr Barbara Pizziconi

Yuki Sato, Politeness - Our Politeness StrategiesSupervisor: Dr Barbara Pizziconi

Mirei Yamaguchi, The Lexical Method in Teachingin the Field of Second Language VocabularyAcquisition - An Evaluation of Learning Materials ofJapanese Idiomatic Expressions and CollocationsSupervisor: Dr Barbara Pizziconi

Nozomi Yamaguchi, Juju Auxiliary Verbs asPersonality MarkersSupervisor: Dr Barbara Pizziconi

Aiko Yamanaka, A Non-figurational Approach toJapanese: A Study on NegationSupervisor: Dr Barbara Pizziconi


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Centre for the Study of JapaneseReligionsSeminars and Postgraduate Fora 20055:00 - 6:30 pmRoom G3, SOAS

13 JanuaryHell in Heian JapanIneke Van Put (Catholic University ofLeuven)

27 JanuaryReligious Idealism and Political Reality:Young Soka Gakkai Members and the Komei PartyAnne Mette Fisker-Nielsen (SOAS)

Postgraduate Forum

3 FebruarySusa-no-o: A Culture Hero from Korea?James Grayson (University of Sheffield)

10 FebruaryThe Realities Surrounding Shinto PriestsKatsuji Iwahashi (SOAS)

Postgraduate Forum

3 March The Human Body in Japanese MedievalTendai: StudyingBuddhist Vocal Arts and OriginalEnlightenmentFumi Ouchi (Miyagi Gakuin and SOAS)

Postgraduate Forum

10 March Rain-making rituals and esoteric Buddhismin Medieval JapanMatsumoto Ikuyo (Ritsumeikan University)

21 AprilCartographic Piety: India in the JapaneseBuddhist ImaginationMax Moerman (Barnard College)

28 AprilDeprofessionalisation of Buddhist Priestsin Comtemporary JapanMitsu Horii (University of Kent)

Postgraduate Forum

5 MayEsoteric Kami Worship: MedievalMiwayama?Anna Andreeva (University of Cambridge)

Postgraduate Forum

For more information please check theCSJR website:www.soas.ac.uk/Centres/JapaneseReligionsor contact the convenor: Dr Lucia Dolce020 7898 4217 ([email protected])


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Report of the London Office of theSainsbury Institute for the Study ofJapanese Arts and Cultures(SISJAC)

Dr John T. Carpenter(Department of Art & Archaeology, SOAS,and Head of London Office, SainsburyInstitute)

Autumn 2004 was a busy but fruitful timefor the London Office of the SainsburyInstitute, and full details of various eventsand projects can be found on theInstitute’s newly designed website atwww.sainsbury-institute.orgRecent items that might be of specificinterest to JRC colleagues include thefollowing:

Renewal of the Affiliation between theSISJAC and SOAS A new four-year agreement between theSainsbury Institute and SOAS was signedlast November by Professor Colin Bundy,Director of SOAS, and Professor DavidEastwood, Vice Chancellor of theUniversity of East Anglia. The agreementreaffirms the close association of theInstitute and the Department of Art &Archaeology at SOAS; and I will continueto serve as liaison between the twoinstitutions as Head of the London Officeof the Institute. Dr Simon Kaner, AssistantDirector of the Institute and head of itsarchaeology programmes, will offer apostgraduate component in Japanesearchaeology in A&A. The agreementmakes available working space forInstitute staff and visiting scholars inB401 of the Brunei Gallery Building, andfrom early April this year, Hiromi Uchidawill take over a desk there to assist withthe administration of European-basedresearch projects and fellowshipprogrammes. Sainsbury and HandaResearch Fellows will continue to haveaccess to the Handa Study Room in B404-405, which is generously supported by theJapanese philanthropist Haruhisa Handa.

The new SOAS-SISJAC agreement alsoreinforces the close working relationshipbetween the SOAS library and LisaSainsbury Library in Norwich, whose

collection of books and exhibitioncatalogues related to Japanese art andarchaeology has grown exponentially inthe past few years as the result of severalmajor donations. Books are beingcatalogued on the SISJAC library database(accessible through the Institute’swebsite), and are also being listed on theNACSIS-CAT, the union catalogue databaseused by academic libraries in Japan.Books are available to SOAS and JRCaffiliated researchers through a directinter-library loan system (non-circulating).The Institute has also kindly offered torenew and significantly increase itsalready generous support of SOAS’slibrary acquisition fund for books relatedto Japanese art and culture.

Toshiba Lectures in Japanese ArtThe Sainsbury Institute, in associationwith the Japan Society and the BritishMuseum, hosted Professor John M.Rosenfield, Professor Emeritus of HarvardUniversity, to give the second annualToshiba Lectures in Japanese Art lastNovember. The lecture series is primarilysupported by a generous grant from theToshiba International Foundation.Professor Rosenfield delivered threelectures on the topic of ‘The Renaissanceof Japanese Buddhist Art and theExcellent Deeds of Monk Chôgen’. Thefirst two lectures, on the rebuilding ofTôdaiji Temple and portraits of theKamakura period monk, were held at theBP Lecture Theatre at the British Museumand drew nearly 300 people each evening.The lecture in Norwich on Buddhistpainting, presented in the appropriatelymediaeval setting of Blackfriars Hall, drewan audience of nearly 200, a recordaudience for the Institute’s Third ThursdayLecture Series. It was particularly fittingfor Professor Rosenfield to visit the UK togive the lectures, since three of his deshi– Timothy Clark (BM), Nicole Rousmaniere(SISJAC) and Timon Screech (SOAS) – arenow based here. Last year’s ToshibaLectures were given by Professor DonaldKeene, Professor Emeritus of ColumbiaUniversity, who at present is writing up hislectures in book form.


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Sainsbury and Handa Research Fellows

Renewed funding for the Sainsbury and HandaResearch Fellowship programmes has beensecured and we look forward to their continuationfor the foreseeable future. JRC colleagues areencouraged to recommend qualified candidates,keeping in mind that applicants for the Lisa andRobert Sainsbury Fellowship should have anaffiliation with a North American university ormuseum. Though we encourage scholars doinginterdisciplinary research, we will now require thatthe research projects have a strong art historicalor visual component.

Collaboration with Art Research Center,Kyoto

During my sabbatical in Kyoto during the past year,I was based at the Art Research Center atRitsumeikan University, in Kyoto, working onresearch related to Japanese court calligraphy ofthe Heian and early medieval periods. Working withProfessor Kawashima Masao, Dr Matsumoto Ikuyoand other researchers, we researched examples ofpremodern court calligraphy in various Kyotocollections, including the highly-regarded butpreviously unpublished Fujii Eikan Bunko collection,which was recently bequeathed to RitsumeikanUnversity. Among works in the collection are somethirty examples of shinkan (calligraphy byJapanese emperors) dating from the Kamakura toEdo periods. Based on research reports from ourweekly seminars, we will publish a catalogue of theshinkan collection on the occasion of an exhibitionat the Art Research Center later this year. Underthe auspices of a COE (Center of Excellence)research grant, the London Office of the SainsburyInstitute will be hosting Dr Matsumoto from thiscoming April.

Other ongoing projects done incollaboration with the Art Research Center includethe production of Hokusai and His Age: Ukiyo-ePainting, Printmaking and Book Illustration in LateEdo Japan (to be published by Hotei Publishing incooperation with the Sainsbury Institute and theInternational Hokusai Research Institute, Universityof Venice). Also we have cooperated with the ArtResearch Center on various ongoing imagedatabase projects related to cataloguing theCortazzi Map Collection and surimono fromEuropean collections.

Publications and Lectures

Dr Nicole Rousmaniere, Director of SainsburyInstitute(on sabbatical until March 2005)Lectures:‘China in Japan: An Exploration into the Meaning ofPorcelain in Seventeenth-Century Japan’, paperpresented at the conference of Japanese ceramicsand trade held on the opening day of the

exhibition, JIKI: Porcellana Giapponese tra Orientee Occidente 1610-1760 at the MuseoInternazionale delle Ceramiche in Faenza, Italy. 26June - 7 November 2004.

‘Get The Future: Toshiba International Foundation15th Anniversary Symposium’, one of six panellistsin a pre-recorded televised symposium concerningthe future of Japan and Japanese culture in light ofincreasing trends towards globalisation. Televisedin Japan. 17 November 2004.

Publications:‘White Gold: The Porcelain for Export Manufacturedin Japan and the Diffusion of New Beverages inEurope’, in JIKI: Porcellana giapponese tra Orientee Occidente 1601-1760, Mueso Internazionaledelle Ceramiche in Faenza – Fondazione (2004).

‘Taming the Exotic: Imports,Transformations andKazari in Premodern Japan,’ Orientations (January2004) vol. 35, no.1, pp. 42-46.

Dr Ken Oshima (Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Fellow2004-05)Lectures:‘Structures for Realizing Utopias’, SessionModerator and conference committee member, VIIIInternational DOCOMOMO Conference 2004:Import-Export: Postwar Modernism in an ExpandingWorld 1945-1975. The first DOCOMOMOInternational meeting entirely devoted to thepostwar period and the first to consider not justthe impact of preservation on modernism but theimpact of modernism on preservation. 27September 2004.

‘Dresser and the Evolution of his “Art Botanical”Depiction of Nature’, Centenary Symposium‘Christopher Dresser 1834-1904 Designer ofGenius’, Victoria and Albert Museum, London. 16October 2004.

Sachiko Idemitsu (Handa Research Fellow,Sainsbury Institute)Lectures:‘A reconsideration of Ike no Taiga’s “Tidal Bore onthe River Qiantang”, lecture at the JapaneseSociety for Aesthetics, Kyoto Institute ofTechnology, Kyoto. 9 October 2004.

‘The Birth of True Views in Nanga School:“Hyakusetsu Genyõ’s Wondrous Scenery ofKinosaki”’, University of Leeds. 20 November2004.


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