Seminar
Introduction to Premodern Japanese Books for Art Historical Research
- Overview of the History of the Book in Japan
- Main Types of Book Binding
- Book Format Conversion
- History of Printing in Japan (Temple Prints and Gozan-ban)
- The Relationship between Manuscripts and Prints
- Old Movable-type Printing 1 (The Relationship with Korean Printing)
- Old Movable-type Printing 2 (The Relationship with Christian Printing)
- Old Movable-type Printing 3 (Sagabon and others)
- Edo-period Woodblock Printing Basics 1 (Book Types and Genres)
- Edo-period Woodblock Printing Basics 2 (Bookstores and Booksellers’ Guilds)
- Edo-period Woodblock Printing Basics 3 (Reprints)
- Early Edo Period Woodblock-printed Books 1 (Classics and Kana-zoshi)
- Early Edo Period Woodblock-printed Books 2 (Ukiyo-zoshi and Booksellers’ Catalogues)
- Early Edo Period Woodblock-printed Books 3 (Illustrations and Tanroku-bon)
- Mid-Edo Period Woodblock-printed Books 1 (Yomihon)
- Mid-Edo Period Woodblock-printed Books 2 (Kusa-zoshi)
- Mid-Edo Period Woodblock-printed Books 3 (Ehon and Nishiki-e)
- Print Book Covers
- Colophones – Kanki and Okuzuke
- Additional Issues and Wrap-up
International Symposium
In-between Manuscript and Print: Illustrated Books and Scrolls from Early Modern Japan
- Introductory remarks
- Ishikawa Tōru (Keio University), Gulliver’s Travels and Japanese Illustrated Books and Scrolls
- Suematsu Misaki (Nagoya University), Embodiment and Text – Focusing on the Story of Shigure
- Delphine Mulard (Strasbourg University), On Continuous Scenes and Unusual Iconography in Painted Scrolls of the Tale of Bunshō
- Final discussion of day 1 with Radu Leca (Heidelberg University)
- Sasaki Takahiro (Keio University), In-between Manuscript and Print - Focusing on 17th-18th c. Books
- Itō Nobuhiro (Sugiyama Jogakuen University), Painted and Printed Versions of Notable Tales Old and New - A Critical Comparison of Seventeenth-century Illustrations
- Radu Leca (Heidelberg University), Negotiations of Print and Manuscript in Ihara Saikaku`s Editorial Activity
- Final discussion of day 2 with Michael Kinski (Goethe University Frankfurt)
- Kobayashi Kenji (National Institute of Japanese Literature), Illustrated Books and Scrolls Based on “Dance” Librettos
- Tanikawa Yuki (Umi-Mori Art Museum), Images of the Tales of Soga – A Comparison of Iconography in Printed Books, Manuscript Books and Scrolls and Folding Screens
- Aafke van Ewijk (Leiden University), The Yoshitsune Legend as Modern Children's Literature
- Final discussion with Itō Nobuhiro (Sugiyama Jogakuen University)
