Japonisme on the Move: Travel, Migration, and Other Movements of People across Places

Motoaki Ishii Announcement
Location
Japan
Subject Fields
Art, Art History & Visual Studies, European History / Studies, American History / Studies, Japanese History / Studies, Fine Arts

The Society for the Study of Japonisme International Symposium 2019

“Japonisme on the Move: Travel, Migration, and Other Movements of People across Places”

 

Date:          Saturday October 5, 2019

Venue:        National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo

Organized by: The Society for the Study of Japonisme / National Museum of Western Art, 

                         Tokyo / Ebara Hatakeyama Memorial Foundation

Language:      Japanese or English (with simultaneous translation)

Purpose:        With the opening of Japan’s borders in the mid-nineteenth century, diplomats, oyatoi-gaikokujin[foreign advisors for the government], merchants and tourists began to visit the country. Describing in their journals and correspondences the cities, customs, craftsmanship and people they encountered during their journeys, these travelers also brought various craft objects home. At the same time, people moved from Japan to Europe and the United States, too, as businessmen, touring performers, students and migrants, each embodying the Other to the Western eyes. How did these intersecting human flows across the globe inform Japonisme? Shifting our focus to movements of people (from those of things, such as art and craft objects) will allow us to discover new and diverse sets of meanings in Japonisme from modern to contemporary periods. The 2019 edition of the Society for the Study of Japonisme International Symposium seeks to encourage in-depth study and discussion on this Japonisme shaped by travels and movements.

 

Program                                   

9:00–           Registration

9:30–9:40    Welcome Address  

MABUCHI Akiko, Chair, the Society for the Study of Japonisme and Director, the National Museum of Western Art 

NAKAMURA Hiroshi, Executive Director and Secretary-General, the Ebara Hatakeyama Memorial Foundation

 

Part I: Japan in Fantasy: Outgoing Information and the Japanese abroad  

Moderator: ENDO Nozomi 

9:40–10:00 

IDO Keiko, Professor, Komazawa Women’s University

“From Japan to the World: The Case of Nikko”

10:05–10:25

Phylis FLOYD, Associate Professor, Michigan State University

“Japanese Meishoand Popular Tourist Prints in the West”

 

 Break 

10:40–11:00

SUZUKI Junji, Professor Emeritus, Keio University

“Japanese residentsof France Involved in Horticultural Japonisme: HATA Wasuke and his Collaborators”

11:05–11:25

OCHIAI Momoko, Lecturer, Fukuoka University

“A Japanese Art Specialist in Germany Born in a Doctor’s Family in Akita: the Life and Works of HARA Shinkichi”

11:30–11:50

Wayne E. ARNOLD, Associate Professor, The University of Kitakyushu

“Henry Miller and Japonisme: Movement from Afar”

 

Lunch 

 

PartII: Fantasy Realized: Towards Japan

Moderator: ISHII Motoaki 

13:30–13:50

Monica BRAW, Writer

“Forerunner of Japonisme: the Swedish Botanist and Medical Doctor Carl Peter Thunberg and the Results of his Sojourn in Japan 1775–1776”

13:55–14:15

Stefano TURINA, Art Historian

“Japonisme on the Silk Thread: the Role of Italian Semai (Silkworm Eggs Merchants) in the Diffusion of Japanese Objects in Italy and Abroad (1859-1914)”

14:20–14:40

INAGA Shigemi, Professor, International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Professor, Post-Graduate University for Advanced Studies

“Émile Guimet and Félix Régamey Visit Japan in 1876–77”

 

Break 

 

15:00–15:20

Dov BING, Professor Emeritus, Waikato University, New Zealand

“Siegfried Bing & his Family: Jacob Samuel Renner, Michael Baer, Siegfried & August Bing, & Marcel Bing”

15:25–15:45

Gilles MASTALSKI, Instructor, Lycée français international de Tokyo

“The First Japoniste Painter from Central Europe in the Land of the Rising Sun: the Journey of Julian Fałat (1853–1929) in Japan and the Influence of Japanese Art and Aesthetics on his Works”

 

Break

 

16:10–16:55 Discussion

Moderator: IDO Keiko 

 

17:00 Close

 

Advance registration information (120 participants with free admission):

Please provide following details to the Society for the Study of Japonisme via email (japonisme@world-meeting.co.jp) or fax (+81-3-3341-1830) between September 10 and 28, 2019 (for the Society members and non-members)

  1. Your name
  2. Are you a member or non-member?
  3. Your email address or fax number

Passes will be mailed on first-come-first serve basis until the limit is reached. Registration status can be checked on our website. Your personal information will be used uniquely for communication regarding the symposium.

In  case you wish to be a member of the Society for the Study of Japonisme, study the website details to send us the demand for the submission.

 
Contact Information

e-mail: japonisme@world-meeting.co.jp

Fax: (81) 3-3341-1830

website:https://japonisme-studies.jp/en/

Contact Email
japonisme@world-meeting.co.jp