Report of Symposium “Figures of Nippon Thought by the People of the Edo Era: Selves in the World” (Research Approach 1)

<Date>
16 – 17  March 2013

<Time>
13:30-17:00 (16th MaFebruary) / 10:30-17:00 (17th February)

Venue: Hosei University Ichigaya Campus, S406 Sotobori Building

Organizer: Yuko Tanaka (Professor, Hosei University)

 

<Schedule>
16th March
13:30-17:00

Shinji Nobuhiro (Professor Emeritus, University of Tokyo) / Motoori Norinaga and Oral Arts
Hiroaki Nagashima (Professor, University of Tokyo) / Foreign Country for Ueda Akinari
Yu Kawazoe (Professor, Yokohama National University) / Foreign Contry and Home Country Viewed through Imported Animals

17th March
[Morning Session (10:30-12:50)]

Toshinobu Yasumura (Director, Itabashi Art Museum) / True Figure of a Lightness of Edo Viewed Through China
Noriko Itasaka (Professor, Senshu University) / Foreign Contry and Infernal Region of the World of Kyokutei Bakin

[Afternoon Session (14:00-17:00)]

Yasuko Yokoyama (Professor, Hosei University) / Not Monstrous “Japan, Myself”
Fumiko Kobayashi (Associate Professor, Hosei University) / From Exhibition: Nippon and Ryukyu Through a Context of Publishment of Ryukyu Nendaiki Attributed to Nampo 10:30 Ronald Toby (University of Illinois) / Keynote Speech

*General Discussion*
Yasushi Oki (Professor, University of Tokyo)
Yasuko Yokoyama
Fumiko Kobayashi
Yuko Tanaka

<Executive Summary>
The Symposium of Research Approach (1) of Hosei University Research Center for International Japanese Studies “Figures of Nippon Thought by the People in the Edo Era: Selves in the World” was held on 16th and 17th March 2013. In this symposium, there was seven presentations concerning “Japan-consciousness” and the way of feeling “Japan” through comparative methods.