Saturday 9 November, 2024
10:00am GMT - 5:00pm GMT
Bringing together an international panel of experts, this conference will explore a selection of themes about the future of studies of Japanese arts and cultures including: Art as a cultural resource; Art and archaeology; Visual culture; Digital Japan.
Saturday 09 November at the Benjamin West Lecture Theatre. Royal Academy of Arts, 6 Burlington Gardens, W1S 3ET.
10:00-17:00.
VIEW THE PROGRAMME HERE
Booking closes on Tuesday 29th October.
We will send an email with further logistical details before the conference. In the meantime, please send any queries to conferences@sainsbury-institute.org.
This conference is generously supported by the Ishibashi Foundation.
Image: After Utagawa Kunisada III (1848-1920), The Illustration of the Crowd Gathering for the First Performance at the Newly Reconstructed Shintomiza Theatre in 1878, Lisa Sainsbury Library.
PROGRAMME
09:45 Doors open
10:00 INTRODUCTORY REMARKS
Introduction
Simon KANER (Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures)
Welcome from the Ishibashi Foundation
Taiji NISHIJIMA (Ishibashi Foundation)
10:15 PANEL 1: ART AS A CULTURAL RESOURCE
Treasure Hunt at the British Museum: The Past and Future of the Reproduction of Horyu-ji Mural Painting
Princess Akiko of Mikasa
Cultural resource studies at the University of Tokyo
Akira MATSUDA (University of Tokyo)
Japanese Art in the Central European Museum
Mirjam DÉNES (Ferenc Hopp Museum of Asiatic Arts)
11:25 BREAK
11:50 PANEL 2: ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY
Jomon Archaeology as art: Learning from prehistory and the Jomon
Yasuyuki YOSHIDA (Morioka University)
Cognitive structures and body perceptions of Jomon Kaen potteries and clay figures, and reconstruction of cognitions by deep learning models
Haruhiro FUJITA (Niigata University of International and Information Studies)
12:40 LUNCH
13:40 PANEL 3: VISUAL CULTURE
New Directions in the Japanese Literati Paintings: From the Recent Interdisciplinary Studies
Sachiko IDEMITSU (Idemitsu Museum of Arts)
Visual Technologies of Disaster Representation in Early Modern Japan
Ewa MACHOTKA (University of Zurich)
City life and salon culture in Kyoto and Osaka, 1770-1900
Akiko YANO (British Museum)
14:50 BREAK
15:15 PANEL 4: DIGITAL JAPAN
Communicating the Appeal of Japanese Art through Digital Technology at Tokyo National Museum
Yumi TAKAGI (Tokyo National Museum)
Hokusai under the microscope: a scientific journey through ‘The Great Picture Book of Everything’
Capucine KORENBERG (British Museum)
A reflection on Ishibashi Foundation Digital Futures projects in Japan and the UK
Joseph BILLS (Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures)
16:35 CLOSING REMARKS
Reflections on the conference
Masatomo KAWAI (Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures)
16:45 Conference end