Tuesday 10 September, 2024 - Wednesday 11 September, 2024
Dr Ryoko Matsuba will be a commentator at an upcoming symposium at 14:10 on Tuesday 10 September exploring ‘Creative Collaborations in Kyoto, Osaka and Beyond, 1770-1900’, organised by the British Museum and the Art Research Center, Ritsumeikan University
Venue: RG01, SOAS University of London
Registration available both online and in-person.
Tuesday 10 September 2024, 09:00-17:00
Wednesday 11 September 2024, 09:30-12:00
About this event
The British Museum and the Art Research Center, Ritsumeikan University will host a symposium on 10-11 September 2024, as part of the three-year international research project ‘Creative Collaborations: Salons and Networks in Kyoto and Osaka 1780-1880 (上方文化サロン：人的ネットワークから解き明かす文化創造空間 1780-1880),’ jointly funded by UK Research & Innovation (UKRI) and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) for 2022-2025.
Registration
This symposium is open to the public and will be held in both online and in person, in English and Japanese.
For both in-person and online registration, please contact Sophie Gong (Research Assistant, British Museum) at YGong@britishmuseum.org.
Programme
Full details of the programme, including presentation abstracts (in English and Japanese), can be found here.
DAY 1: 10th September 2024
9:00 Greetings: Akiko Yano (British Museum)
9:10-11:00 Session 1: Haikai poetry circles and artists
Speaker 1 Scott Johnson (Kansai University; Emeritus): Notes on “A Haiku Journey to Osaka”
Speaker 2 Yokoya Ken’ichiro (Otsu City Museum of History): 中嶋来章と俳諧摺物―義仲寺をめぐる絵師と俳壇
Speaker 3 Ida Taro (Kindai University): 『花月帖』から見える東西のサロンの交流
Speaker 4 Sugimoto Yoshihisa (Tohoku University): 渡辺南岳と中村芳中の江戸行―俳諧と絵画の交流
Discussant: Alfred Haft (British Museum)
11:05-12:55 Session 2: Osaka, a centre of literati culture
Speaker 1 Nakatani Nobuo (Kansai University; Emeritus; online): Kimura Kenkadō and his fellow artists
Speaker 2 Tsukuda (Issa-an tea master; online): 煎茶サロンの仕掛け・語らいを生む絵画
Speaker 3 Paul Berry (Kansai University of Foreign Studies; Emeritus): Nature of literati world in Osaka
Speaker 4 Akeo Keizo (Osaka University of Commerce): 文化サロンとしての蔵屋敷
Discussant: Andrew Gerstle (SOAS University of London; Emeritus)
13:00-14:10 Lunch break
14:10-14:50 Session 3: Independent paper
Akama Ryō (Ritsumeikan University): 幕末明治の京都・大阪における文化サロン人物ネットワークのデータアーカイブと分析システム
Commentator: Ryoko Matsuba (SISJAC/University of East Anglia)
14:50-15:10 Coffee break
15:10-17:00 Session 4: Literary and artistic circles: publications, popularisation and commercial aspects
Speaker 1 Xiangming Chen (PhD student, University of Oxford): Guide to literati: Kenkadō, Osaka publishing and reception of Qing art
Speaker 2 John Carpenter (Metropolitan Museum of Art): Kyoto literary and artistic salon culture, with focus on the Cowels Collection
Speaker 3 Yamamoto Yoshitaka (National Institute of Japanese Literature; online): Court nobles among renowned masters and friends: The imperial court and albums of calligraphy and painting in the early 19th-century Kyoto-Osaka region
Speaker 4 Jingyi Li (Occidental College; online): Commercialized gatherings and commodified literati in 19th-century shogakai
Discussant: Ellis Tinios (Leeds University; Emeritus)
DAY 2: 11th September 2024
9:30-11:20 Session 5: Connections and networks via art
Speaker 1 Iwasa Shin’ichi (Osaka Museum of History): 江戸時代後期の京坂と近隣地域における合作書画の諸相について－制作背景と揮毫者を中心に－
Speaker 2 Yamamoto Yukari (Wako University): 春画とサロン―長崎来舶清人との関係を中心に
Speaker 3 Hirai Yoshinobu (Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto): 京・大坂における長崎派風の伝播の諸相
Speaker 4 Timothy Clark (British Museum; Emeritus): Maruyama-Shijō art at the British Museum
Discussant: Rosina Buckland (British Museum)
11:20-12:00 General discussion
Organisers and funders of the event
British Museum; International Joint Digital Archiving Center for Japanese Art and Culture (ARC-iJAC), Art Research Center, Ritsumeikan University; Japan Research Centre, SOAS University of London; Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation; The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation
Header image credit: Tanida Sukenaga (artist, 1748–1825) and six haiku poets, Six poets (imitating the theme of ‘Six Immortal Poets’). Surimono, colour woodblock print, 1808. British Museum, 1987,0729,0.2.