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Sexuality and Edo Culture, 1750-1850:
An International Conference |
Frangipani Room, Indiana Memorial Union
August 17-20, 1994
Thursday
12:00 - 5:00 - Registration
Friday
8:30 - Opening Remarks
- Sumie JONES, Indiana University
- Kenneth GROS LEWIS, Vice-President and Chancellor
8:45 - 10:30 - Positioning Shunga Historically
- Matthias FORRER - National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden
- In Search of the Suggestive in Shunga and Non-Shunga
- KOBAYASHI Tadashi - Gakshuin University
- Fusing the High and Low in Ukiyoe
- Henry SMITH - Columbia University
- Towards a Modern History of Edo Shunga
10:45- 12:30 - Otherness Within and Without I
- CHOI Pak-Kwang - Sungkyunkwan University
- Japanese Sexual Customs Seen Through a Korean's Eyes
- HAYAKAWA Monta - International Research Center for Japanese
Studies
- Humour and Shunga: Laughing at/with Our Body
- MIYATA Noboru - Kanagawa University
- The Cult of Genitalia and the Return of the Land in late
Edo Culture
1:45 - 3:30 - Otherness Within and Without II
- Jennifer ROBERTSON - University of Michigan
- Androgynous Liaisons in the Edo Period
- Susan BURNS - University of Texas at Austin
- Bodies Possessed and Hearts Disordered: Sexuality and Madness
in Early Modern Japan
- Naoki SAKAI - Cornell University
- The Sphere of Nearness and Feminine Gesture
3:45 - 5:30 - Aesthetics and Politics of Prostitution/Eros
of Consumerism
- Jurgis ELISONAS - Indiana University
- The Way of All Flesh: Japanese Pornocritiques of the 17th
Century
- Andrew MARKUS - University of Washington
- Prostitutes and Prosperity in the Works of Terakado Seiken
- David POLLACK - University of Rochester
- Packaging and Promoting Desire in Advertising and the Arts
in Edo Period Japan
6:30 - Dinner - Indiana University Art Museum
- Performance of Popular Edo Songs with shamisen by NISHIMATSU
Fuei
Saturday
8:30 - Welcoming Remarks
8:45 - 10:30 - Texture, Pattern, and Design of Eros
- TANAKA Yuko - Hosei University
- Weaving Eros: Textiles in Shunga
- Sumie JONES - Indiana University
- HAGA Toru - International Research Center for Japanese Studies
10:45 - 12:30 - Configurations of Gender
- Gary LEUPP - Tufts University
- Male Homosexuality in Edo during the Late Tokugawa Period
- UENO Chizuko - University of Tokyo
- The Formation of Female Sexuality in Shunga
- UJIE Mikito - National Institute of Public Documents, Tokyo
- The Erotic Roots of Bushido~: Male Love in Theory and Practice
1:45 - 3:30 - The Rhythm, Movement, and Play of Flesh and Words
- Robert CAMPBELL - University of Kyushu
- Poems on the Way to Yoshiwara
- John SOLT - Amherst College
- Willow Leafips: Selected translations
- Shelley Fenno QUINN - Ohio State University
- The Performance of Birds and Beasts: A Kabuki Sampler
4:30 - Keynote Address
- Howard HIBBETT - Harvard University
7:00 - Dinner - Woodburn House
Sunday
8:30 - 10:30 - Desire for Narrative in Stories and Pictures
- Charles INOUE- Tufts University
- Toward a Theory of Pictocentrism: The Decline of Illustration
in Late-Edo Culture
- Eiji SEKINE - Purdue University
- Love Triangle in Shunshoku Tatsumi no Sono
- NOBUHIRO Shinji - University of Tokyo
- Santo Kyoden's Sharebon: Private Life and Creative Art
10:30 - Closing Remarks
