List of symposia organised by the Society
| 2023：International Symposium 2023: Performative Japonisme 2022：International Symposium 2022: Graphic Design and Japonisme: 19th – 20th Century 2021：International Symposium 2021: Japonisme and Eastern Thoughts (Religion, Philosophy, Aesthetics) 2021：The Society for the Study of Japonisme 40th Anniversary Forum: Japonisme as a Field of Study: Past, Present, and Possibilities 2020：International Symposium 2020: Japonisme in Architecture and Space From the Late 19th Century to Today 2019： International Symposium 2019: Japonisme on the Move: Travel, Migration, and Other Movements of People across Places 2018：The 6th Hatakeyama Symposium: Japonisme and Women 2017：The 7th Hatakeyama Symposium: Twentieth Century Japonisme – its Diffusion and Change 2016：The 6th Hatakeyama Symposium: Human Networks in Japonisme 2015：The 5th Hatakeyama Symposium: KOGEI and Japonisme – The Modern Era Revisited through Industry and Art 2014：The 4th Hatakeyama Symposium: The Complete Story of Japonism: What started with Whistler? 2013：The 3rd Hatakeyama Symposium: Japonisme and Ink Painting: Transboundary Ink Painting and Drawing 2012：The 2nd Hatakeyama Symposium: American Japonisme – The History of Japan-US Cultural Exchange and the Unknown Great SHUGYO Hiromichi 2012：International Symposium: The Art of Kuwagata Kousai ~From Edo to Paris~ 2011：The 1st Hatakeyama Symposium: China/Japan in the West: Chinoiserie and Japonisme from the 17th to 19th centuries 2009：International Symposium: Katagami and Japonisme―Developments in Each Region 2009：International Symposium: Japonisme in the Unknown English-speaking World 2008：International Symposium: The Past, Present and Future of Japonisme 2005：International Symposium: HAYASHI Tadamasa – Contributions to Japonisme and Cultural Exchange |
■ International symposium 2023: Performative Japonisme
Date: 10:00‐17:30, Sunday, November 26, 2023
Venue: Hybrid Symposium/Musashino Art University Ichigaya Campus
Organizers: The Society for the Study of Japonisme / Ebara Hatakeyama Memorial Foundation
Language: Japanese or English (with simultaneous interpretation)
Number of participants: limited to 70 in person, 150 online
Free of charge
Summary
From the late 19th to the early 20th century, the fascination with Japanese arts and crafts expanded to literature, fashion, architecture, music, dance, and many other aspects of Japanese culture. Of particular note in this diversification is the fact that Japonisme was now found in such “performative” fields as dance, film, music, dance, and fashion, all of which involve movement. Japonisme in this expanded sense includes for example the way in which women in the West, fascinated by kimono, walked around the city wearing that Japanese garment. This symposium focuses on such “performative” Japonisme or Japonisme in motion, a subject hitherto overlooked, in order to open a fresh perspective. Specifically, the symposium seeks to explore the possibility of incorporating fashion, film, theater, ballet, opera, music, dance, and other performing arts into Japonisme studies, along with their pictorial and sculptural representations.
Program
10:00 Greetings and Introduction (moderator: KISHI Yu)
10:00-10:10 Welcome greetings
MIYAZAKI Katsumi, President, Society for the Study of Japonisme
MATSUI Akinori, Executive Director, The Ebara Hatakeyama Memorial Foundation
10:15-10:25 Introduction
KUGIMIYA Takako
1. Japonisme in theater, opera, and dance (moderator: INOUE Hitomi)
10:30-11:00 Invited Lecture
FRANKE Daniela, Curator of the Theater Museum Wien
“Japonisme on stage in Vienna around 1900”
11:05-11:20 HASHIMOTO Yorimitsu, Professor, Graduate School of Humanities, Osaka University
“A Critical Point in Japonisme: Lawrence Irving’s Typhoon (1913) and Its Impact.”
11:25-11:40 KUGIMIYA Takako, Professor, Tokushima Bunri University Junior College
“The transformation of Japonisme opera in Germany and Austria: The Japanese depicted in Theodor Szántó’s opera Typhoon (1924)”
11:40-11:50 [Q&A]
11:55-12:10 NEGISHI Tetsuro, Professor, Senshu University
“Japonisme in Paul Claudel’s works――prose poetry, plays and his books published in Japan”
12:15-12:30 MURAKAMI Yumi, Assistant Professor, Keio University
“Japonisme in the Dance Works of Paul Claudel”
12:30-12:40 [Q&A]
12:45-13:45 Lunch Break
2. Aspects of Performative Japonisme (moderator: KUGIMIYA Takako)
13:45-14:15 Invited Lecture
TAKEISHI Midori, Director/Vice President of Tokyo College of Music
“Dancer Michio Ito and Japonisme: The Impetus for Creation of New Genres”
14:20-14:40 TSURUZONO shikiko, Pianist, Lecturer at Toho Gakuen School of Music
“From Opera to Ballets Russes: Post-Japonisme and New Orientalism in the 1910s ”
14:40-14:50 [Q&A]
14:55-15:15 INAGA Shigemi, Specially Appointed Professor, Faculty of International Cultural Studies, Kyoto Seika University.
“Oversea Deployment of ‘Martial Arts’ the case of Aikido in Europe in the post-war period”
15:15-15:25 [Q&A]
15:25-15:40 Break
15:40-16:00 FUKAI Akiko, Curator Emeritus, Kyoto Costume Institute
“Poiret’s models walking in the Garden of his Maison du Couture”: Physical Movementand Fashion in Japonisme”
16:00-16:10 [Q&A]
16:15-16:35 WATANABE Ayaka, Doctoral student, Sorbonne University
“Oriental Dances in 19th Century French Travel Writing – Orientalisme and Japonisme”
16:35-16:45 [Q&A]
Wrap-Up
16:50-17:20 MABUCHI Akiko, Senior Advisor of Japonisme Society
17:25 Closing speech ISHII Motoaki, Managing Director
17:30 Closing
■ International symposium 2022: Graphic Design and Japonisme: 19th – 20th Century
Date: 10.00‐17.25, Saturday November 12, 2022 Virtual Symposium
Organizers: The Society for the Study of Japonisme / Ebara Hatakeyama Memorial Foundation
Language: Japanese or English (with simultaneous interpretation)
Number of participants: limited to 150
Free of charge
Summary
The significance of Japanese graphic design has been discussed in relation to ukiyoe art production or as zuan (design) in craft production, but it has received less attention as a major visual language that has been expressed in a diverse range of forms over the past two centuries. Beyond ukiyoe prints and books from the Edo period, graphic design in Japan has evolved since the Meiji era to serve diverse commercial interests and has responded to increasing international market needs through zuanchō (books collecting design patterns), mihonchō (books showing sample products), posters, and packaging. During World War II, graphic design was also mobilized for propaganda purposes. The postwar period saw an expansion in poster and booklet designs for cinema, theater, music, and other social and cultural events. Today, Japanese graphic design as seen through posters and product packaging represents one of the most influential visual languages impacting western aesthetics.
Throughout the twentieth century, western designers of film, music, and theatre posters looked to Japanese graphics and typography for inspiration while Japanese designers studied the work of their European and American counterparts. The Japanese taste for “empty space” and simplicity continues to receive admiration for its elegance and has been adapted in the West for various creative expressions across different media and genres to this day.
The upcoming symposium considers the reciprocal influences and cross-cultural exchanges that have been taking between Japan and the West since the nineteenth century in their relation to graphic design. Topics for presentations may include zuan, the application of design in various decorative and industrial arts, as well as issues in contemporary graphic design.
Program
10.00 Greetings and Introduction (moderator: FUJIHARA Sadao, Society for the Study of Japonisme)
10.00 – 10.10 Welcome greetings
MIYAZAKI Katsumi, Society for the Study of Japonisme
MATSUI Akinori, Ebara Hatakeyama Memorial Foundation
10.15 – 10.45 Introduction Rossella Menegazzo, University of Milan, Associate Professor
Session 1 Zuanchō : publishing, collecting, exhibiting (part 1)
(moderator: TANAKA Atsuko, Society for the Study of Japonisme)
10.50 – 11.20 HAYAMITSU Teruko, Unsodo, Art Book Publisher, Kyoto
Invited Lecture “The History of Unsodo, Art Book Publisher since Meiji Era”
11.25 – 11.55 OHIRA Naoko, The Shoto Museum of Art, curator
Invited Lecture “The Design by Tsuda Seifū：Report of the Exhibition Tsuda Seifū － the designs, the time and…”
12.00 – 13.00 Lunch Break
Session 1 Zuanchō : publishing, collecting, exhibiting (part 2)
(moderator: TANAKA Atsuko, Society for the Study of Japonisme)
13.05 – 13.35 Eleonora Lanza, University of Milan, PhD Candidate
“Circulation and collecting of Japanese design books in the north of Italy- The Varese city library case study”
13.40 – 14.10 Kevin Graf Schumacher, LMU Munich, PhD Candidate
“JAPONISME EN REVERSE? Graphic Design, Patterns, and Motifs in Meiji and Taishō Japan”
Session 2 Zuan and applied arts: exporting and reinterpreting
(moderator: ISHII Motoaki, Society for the Study of Japonisme)
14.15 – 14.45 TAKEUCHI Yuko, Kyoto University of Advanced Science, Lecturer
“Anglo-Japanese Cultural Exchange through Chromolithography: Christopher Dresser’s Studies in Design”
14.50 – 15.20 Saskia Thoelen, Bunka Gakuen University, Assistant Professor
“Rebranding Kimono through Storytelling: a Case Study of Graphic Design in Ginza Motoji’s Kimono Collections”
15.20 – 15.30 Break
Session 3 Japanese graphic influences in European 19th-20th Century posters
(moderator: ISHII Motoaki, Society for the Study of Japonisme)
15.35 – 16.05 Rejane Bargiel, Musée des Arts décoratifs, Paris, Graphism and Advertising department, Honorary curator
Invited Lecture “Japanese iconography reinterpretations in French Nineteenth-Twentieth Century posters”
16.10 – 16.40 Rossella Menegazzo, University of Milan, Associate Professor
“Japanese iconography reinterpretations in Italian Nineteenth-Twentieth Century posters”
Wrap-Up
16.45 – 17.15 INAGA Shigemi, Kyoto Seika University, Professor
17.20 Closing Remarks HITOMI Nobuko, Society for the Study of Japonisme
18.25 Symposium Ends
■ International Symposium 2021: Japonisme and Eastern Thoughts (Religion, Philosophy, Aesthetics)
Date: 9:30‐17:20, Saturday December 4, 2021 Virtual Symposium
Organizers: The Society for the Study of Japonisme / Ebara Hatakeyama Memorial Foundation
Language: Japanese or English (with simultaneous interpretation)
Number of participants : limited to 200
Free of charge
Summary:
In the middle of the 19th century, Siebold exhibited Buddhist statues, commenting on Japanese religion and thoughts in his book Japan. In the United States, Pumpelly influenced John La Farge with his detailed accounts of Buddhism and Shintoism. Numerous painters, from Van Gogh and Gauguin to Redon and Klee, were also inspired by the Buddhist ideas. Institutions such as Paris’s Guimet Museum and Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts set up special exhibition rooms for the Buddhist statues. At around the same time, Theosophists as well as Edwin Arnold disseminated Eastern philosophy, while the World’s Parliament of Religions, held in Chicago in 1893, put Eastern religious thoughts on the global map.
The reception of Eastern thoughts in Europe and the US continued to develop in the 20th century. Okakura Kakuzō’s The Book of Tea and Suzuki Daisetsu’s Zen propagated Buddhist concepts such as “emptiness” and “nothingness,” as well as key notions of Japanese aesthetic such as “wabi” and “sabi,” paving way for a flowering of international scholarship from Arthur Waley to Eugen Herrigel. In addition, Eastern thought, with its profound spirituality as a counterweight to capitalism and materialism, had a great impact on literature, theater, and architecture in the West.
This symposium seeks to reconsider the relationship between Japonisme and Eastern thoughts and its broader significance by examining specific cases from the 19th century to the middle of the 20th century.
Program
9:30 Greetings and Introduction (moderator: TANAKA Atsuko)
9:30-9:40 Welcome greetings
MIYAZAKI Katsumi, President, Society for the Study of Japonisme
MATSUI Akinori, Executive Director, The Ebara Hatakeyama Memorial Foundation
9:40-10:00 Introduction
INOUE Hitomi, FUJIHARA Sadao
Invited Lecture (moderator: INOUE Hitomi)
10:05-10:45 Hans Martin KRÄMER, Professor, Heidelberg University
“The Academic Reception of Buddhism in Nineteenth-Century Europe: With a Focus on Japanese Buddhism”
I. Place of Eastern Thoughts within Japonisme (moderator: FUJIHARA Sadao)
10:50-11:20 HASHIMOTO Yorimitsu, Professor, Graduate School of Letters, Osaka University
“Tasting a Vinegar of Japonisme: Theosophy, Jiujitsu and Noh”
11:26-11-55 INOUE Hitomi, Associate Professor, Aichi Gakuin University
“A Study on the Establishment of ‘Buddhist Room’ at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 1909”
Lunch Break
13:00- Afternoon Sessions
II. Exoticism, or Expression of Spirituality (moderator: FUJIHARA Sadao)
13:00-13:30 KUGIMIYA Takako, Doctoral Research Fellow, Graduate School of Humanities, Nagoya University
“Japanese Spirituality Depicted in the Felix Weingartner’s Opera ‘Die Dorfschule’”
13:35-14:05 TSURUZONO Shikiko, Lecturer, Toho Gakuen School of Music
“Segalen and Debussy, an Essay on Exoticism”
III. Representation of Japanese Aesthetics and Religions (moderator: INOUE Hitomi)
14:10-14:40 SEONG A Kim-Lee, Associate Professor, Kansai Gaidai University
“Layering Positive and Negative: Notan in Light Screen by Frank Lloyd Wright”
14:45-15:15 Svitlana SHIELLS, independent scholar
“Meoto Iwa: Shinto Rocks That Mesmerised Gustav Klimt”
Break
iV. Diffusion of Zen Philosophy and its Representation (moderator: INOUE Hitomi)
15:30-16:00 TSUCHIKANE Yasuko, Adjunct Associate Professor, The Cooper Union
“Fantasy ‘Zen’ across the East-West Divide: Bokuseki by Dōmoto Inshō (1959) and Art Informel”
16:05-16:35 IWASAKI Tatsuya, independent scholar
“Mark Tobey and Japan: The Influence of Calligraphy on Tobey’s ‘Shifting Alphabets’”
16:40-17:10 Wrap-Up (moderators: HASHIMOTO Yorimitsu, and FUJIHARA Sadao)
17:15- Closing Remarks HITOMI Nobuko, Managing Director, Society for the Study of Japonisme
17:20 Symposium Ends
■ The Society for the Study of Japonisme 40th Anniversary Forum: Japonisme as a Field of Study: Past, Present, and Possibilities
This year, the Society for the Study of Japonisme celebrates its 40th anniversary since its beginning in 1980. On this occasion, we will hold a special online forum. The details are as follows. Please read them carefully before you register for the event. We look forward to seeing many of you online.
“Japonisme” has been defined as a cultural phenomenon of the modern West, which has produced images of “Japan” as its cultural “Other.” At the same time, the history of Japonisme shows that various Japanese individuals as well as the Japanese government have mediated and orchestrated the reception of such “Japan.” On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the establishment of the Society, we are convening a forum to examine the various roles Japan has played in Japonisme, which we broadly approach as cultural representations of Japan and their consumption in Europe and North America. The Forum will also be an occasion to revisit the history of the Society itself, and to consider how Japonisme as as a field of study has developed over the decades. Through individual presentations and panel discussions that collectively reconsider Japonisme from four different perspectives, the forum will offer a critical opportunity to have an active discussion on the state of Japonisme studies and the possibilities for its future.
Date: Part 1 (Individual Presentations), February 19-March 19, 2021
Recorded presentations will be available from a password-protected site during the dates above.
Part 2 (Panel Discussions), Sunday February 21, 2021, 15:00-20:15 (Japan Standard Time)
This will be held as a Zoom meeting.
Organizer: The Society for the Study of Japonisme, with generous funding from the Ishibashi Foundation
Language: English or Japanese (and with interpretation for the Zoom meeting)
Registration: 250 participants for the Zoom meeting (no limit for online viewing of presentations)
Admission: Free
Part 1: Individual Presentations (recorded presentations will become available for viewing from a password-protected site)
The Genealogy of Japonisme (1): Japonisme as a Field of Study in Modern Art History
“A ‘Retrospective’ from an Oblique View”
INAGA Shigemi, Professor, International Research Center for Japanese Studies and the Graduate University for Advanced Studies
“The Role of Japonisme in the Study of Western Cross-Cultural Studies”
Greg M. THOMAS, Professor, the University of Hong Kong
“The Meaning of of Japonisme for the Japanese”
MABUCHI Akiko, Director, the National Museum of Western Art
“From ‘Japanese Taste’ to ‘Japonisme’ Studies”
MINAMI Asuka, Professor, Sagami Women’s University
The Genealogy of Japonisme (2): Japonisme as an Interdisciplinary Field of Study
“Promotion of Industry and Japonisme: NAGANUMA Moriyoshi and the Commerce Museum of the the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce”
ISHII Motoaki, Professor, Osaka University of Arts
“Morning Glories in Anglophone Japonisme—from Gardening to Zen—
HASHIMOTO Yorimitsu, Professor, Osaka University
“Edmond Duranty and the <Disease of Japonisme>”
Sophie BASCH, Professor, Sorbonne University
The Discourse of Japonisme and Japan: Self-Image as the Other
“‘Beautiful Japan’ in Tourism and as Handiwork: Images of Japonisme Made in the 1930s”
KIDA Takuya, Professor, Musashino Art University
“Ukiyo-e and the Influence of Japonisme on American and Japanese Poetry”
NAKACHI Sachi, Professor, Tsuru University
“Japonisme as Philhellenism and Philhellenism as Japonisme: Pseudomorphosis and Cross-Significations”
Michael LUCKEN, Professor, French National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations (Inalco)
The Present, Future, and Possibilities of Japonisme Studies
“From Mousumé to Shōjo: Construction and Transmission of Japanese Female Imagery as Immature and Kawaii in France”
KOMA Kyoko, Associate Professor, Meiji University
“Thoughts on the Relationship between Japonisme and Contemporary Arts: Japonisme as a Method of Bridging the Past and the Present”
TAKAGI Yoko, Professor, Bunka Gakuen University
“Japonisme/Japonisumu/Nihonshugi: Cultural Representation as Mis-Correspondence”
MURAI Noriko, Associate Professor, Sophia University
Part 2: Panel Discussions (to be held as a Zoom meeting)
DATE: Sunday, February 21, 2021 *Times below are displayed in Japan Standard Time.
Schedule
15:00 Opening Remarks
HITOMI Nobuko (Society Secretary of the Society and the Forum Moderator)
MABUCHI Akiko (President and Director of the Society)
MURAI Noriko (The Forum Committee Chair)
Session 1: The Genealogy of Japonisme (1): Japonisme as a Field of Study in Modern Art History
15:15-16:15 Chair: MIYAZAKI Katsumi (Professor, the Showa University of Music)
Panelists: INAGA Shigemi, Greg M. THOMAS, MABUCHI Akiko, MINAMI Asuka Thomas
Break
Session 2: The Genealogy of Japonisme (2): Japonisme as an Interdisciplinary Field of Study
16:30-17:15 Chair: MIURA Atsushi (Professor, the University of Tokyo)
Panelists: ISHII Motoaki, HASHIMOTO Horimitsu, Sophie BASCH
Break
Session 3: The Discourse of Japonisme and Japan: Self-Image as the Other
17:30-18:15 Chair: OKABE Masayuki (Professor, Teikyo University)
Panelists: KIDA Takuya, NAKACHI Sachi, Michael LUCKEN
Long Break
Session 4: The Present, Future, and Possibilities of Japonisme Studies
19:15-20:00 Chair: IKEDA Yuko (Chief Curator, the Kyoto National Museum of Modern Art)
Panelists: KOMA Kyoko, TAKAGI Yoko, MURAI Noriko
20:05 Closing Remarks
TAKAGI Yoko (General Director of the Society)
The Society for the Study of Japonisme 40th Anniversary Forum report:
On February 21, 2021, Part 2 of the Society for the Study of Japonisme 40th Anniversary Forum was held online. The below lists some of the points that were raised during the panel discussions.
In Session 1, Miyazaki Katsumi first asked the panelists how they understood the term “Japonisme.” Mabuchi Akiko said that Japonisme was basically a vision of Japan based Westerners’ illusions that developed without Japanese participation, and it is thus problematic how this historical perception of the West has been embraced positively by the Japanese themselves in recent years as if it were a result of the Japanese effort. Thomas explained how English-language art history has analyzed Japonisme in relation to Modernism, and Minami and Inaga discussed the difficulty of translating terms such as “Nihon Shumi.” To finish, Thomas suggested that Japonisme can help develop new theories of cross-cultural interaction.
Miura Atsushi began Session 2 by reiterating that a study of Japonisme was necessarily interdisciplinary from the start. Ishii Motoaki stated that the Commercial Museum of the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce, which displayed highly artistic craft products for export, proved to be rather effective in China, and raised the need to follow up on this issue in the future. Hashimoto Yorimitsu contrasted the representation of morning glory in Europe and the United States with that of aspedistra and kudzu, and pointed out that the Japanese origin of those plants that became successfully transplanted became forgotten whereas those that posed threat to the existing habitat were removed as “Japanese.” In a related vein, Sophie Basch reminded the existence of “anti-Japonisme” in France, which was highly critical of the French fascination with things Japanese, and stated that Castagnary’s discourse was representative of such French nationalism at the time.
In Session 3, when asked about the impact of ukiyo-e on American poets, Nakachi Sachi responded that it was one among multiple sources of inspiration, and she also pointed out that Yonejiro Noguchi took advantage of the Japonisme boom and developed his literary career by critiquing this boom from within for his own benefits. Michael Lucken pointed out the international position of Japan and Greece in the nineteenth century, and the commensurability between a certain kind of Japonisme in the West and what he calls “Philehellenism” as a discourse of cultural nationalism in Japan as they both claimed “Japan as ancient Greece.” In response to the question regarding the International Tourism Bureau’s promotion of Japan as “modern,” Kida Takuya stated that the image of Japan that was created in these posters combined elements that were both “new” and “retro.”
In Session 4, Kōma Kyoko pointed out that the current images of Japan as “kawaii” and “shōjo” in France that are propagated via manga and fashion inherit the feminized image of Japan as geisha and mousmé that was produced in the Japonisme era. Takagi Yoko mentioned the potential of what might be termed “intangible Japonisme” as experience, beyond the narrowly defined Japonisme that has focused largely on tangible and material products. Murai Noriko expressed a concern about the current Japanese appropriation of Japonisme as a term that carries the cultural prestige of France, and how this authority has been used to celebrate Japanese culture by the Japanese with little connection to historical Japonisme. Sadao Fujihara commented on the need to reexamine Japonisme as a type of “ism” and suggested that it may not be a bad idea to have an introductory book titled “An Introduction to the Critique of Japonisme.”
The online event was well attended by members and non-members, and by scholars and students in and outside Japan. The Society thanks all those who participated in the event and made it successful. The Society also expresses its most sincere gratitude to the Ishibashi Foundation, whose generous funding and support made this event possible.
■ International Symposium 2020: Japonisme in Architecture and Space From the Late 19th Century to Today
Date: 9:30‐17:30 Saturday October 10, 2020 (Japan standard time) Virtual Symposium
Organizers: The Society for the Study of Japonisme / Ebara Hatakeyama Memorial Foundation
Language: Japanese or English (with simultaneous interpretation)
300 participants
Admission free
Purpose:
It is well known that Edward S. Morse and Bruno Taut wrote books about Japanese architecture, and that Frank Lloyd Wright was much impressed by the Japanese pavilion at the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The latter also incorporated Japanese elements into his architecture, making afterwards several trips to Japan. What in Japanese architecture made it so attractive to these visitors from the West after the Meiji Restoration? Also, did japonisants, those European and American aficionados of ukiyo-e and Japanese craft objects, turn their attention to the country’s architecture as well? How were the characteristics of Japanese architecture understood and incorporated into the Western built environment, exercising what kind of influence on the birth of modernist architecture?
Conversely, while Japanese architecture was presented in numerous world fairs, what did the Japanese themselves do in order to promulgate it abroad? Further, how conscious are such internationally active Japanese architects as ANDŌ Tadao, SANAA and KUMA Kengo about the specifically Japanese features in their designs, and how are they appreciated in the West?
The 2020 edition of the Society for the Study of Japonisme International Symposium seeks to examine these East/ West encounters and their consequences, including surprise, learning and adaptation, in terms of both architectural designs and ideas to which architectural spaces give rise.
Program
9:30– Greetings and Introduction (moderator: ISHII Motoaki, Professor, Osaka University of Arts)
9:30-9:40 Welcome greeting
MABUCHI Akiko, President, Society for the Study of Japonisme, Director, National Museum of Western Art
NAKAMURA Hiroshi, Ebara Hatakeyama Memorial Foundation
9:40–9:50 Introduction
TANAKA Atsuko, Specially-appointed Professor, Shibaura Institute of Technology
I. Foreign Views on Japanese Architecture
moderator: TANAKA Atsuko
9:50–10:20 HAMAJIMA Hiromasa, Ph.D. candidate, Graduate School of Business Sciences and Social Sciences, University of Tsukuba
“Victorian Views of Japanese Architecture in the mid-19th century”
10:25–10:55 ŌKUBO Miharu, Researcher in Comparative Culture
“The Tea House seen and interpreted by foreigners”
II. How Japanese Architecture was Received and Understood Abroad
moderator: ŌKUBO Miharu
11:00–11:30 Edward R. Bosley, Executive Director, The Gamble House, Pasadena, California
“Two Sides of the Pacific: Japan and the Architecture of Greene & Greene”
11:35–12:05 Jean-Sébastien Cluzel, Associate Professor, Sorbonne University
“Restoration of Emblematic Buildings of Japonisme in France: Midori no Sato pavilion, Albert Kahn pavilions, La Pagode, Stork room.
Lunch Break
13:05– Afternoon Sessions
III. The Japan Pavilions in the Universal Expositions: Their Intentions and Forms
moderator: ŌKUBO Miharu
13:05–13:35 ISHII Motoaki
“Japanese Architecture as Locomotive for the Presence at World Fair: Japan Pavilion at the Double International Exposition of Turin and Rome in 1911”
13:40–14:10 MANDAI Yasuhiro, Professional, Nomura Real Estate Development Co. Ltd. HASEGAWA Kaori, Assistant Professor, Tokyo University of Science, YAMANA Yoshiyuki, Professor, Tokyo University of Science
“Pavillon du Japon at the Paris International Exposition 1937 as ‘New Japanese Architecture’ ― ‘Japanese Architectural Spirit’ of SAKAKURA Junzō”
14:15–14:45 Helena Čapková, Associate Professor, Ritsumeikan University
“Japanese Space as Gallery: Afterlives of the Japanese Pavilions at International Exhibitions”
Break
IV. Modernist Space and Japanese Architecture
moderator: Tanaka Atsuko
15:00–15:30 ŌSHIMA Ken Tadashi, Professor, University of Washington
“Japonisme Inside Out: From Bruno Taut to KUMA Kengo”
15:35–16:05 KISHI Yū, Research Fellow, Institute of Asian Cultural Studies, International Christian University
“From ‘Taste’ to ‘Style’: Architectural Debates in Trans-war Japan”
16:10–16:40 EMOTO Hiroshi, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Research Fellow (Post-Doctorial) Chiba University
“The Eloquence around Mies van der Rohe: Myth-making of Japanese Influence”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBof09vUZzY
16:45–17:15 Lili Gracia, Master of Architecture Student, École Normale Supérieure d’Architecture Paris-Belleville, France, HASEGAWA Kaori, YAMANA Yoshiyuki
“The Youth Center in Cieux (1973) and the Moulin Blanc International Center in Brest (1983): a singular embodiment of the Japanese Traditional Architecture and Modernity dialectic by Roland Schweitzer”
17:15–17:25 Wrap-Up
moderator: TANAKA Atsuko, YAMANA Yoshiyuki
17:25 Closing Remarks TAKAGI Yōko, Managing Director, Society for the Study of Japonisme, Professor, Bunka Gakuen University
17:30 Symposium Ends
■ International Symposium 2019: Japonisme on the Move: Travel, Migration, and Other Movements of People across Places
Date: Saturday October 5, 2019
Venue: The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
Organized by: The Society for the Study of Japonisme / The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo / The Ebara Hatakeyama Memorial Foundation
Language: Japanese or English (with simultaneous translation)
Participation Fee: Free
Symposium Outline: 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 Opening remarks
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 Meisho and Popular Tourist Prints in the West”
Break
10:40–11:00 SUZUKI Junji, Professor Emeritus, Keio University
“Japanese Residents of 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
Part II: 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, History Instructor at the French International School of 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
■ The 8th Hatakeyama Symposium：Japonisme and Women
Date: Saturday, October 6, 2018
10:00～18:00 (Registration starts at 9:30)
Venue: Takushoku University, Bunkyo Campus, Building E 3rd Floor Room: E307
Number of participants: 150 persons
Participation Fee: Free
Organized by: Society for the Study of Japonisme
Co-organized by: Ebara Hatakeyama Memorial Foundation
Program
◆ Symposium
9:30 Registration
10:00〜10:10【Greetings】
Akiko Mabuchi (Chairman of the Society for the Study of Japonisme, Director of the National Museum of Western Art)
Hiroshi Nakamura (Executive Director, Secretary-General of the Ebara Hatakeyama Memorial Foundation)
10:10〜10:50【Keynote Speech】
Akiko Mabuchi (Chairman of the Society for the Study of Japonisme, Director of the National Museum of Western Art)
Is Japonisme something feminine?
【Session 1 Represented Women: Object】 Moderator: Hideko Numata
10:55～11:25 Yukiko Oki（Art Historian）
The Image of Japanese Women Converging to Geisha in European Japonisme
11:30～12:00 Annamarie V. Sandecki (Chief Archivist/ Head Curator, Tiffany & Co. Archives）
Images of Japanese Women on Tiffany&Co. 19th Century: Jewelry, Tableware and Personal Accessories: An Analysis
Lunch 12:00～13:30
【Session 2 Representing Women: Subject】 Moderator: Yuko Ikeda
13:30〜14:00 Markéta Hánová（Director of the Collection of Asian and African art, The National Gallery in Prague）
Feminine Power within the Stream of Czech Japonisme: The Idols of Beauty and Receptors of Japanese Art and Aesthetics
14:05～14:35 Svitlana Shiells（Independent Scholar）
Mapping the Eastern European Trajectory of Japonisme: The Role of Japanese Stimuli in the Art of Ukrainian and Russian Women Artists
Coffee Break
【Session 3 Women as Patron, Metaphor and Gender】 Moderator: Katsumi Miyazaki
14:50〜15:20 Noriko Murai (Associate Professor, Sophia University)
The Portrait of a Modern Lady: Representation of Gender and Kannon Bodhisattva in J. S. Sargent’s Isabella Stewart Gardner
15:25〜15:55 Phylis Floyd（Associate Professor, Michigan State University)
Women as Aesthetic Agents in the Japonisme and Modernism
16:00〜16:30 Masayuki Okabe (Professor, Teikyo University, Director of the Museum of Modern Art, Gunma)
Crossing sexes: Representations of Women in Art Nouveau and Art Deco: Illustrated Wood Block Print and Gustav Klimt, Aubery Beardsley and Einar Wegener
Coffee Break
16:45〜17:55【Discussion】
Moderator: Noriko Murai (Associate Professor, Sophia University)
Panelists: Yuko Ikeda（Senior Curator, The National Museum of Western Art, Hideko Numata（Chief Curator, Yokohama Museum of Art, Akiko Mabuchi (Chairman of the Society for the Study of Japonisme, Director of the National Museum of Western Art), Katsumi Miyazaki (Professor, Showa University of Music)
18:00 Closing
■ The 7th Hatakeyama Symposium: Japonisme in the 20th Century – its Diffusion and Change
Date: Saturday, November 25, 2017
Excursion 10:00～12:00
Symposium 13:30～17:00 (Registration start 13:00)
Sunday, November 26
Symposium 10:00～17:00
Venue: Teikyo University, Kasumigaseki Campus (Hirakawa-cho Mori Tower 9th Floor) Room 4, 5
Access: https://www.teikyo-u.ac.jp/access/kasumigaseki.html
Organized by: Society for the Study of Japonisme
Co-organized by: Ebara Hatakeyama Memorial Foundation
Co-operated by: Teikyo University
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・Reservations are needed in advance for (A) the excursion on the 25th, (B) the symposium on the 25th, (C) the symposium on the 26th.
The deadline is Nov 17th. Those who wish to attend, please send: your name/ if you are a member or non-member/your cell phone number to: japonisme@world-meeting.co.jp.
Program
Saturday, November 25, 2017
◆ Excursion
“Kōgei and Architecture of the 20th Century: Modernism vs Japonisme”
10:00−12:00 Assemble at the West Exit of JR Meguro Station, from there we will walk to the
Kume Museum, Kami-Osaki residence area, Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum
Lecturer. Toyojiro Hida (Director of the Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum)
Navigator Masayuki Okabe (Professor, Teikyo University, Director of the Museum of Modern Art, Gunma)
◆ Symposium
13:00 Registration start
Greetings
13:30〜13:40 Akiko Mabuchi (President of the Society for the Study of Japonisme
Director of the National Museum of Western Art)
Noriyuki Osada (Executive Director, Secretary-General of the Ebara Hatakeyama Memorial Foundation)
【Session 1 Proposing the Research Questions】
13:40～14:20 Toshio Watanabe (Professor, University of the Arts London, University of East Anglia)
“20th Century Japonisme 1920s-1960s “
14:25〜15:05 Katsumi Miyazaki (Professor, Showa University of Music)
“The ‘End’ of Japonisme and thereafter – Towards a Redefinition of the Term”
【Session 2 Changes in Britain, Germany and Italy – from the Beginning of the 20th Century toward the Interwar Period】
15:20〜15:50 Claudia Delank (Independent Scholar, Director of Kunstraum Claudia Delank)
“The Painters of the Blaue Reiter and Japanese Art – Towards Defining a New Step of Japonisme
in the 20th Century”
15:55〜16:25 Miya Itabashi (Associate Professor, Hosei University)
“Mokuchu Urushibara in the Woodblock Printmaking Revival in Britain before World War II”
16:30～17:00 Motoaki Ishii (Professor, Osaka University of Arts)
“Japan and Italy in the Interwar Period”
◆ Awards Ceremony and Reception
17:15〜19:15
Venue: Campus Lounge
Sunday November 26, 2017
【Session 3 Reception in the Countries under Russian and Habsburg Imperial Domination】
10:00〜10:30 Kayo Fukuma (Curatorial assistant, Oita City Historical Museum)
“Japonisme in Imperial Russia”
10:35〜11:05 Bart Pushaw（Ph.D Candidate, University of Maryland, USA）
“The Japanese Roots of Baltic Modernism”
11:10〜11:40 Helena Čapková (Assistant Professor, Waseda University)
“‘From Decorative Arts to Impressive Local Constructions and Materials’ – on New Japonisme for the
Czechoslovak Republic (1918-1938)”
11:45～12:15 Mirjam Dénes (Assistant Curator, Ferenc Hopp Museum of Asiatic Arts)
“Interlocking Waves of Japonisme – Hungary between Fin de siècle Art and Modernism”
Lunch
【Session 4 Music and Fashion】
13:30〜14:00 Shikiko Tsuruzono (Pianist, Lecturer at Toho Gakuen University)
“Twentieth Century Modernism and Japonisme – A Study of Stravinsky and Messiaen”
14:05〜14:35 Akiko Fukai (Emeritus curator, Kyoto Costume Institute)
“From Realisme to Abstract – Vionnet and Japan”
Coffee Break Award Ceremony
【Discussion】
15:00〜17:00
Moderator: Motoaki Ishii (Professor, Osaka University of Arts)
Panelists: Masayuki Okabe (Professor, Teikyo University, Director of the Museum of Modern Art, Gunma)
Yoko Takagi (Professor, Bunka Gakuen University)
Yorimitsu Hashimoto (Associate Professor, Osaka University)
Katsumi Miyazaki (Professor, Showa University of Music)
Toshio Watanabe (Professor, University of the Arts London, University of East Anglia)
17:00 End
■ The 6th Hatakeyama symposium: Human Networks in Japonisme
Theme:
During the latest years, the research concerning Japonisme has known various paths. It has become clear that not only painting and the decorative arts, but also literature, theatre and music have become the object of a growing interest. Furthermore, the subject of study is not only limited to France, Great-Brittain, and America; but has expanded towards other several Western countries. In this symposium, we would like to consider the keypersons who contributed to this expansion. We will look at people who used Japonisme as medium; people from younger generations who were influenced by these Japonisme works; and people who became the spill in the reciprocal influence from Japan to the West, and from the West to Japan; in order to clarify the expansion of Japonisme across the globe.
time：October, 21 and 22, 2016（Friday and Saturday）
venue：Teikyo Univeristy Kasumigaseki campus (21st October) (map） ・ Takushoku Univeristy Bunkyo campus International Education hall (22nd October) （map）
organiser：Society for study of Japonisme
co-organisor：Public Utility Foundation Corporation, Hatakeyama Culture Group
support：Teikyo University
［Free entrance］
【Program】
◆ October 21 (Friday）
First session: Excursion and visit of the exhibition “The Cradle of Japonisme”
［※ Registration in advance needed, max. 30 people］
11:00-13:00 JR Ryokoku station east exit – We will be walking around Katsushika Hokusai’s birth place • residence and other remnants reminding of the artist. In the Tokyo Edo Museum we will visit the exhibition “Revive! Sibolt’s museum” (around 90 mins. with explanation)
navigator: Okabe Masayuki (Teikyo University professor)
Second session: Research presentation ［max. 80 people, registration not required］
venue: Teikyo University Kasumigaseki campus room 4•5 （Hirakawacho Mori tower 9th floor）
14:30‐14:40 Abstract explanation
Miyazaki Katsumi（Showa Music University professor • Japonisme society board chairman）
14:40-15:10 Presentation 1：Ootsu Junko（Art Historian）
Robert De Montesquieu and Japanese culture.
15:10-15:40 Presentation 2：Hayashi Kumiko（Japan Academic Promotion Society special member）
Japan’s art lover Raymond Kœchin‘s activities and personal exchanges.
[Break]
16:00-16:30 Presentation 3：Okabe Masayuki
Buo and Biguot, Japan of their dreams, and the dreams they saw in Japan.
16:30-17:00 Presentation 4： Miyazaki Katsumi
The people connected to Leon de Rosny’s “Anthologie Japonaise.”
Chair：Oki Yukiko
◇ Get-together for the Japonisme Society award
17:30ー17:45 Ceremony for the Japonisme Society award and the honorable mention of 2016
17:45ー19:00 Get-together
◆ October 22（Saturday）
Third to fifth session: ［※ Registration in advance is needed, max. 82 people］
venue：Takushoku University Bunkyo campus International Education hall (F building) 3rd floor
10:00-10:15 Greetings from the sponsor
Mabuchi Akiko（National Museum for Western Art • president of the Japonisme Society）
Osada Noriyuki（Public Utility Foundation Corporation, Hatakeyama Culture Group Chair）
Third session: keynote speeches
10:20-11:20 keynote speech ：Michel Maucuer, Curator of Musée Guimet in France）
Two types of collections, two types of collectors: Georges Clemenceau and collectors of Japanese art in France at the end of the 19th century.
Chair：Kida Takuya
Fourth session: Research presentations
11:30-12:00 Presentation 5：Laura Dimitrio (Professor, Liceo Scientifico Lussana）
The Beginning of Japonisme in Italy and Drawings by Giuseppe Palanti for Costumes of Madama Butterfly (1904).
12:00-12:30 Presentation 6：Ishii Motoaki（Osaka Art University professor）
Japonisme Criticism in Italy – The surroundings of Vittorio Pica and Ugo Ojetti.
Chair：Tsuruzono Shikiko
[Lunch break]
Fifth session: Research presentations
14:00-14:30 Presentation 7：Tanaka Atsuko（representatice of the Access Living environment research group）
Japonisme in houses – Matsuki Fumiyoshi, Edward Morse, and Green & Green.
14:30-15:00 Presentation 8：Minami Asuka（Sagami Women’s University professor）
The reception of Western ukiyo-e research in Japan during the 1910s.
15:00-15:30 Presentation 9：Ajioka Chiaki（Art Historian • consultant of Japanese art）
The Anglo MIngei network in the 1910s to the 1930s.
Chair：Murai Noriko
15:30-16:00 Coffee break
Sixth session: discussion
16:00-17:30 Mabuchi Akiko
Ikeda Yuko（Kyoto National Modern Museum of Art researcher）
Hashimoto Norimitsu（Osaka University professor）
Chair：Hitomi Nobuko
* For details on the symposia held before 2016, please visit the Japanese symposium archive page.