Events

SHUNGA in its Social and Cultural Context

13-14 September
SOAS
Faber Building FG08
All presentations in English unless otherwise noted. Presentations in
Japanese will have outlines in English.

Monday: 13 September

9:30 Registration and Coffee/Tea

10:00 Opening remarks: Andrew Gerstle (SOAS)

10:10 Ellis Tinios (Leeds Univ.)
‘Shunga in context’

10:35 Monta Hayakawa (International Research Center for Japanese Studies)

Who enjoyed shunga? (In Japanese)

11:00 Questions and Discussion

11:20-30 Break

11:35 Timothy Clark (British Museum)
Exhibiting Shunga at the British Museum in 2013: Key Messages

12:00 Ricard Bru (Univ. of Barcelona)
Shunga Japonisme: European artists and Japanese erotic prints

12:25 Questions and Discussion

12:45-2:25 Lunch

2:30 Amaury A. Garcia (El Colegio de México, Colmex)
Nishikawa Sukenobu: One hundred women, two stories, and a reconsideration

2:55 Jenny Preston (SOAS)
Pushing boundaries: Nishikawa Sukenobu, Fufu narabi no oka and the Kyoho Reforms

3:20 Laura Moretti (Newcastle University)
Onna enshoku kyôkun kagami and Onna genji kyôkun kagami: parody or counter-discourse on women's sexuality?

3:45 Questions and Discussion

4:15-25 Break

4:30 Aki Ishigami (Ritsumeikan Univ.)
The influence of Nishikawa Sukenobu on shunpon produced in Edo

4:55 Fumiko Kobayashi (Hosei Univ.)
Was Ôta Nanpo ‘Seisôsai’, the author of shunga books?

5:20 Questions and Discussion

6:00 Finish

Tuesday: 14 September

9:30 Coffee/Tea

10:00 Yukari Yamamoto (Ukiyoe Gakkai)
Tsukioka Settei’s shunga paintings (In Japanese)

10:25 John Carpenter (SOAS)
The shunga and surimono of Harukawa Goshichi

10:50 Questions and Discussion

11:10-20 Break

11:25 Ryo Akama (Ritsumeikan Univ.)
Kabuki actors in shunga (In Japanese)

11:50 Kenji Hinohara (Ota Memorial Museum of Art)
Kitao Shigemasa’s shunpon production: an analysis of his Ehon yurushi no ne-iro (c. 1779) (In Japanese)

12:15 Questions and Discussion

12:35-2:25 Lunch

2:30 Kazutaka Higuchi (Mitsui Memorial Museum)
Not very funny shunga: an analysis of one gruesome scene in a work of Utagawa Toyokuni (In Japanese)

2:55 Rosina Buckland (National Museum of Scotland)
Hokusai's shunga

3:20 Monika Hinkel (SOAS)
Utagawa Kunisada's Shunshoku hatsune no ume(1842)

3:45 Questions and Discussion

4:15-25 Break

4:30 Final General Discussion
5:00 Finish

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Drew Gerstle
SOAS
University of London
Russell Sq
London WC1H 0XG UK

Tel: 020 7898 4207
Fax: 020 7898 4399