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2019 Summer Kuzushiji Workshop

Posted on April 2, 2019 by Paula

The Center for East Asian Studies Committee on Japanese Studies at the University of Chicago is pleased to announce the 2019 Early Modern Japan Summer Workshop: Reading Kuzushiji. The workshop will meet from June 17th-21st. The year’s workshop will feature two … Continue reading →

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Call for Applicants: Kuzushiji Summer Workshop

Posted on February 15, 2019 by Paula

The Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Chicago invites applicants to its annual Kuzushiji Summer Workshop, which offers advanced undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, and independent scholar intensive week-long instruction in reading print and manuscript materials from the … Continue reading →

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Call for Applicants: PhD Scholarship Japanese Studies, Ghent University (Edo culture/history)

Posted on December 26, 2018 by Paula

We are pleased to invite applications for a full-time, fully-funded 3-year PhD Fellowship at the University of Ghent. The successful candidate will work on the FWO-funded project The Ethical Body in Early Modern Japanese Health Cultivation, co-supervised by Prof. Andreas Niehaus and Dr. … Continue reading →

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Workshop: Summer School in Japanese Early-modern Palaeography

Posted on September 26, 2018 by Paula

We are delighted to announce that the Sixth Graduate Summer School in Japanese Early-modern Palaeography will run from Monday 5 August to Saturday 17 August 2019 at the University of Cambridge, Emmanuel College (Cambridge, UK). We are now accepting applications. The deadline for submitting an … Continue reading →

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Fun Link Friday: The view from the shogun’s (toilet) seat?

Posted on August 17, 2018 by Paula

In case you needed a little more excitement on your visit to the bathrooms at Kyoto station, The Asahi Shimbun reported that through August 16, the subway station paneled the inside of two of their stalls (one in the men’s … Continue reading →

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Resource: Late Hokusai: Thought, Technique, Society

Posted on August 15, 2018 by Paula

Those who are interested in art history or just a fan of early modern painting and prints can explore Late Hokusai: Thought, Technique, Society, an online bilingual research project centered on situating the artist Hokusai (1780-1849) in his social and … Continue reading →

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Fun Link Friday: Portraits of samurai

Posted on August 10, 2018 by Paula

I’ve been majorly guilty of neglecting our Fun Link Friday posts, being busy this last month running the medieval komonjo workshop here at Michigan, but as the summer winds down I’m starting to catch up on my blogging duties! So … Continue reading →

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Job Opening: Postdoctoral Researcher, Japanese History, University of Amsterdam

Posted on May 24, 2018 by Paula

The Freedom of the Streets Research Project is looking for a: Postdoctoral researcher, 30 months, 0.7 FTE, Amsterdam/Tokyo. Project sponsored by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) This postdoctoral project will reconstruct women’s use of urban space in the biggest city … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Cultivating Femininity: Women and Tea Culture in Edo and Meiji Japan

Posted on March 25, 2018 by Paula

Cultivating Femininity: Women and Tea Culture in Edo and Meiji Japan by Rebecca Corbett The overwhelming majority of tea practitioners in contemporary Japan are women, but there has been little discussion on their historical role in tea culture (chanoyu). In Cultivating … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: The Merchant’s Tale

Posted on January 7, 2018 by Paula

The Merchant’s Tale: Yokohama and the Transformation of Japan Simon Partner Columbia University Press In April 1859, at age fifty, Shinohara Chūemon left his old life behind. Chūemon, a well-off farmer in his home village, departed for the new port … Continue reading →

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