All panels take place in the Michigan Room at the Michigan League.

Keynote Speakers

Friday, October 7, 2011, 9:10-9:40

Professor Noriko Kurushima
Professor of History, the Historiographical Institute, University of Tokyo
“Records of Distinguished Military Service: from Medieval to Early Modern Times” (In Japanese; English translation will be available.)

Saturday, October 8, 2011, 9:10-9:40

Professor Fumiko Umezawa
Professor of History, Keisen University, Tokyo
“Images of a Medieval Warrior in Tokugawa Writings: Kumagai Naozane in Plays, Ballad-dramas, and Religious Tales”

Program

Friday, October 7, 2011

• 8:30-9:00
  Breakfast snacks
• 9:00-9:10
  Introduction
• 9:10-9:40
  Keynote speech by Noriko Kurushima, “Records of Distinguished Military Service: from Medieval to Early Modern Times”

9:45-12:30 Panel I Romancing

• 9:45-10:05
  Thomas Keirstead, (University of Toronto): “The Romance of the Middle Ages”
• 10:05-10:25
  Eric C. Rath (University of Kansas): “An Herb for Reflecting on Hazy Memories: on the Origins of Smoking in Japan”
• 10:25-10:45
  Hitomi Tonomura (University of Michigan): “Appeal of the Battling Warrior Manhood in Early Modern Writings”
• 10:45-11:30
  Comments by Miranda Brown; questions and answers
• 11:30-12:30
  Presentation of primary sources; questions and discussion
  1. Thomas Keirstead: Santō Kyōden 山東京伝、 Kottōshū 骨董集, 1815
  2. Eric Rath: Seichūtei Shukushin 清中亭叔親, Mesamashigusa 目さまし草, 1815.
  3. Hitomi Tonomura: Makishima Terutake (Akitake) 槙島昭武, Kan Hasshū kosenroku 関八州古戦録, 1726

• 12:30-2:40
  Lunch break. Optional visit to the University of Michigan Museum of Art

2:40-5:30 Panel II Memorializing

• 2:40-2:45
  Introduction
• 2:45-3:05
  David A. Eason (State University of New York, Albany): “The Battles of Kawanakajima: Contested Narrative in the Construction of Seventeenth-century Military Studies”
• 3:05-3:25
  Peter D. Shapinsky (University of Illinois, Springfield):“Memories of the Domesticated Pirate”
• 3:25-3:45
  Suzanne Gay (Oberlin College, Ohio): Kawabata Dōki’s Early Modern Framework: Merchant Pragmatism and Continuity”
• 3:45-4:30
  Comments by Diane O. Hughes; questions and answers
• 4:30-5:30
  Presentation of primary sources; questions and discussion
  1. David A. Eason:
     • Obata Kagenori 小幡景憲, Kōyō gunkan 甲陽軍鑑, early 17th c.
     • Inoue Hayato 井上隼人 and Kiyono Sukejirō 清野助次郎, Kawanakajima gokado kassen-ki 河中島五箇度合 戦記, 1615
  2. Peter D. Shapinsky: Kasai Shigesuke 香西成資, Nankai tsūki 南海通記, c.1719
  3. Suzanne Gay: Kawabata Dōki-ke no kagami 川端道喜家の鏡, 1805

Saturday, October 8, 2011

• 8:30-9:00
  Breakfast snacks
• 9:00-9:10
  Introduction
• 9:10-9:40
  Keynote speech by Fumiko Umezawa, “Images of a Medieval Warrior in Tokugawa Writings: Kumagai Naozane in Plays, Ballad-dramas, and Religious Tales”

9:45-12:30 Panel III Connecting

• 9:45-10:05
  Morten Oxenböll (University of Copenhagen, Denmark): “The Edo Reconfiguration of the Soga Vendetta”
• 10:05-10:25
  David Spafford (University of Pennsylvania): “Family Tradition: Early Modern Warrior Genealogies and the Recovery of an Imagined Past”
• 10:25-10:45
  Morgan Pitelka (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill): “The Early Modern Afterlives of Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543-1616)”
• 10:45-11:30
  Comments by George Hoffmann; questions and answers
• 11:30-12:30
  Presentation of primary sources; questions and discussion
  1. Morton Oxenböll, Utagawa Kuniyoshi歌川国芳, Fuji no susono nite Soga kyōdai honmō wo tsui ni hakaru 冨士裾野曽我兄弟本望遂圖, c. 1843-47<
  2. David Spafford, Hotta Masaatsu 堀田正敦 and Hayashi Jussai 林述斎, Kansei chōshū shokafu 寛政重修諸家譜 c. 1791-1812.
  3. Morgan Pitelka, Posthumous portrait of Tokugawa Ieyasu 徳川家康 in the guise of Tōshō Daigongen 東照大権現像.

• 12:30-2:40
  Lunch break. Optional visit to the Asia Library and other Ann Arbor Hot Spots

2:40-5:30 Panel IV Conceptualizing

• 2:40-2:45
  Introduction
• 2:45-3:05
  Melanie Trede (University of Heidelberg, Germany; 2011-12 Toyota Visiting Professor at UM CJS): “Who Controls the Past Controls the Future: the 1672 Project of Hachiman Engi Handscrolls”
• 3:05-3:25
  Reinhard Zöllner (University of Bonn, Germany): “Hi no Maru: the Early Modern Japanese Interpretation of the Flag of the Rising Sun”
• 3:25-3:45
  Kevin Carr (University of Michigan): “When did Fuji Become ‘Japan’?: Visual Representations of the Mountain in Medieval and Early Modern Art”
• 3:45-4:30
  Comments by Thomas R. Trautmann; questions and answers
• 4:30-5:30
  Presentation of primary sources; questions and discussion
  1. Melanie Trede: Three visual and written renderings of the same scene included in the 1322, 1433 and 1672 Hachiman engi 八幡縁起 handscrolls
  2. Reinhard Zöllner: Author unknown, On-funajirushi narabi ni shokoku on-funajirushi no zu 御船印並諸国御船印之図
  3. Kevin Carr: Kenkō Shōkei 賢江祥啓 (attributed), Fugaku-zu 富嶽図, inscription by Shijun Tokuyō 子純得么, dated to 1490