Saikaku Bakin Symposium

Exploring Early Modern Japanese Narrative

Friday & Saturday | 19-20 May, 2023 | Sproul Hall Rm. 912

https://sites.rutgers.edu/saikaku-bakin-symposium/

Schedule

Friday May 19, 2023

• 9:45, David J. Gundry, UC Davis | Opening Remarks
   
• Panel 1: Readership/Genre
   
  • 10:00-10:30 David C. Atherton, “Reading for Form in Early Modern Japanese Literature”
     
  • 10:30-11:00 Laura Moretti, “Play Logics: Approaching Kyokutei Bakin’s Graphic Narratives as Playthings”
     
  • 11:00-11:30 Daniel Struve, “Yamaoka Genrin’s (1631-1712) Essay Taga minoue”
     
  • 11:30-12:00 Discussion
     

  • Lunch | 12:00-1:30 (catered)

  • 1:30-2:00 Paul G. Schalow, “Early Modern Discourses of Poverty and Wealth”

  • 2:00-2:30 William Fleming, “The Market for Edo Fiction in the Early Meiji Period”

  • 2:30-2:50 Discussion

• Panel 2: Translation Matters

  • 3:00-3:30 David J. Gundry, “Translating Saikaku’s Budō denrai ki (Exemplary Tales of the Way of the Warrior)”

  • 3:30-4:00 Glynne Walley “The Celestial Emporium of Equivalent Knowledge: The Translator and the Bestiary of Early Modern Japanese Fiction”

  • 4:00-4:30 Hatanaka Chiaki, “In Search of a New Reading Strategy for Saikaku’s Works: From Ideological to Evocative Readings”

  • 4:30-5:00 Chris Drake, “Reading Between the Contradictions in Saikaku’s Life of an Amorous Man (Kōshoku ichidai otoko)”

  • 5:00-5:40 Discussion

Saturday May 20, 2023

• Panel 3: Remapping Discourses

  • 10:00-10:30 William Hedberg, “Civilization Remapped in The Later Tales of Coxinga (Kokusen’ya gonichi kassen)”

  • 10:30-11:00 Shan Ren, “Questioning the Neo-Confucian Moral Duality: The Invisible Good and Evil in Kaikan kyōki kyōkakuden (1832-1835)”

  • 11:00-11:30 Jeffrey Newmark, “There is No/Thing Not of This World: Temporal and Spatial Variability in Saikaku shokoku banashi”

  • 11:30-12:00 Discussion

• 12:00 Paul G. Schalow, Rutgers University | Closing Remarks