The Japan Studies Association Announces:
A Faculty Development Workshop
“Creating Kyoto: An Interdisciplinary Study of Pre-Modern Japanese History”
to be held in Kyoto and Environs, June 23-28, 2014
And a Study-Tour June 29 -July 8, 2014 “Remapping the Tokaido Road”
Pending requested support from the Japan Foundation’s Institutional Project Support (IPS) program.
Also sponsored by:
Otani University, Kyoto
The Medieval Japanese Studies Institute, Kyoto
The Kyoto Consortium for Japan Studies
The Universities of Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, and Kansas, U.S. Department of Education National Resource Centers
Also sponsored by:
Otani University, Kyoto
The Medieval Japanese Studies Institute, Kyoto
The Kyoto Consortium for Japan Studies
The Universities of Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, and Kansas, U.S. Department of Education National Resource Centers
The Sumiyoshi Shrine as envisioned in The Tale of Genji and during the June 2013 JSA Site Visit.
Contingent upon Japan Foundation funding, JSA intends to offer travel stipends of $500 to twenty participants and provide hotel, lectures, field trips, and some meals for a registration fee of $550 for the June 23-28 workshop. The study-tour for 8 of the 20 participants would be an additional $550 for those selected. JSA will hear whether we have Japan Foundation IPS funding in April 2014, but to be ready for our June 2014 program, we are scheduling our speakers and arranging the study-tour. The deadline for applications is March 17, 2014.
If you are interested in applying and receiving further updates, contact Professor Fay Beauchamp, JSA Vice President for Special Projects ([email protected]). Please read the information pages that follow, then go to www.japanstudies.org for the application and for information about our meeting site, Otani University, and our hotel in Kyoto, Via Inn.
“Creating Kyoto: An Interdisciplinary Study of Pre-Modern Japanese History”
to be held in Kyoto and Environs, June 23-28, 2014
By holding our workshop in Kyoto, our participants are able to see the vibrant modern city, and learn from sites representing the Heian, Medieval, and Tokugawa Periods. This city allows college faculty to develop syllabi about a dynamic Japan of earlier centuries, one that has been continually inventing and sustaining traditions. Teachers will become more aware of how temples, shrines, gardens, palaces, and museums are presented and shape the past.
The Executive Director and Director of the Medieval Japanese Studies Institute in Kyoto, Michiyo Katsura and Monica Bethe, are acting as JSA’s consultants in developing the “Creating Kyoto Workshop” drawing upon the resources of the city.
On four mornings, the group will meet at Otani University, for lectures and discussion.
Topics we are planning include the following:
On four afternoons and two day-trips we plan to visit
JSA Support for the Kyoto Workshop. JSA leaders who have committed to coming to Kyoto and helping with its implementation include Joseph Overton, JSA President; Fay Beauchamp, Vice President for Special Projects; Stacia Bensyl, JSA Treasurer, and JSA’s three Members-at-Large -- Maggie Ivanova, Robert Feleppa, and Andrea Stover. Readings: Required short texts and recommended readings will be made available in advance of the workshop.
“ReMapping the Tokaido Road: Stops along the Way from Heian to Medieval, Tokugawa, and Contemporary Japan”
Ten-Day Study Tour for a Sub-set of Eight Kyoto Workshop Participants
June 29-July 8, 2014
“Tokaido Road” reflects the Tokugawa Period (1603-1867), when the route between Kyoto and Tokyo marked the shift in power from the Emperor to the Shogun. However, goals are historically and geographically broader. Our visits will enable faculty to teach about a dynamic Japan from the time of Heian Court, to the dominance of Samurai, and finally to those recovering from the March 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear event. Here for our current plans:
Study Tour Leaders: For the ten-day study-tour, participants will have the guidance of Dr. Frank Chance (see bio) and discussions will be enhanced by our JSA leaders Dr. Maggie Ivanova (Flinders University, Australia) and Dr. Andrea Stover (Belmont University, Tennessee).
Frank L. Chance, (B.A. and M.A, Asian Art History, University of Kansas; Ph.D. in Japanese art, University of Washington), spent five years in Japan studying language, ceramics and tea, and two years as a research fellow at Kyoto University. From 1991 to 1998, Dr. Chance was the Director of Shofuso, a Japanese House and Garden in Philadelphia. After serving as a Far Eastern Bibliographer at Princeton and teaching at the University of Michigan, since 2002 he has been Associate Director, Center for East Asian Studies, University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Chance has led many academic groups to Japan, and in 2013 he led the site visit to Japan with five JSA Board Members as part of JSA’s project “Creating the Next Generation of Leaders for U.S.– Japan Educational Outreach,” funded by the Japan Foundation’s Center for Global Partnership.
Contingent upon Japan Foundation funding, JSA intends to offer travel stipends of $500 to twenty participants and provide hotel, lectures, field trips, and some meals for a registration fee of $550 for the June 23-28 workshop. The study-tour for 8 of the 20 participants would be an additional $550 for those selected. JSA will hear whether we have Japan Foundation IPS funding in April 2014, but to be ready for our June 2014 program, we are scheduling our speakers and arranging the study-tour. The deadline for applications is March 17, 2014.
If you are interested in applying and receiving further updates, contact Professor Fay Beauchamp, JSA Vice President for Special Projects ([email protected]). Please read the information pages that follow, then go to www.japanstudies.org for the application and for information about our meeting site, Otani University, and our hotel in Kyoto, Via Inn.
“Creating Kyoto: An Interdisciplinary Study of Pre-Modern Japanese History”
to be held in Kyoto and Environs, June 23-28, 2014
By holding our workshop in Kyoto, our participants are able to see the vibrant modern city, and learn from sites representing the Heian, Medieval, and Tokugawa Periods. This city allows college faculty to develop syllabi about a dynamic Japan of earlier centuries, one that has been continually inventing and sustaining traditions. Teachers will become more aware of how temples, shrines, gardens, palaces, and museums are presented and shape the past.
The Executive Director and Director of the Medieval Japanese Studies Institute in Kyoto, Michiyo Katsura and Monica Bethe, are acting as JSA’s consultants in developing the “Creating Kyoto Workshop” drawing upon the resources of the city.
On four mornings, the group will meet at Otani University, for lectures and discussion.
Topics we are planning include the following:
- An overview of the history of Kyoto, and how contemporary Kyoto presents and represents continuity and change.
- An introduction to selected chapters of the Tale of Genji; influences from China and Japanese creativity; themes of the capital vs locations of exile; the reimagining of 9th Century Councilors Sugawara Michizane and Ariwara no Yukihira who were sources for the fictional Prince Genji; and/or issues of gender.
- Noh Drama’s reinvention of stories of exile and obsessionfocusing on the plays Matsukaze and Aoinoue, about Lady Rokujō’s spirit attacking Genji’s primary wife.
- An introduction to Buddhist and Shinto developing beliefs; and a case study of Buddhist and Shinto art, architecture, and tales related to Prince Shotoku.
- A view of the interlocking of religion and royalty with a focus on “temple palaces” related to imperial women, the art they created, and the culture they preserve even today.
- Historical narrative as literature: an introduction to the The Tales of the Heike.
- Imagining Kyoto and the Tokaido Road through woodblock prints.
On four afternoons and two day-trips we plan to visit
- Kyoto gardens and palaces associated with imperial Japan.
- An afternoon with a behind-the-scenes look at Noh Theater and a mini-performance related our discussions.
- A day trip to Hōryū-ji, the Buddhist temple complex founded by Prince Shōtōku, and to representative sites in the ancient capital of Nara.
- Introduction to some of Kyoto’s most famous pavilions, temples and shrines with free time to explore.
- A day trip to places with interwoven associations of The Tale of Genji, Noh,and the Tales of Heike: Suma west of Kobe, Akashi, and the Sumiyoshi Shrine in greater Osaka.
JSA Support for the Kyoto Workshop. JSA leaders who have committed to coming to Kyoto and helping with its implementation include Joseph Overton, JSA President; Fay Beauchamp, Vice President for Special Projects; Stacia Bensyl, JSA Treasurer, and JSA’s three Members-at-Large -- Maggie Ivanova, Robert Feleppa, and Andrea Stover. Readings: Required short texts and recommended readings will be made available in advance of the workshop.
“ReMapping the Tokaido Road: Stops along the Way from Heian to Medieval, Tokugawa, and Contemporary Japan”
Ten-Day Study Tour for a Sub-set of Eight Kyoto Workshop Participants
June 29-July 8, 2014
“Tokaido Road” reflects the Tokugawa Period (1603-1867), when the route between Kyoto and Tokyo marked the shift in power from the Emperor to the Shogun. However, goals are historically and geographically broader. Our visits will enable faculty to teach about a dynamic Japan from the time of Heian Court, to the dominance of Samurai, and finally to those recovering from the March 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear event. Here for our current plans:
- For two days the group will visit Mt. Koya, known for its temple complex founded by the Buddhist monk Kukai (774–835) after his travels to China. The overnight temple stay will be in shared rooms with futons, and includes a traditional Japanese bath down the hall.
- Weather cooperating, we will view Mt. Fuji, one of the most popular subjects of woodblock prints, best known through Hiroshige’s series of the 1800s.
- Further east, one day will be in Kamakura, now famous for the magnificent Buddha statue (c.1252). The Kamakura Shogunate (1185–1333) is remembered through the legends surrounding the beloved Yoshitsune, a hero of The Heike while on the run.
- The World Heritage Site in Nikko, where the Tokugawa Shoguns’ elaborately carved and painted shrines defy the sweeping characterization of Japanese aesthetics based on Zen Buddhism.
- Responding to suggestions of a Japanese Consul General and the Japan Foundation to travel north and talk to Japanese affected by the March 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear event, we will explore this area with its own distinct beauty and history. We will be following Basho on his “Narrow Road to the North.”
- The Study-Tour will end in Tokyo – where we will be immersed in contemporary Japan as well as ending our historical, artistic, literary, and religious explorations.
Study Tour Leaders: For the ten-day study-tour, participants will have the guidance of Dr. Frank Chance (see bio) and discussions will be enhanced by our JSA leaders Dr. Maggie Ivanova (Flinders University, Australia) and Dr. Andrea Stover (Belmont University, Tennessee).
Frank L. Chance, (B.A. and M.A, Asian Art History, University of Kansas; Ph.D. in Japanese art, University of Washington), spent five years in Japan studying language, ceramics and tea, and two years as a research fellow at Kyoto University. From 1991 to 1998, Dr. Chance was the Director of Shofuso, a Japanese House and Garden in Philadelphia. After serving as a Far Eastern Bibliographer at Princeton and teaching at the University of Michigan, since 2002 he has been Associate Director, Center for East Asian Studies, University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Chance has led many academic groups to Japan, and in 2013 he led the site visit to Japan with five JSA Board Members as part of JSA’s project “Creating the Next Generation of Leaders for U.S.– Japan Educational Outreach,” funded by the Japan Foundation’s Center for Global Partnership.