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Creative collaborations in Kyoto, Osaka and Beyond, 1770-1900

Key information

Date
to
Time
9:00 am to 5:00 pm
Venue
Russell Square: College Buildings
Room
RG01

About this event

The British Museum and the Art Research Center, Ritsumeikan University will host a symposium at SOAS, as part of the 3-year international research project 'Creative Collaborations: Salons and Networks in Kyoto and Osaka 1780-1880 (上方文化サロン：人的ネットワークから解き明かす文化創造空間 1780-1880),' jointly funded by UK Research & Innovation (UKRI) and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) for 2022-2025.

Programme

TimeSessionSpeakers
Day 1: 10 September 2024
9am-9:10amGreetings 
  • Akiko Yano (British Museum)
9:10am-11amSession 1: Haikai poetry circles and artists
  • Scott Johnson (Kansai University; Emeritus): Notes on "A Haiku Journey to Osaka"
  • Yokoya Ken’ichiro (Otsu City Museum of History): 中嶋来章と俳諧摺物―義仲寺をめぐる絵師と俳壇 
  • Ida Taro (Kindai University): 『花月帖』から見える東西のサロンの交流
  • Sugimoto Yoshihisa (Tohoku University): 渡辺南岳と中村芳中の江戸行―俳諧と絵画の交流
  • Discussant: Rosina Buckland (British Museum)
11:05am-12:55amSession 2: Osaka, a centre of literati culture 
  • Nakatani Nobuo (Kansai University; Emeritus; online): Kimura Kenkadō and his fellow artists 
  • Tsukuda (Issa-an tea master; online): 煎茶サロンの仕掛け・語らいを生む絵画
  • Paul Berry (Kansai University of Foreign Studies; Emeritus): Nature of literati world in Osaka 
  • Akeo Keizo (Osaka University of Commerce): 文化サロンとしての蔵屋敷
  • Discussant: Andrew Gerstle (SOAS University of London; Emeritus) 
1pm-2pmLunch Break
2pm-2:50pmSession 3: Independent Paper
  • Akama Ryō (Ritsumeikan University): 幕末明治の京都・大阪における文化サロン人物ネットワークのデータアーカイブと分析システム
  • Commentator: Ryoko Matsuba (SISJAC/University of East Anglia) 
2:50pm-3:10pmCoffee Break
3:10pm-5pmSession 4: Literary and artistic circles: publications, popularisation and commercial aspects
  • Xiangming Chen (PhD student, University of Oxford): Guide to literati: Kenkadō, Osaka publishing and reception of Qing art 
  • John Carpenter (Metropolitan Museum of Art): Collaborative paintings with poetry inscriptions as records of Kyoto salon culture
  • Yamamoto Yoshitaka (National Institute of Japanese Literature; online): Court nobles among renowned masters and friends: The imperial court and albums of calligraphy and painting in the early 19th-century Kyoto-Osaka region 
  • Jingyi Li (Occidental College; online): Commercialized gatherings and commodified literati in 19th-century shogakai 
  • Discussant: Ellis Tinios (Leeds University; Emeritus) 
Day 2: 11 September 2024
9:30am-11:20amSession 5: Connections and networks via art
  • Iwasa Shin’ichi (Osaka Museum of History): 江戸時代後期の京坂と近隣地域における合作書画の諸相について－制作背景と揮毫者を中心に－
  • Yamamoto Yukari (Wako University): 春画とサロン―長崎来舶清人との関係を中心に
  • Hirai Yoshinobu (Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto): 京・大坂における長崎派風の伝播の諸相
  • Timothy Clark (British Museum; Emeritus): Maruyama-Shijō art at the British Museum 
  • Discussant: Joe Nickols (British Museum) 
11:20am-12pmGeneral Discussion

The book of abstracts is available for download.

Registration

This symposium is open to the public and will be held in both online and in person, in English and Japanese. For both in-person and online registration, please contact Sophie Gong (Research Assistant, British Museum) at YGong@britishmuseum.org. 

Organisers and funders

British Museum; International Joint Digital Archiving Center for Japanese Art and Culture (ARC-iJAC), Art Research Center, Ritsumeikan University; SOAS Japan Research Centre; Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation; The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation

Header image credit: Tanida Sukenaga (artist, 1748–1825) and six haiku poets, Six poets (imitating the theme of ‘Six Immortal Poets’). Surimono, colour woodblock print, 1808. British Museum, 1987,0729,0.2.  

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