The Modern Afterlife of the Japanese Samurai
William Kelly - Professor of Anthropology and Sumitomo Professor of Japanese Studies, Yale University
Thursday, October 8, 2015 - 5:30pm
Peabody Museum
170 Whitney Avenue
New Haven, CT
06511
Like the cowboy in the modern American imagination, the samurai has remained a potent image in Japan long after actual warriors disappeared. Throughout 20th and 21st century Japan, notions of the samurai have been used to exhort everyone from soldiers to students, from corporate workers to athletes. Join Professor William Kelly to discover who these samurai of modern Japan are and how we can connect them to the historical samurai depcted in the Peabody’s Samurai and the Culture of Japan’s Great Peace exhibition.
Sponsored by the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History
Region:
Japan