Symposium on the Pre-Modern Japanese Collections at Yale University
As part of a multi-year collaborative project with the University of Tokyo’s Historiographical Institute to study the remarkable collection of pre-modern historical documents assembled at Yale by Professor Asakawa Kan’ichi in the first half of the 20th century, we are pleased to announce a special symposium to be held at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM on Friday, October 7, 2011. In addition to four brief presentations by scholars working on different aspects of Edo period history and culture, members of a team of researchers from the Historiographical Institute, led by Professors Ebara Masaharu and Kondo Shigekazu, will speak about their work and recent findings in Yale’s pre-modern document collections. Please see below for more details regarding the presentations, which will be delivered in Japanese.
PRESENTERS: Tetsuya Sugimori, The Open University of Japan – Kyoto in the Edo period Fumiko Sugimoto, Historiographical Institute, University of Tokyo – Edo period maps Robert Goree, Columbia University – Illustrated Gazetteers Fabian Drixler, Yale University – Infanticide and Demography