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The IAJS Thematic Conference 2018
with the Art History Dept. Tel Aviv University
The West in Japanese Imagination/
Japan in Western Imagination:
150 Years to the Meiji Restoration
Tuesday, December 18th
8:00-9:00 Registration
9:00-9:20 Wine Toast with His Excellency, the Ambassador of Japan to Israel, Mr. Koichi Aiboshi, and Honorary President of IAJS, Professor Jacob Raz
9:20-9:50 Opening panel
Fastlicht Hall, Mexico Building
Greetings:
Moderator: Irit Averbuch, East-Asian Studies, Tel Aviv University
His Excellency, Mr. Koichi Aiboshi, Ambassador of Japan to Israel
Professor Emeritus Jacob Raz, Honorary President of the Israeli Association of Japanese Studies
Professor Zvika Serper, Dean, Faculty of the Arts, Tel Aviv University
Dr. Sigal Ben-Rafael Galanti, Chair, Israeli Association of Japanese Studies
Dr. Ayelet Zohar, Tel Aviv University + Yale University, Chair of the Conference
9:50-10:15 Prizes for the Japan Compositions Competition
Moderator: Lihi Laszlo, University of Haifa
10:15-11:45
Panel A | The Normalization of Gender Discourses: Mainstream and Social Peripheries in Japan
Gilman 223
Chair: Ofra Goldstein-Gidoni, Tel Aviv University
● “Lagging 2000 Years behind Modern Women”: Okinawan Customs and the Discourse on Modernity in Meiji Japan
Isabelle Prochaska-Meyer, University of Vienna
● LGBT Community: Hybridity of Styles in Language
Hideko Abe, Colby College
● Naruse vu d’ici: The Anglo-American Reception of Naruse Mikio’s Wife! Be Like a Rose!
Michael Sooriyakumaran, Toronto University
● Woodblocks and Factory Women: Images of Sericulture in Meiji Japan
Alison Miller, University of the South
Panel B | Legislators, Prisoners and Copyrights: Law in Modern Japan
Mexico 206 C
Chair: Alon Levkowitz, Beit Berl College
● Invited Behavior in Japan: A Comparative Study on the Dynamic Relationship between Politicians and Supporters
Ofer Feldman, Doshisha University
● The Role of Japanese Non-State Actors in Early International Copyright Negotiations
Maj Hartmann, KU Leuven, Belgium
● Prisoners as Agents of Political and Socio-Economic Change in Meiji Japan: The Colonization of Hokkaidō
Pia Jolliffe, Oxford University
● Capitalizing on the Western Imaginary of Japan: The Cool Japan Fund and the Intellectual Property Strategy Program
Sophie Bisping, Heidelberg University
11:45-12:15 Coffee break
12:15 - 14:00
Panel A | Jesuit Encounters: Images and Martyrdom
Gilman 223
Chair: Renana Bartal, Tel Aviv University
● Japanese and Westerners in Shūsaku Endō’s Novels
Yoshimi Miyake, Akita University
● Proselytization and Persecution: The Mixed Origins of Fumi-e
Marjolein de Raat, Leiden University
● Martyrdom in Japan and Mission Politics of the Roman Catholic Church
Hisashi Yakou, Hokkaidō University
Panel B | Warriors, Wars, and Woes: Representations of Militarism in Japanese Modernities
Mexico 206 A
Chair: Danny Orbach, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
● Japanizing Benkei: Images of Musashibo Benkei in Meiji Japan
Naama Eisenstein, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
● Medievalism and Militarism in Imperial Japan
Oleg Benesch, University of York
● The 'Northern Threat': Comparing Media Representations of the Security Threats Posed by Imperial Russia in the 1890s and the Soviet Threat in the 1980s
Eitan Oren, King’s College, London
14:00 -16:00 Lunch break
16:00 -17:45
Panel A | Western Ideologies and the Japanese State: Distribution and Hybridization of Western Concepts
Mexico 206 C
Chair: Sigal Ben-Rafael Galanti, Beit Berl College
● Recycled Images: 21st Century Edition of Fukuzawa Yukichi’s Geography Textbook
Elena Baibikov, Kobe City University of Foreign Studies, Japan
● The Meiji Era, Hybridization, Induction of Western Models, and the Transformation of Japan
Ihediwa Nkemjika Chimee, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Nigeria
● (Re)writing History After the Meiji Restoration
Mark Lincicome, Kyoto Consortium for Japanese Studies, Kyoto
● From a Colony to a Prefecture: Japan’s Policy Towards Okinawa in the Meiji Era
Stanislaw Meyer, Jagiellonian University, Krakow
Panel B | Urban Intersections: Architecture, Cities and the Public Space in Japan
Mexico 206 A
Chair: Eran Neuman, Tel Aviv University
● Katachi—Osamari—Nige: Notes on the Synthesis of Form in Japanese Architecture & Design
Michael Shalem, Cambridge University
● Between Nagasaki and Tokyo: Western Influences on Architecture and Memory in Two Cities
Arie Kutz, Tel Aviv University
● Entangled Histories of Urban Modernity: Discourses on Urban Aesthetics, Memory, and Porosity in Nagai Kafū’s Hiyorigeta (Fair Weather Clogs, 1914)
Evelyn Schulz, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich
● Western Institutions, Japanese Interpretations, Global Discourses: Discussing the Public Space in Japan
Helena Grinshpun, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
● Re-reading Arata Isozaki’s East-West Polemics as an Approach to Understanding Some Propensities of Contemporary Japanese Architecture In and Out of Japan
Erez Golani Solomon, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design
17:45-18:00 Coffee break
18:00-19:00 Keynote: Michio Hayashi, Sophia University
Mexico 206 A
Chair: Ayelet Zohar, Tel Aviv University + Yale University
Japan as Far West: An Allegorical Reading of Katakana Space
19:00-22:00 Conference dinner
Wednesday, December 19th
8:00-9:00 Registration
9:00-10:00 Keynote: Michael Lucken, INALCO, Paris
Kikoïne 01
Chair: Assaf Pinkus, Tel Aviv University
Classical Greece in Japan. Why It Matters. A Postcolonial Perspective
10:00-10:15 Coffee break
10:15-11:45
Panel A | Photography and Contemporary Art: From Modernity to the Post-Modern
Mexico 212
Chair: Ayelet Zohar, Tel Aviv University + Yale University
● Images and Imaginaries: Yokohama Shashin as Production and Consumption about Japan
Moira Luraschi, Museo delle Culture (MUSEC), Lugano and Universià dell'Insubria (Como Varese)
Moira Luraschi, Museo delle Culture (MUSEC), Lugano and Universià dell'Insubria (Como Varese)
● The West in the Japanese Imagination: Riding Sacred Cows - Yasumasa Morimura’s Subversive Act of “Cultural Occupation”
Aya Louisa McDonald, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
● Complying with Iron and Irony: Different Angles on the ‘International Sculptors‘ Symposium‘ (Osaka, 1969)
Gabrielle Schaad, ETH Zurich
Panel B | Japanese Language through Cultural Perspective
Mexico 119
Chair: Mika Levy-Yamamori, Tel Aviv University
● Tokyo-Yokohama Linguistic-Landscape: A Western Replication?
Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Tel Aviv University, and Miriam Ben-Rafael, Independent Scholar
● The Japanese Communication Style from a Western Perspective: A Linguistic Comparison Between Japanese and Hebrew
Maayan Barkan, Hunter College, City University of New York
● How English Is Used to Change Japanese Social Practices and Identity
Gad Gershoni, Nagoya University
● The Japanese Language Of and About the Emperor
Ben Ami Shillony, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
12:15-14:15
Panel A | Made in Israel Japaneseness: Interaction and Images of Difference and Similarity
Mexico 212
Chair: Dalit Bloch, Tel Aviv University
● The Problem of Japanese-Jewish Historical Relationship
Hidemichi Tanaka, Tohoku University
● Okakura Tenshin and Max S. Nordau: The Outsider Critics of Western Civilization
Yiftach Har-gil, Heidelberg University
● Cultural Imagination of ‘Japaneseness’ and ‘Israeliness’: Intercultural Encounter at a Japanese Start-Up Incubator in Tel-Aviv
Tamar Shain-Paz, Tel Aviv University
Panel B | Light Bulbs, Telegraphs, and Water Closets: Western Technologies in Japan
Gilman 144
Chair: Sheldon Garon, Princeton University
● In Praise of Light: How Lighting Changed Japan
Martha Chaiklin, Hōsei University, Tokyo
● Modernity Comes with a Flush: Adaptation of Western Toilet Technology in Meiji Japan
Marta Szczygiel, Tokyo University
● Telegraph Technologies in Japan’s Struggle Against the West
Yulia Mikhailova, Hiroshima City University
● Vorsprung Durch Technik: European Influences on the Early Development of Electronic
Music in Japan (~1930-1969)
Music in Japan (~1930-1969)
Nimrod Chiat, University of Haifa
14:30-16:00 Lunch break
16:00-17:30
Panel A | The Iwakura Mission to the USA, Western Travelers in Japan
Gilman 281
Chair: Ehud Harari, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
● Learning to Expand: The Iwakura Mission and Japan’s Meiji Era Internal and Peripheral
Colonial Activity
Colonial Activity
Mark Caprio, Rikkyo University, Tokyo
● Japanese Princesses in Chicago: Representations of Japanese Women in 1870s America
Aurore Yamagata-Montoya, Mutual Images Research Association, France
● The Margaret MacLean Orihon-Format Scrapbook: A Visual Chronicle of the Russo-Japanese War
Celio Barreto, Toyal Ontario Museum, Toronto
● The Meiji Restoration Through the Eyes of a Western Woman
Giulio Antonio Bertelli, Osaka University
Panel B |Nihonga and Yōga: Western Painting in the Japanese Context
Gilman 282
Chair: Aya Louisa McDonald, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
● Negotiating Realism: Kawabata Gyokusho's Strive for Modern Japanese Painting
Kathatina Rode, Heidelberg University
● The Landscape of Furusatō: Modernity, Tradition and National Identity in Nihonga Paintings of the Taishō and Early Showa Periods (1912-1931)
Nurit Shamir, Tel Aviv University
● Between East and West: Has Nihonga Played a Role in the Construction of Japanese Identity in France During the 1920s?
Yue Yu, University of Lille and École du Louvre
Gilman 144
Chair: Liora Sarfati, Tel Aviv University
● Macrobiotic Vegan Ramen and Global Anti-Fur Demonstrations: A Special Blend of Veganism in Tokyo
Omer Cohen, Tel Aviv University
● The 'Bodyscape': Performing Cultural Encounters and Mutual Imagination in Costume Photography and Tattoo in Treaty-Port Japan
Hui Wang, Heidelberg University
● Kanji Tattoos: From Cultural Appropriation to Cultural Glorification
Guy Almog, University of Haifa
17:30-18:00 Coffee Break
18:00-19:45
Panel A | Occidentalism and Japonisme: Mutual Representations in Meiji Literature
Gilman 281
Chair: Irit Weinberg, Tel Aviv University
● "What They Saw in the Moon”: Representations of Japan in 19th Century American Children’s Poetry
Etti Gordon Ginzburg, Oranim College of Education
● Lafcadio Hearn’s Yuki-Onna, Which Many Japanese Believe to be a Japanese Folk Story
Mami Fujiwara, Yamaguchi University
● King Arthur in Japan: Natsume Sōseki and the Art of Reading
Katarzyna Sonnenberg, Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Krakow
● A Witness of Edo: Aimé Humbert’s Depiction of the Female Condition in the Illustrated Monograph Le Japon Illustré
Jessica Uldry, University of Geneva
Panel B | Ceramics, Calligraphy, and Woodblock Printing: Classical Technologies and Images in Modern Japan
Gilman 282
Chair: Yona Siderer, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
● Fortune of a Double Misunderstanding: Meiji Period Banko Ceramic for Export
Daniela Sadun, Sapienza University, Rome
● The Shokusan Kōgyō Policy through Woodblock Prints: The Yushima Seidō Exhibition of 1872 and the National Domestic Exhibition of 1877
Freya Terryn, KU Leuven, Belgium
● Conquering Korea: The Myth of Jingū Kōgō in Mass Media
Sarah Rebecca Schmid, University of Zurich
● Modernization as Rejection of Westernization? The Case of Japanese Calligraphy
Eugenia Bogdanova- Kummer, Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures, Norwich
Eugenia Bogdanova- Kummer, Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures, Norwich
Thursday, December 20th
8:00-9:00 Registration
9:00 -11:30
Panel A | Japonisme: Japan in the Western Imagination
Dan David 302
Chair: Adi Louria Hayon, Tel Aviv University
● “One will hardly find a more beautiful sight”: Japan in the Imagination of Western Artists
Judith Knippschild, Heidelberg University
● Japonisme and You: An Analysis of Contemporary Japonisme in Western Film Adaptation
Carolyn Click, University of Boulder Colorado
● Construction of Asianistic Aesthetics in the West: From Ernest Fenollosa to Post-War American Art
Mona Schrieren, University of the Arts, Bremen
● "Flirting with the Exotic": Exoticism Not Just in the 19th Century
Yael Burstein, Tel Aviv University
● Reception of Japanese Art and Culture in Central Europe in the Turn of the 19th Century
Filip Suchomel, Academy of the Performing Arts, Prague
Panel B | Images of Race: Against and Within Japan
Dan David 303
Dan David 303
Chair: Nissim Otmazgin, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
● Mutual Images of the “Home Front” in Japan and Europe: What Is the Impact of Transnational Imagination?
Sheldon Garon, Princeton University
● “Happy Cherry Blossoms to You Please”: An Examination of Anti-Japanese Rhetoric Within American Cartoons, Comics and Comedy Between 1942 and 2018
Adrian Manning, National University, California
● The Evolution of Visuality: The First Three Centuries of European Physical Depiction of of the Japanese
Rotem Kowner, University of Haifa
● A Japanese Anomaly: The Racial Identity of Japan at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Tarik Merida, Freie Universität, Berlin
● The 100th Anniversary of Japan's Proposal for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination: Viewing the Truth about Modern History through the Prism of Japan's Pioneering Endavor
Eiji Yamashita, Osaka City University
11:45-12:15 Coffee break
12:15-13:45
Panel A | Masculinities, Medievalism and Empire: Science Fiction in Japan
Dan David 303
Chair: Hagar Yanai, Author, Tel Aviv
● Reshaping Our Contemporary Imagination with Japanese Neomedievalism
Maxime Danesin, François-Rablais University
● Science Fiction in the Imperialistic Age
Michal Daliot-Bul , University of Haifa
● The Japanese Struggle against Orphanhood in the Anime Adaptations of Heidi and Anne on the Green Gables
Raz Greenberg, Tel Aviv University
Panel B | First Encounters: Portugese and Dutch in Japan, 16-19th C.
Dan David 302
Dan David 302
Chair: Irit Averbuch, Tel Aviv University
● Fire the Cannons and Raise the Flags: Dutch Traders as Symbols of Edo Period Nagasaki
Harrison Schley, University of Pennsylvania
● The Japanese: Early Western Conceptions 1543–1639
Michael Lee, Heidelberg University
13:45-15:15 Lunch break
15:15-17:00
Panel A | Modern Literature, Poetry and Manga: Reality and Imagination
Dan David 302
Chair: Michal Daliot Bul, University of Haifa
● Poet in a Double Bind: Tsujii Takashi and the Lost Tradition
Murakami Akira, Akita University
● Interpretation Overcoming Translation in Fear and Trembling by Amélie Nothomb
Nurit Buchweitz, Beit Berl College
● Sword, Body, and Death: Mishima Yukio’s Representation of Nihon-rashi-sa, or the Japanese Spirits
Fengyu Wang, Heidelberg University
Panel B | Butterflies and Cranes: The Opera between Noh, Kabuki, and Takarazuka
Dan David 303
Chair: Ofer Gazit, Tel Aviv University
● Opera’s Noh
Michal Grover Friedlander, Tel Aviv University
● Japanese “Voice” for Western Traditional Music: Focusing on Dan Ikuma’s Operas
Arisa Tachi, Waseda University and Tokyo University of Arts
● Japanese Operas Ochitaru Tennyo (The Fallen Celestial Maiden) and Yūzuru (Twilight
Crane): Their Similarity to Stéphane Mallarmé’s L'Après-midi d'un faune and Richard
Wagner’s Lohengrin
Crane): Their Similarity to Stéphane Mallarmé’s L'Après-midi d'un faune and Richard
Wagner’s Lohengrin
Shizuo Ogino, Waseda University
● The West in Kabuki / Kabuki for the West
Galia Todorova Petkova, International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken)
Galia Todorova Petkova, International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken)
17:00-17:30 Coffee break
17:30-18:30 Keynote: Arthur Groos, Cornell University
Kikoïne 01
Chair: Michal Grover Friedlander, Tel Aviv University
Japan in Madama Butterfly / Madama Butterfly in Japan
18:30-19:30 Round Table: From Meiji to Heisei: Japan in the Post-Modern World
Kikoïne 01
Moderator: Reut Harari, Tel Aviv University
Sigal Ben-Rafael Galanti, Political Science, Beit Berl College
Dalit Bloch, East-Asian Studies and Cultural Research, Tel Aviv University
Eugenia Bogdanova-Kummer, Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures, Norwich
Eugenia Bogdanova-Kummer, Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures, Norwich
Michal Daliot Bul, East-Asian Studies, University of Haifa
Mami Fujiwara, Faculty of Global and Science Studies, Yamaguchi University
Ofra Goldstein-Gidoni, East Asian Studies and Anthropology & Sociology, Tel Aviv University
Aya Louisa McDonald, Art History, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Yoshimi Miyake-Loh, Graduate School of International Resource Sciences, Akita University
Evelyn Shulz, Japan Center, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich
Mika Levy-Yamamori, East Asian Studies, Tel Aviv University
Evelyn Shulz, Japan Center, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich
Mika Levy-Yamamori, East Asian Studies, Tel Aviv University
Ayelet Zohar, Art History, Tel Aviv University + History of Art and CEAS, Yale University
