OPENING ACTIVITIES

Friday, November 10, 5:00-7:30 pm

5:00-6:00 pm
MultiCultural Center Theater, University Center:
Traditional Japanese Musical Performance Featuring Masakazu Yoshizawa on the shakuhachi (a vertical bamboo flute) and Hiromi Hashibe on the koto (a 13-string zither)
Co-sponsored by the MultiCultural Center

6:00-7:30 pm
Reception to follow in the Museum

LECTURE

Tuesday, November 28, 5:00 pm

Haiga and Surimono: Life's Little Pleasures in Playful Verse-Pictures

MultiCultural Center Theater, University Center
John Carpenter, Independent Scholar of Japanese Cultural History, New York

CONFERENCE

Saturday, December 2, 9:30 am-12:30 pm

Intersecting Cultures of Edo Japan

A half-day conference addressing the connections between the visual arts, literature, and theater of 18th-19th-century Japan.

MultiCultural Center Theater, University Center
Moderator and Discussant: John Nathan, Professor and Koichi Takashima Chair of Japanese Cultural Studies, East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies Program, UCSB

Presentations:

Edo Society: Where the Arts were Made
Luke Roberts, Assistant Professor, Department of History, UCSB Edo Society

Creative Spaces: Salon Cultures of Edo
Haruko Iwasaki, Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies Program, UCSB

Interactions: The Kabuki and Haikai Worlds
Katherine Saltzman-Li, Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies Program, UCSB

Painting Poetry: Some Text and Image Relationships
Ken Brown, Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, University of Southern California

Zangetsu (The Setting Moon): A Musical Masterpiece of Early 19th-Century Japan
Joseph Lam, Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies Program, UCSB

PICTURING POETRY EVENTS

Artist's Lecture
Tuesday, November 14, 12:15 pm
Sedgwick Gallery, University Art Museum:
Treasured Miniatures: Contemporary Netsuke
Armin Muller

Film Screening
Thursday, November 16, 7:00 pm
Campbell Hall:
Utamaro and His Five Women (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1946, 95 minutes) Co-sponsored by Arts & Lectures, UCSB Free

Gala
Saturday, November 18, 6:30 pm
University Art Museum and UCSB Faculty Club: Legends of Rakuen
An evening of Japanese cuisine, performance and wonders
Hosted by the University Museum Council
For invitations or ticket information please call (805) 893-2951

Videos will be screened continuously in the Sedgwick Gallery