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URL:https://1718.ucla.edu/events/open-edo3/
SUMMARY:Open Edo: Diverse\, Ecological\, and Global Perspectives on Japanes
 e Art\, 1603–1868\, Conference 3: Edo Outsiders: Ainu and Ryūkyūan Art
DESCRIPTION:Conference organized by Kristopher W. Kersey\, University of Ca
 lifornia\, Los Angeles\n\nTo this day\, many mistake Japan for a culturall
 y homogenous society\, yet this nationalistic myth is far from the truth. 
 In an effort to underscore the diversity of early modern Japan\, this conf
 erence will direct attention to two groups who are often marginalized if n
 ot absent in narratives of early modern Japanese art. To the south are the
  Ryūkyūans\, whose Kingdom of Ryūkyū was reduced in the Edo period to 
 a vassal state. To the north are the Ainu\, an indigenous society progress
 ively dispossessed of its lands throughout Japanese history. Recent annive
 rsaries—the 150th anniversary of settler colonialism in Hokkaidō and th
 e fiftieth anniversary of the reversion of the Ryūkyūs from the USA to J
 apan—have brought renewed critical attention to the art of these two gro
 ups. While much scholarship on Ryūkyūan and Ainu art has focused on mode
 rnity\, this conference seeks to shift the focus deeper in the archive\, t
 o the seventeenth to eighteenth centuries.\n\nSpeakers\nMonika Bincsik\, T
 he Metropolitan Museum of Art\nKatsuya Hirano\, University of California\,
  Los Angeles\nHeeyeun Kang\, University of California\, Los Angeles\nFuyub
 i Nakamura\, The University of British Columbia\nSetsuko Nitta\, Okinawa P
 refectural University of Arts\nChristina M. Spiker\, St. Olaf College\nEri
 ko Tomizawa-Kay\, University of East Anglia and University of Michigan\n\n
 \n\nAbout Open Edo: Diverse\, Ecological\, and Global Perspectives on Japa
 nese Art\, 1603–1868\nThe art of Japan’s Edo period (1603–1868) pres
 ents a paradox. On the one hand\, the nineteenth-century proliferation of 
 ukiyo-e—polychrome woodblock prints of the “floating words” of theat
 er and sex work—made the popular visual culture of this city a familiar 
 component of modern art in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Yet the
  outsize fascination with ukiyo-e outside Japan has sorely obscured Edo’
 s far more diverse social\, material\, and artistic landscapes. In an effo
 rt to countervail the enduring stereotypes of early modern Japanese art\, 
 Open Edo will present a suite of conferences addressing three interlinked 
 themes: the representation and agency of marginalized groups\, the ecologi
 cal horizons of artistic production\, and the ongoing need to counter the 
 myth that Japan in early modernity was somehow disconnected from the rest 
 of the world. Throughout the year-long series\, the focus will be both his
 torical and historiographical inasmuch as Open Edo asks how Japanese art h
 istory might challenge the discourse of early modernity writ large.\n\n\n\
 nProgram Schedule\n\n9:30 a.m.\nMorning Coffee and Registration\n\n10:00 a
 .m.\nDirector’s Welcome\nBronwen Wilson\, University of California\, Los
  Angeles\n\nOpening Remarks\nKristopher W. Kersey\, University of Californ
 ia\, Los Angeles\n\n10:15 a.m.\nPanel 1: Ainu Material and Visual Cultures
 : History\, Materiality\, and Practice\nModerator: Julia H. Clark\, Univer
 sity of California\, Los Angeles\n\nChristina M. Spiker\, St. Olaf College
 \n“Carving Identity: Early Ainu Woodcarving\, Cultural Revitalization\, 
 and the Patchwork of History”\n\n10:45 a.m.\nFuyubi Nakamura\, The Unive
 rsity of British Columbia\n“Art and Sinuye with Ainu Artist Mayunkiki”
 \n\n11:15 a.m.\nKatsuya Hirano\, University of California\, Los Angeles\n
 “The Eye of Kelp: Ainu-Japanese Trade and the Formation of a Culinary Cu
 lture in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries”\n\n11:45 a.m.\nDiscuss
 ion\n\n12:15 p.m.\nLunch\nDisplay of Clark Library materials in the North 
 Book Room\n\n1:15 p.m.\nPanel 2: The Circulation and Dynamism of Ryūkyūa
 n Textiles and Lacquerware\nModerator: Kristopher W. Kersey\, University o
 f California\, Los Angeles\n\nSetsuko Nitta\, Okinawa Prefectural Universi
 ty of Arts\n“The Dyeing in Ryūkyū: The Relationship with Overseas”\n
 \n1:45 p.m.\nMonika Bincsik\, The Metropolitan Museum of Art\n“Lacquer A
 rt at the Crossroads: Ryūkyū Ware”\n\n2:15 p.m.\nDiscussion\n\n2:45 p.
 m.\nCoffee break\n\n3:15 p.m.\nPanel 3: Ryūkyūan Painting: Heritage\, Af
 terlives\, and Restorations\nModerator: Rika Hiro\, Los Angeles County Mus
 eum of Art\n\nEriko Tomizawa-Kay\, University of East Anglia and Universit
 y of Michigan\n"Tracing the Artistic Heritage: The Development of Ryūkyū
 an Painting from the Seventeenth to the Early Eighteenth Century"\n\n3:45 
 p.m.\nHeeyeun Kang\, University of California\, Los Angeles\n“Ryūkyū R
 oyal Portraits: Restoring and Contextualizing Lost Ryūkyū Art”\n\n4:15
  p.m.\nDiscussion\n\n4:45 p.m.\nBreak\n\n5:00 p.m.\nPlenary Discussion (al
 l speakers and moderators)\n\n5:30 p.m.\nReception\n\n\n\nThe conference i
 s free to attend with advance registration\, and will be held in-person at
  the Clark Library. Registration will close on Monday\, April 15 at 5:00 p
 .m. Seating is limited at the Clark Library\; walk-in registrants are welc
 ome as space permits.\nLoading…\n\n\n\nImage: Panoramic Map of the Tōka
 idō Highway. Shōtei Kinsui\, drawn by Kuwagata (better known as Keisai).
  Published by Sanoya Ichigorō\, Izumiya Hanbei\, and Izumoji Manjirō\, n
 .d. (likely 1810). Polychrome xylography\, 52 x 24 inches. Richard C. Rudo
 lph Collection of Japanese Maps\, Special Collections\, UCLA Library.
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