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Method of East Asian Classical Studies, 16th Seminar
Reading Torquil Duthie’s Man'yōshū and the Imperial Imagination in Early Japan: Narration and the ‘Self’ in Manyoshu

Date
14:00, Thursday, August 20, 2015
Venue
Collaboration Room 4, Building 18, University of Tokyo Komaba Campus
Speaker
Torquil Duthie (University of California, Los Angeles)

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Summary

We will be joined by Torquil Duthie, Associate Professor at UCLA, and together will discuss his book Man'yōshū and the Imperial Imagination in Early Japan. Language: Japanese. No registration required.

○Discussants:
・KANAZAWA Hideyuki (Hokkaido University)
・SAITO Mareshi (University of Tokyo)
・SHINADA Yoshikazu (University of Tokyo)
・FUKUDA Takeshi (University of Tokyo)

○Torquil Duthie’s Profile
Associate Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research focuses on ancient Japanese literature, and in particular, representations of imperial power in waka collections such as Manyoshu and in histories such as Nihon shoki and Kojiki. Recently, his research has expanded to include examinations of the relations among literary representation, rites, and the writing of historical narratives.

Host

KAKENHI Program “The Creation of a Next-Generation Hub for East Asian Classical Studies: Accelerating Research and Education through International Collaboration”