Sōtatsu in Washington: Insights, Discoveries, and Reflections
Freer, Meyer Auditorium
Saturday, October 24, 10 am-5 pm
Program:
- Julian Raby, Welcome Remarks
- James T. Ulak, Introductory Remarks: Why Sōtatsu? Why Here?
- Yukio Lippit, Sōtatsu: Five Perspectives
- Okudaira Shunroku, Keeping Score: The Memory of Sōtatsu’s Vision
- Nakamachi Keiko Charles Lang, Miraculous Waters: Expression and Meaning in the Waves at Matsushima
- James T. Ulak, Freer and the “Discovery” of Kōetsu and Sōtatsu
- Furuta Ryō, Sōtatsu in the 20th Century
Sōtatsu’s Times: Perspectives on the Culture and Politics of Kyoto
Freer, Meyer Auditorium
Saturday, December 5, 10 am-5 pm
Program
- 10–10:30 am: Coffee in the Freer Conference Room
- 10:30–10:45 am: Welcome
- Yukio Lippit, Harvard University
- James Ulak, Freer|Sackler
- 10:45 am–1:00 pm: Presentations
- Mary Elizabeth Berry, University of California, Berkeley, “It Was the Best of Times to Be an Artist”
- Morgan Pitelka, Carolina Asia Center and University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, “The Arts of Reinvention: Kyoto Culture in the Early Seventeenth Century”
- Jacqueline I. Stone, Princeton University, “Sōtatsu, Kōetsu, and the Lotus Sūtra: The Religious World of the Kyoto Townspeople”
- 1:00–2:30 pm: Lunch break
- 2:30–4:00 pm: Presentations
- Tomoko Sakomura, Swarthmore College, “Sōtatsu and the Art of Mix and Match”
- Joshua S. Mostow, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, “Sōtatsu and Tales of Ise (Ise monogatari)”
- 4 pm: Round table discussion
- 5 pm: Program concludes
