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LECTURE TITLE

日本文化理解のキ ―ワード「月次（つきなみ）」ー短詩形文芸が教養化する歴史的背景

"Tsukinami as a Keyword in Japanese Culture: The Historical Context Cultivated by the Literary Arts of Short Poetic Forms”

LECTURE ABSTRACT

19世紀、「和歌」のコミカルなバリエーションである「狂歌（きょうか）」は出版文化の興隆を背景に日本全体に同好者を拡大する。その基盤となった組織（「連（れん）」）の構造、日常的な学習活動、書籍出版との連携を論じ、文化史的意義を論じる。

With the expansion of publishing culture in nineteenth-century Japan, the comical variant of waka poetry known as kyōka (‘crazy poems’) expanded to attract devotees across the country. Exploring the cultural significance of this form, this lecture will explore the structure of ren (the associations that provided the foundation of the movement), its everyday pedagogies, publishing practices and collaborative networks.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

TAKAHASHI Akinori is a Professor Emeritus in the Graduate School of Arts and Letters at Tōhoku University in Sendai, Japan. A specialist in the intellectual and cultural history of early modern Japan, he has published widely on topics including kyōka (comic 'crazy poems'), regional intellectual history, and the possibilities for new kinds of scholarly archives. He is the author of Edo no tenkinzoku: Daikansho tedai no sekai (The Itinerants of Edo: The World of the Local Magistrate Clerk; Kōdansha, 2007).

RELATED EVENTS

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Takahashi Akinori Lecture