{"id":1808,"date":"2018-04-27T23:44:59","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T14:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/flas\/gjs\/?p=1808"},"modified":"2021-05-23T23:45:59","modified_gmt":"2021-05-23T14:45:59","slug":"columbia-waseda-co-hosted-the-international-workshopjapanese-theater-publishing-culture-and-authorship-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/flas\/gjs\/news-en\/1808","title":{"rendered":"Columbia &amp; Waseda co-hosted the International Workshop:\u201cJapanese Theater, Publishing Culture, and Authorship\u201d-Report-"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">2018 The International Workshop -Columbia University<br \/>\n\u201cJapanese Theater, Publishing Culture, and Authorship\u201d<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>March 2 (Friday), 2018, 2:00 PM \u2013 5:00 PM<br \/>\nMarch 3 (Saturday), 2018, 9:30 AM \u2013 1:00 PM<br \/>\n403 Kent Hall, Columbia University, New York City<\/p>\n<p>Sponsors:<br \/>\nDepartment of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University<br \/>\nDonald Keene Center of Japanese Culture, Columbia University<br \/>\nGlobal Japanese Studies Model Unit, Waseda University \u2013 Top Global University Project (MEXT)<br \/>\nRyusaku Tsunoda Center for Japanese Culture, Waseda University<\/p>\n<p>Presenters\uff1a<br \/>\nRy\u016bichi Kodama (Waseda University)<br \/>\nHaruo Shirane (Columbia University)<br \/>\nTomi Suzuki (Columbia University)<br \/>\nMikio Takemoto (Waseda University)<br \/>\nMisa Umetada (Waseda University)<\/p>\n<p>Discussants\uff1a<br \/>\nLewis Cook (Queens College of the City University of New York)<br \/>\nKazuaki Komine (Waseda University)<br \/>\nSung-si Lee (Waseda University)<br \/>\nMo Li (Columbia University)<br \/>\nYuika Kitamura (Kobe University)<br \/>\nSatoko Shimazaki (University of Southern California)<br \/>\nShiho Takai (Waseda University)<\/p>\n<p>Organizers\uff1a<br \/>\nHaruo Shirane (Columbia University)<br \/>\nTomi Suzuki (Columbia University)<br \/>\nHirokazu Toeda (Waseda University)<\/p>\n<p>Closing Remarks\uff1a<br \/>\nSung-si Lee (Waseda University)<\/p>\n<p>In the premodern and early modern periods when cultural production often emerges out of imitation, reference, borrowing, adaptation, and collaborative works, how can we think of the issues of authorship and ownership? This workshop rethinks the notion of the \u201cauthor\u201d by moving away from an author-centric model to consider collective and collaborative production, especially, theater, performance, and their publications. This workshop follows up on the earlier symposium \u201cRethinking Authorship in Japan and the World\u201d (March 2017).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3393\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/assets\/uploads\/2018\/04\/DSC04280-940x705.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"435\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Friday, March 2, 2018<br \/>\n2:00 PM \u2013 5:00 PM<\/p>\n<p><strong>Session 1. Writing, Performance, and Transmission: Rethinking Authorship in Comparative Context<\/strong><br \/>\n2:10 PM \u2013 3:30 PM<br \/>\nPresenter: Haruo Shirane (Columbia University) [in English]<br \/>\nRespondent: Kazuaki Komine (Waseda University)<br \/>\nDiscussants: Mikio Takemoto (Waseda University), Ry\u016bichi Kodama (Waseda University), Lewis Cook (Queens College of the City University of New York)<\/p>\n<p>In the first session, Haruo Shirane gave a dynamic presentation on meanings of authorship and authorial functions in premodern Japan as highly dependent on genre, media, social status, and social organization. Key concepts included the necessity of authors in high genres (such as <em>waka<\/em>) versus low genres (such as <em>monogatari<\/em>), the centrality of copying and borrowing as pedagogical tools and key modes of production in East Asian culture, and the blurry boundary between authors and readers in Japanese participatory culture from premodern <em>waka<\/em> to contemporary <em>manga<\/em>. Respondent, Kazuaki Komine, emphasized the importance of Shirane&#8217;s discussion of authorship in Japan&#8217;s \u201cparticipatory culture.\u201d By rethinking authorship from the point of view of \u201cparticipatory culture,\u201d the genres that were considered secondary, such as <em>monogatari<\/em>, <em>setsuwa<\/em>, and performative genres, can be reevaluated. Discussants, Mikio Takemoto and Ry\u016bichi Kodama added some comments from their specialties, noh and kabuki. Kodama emphasized the importance of images in monumentalizing events. Lewis Cook clarified that events do not have to be repeated in order to become monumental. Open discussion followed, including the role of the texts and patrons in monumentalizing events.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Session 2. Noh Theater and Authorship<\/strong><br \/>\n3:45 PM \u2013 5:00 PM<br \/>\nPresenter: Mikio Takemoto (Waseda University)<br \/>\nDiscussants: Kazuaki Komine, Ry\u016bichi Kodama, Haruo Shirane<\/p>\n<p>In the second session, Mikio Takemoto discussed authorship in noh from various aspects \u2013 the historical development of modern scholarship of noh authors, premodern interests in identification of noh authors, and production-related issues, such as rewritings \u2013 while examining various historical documents. Discussants Kazuaki Komine, Ry\u016bichi Kodama, and Haruo Shirane pointed out some recurring issues and extrapolated some important aspects in considering noh theater and authorship, such as the deification of Zeami and the ie system, the roles Westerners played in \u201cdiscovering\u201d literary quality in noh plays and the development of noh studies in Japan, and the question of the relationship between amateur performers and professional performers. Open discussion followed, including how noh plays were performed during the time of Zeami.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday, March 3, 2018<br \/>\n9:30 AM \u2013 1:00 PM<\/p>\n<p><strong>Session 3. Kabuki and Authorship<\/strong><br \/>\n9:30 AM \u2013 11:30 AM<br \/>\nPresenter: Ry\u016bichi Kodama (Waseda University)<br \/>\nPresenter: Misa Umetada (Waseda University)<br \/>\nDiscussants: Mo Li (Columbia University), Satoko Shimazaki (University of Southern California), Shiho Takai (Waseda University)<\/p>\n<p>In the third session, Ry\u016bichi Kodama and Misa Umetada presented on authorship and <em>kabuki<\/em>. First, Kodama presented on the treatment of \u201cauthors\u201d in <em>kabuki<\/em> in a larger context, including the relationship between authors and actors and the issue of co-authorship and anonymity in <em>kabuki<\/em> and <em>j\u014druri<\/em>. Umetada discussed how late Edo to early Meiji <em>kabuki<\/em> author Kawatake Mokuami dealt with the new concept of authorship by examining concrete examples of copyright registrations and court trials of copyright disputes. The discussants, Mo Li, Satoko Shimazaki, and Shiho Takai commented on some issues, including the meaning of identifying and emphasizing a particular author in co-authored plays. Open discussion followed, considering issues of kabuki authors&#8217; anonymity and uniqueness, modern copyright law and the sense of authorship in kabuki, and the acknowledgement of authors in contemporary kabuki performances.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Session 4. Modern Authorship in Comparative Context<\/strong><br \/>\n11:45 AM \u2013 12:45 PM<br \/>\nPresenter: Tomi Suzuki (Columbia University)<br \/>\nDiscussants: Yuika Kitamura (Kobe University)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3394 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/assets\/uploads\/2018\/04\/DSC04352-940x705.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"439\" height=\"329\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the forth session, Tomi Suzuki discussed how the issues of \u201cauthors\u201d in modern Japan emerged in close relationship with the introduction and institutionalization of the modern Western notions of literature, through examining a wide range of aspects such as publishing culture, small coterie magazines, higher education, and Japan&#8217;s joining the Berne Convention (the basis of today&#8217;s international copyright laws). Following the presentation, the discussants and participants discussed issues such as the concept of \u201c<em>bung\u014d<\/em> (literary masters)\u201d and the separation of the terms \u201c<em>hon&#8217;yaku<\/em> (translation)\u201d and \u201c<em>hon&#8217;an<\/em> (adaptation),\u201d and how translation and adaptation are also creative processes essential in participatory culture.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Closing Remarks<\/strong><br \/>\n12:45 PM \u2013 1:00 PM<br \/>\nSung-si Lee (Waseda University)<\/p>\n<p>In closing remarks, Sung-si Lee emphasized the importance of the mechanics of participatory culture, which are not only applicable to classical Japanese performances, but also useful in analyzing modern media. Lee also introduced some examples of participatory culture in other East Asian countries, and suggested the possibility of discussing participatory culture and authorship in the comparative context of East Asia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2018 The International Workshop -Columbia University \u201cJapanese Theater, Publishing Culture, and Authorship\u201d &#038;n [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1809,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[113],"class_list":["post-1808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","tag-event_report-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/flas\/gjs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/flas\/gjs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/flas\/gjs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/flas\/gjs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/flas\/gjs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/flas\/gjs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1810,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/flas\/gjs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808\/revisions\/1810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/flas\/gjs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/flas\/gjs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/flas\/gjs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/flas\/gjs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}