早稲田大学美術史学会主催 / 総合人文科学研究センター「イメージ文化史」部門共催
テルアビブ大学（イスラエル）准教授 Ayelet Zohar氏講演会
Between Foreignness and Indigeneity:
Representations of the Ainu in Japanese Photography
in the Meiji period (1868-1912)
明治期の写真におけるアイヌの表象
日時：2023年７月５日(水）17:00 -18:40
会場：早稲田大学 戸山キャンパス 33号館 333教室
使用言語：英語（必要に応じて日本語も使用）
入場無料 事前登録不要
The presentation will consider photographic representations of the Ainu starting from the early photographs available to us, by Tamoto Kenzō (田本建造 1832-1912), and Raimund von Stillfried (1839-1911), from the early stages of the kaitaku process in Hokkaidō. The annexation of the territory was one of the first steps by the Japanese government immediately after the Meiji restoration, with a decision to make Hokkaidō Japan’s testing ground for Modernity. This process entailed the deprivation of the Ainu, deportation from villages and settlement, forced labor in road building and mining, and forbidding practices of their language and culture. The talk shall analyze photographs taken over the Meiji period, showing the deteriorating conditions of the Ainu group under the Meiji goverment. Since in recent years, a new link was established between the Ainu and the Jōmon culture, it seems that the perception of the Ainu as a foreign group is replaced by an understanding of the Ainu as one of the indigenous groups of the Japanese islands. Hence, new laws were constituted for restoring Ainu’s place in Japan’s ethnological history.
