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Kachōga 花鳥画:
Picturing Other-than-Human Being in Japanese Painting

概要

Kachōga 花鳥画(bird-and-flower) painting has been the victim in different times and places of both “plant blindness” and the amnesiac agendas of colonial appropriation. This talk examines the bird-and-flower paintings of Edo Rinpa artist Sakai Hōitsu 酒井抱一 (1761–1829) to ask how, in this visually charismatic and explicitly linguistically mediated mode of painting, memory co-habits with botany, and what it can disclose about hope as an efficacious mode of art historical being. Through interdisciplinary close-looking with scientists and poets, it examines what the history of Japanese painting can reveal about the perceptual plasticity of bird-and-flower to burnish novel states of attention. It takes seriously both the bird’s eye and the bug’s eye view, and the potential inherent in our apprehension of bird-and-flower as an active poetics of intersubjectivity with the capacity to generate modes of change critical to the evolution of human being in our own moment.

開催概要

Date and Time: January 16(Friday), 2026. 5:00-6:30 pm.
Location: Building 36/Room#382
Toyama-Campus, Waseda University
*In-Person, in English

日時：1月16日（金）17:00～18:30
場所：早稲田大学戸山キャンパス36号館382教室（対面での開催）
言語：講演は英語、質疑応答は日本語・英語

講演者・司会

講演者：レイチェル・サンダーズ／Rachel Saunders（米国・プリンストン大学助教授／Assistant Professor of Japanese Art History, Princeton University）
司会：山本聡美／Satomi Yamamoto（早稲田大学文学学術院・教授／Professor, Waseda University, Faculty of Letters, Arts and Sciences）

主催者等情報

主催：早稲田大学総合人文科学研究センター 角田柳作記念国際日本学研究所、SGU国際日本学拠点