{"id":17184,"date":"2026-06-29T19:23:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T10:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/flas\/rilas\/?p=17184"},"modified":"2026-06-29T19:23:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T10:23:46","slug":"%e3%80%90%e9%96%8b%e5%82%ac%e5%a0%b1%e5%91%8a%e3%80%91%e3%83%ac%e3%82%a4%e3%83%81%e3%82%a7%e3%83%ab%e3%83%bb%e3%82%b5%e3%83%b3%e3%83%80%e3%83%bc%e3%82%ba%e6%95%99%e6%8e%88%e8%ac%9b%e6%bc%94%e4%bc%9a-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/flas\/rilas\/news-en\/2026\/06\/29\/17184\/","title":{"rendered":"\u3010Event Report\u3011Dr. Daniel Poch (University of Hong Kong) Public Lecture\uff5c “Sexuality and Aesthetic Knowledge in Mori \u014cgai\u2019s Literary Fiction”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr. Daniel Poch (University of Hong Kong) Public Lecture<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n

“Sexuality and Aesthetic Knowledge in Mori \u014cgai\u2019s Literary Fiction”<\/h1>\n

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Event Report<\/h3>\n

Speaker<\/strong>: Dr. Daniel Poch (University of Hong Kong)
\nTitle<\/strong>: Sexuality and Aesthetic Knowledge in Mori \u014cgai\u2019s Literary Fiction
\nDate<\/strong>: Thursday, June 25, 2026
\nAttendees<\/strong>: 19<\/p>\n

Professor Daniel Poch presented his research on the role of medical and philosophical discourses on gender and sexology in the literary works of Mori \u014cgai (1862-1922). Through an analysis of the novels Vita Sexualis<\/i>\u00a0(1909) and Seinen<\/i>\u00a0(1910), Professor Poch traced the development of two different models of male artistic creativity in \u014cgai\u2019s work: one imagined as a distant sterile observer, built on a suppression of desire, the other expressed as an androgynous being that is able to explore the creative potential of abnormal character (in the medical sense of the time).<\/p>\n

In the second half of his lecture, Professor Daniel Poch introduced a provocative reading of the literary works of Mori Shige (1880-1936), interpreting her stories \u201cHaran\u201d (1909), \u201cAdabana\u201d (1910), \u201cSan\u201d (1910), \u201cOhama\u201d (1910), and \u201cOkoisan\u201d (1912) as feminist critiques of her husband\u2019s fantasies about male creativity.<\/p>\n

The event was capped by a lively conversation between speaker and audience about the interplay of Japanese and Western models for understanding same-sex desire in Meiji Japan, the relationships of \u014cgai and Shige with their contemporary feminist movement, the role of ideas of authenticity and self-representation in Japanese literature of the early 20th century, and many other related topics.<\/p>\n

Organizer<\/h3>\n

Waseda University Research Institute for Letters, Arts and Sciences
\nRyusaku Tsunoda Center of Japanese Culture
\nSGU Global Japanese Studies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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