Treasures from Japan: An International Conference on Pre-Modern Books and
Manuscripts in the Yale University Library (March 5-6, 2015)
Day 1—Thursday, March 5, 2015
1pm General Welcome
Daniel Botsman (Yale University)
E.C. Schroeder (Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscript Library, Yale University)
1:30- 3:00 pm On the Origins of the Yale Collections
Chair: Ellen Hammond (Yale University)
Kondō Shigekazu (University of Tokyo), 「イェール大学の所蔵する日本関連資料
について」 (“Regarding the Japanese Collections at Yale University” )
(Presentation in Japanese)
Masui Yukimi (Keiai University), “Building a Collection: Asakawa in Japan, 19171919”
William Fleming (Yale University), “How Yale Built America’s First Major Japanese
Library Collection: The Forgotten Story, 1869-1878.”
Discussant: Henry D. Smith III (Columbia University)
3:00-3:30pm Break
3:30–4:45pm Yale and Yoshida Shōin
Chair: Greg Pflugfelder (Columbia University)
Tao De-min (Kansai University), “The Role of Kanbun in the Opening of Japan:
Shōin’s Petitions Kept by Perry’s First Interpreter, Samuel Wells Williams”
Daniel Botsman, “Shōin’s Executioner: The Records of Yamada Asaemon”
Discussant: Anne Walthall (University of California, Irvine)
5:15- 6-30 Keynote
Introduction: Edward Kamens (Yale University)
Peter Kornicki (Cambridge University), “Jellyfish and Ginger: Medical Books and the
Abandonment of Movable Type in the Early Edo Period” (海月と生薑 - 江戸
初期の医学書出版と活字印刷の衰退)
6:30pm – Reception (with brief remarks by Susan Gibbons, University Librarian,
Yale University)
Day 2—Friday, March 6, 2015
9:00- 10:15am Windows on the Medieval Court
Chair: David Spafford (Pennsylvania University)
Nishita Tomohiro (University of Tokyo), 「元徳二年後宇多院七回忌曼荼羅供記」
の周辺」 (“Records of the Mandaraku Commemorating the Anniversary of
Retired Emperor Go-Uda’s Death, 1330”) (Japanese)
Ebara Masaharu (University of Tokyo),「平氏文書」について (“On the ‘Heishi
monjo’” ) (Japanese)
Discussant: Thomas Conlan (Princeton University )
10:15-10:45am Break
10:45-12:00 Art in the Library—Poetry, Painting and Printing
Chair: Laura Moretti (Cambridge University)
Edward Kamens, “Eight Views of Ōmi”
Suzuki Jun (National Institute for Japanese Literature), 「『石燕画譜』と拭きぼか
し」(“Shading techniques in ‘Sekien Gafu’” ) (Japanese)
Discussants: Andy Watsky (Princeton University) and Matthew Fraleigh (Brandeis)
12:00-1:30pm Lunch
1:30 – 3:00pm Cities, Merchants and Earthquakes: The Edo Period
Chair: Fabian Drixler (Yale University)
Sugimori Reiko (University of Tokyo), “A Collection of Records from the Narazaki
Family”
Daniel Botsman, “The Kyōto Komonjo Scroll: Imagining a Commoner Triumph”
Satō Takayuki (University of Tokyo)、「イェール大学バイネキ図書館所蔵の地震
史料について―安政江戸地震「なゐ記」を中心に―」(“Records of the the
Great Ansei Earthquake from the Beinecke Library—Focusing on the Naiki”)
(Japanese)
Discussant: Amy Stanley (Northwestern University)
3:15-3:45pm Break (with coffee)
3:45 – 5:15pm Roundtable: “Pre-modern Rare Book and Manuscript
Collections—The Future of Stewardship”
Chair: Haruko Nakamura (Yale University)
Kurushima Noriko (Director, Historiographical Institute, University of Tokyo)
(Japanese)
Imanishi Yūichiro (Director-General, National Institute for Japanese Literature,
National Institutes for the Humanities) (Japanese)
E. C. Schroeder (Director, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale
University)
Discussant: Ellen Hammond
5:15pm Closing Remarks
Ishigami Eiichi (Professor Emeritus, University of Tokyo; Former Director of the
Historiographical Institute, University of Tokyo; Former Executive Director of
the National Institutes for the Humanities) (Japanese)
Edward Kamens