Japanese Book History and Digital Humanities Workshop
Registration
Please register at the link above to attend the keynote lecture and/or any of the sessions, as space is limited.
Date & Location
Sterling Memorial Library Lecture Hall, Yale University
August 20–21, 2026
Language of Workshop
The conference keynote and session 1 will be in English. The remainder of the conference will be in Japanese.
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Thursday, August 20th |
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| 8:30am | Breakfast | |
| Keynote Lecture (in English) | ||
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10:00 am |
Opening Remarks |
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10:10 am |
KITAMOTO Asanobu, National Institute of Informatics |
Reviving the Saga-bon: Computational Analysis and Public Humanities for 17th-Century Japanese Movable Type |
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11:30 am |
Break |
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| Session 1: Preservation and Regeneration (in English) | ||
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11:40 am |
Suyoung Son, |
Bookworms and the East Asian Book 紙魚と東アジアの書物 |
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12:00 pm |
NAGATA Kazuya, |
An Inheritor of the Gesaku Tradition 戯作の継承者 |
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12:40 pm |
Lunch |
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| Session 2: Early Movable Type (in Japanese) | ||
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1:30 pm |
KOAKIMOTO Dan, |
嵯峨本における活字の運用について On the Operation of Movable Type in Saga-bon Publications (Pre-Recorded Presentation) |
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1:50 pm |
KIGOSHI Shunsuke, |
烏丸本徒然草の異植字版について On the Different Typesetting of Karasuma-bon Tsurezuregusa |
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2:10 pm |
YANAGISAWA Masaki, |
小瀬道甫による古活字版『保暦間記』の出版について On the Publication of Kokatsujiban Hōryaku Kanki by Oze Dōho |
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3:00 pm |
Break |
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| Session 3: Digital Tools for Humanists (in Japanese) | ||
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3:30 pm |
Edward Kamens & Kazuya Funami, |
古筆手鑑研究におけるDHの課題と可能性 Digital Humanities in Kohitsu Tekagami Studies: Its Current State, Challenges, and Future Possibilities |
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3:50 pm |
Yoshitaka Yamamoto, Yale University 山本嘉孝 |
デジタル時代の《真跡》研究―イェール大学所蔵『十旬花月』帖を起点として Studying “Authentic Brushwork” in the Digital Age: Yale’s Jūjun kagetsu Album and Beyond |
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4:10 pm |
Haruko Nakamura, |
デジタル仕掛け―北米における日本コレクションの公開とデータ蓄積の課題 Digital Shikake: The Challenges of Unveiling and Accumulating Data from Japanese Collections in North America |
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5:00 pm |
End of Session 3 |
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Friday, August 21st |
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8:30 am |
Breakfast |
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9:00 am |
Viewing at the Beinecke (Closed Event) |
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11:15 am |
Lunch |
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| Session 4: Texts as Media I (in Japanese) | ||
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12:30 pm |
NAKAYAMA Yōsuke, |
平仮名の成立と特徴 The Formation of Hiragana and Its Characteristics |
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12:50 pm |
Brian Steininger, Princeton University ブライアン・スタイニンガー |
出版文化の発展と漢文界―金沢文庫資料の視点から Sinitic Literature Under Print Culture: Evidence from the Kanazawa Bunko |
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1:30 pm |
Break |
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| Session 5: Texts as Media II (in Japanese) | ||
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1:40 pm |
IRIGUCHI Atsushi, |
メディア転換期としての日本の17世紀 Japan in the 17th Century as a Period of Media Transformation |
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2:00 pm |
Luciana Sanga, Yale University ルチアナ・サンガ |
帯から考える文学―書物の周縁とその歴史 Thinking about Literature through the Obi: Histories of the Book’s Margins |
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2:40 pm |
Break | |
| Session 6: Japanese Collections in the United States (in Japanese) | ||
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3:00 pm |
KIMURA Michiko, |
僧侶の旅から見えるもの―UCB三井文庫所蔵『旅中見聞記』を読む A Monk’s Journey in Late Edo Japan: Text, Image, and Landscape in the Ryochū Kenmonki (Mitsui Collection, UC Berkeley) |
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3:20 pm |
Setsuko Noguchi, Princeton University 野口契子 |
戦時期の米国における和本収集とネットワーク Trans-Pacific Networks and the Collection of Premodern Japanese Texts in the United States during World War II |
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3:40 pm |
KANSAKU Ken’ichi, |
てのひらの江戸―画譜・絵本・絵入り本 Edo in the Palm of Your Hand: Gafu, Ehon, Eiribon |
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4:30 pm |
Closing Remarks |
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Co-Organized by the National Institute of Japanese Literature (NIJL); “Expansion Studies of Synthetic Bibliology” (2022–2027), the National Institutes for the Humanities (NIHU); and the Council on East Asian Studies, MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, Yale University.
Contact: Yoshitaka Yamamoto (yoshitaka.yamamoto@yale.edu) and Haruko Nakamura (haruko.nakamura@yale.edu)
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