Donald Keene Center Events Calendar
Spring 2003
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• All events at Columbia are free and open to the public.
• Unless otherwise indicated, all of the programs listed below take
place at Columbia University, 116th Street between Broadway and
Amsterdam Ave.
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February 3 - April 14
300 Years of the 47 Ronin: A Chushingura
Retrospective
Coordinated by Professor Henry Smith
(Columbia University)
| To mark the tercentenary of the
Ako Vendetta of 1701-03, the Donald Keene Center of
Japanese Culture at Columbia University will sponsor
a variety of programs in the spring semester of
2003, including a film series, an exhibition of
prints and books, a panel at the annual meeting of
the Association for Asian Studies (AAS), and a
symposium. All events at Columbia are open to the
public and free of charge. |
› FILM SERIES: "Exacting Revenge: A Series of Eight
Japanese Films," February 3-April 14
› EXHIBITION: "Chushingura on Stage and in Print: An
Exhibition of Books, Manuscripts, and Ukiyoe," March
24-April 18*
› ASSOCIATION FOR ASIAN STUDIES PANEL: "The Many
Lives of the 47 Ronin: Three Centuries of Retelling the
Chushingura Story," March 30, 8:30am-10:30am
› SYMPOSIUM: "Rethinking Chushingura: A Symposium on
the Making and Unmaking of Japan's National Legend," March
30, 3pm-7pm and March 31, 9am-6pm
*The exhibition
was originally scheduled from March 17-April 11
February 3 (Monday)
Film: Harakiri (Seppuku)
Director: Masaki Kobayashi (1962,
b/w, 134 min.)
Altschul Auditorium (417 International Affairs Building),
Columbia University (118th St. and Amsterdam Ave.)
» Campus Map
7:45 PM
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brilliantly attacks the adherence to
tradition at the expense of human values.
The strict code of honor of the samurai is
challenged by a warrior whose son-in-law is
forced to commit an agonizing suicide in
order to maintain the honor of the clan. The
film's precise visual structure contributes
to the steadily mounting suspense which
culminates in an explosive final sequence. |
Photo: Photofest
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- Janus Films Catalogue
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Cannes Film Festival 1963, Special Jury
Prize |
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Part of "Exacting Revenge: A
Series of Eight Japanese Films"
February 7 & 8 (Friday & Saturday)
The Twelfth Annual Graduate Student
Conference on East Asia
Coordinated by Matthew Augustine,
Martin Fromm, and Valerie Jaffee (Columbia University)
Kent Hall, Columbia University (116th St. and Amsterdam
Ave.)
The conference provides
opportunities for participants to meet and share
ideas with graduate students from institutions
worldwide. Panelists gain valuable experience in
presenting their work to an audience of their peers
and, in some cases, Columbia faculty.
The conference will include graduate students
engaged in research on all fields in East Asian
Studies, including History, Literature,
Anthropology, Political Science, Sociology, Art
History, and Religion.
For further details, contact
Matthew Augustine, Martin Fromm, or Valerie Jaffee.
E-mail:
asiagradcon@columbia.edu
Website:
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ealac/gradconf
Mail: Department of East Asian Languages and
Cultures, 407 Kent Hall, Columbia University, New
York, NY 10027
Tel: 212-854-5027
Fax: 212-678-8629 |
Co-sponsored by the Donald Keene
Center, the Mellon Foundation, the
Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, the
East Asian Institute, and the
Institute for Medieval Japanese Studies
February 10 (Monday)
Brown Bag Lunch Lecture Series:
North Korea: Japan's Moment of Truth
Yoichi Funabashi (Columnist & Chief
Diplomatic Correspondent, The Asahi Shimbun; Visiting
Fellow of the Donald Keene Center)
918 International Affairs Building, Columbia University
(118th St. & Amsterdam Ave.)
» Campus Map
12:00 PM
Dr. Funabashi is a
Visiting Fellow of the Donald Keene Center, under a
program supported by the
United States-Japan Foundation.
Co-sponsored by the
East Asian Institute
February 10 (Monday)
Film: Gonza the Spearman (Yari no
Gonza)
Director: Masahiro Shinoda (1986,
color, 126 min.)
Altschul Auditorium (417 International Affairs Building),
Columbia University (118th St. and Amsterdam Ave.)
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7:45 PM
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A beautiful film set in 18th century
Japan. The handsome but overly ambitious
Gonza (Hiromi Go) is one of the Matsue
clan's most talented lancers. Although he is
already engaged to the sister of one of his
fellow retainers, Gonza agrees to wed the
daughter of his lord to better his position.
The fiancée's infuriated brother plots
against Gonza. This classic tale of
conflicts between love and honor, duty and
devotion, won a Silver Bear at the Berlin
Film Festival. |
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Part of "Exacting Revenge: A Series of Eight Japanese
Films"
February 24 (Monday)
Film: An Actor's Revenge (Yukinojo
henge)
Director: Kon Ichikawa (1963, color,
113 min.)
Altschul Auditorium (417 International Affairs Building),
Columbia University (118th St. and Amsterdam Ave.)
» Campus Map
7:45 PM
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Yukinojo, a female impersonator in a
Kabuki theatre troupe, takes revenge on the
three nobles who forced his parents to
commit suicide. Maintaining his female role
offstage, he pursues his vendetta by playing
out a false courtship and by turning his
enemies against each other. A film of
phenomenal all-around accomplishment, with
daringly stylized visuals. Nothing is more
astonishing than the twin performances of
Kazuo Hasegawa as both Yukinojo and the
thief who befriends him, Yomitaro. |
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- Time Out Film Guide
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Part of "Exacting Revenge: A Series
of Eight Japanese Films"
February 27 (Thursday)
Note: This program was originally scheduled for February 17.
Film: The Bad Sleep Well (Warui
yatsu hodo yoku nemuru)
Director: Akira Kurosawa (1960, b/w,
151 min.)
Altschul Auditorium (417 International Affairs Building),
Columbia University (118th St. and Amsterdam Ave.)
» Campus Map
7:45 PM
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Akira Kurosawa's The Bad Sleep
Well adopts the American gangster-film
style to weave a fascinating tale of
corporate greed. Toshiro Mifune stars as a
young executive who marries his boss's
daughter to infiltrate "the family," expose
their corrupt business dealings, and avenge
his own father's murder. With echoes of
Hamlet, the chilling film opens as the
couple is wed in an elaborate, strangely
ominous celebration. As Mifune falls in love
with his wife, his plans for revenge fall
apart. Meanwhile, another executive (Takashi
Shimura) plots his downfall. The Bad
Sleep Well is filled with exciting
twists and turns—bribery, kidnapping, and
killings—as well as Kurosawa's sardonic
humor and rich irony. |
Photo: Cowboy Pictures
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Part of "Exacting Revenge: A Series
of Eight Japanese Films"
March 3 & 4 (Monday & Tuesday)*
Film: The 47 Ronin (Genroku
Chushingura)
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi (1941, b/w,
222 min.)
Altschul Auditorium (417 International Affairs Building),
Columbia University (118th St. and Amsterdam Ave.)
» Campus Map
7:45 PM
*two-part screening
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Considered by many to be the finest
Japanese film made during World War II, and
one of the finest of all time, Mizoguchi's
epic is a rich and poetic retelling of the
Japanese classic Mayama Chushingura.
When their leader is deceived and forced to
commit suicide, a group of legendary samurai
warriors sets out to take vengeance for his
death. A masterpiece that remained unseen in
America until the 1970s, and one of
Mizoguchi's most remarkable achievements. |
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Part of
"Exacting Revenge: A Series of Eight Japanese Films"
March 11 (Tuesday)
Lecture: Defining Fashionability
in Moronobu's Iconography for the Yoshiwara
Helen Nagata (Assistant Professor of
Art History, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design)
612 Schermerhorn Hall, Columbia University (116th St. &
Amsterdam Ave.)
» Campus Map
6:00 PM
Co-sponsored by the
Ukiyo-e Society of America, Inc. and the
Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia
University
March 13 (Thursday)
Lecture: Japan's New Course in the
Coming Century
Yoichi Funabashi (Columnist and Chief
Diplomatic Correspondent of the Asahi Shimbun; Visiting
Fellow of the Donald Keene Center* and the Weatherhead East
Asian Institute)
Japan Society, 333 East 47th Street, New York, NY, 10017
6:30 PM (Reception to follow)
Tickets: $10, Japan Society members and seniors $8, students
$5
To order tickets, please call Japan Society box office,
Mon-Fri, 10 AM to 4:45 PM, 212-752-3015, or visit their
Website.
For further information about
this lecture, please call the Japan Society at 212-832-1155.
Yoichi Funabashi is Columnist and Chief Diplomatic
Correspondent of the Asahi Shimbun and a leading journalist
in the field of Japanese foreign policy. A former Washington
Correspondent and American General Bureau Chief of the Asahi
Shimbun, he has received numerous awards for his reporting
on international affairs, including the Japan Press Award,
known as Japan's "Pulitzer Prize," for his columns on
foreign policy. Drawing from his newest book "Japan's
Postwar Dreams," Dr. Funabashi reflects on Japan's postwar
history and nation-building aspirations and their
significance for Japan's new course in the coming century.
Co-sponsored by Asahi Shimbun
International and by the Donald Keene Center of Japanese
Culture
*Dr. Funabashi is a
Visiting Fellow of the Donald Keene Center, under a
program supported by the
United States-Japan Foundation.
March 22 & 23 (Saturday & Sunday)
Critical Horizons: A Symposium on
Japanese Art in Memory of Chino Kaori
501 Schermerhorn Hall, Columbia University (116th St. &
Amsterdam Ave.) and New York University's Institute of Fine
Arts (1 East 78th St.)
» Campus Map
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM (3/22) & 9:30 AM - 6:30 PM (3/23)
No registration fee, but RSVP REQUIRED
PLEASE E-MAIL Meghen Jones at
mmj228@nyu.edu or call 212-992-5869 by March 14th.
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international symposium, to take place at Columbia
University and the Institute of Fine Arts, is to
honor the work and memory of the late Japanese art
historian Chino Kaori. Professor Chino was a highly
influential scholar who was instrumental in
introducing new methodologies to the art historical
discipline in Japan, especially those revolving
around gender studies and feminism. Over twenty of
Professor Chino's former colleagues and students
from Japan, North America, and Europe will present
papers concerning aspects of Japanese art related to
Professor Chino's work and the theoretical and
methodological approaches she championed. Reflecting
the breadth of Professor's Chino's scholarship over
her nearly twenty-year career, the twenty
presentations cover a broad range of objects,
methodologies, and time periods in the history of
Japanese art.
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Co-hosted by the
Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia
University, and the
Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, with
support from the Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture;
Weatherhead East Asian Institute's Program in
Contemporary Culture and Arts of East Asia, the
Institute for Medieval Japanese Studies, Columbia
University; Peggy and Richard M. Danziger; Judith Dowling;
Rosemarie and Leighton Longhi; and John C. Weber.
March 24- April 18
Note: This program was originally scheduled from March 17 -
April 11
Chushingura on Stage and in Print: An
Exhibition of Books, Manuscripts, and Ukiyoe
Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Butler Library,
Columbia University (114th St. & Broadway) & Rare Book and
Special Collections Reading Room, C.V. Starr East Asian
Library, Columbia University (116th St. & Amsterdam Ave.)
» Campus Map
March 24 & 25 (Monday & Tuesday)*
Film: Chushingura
Director: Hiroshi Inagaki (1962,
color, 207 min.)
Altschul Auditorium (417 International Affairs Building),
Columbia University (118th St. and Amsterdam Ave.)
» Campus Map
7:45 PM
*two-part screening
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In the dawn of the eighteenth
century, a young lord is sentenced to ritual
suicide for an act of disobedience stemming
from corruption in the Shogun's court.
Masterless and displaced, his followers bide
their time, suffering humiliation and
poverty, waiting for the chance to prove
their loyalty and adherence to the fading
virtues of Bushido. A Japanese classic,
often characterized as "the Gone With the
Wind of Japan." |
© 1962 Toho Co., Ltd. All rights
reserved.
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Part of "Exacting Revenge: A Series
of Eight Japanese Films"
March 25 (Tuesday)
Lecture: Becoming a Reader,
Becoming a Writer: On Enchi Fumiko's Autobiographical
Fiction
Yűko Iida (Associate Professor of
Japanese Literature, Kobe College; Visiting Professor,
Stanford University)
403 Kent Hall, Columbia University (116th St. and Amsterdam
Ave.)
6:00 PM
Lecture to be given in Japanese
Writing is never an enclosed
system but always exists within linguistic and
cultural circuits. Writers are themselves always
readers, and writers write their works always for
imagined readers. Becoming a reader does not confine
oneself to identifying with a given text, and when a
writer writes a text for readers, the images of the
readers are not uniform. Paying attention to the
complex dialectics between reading and writing,
between a writer and imagined readers, sheds
critical light on fissures and diversions in
literary text, particularly with regard to texts by
women writers. This talk will address these issues
in reference to Enchi Fumiko's key autobiographical
fiction, Ake o ubaumono (That Which Takes
Away Vermilion, 1955-56), which dramatizes the
process by which Enchi becomes a reader and a
literary writer.
Professor Yűko Iida, Associate Professor of Japanese
Literature at Kobe College and currently Visiting
Professor at Stanford University, is a specialist of
modern Japanese Literature and the author of
Karera no monogatari: Nihon kindai bungaku to jendaa
(Men's Stories: Gender and Modern Japanese
Literature, 1998), an influential book on the
establishment of a gendered literary field in the
early 20th-century Japan through re-readings of
Natsume Sôseki's major works and their impact on the
subsequent literary texts. Professor Iida has been
writing extensively on the relationship between
gender constructions and the processes of becoming
literary readers and writers. She has been examining
the formation of gendered literary magazines from
the 1900s to the 1930s, and recently published, as
an author and editor, a collection of essays called
Seitô to iu ba: bungaku, gendaa, 'atarashii onnna'
(Seitô as a Cultural Site: Literature, Gender, and
the 'New Woman,' 2002). |
March 26 (Wednesday)
Lecture: Embracing the Firebird:
Yosano Akiko, Modern Japan's Preeminent Female Poet, and her
Revolutionary Poetry Collection 'Tangled Hair' (Midaregami)
Janine Beichman (Professor,
Department of Japanese Literature, Daito Bunka University;
Adjunct Lecturer, Department of Comparative Literature,
Tsukuba University)
403 Kent Hall, Columbia University (116th St. and Amsterdam
Ave.)
5:00 PM
 In
1901, the young Yosano Akiko published her first
collection of poems, Midaregami (Tangled
Hair). A sensation at the time, it became one of the
classics of modern Japanese poetry, and the only one
by a woman. Akiko's later poetry has now begun to
win long-overdue recognition and she is considered
modern Japan's preeminent female poet, but in terms
of literary history the impact of Midaregami
still overshadows everything else she wrote, for it
brought the modern ideal of individualism to
traditional poetry with a passion found in no other
work of the period. Professor Beichman's lecture
takes a fresh look at this classic, based on her new
book Embracing the Firebird: Yosano Akiko and the
Birth of the Female Voice in Modern Japanese Poetry
(July 2002, University of Hawai'i Press). The
lecture will incorporate bi-lingual readings in
Japanese and English of many of Akiko's poems.
Copies of Embracing the Firebird will also be
available for sale.
For over thirty years, Janine Beichman has been
living in Japan, where she teaches Japanese and
comparative literature at Daito Bunka University and
Tsukuba University. She is one of America's foremost
translators of Japanese poetry. |
Co-sponsored by the
Institute for Medieval Japanese Studies
March 27 (Thursday)
Lecture: Voluntary Blindness: A
Typology of the Japanese Melodrama
Inuhiko Yomota (Professor of Film
Studies and Comparative Literature, Meiji Gakuin University;
Visiting Fellow of the Donald Keene Center)
403 Kent Hall, Columbia University (116th St. and Amsterdam
Ave.)
6:30 PM (Reception to follow)
What is the
significance of becoming blind by one's own will? A
comparison of some cases from Indian epics and
contemporary Japanese films shows us an alternative
way of thinking about blindness in the context of
melodramatic imagination. From his perspective as a
film historian, Mr. Yomota will discuss the three
cases of Mahabharata, Tanizaki Jun'ichiro, and Wakao
Ayako.
Mr. Yomota is currently a professor of film studies
and comparative literature at Meiji Gakuin
University, in addition to being a distinguished
film and arts critic. He has authored various
publications on Japanese and Asian cinema, films in
general, literature, and Asian studies, among other
subjects. His recent publications include Radical
Wills in Contemporary Japanese Cinema (1999),
Japanese Cinema in an Asian Context (2000),
Li Xianglan and East Asia (2001), and Korea
My Love (2002). His publications have received
numerous awards, including the Suntory Prize for
Social Sciences and Humanities, Saito Ryoku-u
Literature Award, Itoh Sei Literature Award,
Kodansha Essay Award, and the Japan Essayist Award. |
Mr. Yomota is a
Visiting Fellow of the Donald Keene Center, under a
program supported by the
United States-Japan Foundation.
March 30 (Sunday)
The Many Lives of the 47 Ronin: Three
Centuries of Retelling the Chushingura Story
New York Hilton Hotel,
Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS),
Panel #190
8:30 AM-10:30 AM
REGISTRATION REQUIRED:
Contact AAS
March 30 & 31 (Sunday & Monday)
Rethinking Chushingura:
A Symposium on the Making and
Unmaking of
 Japan's
National Legend
East Gallery, Buell Hall, Columbia University (116th St.
between Broadway & Amsterdam Avenues)
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3 PM-6 PM (3/30) & 9 AM-6 PM (3/31)
» Click here to see the symposium schedule,
participants, and paper titles
April 1 (Tuesday)
2003 Soshitsu Sen XV
Distinguished Lecture on Japanese Culture:
Bunraku: Japan's Traditional Puppet
Theater
Bunzo TORIGOE
(Professor Emeritus, Waseda University, and
Former Director, Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre
Museum, Waseda University)
 Low
Rotunda, Low Memorial Library, Columbia
University (116th Street between Broadway
and Amsterdam Avenues)
» Campus Map
6:00 PM (Reception to follow in Faculty
Room of Low Memorial Library)
Lecture to be given in Japanese with
English translation
RSVP EQRUIRED
PLEASE E-MAIL the Donald Keene Center at
donald-keene-center@columbia.edu or call
212-854-5036 by Monday, March 17th
Professor Bunzo Torigoe has devoted his
career to the study and preservation of
Bunraku and Kabuki, the two distinctive
forms of Japanese theater that emerged in
the Edo period and continue as living
performance traditions today. He has spent
most of his academic career at Waseda
University, from which he graduated in the
department of theater in 1956, and where he
began teaching as a lecturer in 1965
following a period of teaching and research
at Cambridge University in 1962-64. He
became Professor of Japanese Literature at
Waseda in 1974, and currently holds the
title of Professor Emeritus.
In addition to numerous scholarly journal
articles, a number of which were collected
in book form in 1991 as Genroku kabuki kô,
Professor Torigoe has written a book on the
playwright Chikamatsu (Chikamatsu
Monzaemon, 1989), and has edited and
annotated numerous editions of Chikamatsu's
plays. He has also played a major role in
editing and co-editing basic source
materials for Japanese theater of the Edo
period. In English, he joined with Charles
Dunn of Cambridge University to translate
and annotate The Actors' Analects (Yakusha
Rongo) (Columbia University Press,
1969), a collection of Genroku-period
writings about Kabuki acting.
Professor Torigoe has also contributed
broadly to the study and preservation of
Japanese theater as the director from 1988
until 1999 of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre
Museum on the Waseda campus, the single most
important collection of theater material in
Japan. He has recently been active in the
preservation and promotion of the Bunraku
puppet theater as chairman of the Ningyô
Jôruri Bunrakuza, a non-profit organization
founded in 2002.
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April 7 (Monday)
Film: Youth of the Beast (Yaju no
seishun)
Director: Seijun Suzuki (1963, color,
92 min.)
Altschul Auditorium (417 International Affairs Building),
Columbia University (118th St. and Amsterdam Ave.)
» Campus Map
7:45 PM
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Soon after the apparent love-suicide
of a cop and his mistress, the tough
Mizuno...muscles his way to prominence in
Yakuza circles. He gets himself hired by two
rival gang bosses who hate each other as
much as they hate the cops. But who is
Mizuno really and what is his secret agenda?
Suzuki films with a keen sense of absurdity,
but also raises the genre's visual rhetoric
to a new high. |
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- Time Out Film Guide
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Part of "Exacting Revenge: A Series
of Eight Japanese Films"
April 8 (Tuesday)
Symposium: The Future Security of
East Asia
featuring Yoichi Funabashi (Columnist
and Chief Diplomatic Correspondent of the Asahi Shimbun;
Visiting Fellow of the Donald Keene Center* and the
Weatherhead East Asian Institute)
301 Uris Hall (118th St. between Broadway and Amsterdam
Aves.)
» Campus Map
4:30 PM-6:00 PM (Reception to follow in Calder Lounge,
Uris Hall)
Registration Required
Please go to
http://www.gsb.columbia.edu/japan/ and click on "events"
to register online.
Dr. Funabashi, an award-winning journalist in the field of
Japanese foreign policy, discusses the future security of
East Asia with leading specialists on Japan, China, and
Japan-U.S.-Asia relationships.
Panel Chair:
• Hugh Patrick (Director, Center on
Japanese Economy and Business, Columbia
Business School)
Discussants:
• Urban Lehner (Former Executive Editor,
Asian Wall Street Journal, Hong Kong; Former
Executive Editor, Dow Jones Asia)
• Xiaobo Lu (Director, Weatherhead
East Asian Institute; Associate Professor of
Political Science, Barnard College)
• George Packard (President,
U.S.-Japan Foundation; Former Director of
the Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies
at the School of Advanced International
Studies, Johns Hopkins University) |
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Co-hosted by Columbia University's
Center on Japanese Economy and Business, Donald Keene
Center of Japanese Culture, and
Weatherhead East Asian Institute
*Dr. Funabashi is a
Visiting Fellow of the Donald Keene Center, under a
program supported by the
United States-Japan Foundation.
April 11 (Friday)
Award Ceremony and Reception for
Translation Prize
Main Reading Room, C.V. Starr East Asian Library, Kent
Hall, Columbia University (116th St. & Amsterdam Ave.)
6:15 PM
Reception immediately following ceremony
RSVP REQUIRED
PLEASE E-MAIL the Donald Keene Center at
donald-keene-center@columbia.edu or call 212-854-5036
by April 1st if you plan to attend
The Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture will hold an
award ceremony and reception honoring the winner of the
2002-2003 Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the
Translation of Japanese Literature:
Professor Royall Tyler
For his translation of The Tale of Genji by
Murasaki Shikibu
Copies of The Tale of Genji
will be available for purchase
April 14 (Monday)
A Discussion with Yoko Tawada
Yoko Tawada (Author & Playwright)
301 Fayerweather Hall, Columbia University (117th St. and
Amsterdam Ave.)
» Campus Map
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
 Yoko
Tawada will discuss “The Reflection” and “Spores”
from Where Europe Begins, her first volume of
short stories translated into English.
Yoko Tawada's work straddles two continents, two
languages and cultures. Born in Tokyo in 1960, she
moved to Hamburg at the age of 22 and became,
simultaneously, a German and a Japanese writer. She
has since published a good ten volumes in each
language, won numerous literary awards (including
Japan's prestigious Akutagawa Prize in 1993 and, in
1996, Germany's Adelbert von Chamisso Prize, the
highest honor bestowed upon a foreign-born author),
and established herself, in both countries, as one
of the most important writers of her generation.
Tawada's poetry, fiction, essays and plays return
again and again to questions of language and
culture, the link between national and personal
identity. If the languages we speak help define us,
what happens to the identity of persons displaced
between cultures? "The interesting," she once said
in an interview, "lies in the in-between." And so
her characters are constantly in motion, journeying
between countries, language and modes of
being—providing us with "travel narratives" full of
glimpses into the interstices of the world in which
the structure of all experience is revealed. |
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from the “Translators’ Note,” Where Europe
Begins (New Directions, 2002)
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Copies of these stories are available in advance at the
Weatherhead East Asian Institute, 9th Floor, International
Affairs Building.
Co-sponsored by the
Weatherhead East Asian Institute
April 14 (Monday)
Film: Vengeance is Mine (Fukushu
suru wa ware ni ari)
Director: Shohei Imamura (1979,
color, 140 min.)
Altschul Auditorium (417 International Affairs Building),
Columbia University (118th St. and Amsterdam Ave.)
» Campus Map
7:45 PM
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of the most strikingly original films of the
modern cinema, Vengeance Is Mine is
an "eclectically horrifying portrait of a
psychopathic criminal named Iwao Enokizu...[The
film] makes every other film on the In
Cold Blood theme look like child's
play," wrote Tom Allen in The Village
Voice. Enokizu (Ken Ogata) becomes a
suspect in the murder of two men who work
for the government tobacco monopoly. A
nationwide dragnet is set up to capture him,
but for 78 days he travels throughout Japan
committing fraud, cheating women and taking
numerous lives. |
Photo: Photofest
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Japan Academy Award, Best Film; Kinema Jumpo,
Best Film |
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Part of "Exacting Revenge: A
Series of Eight Japanese Films"
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