In this two-day workshop we will consider various aspects of the social history of Japan in the Tokugawa and Meiji periods, while also examining the experiences of marginal social groups in the Ottoman Empire in order to develop a broad comparative perspective on the transition to modernity in different parts of Asia. The morning of the second day of the workshop will also include a session focused on reading Tokugawa period documents from the Beinecke Library. The event is part of an ongoing collaboration between Yale and Osaka City University.
Location
Room 203, Henry R. Luce Hall 34 Hillhouse AvenueNew Haven, CT 06511
Schedule
3/25 (Mon)
| 9:45-10am | Welcome and Opening Remarks |
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| 10am-12pm | Session I The Medicine Trade and Social Groups in Early Modern Osaka (Luce 203) |
| 10-10:30am | Sachiko WATANABE, “The Distribution of Medicine and Merchant Groups” (薬種の流通と商人集団). (Presentation in Japanese) |
| 10:30-10:45am | John D’Amico, Summary and response (English) |
| 10:45-11:05am | Peng HAO, “The Nagasaki Trade and Osaka” (「長崎貿易と大坂」) (Presentation in Japanese) |
| 11:05-11:20am | Tom Monaghan, Summary and response (English) |
| 11:20-12:00pm | Discussion |
| 12pm-1:15pm | Lunch |
| 1:15-3:15pm | Session II Marginal Social Groups’ Experiences of Modernity in the Ottoman Empire (Luce 203) |
| 1:15-2pm | Masayuki UENO, “The Rise of the Armenian Patriarchate of Istanbul Reconsidered.” （アルメニア教会イスタンブル総主教職の地位向上、再検討）(English) |
| 2-2:45pm | Henry Clements, “Documenting, Forgetting, and Remembering the Süryani of the Ottoman Empire.” (オスマン帝国のシリア正教徒：記録から忘却、そして想起へ). (English) |
| 2:45-3:15pm | Discussion with Alan Mikhail |
| 3:15-3:45pm | Coffee break |
| 3:45pm-5:45pm | Session III Perspectives on the Social History of Early Modern Japan (Luce 203) |
| 3:45-4:15pm | Takashi TSUKADA, “Social Structure on the Margins of the Great City of Osaka: From the Records of the Narumai family of Namba Village” (巨大都市大坂の周縁の社会構造―難波村・成舞家文書の可能性―」）(Presentation in Japanese, with English comments from Daniel Botsman) |
| 4:15-4:45pm | Tōru MORISHITA (Yamaguchi University), “On the Establishment of the Iwakuni Domain Warehouse (Kura yashiki) in Osaka” (「岩国藩大坂蔵屋敷の成立」) (Presentation in Japanese, with English comments from Fabian Drixler) |
| 4:45pm-5:15pm | Maren Ehlers (UNC-Charlotte), “The Osaka Lacquerware Trade and the Ōno Domain Store in the Late 1850s”. （「大野藩店・大野屋と安政年間の大坂漆商売人と職人」）(Presentation in English and Japanese) |
| 5:15-5:45pm | Discussion with Keith Wrightson |
| 6:30pm- | Welcome dinner |
3/26 (Tues) DAY 2
| 9:30-12:30pm | Session IV Document Reading Workshop: Kyoto Komonjo (Beinecke Library) (with presentations in Japanese by Aoi Saito, Yoshimoto Kanami and Takenouchi Masato) |
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| 12:30-2pm | Lunch break |
| 2:30-4:30pm | Session V Perspectives on the Social History of Modern Japan (Luce 203) |
| 2:30-3pm | John Porter (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies), “Land Ownership and Local Society in Early Meiji Asakusa Shincho” (「明治初期浅草新町＝亀岡町における土地所有と地域社会」) Presentation in English. |
| 3-3:30pm | Waka HIROKAWA (Senshu University), “Syphilis and Regional Community in Modern Japan (「近代日本の梅毒と地域社会」) Presentation in English. |
| 3:30-4pm | Ashita SAGA, “The Modernization of Prostitution in Yokohama from the Late Edo period to Early Meiji” （「幕末?明治初年の横浜に見る遊廓社会の近代化」) Presentation in English. |
| 4-4:30pm | Discussion with Rohit De |