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The Daijōsai is an ancient form of harvest festival observed in modern times, as it was in the past, in the first autumn after the accession of a new Emperor of Japan. This illustrated presentation focuses on the landscape screens, poems, and songs created for and presented in the Daijōe banquets that were held during the Daijōsai of the current Emperor Reiwa, in 2019. Daijōe screens, poems, and songs celebrate both regional locales and cultures as well as the continuous tradition of imperial rule. The scenes depicted in both image and word evoke plenitude, vitality, endurance, and, of course, the cycle of the seasons. This presentation emphasizes how this “edition” adhered to precedent but also introduced some innovative gestures that subtly marked it as an event very much of the present.Speaker: Edward Kamens, Sumitomo Professor Emeritus of East Asian Languages & Literatures, Yale University
Moderator: Dan O’Neill, Associate Profressor, UC Berkeley
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