Program Schedule

New Trends in the Study of Medieval Japanese Documents

Princeton University
Jones Hall Room 202
July 25, 2019

9:20 Introductory Remarks: Thomas Conlan

Panel I: 9:30-12:00 Topics in Medieval Japanese History

• • • • Megan Gilbert. Graduate Student. East Asian Studies Department, Princeton University.
        “Conciliation in the Gaps: Document-Sealed Decisions Overturned in Fifteenth-Century Diaries.”
      • David Romney. Graduate Student. East Asian Studies Department, Princeton University.
        “Residences of Containment: Late-Medieval Ise Oshi.”
      • Nate Ledbetter. Graduate Student. East Asian Studies Department, Princeton University.
        “Praying for Victory: A 1578 Ganmon by Shimazu Yoshihisa in preparation for the Battle of Mimigawa.”
      • Horikawa Yasufumi. Professor at the Historiographical Institute, The University of Tokyo.
        “The Muromachi Bakufu and Distant Provinces: Center and Peripheries in Late Medieval Japan.”

Lunch 12:00-1:00

Panel II: Princeton’s Collection of Sakuramotobō Documents

• • • • 1:00-1:15 Thomas Conlan. Professor of East Asian Studies and History, Princeton University.
        “The Journey of the Sakuramotobō Documents to Princeton.”
        Setsuko Noguchi. Princeton University Library, Japanese Studies Librarian.
        “Digitalization and Future Research Tools Concerning Sakuramotobō.”
      • 1:15-2:00 Ebara Masaharu. Professor at the Historiographical Institute, The University of Tokyo.
        “The Way to Supernatural Powers” (Shugendō) in Medieval Japan: An Introduction to the Sakuramotobō Documents.

Panel III: Issues of Conservation and Paper

• • • • • 2:05-2:45 Ted Stanley. Special Collections Paper Conservator, Princeton University Library Conservation Department.                                                                                                                                        “Revealing Hidden Secrets: The Conservation of Eastern and Western Medieval Manuscripts at the Princeton Library, Sakuramotobō to Gutenberg.”
        • 2:45-3:30 Takashima Akihiko. Paper Conservator and Restorer. Conservation Laboratory at the Historiographical Institute, The University of Tokyo
          “A Classification of the Paper Used in Medieval Japanese Documents.”

Coffee Break

• • • • 4:15-5:00 Tani Akiyoshi. Researcher and photographer in the Conservation Laboratory at the Historiographical Institute, The University of Tokyo.
        “Understanding the Historical Possibilities of Photos and Problems with their Conservation.”

Concluding Remarks