PMJS Publication Announcement: September 2023
Abigail MacBain
Dear colleagues,
Below please find our monthly bulletin compiling information on publications by and recommendations from PMJS members. All details below were submitted through the PMJS Publication Announcements online form.
Publication type: Article
Title: The Media Trajectory of Kano Naganobu’s Merrymaking under Cherry and
Aronia Blossoms
Author: Radu Leca
Affiliation: Hong Kong Baptist University
Summary: A three-pronged approach— the media trajectory of an artifact, a culturally-inflected media ecosystem, and the importance of materiality and affordance — is applied to a premodern artifact from Japan: a pair of folding screens showing “Merrymaking under Cherry and Aronia Blossoms”, painted by Kano Naganobu (1577–1654).
Release Date: 24.06.2023
Website:https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111242699/html
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111242699-009
Contact: Radu Leca radu...@hkbu.edu.hk
Publication type: Book
Title: Mother of Nara: Female Emperor Genmei, 707-715: A Translation from Shoku
Nihongi
Author: Ross Bender, PhD
Affiliation: Independent Scholar
Summary: Female Emperor Genmei is famous especially for moving the capital from Fujiwarakyō to Nara in 710. She was the mother of Emperor Monmu, whom she succeeded upon his death in 707, and of Female Emperor Genshō who took the throne in 715 after Genmei’s abdication. Several poems in the Man’yōshū are attributed to her, including a well-known lament upon moving to the new capital. Shoku Nihongi records that she ordered the compilation of the provincial gazetteers that became known as the Fudoki. However, the chronicle does not record the presentation of the Kojiki to her court, although its preface gives the precise date in 712. Her grandson Prince Obito, the later Shōmu Tennō, came of age during her reign. Copper was discovered in 708, leading to the minting of the first official Japanese coins, and the period of her rule is distinguished by the ongoing attempts to introduce the currency into the economy, as well as the rollout of many features of the Ritsuryō law codes.
Release Date: August 4, 2023
Contact:Ross Bender rosslyn...@gmail.com
Publication type: Book
Title: Japanese Ancient Coinage: A Catalogue of William Bramsen's Collection in the National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen
Author: Shin'ichi Sakuraki & Peter Kornicki
Affiliation:Asahi University & Cambridge University; Professor & Professor
Citation: Published by The Japan Academy. ISBN 978-86333-196-9
Language: Japanese and English
Summary: William Bramsen, who was born in Copenhagen in 1850, arrived in Japan in 1871 and stayed for ten years: by the end of that time he was recognised by the Asiatic Society of Japan as one of the most accomplished japanologists of his day. In 1880 he was sent to London by Mitsubishi but died there at the young age of 31. As well as bilingual catalogues of Bramsen's superb collections of Japanese coins (each illustrated full size in colour) and of books and manuscripts, this volume contains essays in English on Bramsen's life in Japan in the 1870s, on the significance of his collections and on the history of numismatics in Japan.
Release Date: 30 June 2023
Website:http://www.arm-p.co.jp/book_new.html#isbn978863331969
Contact:Peter Kornicki pk...@cam.ac.uk ; a...@a.email.ne.jp
To recommend a title for the October announcement, please fill out the online form no later than September 30. Submissions can be submitted by authors themselves or by PMJS members who are eager to share other scholars’ recent publications.
For any questions or comments on the submission format, please contact Abigail MacBain (abigail...@ed.ac.uk).