New Digital Platform for the Publication of Critical Editions and Translations of Early Modern Japanese Books.

[Laura Moretti]

Dear Colleagues and Friends,

Please join us for the launch of a new Digital Platform for the Publication of Critical Editions and Translations of Early Modern Japanese Books.

Learn more HERE ahead of the launch.

 Original logo and character designed by Kamito Sumi 紙戸スミ(かみとすみ)

The platform has been developed by Prof Hashimoto Yuta (Center for Meta-Resource Studies, National Museum of Japanese History), Prof Laura Moretti (University of Cambridge, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Japanese Studies), and Dr James Harry Morris (National Institutes for the Humanities (Center for Innovative Research).

Launch 

Saturday 17 October 2026

9.00 (USA Eastern Time), 14.00 (British Summer Time), 22.00 (Japan Standard Time)

on Zoom

Click here to register 

The event will introduce all the functionalities of Kusa and

will launch the Beta version inviting projects to join the next development phase.

The launch will be in English.

A separate event will be hosted in Japanese at a later date.

 *While it suits me to email outside normal working hours, I do not expect a response outside your working hours.*

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Prof Laura Moretti   BA, MA(Cantab), PhD

教授　ラウラ・モレッティ
Professor of Early Modern Japanese Literature and Culture
Head of Department and co-Chair of the Faculty
Department of East Asian Studies
Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
University of Cambridge

Emmanuel College
Fellow & Director of Studies (AMES)

  
Recent publications 

Graphic Narratives from Early Modern Japan: The World of Kusazōshi (Brill, 2024), edited with Prof Satō Yukiko (The University of Tokyo).
Book launch podcast (New Books Network)
Book launch at the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation (video)

Pleasure in Profit. Popular Prose in Seventeenth-Century Japan. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. Named a 2021 Choice Outstanding Academic Title; shortlisted for the 2021 DeLong Book History Prize.

"The Ise monogatari in Eighteenth-Century Kibyōshi," 255–302. In  Joshua S. Mostow, Tokurō Yamamoto, and Kurtis Hanlon (eds.), An Ise monogatari Reader (Brill, 2021).

Adaptation as a Strategy for Participation: The Chikusai Storyworld in Early Modern Japanese Literature. Japanese Language and Literature, 54/1 (March 2020): 67-113.

Recasting the Past: An Early Modern Tales of Ise for Children. Leiden: Brill, 2016.

Other activities 
Summer School in Japanese Early-modern Palaeography 

YouTube page Japanese Early Modern Palaeography