Visit of Professor Yamamoto Tokuro to Ireland and the U.K.

[MacMillan Office]

Colleagues,

Professor Yamamoto, The Tales of Ise expert who directed my translation of the Tales, will be accompanying me to Ireland and the U.K. this September. I will give two talks on the translation, one at Trinity College Dublin and one at the Chester Beatty Library on the 5th and 6th of September and another one in London at the Japan Society on the 8th. All events are open to the public and I hope PMJS members will kindly attend. 

Professor Yamamoto would like to give a talk during his visit and would be willing to travel outside both of the cities mentioned or even consider other European countries. He has spent over 40 years studying the Tales and has an extraordinary and vast knowledge on the subject, all of which he carries remarkably lightly; he would prefer to lecture in Japanese, so his talk might be appropriate for graduate or undergraduate students of Japanese literature or culture.  He has also just published a short book in reading the Tales through images, which is illustrated beautifully and images from that book would make a pleasant lecture for a general audience. 

If any individual or institution could host Professor Yamamoto could you write  to him directly at:

NQJ0...@nifty.com

Below is a brief profile:

山本登朗（やまもと　とくろう）

 京都大学大学院修了

現在　関西大学文学部教授

博士（文学）（関西大学）

研究領域

平安時代の和歌・漢詩・日記・物語、特に伊勢物語とその享受史、伊勢物語の絵画

主要業績

『菅原道真』　小島憲之と共著　1998年　研友出版

『伊勢物語論　文体・主題・享受』　単著　2001年　笠間書院

『伊勢物語　成立と享受』　全2冊　単編著　2008～2010年　竹林舎

『伊勢物語版本修正』　単編著　2011年　竹林舎