(Hybrid) Kyoto Lectures: Hayek on Picturing Good and Bad Fortune in Edo Japan, July 22 at 6 pm JST

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École française d’Extrême-Orient EFEO

Scuola Italiana di Studi sull'Asia Orientale ISEAS

co-hosted by Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University

KYOTO LECTURES 2025

Tuesday, July 22nd, 18:00 JST

Images of Fate: Picturing Good and Bad Fortune in Edo Japan

Speaker: Matthias Hayek

From day selection to weather forecasting, divination was widely used in Edo-period society, as evidenced by the variety of printed books and manuscripts produced on the subject. Many of these works include diagrams as well as images depicting the possible fates awaiting clients and readers. This lecture will sketch the history of such images, explore their distinctive features, and consider the role they may have played in shaping and disseminating social norms.

Matthias Hayek is Professor at the École Pratique des Hautes Études–PSL. His research focuses on the reception, adaptation, and uses of Chinese correlative cosmology in Japan. He is the author of Les Mutations du Yin et du Yang : divination, société et représentations au Japon, du vi^e au xix^e siècle (Collège de France, 2021).

This hybrid lecture will be held on site (registration from here) and via Zoom (meeting ID: 841 5714 8024).

Zoom link (https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84157148024)

Venue: EFEO Kyoto, 29 Kitashirakawa Bettō-chō, Sakyō-ku, Kyoto 606-8276

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