Public event: Experience Traditional Japanese Woodblock Printing (3 August 2024, University of Cambridge)

[Laura Moretti]

Dear Colleagues and Friends, 

If you happen to be in or around Cambridge on Saturday 3 August 2024, please join us at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge, for an exciting public event: Experience Traditional Japanese Woodblock Printing. An Interactive Workshop. 

This event is organized in conjunction with the eleventh edition of the Mitsubishi Corporation Summer School in Early Modern Japanese Palaeography. For all details and tickets please visit the link below. 

Experience Traditional Japanese Woodblock Printing – Japanese Early Modern Palaeography (wakancambridge.com)

With best wishes,

Laura 

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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
Director of Postgraduate Studies (AMES)

Undergraduate Coordinator for Japanese Studies
University of Cambridge, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

Emmanuel College
Fellow & Director of Studies (AMES)

  
Recent publications 

NEW OUT: Graphic Narratives from Early Modern Japan: The World of Kusazōshi (Brill, 6 February 2024), edited with Prof Satō Yukiko (The University of Tokyo).

 

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