Japanese Early Modern Palaeography

***Please note that slight changes could be made to the programme before the start of the Summer School***

Monday 8 August 2022
The protagonists of the publishing business
Learning mode: interactive lectures and individual work

We will be reading extracts from 『人倫訓蒙図彙』
蒔絵師源三郎画, 平楽寺 [ほか2名], 元禄3 [1690]
Link to みんなで翻刻 (available at the start of the summer school)

9.00-10.30
1. 紙屋 (vol. 4, 6r-6v) & 唐紙師 (vol. 6, 又11v)

10.45-12.15
2. 板木彫 (vol. 6, 4r-4v)
3. 表紙屋 (vol. 6, 5r)

14.00-15.30
4. 本屋 (vol. 4, 6v-7v)

***Booster session***
15.45-17.30 (TAs Freddie Feilden, Joseph Bills)
経師 (vol. 5, 3r-3v)

Tuesday 9 August 2022
The author and beyond
Learning mode: small-group work

9.00-10.30
『腹之内戲作種本』 (1v-2r)
式亭三馬 戯作, 小川よし丸 画. 鶴屋喜右衛門, 文化8 [1811]
Link to みんなで翻刻 (available at the start of the summer school)

10.45-12.15/14.00-15.30
『宝船黄金桅』(1v-2r)
東里山人( 鼻山人 ) 作、勝川春扇( 勝川春好二世 ) 画. 文化15 [1818]
Not on みんなで翻刻


***Booster session***
15.45-17.30 (TA Joseph Bills)
『腹之内戲作種本』 (4r)
Printed edition: beginner and intermediate level
Preparatory manuscript (sōkōbon 草稿本): advanced level

Wednesday 10 August 2022
Book-trade catalogues and blurbs
Learning mode: group work and presentations

For beginner students (morning transcriptions, 9.00-12.15; afternoon presentation, 14.00-14.30)
『新書籍目録』(Kyoto: Nagata Chōhee, 1729)
Inside back cover
Link to みんなで翻刻 (available at the start of the summer school)

For intermediate students (morning transcriptions, 9.00-12.15; afternoon presentation, 14.30-15.00)
『増益書籍目』(Osaka: Kawachiya Rihee, 1696)
Introduction (vol. 1, 1r-2r)
Link to みんなで翻刻 (available at the start of the summer school)

For advanced students (morning transcriptions, 9.00-12.15; afternoon presentation, 15.00-15.30)
『書籍目録』(Kyoto: Takemura Shinbee, 1772)
Last folio (recto and verso)
Link to みんなで翻刻 (available at the start of the summer school)

***Booster session***
15.45-17.30 (TA Joseph Bills)
『袖鑑万物蔵』[1853]
Back matter (blurbs)

Thursday 11 August 2022
Paratextual delights
Learning mode: individual and group work

For beginners (individual work morning 9.00-11.45; checking together 11.45-12.15)
Publicity for 養生主論
Not on みんなで翻刻

For intermediate and advanced students (group work morning; 9.00-12.15)
Zōhan mokuroku from 『雁金紺屋作早染』 (Edo: Tsuruya Kiemon, 1826)
Not on みんなで翻刻


14.00-15.30
For all students (individual work)
『日本唐土／二千年袖鑑』（Osaka: Naraya Shōhee, late Edo period)
Not on みんなで翻刻

***Booster session***
15.45-17.30 (TA Freddie Feilden)
『邯鄲諸国物語』
Back matter (advertisement): beginner and intermediate level
Back matter (advertisement): advanced level
Not on みんなで翻刻

Friday 12 August 2022
Voices: publishers, authors, illustrators
Learning mode: mixed

For beginner students (individual work morning 9.00-11.00; checking together 11.15-11.45)
『三幅對紫曾我』 (15v)
戀川春町 画. [鱗形屋], [安永7 (1778)]
Link to みんなで翻刻 (available at the start of the summer school)

For intermediate students (individual work morning 9.00-11.00; checking together 11.45-12.15)
『箱入娘面屋人魚』 (1r)
京傳 作, 蔦唐丸 [寛政3 (1791)]
Link to みんなで翻刻 (available at the start of the summer school)

For advanced students (group work morning 9.00-12.15; presentation afternoon, 14.00-15.30)
引札　松木平吉 大黒屋
Link to みんなで翻刻 (available at the start of the summer school)

15.45-17.30
Interactive lecture: excerpt from 『仇討稚孝談』
硯亭墨山 作, 喜多川月麿画 [文化8 (1811)]
Link to みんなで翻刻 (available at the start of the summer school)

Monday 15 August 2022
Block cutters and printers
Learning mode: interactive lecture
Workshop and guest lecture I

9.00-12.15, interactive lecture
『類集撰要』 vol. 46 寛保二年
Link to みんなで翻刻 (available at the start of the summer school)

Afternoon (starting at 14.00)
Lecture by Dr Ellis Tinios: “The Use, Reuse and Abuse of Printing Blocks.“

Hands-on workshop with block cutter Nagai Saeko and printer Ogawa Nobuto from the Sekioka Mokuhanga studio in Tokyo.

Tuesday 16 August 2022
Legislating the business of books
Learning mode: Pair work
Guest lecture II

9.00-10.30
Lecture from Prof Satō Yukiko (The University of Tokyo) on the regulations about the publishing business

10.45-12.15, pair work
『類集撰要』 vol. 46 貞享元年
Link to みんなで翻刻 (available at the start of the summer school)

14.00-15.30, pair work
『享保撰要類集』 vol. 11 享保６年
Link to みんなで翻刻 (available at the start of the summer school)

***Booster session***
15.45-17.00 (TA Freddie Feilden)
秋田屋市兵衛和漢書物処引札

Wednesday 17 August 2022
The wonders of paper I
Learning mode: pair work

All day (with Moretti and TAs Freddie Feilden, Joseph Bills)
Different pairs will be transcribing different sections of:
『紙漉重宝記』
国東治兵衛 著, 靖中庵桃渓 画. 秋田屋太右衛門[ほか3名], 文政7 [1824]
More details on the day
Link to みんなで翻刻 (available at the start of the summer school)

Thursday 18 August 2022
The wonders of paper II
Learning mode: group work and presentations
Guest lecture III

9.00-12.00
Project with an e-sugoroku boardgame for beginner students (group work)
Project leader: Bianca Chui
『紙名尽寿語六』
Not on みんなで翻刻


9.00-12.00
Intermediate and advanced students (group work)
Transcription of various paper adverts
Not on みんなで翻刻

14.00-15.30
Lecture from Prof Cynthia Brokaw (Brown University) on printing in China

15.45-17.00
Presentations on 『紙名尽寿語六』 and on one paper advert (afternoon)

Friday 19 August 202
Readers in the Edo period & Testing AI
Learning mode: mixed

9.00-10.30, interactive lecture
Passages from hand-written 稗史鈔
Not on みんなで翻刻


10.45-12.15, individual work
Reading and more “action”: the back of a movable shunga
Link to みんなで翻刻 (available at the start of the summer school)

14.00-17.00, individual work
Correcting passages transcribed by AI-app MIWO みを from different sources (titles TBC)
The online page for MIWO みを notes the following:
「みを」のAIくずし字認識は決して完璧ではありません。くずし字認識結果には誤りが含まれることがありますので、ユーザご自身でご確認ください。また本センターは、くずし字認識の誤りに関するお問い合わせは受け付けておりません。誤りのない翻刻をご希望の場合は、企業や個人が提供する翻刻サービスなどをご利用下さい。
This session asks you to act as those who provide 翻刻サービス 🙂