2023 Autumn Conference: Program

Dates: Saturday, October 21st and Sunday, October 22nd

Location: Hokkaido University


Saturday, October 21st (1 p.m. ~ ), Room W103

Opening Remarks by NAKAMURA Miharu

Special Panel: The Experience of the “Object”: Antiques and Folk Art as Thought

Keynote: MATSUBARA Tomoo

Presentations: YAMAMOTO Hayato, TANIGUCHI Sachiyo, SAKAMOTO Masaki


Sunday, October 22nd (10 a.m. ~ )

Individual Papers, Room W202


SHIMOOKA Yuka, Imitating Husbands, Disdain for Literati: Kunikida Haruko’s Texts from Taiwan aikoku fujin

CHOI, Stephen, “Children Writers” as Collective: Child-Adult Collaborative Works in Akai tori

SEGUCHI Masashi, Representations of “Empire” in Avant-garde Tanka

KOJIMA Akira, Revisiting Battlefields and Narrating Memories: Furuyama Komao’s Heitai ari ga aruita

ZHAO Zixuan, Reading Mishima Yukio from 21st Century China: Reception and New Readings

KANG Yuni, Tales of Those Left Behind: The “Repatriation Project” and Zainichi Korean Literature

MATSUMOTO Kai, The Collapse of the “Communal Eating”Myth: An analysis of Takase Junko’s Oishii gohan ga taberaremasu yōni


Individual Papers, Room W201


ASAI Kōyō, Nagata Mikihiko’s Newspaper Novels: Transforming into a Popular Writer

TANIGUCHI Norie, Ukiyo from Newspaper to Screen: An Analysis of Kaburaki Kiyokata’s Illustrations and Reception

YING Zhuangyuan, Yokomitsu Riichi’s “Kikai” and Kagaku honron

KOGA Yūki, On Edogawa Ranpo’s “Hiki heigei (kūchū shinshi)”: A Prototypical Long Novel

OGATA Dai, The Chatterley Trial and the Literati: Cooperation and Disconnection Between Writers, Publishers, and Literary Elites

LI Chuyan, Abe Kōbō’s Moetsukita chizu: Representations of Maps and Formations of the Other

SHIRAI Kōhei, Itsuki Hiroyuki’s Aozameta uma o miyo: Fake “Literature” and Mysteries

Closing Remarks by SHIMAMURA Teru