{"id":2321,"date":"2022-01-16T12:43:45","date_gmt":"2022-01-16T11:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sfej.asso.fr\/?p=2321"},"modified":"2022-01-16T12:43:46","modified_gmt":"2022-01-16T11:43:46","slug":"conference-rakugo-as-variety-entertainment-%e2%87%86-rakugo-as-literature-26-janvier-2022-18h-heure-de-tokyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sfej.asso.fr\/?p=2321","title":{"rendered":"Conf\u00e9rence \/ \u00ab\u00a0Rakugo\u00a0as Variety Entertainment\u00a0\u21c6\u00a0Rakugo\u00a0as Literature\u00a0\u00bb (26 janvier 2022, 18h Heure de Tokyo)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u00c9cole Francaise d\u2019Extr\u00eame-Orient EFEO<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Scuola Italiana di Studi sull’Asia Orientale ISEAS<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

KYOTO LECTURES 202<\/strong>2 ON ZOOM<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Wednesday,<\/strong> January 26th, 18:00 JST<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

co-hosted by\u00a0Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University<\/strong>\u00a0<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Rakugo as Variety Entertainment <\/strong>\u21c6<\/strong> Rakugo as Literature<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Speaker: M.W. Shores<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Unlike the arts of n\u014d, kabuki and bunraku, Japan\u2019s comic storytelling art rakugo rarely gets termed \u2018literature\u2019. This has to do with the fact that it\u2019s an oral tradition without formal scripts, and because intellectuals have long viewed rakugo as uncouth, unsophisticated variety entertainment. Still, some label rakugo a \u2018classical\u2019 (koten<\/em>) art. Truth be told, many still aren\u2019t sure what to make of rakugo, so it gets overlooked. But rakugo is many things, literature included. The art is intimately linked to more conventional literature (on the page), both early modern and modern. Yet, some become alarmed or offended at the suggestion that rakugo is literature. This is strange considering that rakugo makes up an immense body of work and serves as an extraordinary vessel for much that has otherwise vanished with history\u2014adages, customs, jokes, home remedies, poems, prejudices, profanity, recipes, songs, stories, wisdom, words, and more. This talk aims to challenge misguided perceptions of rakugo and how we define Japanese literature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

M.W. Shores<\/strong> is a scholar of Japanese literary arts and entertainment, with a focus on rakugo and its early-modern precursors, literary and otherwise. He began his career at Cambridge, where he was a fellow of Peterhouse. He has been Lecturer of Japanese at The University of Sydney since 2019. Shores has spent over a decade in Japan for research as well as apprenticeships with two prominent rakugo masters, and has directed Traditional Theater Training (TTT) at Kyoto Art Center since 2015. His recent monograph is The Comic Storytelling of Western Japan: Satire and Social Mobility in Kamigata Rakugo<\/em> (Cambridge University Press, 2021). For more see mwshores.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This lecture will be available only on Zoom.<\/strong> <\/strong>The meeting link will remain posted on the ISEAS website or the EFEO blog from January 24.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u00c9cole Francaise d\u2019Extr\u00eame-Orient EFEO Scuola Italiana di Studi sull’Asia Orientale ISEAS KYOTO LECTURES 2022 ON ZOOM Wednesday, January 26th, 18:00 JST co-hosted by\u00a0Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University\u00a0 Rakugo as Variety Entertainment \u21c6 Rakugo as Literature Speaker: M.W. Shores Unlike the arts of n\u014d, kabuki and bunraku,… Lire la suite<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":971,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualites","category-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sfej.asso.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sfej.asso.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sfej.asso.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sfej.asso.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sfej.asso.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sfej.asso.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2322,"href":"http:\/\/sfej.asso.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321\/revisions\/2322"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sfej.asso.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sfej.asso.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sfej.asso.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sfej.asso.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}