The Japanese Illustrated Book: Continuity and Change A symposium at The New York Public Library Wednesday, October 25, 9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

The Pforzheimer Lectures in the Book Arts, 2006
sponsored by the Pforzheimer Foundation

The New York Public Library
Humanities and Social Sciences Library
Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street
New York, New York 10018-2788

South Court Auditorium
Wednesday October 25th, 2006
via the 42nd Street entrance

Morning

9:00

• Coffee; attendees sign in and obtain name tag

9:20

• Introductory remarks
  H. George Fletcher, Brooke Russell Astor Director for Special Collections

9:25

• Welcome
  Paul LeClerc, President and CEO, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations

9:35

• Master of Ceremonies, Roger Keyes
  Curator, Ehon: The Artist and the Book in Japan

9:45

• Yumiko Mashima
  “Ehon: An Overview”

10:15

• Henry Smith
  “Ehon Chūshingura: Pictures and the Imagination of History”

10:45 – 11:00

• coffee break

11:00

• Rachel Saunders
  “Patterns of Identity: Reading Kimono Design Books”

11:30

• Keynote lecture, Roger Keyes
  “Reading Ehon”

12:00 – 2:00

• box lunch, in Berger Forum

Afternoon sessions
Chaired by Marshall Weber, Booklyn Artists Alliance

2:00

• Takashi Nakagawa
  KAKUTO artists’ collective, Tokyo

2:30

• Veronika Schäpers
  Book artist, Tokyo

3:00

• Clemens Tobias-Lange
  Director, CTL-Presse, Hamburg

3:30 – 3:45

• coffee break

3:45

• Yoko Tawada
  Poet, novelist, essayist, and playwright, Berlin

4:15 – 4:30

• concluding remarks

4:30

• artists, in Berger Forum

6:00

• public lecture by Roger Keyes
  “Ehon: The Artist and the Book in Japan”
  South Court Auditorium
  Registration for Public Lecture