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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.

Launch Video

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Introductory remarks
H. George Fletcher, Brooke Russell Astor Director for Special Collections
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Welcome                                                         
Paul LeClerc, President and CEO, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations
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Master of Ceremonies, Roger Keyes               
Curator, Ehon: The Artist and the Book in Japan
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Yumiko Mashima                                            
“Ehon: An Overview”
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Henry Smith                                                    
“Ehon Chūshingura: Pictures and the Imagination of History”
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Rachel Saunders                                              
“Patterns of Identity: Reading Kimono Design Books”
1:27:18
Keynote lecture, Roger Keyes
“Reading Ehon”
2:11:40
   
Afternoon sessions
Chaired by Marshall Weber, Booklyn Artists Alliance
2:47:50
Takashi Nakagawa
KAKUTO artists’ collective, Tokyo
2:53:40
Veronika Schäpers
Book artist, Tokyo
3:21:48
Clemens -TobiasLange
Director, CTL-Presse, Hamburg
3:49:35
Yoko Tawada
Poet, novelist, essayist, and playwright, Berlin
4:15:25
concluding remarks      4:47:30