807 Schermerhorn Hall
RSVP mandatory by October 13 to receive QR code for campus entry. RSVP to Midori Oka: mo2486@columbia.edu. This lecture will be both in-person and on Zoom. A Zoom link will be provided at a later date.
The selection of scenes, or which kinds of episodes to depict, and how to portray them were major challenges in the production of The Tale of Genji paintings. Pictures that gained more support in terms of pictorial quality or the legitimacy of narrative understanding led to the standardization of patterns, and such graphic traditions sometimes had more normative power than the original texts. This was particularly noticeable in smaller-scale Genji paintings from the middle to the early modern periods. What about in the case of larger-scale folding screens? This lecture will introduce screens from the late 16th to the 17th century and the new and distinct visual language that departed from previously established pictorial systems depicting themes from The Tale of Genji.