Utagawa Kuniyoshi 歌川国芳. Soma no furu-dairi ni Masakado no himegimi Takiyasha. 1845-1846. Woodblock print. British Museum, 2008,3037.20106.© The Trustees of the British Museum
“Wicked” History in Print: Thoughts on Utagawa Kuniyoshi’s (1797-1861) Triptych, ‘Takiyasha the Witch and the Skeleton Demon’
- 15 May 2025
- 6:00pm – 7:00pm (BST)
- Online
- https://www.sainsbury-institute.org/events/wicked-history-in-print-thoughts-on-utagawa-kuniyoshis-1797-1861-triptych-takiyasha-the-witch-and-the-skeleton-demon/
- 01603 597507
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THIRD THURSDAY LECTURE - SAINSBURY INSTITUTE
Dr Pauline Ota (Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Fellow 2024-2025)
About the Talk
Full details to be announced
About the Speaker
Pauline Ayumi Ota is an art historian whose research examines late eighteenth and early nineteenth century cityscapes/views of Kyoto, early modern Japanese maps, and the supernatural in Japanese art. She holds an appointment in the Department of Art and Art History as Associate Professor of Art and Art History (History of Japanese Art), as well as serves as a member of the Asian Studies Program Steering Committee and the Global Studies Fellows Program Steering Committee, at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana (USA).
Dr. Ota’s recent publications include “Mapping the Yodo River and its Banks” in Artibus Asiae from 2020 and the December 2021 Andon article, “The Poetry of Play: Hybridity in Amusements of the Four Seasons of Kyoto.” She is also finalizing her book manuscript, Seeing the City Anew: Maruyama Ōkyo’s Cityscapes of Kyoto, 1758-1790 and Their Afterimages.
Online lecture via Zoom.
50 min lecture followed by Q&A.
Free and open to all, booking essential.
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