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Thursday 10 February
09.40 Registration, including refreshments
10.00-10.05 Start of study day and welcome by Dr Chris Breward, Director of National Museums Scotland
10.05-10.30 Keynote presentation: Professor Yoshi Miki, National Museum of Japanese History
Session 1
Session Chair: Dr Sam Alberti, National Museums Scotland
10.30-10.50 Dr Louise Boyd, National Museums Scotland – From Edo to Edinburgh: Curating Japan at National Museums Scotland
10.50-11.00 Dr Kaori Hidaka, National Museum of Japanese History – History of Japanese lacquer work
11.00-11.10 Dr Junichi Okubo, National Museum of Japanese History Study of Ukiyo-e, landscape in later Edo period
11.10-11.20 Panel discussion
11.20-11.30 Short break
Session 2
Session Chair: Professor Frances Fowle, University of Edinburgh and National Galleries of Scotland
11.30-11.50 Rachel Peat, Royal Collection Trust – ‘Fit presents from a prince to a prince’ – Prince’s Alfred’s Japanese collection in Glasgow, 1881
11.50-12.10 Marjolein de Raat, Victoria and Albert Museum – The influence of Japanese needlework and design on ‘Glasgow Style’ embroidery
12.10-12.20 Cormac Grogan, Skaill House, Orkney – Henry Scharbau and the Skaill House Journals
12.20-12.30 Panel discussion
12.30-13.10 Break, with lunch
Session 3
Session Chair: Dr Antonia Laurence Allen, National Trust for Scotland
13.10-13.20 Marianne Fossaluzza, University of Aberdeen – Lost in Translation: E. A. Hornel’s perceived Japan between photographs and painting
13.20-13.40 Lindsay Leard-Coolidge, Independent Art Historian – The Influence of Japanese Prints on Scottish Printmaking and Gender Politics: Katharine Cameron, David Young Cameron, Mabel Royds, and Frank Morley Fletcher
13.40-14.00 Helen Smailes, National Galleries of Scotland – Scotland’s unlikeliest pioneer Japoniste? Sir William Fettes Douglas PRSA
14.00-14.10 Dr David Steel, Independent Art Historian – Hideo Furuta (1949-2007), a Japanese sculptor in Galloway
14.10-14.20 Panel discussion
14.20 End
Friday 11 February
09.40 Registration, including refreshments
10.00-10.05 Start of study day and welcome
Session 1
Session Chair: Dr Louise Boyd, National Museums Scotland
10.05-10.25 Takahiro Kondo, Artist – The influence of Scotland on my work
10.25-10.45 Kate Thomson, Artist – 30 years sculpting in Japan
10.45-11.05 Hironori Katagiri, Artist – Four decades of Scottish inspiration
11.05-11.15 Panel discussion
11.15-11.45 Morning break, with refreshments
Session 2
Session Chair: Dr Catriona McAra, University of St Andrews
11.45-12.10 Susan Christie, Independent Curator and Naoko Horiuchi, Arts Initiative Tokyo [AIT] Ittarikitari – to+fro
12.10-12.30 Su Grierson, Visual Artist – ’On our toes’ grassroots connections between Scottish and Japanese visual artists
12.30-12.50 Naoko Mabon, Curator and Ilana Halperin, Artist – International Conglomerate: Collaborations of Ilana Halperin and Naoko Mabon between Scotland and Japan
12.50-13.00 Panel discussion
13.00 End
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Rekihaku: https://www.rekihaku.ac.jp
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