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192nd Hakubi Seminar
"Tropical Ray Skins for the Japanese Market: Following the Trade Routes from India in the Early Modern Period"
- Speaker：Ikuko WADA (Hakubi 5th batch, Institute for Research in Humanities, Assistant Professor / Associate Professor, Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Okayama University)
- Date：9th March 2021 (Tuesday), 16:30-
- Venue：Zoom (Closed)
- Presentation Language：Japanese (some English)
Summary
Since ancient times, South Asia has been connected to the surrounding regions by both land and sea trade routes, and has supplied a wide variety of goods to various regions. Some of such traded goods, which may not have had a significant importance economically, had a cultural impact on a particular region. In this seminar, I will focus on ray skins from South Asian waters regarded as a kind of quality material for sword hilts in the early modern Japan. Here I will examine how tropical ray skins were imported from overseas to Tokugawa Japan and reconsider intra-regional relations in Asia from a new global perspective.
Commentators
- Katsura KOISHI (Hakubi 3th batch, Institute for Research in Humanities, Assistant Professor / Professor, School of Humanities, Kwansei Gakuin University)
Opening talk
My research project selected for JST FOREST program
- Speaker：Tomohiko TAKEI (Hakubi 8th batch, Graduate School of Medicine, Associate Professor)
- Presentation Language：English/Japanese
Summary
I’m going to introduce my research project that was selected for JST FOREST program
