Joan Piggott: Gender in the Japanese Administrative Codes, An Ongoing Project

USC Meiji University Exchange

The Records of the Meiji University-USC Exchange

Since 2008, scholars and graduate students from Meiji University and throughout Southern California have met annually to share research on Premodern Japanese History at the University of Southern California . This is an archive of abstracts, papers, and materials presented at the exchanges.

Friday 12/6/2013, 11 AM – 11:45 PM, Waite Phillips Hall 104

Gender in the Japanese Administrative Codes, An Ongoing Project
Prof. Joan Piggott, History Department, USC

I will report on the ongoing project for which members (Yoshie, Ijuin, Piggott) are translating and annotating relevant sections of the Yôrô-era administrative code (ryô), two parts of which are now finished for publication. I will highlight particular challenges of the project and why I think such multilingual translation/annotation projects are critically important for the study of Japanese history.