Participants: Bruce Winkelman, Carolyn Wargula, Dan Sherer, Emily Warren, Jillian Barndt, Lisa Kochinski, Nicolette Lee, and Matthew Chudnow.
2016 Kambun Workshop: Tôji Hyakugô Monjo
Professor Toshiko Takahashi
Professor Joan Piggott
The Project for Premodern Japan Studies 2016 Kambun Workshop focused on the Tōji Hyakugō Monjo, a massive document collection spanning several centuries that belonged to Tōji, a large temple. The collection consists of nearly 25,000 documents, most from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Professor Takahashi, a specialist on the collection who has spent her career at the University of Tokyo’s Historiographical Institute (Shiryō Hensanjo), led the workshop with Professor Joan Piggott of the USC History Department.
Participants worked with a variety of materials, including ones detailing elaborate temple ritual, estate conflicts, and descriptions of monkish parties. Professor Takahashi also gave a talk on using the online archives and the digitization of materials.
Media: 漢文ワークショップで東寺百合文書がテキストに取り上げられました
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