“Bamboo of the Tanabata Festival”
Owned by Tokyo Metropolitan Library
https://archive.library.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/da/detail?tilcod=0000000003-00008796
Join us on Thursday, June 4th, 5:00pm – 6:00pm in the Tateuchi Community Room for a lecture by Nobuko Horikawa.
In Edo Japan (1603-1868), kimono was more than just a fashionable object; kimono represented important social identities and cultural values. By examining stories and essays, woodblock prints, and paintings from that era, this talk will reveal the social worlds, aesthetic sensibilities, and imagination of pre-modern Japan. You will learn about how kimono signaled class, gender, and age; seasonal and literary motifs; and the vibrant fashion culture embraced across society during an important period of Japanese history.
About Nobuko Horikawa:
Nobuko Horikawa is an Assistant Teaching Professor of Japanese in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures at Seattle University. She teaches courses on Japanese language, culture, and literature. She received a Ph.D. in Classical Japanese Literature at the University of Washington in 2023. During her doctoral studies, she received the Washin Kai Fellowship in 2020-2021 and 2022-2023, which funded her research trip in Japan as well as her dissertation research and writing at UW. She completed a dissertation that illuminated life and poetry of a Japanese Zen nun, Taisei Shōan (1668-1712).
About the Japanese Program at Seattle University:
Seattle University’s Japanese Language and Culture Program provides students with a foundation to understand Japanese language, culture, and society. The program offers two years of language courses and cultural courses such as Japanese Culture and Civilization, Japanese Manga Classics, and Classical Japanese Culture and Literature. SU students can earn a Minor in Japanese. Seattle University has an exchange program with Sophia University in Tokyo Japan. Learn more at the program webpage: https://www.seattleu.edu/artsci/languages/japanese/.
Entry to the Garden is free from noon to closing for Free First Thursday.
Supported in part by 4Culture.
Final entry to the garden is 45 minutes before closing.