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Royce 314Film Screening–Madame Minako: The Last Geisha of the Yoshiwara (2013)
Royce 314With introductory lectures by: The Director, Makoto Yasuhara (Filmmaker and Lecturer, Rikkyo University): “Stereotypes Revisited: Insights Gained from The Last Geisha” Kenji Watanabe (Professor Emeritus, Rikkyo University): “Early Modern Commoner Aesthetics” Director Makoto Yasuhara spent six years documenting the life of a geisha (literally, “a practitioner of the arts”) called Madame Minako. Until her death...
Reading to Write: Medieval Chinese Primers and Florilegia
Royce Royce Drive, Los Angeles, CAMembers of the literate class in medieval China (ca. 6th through 10th centuries) were called upon to produce literary works in a wide range of contexts, from drunken poetry competitions to the civil service exam. In this talk, CMRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar Christopher Nugent (Associate Professor of Chinese, Williams College) examines a number of the...
Beyond Mindfulness: Buddhism & Health in Global and Historical Perspective
Royce Royce Drive, Los Angeles, CAUCLA Center for Buddhist Studies present a colloquium by Professor C. Pierce Salguero, The Abington College of Penn State University Co-sponsored by the UCLA Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, UCLA Center for the Study of Religion, and UCLA Department of History. Salguero flyer
FILM SCREENING: THE HAUNTED SWORD
Copresented with The Japan Business Association of Southern California,The Japan Foundation, UCLA Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies, The Yanai Initiative, and the School of the Arts and Architecture, and Shochiku Co., Ltd. Drama, lust, vengeance, and haunted weaponry collide in this explosive Japanese kabuki. Famed female impersonator Tamasaburo V joins Kanzaburo XVIII and Nizaemon to...