Joruri as Living Theater: Representations of Women in the Golden Age of Joruri in Early Modern Japan

这个项目是通过对当代joruri相关出版物的文本和视觉检查来研究18世纪joruri木偶剧中女性角色的表现。在AY2022的研究中，我不仅对女性角色的表现方式感兴趣，而且对女性表演者（特别是女性gidayu吟唱者）的历史角色及其未来的发展潜力感兴趣。在疫情相关的旅行限制放宽后，我于2022年11月在第16届亚洲研究年会上（捷克共和国奥洛穆茨帕拉基大学）以“从越界到文化：女性Gidayu Joruri表演者在男性主导的传统表演艺术中的角色”为主题发表了这一初步研究。我正在修改这份报告，准备在期刊上发表。并于2023年3月在美国波士顿举行的亚洲研究协会2023年年会上发表论文《上演悲剧：重新塑造伊莫山Onna Teikin（1771）的乡村景观》。在这次会议上，我加入了一个国际跨学科小组，从大的意义上探讨了日本文学中的“田园”主题（包括古典诗歌、戏剧、小说和当代流行文化）。我们正在考虑共同开发并在期刊上发表我们的论文。

This project is to conduct research on how female characters were represented in eighteenth-century joruri puppet theater through textual andvisual examination of contemporary joruri-related publications. In the research in AY2022, I became interested not only how female characters were represented, but the historical roles of the female performers (especially female gidayu chanters) and their potential development in the future. After the pandemic-related travel restrictions were relaxed, I presented this preliminary research at The 16th Annual Conference on Asian Studies (Palacky University Olomouc, the Czech Republic) as "From Transgression to Culture: The Roles of Female Gidayu Joruri Performers in the Male-Dominant Traditional Performative Arts" in November 2022. I am revising this presentation for potential journal publication. I also presented my paper "Staging Tragedy: Reinventing Rural Landscape in Imoseyama Onna Teikin (1771)" at the Association for Asian Studies 2023 Annual Conference (Boston, USA) in March 2023. In this conference, I joined an international and interdisciplinary panel that explored the theme of "pastoral" in Japanese literature in a large sense (including classical poetry, theater, novels, and contemporary pop culture). We are looking into developing and publishing our papers together in a journal issue.