1997 Asiatic Society of Japan lectures

Officers and Councilors

January 27 (Mon) (Annual General Meeting precedes the lecture)

"Adolfo Farsari, an Italian photographer in Meiji Japan"

Prof. Lia Beretta
(the lecture will be followed by light refreshments)

February 24 (Mon)

"On the Track of Anglo-Japanese Relations: The Story of Viscount Masaru Inoue, "Father" of the Japanese Railways"

Miss Yumiyo Yamamoto

March 25 (Tue)

"The Meanings of "Culture" in Japan
Dr. Brian McVeigh

April 14 (Mon) (Japan Times Building) (joint meeting with The Japan Times)

"Below the Masthead: "The Japan Times" in the English Language Press History of Japan"

Mr. Peter O'Connor

May 19 (Mon)

"Garcia Hosokawa, Heroine of an Opera, 1698"

Rev. Dr. Thomas Immoos

June 16 (Mon)

"Arthur Waley and Japanese Literature"

Dr. Adrian J. Pinnington

September 22 (Mon)

"Auguste Rodin's Only Japanese Model, Hanako: The Differences between European and Japanese Responses"

Mr. Suketaro Sawada

October 20 (Mon)

"Minakata Kumagusu: His Eight Years in England"

Dr. Carmen Blacker

November 17 (Mon)
"Revisiting Meiji Japan: Views of Japan's First Western-Syle Buildings" (Illustrated with slides)
Mrs. Dallas Finn

December 5 (Fri) (French Embassy, 4-11-44 Minami Azabu, Minato-ku, Tokyo (near Hiroo Subway Station, Hibiya Line))
"Paul Claudel: A "Shinjin-Taishi" ("Diplomat-Poet") in Japan, 1921-1927"
Rev. Jacques Besineau, S.J.