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Yokai Series Lecture by Dr. Satoko Shimazaki
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Yokai Series Lecture by Dr. Satoko Shimazaki

June 9, 2021
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Join us for a special Zoom talk by Satoko Shimazaki on Vengeful Female Ghosts of Japan.

Satoko Shimazaki is a Professor of Japanese Literature in the Asian Languages and Culture Department at UCLA.

Register in advance for this meeting:

https://nmculture-org.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcpfuqtqD8vGtYbtutEjRjeDAnoK0gQKEcv

Dr. Shimazaki’s areas of research include early modern Japanese theater and popular literature; the modern history of kabuki; gender representation on the kabuki stage; sound and visual media; and the interaction of performance, print, and text. Dr. Shimazaki was a contributor to the Museum of International Folk Art’s publication, Yokai: Ghosts, Demons, & Monsters of Japan (Museum of New Mexico Press, 2019). Her first book, Edo Kabuki in Transition: From the Worlds of the Samurai to the Vengeful Female Ghost (Columbia University Press, 2016), was awarded the John Whitney Hall Book Award.

Articles and book chapters nclude:

“Ghosts & Demons in Japanese Theatrical Performance” In Yokai: Ghosts, Demons, & Monsters of Japan, edited by F. Katz-Harris, 105-132. Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press, 2019.

“The End of the ‘World’: Tsuruya Nanboku IV’s Female Ghosts and Late Tokugawa Kabuki,” Monumenta Nipponica 66, no. 2 (2011).

“The Ghost of Oiwa in Actor Prints: Confronting Disfigurement,” Impressions: The Journal of the Japanese Art Society

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