Fukuhara, Japan's Continental Capital - A Lecture and Source-reading Workshop

  • Friday, February 25, 2011
  • 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  • USC (SOS 250)

Fukuhara, Japan's Continental Capital
 A Lecture and Source-reading Workshop by Professor Mikael Adolphson of the University of Alberta

Friday, February 25, 2011 1:00pm-5:00pm
University of Southern California
SOS 250
Directions and parking to USC University Park Campus

The lecture will begin at 1:00pm, and the workshop, during which Prof. Adolphson will lead us in reading relevant sources from Kujô Kanezane's journal, the Gyokuyô, in Kambun, will begin about 3:00pm.

Taira no Kiyomori (1118-81) moved the court, including the monarch Antoku who was his grandson, to Fukuhara in Settsu (present day Kobe) in 1180.

Why did he do so, and with what effect? Professor Adolphson will present his new research on Kiyomori’s activities in the area around Kobe. Therein he sees
the Taira as innovative and progressive, rather than as incompetent and tragic imitators.

Presented by the USC Project for Premodern Japan Studies and co-sponsored by the USC East Asian Studies Center.

For more information on this event, contact Prof. Joan Piggott in the USC History Department, joanrp@usc.edu