- Business Overview
- 2018 Kyoto Studies Lecture “Born in Kyoto ~Miyako’s Culture Origin~”
- Application
- A special course will be held again this year
- Inquiries
Business Overview
The University Consortium Kyoto has been publishing the results of its research in Kyoto studies as the “Kyoto Studies Course” at Plaza College, which was established in 2001. Since 2009, we have been conducting an annual theme from among various events related to Kyoto as part of the Kyoto Skills Development Course at Miyako College, a lifelong learning project that opens up the university’s knowledge resources to the community, which is operated in cooperation with Kyoto City. This will be the 18th time the course has been held in 2018.
Kyoto City Collaborative Project
2018 Kyoto Studies Lecture “Born in Kyoto ~Miyako’s Culture Origin~”
- Outline of the event
- Kyoto has been the capital for a long time, and has created a variety of things and cultures in the eternal time. There is an extremely wide variety of things that originated in Kyoto, from the culture of Furyu and tea ceremony represented by the Gion Festival in ancient times, to the folk songs of recent years and brassieres as women’s underwear. This year, we will develop a course that focuses on Tokoton, who was born in Kyoto. We would like to invite a more diverse group of instructors than in previous years, and think together with all the students about how each thing and culture was born in Kyoto and how they were passed on to the whole Mr./Ms. country.
- Date
- Saturday, May 19, 2018 ~ Saturday, December 1, 2018 Capacity for each course: 250 people
【Morning Course】 10:00~11:30 ( Reception 9:30~ )
【Afternoon Course】 12:30~14:00 ( Reception 12:00~ )
* Since 2017, the capacity of each of the “Morning Course” and “Afternoon Course” has been increased to 250 people. Please apply for one of the courses. Both lectures have the same content. If the capacity of each course is exceeded, the number of students will be selected by lottery. In addition, please note that you cannot change the course after application or take other courses after the course has started.
* A total of 10 basic courses + 2 practical courses (practical courses vary in time and place)
In preparation for the opening of the 2018 Kyoto Studies Course, a special lecture will be held on Saturday, March 10 (registration required, admission is free). - Venue
- Campus Plaza Kyoto, 4th Floor, Lecture Room 2
(Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto-shi, Nishitoin-dori, Shiokoji) - Fees
- 10,000 yen (10 basic courses)
* Practical courses require a separate fee. - Contents
- University Consortium Kyoto Kyoto Skills Training Course Kyoto Studies Course Pamphlet [PDF]
1st May 19 (Sat) “Gion Festival’s Mountain Parade ~”Mountain, Bowl, and Food Food Events” and Kyoto~”
Lecturer: Akira Hashimoto, Curator, The Museum of Kyoto
In 2016, the Kyoto Gion Festival’s Yamaboko event, along with 32 mountain, halberd, and food stall events nationwide, was registered as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO. Among them, the pilgrimage of the Kyoto Gion Festival is recognized as the origin of similar festival events that have developed throughout Japan, but the mountain hoko that appears in the Kyoto Gion Festival is actually a solitary existence as a structure. In this course, we will examine the position of the Gion Festival in Kyoto as the birthplace of the float festival by comparing it with festivals in other countries.
Session 2: June 2 (Sat) “Kinji Imanishi ~From Kitayama, Kyoto to Unknown Nature~”
Lecturer: Mr. Goro Iwatsubo, Member of the Bachelor Mountain Association, Kyoto University, Member of the Japan Mountain Association
Lecturer: Toru Yagi, Professor, Faculty of History, Bukkyo University
Kinji Imanishi was born in Nishijin, Kyoto in 1902 (Meiji 35), and established an organization for climbing Kitayama in Kyoto in Kyoto Ichichu, an organization for the first ascent of the Japan Alps at Mitaka and Kyoto University, and established AACK (Academic Alpine Cub of Kyoto) Kyoto Bachelor Mountain Association for the purpose of making the first ascent of the Himalayas in May 1931 (Showa 6). The history of Imanishi’s mountaineering expedition research has been a dialectical development of goal formulation and organization development. This is where his leadership character comes in. Imanishi told us juniors that the conditions for a leader are popularity, a sense of mission, and insight.
Session 3: June 23 (Sat) “Bras and Kyoto ~Western-style clothing culture rooted through underwear from the thousand-year-old city where traditional culture lives~”
Lecturer: Ryo Ishiseki, Director/Curator, Curator, Curatorial Division, Kyoto Costume Culture Research Foundation
Lecturer: Nozomi Haruna, Manager, Public Relations & Advertising Section, Public Relations & Advertising Department, General Planning Office, Wacoal Corporation
After the war, Wacoal was one of the first to create and take root in Japan’s underwear culture with the philosophy of making women around the world more beautiful as women’s fashion changed drastically from kimono to Western-style clothing. In addition to introducing Wacoal’s history and its relationship with Kyoto, we will unravel the origins of bras and other underwear, their history in the West, and their relationship with fashion.
Session 4: July 21 (Sat) “Painting Education at “Japan’s First Kyoto Painting School” ~Calligraphy, Sketching, and Copying~”
Lecturer: Tatsuya Tajima, Professor, Faculty of Fine Arts, Kyoto City University of Arts
The Kyoto Prefectural School of Painting, which opened in 1880 (Meiji 13), was the first public art school in Japan, and has a history of nearly 140 years until today’s Kyoto City University of Arts. What has changed from the traditional art education of apprenticeship to a master when it became a school? Also, in the changing times of the Meiji, Taisho, Showa, and Heisei eras, how have you responded to changes in your view of art? We will introduce it based on the materials and works in the Kyoto City University of Arts Art Museum.
Session 5: Saturday, September 1 “The Birth of Elementary School ~Relationship between School and Local Community, Relationship between Art Education and Crafts~”
Lecturer: Kotaro Wasaki, Curator, Kyoto City Museum of School History
Lecturer: Mitsuhiko Mori, Curator, Kyoto City Museum of School History
In Meiji 2 (1869), Japan’s first district-based elementary school, “Program Elementary School,” was born in Kyoto. The program elementary school in Kyoto, which was created by reorganizing the town gumi, which has been an autonomous organization since the Muromachi period, has been greatly operated by the local people until now. In this course, we will talk about the relationship between the school and the community, which is unique to Kyoto, which is derived from this history. We will also look at the unique art education that was conducted in elementary schools in Kyoto, where crafts were thriving.
Session 6: Saturday, September 29 “The Birth of Kabuki and Kyoto”
Lecturer: Toshihiko Saito, Associate Professor, Department of History and Culture, Faculty of History, Bukkyo University
At the end of the turbulent Sengoku period, a performing art was born in Kyoto. It’s Kabuki. Yayako Odori, a dance of innocent girls, evolves into a kabuki dance that imitates the cutting-edge kabuki by the Akuni Geishan of Izumo. Eventually, it was sublimated into a male-only theater and became a representative performing art of the Edo period, which continues to this day. In this course, I would like to think about the birth of kabuki and its path to great success together with Mr./Ms., focusing on the country of Izumo.
7th October 13 (Sat) “Manga and anime (from caricatures of birds and beasts) ~ Why was the International Manga Museum established in Kyoto~”
Lecturer: Kazuma Yoshimura, Professor, International Manga Research Center, Kyoto Seika University
I am often asked, “Why did you build a manga museum in Kyoto?” and “Why do you need to teach manga at a university?” It’s not because there were caricatures of birds and beasts, which are said to be the origin of manga, in Kyoto. There are not many manga artists from Kyoto. So, what is the relationship between Kyoto and manga? We will consider this question from a historical and present perspective, expanding our perspective to include anime.
No.8 October 27 (Sat) “Talking about the starting point of folk ~1960s Kyoto folk and youth culture~”
Lecturer: Yuzo Toyoda, folk singer, blues singer, essayist
Lecturer: Tomoo Kawashima, Professor, Faculty of Contemporary Home Economics, Kyoto Kacho University
Born in Kyoto in the 1960s, Kansai folk has a strong message and has spread throughout the country. Their activities are represented by the Folk Crusaders of “Yoppalai Returned”, but the contemporary singer Yuzo Toyoda is still active as a singer, and he was the party who remodeled the live house that became his base from a sake brewery. Tomoo Kawashima, who is also a researcher of the history of sake brewery culture, will listen to the secret story of the birth of the early days of folk 50 years ago, which he experienced in real time.
9th November 17 (Sat) “The Beginning of the Tea Ceremony ~From Shoin Tea to Soan Tea~”
Lecturer: Mr. Munetaka Yamaoka, Professor Hayamizu Ryu of Tea Ceremony
The custom of tea ceremony was practiced mainly in Zen Buddhist temples in the Kamakura period, and developed in the Muromachi period, where it was held at meeting halls and yoriai. In Ashikaga Yoshimitsu’s Muromachi hall, there was a room called the tea bathhouse, where tea was made and brought to the tatami room, and tea was served in the amusement hall. Then, the culture of tea called Shoin no cha spread, but then it shifted to the tea of Murata Tamamitsu’s Soan, which aspired to a mountain residence in the city, and passed through the townspeople of Sakai, and was succeeded by his disciple Sen Rikyu.
No.10 December 1 (Sat) “The Origins of Kyoto Cuisine and Creative Heian Dynasty Cuisine”
Lecturer: Mr. Hiroyuki Horiba, Chairman of Kyoto Cuisine Rokumori
In commemoration of the 1200th anniversary of the founding of the Heian capital, in 1994, Hiroyuki Horiba, the third generation of Rokumori, revived the Heian aristocracy’s formal dinner, which can be said to be the source of Kyoto cuisine. The aperitif, which is followed by the “medicinal sake,” is followed by a high plate of rice called “omono” in the center, and around it is a circumferential arrangement of “owari” (dried meat, steamed abalone, etc.) decorated with gold-painted vessels. After that, the menu continues until the twelve. We will introduce the “creative Heian Dynasty cuisine” created and reproduced based on meticulous historical facts, along with beautiful photographs.
On-the-job training
In the Kyoto Studies Course, we not only offer lecture-style courses, but also “hands-on courses” in which students can actually experience Kyoto in the field. This hands-on course is as follows.
* To participate in the practical course, you need to apply for Kyoto College students (see below). To apply, as a Kyoto College student, you will apply for 10 basic courses, and at that time, you will be required to apply for the practical course of your choice. Please note that if there are many applications, a lottery will be held.
Hands-on lecture (1) July 14 (Sat) 13:00~15:00 (planned) “Talking about Kyoto Folk at the historic building Gojo Kaikan ~Live music by Yuzo Toyoda~”
Capacity: 40 people (if there are many applications, a lottery will be held) Participation fee: 3,000 yen
Performance: Yuzo Toyoda, folk singer, blues singer, essayist
Description: Tomoo Kawashima, Professor, Faculty of Contemporary Home Economics, Kyoto Kacho University
Gojo Kaikan is the only completely wooden kabuki hall built in 1915 in Kyoto’s flower district, and is now almost unveiled, so to speak. In the Pier Hall on the second floor, which retains the primitive image of a modern kabuki training hall, a special live performance “Singing Kyoto” by singer Yuzo Toyoda will be held. At the same time, Tomoo Kawashima will explain the characteristics of Gojo Kaikan from the standpoint of architectural history.
* There is no air conditioning or elevator at the venue. Please refer to other precautions in the recruitment guide.
Practical lecture (2) December 8 (Sat) 12:00~14:00 (planned) (Meet and dismiss at the site) “Kyoto cuisine and hand-made bento ~With creative Heian Dynasty cuisine~”
Capacity: 60 people (if there are many applications, a lottery will be held) Participation fee: 9,000 yen
Commentary: Mr. Hiroyuki Horiba, Chairman of Kyoto Cuisine Rokumori
Description: Kazuhiko Kobayashi, Professor, Faculty of Cultural Studies, Kyoto Sangyo University, Director, Institute of Japan Culture
Founded in 1898 (Meiji 32), Rokumori is proud of its cuisine called “Teke Bento”. This bento box is made by Seiji Nakagawa, an Important Intangible Cultural Property holder and National Treasure of Japan, and is filled with seasonal ingredients in a beautiful hand-pail painted on the inside of a white wooden tub. For this course, we will prepare a “special hand-held bento” with creative Heian Dynasty cuisine. Works made by human national treasures = Please enjoy Kyoto cuisine while picking up the bowl.
Application
“I was born in Kyoto ~The culture that originated in Miyako~”
The Kyoto Studies Course is one of the courses at Kyoto College. If you wish to take the 10 basic courses and practical courses, you need to apply as a “Kyoto College student”.
- How to apply
- Please apply using the application form attached to the Kyoto College Student Recruitment Guide (scheduled to be issued on March 6).
- Documents to be submitted
- (1) 1 copy of the application form *Please use the application form for the Kyoto Studies Course.
(2) 1 photo of Kyoto College membership card (3 cm in length × 3 cm in width)
* Please attach it to the “Application Form Submission Confirmation Sheet” enclosed in the recruitment guide. - Reception period
- 《Mail》Tuesday, March 6, 2018 ~ Saturday, March 17, 2018
*If you wish to bring your own, please do so on March 16 (Fri) and 17 (Sat) 10:00~16:00 at Campus Plaza Kyoto. - Destination
- University Consortium Kyoto (in charge of Kyoto College) * For the address, please refer to “Contact Information”
Kyoto College Link https://www.consortium.or.jp/project/sg/details - Payment of tuition fees
- Please make a payment using the transfer form enclosed when you send the notification of the result of the course by mail.
* The basic course is free of charge for regular students of the University Consortium Kyoto member schools (excluding graduate school and correspondence course students) and non-degree students of all courses at the Kyoto Study Center of the Open University of Japan. Please be sure to attach a copy of your student ID card to your application form.
[Note]
1. For details on how to apply and precautions, please refer to the Kyoto College Student Recruitment Guide.
2. Please note that if the capacity is exceeded, the admission will be decided by lottery.
3. Information on whether or not you can attend will be mailed by mid-April.
4. Please refrain from making inquiries about whether or not you can take the course.
5. Please note that once the tuition fee has been paid, it will not be refunded.
◆ About each course
It is not possible to take each lecture one at a time.
However, the basic course is limited to 25 students each time, and regular students from the University Consortium Kyoto member schools (excluding graduate school and correspondence courses, etc.) and all non-degree students of the Open University Kyoto Study Center can take the course at a time.
Take a look below.
◆ Regular students of the University Consortium Kyoto member schools can take one of the basic courses (free of charge, capacity 25 people)
“Regular students of member schools” are regular students of the Consortium of Universities of Kyoto (excluding graduate schools and correspondence courses) and students enrolled in all courses at the Kyoto Study Center of the Open University of Japan. If you wish to take one course at a time, please come directly to the venue on the date and time of the course you wish to take in the basic course, and be sure to show your student ID at the reception. The course is free of charge. Please note that if the capacity of 25 people is satisfied, the course may be refused. In order to participate in the practical course, you must apply for the 10 basic courses as a Kyoto College student, so please be sure to attach a copy of your student ID card and apply within the application period using the application method on the left.
A special course will be held again this year
*Application has been closed.
We will hold a commemorative course for the opening of the 2018 Kyoto College and Kyoto Studies Course “Born in Kyoto”. This time, KBS Kyoto announcers Nami Endo and Kazu Kaihira will be invited to talk with Toru Yagi, a professor at the Department of History at Bukkyo University, about the hardships, joys, and things they strive to do as announcers at a broadcasting station in Kyoto, as well as various cultures that originated in Kyoto.
Commemorating the opening of the 2018 Kyoto Studies Course
Special Lecture Saturday, March 10, 2018
“Women who convey Kyoto ~Transmission from Kyoto to the world~”
Lecturer: Nami Endo (KBS Kyoto announcer)
Lecturer: Kazu Kaihira (KBS Kyoto announcer)
Lecturer: Toru Yagi (Professor, Faculty of History, Bukkyo University)
Time: 10:30~12:00 (Doors open at 10:00)
Venue: Campus Plaza Kyoto, 4th floor, Lecture Room 2
Capacity: 250 people (advance registration) * If there are many applications, a lottery will be held.
Admission: Free
Inquiries
In charge of Kyoto College (Kyoto Studies), Consortium of Universities
〒600-8216 Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto-shi, Nishitoin-dori, Shiokoji Campus Plaza Kyoto 1st floor
TEL．075-353-9140 FAX．075-353-9121
MAIL: miyakare ■ consortium.or.jp (Please change ■ to @ and send)
* Inquiries reception hours: Tuesday ~ Saturday 9:00 ~ 17:00 (excluding year-end and New Year holidays)
