Interactive Materialities: Interdependences between Written/Painted and Printed Artefacts in 17th Century Japan (B14*)

• Subject Area: Asian Studies
• Term: from 2019 to 2023
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 178035969

The subproject investigates the material and topological field of tension of written and painted codices and handscrolls during the liminal phase of the emerging typography in 17th century Japan. Methodologies based on art and literary history as well as praxeological investigations will be employed to address two thematic foci: The poet/author and painter Ihara Saikaku, and his negotiations between manuscripts and printed books on the one hand, and the literary and painting genre "dance books", (mai no hon), which was rendered in various materialities, on the other.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 933: Material Text Cultures. Materiality and Presence of Writing in Non-Typographic Societies
• Applicant Institution: Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
• Project Head: Professorin Dr. Melanie Trede