| Abstract |

During the Edo period (1600-1868), several great festivals honoring the Tokugawa bakufu were staged in Edo in an annual rotation. These were the Sannō Festival, the Kanda Festival, and in 1714 the Nezu Festival. Each event was accompanied by an enormous parade, in which the three sponsoring shrines and supporting city wards presented portable shrines, huge floats, colorful exhibits, exuberant performances of music and dance, and much else. For the bakufu, the shrines, and ward residents the meaning of these festivals changed in conjunction with the social, economic, political, and religious contexts in which the celebrations were embedded. This talk will trace some of these changes in order better to understand what the great festivals of the city signified to sponsors, participants, and spectators alike.

| Bio |

Gerald Grömer, geboren in 1957 in den USA, studierte Klavier an der Peabody Institute of Music in Baltimore und Musikwissenschaft an der Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music. Von 1998 bis 2023 war er Professor an der University of Yamanshi in Kōfu (Japan), seit Sommer 2023 wohnt er in Wien. Viele seiner Zahlreichen Bücher und anderen Veröffentlichungen beschäftigen sich mit japanischen Strassenkünstlern und blinde Musikerinnen der Frühmoderne. Seit 2016 erschienen auch drei Bände von Übersetzungen von japanischen Essays (zuihitsu) der Edo Zeit (1600-1868).

| Date & Time |

u:japan lecture | s07e01
Thursday 2023-10-12, 18:00~19:30
max. 50 participants (on site) + max. 300 participants (online) 

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| Further Questions? |

Please contact ujapanlectures.ostasien@univie.ac.at or visit https://japanologie.univie.ac.at/ujapanlectures/s07/#e01.