Wednesday, December 4
9:30 - 10:00 Registration
10:00 - 10:10 Welcome Speech
10:10 - 10:40 Keynote Address
Moving Objects: Time, Space, and Context		 Hiroyuki Suzuki
(National Research Institute
for Cultural Properties, Tokyo)
Session 1: The "Annual Rings" of Objects
10:40 - 10:50 Introduction
10:50 - 11:20 Paper 1 The Four-Hundred-Year Life of a Tsujigahana Textile: From Secular Garment to Museum Artifact Terry S. Milhaupt
(Resarch Fellow,
The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
11:20 - 11:50 Paper 2 Collecting Jindai Seki Yoshiaki Uchida
(Kyoto City Archaeological Center)
11:50 - 13:20 Lunch
13:20 - 13:50 Paper 3 The Use of Colophons and their Values Shigeru Matsubara
(Tokyo National Museum)
13:50 - 14:20 Paper 4 Collecting Japan's Antiquity in Colonial Korea: The Tokyo Anthropological Society and the Cultural Comparative Perspective Hyungil Pai
(University of California,
Santa Barbara)
14:20 - 14:50 Paper 5 From Imperial Collection to National Treasure: Chinese Art and the Palace Museum in the 1st Half of the 20th Century Shou-chien Shih
(National Palace Museum, Taiwan)
14:50 - 15:10 Coffee Break
15:10 - 16:40 Discussion / Coordinator: Emiko Yamanashi (National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, Tokyo)
16:40 - 16:50 Announcements

Thursday, December 5
Session 2: The "Travel Diaries" of Objects
9:40 -  9:50 Introduction
9:50 - 10:20 Paper 1 The Odyssey of Guernica : An Icon of the Twentieth Century Michio Hayashi
(Musashi University)
10:20 - 10:50 Paper 2 Rakan in Boston: The Travels of the Daitokuji Five Hundred Luohan Gregory P. Levine
(University of California, Berkeley)
10:50 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 11:30 Paper 3 From Stockholm to Tokyo : E. A. Strehlneek's Two Shanghai Collections in a Global Market for Ancient Chinese Paintings in the Early 20th Century Zaixin Hong
(University of Puget Sound)
11:30 - 12:00 Paper 4 The Change of "Foreignness" as Seen in Export Lacquerware Tsuyoshi Yamazaki
(Agency for Cultural Affairs)
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 14:00 Paper 5 Identity of a Painting and the Existence of the Painter: In the Case of Buddhist Paintings Attributed to Xijin Jushi and Zhang Sigong Seinosuke Ide
(National Research Institute
for Cultural Properties, Tokyo)
14:00 - 14:30 Paper 6 The Meaning of "Movement or Transfer" in the Performing Arts: Focusing on Folk Performing Arts Shigeyuki Miyata
(National Research Institute
for Cultural Properties, Tokyo)
14:30 - 15:00 Paper 7 The Pendulum Swing between Town and Country: Aoki Shigeru's Case Atsushi Tanaka
(National Research Institute
for Cultural Properties, Tokyo)
15:00 - 15:20 Coffee Break
15:20 - 16:50 Discussion / Coordinator: Hiroyuki Suzuki (National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, Tokyo)
16:50 - 17:00 Announcements
18:00 - 20:00 Reception

Friday, December 6
Session 3: The Dynamics of Interaction between Objects and People
10:00 - 10:10 Introduction
10:10 - 10:40 Paper 1 Contextual Change and Functional Change: Life of the Tallest Buddha at Dunhuang Qiang Ning
(University of Michigan)
10:40 - 11:10 Paper 2 The Longed-for Kyoto: The Movement of "Object Information" and Value Formation as Seen in Japan's Chûsei Period Haji Ware Atsushi Nakai
(Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Kyoto University)
11:10 - 11:40 Paper 3 Yaeyama Minsa-: A Cotton Sash and its Transformation across Boundaries of Usage, Class, and Meaning in Okinawa Amanda M. Stinchecum
(Independent Scholar)
11:40 - 13:10 Lunch
13:10 - 13:40 Paper 4 Eternally Vanished: The Chishima Ainu and their Culture: Japan's Own Long-buried and Forgotten Foreign Culture Toshikazu Sasaki
(Tokyo National Museum)
13:40 - 14:10 Paper 5 "Several-ness" (A Characteristics of the Process of Changed Appearance which Makes the Continued Existence of an Object Possible): From Research on the Conversion of Historical Dwellings Norihito Nakatani
(Osaka City University)
14:10 - 14:40 Paper 6 Descent to the Mundane and Ascent to Art: Model 1,000-Yen Note Incident by Akasegawa Genpei and Company Reiko Tomii
(Independent Scholar)
14:40 - 15:00 Coffee Break
15:00 - 16:30 Discussion / Coordinator: Arata Shimao (Tama Art University)
16:30 - 16:40 Closing Remarks
16:40 - 16:50 Announcements