Study of the Shuten-dōji Handscrolls: The 11th Seminar in 2024 Fiscal Year Held by the Department of Art Research, Archives and Information Systems

The Seminar

The Flyer of the Exhibition

　A study meeting on the Shuten-dōji Scroll was held on February 25, 2025. This research has been carried out since 2022 as a project for Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) centering on the Shuten-dōji Scroll (6 volumes, collection of the Grassi Ethnological Museum in Leipzig, hereinafter, “the Leipzig Scroll”) by Sumiyoshi Hiroyuki, and two previous meetings had been held and reported on this theme1. This time, in the final year of the research funded by the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, the following presentations were made:

EMURA Tomoko, “The Mysterious Charm of Shuten-dōji”

NAMIKI Seishi (Specially Appointed Professor at Kyoto Institute of Technology), “The Kano School and Shuten-dōji Scroll”

KOBAYASHI Kenji (Professor Emeritus at the National Institute of Japanese Literature), “Resonating Noh and Scrolls”

　After the three presentations, UENO Tomoe (Deputy Director of Curatorial Department of the Suntory Museum of Art) spoke as a commentator, and then a Q&A session was held with the audience and online participants. This research project is also cooperating with an exhibition called the “Shuten-dōji Begins: Tales of the Demon Slayer Throughout the Ages,” which will be held at the Suntory Museum of Art from April 29 to June 15 this year. The Leipzig Scroll was specially created as a wedding furnishing for Tanehime, who was adopted by the 10th shogun, TOKUGAWAI Ieharu, and married the 10th Lord of the Kishu clan, TOKUGAWA Harutomi, and this exhibition will be the first time the Leipzig Scroll has been showcased in Japan. We hope that many people will come to see it at the exhibition venue.

For more information about the exhibition, please click here.