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<div style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;"><b>JAPAN FELLOW PRESENTATION</b></div>
<div style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;"><b>Dr Gary Hickey ‘Melodrama in Meiji Japan’</b></div>
<div style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;">Recent<font color="#1F497D">ly,</font> scholars of the Japanese print have been examining woodblock-printed frontispieces (kuchi-e) produced for novels and literary magazines of the Meiji period (1868-1912). Though
these prints were produced as illustrations for emerging genres of Japanese literary fiction, many were printed to a high standard and had artistic merit. They reflected changing trends in Japanese woodblock-printed imagery and in the art world. </div>
<div style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;">In 2011 a collection of over 2<font color="#1F497D">3</font>0 kuchi-e dating from the late 1890s to the 1920s was donated to the Library. This Clough collection comprises works by over twenty artists across a range
of subjects and offers a representative sampling of the entire woodblock-printed kuchi-e tradition. </div>
<div style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;">Dr Gary Hickey is a curator and scholar of Japanese art. He is a research fellow at the University of Melbourne and the University of Queensland and is on the directorial board of the Tokyo-based International
Ukiyo-e Society. He is the National Library’s current Japan Fellow.</div>
<div style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;"><b>Wednesday 17 October, 5.30pm following light refreshments</b></div>
<div style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt;"><b>Conference Room, free</b></div>
<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;">Bookings 02-62621271 or online at:</span></font></div>
<div><a href="https://register.eventarc.com/10763/japan-fellow-presentation-melodrama-in-meiji-japan"><font color="blue"><u>https://register.eventarc.com/10763/japan-fellow-presentation-melodrama-in-meiji-japan</u></font></a></div>
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