南京大学人文社会科学高级研究院
名家讲坛第209期 人文基金讲座第116讲

讲座人： 美国宾州州立大学历史系教授   
       Gregory Smits

讲座题目：1855年的鲶絵和日本的城市社会
      Catfish Prints of 1855 and Japanese Urban Society

主持人： 南京大学高研院副院长 从丛教授

时间：2017年5月18日（周四）下午16:10-17:30
地点：仙林校区邵逸夫楼C308高研院报告厅
备注：英语演讲

讲座提要及演讲人简介：
In 1855 a strong earthquake shook Edo 江戸 (Tokyo), capital of the Japan’s military government (bakufu幕府). The destruction was uneven, and the most severely damaged areas were elite neighborhoods. Rapid government relief and a
sudden rise in wages for skilled and unskilled manual laborers caused most ordinary people to interpret the earthquake as a cosmic act of “social correction” (yonaoshi 世直). By “social correction,” they meant a transfer of wealth from elite warrior households and wealthy merchants to ordinary people. The earthquake produced hundreds of varieties of “catfish prints” (
namazue 鲶絵), which interpreted the earthquake and society from the standpoint of ordinary people. Using these prints as our basic material, this talk examines Japanese urban society and Bakutatsu-era (幕末时代) history as revealed by the 1855 earthquake.