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.
Gregory Smits is a professor history and Asian studies at Pennsylvania State
University, who specializes in Japanese history. He has published two books
and several articles on earthquakes in Japanese history, including When the
Earth Roars: Lessons from the History of Earthquakes in Japan (2014) and
Seismic Japan: The Long History and Continuing Legacy of the Ansei Edo
Earthquake (2013).
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