The Heike Story (2021) with Jamal of Getinthemecha

Japanese History Hidden in our Screens

This week Jon is joined by Jamal of the getinthemecha podcast as they break down 2021's classic The Heike Story (2021)

Based on the medieval 13th-14th century Japanese epic, the Tale of the Heike (Heike Monogatari), we delve into the history of the Genpei wars (1180-85 CE) that it recounts as well as the history and many forms that the text has taken over the last seven hundred years. It's influence on art and the visual medium is not to be understated, so to understand our manga and anime of today, we look at its forerunner, the ukiyo-e woodblock prints of the Edo period (1615-1867 CE)

Dr Elizabeth Oyler from the University of Pittsburgh

Whose research focuses on how historical and cultural memory are represented in literature and performing arts from Japan’s medieval period, particularly the fifteenth century. Her first book focused on Japan’s most famous military tale, The Tales of the Heike, exploring its connections to and influences on both the writing and performing of the early age of Japan’s first shogunate

She recently co-edited a volume with Dr. Katherine Saltzman-Li, Cultural Imprints War and Memory in the Samurai Age which draws on literary works, artefacts, performing arts, and documents that were created by or about the samurai to examine individual "imprints," traces holding specifically grounded historical meanings that persist through time

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Dr Hilary Snow from the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee

She is a specialist in Japanese art of the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Her research focuses on art and culture from the Japanese Edo period (1615-1868). Her work explores early modern patronage and the mingling of sacred and secular practices at Japanese religious institutions. Dr. Snow is particularly interested in the visual culture of early modern Japanese urban spaces and aesthetic amusements at religious institutions. At the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Honors College, she teaches courses in Asian Studies, Art History, and Museum Studies.

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