BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//PYVOBJECT//NONSGML Version 1//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:events.uid.6750@www.discovernikkei.org DTSTART:20230419T000000Z DTEND:20230419T000000Z DESCRIPTION:<strong><span style="text-decoration: underline\;">Washin Kai P resents "Visions of the Katsura Imperial Villa" 『桂離宮のビジョ ン』 Lecture</strong>\n<strong><span style="text-decoration: underline\; "> with Professor Ken Tadashi Oshima</strong>\n<strong></strong>\n<strong >Register today! : https://tinyurl.com/Katsura2023</strong>\n\nPlease join us for the upcoming <strong>Washin Kai</strong> event about <strong>the K atsura Imperial Villa 桂離宮</strong>\, that is renowned as one of the finest and most beautiful examples of Japanese architecture and garden in Kyoto. This event will be a lecture by <strong>Professor Ken Oshima </stro ng>of University of Washington's Department of Architecture\, with partici pation by <strong>Professor Paul Atkins </strong>(Department of Asian Lang uages and Literature) and architect\,<strong> Hiroshi Matsubara</strong>. We hope this lecture will help you to appreciate what makes the Katsura Im perial Villa such a source of aesthetic inspiration\, and beautiful classi cal Japanese culture!\n\n<strong>The event is free and open to public.</st rong><strong> Registration is required. Please register here: https://tin yurl.com/Katsura2023</strong>\n\nIt will be held in-person as well as remo tely live-streamed over Zoom. Please indicate whether you will attend in-p erson or remote when registering.\n\n<strong>Ken Tadashi Oshima</strong> i s Professor in the Department of Architecture at the University of Washing ton\, where he teaches in the areas of trans-national architecureal histor y\, theory\, representation\, and design. He has also been a visiting prof essor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and taught Columbia Univers ity and the University of British Columbia. He earned an A.B. degree\, mag na cum laude\, in East Asian Studies and Visual &amp\; Environmental Studi es from Harvard College\, M.Arch. degree from U.C.Berkeley and Ph.D. in ar chitectual history and theory from Columbia University.  \n\n<strong>Pau l S. Atkins </strong>is Professor of Japanese in the Department of Asian L anguages and Literature at the University of Washington\, Seattle\, where he teaches and writes about the literature\, drama\, and culture of mediev al Japan. He holds a Ph.D in Japanese from Stanford University. He was awa rded the William F. Sibley Memorial Translation Prize by the University of Chicago in 2011 and the Kyoko Selden Memorial Translation Prize by Cornel l University in 2021 for his translations of classical Japanese texts into English.\n\n<strong>Washin Kai</strong> is a group of volunteers to suppo rt classical Japanese studies at UW. Our main goal is to create a permanen t found at UW\, dedicated to supporting the study of classical Japanese la nguages\, leterature and culture. DTSTAMP:20240419T001039Z SUMMARY:UW "Visions of the Katsura Imperial Villa"『桂離宮のビジョン』Lecture URL:/en/events/2023/04/19/uw-visions-of-the-katsura-imperial-villa/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR