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Ph.D. Student Christy Sher Attends the Kuzushiji Workshop at the University of Chicago

October 10, 2025

Ph.D. Student Christy Sher Attends the Kuzushiji Workshop at the University of Chicago

Professor Emeritus Takahashi Akinori of the Graduate School of Arts and Letters at Tohoku University presenting at the workshop.
Photo courtesy of the Center for East Asian Studies, University of Chicago. 

Ph.D. student Christy Sher attended the Kuzushiji workshop at the University of Chicago this past weekend (October 3-4), led by Professor Emeritus Takahashi Akinori of the Graduate School of Arts and Letters at Tohoku University. Professor Takahashi delivered a lecture on “Tsukinami as a Keyword in Japanese Culture: The Historical Context Cultivated by the Literary Arts of Short Poetic Forms.” During the workshop, Christy read kyōka-related archival sources alongside faculty and students from the University of Chicago and other institutions.This workshop will help Christy continue to sharpen her skills in reading kuzushiji and working with the primary sources central to her dissertation research.

Christy also visited three special exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago during this trip: “Gustave Caillebotte: Painting His World,” “Strange Realities: Symbolist Imagination,” and “The Dawn of Modernity: Japanese Prints, 1850-1900.”

This trip was generously supported by the Graduate Research Small Grants.

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