Japanese Komonjo/Kuzushiji Workshop 2007

About the Instructor

Professor Umezawa teaches in the Department of Japanese Language and Culture at Keisen University in Tokyo and is a specialist in Tokugawa history and religion. She was long affiliated with the Historiographical Institute of the University of Tokyo and taught for many years in the Faculty of Comparative Culture at Sophia University. In 2001, she was the Toyota Visiting Professor at the Center for Japanese Studies at the University of Michigan. The Workshop at Yale will be Professor Umezawa's fourth: she has also been the lead instructor for similar events at Stanford (2003, 2005) and the University of British Columbia (2006).

Professor Umezawa's most recent research is on the Tokugawa period Mt. Fuji sect, appearing in Monumenta Nipponica (60:3) in 2005:

Miyazaki, Fumiko
"Female Pilgrims and Mt. Fuji: Changing Perspectives on the Exclusion of Women"