Joy of Folktales: Traditional tales from Buryat, Kachin and Tibet

*This event has already been held.

Date/Time

November 23, 2023 (Thu.) 11:00–15:30

Venue

Room 405, 4F, ILCAA, TUFS

Program

11:00−12:30
Morning session: Picture-story show of Asian folktales

• Yasuhiro YAMAKOSHI (ILCAA)
  “A Buryat folktale: What is the ‘Leaks’ ?”
• Keita KURABE (ILCAA)
  “Kachin folktales: The Kaempferia flower, etc.”
• Izumi HOSHI (ILCAA)
  “Tibetan folktales: The Tales of the Corpse”

14:00−15:30
Afternoon session: Conveying the joy of folktales

1. Behind the scenes of content creation

• Yasuhiro YAMAKOSHI (ILCAA)
  “Creating picture books and a picture-story show from a Buryat old woman’s narratives”
• Keita KURABE (ILCAA)
  “Creating picture story videos with the Kachin people”
• Izumi HOSHI (ILCAA)
  “Creating a children’s book from popular folktales in Tibet”

2. Roundtable: Various ways of telling folktales

Guests: Fumiyo ISHIGURO (Art education, Artist, Odawara Junior College), Yukiko SATO (Children’s book editor, Nora Shoten Publishing), Kuranishi (Illustrator, Manga artist)

Admission

Free

Pre-registration

Pre-registration is required. Please fill out the application form here(in Japanese).

Language

Japanese

Jointly sponsored by

• “Description and Documentation of Language Dynamics in Asia and Africa: Toward a More In-depth Understanding of the Languages and Cultures of People Living in Asia and Africa” (DDDLing)
• TUFS Field Science Commons (TUFiSCo)

(Posted December 11, 2023)