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| IWATA Yoriko |  |
| School of Global Studies | |
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Last Updated :2025/01/30
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IWATA Yoriko
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- School of Global Studies, Professor
- Department of , Professor
- Graduate School of World Englishes, Professor
Education, Etc.
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Research Activities
Book, papers, etc
Published Papers
- The Victorian Era and the Punch and Judy Show
Yoriko IWATA
22号, 57, 84, 2024, refereed, Single Work, The paper reveals the characteristics peculiar to the Punch and Judy shows in the Victorian period, though this puppet play boasts longer tradition before and after the era. Then, this article traces the Punch and Judy shows in the screen practices both in magic lanterns and early films referring the richest archives of the soft wares in history and in the world--Victorian Britain. - When Moving Pictures Begin in Britain-(2) Magic Lantern and Moving Pictures-- 2. At the Crossroads
Yoriko Iwata
Journal of The School of Global Studies, The School of Global Studies of Chukyo University, 第7号, 1, 19, 2024, refereed, Single Work, The beginning of the moving pictures is captured at the points the Magic Lantern culture produced a few but interesting primitive, short movies. - When Moving Pictures Begin in Britain--(2)Magic Lantern and Moving Pictures 1. Bamforth
Yoriko Iwata
Journal of the school of Global Studies, The school of Global Studies of Chukyo University, ６, １, 29, 2023, refereed, Single Work, The relationship between magic lantern and moving pictures is to be described by following Bamforth, which thrived through three generations, portrait photographers, slides makers and moving pictures. - Some British lantern slides of its heyday in Toy Film Museum, Kyoto
Yoriko IWATA
Toy Film Museum 9, ToyFilm Museum, ９巻, 10, 24, 2022, refereed, Single Work, Thanks to the exhibition at Kyoto Toyfilm Museum, by focusing Bamforth Company, which produced huge ammount of life-model lantern slides and several films, some aspects of early films caused by the circumstances of lantern slide manufacturers emerged as particular, peculiar characteristics - When Moving Pictures Appeared in Britain--(1) Magic Lantern Culture Previous to Moving Pictures--
Yoriko Iwata
Journal of The School of Global Studies, The School of Global Studies of Chukyo University, 4, 1, 22, 2022, refereed, Single Work, My focus is on the characteristics of the people by juxtaposing the paradigm woghts - What the Magic Lantern Showed to the People of Meiji-period Japan
Yoriko Iwata
Journal of the School of Global Studies, The School of Global Studies of Chukyo University, Vol. 2, 23, 54, 2021, refereed, Single Work, Imported Magic Lantern slides from Britain or the States made a great incentive to Japanese modernised lantern culture. Some slides or texts including journalistic articles revealed the impact of them. - Reconsidering the Punch and Judy Show in Japan
YORIKO IWATA
The Yearbook of Japanese Puppetry '20, UNIMA JAPAN, 2020年版, 42, 61, 2021, refereed, Single Work, This is an article to be added to my translation in 2019, The Punch and Judy Show by Robert Leach. My publication was an incentive to further research, so this article proved an update to the information of this specific theme. - Yoriko IWATA
The World of Kazuo Ishiguro, Suiseisha, 163, 181, 2017, refereed, Joint Work, Discussing Ishiguro's relationship with visual media from his early days: Ishiguro wrote a script for a TV drama or committed to filming his own novels. - 2010
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- 1995
- 1991
Books etc
- The Punch & Judy Show
Robert Leach
introduction and all chapters, Showado, 2019, 978-4-8122-1805-1, Whole translation of the research on the history, tradition and meaning of the puppetry and a survey of its influences on Japanese new puppetry. - Ishiguro and TV drama or films after The Remains of the Day
Yoriko IWATA
Chapter 4 The expanding world of Kazuo Ishiguro, Takarajimasha, 2017, 978-4-8002-7939-2, Discussing the works after The Remains of Day including a series of TV Drama in Japan Never Let Me Go and the author's attitudes. - 2012
- 2008
- 2007
- 2005
- 2004
- 2004
- 2002
- 1996
Conference Activities & Talks
- The Punch and Judy Shows in the Victorian Era
Yoriko Iwata
The 23rd Convention of Victorian Studies Society of Japan, 2023, Single Work, speaker, Victorian Studies Society of Japan, Kansai University, The Symposium "Dolls and Puppetry in Victorian Cultures." Reported Victorian Punch and Judy shows in three points: the characteristics of the period; relationships with screen practice, Japanese reactions and experiences. - Yoriko Iwata
The 7th Lecture at Japanese Scotland, 2022, Single Work, refereed, lecturer, The Japan-Scotland Society, The Japan-Scotland Society, After 20 years of my book on Gretna Green, the survey of the period till now showed the place as it is now, and the various features of the place in fictions, TV dramas and so on. - Punch & Judy in Japan Reconsidered
Yoriko Iwata
Unima Japan Annual Meeting, 2020, Single Work, Not refereed, Lecturer, UNIMA Japan, Nagoya, Showed more results found out after publication of my translation. - A Lecture on Magic Lantern
Yoriko Iwata
Magic Lantern A Short History of Light and Shadow, 2018, Single Work, Not refereed, Panel, Magic Lantern A Short History of Light and Shadow, Tokyo, Explaining some items from popular culture in England. - An Example of Japanese Film Strip (1956): When Grim Senji Grinned!
Yoriko Iwata
The 10th International Convention of the Magic Lantern Society, 2017, Joint Work, refereed, The Magic Lantern Society, Birmingham, England, UK, Screening the digitized version with English narration with an introduction by Hana Washitani and explaining the historical and geographical backgrounds. - 2012
- 2006
- 2004
- 2002
- 2012
- 2010
Works
- A magic lantern show on the140th foundation ceremony at Aishu Nursery.
Yoriko Iwata, Kumiko Omori, Yoneo Ota, Mitsue Ikeda, Joint Work, 2020, Jun. 2020, Jun. 2020, Aishu Nursery, Osaka., After researching slides and a magic lantern attributed to the nursery, Iwata selected some of the slides and wrote a storyline for a Benshi to show to the boys and girls and invited guests.
Misc
- How to Play 7. Kite
Yoriko IWATA
KINTOUN, KINTOUN, 111号, 10, 10, 202411, refereed - How to Play 6 Toy shop
Yoriko IWATA
KINTOUN, 110号, 10, 10, 202407, refereed - 109号, 7, 7, 202403, refereed
- New lanternists are most welcome!
Yoriko Iwata
108号, 12, 12, 202311, refereed, Report kitchen sets in movies and illustrations and discuss their educational aspects in childhood. - New lanternists are most welcome!
Yoriko Iwata
The Magic Lantern, The Magic Lantern Society, 12, 13, 202309, refereed, Report the trials by ex-Professor Osaka University of Arts, Mitsue Ikeda, to organize community people and resources to revival screenings of Nishiki Kage-e, traditional lantern projection in Edo Kansai. - Yoriko Iwata
107, ５, ５, 202306, refereed, Regard Toy Pianos not only as small ones but as other Instruments with possibilities in music, and introduce contemporary players. - Yoriko Iwata
106, ５, ５, 202303, refereed, Focusing differences between Abacus and Soroban in Japan and delineating the descriptions in literature and movies. - report: A Happy Gathering at the Kyoto Toy Film Museum
Yoriko Iwata
The Magic Lantern Number 30, Magic Lantern Society, gazette, 30号, 12, 12, 202203, refereed, Report of a gathering at Kyoto Toy Film Museum on 26th February, 2022 "A Happy Gathering." Especially focused on the explanation by the manager Mr. Ota that Chaplin's film was delicately fictional to produce charming effects. - How to Play 1. Noah's Ark
Yoriko Iwata
KINTOUN, KINTOUN, 105, 8, 8, 202211, refereed - Toys in Britain3 Toy Puppets
Yoriko Iwata
KINTOUN, KINTOUN, 104号, 10, 11, 202205, refereed, My conclusion is as follows: difference between Britain and Japan in the ideas of childhood would often lead the puppets' culture. Children in UK are more actively committed puppets. - Toys in Britain2 Projection Toys--magic lanterns and toy films
Yoriko Iwata
KINTOUN, KINTOUN, 103, 10, 11, 202203, refereed, Even in the period without electricity sustem, children entertained themselves during the evening in their much darker nursery. Toy magic lanterns and projectors for children proved how they enjoyed screen practices with these scientific gadgets. - Toys in Britain
Yoriko Iwata
KINTOUN, Office Kintoun, 102号, 202106, refereed, Toys have played an important part in children's lives. This is the first article in a series introducing British culture and its peculiarities from the point of the toys. Toy theatres have a popular history and they make a unique proof of the theatres in the past. - Ishiguro / America / Future
Yoriko Iwata
APIED, APIED, Vol.38, 202109, refereed, Kazuo Ishiguro published Klara and the Sun in 2021 after an interval from the Nobel Prize in literature. This is an introductionery review explaining his unique trial focusing his imagery of America, which he confessed he was eager for, and his new standpoint facing the future, not the past. - "Nishiki-Kage-e in Bunraku: A Collaboration of Ikeda-gumi and traditional puppetry in Japan"
Yoriko Iwata
The Magic Lantern, Magic Lantern Society, The Magic Lantern, 20, 11, 11, 201909, refereed, Describing Nishiki-Kage-e in Bunraku "Kaminari Daiko" by Ikeda-gumi in National Bunraku Theatre in July, 2019. - Punch & Judy
Yoriko Iwata
Tokyodo, Dictionary of Dolls and Toys in Japan, 201906, refereed, Explaining and introducing works. - 2016/4
- 2015/10
- 2015/6
- 2015/4
- 2013/11
- 2011/7
Other Research Activities
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社会貢献活動
Social Contribution
- Contributed a comment on Kazuo Ishiguro on the occasion of Nobel Prize to Chunichi Shimbun, 6 October, 2017.
- contributed a brief report on Kazuo Ishiguro on the occasion of Nobel Prize to the Culture Section of Kyodo News on 5 October, 2017.
- Supervised: an abridged version of "Hidden Killer of Victorian Home"broadcast by Nippon Television Network, on 18 September, 2017.