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CEAPS Speaker | Akira Shimizu: Grapes that Connected Peasants to the Shogun

Apr 7, 2023   1:00 - 2:30 pm  
306 Coble Hall
Lecture
Sponsor
Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies
Registration
Webinar Registration
Contact
Yu Chuan Shen
E-Mail
ycshen2@illinois.edu
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Originating Calendar
Campus Humanities Calendar

Through the examination of this case, we will consider how the handling of food empowered peasants to claim their own place in society by assuming control over the shogun’s kitchen. In doing, the talk will propose a new approach to social history of early-modern Japan through food and foodways.

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