CEAPS Speaker | Akira Shimizu: Grapes that Connected Peasants to the Shogun
- Event Type
- Lecture
- Sponsor
- Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies
- Location
- 306 Coble Hall
- Date
- Apr 7, 2023 1:00 - 2:30 pm
- Registration
- Webinar Registration
- Contact
- Yu Chuan Shen
- ycshen2@illinois.edu
- Views
- 32
- 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.