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October 8, 2024

Japan Zoominar @ UC San Diego: "The Makanai: The Magical Mystery Tour of Maiko Foods on Netflix" with Jan Bardsleyhaede's New Book" with Nobuyuki Oishi

From: Takashi Kiyoizumi (JFIT) <tkiyoizumi@ucsd.edu>
Date: 2024/09/10

Japan Zoominar @ UC San Diego: "The Makanai: The Magical Mystery Tour of Maiko Foods on Netflix" with Jan Bardsley
 
Wed, Sept 25, 8:00-9:00 am JST (Tue, Sept 24, 4:00-5:00 pm Pacific)
Kore-eda Hirokazu's 2023 Netflix series, "The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House," enchants viewers with the magic of home cooking, the allure of Kyoto's hidden alleys and sweet treats, and the pure delight of girls' friendships. But what insights does it provide about the lives of apprentice geishas (maiko)? How does knowledge of the maikos' work, and their status as Kyoto's quintessential girls, help us follow the humor woven into "The Makanai"?

Jan Bardsley, author of "Maiko Masquerade: Crafting Geisha Girlhood in Japan," delves into these questions, exploring both the Netflix series and the long-running manga that inspired it.

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Jan Bardsley investigates how women's lives have been imagined, debated, legally defined and publicly displayed in modern and contemporary Japan. Her books include "Maiko Masquerade" (University of California Press, 2021), "Women and Democracy in Cold War Japan" (Bloomsbury, 2014) and "The Bluestockings of Japan" (University of Michigan Press, 2007), which won the 2011 Hiratsuka Raichō Award from Japan Women's University. With Laura Miller, she co-edited "Manners and Mischief: Gender, Power, and Etiquette in Japan" (University of California Press, 2011) and "Bad Girls of Japan" (Palgrave, 2005).
Ulrike Schaede is Professor of Japanese Business at UC San Diego's School of Global Policy and Strategy (GPS) and the director of the Japan Forum for Innovation and Technology (JFIT). Her research focuses on Japanese business strategies and management; employment practices and corporate culture; financial markets; manufacturing; and innovation. Her 2020 book, "The Business Reinvention of Japan: How to Make Sense of the New Japan" (Stanford University Press), won the 2021 Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize and has been translated into Japanese as 再興 THE KAISHA: 日本のビジ ネス・リインベンション (Nikkei, 2022). Her most recent book, シン日本の経営：悲観バイアスを排す ("Japan Re-emerges"), was published in March 2024 in Japanese..
 
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https://jfit.ucsd.edu/zoominar/gallery/index.html

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