武庫川女子大学　文学部主催の第2回歴史文化講座が開かれました。

English below. 

 

「武庫川女子大学 文学部 第2回歴史文化講座」が10月28日、中央キャンパス マルチメディア館 メディアホールで開かれました。2024年4月に歴史文化学科が誕生することや英語グローバル学科が2専攻制へ進化することを記念して開催し、約30人が参加しました。

 

開演前、本学の日本舞踊部の学生が華やかな着物姿で舞踊を披露して参加者たちを出迎えました。まず、京都芸術大学の石上阿希准教授が「小袖雛形本で読む江戸のデザイン」と題して講演。江戸時代の京都で活躍した浮世絵師・西川祐信が描いた複数の雛形本や絵本、風俗画などを紹介しながら解説しました。「当時の女性たちは身分や職業ごとに理想的だとされている化粧や装いがあったが、それに抗いながら着物に憧れや夢を詰め込んでいた」など歴史ロマンあふれる話に、参加者たちは真剣に聞き入っていました。

 

講演後、石上准教授と本学文学部の羽生紀子教授、加茂瑞穂助教が「江戸時代の出版事情」について対談。羽生教授の研究テーマである井原西鶴の話を絡めながら、現在と江戸時代の出版業界の違いなどを話しました。加茂助教からの「現在は作家の名前が表立って目立つ傾向がありますが、昔はどうだったのでしょうか」という質問に、石上准教授は「西鶴がいた時代には娯楽作品としての作家の名前が目立つことはなく、出版社の名前が出ることが多かった」と答えました。

 

2024年にも第3回歴史文化講座の開催が予定されています。

 

The library seminar "Ask Novelist Hiroshi Matsumiya about 'Secrets of Creativity'" was held on October 31st at the Global Studio in the Central Library. Mr. Matsumiya, a part-time lecturer at the Faculty of Business Administration, won the "2023 Hyogo Book Award" for his work "Unforgettable." The Central Library's Literary Awards section has a display space for his award-winning work and other works, and it was a perfect opportunity for the seminar to be held there.

 

At the seminar, Mr. Matsumiya first talked about how he brought his manuscript to a publishing company while working for a company, and how it took five years to get it published, as well as the advice he received from a veteran editor during that period. In response to questions from students about how to write a novel, Mr. Matsumiya answered questions such as, "Keep working on it and make sure you have written what you want to convey when you finish it," "Stories have logic, failure, and exciting developments," and "Layering scenes rather than writing as an explanation makes a story vivid and understandable to the reader. The story is written in layers of scenes, rather than as an explanation, so that the reader can vividly understand the story." In addition, he gave three points about "Secrets of Creative Writing."

 

The students asked, "What do you write on when you start writing, on a computer or on a piece of manuscript paper?" Do you need foreshadowing in your stories? What was your college life like? Were you ever afraid to bring in a manuscript?" and many other questions.

 

In closing, Mr. Matsumiya encouraged the participants to "try all sorts of new things while you still have a chance to make mistakes."

 

After the seminar, students commented, "It was such a valuable experience to meet and hear from a novelist," "I discovered things about how professionals write and what makes a novel uninteresting,"  "Maybe I can become a novelist too," and "I am very interested in writing novels, but I am not sure if I want to. I was interested in writing novels, and I learned a lot by listening to the tips and tricks firsthand.”