• Date: December 18th, Thursday, 2025, 14:00 – 18:00
• Location: Room 308, Bldg. 7 [in Japanese, with Korean Interpreter]

Presenter: Kanegae Hiroyuki (Gakushuin Univ.)

Through a lecture and Q&A session with Professor Kanegae Hiroyuki, who has conducted extensive research on local wooden tablets (mokkan) from Japan dating to around the 6th-7th century, participants can gain insight into the formation of Japan’s ritsuryō system. This provides an important comparative-historical lens for understanding the shared traditions of legal codes and documentary administration across China, Korea, and Japan, and further enables an integrated understanding of how governance systems in ancient East Asian states were formed. By examining political and cultural apparatuses shared across East Asia—such as legal institutions, record-keeping practices, and the use of Chinese characters—the program seeks to illuminate Asia’s intellectual values.