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Joan R. Piggott

Gordon L. MacDonald Professor of History & Director, Project for Premodern Japan Studies

Department of History, Social Sciences Building 168

University of Southern California

Los Angeles, California 90089-0034

joanrp@usc.edu

Education

Ph.D., Stanford University, 1987, History (Premodern Japan & East Asia)

M.A., Stanford University, 1972, East Asian Studies

Faculty Positions

University of Southern California, Gordon L. MacDonald Chair in History & Director of the Project for Premodern Japan Studies, 2003- ; Director of the Summer Kambun Workshops 1998--

Cornell University, Associate Professor of Japanese History, 1995-2002; Director of the Cornell East Asia Program Monograph Series 1997-2001, Director of the Kambun Workshops 1997-2001

Selected Publications—Books and Articles

Land, Power and the Sacred: The Estate System in Medieval Japan, co-edited with Dr. Janet Goodwin; it includes 2 of my essays, “Estates, their History and Historiography,” & “Loggers and Cultivators in Nabari: Tôdaiji’s Kuroda Estate in Heian Times,” 3-34; 164-96 (University of Hawaii Press, 2018)

“Heiankyô, From Royal Center to Metropole,” in K. Friday, ed. Routledge Handbook of Premodern Japanese History (Routledge, 2017), 1-33.

“Gender in the Japanese Administrative Code: Laws on Residence Units (Koryô), Laws on Officials in the Back Palace (Kôkyûshikiinryô) Comprehensive Glossary,” Senshû shigaku 59 (2015), 1-23 (Japanese by Yoshie; English by Piggott)

“Introducing the Taiheiki and Newly Translated Selections,” Review of Japanese Culture and Society 27 (2015), 11-25

“Gender in the Japanese Administrative Code: Laws on Officials in the Back Palace (Kôkyûshikiinryô), Translated and Analyzed,” Senshû shigaku 57 (2014), 1-85 (Japanese by Ijûin; English by Piggott)

“Tracking the Wa-Kan Dialectic at Nara,” in D. Wong & G. Heldt, China and Beyond in the Mediaeval Period: Cultural Crossings and Inter-Regional Connections (Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore, 2014), 243-59

“Gender in the Japanese Administrative Code: Laws on Officials in the Back Palace (Kôkyûshikiinryô), Translated and Analyzed,” Senshû shigaku 55 (2013), 1-58 (Japanese by Ijûin; English by Piggott)

“Gender in the Japanese Administrative Code: Laws on Residence Units (Koryô), Translated and Analyzed,” Teikyô shigaku 28 (2013), 317-418 (Japanese by Yoshie; English by Piggott)

“What is Classical in Japan?” in Karl Friday, ed. Japan Emerging (Westview Press, 2012), 21-32

“Marriage and the Family in Japan, a Global Perspective on the Work of Haruko Wakita,” Josei shigaku 21, 36-37 (Summer 2011, in Japanese)

“Another Heian, the City in Fujiwara Akihira’s Shinsarugakuki,” in Yoshimura Takehiko ed. Classical in East Asia (交響する古代), Tôkyôdô shuppan, 2011, 295-312 (in Japanese)

“Navigating Kamakura History: Perspectives on the Last Work of Jeffrey Mass,” in Gordon M. Berger, Andrew Goble, Lorraine Harrington, G. Cameron Hurst III eds. The Currents of Medieval Japan, USC East Asian Studies Center Monograph (Los Angeles: Figueroa Press, 2009), 403-26

“A Comedy of Marriage and Family in Eleventh-century Kyoto: Fujiwara no Akihira’s Shinsarugakuki,” Nihon kodaigaku 1 (2009), 51-80 (in English and Japanese)

Teishinkôki. The Year 939 in the Journal of Regent Fujiwara no Tadahira, co-edited with Sanae Yoshida, Cornell East Asian Series, 2008

Dictionary of Sources of Classical Japan, edited by Joan Piggott, Ivo Smits, Michel Viellard-Baron, Ineke von Put, and Charlotte von Verschuer: an annotated and indexed bibliography of 1500 primary sources in history, literature, religion, and art for Japan 650-1200: digital edition published online on the web site of the University of Tokyo Historiographical Institute, 2005; Bilingual French-English edition, College de France, 2006

“Court and Provinces in the Era of Regent Fujiwara no Tadahira,” in M. Adolphson et al. eds. Centers and Peripheries in Heian Japan, University of Hawaii Press, 2007

Capital and Countryside in Japan 300-1180, ed. Joan R. Piggott, (Cornell East Asia Studies, Cornell University East Asia Program, 2006)

“Palace and Kingship at Early Heian,” in Nicolas Fieve, ed. The Kyoto Historical Atlas (UNESCO, Paris, 2006)

“On The New Monkey Music,” an extract and introduction to Fujiwara Akihira’s Shin sarugakuki, in Haruo Shirane, ed. An Anthology of Premodern Japanese Literature (Columbia University Press, 2007)

“Daibutsu to ôken: Shômu Tennô to sono nochi,” in The Great Buddha and its Legacy (Kyoto: Hôzôkan, 2003) in Japanese

Women in Three Premodern Confucian Societies, ed. Dorothy Ko, Ja-Hyun Habousch, & Joan Piggott, University of California Press, 2003. It includes my essay, “The Last Female Sovereign: Kôken-Shôtoku.”

“Troubles with Naming [in Translation],” in Japan Memory Project Conference Proceedings 2000-2001, Historiographical Institute, University of Tokyo (in English & Japanese)

“Chieftain Pairs and Co-rulers: Female Sovereignty in Early Japan,” in Hitomi Tonomura, Anne Walthall, & Haruko Wakita, eds. Women and Class in Japanese History, Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 1999

The Emergence of Japanese Kingship (Stanford University Press, 1997)

“Mokkan, Recent Discoveries and Nara History,” Monumenta Nipponica 45.4, Winter 1990

“Emperorship and Tôdaiji in Shômu’s Age,” Kokugakuin Zasshi 91.3, March 1990 (in Japanese)

“Historiography of Early Japan in the United States,” Shigaku Zasshi 98.6, June 1989 (in Japanese)

“Sacral Kingship and Confederacy in Early Izumo,” Monumenta Nipponica 44.1, Spring 1989

“Tôdaiji and the Nara Imperium,” Ph.D. dissertation, Stanford University History Department, 1987

“Keeping Up With the Past,” Monumenta Nipponica 38.3, Autumn 1983

“Hierarchy and Economics in Early Medieval Tôdaiji,” in Jeffrey Mass, ed., Court and Bakufu in Japan (Yale University Press, 1982), 45-91

In Preparation, Forthcoming

Birth and Death in the Royal House, Selections from Fujiwara Munetada’s Chûyûki, co-edited with Sanae Yoshida and Christina Laffin (In press, Cornell East Asia Series)

Shôen Documents in Translation (in preparation)

“Ritsuryô Monarchy, Law, and Realm: New Sources and Approaches,” in Hitomi Tonomura ed. Cambridge History of Japan vol. 1 (Premodern) 1-49 (in preparation)

Web Pages and Publications

Translated materials from the Kambun Workshops 2006, 2007, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 (2015 in preparation)

Ritsuryô Studies Website

Urban Studies in Premodern Japan

Joan Piggott’s Slide Database for Teaching and Studying Japanese History (5000 slides uploaded and annotated)

Reviews

Chinese Literary Forms in Heian Japan, Brian Steininger, for Journal of Japanese Studies (forthcoming 2019)

From Sovereign to Symbol, Thomas Conlan, for Journal of Asian Studies (2013)

Daily Life and Demographics in Ancient Japan, William Wayne Farris, for International Journal of Asian Studies (2010)

First Samurai, Karl Friday, for Journal of Asian Studies 69.3 (2010), 904-06

State Formation in Japan, Gina Barnes; and Himiko and Japan’s Elusive Chiefdom of Yamatai, J. Edward Kidder, for Journal of Japanese Studies 35.2 (Spring 2009), 413-19

Tsumi—Offence and Retribution in Early Japan, Yoko Williams, for Journal of Japanese Studies (2006)

The Lucky Seventh: Early Hôryûji and Its Time, J. Edward Kidder, Jr., for Journal of Japanese Studies (2002)

Cambridge History of Japan, Vol. 1: Ancient Japan, ed. Delmer Brown, for Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 56.1 (1996), 208-27

Hired Swords, Karl Friday, for Journal of Oriental Studies 1994

Geography of Power in Medieval Japan, T. Keirstead, for Bulletin of the School for Oriental and African Studies LVI.3 (1993)

Cambridge History of Japan, Vol. 3: Medieval Japan, ed. K. Yamamura, for Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History 13 (1992)

in Preparation

Visions of Heian Kyoto, the Metropole of the 11th Century. This monograph, now in draft, presents an annotated translation of Shinsarugakuki, a mid-eleventh-century description of street festival and working residents of Kyoto in the mid-eleventh century. It will also include three contextualizing historical essays that focus on the author, Fujiwara Akihira; and on urbanism at the time.

Ôbe in Harima, a Medieval Estate. This collection of annotated translations of sources will bring the formation and subsequent development of a medieval Tôdaiji-held estate to life for readers, while providing a case study of agrarian and economic development for Japan’s thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The volume is now in development by the Estate Research Group at the University of Southern California, with the participation of colleagues and graduate students from around the world and in multiple specialties, such as history, archaeology, art history, and religion.

Awards, Prizes, Visiting professorships, Research Associateships

U.S. Director, Historical Glossary Project of University of Tokyo Historiographical Institute 2016-

Research Associate, Classical Japan Research Project, Meiji University, 2017-

Arisawa Prize 1997-1998 (awarded by the Association of University Presses) for The Emergence of Japanese Kingship

Japan Foundation Fellow, Historiographical Institute, University of Tokyo, 1995-96 (research on urbanism and social organization in the late classical age as demonstrated in the Shin Sarugakuki), one year

Selected Lectures & Presentations

“Tracing Places and Spaces of the Heian Aristocracy in Regency Kyoto,” at Kyoto City History Research Group, Kyoto, Japan 7/10/2019 (Japanese)

“Putting Japan into Global History?” Keynote address, Conference on International Japan Studies and Global History, Ochanomizu University, Tokyo, Japan 7/6/2019 (in Japanese & English, Proceedings to be published)

Discussant, AAS National Meeting 3/22/2019: “Negotiating Tension: Rituals, Gender Scripts, and Court Practices in China, Japan & Korea”

“Taking Japan’s History Beyond National History, Questions of Kingship and Marriage,” at the conference “Interconnected Medieval Worlds,” University of California Santa Barbara, 10/13/2017

“Reading the Chûyûki, A Kambun Workshop,” co-presented at USC M-F, daily 9-5, June 15 to July 10, 2016, with Prof. Sanae Yoshida, University of Tokyo Historiographical Institute

“Current Historiography on the Shôen System,” at USC, Project for Premodern Japan Studies, February 5-7, 2015

“Why It Is Important to Read the Ritsuryô Codes to Understand Gender Relations in Classical Japan,” presented at the Meiji University/University of Southern California Research Exchange, December 3-4, 2014

“Emergence of Kuroda Estate as a Tôdaiji Property,” at the international conference, Reassessing the Shôen System, Society and Economy in Japan, June 4-6, 2012

“Royal Buddhism and Tôdaiji in the Reigns of Kônin and Kammu, 771-805,” May 17, 2012, at Harvard University, for the conference on New Developments in Premodern Japanese History and Religion, May 17-18, 2012

“Interpreting Monkey Music,” for the Japanese Historical Text Initiative and the Institute of East Asian Studies, UC Berkeley, April 29, 2011

“Another Heian, The City in Fujiwara Akihira’s Shinsarugakuki,” for the Japan in Classical East Asia International Conference, Meiji University, November 4-6, 2010 (in Japanese)

“Singing Kyoto: Fujiwara Akihira’s World and the New Monkey Music,” for the Wu Foundation Lecture, Princeton University, April 23, 2010

“Tracking the Wa-Kan Dialectic at Nara,” for the Cultural Crossings Conference, University of Virginia, March

11-13, 2010

“A Comedy of Marriage and Family in Eleventh-century Kyoto,” Meiji University, Institute for Premodern

Japan Studies, Tokyo, February 16, 2009 (in Japanese)

“Premodern Japan Studies in the U.S., State of the Field,” Hösei University, International Institute of Premodern Japan Studies, Tokyo, Japan 6/23/08 (in Japanese)

“Tôdaiji, Chôgen, and Early Ôbe Estate,” University ot Southern California, May 14, 2008

"Street Carnival in Eleventh-century Kyoto: Gender, Society and Urban Life in Fujiwara Akihira's Shinsarugakuki," University of Virginia East Asian Studies Invited Lecture, 4/13/07

“On Beyond Shömu, Metropole and Monarchy in Late Nara Times,” at the Symposium on The Making of an Ancient Capital: Nara, UCLA, Los Angeles, April 21, 2006

"Administrative Cities and Open Cities: Trajectories of Urban Development in Classical Japan," at the Symposium on Osaka and Japanese Cities—Historical Perspectives, Osaka City University, Osaka Japan, June 11, 2005

"Tadahira's Memory Project, the Teishinköki," for “Diaries and Records: Historical and Literary Perspectives on Tenth- and Eleventh-century Sources,” panel at the National meeting of the Association of Asian Studies, Chicago, April 2, 2004

Service to University and Field

Director of the Project for Premodern Japan Studies at USC ;

Chair of 3 doctoral committees (Kanagawa, Barndt, Warren); member of 2 doctoral committees (Montrose, Kochinsky, in EALC and School of Religion)

Director of the annual summer USC Kambun Workshop 2003- ; Editor, Online Translation Archives of the Kambun Workshops

Member, History Department Graduate Committee 2013-

Postdoctoral mentor, Cressant Postdoctoral Fellows, History Department 2016-

Accessions Advisor, Premodern Japan Collection, Doheny Library

Principal, writer of funding proposals for the Project for Premodern Japan Studies (College), and the Japan Premodern Collection in the East Asian Library (Doheny Library)

U.S. Director, Historical Glossary Project, University of Tokyo Historiographical Institute, University of Tokyo, 2015-

Memberships

Member, Residential Sites of the Nagaoka and Heian Capitals—Archaeology and History Research Group (Nagaokakyôki kara Heian zenki ni okeru kôzoku kizoku kyojû kûkan kenkyûkai)

Member, Association for Asian Studies

Member, Mokkan Gakkai (Japanese Society for the Study of Wooden Documents)

Member, Ritsuryô Jenda- Kenkyûkai (Research Group for Ritsuryô Law and Gender)

Convener and Member, USC East Asian Law Research Group

Convener, Meiji University/University of Southern California Research Exchange in Premodern Japan Studies

Convener and Member, PPJS Estate Research and Publication Group

U.S. Director and member, University of Tokyo Historiographical Institute Historical Glossary Project

Research Associate, Classical Japanese History Research Institute, Meiji University

Date revised: October 27, 2019

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