From the Beginning and the End of the Conference. . . .

Dear Comrades:

Our local organizer, Professor Hiroko Uno, has sent the following pictures from the very beginning of the conference--the Board dinner the night before the conference's opening plenary--and the very end of the conference--visiting sights in Kyoto with conference participants.

(More pictures will be posted tomorrow!)

In Possibility,
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Michael Yetman, Jonnie Guerra, and Bob Eberwein


Gudrun Grabher and Junko Kanazawa


Martha Nell Smith, Mary Loeffelholz, Marilee Lindemann, Vivian Pollak



Eleanor Heginbotham, Georgiana Strickland, Jane Eberwein

Those are from our Board banquet on August 2. These below are from August 7, when Hiroko was still guiding participants around the sights of Kyoto and other places of particular literary interest:


Cynthia Hallen, Rebecca Romney, Stephanie Tingley at Ishiyama-dera Temple in Otsu, where Lady Murasaki often visited and stayed. People believe that she made the outline of The Tale of Genji there.


Lady Murasaki at Ishiyama-dera Temple