In conjunction with the exhibition "Literati Modern: Bunjinga from Late Edo to Twentieth-Century Japan," the Honolulu Academy of Arts is holding an international symposium on Japanese literati painting from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. tomorrow at the Doris Duke Theatre. It is free and open to the public

Exhibition curator Michiyo Morioka and Terry Welch, the Seattle landscape designer who assembled the collection on view, will speak about the bunjinga school of art, whose practitioners seek a life of camaraderie, art and poetry in harmony with nature, and tell the stories behind each work, many of which went through painstaking restoration in Japan.

The symposium is sponsored in part by the Consulate General of Japan in Honolulu.

The invited speakers are:

Terry Welch

Michiyo Morioka, guest curator

Paul Berry, Kansai Gaidai University

John Szostak, University of Hawai'i

Shimada Yasuhiro, Ritsumeikan University

Yokoya Ken'ichiro, Otsu Historical Museum

For information: 532-8779, tmiyazawa@honoluluacademy.org

Tentative schedule:

9-9:15 a.m.: Welcome and introduction

9:15-10:10 a.m.: Terry Welch: "Celebrating the Interconnectedness of Life: A Literati Ideal"

10:10-10:55am Michiyo Morioka: " 'Unbeautiful' and 'Disorderly'—Some Facets of Shin Nanga"

10:55-11:10 a.m.: Break

11:10-11:55 a.m.: John Szostak: "Literati Modernists: The Influence of Bunjinga on Modern Japanese Painters of the Early 20th Century"

11:55 a.m.-1:45p.m.: Lunch break

1:45-2:45p.m.: Yokoya Ken'ichirô

2:45-3:45 p.m.: Shimada Yasuhiro: "The Underlying Current of Nanga in Japanese Art"

3:45-4 p.m.: Break

4-4:45 p.m.: Paul Berry: "The Relation of Artistic Identity and Brushwork in 20th-Century Literati Painting in Japan"