Profile

Lucile Druet

Associate Professor (専任・准教授). Focuses on modern and contemporary Japanese Arts, Nihon-ga and Kimono. Lives and works in Kyoto since 2012.

Education and professional career

2016 ~ current
- Associate Professor of Japanese Arts (Modern and Contemporary artistic practices with a focus on Fashion, Cinema and Literature)
- Kansai Gaidai University (Hirakata, Osaka / Japan)

2014 ~ 2016
- Independent scholar (Kyoto / Japan)

2012 ~ current
- Sumi-e (Japanese ink painting) apprentice [Ueda Kasei Studio] (Kyoto / Japan)

2008 ~ 2014
- Doctoral dissertation program, Faculty of Letters, Arts and Languages, Visual Arts department (Photography and Video)
- Jean Monnet University (Saint-Etienne / France)

2007 ~ 2008
- Exchange student
- Asian Studies Program – Kansai Gaidai University (Hirakata, Osaka / Japan)

Publications

2023/10/06: “Yosano Akiko and the Poetry of Kimono” in Bunron – Studies in Japanese Literature, No 10 [Available online: click here]
2023/09/08: “In the Mood for Kimono: Hayashi Mariko and the Weaving of Japanese Fashion into Popular Fiction” in Japan Forum Volume 35, Issue 4 // Capitalism, Alienation, and Transgression in Contemporary Japanese Women’s Fiction; Guest editors: Rebecca Copeland and Nina Cornyetz (pp.393-409) [Available online: click here]
2023/08/01: “New fashion ‘orientations’: the tailoring of kimono in Parisian, African, and Indian dress designs” in dObra[s] – revista da Associação Brasileira de Estudos de Pesquisas em Moda – Volume 38 (pp.19-60) [Available online: click here]
2022/12/23: “Do Not Show But Let See”: Resilience in the Kyōto Hanamachi and Maiko/Geiko Communities, The Kyoto Conference on Arts, Media & Culture 2022: Official Conference Proceedings (pp.31-54) [Available online: click here]
2021/12/20: “Fashionable pilgrims: Rental and second-hand kimono shops styling paths of new embodied communities”, Mutual Images Journal, Issue 10 (pp.51-92) [Available online: click here]
2021/04/08: “Le kimono à l’ère contemporaine : tour d’horizon des nouvelles tendances et problématiques liées à l’évolution sociale et esthétique de la mode « traditionnelle » au Japon”, l’Asie en 1000 mots, CETASE [Online article: click here]
2018/11/03: “Le Dehors et le Dedans. Carlotta Ikeda, parcours d’une danseuse Butô en France”, JAVA Edition en danse, Vol.4 Voyage
2018/07/25: “Locus Solus – Locus Fracta: Butoh Dance as Protocol for Visual Self-Representation”, The Routledge Companion to Butoh Performance (Bruce Baird, Rosemary Candelario (Eds.))
2018/03/31: “Research Note on Butoh Costumes, Aesthetics and Metaphors”, Kansai Gaidai University: Higher Education Research, Vol.7
2015/10: “Princesses Mononoke: Photo Poem”, Chroniques du ça et là #7: Fantômes
2015/01: “Sukima: Photo Poem”, Chroniques du ça et là #6: Japon

Academic Presentations

2023/12/22: “Contemporary Kimono: From Family Ceremonies to High-Fashion Communities” Guest lecture / University of Zürich, Switzerland
2023/11/12: “The Dazzling Trail in Between: Geisha Performances during the Gion Matsuri Festival” Performing Arts in Contemporary Japanese Society Conference / University of Hyogo, Kobe, Japan
2023/11/04: “着る物・見える物 kirumono / mierumono: Reading / Seeing Fashionable Customs in Japanese Vernacular Photography” Symposium Yosooi no atae : A gift of attire / Keene State College, NH, USA
2023/07/06: “Reines des coeurs, reines de Soie: expression féminine, émotions et Kimono dans la poésie Japonaise” Workshop Vêtements et Parures / Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
2023/07/01: “How To Do Things With Girls: The Performativity of Geiko and Maiko’s 20th century Image” ASCJ (Asian Studies Conference Japan) 2023 / Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan
2023/03/21: “Not all is lost: Vernacular photography and Japanese Fashion(s)” Guest lecture / Keene State College, NH, USA
2022/11/05: “Dressed by nature, adorned by design: seeing, feeling, marking the seasons with kimono” Mutual Images 10th International Workshop / Babes-Bolyai University, Romania [online]
2022/10/19: “Do Not Show but Let See”: Resilience in the Kyoto Hanamachi and Maiko and Geiko Communities” KAMC 2022 (Kyoto Arts and Media Conference) / Kyoto Research Park, Japan
2021/12/05: “Maiko and Geiko in Crisis: the Hanamachi business and culture during the Covid-19 pandemic” AJJ (Anthropology on Japan in Japan) Annual Meeting / Akita International University [online]
2021/09/04: “Le Kimono dans l’Oeuvre d’Akiko Yosano” RCFK 2021 (6^ème Rencontres des Chercheurs Francophones du Kansai) / Kyoto Seika University [online]
2021/01/24: “Kimono Pilgrims: the impact of rental and second-hand shops on kimono culture” Mutual Images 8th International Workshop / Ryukoku University, Kyoto [online]
2020/12/04: “Une Robe à soi: les personnages de fiction et leur kimono dans les romans modernes de Tanizaki Jun’Ichirō et Ariyoshi Sawako” JFR French Research day 2020 / MFJ, Ebisu, Tokyo [online]
2020/09/01: “A Dress of One’s Own: Fictional Female Characters and Their Kimono in Novels by Tanizaki Jun’ichirō and Ariyoshi Sawako” AAS in Asia Conference / IAFOR, Kobe [online]
2019/11/01: “Butoh Dress(ing) Code: Costumes, Bodies, Performance” Butoh NEXT Symposium / CUNY Graduate Center, New-York, USA
2019/09/15: “Of Silk And Wit: Taishō Fashion in Jun’ichirō Tanizaki Chijin no Ai” EAJS 3rd Conference in Japan / Tsukuba University, Japan
2019/06/08: “The aesthetic transformations of the kimono in modern Bijinga paintings” ASPAC 2019 / Saint Mary’s College, CA, USA
2019/04/21: “Saerubi – Collecting Kimono in Japan and Abroad” AJJ Anthropology of Japan in Japan / National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan
2018/11/09: “The State of Contemporary Kimono: the role of Fashion, Design and Aesthetics” ACAS Annual Conference on Asian Studies / Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic
2018/06/02: “Esthétique du Kimono dans la peinture Bijinga” RCFK 2018 / IFJK Institut Français du Japon Kansai
2018/04/29: “Kimono Communities” AJJ Spring Conference / Meiji University, Tokyo
2015/06/05: “Contours of Dreams and Resistance: Experimental shorts by Akino Kondoh / Yoriko Mizushiri / Shishi Yamasaki / Noriko Yamaguchi” Kinema Club XV / Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany
2011/05/23: “Ombre(s) et Lumière(s) : les forces telluriques de la danse Butô” Atelier des doctorants en danse « Danse et Sciences » / CND, Lyon, France