
Events & Public Presentations
2025


Mark K. Erdmann, "From Japan to Rome: Oda Nobunaga’s Azuchi Screens and the European Image of Japan" at the Reischauer Institute for Japanese Studies Japan Forum, Harvard University, February 21.
2023
Shimbo, Kiyono, "Report on Azuchi Screen Inquiry," Shiga Prefecture History Seminar for Reconstruction of Azuchi Castle, Otsu, Shiga [新保淳乃「安土山図屏風調査の現状」滋賀県「幻の安土城」復元プロジェクト・歴史セミナー], Shiga prefecture, March 25.
Shimbo, Kiyono, "Past and Present of Azuchi Screens Inquiry: Report on research activities" Omihachiman City Azuchi Castle Restoration Promotional Committee [新保淳乃「安土山図屛風探索の現在地:探索プロジェクト活動報告」、近江八幡市安土城復元推進協議会、講演会 ], Shiga prefecture, Feb 4.
2022
Shimbo, Kiyono, "Whereabouts of Azuchi Screen," Shiga Prefecture History Seminar for the Reconstruction of Azuchi Castle [新保淳乃「安土山図屏風の行方]、滋賀県「幻の安土城」復元プロジェクト・ここ滋賀歴史セミナー], Tokyo, Jan 29.
2021
“From Azuchi to Rome: The Tenshō Embassy and the Azuchi Screens” panel in the Beyond the Southern Barbarians: Repositioning Japan in the First Global Age Online Symposium, hosted by Kyushu University & Yale University, Feb 16.
Shimbo, Kiyono, "Whereabouts of Azuchi Screen," Memories of Japan at the Relationships between Japan and Vatican: Public Symposium of Vatican-Japan 100th Project [新保淳乃「安土山図屛風のゆくえ」、バチカンに眠る日本の記憶:文化と交流450年・教皇の知り得た日本、公開シンポジウム], Sophia University, Tokyo, Nov 13.
2019
Quattro Ragazzi: Hopes and Illusions of the Momoyama Renaissance | Europe through the eyes of Hiroshi Sugimoto and the Tenshō Embassy, Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum, Exhibition Opening + Symposium, Jan 27.
New Research on the Azuchi Screens Symposium, Azuchi Community Center, Jun 29.
2018
Quattro Ragazzi: Hopes and Illusions of the Momoyama Renaissance | Europe through the eyes of Hiroshi Sugimoto and the Tenshō Embassy, Exhibition Opening + Symposium, MOA, Atami, Oct 6.
Shimbo, Kiyono, "Tensho Mission and Italy: Italian Art in the Era of World Missions," Seibi Gakuen College, Institute for Italy-Japan Research, Italian Culture Seminar[新保淳乃「天正少年使節とイタリア:世界布教時代のイタリア美術」星美学園短期大学日伊総合研究所、イタリア文化講座], Tokyo, September 22.
2006
Cavaliere, Paola, ‘Japan and Europe: the First Japan-European contacts and the First Japanese Mission to Europe,’ Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Apr 14, 2006 (invited speaker).
Cavaliere, Paola, 'Azuchijō no zu byōbu. Il paravento dipinto raffigurante il Castello di Azuchi'. Italian Association of Japanese Studies. The University of Venice, Sept 20.

