# Event Details

- **Event Name**: CJS Noon Lecture Series | Transgressive Navigation: Tanegashima, Kyoto, and the Wokou
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 26 Mar, 2026 at 12:00 pm – Thu, 26 Mar, 2026 at 01:30 pm
- **Event Description**: Full title: Transgressive Navigation: Tanegashima, Kyoto, and the Wokou in Sixteenth-Century Maritime East Asia

This free lecture will be held in room 555, Weiser Hall, and virtually on Zoom. Registration is required for the webinar; once you've registered, joining information will be sent to your email. Register for the Zoom webinar at https://myumi.ch/A1DNw

This presentation uses the theme of navigation to rewrite the sixteenth-century history of so-called Japanese pirates (Ch. Wokou) from the participating seafarers’ perspectives. To do so, Professor Shapinsky traces the development of patronage networks and sea-routes linking islanders from Tanegashima in the Japanese archipelago with Kyoto aristocrats, Ashikaga shogunal officials, Chinese diplomatic envoys, and Chinese sea merchants. These last integrated Tanegashima seafarers into raiding and trading consortia during the high tide of Wokou activity during the 1540s and 1550s.

Peter Shapinsky is a professor of history at the University of Illinois, Springfield. He is the author of Lords of the Sea: Pirates, Violence, and Commerce in Late Medieval Japan (Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 2014) and several articles and chapters, including “Merchants, Monks, and Marauders: Medieval Japan on and over the Seas,” forthcoming in the new Cambridge History of Japan.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/ann-arbor/cjs-noon-lecture-series-|-transgressive-navigation-tanegashima-kyoto-and-the-wokou/200029439036039
- **Event Categories**: workshops, virtual, webinar, business, art, literary-art
- **Interested Audience**: 
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## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Ann Arbor
- **state**: MI
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Weiser Hall, University of Michigan
- **lat**: 42.27278
- **long**: -83.73019
- **full address**: Weiser Hall, University of Michigan, 1429 Hill St, Ann Arbor, MI 48104-3105, United States

## Event Organizer details

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- **organizer**: University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies (https://allevents.in/org/university-of-michigan-center-for-japanese-studies/12068247)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Thu, 26 Mar, 2026 at 12:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Weiser Hall, University of Michigan, 1429 Hill St, Ann Arbor, MI 48104-3105, United States
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** workshops, virtual, webinar, business, art, literary-art
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