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Course Code etc
Academic Year 2026
College College of Arts
Course Code AM043
Theme・Subtitle What is it: Art, Visual Poetry, or Anti-art? Dissecting the genre
Class Format Face to face (all classes are face-to-face)
Class Format (Supplementary Items)
Campus Seminar
Campus Ikebukuro
Semester Spring Semester
DayPeriod・Room Tue.3
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Credits 2
Course Number EAL2411
Language English
Class Registration Method Automatic Registration
Assigned Year 配当年次は開講学部のR Guideに掲載している科目表で確認してください。
Prerequisite Regulations
Acceptance of Other Colleges 履修登録システムの『他学部・他研究科履修不許可科目一覧』で確認してください。
Course Cancellation ×(履修中止不可/ Not eligible for cancellation)
Online Classes Subject to 60-Credit Upper Limit
Relationship with Degree Policy 各授業科目は、学部・研究科の定める学位授与方針(DP)や教育課程編成の方針(CP)に基づき、カリキュラム上に配置されています。詳細はカリキュラム・マップで確認することができます。
https://www.rikkyo.ac.jp/about/disclosure/educational_policy/arts.html
Notes

【Course Objectives】

Through this course, the members will be able to have a closer understanding of what visual poetry is. The final will comprise a collection of original visual work based on the texts. This course will also show how significantly the Japanese artist-poets contributed to this worldwide movement in art and literature.

【Course Contents】

-introductions to related art movements
-analysis of visually poetic work
-understanding the components of visually creative work

Japanese Items

【授業計画 / Course Schedule】

1 Introduction, overview, class organization, explanation of final assignment. Definitions of visual poetry. The final for this semester will not be an essay, but instead, a collection of visual works completed from weekly assignments for this class. For this final, you will write an introduction to your manuscript. Assignment 1: Lexical Exquisite Corpse, writing in the style of western surrealism, juxtaposition. Writing a short story based on the EC result
2 Viewing visual poetry Anachronistically in Japanese culture.

Japanese style awase juxtaposition. Saint Kūya Buddhist sculpture; Basho Matsuo Kare eda, crow haiku + calligraphy + sumie illustration (+washi paper). Assignment 2: creating a multimedia work
3 Highly imagistic lexical verse, haiku (Matsuo Basho, Takeda Santoka); Nishiwaki Junzaburo & his claim that haiku is the Japanese version of surrealism proceeding it. Assignment 3: to write a short poem in the vein of surrealism, as in Paul Eluard
4 The ASA (Association for the Study of Arts) school of visual poetry, ideogram-based. Niikuni Seiichi & Fujitomi Yasuo.
5 The ASA school, part two
6 Kitasono Katúe, VOU and the Brazilian Noigrandes group, visual poetry
7 Kitasono and “plastic poems,” introducing VOU visual poets
8 Shimizu Toshihiko’s collage & album cover work
9 Tsuji Setsuko & Hibino Fumiko
10 Sound poetry with the visual, Adachi Tomomi
11 Takahashi Shohachirō & Itō Motoyuki, the Iwate school
12 Tsuji Setsuko & Hibino Fumiko
13 The GUI coterie & Suzuki Hiromi; onnacodomo & Flanger from Viva Strange Boutique
14 Visual works exhibition with oral performances of respective classmates’ works. Hand in final assignment of works collected from this semester, Exquisite Corpse (part 2)

【活用される授業方法 / Teaching Methods Used】

板書 /Writing on the Board
スライド(パワーポイント等)の使用 /Slides (PowerPoint, etc.)
上記以外の視聴覚教材の使用 /Audiovisual Materials Other than Those Listed Above
個人発表 /Individual Presentations
グループ発表 /Group Presentations
ディスカッション・ディベート /Discussion/Debate
実技・実習・実験 /Practicum/Experiments/Practical Training
学内の教室外施設の利用 /Use of On-Campus Facilities Outside the Classroom
校外実習・フィールドワーク /Field Work
上記いずれも用いない予定 /None of the above

【授業時間外(予習・復習等)の学修 / Study Required Outside of Class】

At least one hour of study will be required each week.

【成績評価方法・基準 / Evaluation】

種類 (Kind)割合 (%)基準 (Criteria)
平常点 (In-class Points)100 最終レポート(Final Report)(40%)
Weekly Assignments(30%)
Participation(20%)
Originality(10%)
備考 (Notes)
-four absences will result in an automatic X
-no use of AI when composing original works
-the final task each semester is to complete a number of visual and lexical works

【テキスト / Textbooks】

その他 (Others)
I will be using PDFs of my books, VOU Visual Poetry (Isobar, 2022) and Visual Poetry of Japan (Kerplunk!, 2024).

【参考文献 / Readings】

【履修にあたって求められる能力 / Abilities Required to Take the Course】

An interest in art and poetry is necessary, but class members need not be artists or poets to take this class.

【学生が準備すべき機器等 / Equipment, etc., that Students Should Prepare】

【その他 / Others】

【注意事項 / Notice】