1. THE PAST AND THE PRESENT OF
KANSAI HOPKINS GROUP
Yashiro YAMADA
Professor,
Nanzan University,
Nagoya, JAPAN

2. FOUNDATION
1971
 Hopkins Society of Japan
Tokyo Branch
Kansai Branch
History of 44 years!
Each branch has its own members
and does academic activities in its own way.

3. LOCATION

5. STUDIES IN G.M. HOPKINS

6. HOPKINS RESEARCH
IN KANSAI
 1969 Studies in G.M. Hopkins by Dr.
Shoichiro YASUDA was published.
 1971 Hopkins Society of Japan, Kansai
Branch was founded.
 Membership in Kansai Branch
 1971 ⇒ 20
 1977 ⇒ 36
 2015 ⇒ a dozen

7. KINKAKUJI TEMPLE, KYOTO

8. CAMPUS PLAZA KYOTO

9. REGULAR MEETING
 The last Sunday every month except May and July
 At a university or some public facilities in Kyoto
 13:30 – 17:00
 A person in charge is supposed to distribute copies
of his/her translation of Hopkins’s poem with a few
handouts attached, and provide explication.
 After that, we discuss the translation and the
original poem thoroughly.
 So far we had 411 regular meetings.
 We discussed the translation of all the pieces of
verse except the ones in Translations, Latin and
Welsh Poems in The Poems 4th edition.

10. GENERAL MEETING
 Joint General Meeting of Hopkins Society of Japan
 Once a year
 Presentations ｏｆ the result of research.
 Exchanging information about the academic activities of
each branch.
 So far 43 general meetings were held.

11. JOURNALS & A BOOK
 We publish a journal entitled NONDUM about every
three years.
 The first issue was published in 1974.
 The latest issue was published in 2014.
 We have 13 issues published.
 The title is taken from one of Hopkins’s early poems.
 It suggests our determination that we will continue our
research in Hopkins’s poetry because we will not be
able to attain our academic goal easily .
 Hopkins-no-kokoro , a collection of papers by the
members of Kansai Branch was published in
book form in 1979.

13. LONG-LASTING MEMBERSHIP
 Most members today have been active for a very
long time.
 The reason we love our group:
 Having opportunities to read a great deal of Hopkins
written works
Exchanging our opinions frankly.
Getting inspiration from the discussion for the sake of
our own research.
The frank atmosphere was created by the founding
members of our group, and it is what we have succeeded
to for 44 years in the activities of Kansai Branch.

14. Thank you very much
for your kind attention!!