The 2002 Sо̄shitsu Sen XV Distinguished Lecture on Japanese Culture

Tadashi Suzuki at Columbia University
Tradition and Creative Power in Theatre

Friday, April 30, 2002
Low Rotunda, Low Memorial Library, Columbia University (116th St. & Amsterdam Ave.) Sponsored by the Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture

Read the lecture text as PDF in English here and in Japanese here.

Prof. Donald Keene, Prof. Anne Bogart, and Prof. Max Moerman with Tadashi Suzuki just before the lecture

Prof. Donald Keene with Tadashi Suzuki

Interpreter Leon Ingulsrud and Prof. Donald Keene with Tadashi Suzuki

Introduction by Prof. Max Moerman

Opening remarks by Prof. Anne Bogart

Tadashi Suzuki

Tadashi Suzuki delivers the Sen Lecture
in the Rotunda of Low Memorial Library

Prof. Max Moerman, Tadashi Suzuki, Prof. Paul Anderer, and Prof. Henry Smith at the post-lecture reception