Professor Emeritus TAKEDA Sachiko delivers lecture at the Imperial New Year's Lectures

The Ceremony of the Kousho Hajime (Imperial New Year's Lectures) is held every January at the Imperial Palace in the presence of the emperor and empress to listen to explanations about human, social and natural sciences from experts in these fields.

In this year’s lectures held on January 10, TAKEDA Sachiko, an Osaka University Professor Emeritus specializing clothing history (former professor of the Graduate School of Letters) delivered a lecture on the relationship between ancient clothing and society, government, and international relations.

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• Imperial Household Agency (Imperial New Year's Lectures)
• Graduate School of Humanities, Osaka University
• Graduate School of Letters, Osaka University
• School of Foreign Studies, Osaka University