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The National Maritime Museum will hold an international academic conference titled “Trajectories of East Asian Exchange Engraved in Shells” on the 24th at 1:30 PM in its main auditorium. The event prepares the scholarly groundwork for a December special exhibition, “Shells, かい: Traces of Korea and Japan in Shells.” A keynote by Professor Naoko Kinoshita (Kumamoto University) will explore shell culture across the Japanese archipelago. Four thematic presentations will address shell use and movement in the Neolithic, interregional exchange in the Three Kingdoms period through shell artifacts, transformations and crossovers in lacquer and mother-of-pearl in medieval East Asian craft, and material differences in Korean and Chinese mother-of-pearl pieces focusing on the Palace Museum’s collection. Organizers say researchers from Korea, China, Japan and other East Asian countries will convene to discuss shell culture and evidence of cultural exchange.