HAWORTH is going Japanese on Sunday, July 1 with an oriental spin on Wuthering Heights.

The Brontë Society is hosting a day of special events bringing Emily Brontë’s famous novel together with Japanese art forms.

The activities are part of the Stormy House project, a cultural collaboration between Japanese artists and young people from West Yorkshire, which will culminate with an art installation in Haworth in November.

Building Stormy House, led by local organisation Whitestone Arts, will be held on Sunday and will explore the ghostly elements of Wuthering Heights in relation to kaidan, Japanese ghost tales, collected by Greco-Irish writer and traveller Patrick Lafcadio Hearn.

Following the Brush, from 11am to 1pm on Sunday, is a workshop on

Japanese calligraphy led by Misuzu Kosaka.

Participants will help transform fragments of text from Wuthering Heights into creative calligraphy, the Japanese characters acting as a fluid bridge between worlds and images.

Misuzu Kosaka studied under calligraphy masters Saisui Ishibashi and Yuri Sato. Her artistic activity includes solo exhibitions, book illustration, public demonstrations and workshops.

She is a director and instructor at the Japan Calligraphy Education Society.

Damian Flanagan will explain why Wuthering Heights has a particular resonance with Japanese readers in a talk at 2.15pm.

A spokesman said: “In this engaging and informative talk, Damian Flanagan will explore possible literary and

landscape connections between Emily Brontë’s work and the islands of the North Pacific where she set her Gondal fantasies.

“He will also discuss his own creative collaborations with calligrapher Misuzu Kosaka.”

Damian Flanagan is a writer and literary critic specialising in Japanese culture who completed his MA and PhD in Japanese Literature at Kobe University.

There will be a Japanese Tea Ceremony with Ayaka Morimoto at 3pm.

The spokesman said: “The tea ceremony is perhaps the most elegant of Japanese traditions, combining refined

etiquette, religious symbolism and healing power.

“Akaya Morimoto trained in the culture of old Japan from the age of six, and performs at the Camellia Tea Ceremony in Kyoto.”

Stormy House, which runs from November 3-11, will be an immersive installation featuring audio, video, performance

and set design with landscape imagery from Haworth Moor and rural Japan.

The installation will have been created across 2017 and 2018 in collaboration with calligrapher Misuzu Kosaka, dancer Ima Tenko and students from Haworth Primary School and

Cathedral Academy of Performing Arts (Wakefield).

Visit bronte.org.uk/whats-on the further inf for further information about all the events.