Fuji Pilgrimage Mandala (Fuji sankei mandara); Edo period, seventeenth century; hanging scroll, ink and colors on paper, 178.6 x 144.6 cm; Shōeiji, Aichi Prefecture, Japan (in the care of Kaguyahime Museum, Shizuoka, Japan).
Etoki (Picture-Storytelling) Workshop
Mountains As Sacred Places: Mount Sumeru, Vulture Peak, Kumano, And Mount Fuji
Etoki of Buddhist paintings was always intertwined with sacred mountains in Japan. This workshop examines the representations of Mt. Sumeru, Vulture Peak, Kumano, and Mount Fuji in this performance tradition. The workshop is held in conjunction with the Donald Keene Center's "Etoki (picture-storytellers) from Japan" event on March 11 from 5pm at The Forum (125th and Broadway), Columbia University.
Program
Yamamoto Satomi (Waseda University): "Sacred Mountains of Buddhism and Painting "
Umezawa Megumi (Kyoritsu Women’s University): "Mountain Worship in Medieval Japan"
Talia Andrei (Wesleyan University): “Fuji Sankei Mandala and Pilgrimage to Mount Fuji"
Commentators: Max Moerman (Barnard College), Osawa Maho (Waseda University) and Oiwa Masanori (Waseda University)
Abe Mika (Nagoya University Center for Cultural Heritage & Texts): "Contemporary Recreations of Mount Fuji in Etoki”
Abe Yasurō (Ryukoku University): "Sacred Mountains in Prince Shotoku Paintings for Etoki”
Sponsors and Organizers
This workshop is co-sponsored by the Mary Griggs Burke Center for Japanese Art, Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture, and Waseda University.
Co-organizers: Mary Griggs Burke Center for Japanese Art; Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture, Center for Cultural Heritage Text Studies, Graduate School of Humanities, Nagoya University; Ryusaku Tsunoda Center of Japanese Culture, Waseda University; JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) Satomi Yamamoto "Medieval Expansion of Lotus Sutra Art: Forms and Spaces of Integration of Exoteric, Esoteric, and Pure Land" 24K00025; JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Research (A) Yasuro Abe "Creating a Collaborative Scholarly Community for the Archives of Religious Textual Cultural Heritage and the Sharing of Mutual Understanding" 22H00005; Global Japanese Studies, Waseda University