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IJS/IKS Lecture: Sherry Fowler, "Buddhist Temple Bells and Transnational Connections Between Japan, Korea, and the Ryukyus"

Painting of people next to a large bell
March 2, 2020
5:00PM - 6:30PM
Pomerene Hall Room 150

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Add to Calendar 2020-03-02 17:00:00 2020-03-02 18:30:00 IJS/IKS Lecture: Sherry Fowler, "Buddhist Temple Bells and Transnational Connections Between Japan, Korea, and the Ryukyus"  The Institute for Japanese Studies presents:Sherry FowlerTitle: Buddhist Temple Bells and Transnational Connections Between Japan, Korea, and the RyukyusCo-sponsored by the Institute for Korean StudiesFlyer: Abstract: Although large Japanese bronze Buddhist bells were made of expensive material with impressive technical and design skill, their extensive history in Japan has been largely overlooked. While these bells were made for use at Buddhist temples for rituals and commemoration since the seventh century, they also played a pivotal role in the history of international maritime movement and global exchange. Throughout Japan the abundant illustrations and stories, some credible and others fantastic, of bells transported across the sea or sunk in bodies of water have common themes of loss, recovery, and international tension, including the political issue of twentieth-century seizure and repatriation of Buddhist bells. In addition to Japanese bells that weave the themes of survival and relocation into transnational connections, important bells from Korea and the Ryukyus will also be discussed.Bio: Sherry Fowler is Professor of Japanese Art History at the University of Kansas. She received her PhD in Japanese Art History from UCLA. Her publications include the books Accounts and Images of Six Kannon in Japan (2016), and Murōji: Rearranging Art and History at a Japanese Buddhist Temple (2005). In 2018 she published the chapter “Connecting Kannon to Women Through Print” in the book Women, Rites, and Ritual Objects in Premodern Japan. Sherry Fowler specializes in Japanese Buddhist art. Her interests include pre-modern sculpture, 18th and 19th century Japanese temple prints, pilgrimage prints, foreign interactions with Japanese art, issues of collecting, and ritual. She is currently researching the changing perceptions and relocations of Buddhist temple bells.Free and Open to the Public This lecture is co-sponsored by the Institute for Korean Studies. The Institute for Japanese Studies Lecture Series is supported by a U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant to The Ohio State University East Asian Studies Center. Pomerene Hall Room 150 East Asian Studies Center easc@osu.edu America/New_York public

 

The Institute for Japanese Studies presents:

Sherry Fowler

Title: Buddhist Temple Bells and Transnational Connections Between Japan, Korea, and the Ryukyus

Co-sponsored by the Institute for Korean Studies

Flyer: 

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Abstract: Although large Japanese bronze Buddhist bells were made of expensive material with impressive technical and design skill, their extensive history in Japan has been largely overlooked. While these bells were made for use at Buddhist temples for rituals and commemoration since the seventh century, they also played a pivotal role in the history of international maritime movement and global exchange. Throughout Japan the abundant illustrations and stories, some credible and others fantastic, of bells transported across the sea or sunk in bodies of water have common themes of loss, recovery, and international tension, including the political issue of twentieth-century seizure and repatriation of Buddhist bells. In addition to Japanese bells that weave the themes of survival and relocation into transnational connections, important bells from Korea and the Ryukyus will also be discussed.

Bio: Sherry Fowler is Professor of Japanese Art History at the University of Kansas. She received her PhD in Japanese Art History from UCLA. Her publications include the books Accounts and Images of Six Kannon in Japan (2016), and Murōji: Rearranging Art and History at a Japanese Buddhist Temple (2005). In 2018 she published the chapter “Connecting Kannon to Women Through Print” in the book Women, Rites, and Ritual Objects in Premodern Japan. Sherry Fowler specializes in Japanese Buddhist art. Her interests include pre-modern sculpture, 18th and 19th century Japanese temple prints, pilgrimage prints, foreign interactions with Japanese art, issues of collecting, and ritual. She is currently researching the changing perceptions and relocations of Buddhist temple bells.

Free and Open to the Public

 

This lecture is co-sponsored by the Institute for Korean Studies. The Institute for Japanese Studies Lecture Series is supported by a U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant to The Ohio State University East Asian Studies Center.