Please join the Department of Art History for a symposium on Japanese Art History, Japanese Painting Circa 1500: A Time of Upheaval and Innovation, which will take place on Friday, April 12th, 2024.

Participants: Shimao Arata (Gakushūin University), Steffani Bennett (UW–Madison), Yukio Lippit (Harvard University), Melissa McCormick (Harvard University), and Gene Phillips (UW–Madison).

Welcome
9:00–9:10 AM
Opening Remarks by Professor Emeritus Gene Phillips and Professor Steffani Bennett

Morning Presentations
9:10–10:10 AM
Shimao Arata (Gakushūin University), “A Time of Transition in Muromachi Ink Painting”

10:10–11:10 AM
Yukio Lippit (Harvard University), “Revisiting Sesshū’s Huike Offering his Arm to Bodhidharma (1496)”

11:10 AM–12:10 PM
Steffani Bennett (University of Wisconsin–Madison), “The Grotto Heaven in Late Fifteenth-century Japanese Landscape Painting”

Lunch Break
12:10–1:30 PM

Afternoon Presentations
1:35–2:35 PM
Melissa McCormick (Harvard University), “‘Rulers of the Inner Realm’: Gendered Authority in the Cultural Sphere of the Asakura House and the Yamato Imaginary”

2:35–3:35 PM
Gene Phillips (University of Wisconsin–Madison), “Approaching Kano Motonobu’s Illustrated Legends of the Kurama Temple”

3:35–4:00 PM
Closing Remarks by Professors Phillips and Bennett