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SUMMARY:Lecture by Jakuchō Setouchi\, "Nunhood and The Tale of Genji"
DESCRIPTION:Jakucho Setouchi \nJakuchō Setouchi\, a Buddhist nun\, is a distinguished novelist and the author of the best-selling translation of the Tale of Genji into the modern Japanese language. She also wrote the novels The End of Summer and Beauty in Disarray.
URL:https://www.imjs-jchi.org/event/nunhood-and-the-tale-of-genji/
LOCATION:Philosophy Hall Lounge\, 116th Street and Amsterdam Avenue\, New York\, NY\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:19990921T180000
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SUMMARY:Lecture by Hiroaki Sato\, "Sexuality in Modern Japanese Women's Poetry"
DESCRIPTION:Lecture by the eminent poet and translator Hiroaki Sato
URL:https://www.imjs-jchi.org/event/sexuality-in-modern-japanese-womens-poetry/
LOCATION:403 Kent Hall (EALAC Lounge)\, 116th Street and Amsterdam Avenue\, New York\, NY\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19990916
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SUMMARY:Programs with Chief Abbot Keido Fukushima\, Tofukuji Monastery\, Kyoto - “Zen of the Sixth Patriarch Eno”
DESCRIPTION:Chief Abbot Keido Fukushima\, Tofukuji Monastery\, Kyoto\, Japan. \nAbbott Keido Fukushima \nSeptember 16\n12:00-1:15pm Lecture: “Zen of the Sixth Patriarch Eno” (Lecture in Japanese)\n1:15-1:45pm Open discussion\n4:00-5:45pm Zen calligraphy demonstration \nSeptember 17\n3:00-5:00pm Instructional Zazen Meditation Session (workshop for both newcomers and advanced sitters) \n\nZen Calligraphy Demonstration \n\n 
URL:https://www.imjs-jchi.org/event/programs-with-chief-abbot-keido-fukushima-tofukuji-monastery-zen-of-the-sixth-patriarch-eno/
LOCATION:403 Kent Hall\, 116th Street and Amsterdam Avenue\, New York\, NY\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19990301
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SUMMARY:Shakuhachi Master Class with Teruhisa Fukuda
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored with Music From Japan
URL:https://www.imjs-jchi.org/event/shakuhachi-master-class-with-teruhis-fukuda-co-sponsored-with-music-from-japan/
LOCATION:403 Kent Hall\, 116th Street and Amsterdam Avenue\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Masterclass
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SUMMARY:30th Anniversary Event: The 700th Anniversary Memorial Service for the Zen Abbess Mugai Nyodai (1223－1298)
DESCRIPTION:無外如大禅尼 (1223－1298) 700年遠忌法要 \n700th Anniversary Memorial Service in honor of the Zen Abbess Mugai Nyodai (1223-1298)\nCommemorating the thirtieth anniversary of its founding in 1968\, the Institute held a series of events November 21-23\, 1998 on The Culture of Convents in Japanese History at Columbia University. \nNuns from the few remaining Imperial Buddhist Convents of Japan now being studied by the Institute visited the United States for the first time to conduct a rare Buddhist ceremony in St. Paul’s Chapel in memory of their spiritual leader\, Zen Abbess Mugai Nyodai\, who is known as the first female Zen master in Japan. The seven-hundredth anniversary of her death in November 1298 was commemorated as part of the Institute’s thirtieth anniversary. \nDuring the memorial service\, nuns from Kyoto\, Osaka\, Nara and Tokyo conducted Buddhist rituals never before seen outside Japan\, and never viewed by the general public even in Japan. Chief Abbot Keido Fukushima of Tofukuji monastery performed a special incense burning and poetic invocation. \nUnprecedented musical offerings were conducted in honor of Abbess Mugai Nyodai\, including not only a world premier of Mind in Mirror: Nyodai’s Dream composed by Yuriko Hase Kojima for shakuhachi\, pipa and bass koto\, but also an offering of songs composed by the medieval German Catholic nun\, Hildegard von Bingen\, performed by members of Columbia’s Collegium Musicum. \nDr. Peter Haskel (First Zen Institute of America) chanted The Heart Sutra\, and words and poetry were offered by Prof. Barbara Ruch (Institute Director); Dr. George Rupp (Columbia University President); Ambassador Seiichiro Otsuka (Consul General of Japan in New York); Rev. T. Kenjitsu Nakagaki (Buddhist Council of New York); The Very Rev. James Parks Morton (Interfaith Center of New York); and High Priest Shunsho Manabe (Kanagawa Prefectural Kanazawa Bunko Museum). (The full text of these remarks can be seen in the Program of the Memorial Service.) \nThe entire ceremony took place in front of a Buddhist altar arranged before an exact replica of the thirteenth-century chinso portrait statue of Abbess Mugai Nyodai. The replica\, the original of which is designated an Important Cultural Treasure and enshrined in a Kyoto convent\, was lent to the memorial service by its owner\, the Kanagawa Prefectural Kanazawa Bunko Museum. \nLed by Abbess Shozui Rokujo of Domyoji Convent\, the nuns’ rituals included a rare performance of the scattering of paper lotus petals in a circumambulation to gagaku music. \nAt the conclusion of the two-hour service\, more than 200 guests from around the world offered incense at the altar in honor of Abbess Mugai. Following the memorial service\, the Buddhist clergy and special memorial service guests participated in a traditional tea ceremony provided by the Urasenke Chanoyu Center of New York in the Rotunda Gallery of Low Memorial Library.
URL:https://www.imjs-jchi.org/event/30th-anniversary-event-the-700th-anniversary-memorial-service-for-the-zen-abbess-mugai-nyodai-1223%ef%bc%8d1298/
LOCATION:St. Paul’s Chapel\, Columbia University\, 1160 Amsterdam Ave\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
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SUMMARY:30th Anniversary Event: International Symposium "The Culture of Convents in Japanese History"
DESCRIPTION:国際シンポジウム『日本史の中の尼寺文化』 \nInternational Symposium: “The Culture of Convents in Japanese History”\nSince the 6th century royal women have played key roles in the establishment of Buddhism and the founding of monasteries and convents in Japan. They continued to do so during medieval times when Buddhism\, combined with native Shinto beliefs\, became virtually universal. Then\, from the 13th century until the overthrow of the Tokugawa Shogunate in 1868\, daughters of emperors and shoguns became the abbesses of an elite network of Buddhist convents that came to be known as monzeki amadera or imperial convents. \nWhen these women took the tonsure and assumed leadership of these religious institutions\, they brought with them\, as if a dowry to a marriage\, the highest cultural products of their age – superb furnishings\, libraries of books\, secular and religious scrolls\, paintings\, screens\, lacquer ware\, utensils for the spiritual disciplines of tea and flower arrangement\, and multitudinous other works of art—so much so that these convents over the centuries became known as bikuni gosho or “nun’s palaces.” Once a woman took the tonsure\, her magnificent secular robes remained treasures of the convent. If she had entered as a child\, her exquisite toys and dolls\, likewise\, were treated with great care and preserved. In short\, these convents are today like small\, locked jewel boxes filled with the pearls and precious stones of historic data\, somehow forgotten\, waiting to be rediscovered. \nIn 1868 the Japanese government established a policy of separation between the Shinto and Buddhist faiths and banished Buddhism from the court. Royal women were forbidden to become Buddhist nuns\, and these historical convents at once lost not only imperial and shogunal patronage but also an extraordinary pool of highly educated aristocratic women to serve as abbesses. Postwar land reform undermined their existence further by depriving the convents of the income-producing estates that had been willed to them by believers. Historically\, they have had no “congregations” to rely upon. \nIn Japan\, where culture is so carefully treasured\, it is amazing to discover that these extraordinary\, unique convents became the victim of 19th-century politics\, were divested of imperial patronage\, and as institutions for women\, were ignored by male scholars. Yet the convents represent not only one of Japan’s most extraordinary historic monuments\, but also institutions unique in all of world history. Today\, each of these convents is a private temple-residence with only one or two nuns\, and those with only tenuous ties to the former aristocracy. Unlike most famed monastery-temples for monks in Kyoto today\, therefore\, the imperial convents are not open to the public except on very rare occasions. \nThe women now who have decided to become Buddhist nuns and devote themselves to life careers in the imperial convents that have survived are vital spiritual and cultural guardians of one of the most extraordinary of institutions in Japanese history. Their challenge is to preserve the great treasures and traditions left to them by royal women of the past – and they must do so having been deprived\, by dint of 19th-and 20th-century politics\, of the intellectual and financial patronage of Japan’s elite. We are deeply grateful\, therefore\, for the privilege extended to the Institute for Medieval Japanese Studies that has allowed us to begin to examine their great store of records and view the treasures of Japanese cultural history related to the generations of powerful women who became nuns there. \nIt was in 1993 that the Institute for Medieval Japanese Studies became aware of the severely threatened state of these extraordinary temple-convents and was privileged to obtain the permission of the abbesses to begin to examine their great store of unstudied records and to view their treasures. The problems of photography and restoration proved to be extremely urgent. Her Majesty Empress Michiko learned of the Institute’s work and its severe financial constraints and in 1999 gave personal support to the work\, enlisting as well the expertise and assistance of the eminent artist Ikuo Hirayama\, head of the Foundation for Cultural Heritage. \nWith that Foundation’s support we began the delicate task of assisting the abbesses of the thirteen remaining imperial convents to preserve and restore their precious treasures. \nIn 2000 the World Monuments Fund of New York\, which has worked for nearly four decades on over 400 important and imperiled works of art and architecture in over 80 countries\, joined hands with us in support of the restoration of the convents’ historically unique architectural structures and gardens. On display in the Rotunda of Low Memorial Library are “before and after” photographs of our first architectural restoration\, that of the Amida Chapel at Hōkyōji Imperial Convent\, which was the private worship chapel of Hōkyōji’s abbess\, Princess Kin no Miya\, daughter of Emperor Kōkaku (1774-1840). Our long-term goal is to repair and restore all thirteen of the remaining imperial Buddhist convents\, which are one of Japan’s rare “endangered species.” \nHōkyōji Imperial Convent \nHōkyōji convent traces its history back to its status as a tatchū or sub-temple\, then called Fukuniji\, belonging to the great temple-convent Keiaiji\, which had been founded in the 13th century by the Rinzai Zen Abbess Mugai Nyodai. Keiaiji subsequently enjoyed a reputation as the highest-ranking “Five Mountain” Zen convent in medieval Kyoto. Fukuniji had fallen into disrepair in the 14th century and is believed to have been restored by Princess Karin no Miya\, daughter of Emperor Kōgon (1313-1364)\, who had become the nun Egon there. A statue of the bodhisattva Kannon holding a mirror that had been caught up in fishing nets in Ise bay was donated to the convent\, and as a result Egon renamed the convent Hōkyōji (Temple of the Treasured Mirror). \nHōkyōji subsequently had close ties to the Ashikaga shogunal house and was led by women from the shogunal family. From the 17th century on\, however\, beginning with the nun Kyūgon\, daughter of Emperor Gomizuno’o\, the position of abbess was held by a succession of imperial princesses. Although Keiaiji burned in the late medieval wars\, many of its sub-temples preserved its treasures\, and under Hōkyōji’s abbess Richū-ni\, another daughter of Emperor Gomizuno’o\, an upsurge in the veneration of Keiaiji\, Abbess Mugai Nyodai occurred. \nHōkyōji houses many decorative court dolls as well as many toy dolls cherished by emperors\, empresses and princesses. In spring and fall it holds a public exhibition of these treasured dolls and has gained the affectionate nickname “The Doll Temple” (Ningyō-dera). Every October it also holds an annual Buddhist funeral service for dolls that during the year have suffered fatal mishaps and are brought to the convent by their children-owners. \nThe convent is also famous for its flowering fruit trees\, lawns of hair moss\, and seasonal gardens unique to the convent. For a century and a half each abbess has gathered the seeds and hand-cultivated a rare variety of ribboned pinks that were presented to the convent by Emperor Kōkaku during the 18th century\, and yearly they still bloom anew. \nThe World Monuments Fund has joined hands with the Institute so as to actualize the restoration of Japan’s thirteen remaining imperial convents whose existence\, little known even in Japan\, hovers on the edge of extinction. These world heritage historical treasures of architecture and gardens are cursed with the present-day dual burden of being\, on the one hand\, institutions by and for women and\, on the other hand\, having been politically and economically amputated by 19th-century government fiat from their imperial base. \nThe Amida Chapel at at Hōkyōji imperial convent was selected as a pilot architectural and interior restoration project in our partnership with World Monument Fund. This restoration\, which was completed in August of 2003\, is the first milestone in the journey to preserve these jewel-like treasures. We hope the reader of these words will help to fund us on this journey. \nThe Amida Imperial Chapel at Hōkyōji \nIt was the tradition of Japanese courts for many centuries not only to give over private villas to be dedicated as monastic temple convents\, but in some cases\, to have an entire building or a room dismantled from the imperial palace complex itself and to donate it to an existing temple-convent. It is sometimes referred to as a “Moving” Architectural Tradition. This symbolic relationship between court and convent means that in some cases historic rooms used by emperors or empresses in the palace can be viewed and appreciated now only in their present convent setting\, since subsequent fires destroyed the palace itself. \nThis is true of the Amida Chapel at Hōkyōji. In 1847 this Imperial Chapel was installed in Hōkyōji\, having been dismantled from its original location in the Imperial Palace\, Kyoto. It was transferred to the convent under imperial order\, the dying wish of Emperor Ninkō\, whose sister\, Princess Kin no miya had taken the tonsure at Hōkyōji as the nun Rikin. The Emperor’s Imperial Chapel became her private chapel. It houses an image of Amida that had been created by or commissioned by their father\, Emperor Kōkaku (reigned 1779-1817)\, who was a devout practitioner of Buddhism. After his father’s death\, Emperor Ninkō\, likewise\, a fervent believer\, had worshipped before this image in his own private quarters of the palace until his death. \nWith Profound Gratitude \nWe announce the names of major funders of our Imperial Buddhist Convent Research and Restoration Projects \nHer Majesty\, Empress Michiko of Japan \nand \n(in alphabetical order) \nBussho gonenkai\nThe Freeman Foundation\nChief Abbot Keidō Fukushima\nKajima Corporation\nMs. Izumi Koishi\nKyoto Lions Club\nMedieval Japanese Studies Foundation\nMr. Takashi Saitō\nShibunkaku Group\nShiseido Company\, Ltd.\nShinji Shūmeikai\nShoyeido Corporation\nTaiko Trading Company\, Ltd.\nProf. Toshikazu Shiokawa\nMs. Shizuko Tani\nTides Foundation\nToraya Confectionery\, Ltd.\nToshiba International Foundation for the Arts\nThe World Monuments Fund
URL:https://www.imjs-jchi.org/event/international-symposium-the-culture-of-convents-in-japanese-history/
LOCATION:The Kellogg Center\, School of International and Public Affairs\, 420 West 118th St.\, 15th Floor\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19990201
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SUMMARY:30th Anniversary Event: Exhibition "Images of the Dharma: Buddhist Art from Columbia University Collections"
DESCRIPTION:『仏法の具現 －コロンビア大楽蔵の仏教美術展－』 \nImages of the Dharma: Buddhist Art from Columbia University Collections\nThe Institute for Medieval Japanese Studies\, founded in 1968\, celebrated its thirtieth anniversary with a wide range of activities commemorating the seven-hundredth anniversary of the death\, in November 1298\, of Abbess Mugai Nyodai\, the Zen master whose life and legacy have been the inspiration for much of the work of the Institute during the past decade. \nAbbess Mugai Nyodai (1223-1298) was a disciple and spiritual heir of the Chinese Rinzai Zen Monk Wu-hsüeh Tsü-yuan (known in Japan as Mugaku Sogen) [Bukkô Kokushi]); the founding Abbess of Keiaiji Convent\, the head temple-complex of the Five Mountain Rinzai Zen Convent Association; and the spiritual matriarch of many of the remaining Imperial Convents today. The discovery of the magnificent life-size thirteenth-century chinsô portrait sculpture of Abbess Mugai Nyodai was one of the initial revelatory events that drew scholarly attention to the wholly ignored female side of Buddhist institutional history and\, more broadly\, to the role of women in Japanese religious history. In many ways\, therefore\, she has been the Institute’s ‘patro-saint’. \nWe invite you to celebrate with us our past thirty years and to share in our ongoing goals and aspirations. As we approach the millennium\, we hope you will join us and support our innovative programs so as to bring to the center stage of world culture those extraordinary areas of Japanese culture which remain too often neglected.
URL:https://www.imjs-jchi.org/event/images-of-the-dharma-buddhist-art-from-columbia-university-collections/
LOCATION:Rotunda Gallery\, Low Library\, 116th Street and Broadway\, New York\, NY\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19981106
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19981205
DTSTAMP:20260408T104742
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SUMMARY:30th Anniversary Event: Exhibition "Days of Discipline and Grace: Treasures from the Imperial Buddhist Convents of Kyoto"
DESCRIPTION:『尼門跡寺院の秘宝 －修業と優しみの日々－』 \nDays of Discipline and Grace: Treasures from the Imperial Buddhist Convents of Kyoto\nDisciple and spiritual heir of the Chinese Rinzai Zen monk Wu-hsueh Tsu-yuan (known in Japan as Mugaku Sogen [Bukko Kokushi]); founding Abbess of Keiaiji Convent\, head temple-complex of the Five Mountain Rinzai Zen Convent Association; and spiritual matriarch of many of the remaining Imperial Convents today. \nIn the thirteenth century an extraordinarily realistic portrait statue (chinso chokoku) was carved depicting Abbess Mugai Nyodai in her seventies. Chinso statues are a category of remarkably realistic life-sized statues of the seated figures of historical Zen masters made as substitutes for the living person to convey the essence of the Zen master to his disciples after his death. This statue\, the only thirteenth-century portrait statue of a female Zen master extant\, has been declared an “Important Cultural Treasure” by the Japanese government. The original is an object of veneration in a Kyoto convent\, but for protection\, an exact replica was made and is kept by the Kanagawa Prefectural Kanazawa Bunko Museum. \nThe Institute for Medieval Japanese Studies is profoundly grateful to the Kanazawa Bunko for having lent to us the statue for the Abbess’s 700th anniversary memorial service. The service was conducted in front of the statue and it was then displayed in the exhibition “Days of Discipline and Grace:  Treasures from the Imperial Buddhist Convents of Kyoto” in the C. V. Starr East Asian Library.
URL:https://www.imjs-jchi.org/event/days-of-discipline-and-grace-treasures-from-the-imperial-buddhist-convents-of-kyoto/
LOCATION:Kress Room and Rare Book Gallery\, CV. Starr East Asian Library\, 300 Kent Hall\, 1140 Amsterdam Ave\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:19981019T180000
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SUMMARY:Lecture by Prof. Kazuaki Komine\, "Medieval Japanese Prophetic Writing (miraiki)"
DESCRIPTION:Professor Kazuaki Komine\, Rikkyō University\, Tokyo (Lecture in Japanese)\n小峯和明先生　立教大学教授\n「中世の未来記をめぐって」
URL:https://www.imjs-jchi.org/event/professor-kazuaki-komine-rikkyo-university-tokyo-medieval-japanese-profetic-writing-miraiki/
LOCATION:403 Kent Hall\, 116th Street and Amsterdam Avenue\, New York\, NY\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19980305
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19980307
DTSTAMP:20260408T104742
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SUMMARY:Workshop - "SHINTO STUDIES IN THE WEST: Toward a Re-examination of University Curricula and Future Research Directions"
DESCRIPTION:The Institute for Medieval Japanese Studies will host an informal workshop on \nSHINTO STUDIES IN THE WEST:\nToward a Re-examination of University Curricula and Future Research Directions \nOpening Session: \nThursday\, March 5\, 1998\n7:30 pm \nIllustrated Lecture (in Japanese) by Shunshō Manabe \, Director\nKanagawa Prefectural Kanazawa Bunko\n“Kanazawa bunko no mikkyō to chūsei shinto shiryô”\n真鍋俊照先生　神奈川県立金沢文庫長\n「金沢文庫の密教と中世神道資料」 \nWorkshop (in English): \nFriday\, March 6\, 1998\n10:00 am – 5:00 pm \nExcept for the keynote presentation by Professor Manabe\, there will be no formal papers\, but participants are free to prepare oral presentations on issues related to the theme of the workshop so that we may discuss them fully. It is hoped that the workshop will review the state of the field and will bring to the fore the problems that now hinder advancement of this field. Some areas for discussion will include the political and strategic difficulties of doing research in Japan on Shinto; women and Shinto in pre-modern Japan; Shinto and the Japanese literary canon; art historical problems; anthropological problems; and theoretical conflicts in Western academia. We hope to be able to make recommendations for future research projects and set up a network for the exchange of information and support. Graduate students too are warmly welcomed. \nFunding is not available for participants’ transportation or lodging except for those who will definitely be making a presentation.
URL:https://www.imjs-jchi.org/event/shinto-studies-in-the-west/
LOCATION:403 Kent Hall (EALAC Lounge)\, 116th Street and Amsterdam Avenue\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:19980227T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:19980227T190000
DTSTAMP:20260408T104742
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UID:46-888595200-888606000@www.imjs-jchi.org
SUMMARY:A Celebration of the Life and Music of Leonard C. Holvik (1918-1996)
DESCRIPTION:In gratitude for receipt of the \nLeonard C. Holvik Traditional Japanese Music Collection\n(Japanese instruments\, scores\, books\, audio and video tapes\, and manuscripts) \nThe Institute for Medieval Japanese Studies will hold a \nCELEBRATION OF THE LIFE AND MUSIC OF LEONARD C. HOLVIK (1918 – 1996) \nProfessor Emeritus of Music and Choral Director\, Earlham College\, Richmond\, Indiana\, and Teacher and Composer of Traditional Japanese Music at Columbia University\, New York City \nAll are welcome. \nCommemoration: St. Paul’s Chapel Columbia University 117th Street & Amsterdam Avenue 4:00 – 5:30 pm *Offerings of Words and Music \nReception: Gabe M. Weiner Music & Arts Library Columbia University\, Dodge Hall\, 7th Floor 116th Street & Broadway 5:30 – 7:00 pm \n\nExhibition of selected items from the Collection\nInstrumental demonstrations on the koto and shakuhachi\n\nThe Japanese musical instruments\, scores\, audio and video tapes\, records\, books and other materials received from the estate of Professor Holvik will be used to develop a curriculum in Japanese music both historically and in performance. \nIn Commemoration of the Receipt of the Leonard C. Holvik Japanese Music Collection.\nProgram and Reception with shakuhachi and koto solos and duets
URL:https://www.imjs-jchi.org/event/celebration-of-the-life-and-music-of-leonard-c-holvik/
LOCATION:St. Paul’s Chapel\, Columbia University\, 1160 Amsterdam Ave\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19980224
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19980225
DTSTAMP:20260408T104742
CREATED:20200624T142739Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200707T175052Z
UID:5871-888278400-888364799@www.imjs-jchi.org
SUMMARY:Program with Chief Abbot Keido Fukushima\, Tofukuji Monastery\, Kyoto - "Bodhidharma’s Zen"
DESCRIPTION:Chief Abbot Keido Fukushima\, Tofukuji Monastery\, Kyoto\, Japan. \nFebruary 24\nLecture: “Bodhidharma’s Zen” (Lecture in Japanese) \nFebruary 25\nZen calligraphy demonstration and Zazen workshop
URL:https://www.imjs-jchi.org/event/chief-abbot-keido-fukushima-tofukuji-monastery-kyoto-bodhidharmas-zen/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Event
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:19971114T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:19971114T180000
DTSTAMP:20260408T104742
CREATED:20190722T204757Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200630T145008Z
UID:835-879530400-879530400@www.imjs-jchi.org
SUMMARY:Lecture by Prof. Paula Arai\, "Soto Zen Nuns: Contemporary Rituals and Practices; One Perspective on Gender and Religion"
DESCRIPTION:Professor Paula Arai\, Religious Studies Department\, Vanderbilt University
URL:https://www.imjs-jchi.org/event/professor-paula-arai-religious-studies-department-vanderbilt-university-soto-zen-nuns-contemporary-rituals-and-practices-one-perspective-on-gender-and-religion/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Event
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:19971017T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:19971017T180000
DTSTAMP:20260408T104742
CREATED:20190722T204827Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200630T144947Z
UID:837-877111200-877111200@www.imjs-jchi.org
SUMMARY:Lecture by Barbara Ambros\, "Shogunal Prodigies: Zenkōji Nuns during the Early Modern Period"
DESCRIPTION:Barbara Ambros\, Department of Religion\, Harvard University
URL:https://www.imjs-jchi.org/event/ms-barbara-ambros-department-of-religion-havard-university-shogunal-prodigies-zenkoji-nuns-during-the-early-modern-period/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Event
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:19971009T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:19971009T193000
DTSTAMP:20260408T104742
CREATED:20190722T204853Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200630T144924Z
UID:839-876425400-876425400@www.imjs-jchi.org
SUMMARY:Lecture by Prof. James Dobbins\, "Women\, Sexuality and Pure Land Buddhism"
DESCRIPTION:Professor James Dobbins\, Department of Religion\, Oberlin College\, Ohio
URL:https://www.imjs-jchi.org/event/professor-james-dobbins-department-of-religion-oberlin-college-ohio-women-sexuality-and-pure-land-buddhism/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Event
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19970925
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19970926
DTSTAMP:20260408T104742
CREATED:20200624T142626Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200630T144859Z
UID:5868-875145600-875231999@www.imjs-jchi.org
SUMMARY:Lecture by Anne Lazrove\, "Temples Founded by Abbess Mugai Nyodai"
DESCRIPTION:Anne Lazrove\, Yale University
URL:https://www.imjs-jchi.org/event/anne-lazrove-yale-university-temples-founded-by-abbess-mugai-nyodai/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Event
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:19970918
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:19970919
DTSTAMP:20260408T104742
CREATED:20200624T142553Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200707T175019Z
UID:5866-874540800-874627199@www.imjs-jchi.org
SUMMARY:Lecture by Prof. Paul Groner\, "Get Thee to a Nunnery: The Lives of Japanese Nuns during the Early and Mid-Heian Period"
DESCRIPTION:Professor Paul Groner\, University of Virginia
URL:https://www.imjs-jchi.org/event/prof-paul-groner-university-of-virginia-get-thee-to-a-nunnery-the-lives-of-japanese-nuns-during-the-early-and-mid-heian-period/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Event
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:19970217T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:19970217T193000
DTSTAMP:20260408T104742
CREATED:20190722T204929Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200707T174945Z
UID:841-856202400-856207800@www.imjs-jchi.org
SUMMARY:Lecture by Prof. Isao Okuda\, "Myōei to Josei: ’Kegon engi’ ·Zenmyō ·Zenmyō-ji”
DESCRIPTION:Professor Isao Okuda\, University of the Sacred Heart\, Tokyo (Lecture in Japanese)\n奥田勲先生　聖心女子大学教授\n「明恵と女性『華厳縁起』・善妙・善妙寺」
URL:https://www.imjs-jchi.org/event/professor-isao-okuda-university-of-the-sacred-heart-tokyo-myoei-to-josei-kegon-enji-%ce%87zenmyo-%ce%87zenmyo-ji/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Event
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:19961120T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:19961120T180000
DTSTAMP:20260408T104742
CREATED:20190722T204953Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200630T144738Z
UID:843-848512800-848512800@www.imjs-jchi.org
SUMMARY:Lecture by Prof. Allan Grapard\, "Ritual Progression and Social Progression: Shugendō on Mt. Hiko in the 18th Century"
DESCRIPTION:Professor Allan Grapard\, Religious Studies Department\, University of California\, Santa Barbara
URL:https://www.imjs-jchi.org/event/professor-allan-grapard-religious-studies-department-university-of-california-santa-barbara-ritual-profression-and-social-profression-shugendo-on-mt-hiko-in-the-18th-century/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Event
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:19961103T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:19961103T180000
DTSTAMP:20260408T104742
CREATED:20190722T205030Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200630T144715Z
UID:845-847044000-847044000@www.imjs-jchi.org
SUMMARY:Lecture by Prof. Kenji Matsumoto\, "What is Kamakura New Buddhism?"
DESCRIPTION:Professor Kenji Matsumoto\, of Yamagata University; Visiting Professor\, Princeton University\n松尾剛次先生　山形大学
URL:https://www.imjs-jchi.org/event/professor-kenji-matsumoto-of-yamagata-university-visiting-professor-princeton-university-what-is-kamakura-new-buddhism/
LOCATION:403 Kent Hall\, 116th Street and Amsterdam Avenue\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:19961029T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:19961029T193000
DTSTAMP:20260408T104742
CREATED:20190722T205119Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200707T174908Z
UID:847-846612000-846617400@www.imjs-jchi.org
SUMMARY:Lecture by Prof. Masaharu Imai\, "Ippen to ’Ippen hijirie’ ni kansuru sho mondai"
DESCRIPTION:Professor Masaharu Imai\, Tsukuba University\, Japan (Lecture in Japanese)\n今井雅晴先生　筑波大学教授\n「一遍と『一遍聖絵』に関する諸問題」
URL:https://www.imjs-jchi.org/event/professor-masaharu-imai-tsukuba-university-japan-ippen-to-ippen-hijirie-ni-kansuru-sho-mondai/
LOCATION:403 Kent Hall\, 116th Street and Amsterdam Avenue\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:19950425T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:19950425T160000
DTSTAMP:20260408T104742
CREATED:20190722T205158Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220308T205104Z
UID:849-798825600-798825600@www.imjs-jchi.org
SUMMARY:Lecture by Prof. Maggie Childs\, "Sexuality & Salvation Reconciled: Chigo Kannon Engi"
DESCRIPTION:Professor Maggie Childs\, Chair\, Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures\, University of Kansas; Visiting Shincho Professor\, Columbia University
URL:https://www.imjs-jchi.org/event/professor-maggie-childs-chair-department-of-east-asian-languages-visiting-shincho-professor-columbia-university-sexiality-salvation-reconsiled-chigo-kannon-en/
LOCATION:403 Kent Hall\, 116th Street and Amsterdam Avenue\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:19950222T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:19950222T193000
DTSTAMP:20260408T104742
CREATED:20190722T205238Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200707T174833Z
UID:851-793456200-793481400@www.imjs-jchi.org
SUMMARY:Program with Chief Abbot Keido Fukushima of Tofukuji Monastery\, Kyoto - "The Concept of 'Free' in Zen Buddhism"
DESCRIPTION:Chief Abbot Keido Fukushima of Tofukuji Monastery\, Kyoto\, Japan. \nLecture: “The Concept of ‘Free’ in Zen Buddhism” (Lecture in Japanese) \nZen Calligraphy Demonstration \nInstructional Zazen Session
URL:https://www.imjs-jchi.org/event/chief-abbot-keido-fukushima-of-tofukuji-temple-kyoto-japan-lecture-the-concept-of-free-in-zen-buddhism-zen-calligraphy-demonstration-instructional-zazen-session/
LOCATION:403 Kent Hall\, 116th Street and Amsterdam Avenue\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event,Workshop
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:19941103T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:19941103T160000
DTSTAMP:20260408T104742
CREATED:20190722T205312Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200707T174802Z
UID:853-783878400-783878400@www.imjs-jchi.org
SUMMARY:Lecture by Dr. Lorna Brau\, "Rakugo's Playful Personae (And Personas): Comic Storytelling Performance in Contemporary Tokyo"
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.imjs-jchi.org/event/dr-lorna-brau-rakugos-playful-personae-and-personas-comic-storytelling-persormance-in-contemporary-tokyo/
LOCATION:403 Kent Hall\, 116th Street and Amsterdam Avenue\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:19941020T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:19941020T120000
DTSTAMP:20260408T104742
CREATED:20190722T205419Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200630T144159Z
UID:855-782647200-782654400@www.imjs-jchi.org
SUMMARY:Lecture by Hiroaki Sato\, "Japanese Women Poets from Pre-Modern Times To the Present"
DESCRIPTION:Hiroaki Sato\, prize-winner translator of Japanese poetry
URL:https://www.imjs-jchi.org/event/hiroaki-sato-prize-winner-translator-of-japanese-poetry-japanese-women-poets-froom-pre-modern-times-to-the-present/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Event
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:19940930T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:19940930T130000
DTSTAMP:20260408T104742
CREATED:20190722T205604Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200630T144124Z
UID:857-780930000-780930000@www.imjs-jchi.org
SUMMARY:Lecture by Prof. Mack Horton\, "Making and Breaking Rules: Linked Verse and Classical Commentaries"
DESCRIPTION:Professor Mack Horton\, University of California\, Berkeley\, recipient of the Donald Keene Center’s 1994 Translation Prize
URL:https://www.imjs-jchi.org/event/professor-mack-horton-of-the-university-of-california-barkeley-recipient-of-the-donald-keene-centers-1994-translation-prize-making-and-breaking-rules-linked-verse-and-classical-commentaries/
LOCATION:403 Kent Hall\, 116th Street and Amsterdam Avenue\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:19940922T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:19940922T170000
DTSTAMP:20260408T104742
CREATED:20190722T205643Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200707T174733Z
UID:859-780253200-780253200@www.imjs-jchi.org
SUMMARY:Lecture by Prof. Masahiro Manabe\, "How to Read the Popular Song Collection THE KANGINSHŪ (1518): An Examination of the Unknown Editor's Techniques"
DESCRIPTION:Professor Masahiro Manabe\, Nara Kyōiku Daigaku
URL:https://www.imjs-jchi.org/event/professor-masahiro-manabe-of-nara-kyoiku-daigaku-how-to-read-the-popular-song-collection-the-kanginshu-1518-an-examination-of-the-unknown-editors-techniques/
LOCATION:403 Kent Hall\, 116th Street and Amsterdam Avenue\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:19940502T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:19940502T180000
DTSTAMP:20260408T104742
CREATED:20190722T205731Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200707T174404Z
UID:861-767898000-767901600@www.imjs-jchi.org
SUMMARY:Lecture by Prof. Hayao Kawai\, "KOJIKI and the 'Hollow-Center Structure' in Japanese Mythology"
DESCRIPTION:Professor Hayao Kawai\, International Research Center for Japanese Studies; Visiting Professor\, Princeton University
URL:https://www.imjs-jchi.org/event/professor-hayao-kawai-international-research-center-for-japanese-studies-visiting-professor-princeton-university-kojiki-and-the-hollow-center-structure-in-japanese-mythology/
LOCATION:403 Kent Hall\, 116th Street and Amsterdam Avenue\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:19930218T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:19930218T180000
DTSTAMP:20260408T104742
CREATED:20190722T205815Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200630T142720Z
UID:863-730051200-730058400@www.imjs-jchi.org
SUMMARY:Lecture by Prof. Masaharu Imai\, "The Nun Shogun: Hōjō Masako (1157-1225)"
DESCRIPTION:Professor Masaharu Imai\, of Japanese History\, Ibaraki University; Visiting Professor\, Princeton University
URL:https://www.imjs-jchi.org/event/professor-masaharu-imai-of-japanese-history-ibaraki-university-visiting-professor-princeton-university-the-nun-shogun-hojo-masako-1157-1225/
LOCATION:403 Kent Hall\, 116th Street and Amsterdam Avenue\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:19921027T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:19921027T180000
DTSTAMP:20260408T104742
CREATED:20190722T205852Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200624T142243Z
UID:865-720201600-720208800@www.imjs-jchi.org
SUMMARY:A Conversation with Professor-Doctor Adriana Boscaro\, University of Venice "The European Association of Japanese Studies In A Europe In Crisis"
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.imjs-jchi.org/event/a-conversation-with-professor-doctor-adriana-boscaro-university-of-venice-the-european-assocaition-of-japanese-studies-in-a-europe-in-crisis/
LOCATION:403 Kent Hall\, 116th Street and Amsterdam Avenue\, New York\, NY\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR