Saturday, November 21, 1998 2:30 - 2:45 Opening of the Symposium         Welcoming Remarks:         Barbara RUCH, Director, Institute for Medieval Japanese Studies          MATSUNO Yoichi, Director, National Institute of Japanese                    Literature
2:45 - 3:10 Session I: Mugai Nyodai and Her Legacy         Chair: Paul WATT          Anne LAZROVE: "Becoming One of the Guys: Nyodai and the                   Bukko-Lineage Faction"         NISHIYAMA Mika: "Rinzai Zen Women: Mugai Nyodai and Danrin                    Kogo"
3:10 - 3:45 Session II: Women in Medieval Zen         Chair: Ryuichi ABE          William BODIFORD: "The Role of Women in Medieval Soto Zen"         HARADA Masatoshi: "Rinzai Zen and Nuns' Religious Activities"         Questions and Discussion

4:00 - 5:00 Session III: Convents in Paintings, Paintings in Convents

        Chair: Nicole FARBICAND-PERSON

        Matthew P. MCKELWAY: "The Representation of Nunneries in Rakuchu Rakugaizu Screen Paintings"

        CHINO Kaori: "The Sliding and Fixed-Panel Paintings in Reikanji Imperial Convent"

        Maribeth GRAYBILL: "An Exploration of the Meaning of the Painting of Nuns' Portraits"

        Questions and Discussion
 

5:00 - 6:30 Viewing of the Exhibition "Days of Discipline and Grace: Treasures from the Imperial Buddhist Convents of Kyoto"

        C. V. Starr East Asian Library, Kent Hall

6:30 The Institute for Medieval Japanese Studies
        30th Anniversary Reception

        The Faculty Room, 207 Low Library
 
 

Sunday, November 22, 1998
 

9:30 - 10:45 Session IV: Early Buddhist Nuns and Convents

        Chair: Robert SHARF

        MAYEDA Noriko: "An Indian Perspective on Buddhist Nuns and their Disciplines"

        YOSHIDA Kazuhiko: "The Nun Zenshin in the Nihonshoki"

        KATSUURA Noriko: "Early Japanese Courts and Convents"

        MIKOSHIBA Daisuke: "The Founding of State Convents"

        Questions and Discussion
 

11:00 - 11:45 Session IV (continued): Early Buddhist Nuns and Convents

        Robert BORGEN: "Domyoji: Convents and the Cult of Tenjin"

        MANABE Shunsho: "Objects and Documents from the 1113 Sutra Mound
                                            Buried on Mount Koya by the Nun Hoyaku"

        Questions and Discussion
 

11:45 - 1:00 Session V: Medieval Nuns and Religious Women

        Chair: Elizabeth SHARF

        USHIYAMA Yoshiyuki: "Various Forms of Medieval Convents"

        MATSUO Kenji: "The Creation of a Leading Medieval Order of Nuns: The Case of the Ritsu Sect"

        Hank GLASSMAN: "Chujo-hime, Convents, and Women's Salvation"

        Lori MEEKS: "Eshinni: Reconstructing a Lost Voice"

        Questions and Discussion
 

1:00 - 2:15 Buffet Lunch
 

2:15 - 3:15 Session V (continued): Medieval Nuns and Religious Women

        Chair: Margaret CHILDS

        OKUDA Isao: "Nuns of Zenmyoji Temple: Myogyo and Fujumon"

        ENDO Hajime: "Ryomyo, the Nun Depicted in Ekeizu Lineage"

        Donald MCCALLUM: "The Female Presence at Zenkoji: Why Are There Both an Abbess and an Abbott?"

        Questions and Discussion
 

3:30 - 4:25 Session VI: Nuns and Poetry

        Chair: Cynthia HO

        Edward KAMENS: "When a Woman Becomes a Nun: Commemorations in Waka Poetry"

        KAWAHIRA Hitoshi: "Medieval waka Poetry by Nuns: Nishi Hachijo Zenni and Koshibe no Zenni"

        Discussant: Laurel Rasplica-RODD

        Questions and Discussion
 

4:30 - 5:30 Explanation of the Genji-ko Incense-Guessing Game and the Way of Incense

            by Professor MAEDA Toshiko

            Assistant: Royall TYLER
 
 

Monday, November 23, 1998
 

9:30 - 10:15 Session VII: Artist Nuns and Patron Nuns

        Chair: MANABE Shunsho

        Patricia FISTER: "Buddhist Nun Artists"

        Elizabeth LILLEHOJ: "Shozan Gen'yo, Imperial Princess and Abbess of Rinkyu-ji"

        Questions and Discussion
 

10:15 - 11:00 Session VIII: Fruits of the Imperial Convent Survey Project

        Chair: Barbara RUCH

        Daishoji Imperial Convent:

               Sadako OHKI: "Tradition and Transformation: A Case Study of the waka on
                        shikishi and tanzaku Preserved at Daishoji Imperial Convent"

                MAKINO Hiroko: "Annual Observances of a Convent from the Records of
                        Daishoji Imperial Convent"

        Questions and Discussion
 

11:15 - 12:50 Session VIII (continued): Fruits of the Imperial Convent Survey Project

        Hokyoji Imperial Convent:

                NISHIGUCHI Junko: "Historical Materials on the Princesses of Imperial
                        Convents in Edo Period Japan: Focusing on the Abbess Joshoin no Miya Richo"

                OKA Yoshiko: "The Development of Nuns' Court Convents (bikuni gosho) from Medieval
                        to Early Modern Japan with a Focus on Documents from Kokyoji Imperial Convent"

                KOMINE Kazuaki: "Hand-copied and Printed Books Preserved at Hokyoji Imperial Convent"

                TOKUDA Kazuo: "Chiyono Monogatari and Mugai Nyodai's Legend and Biography"

        Koshoin Imperial Convent:

                Katja TRIPLETT: "The History of Koshoin Imperial Convent, a Neighboring Temple
                        to Hokyoji Imperial Convent"

         Questions and Discussion
 

1:00 - 2:30 Farewell Luncheon

        The Faculty House of Columbia University

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