Report of International Symposium “Japanese Buddhist Objects in European Collections and Their Impact on the European Image of Japan”

 

Date
4th – 6th June 2012

Venue
Palac ?ochow, Poland

Tentative Program

 <Day 1 (4th June)>

Morning Session
Introduction (Panel Chair: Helena HONCOOPOVA)

9:00
Welcome Address by the Japanese Ambassador to Poland YAMANAKA Makoto

9:20
Welcome Addresses by Maciej KANERT (Poznan University) and ABIKO Shin (Hosei University)

9:50
Introduction: The MEXT/JSPS Joint International Project “Comprehensive Research of Japanese Buddhist Objects in European museums and their impact on the European image of Japan” by OGUCHI Masashi (Hosei University)

10:10
Tomoe STEINECK (Hosei University & Zurich University) / Collections of Japanese Buddhist art in European museums: First results of the current project

10:30
Coffee break

11:00
Josef KREINER (Hosei University & Bonn University) / Japanese collections in Europe, history and present state

11:30
Josef KYBURZ (National Center for Scientific Research, Paris) / The image of Buddhist icons in 17th to 19th century Europe

12:00
Lunch

Afternoon Session
Important Collectors and their Collecting Philosophy (Panel Chair: ABIKO Shin & Josef KYBURZ)

13:30
KAWAI Masatomo (Keio University & Director Chiba City Museum of Art) / The collection of Buddhist art by Victor and Marianne Langen

14:00
Hartmut WALRAVENS (formerly Staatsbibliothek Berlin) / Otto Kümmel and Ernst Grosse

14:30
Michel MAUCUER (Paris) / Henry Cernuschi

15:00
Princess Akiko of MIKASA (Ritsumeikan University & Hosei University) / William Anderson and other collectors at the British Museum

15:30
Coffee break

16:00
Claudius MÜLLER (formerly Museum of Ethnology, Munich) / Max Buchner and his collection of Japanese art at the Museum of Ethnology, Munich

16:30
Helena HONCOOPOVA (Prague) / Buddhist sculpture from the Oriental Art Collections of the National Gallery in Prague

<Day 2 (5th June)>

Morning Session
Special Collections of Japanese Buddhist Art (Panel Chair: Maciej KANERT & Raji STEINECK)

9:00
Sergey SHANDYBA (St. Petersburg) / Museum of Religious Art, St. Petersburg

9:20
Dmitriy IVANOV (St.Petersburg) / Kunstkamera St.Petersburg

9:40
Anna Katarzyna MALESZKO (Warsaw) / The Japanese Buddhist art collection of the National Museum in  Warszawa

9:50
Margorzata MARTINI (Cracow) / The copy of the J?do-mandara painting of Taima-dera in the Cracow collection as a form of popularization of the great teachings of the J?do sect

10:20
Coffee break

10:50
Beata ROMANOWICZ (Cracow) / The Japanese Buddhist art collection of the National Museum in Cracow

11:10
Alice KRAEMEROVA (Prague) / Overall survey of Buddhist objects in the Japanese collection of the Náprstek Museum, Prague

11:40
Helena GAUDEKOVA (Prague) / Buddhist paintings in the Japanese collection of the Naprstek Museum

12:00
Lunch

Afternoon Session
Special Collections of Japanese Buddhist Art (Panel Chair: Claudius MÜLLER & Josef KREINER)

13:30
Marketa HANOVA (Prague) / The collection of Japanese painting in the National Gallery Prague

14:00
Marco GUGLIELMINOTTI TRIVEL (Turin) / The collection of the Museo d’Arte Orientale Torino

14:20
Daria CEVOLI (Paris) / The Buddhist collection of the Musée du quai Branly

14:40
Rosina BUCKLAND (Edinburgh) / A comparison of Buddhist art collecting in the National Museum of Scotland and the British Museum

15:10
Fiona KERLOGUE (London) / Japanese Collections at the Horniman Museum

15:30
Coffee break

16:00
Martina WERNSDÖRFER (Zurich) / Sculptures, paintings, textiles – The collection of the Ethnographic Museum of the University of Zurich

16:20
Thomas PSOTA (Bern) / The Japanese Buddhist objects at the Historisches Museum Bern

16:40
Helen LOVEDAY (Geneva) / The collection of uchishiki at the Baur Collection

17:00
Pilar CABANAS (Madrid) / The Japanese Buddhist art collections in Spain

17:20
Petra HOLMBERG (Stockholm) / A brief outline of the collection of Japanese Buddhist objects at the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities

17:40
Paper by Loretta PADERNI (Rome) and presented by Tomoe STEINECK (Hosei University) / Relevant objects at the Museo Nazionale Preistorico Etnografico “L. Pigorini”

18:30
Optional Tai-ji meet-up (Instructor: Raji Steineck)

 

<Day 3 (6th June)>

Morning Session
WORKSHOP Japanese Buddhist Art (Panel Chair: OGUCHI Masashi)

9:00
SHIMATANI Hiroyuki (Tokyo National Museum) / Characteristics of Japanese Buddhist art with focus on calligraphy

10:30
Coffee break

11:00
SUDO Hirotoshi (Hirosaki University) / Buddhist art of modern Japan: painting and sculpture

12:00
Lunch

Afternoon Session
WORKSHOP Japanese Buddhist Art (Panel Chair: Josef KREINER)

13:30
MARUYAMA Shiro (Tokyo National Museum) / Sculptural techniques applied on Japanese Buddhist statues

14:00
Josef KYBURZ (National Center for Scientific Research, Paris) / The pantheon of Japanese Buddhism as seen through ofuda charms

14:30
Tomoko KUCHII (Hosei University & Tama Art University) / Zen paintings in European museums

14:50
Yuta JINNO (Hosei University) / Gigaku mask replicas by Kan? Tessai and other ancient objects in German collections

15:10
Coffee break

15:30
Raji STEINECK (University of Zurich) / Images that don‘t fit: Japanese Buddhist icons and the image of Buddhism in European intellectual history

16:00
OGUCHI Masashi (Hosei University) / Outline of the comprehensive database of Japanese Buddhist objects in European collections

16:30
Conclusion (J. Kreiner, M. Oguchi, T. Steineck and H. Shimatani)

17:15
Optional: Project Introduction (20 minutes)

Ulrike Körber (Lissabon) / Introduction of the Independet Project: “A group of 16th and 17th century Luso-Asian lacquerware, lacquered in the Ryukyu Kingdom?”

18:30
Optional Tai-ji meet-up (Instructor: Raji STEINECK)

Executive Summary
The 3 days from 4-6 June saw an international symposium held on the theme of “Japanese Buddhist Objects in European Collections and Their Impact on the European Image of Japan” at the conference room of Palac ?ochow located in the suburbs of Warsaw, in conjunction with the Department of East Asian Studies of the University of Zurich, Switzerland (Professor Raji Steineck). The symposium consisted of reports by artists and curators of museums and art museums of Europe – our partners in this research – on their research results to date. It also proved an opportunity for debate among fellow researchers. Local collaborator was the Adam Mickiewicz University Department of Oriental Studies, Poznan, Poland (Professor Maciej Kanert). The 3 days were devoted entirely to the topic of Japanese Buddhist art, with participants’ fervent discussion and appraisal of artworks continuing after dinner and way into the night. The 35 presentations given at the symposium, as well as reports by scholars unable to attend, will be published in the form of a final report in English at the end of 2012. We also plan to introduce the achievements of this symposium at a public lecture meeting in Hosei University Ichigaya Campus on Saturday, 17 November 2012.