A Place for the Mind
Date
Thu Feb-16-2012, 12:15pmLocation
Building 70, Room 72A1
Program / Series
Co-sponsor
Department of Religious Studies
Tom Hare
Princeton University
Monastic poets and painters associated with the great Zen complex at Nanzenji in Kyoto created a remarkable artistic genre called shigajiku. The objects themselves, hanging scrolls with ink paintings in the lower section, have been treated primarily as art objects by modern scholars, but when they were created in the fifteenth century, the poems written above those paintings were more important. How do the visual and literary aspects of these objects interact, and what can they tell us about Buddhism in fifteenth century Japan?
Speaker's Bio
Tom Hare is the William Sauter LaPorte '28 Professor in Regional Studies, Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University. He works in Japanese drama and literature through the eighteenth century, Buddhism in Japanese cultural history, the music of Noh drama and ancient Egyptian literature and arts. His most recent books include Zeami: Performance Notes, ReMembering Osiris, and Zeami's Style: The Noh Plays of Zeami Motokiyo
