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The Representation of Wrath and Evil: Conceptions of the World and Expressions of the Wicked and the Converted in Ancient Japan

Research Project

Project/Area Number 18H00630
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Review Section Basic Section 01060:History of arts-related
Research InstitutionKyushu University

Principal Investigator

BOGEL CYNTHEA  九州大学, 人文科学研究院, 教授 (50637931)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) 知足 美加子  九州大学, 芸術工学研究院, 教授 (40284583)
Project Period (FY) 2018-04-01 – 2023-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2022)
Budget Amount *help
¥17,030,000 (Direct Cost: ¥13,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥3,930,000)
Fiscal Year 2022: ¥5,460,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,260,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥1,820,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥420,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥2,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥600,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥4,420,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,020,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥2,730,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥630,000)
Keywords仏教美術史 / 薬師寺 / 奈良時代 / 飛鳥時代 / 天皇制度 / 邪悪表現 / 政治的意図 / 古代仏像 / 古代仏教美術史 / 悪の表象 / 仏教美術 / 天皇 / 女帝 / 天武天皇 / 帝国様式 / 仏像 / 飛鳥時代寺院 / 奈良時代寺院 / 邪悪 / 邪鬼 / 飛鳥 / 奈良 / 平安初期 / 朝鮮半島交流 / 唐時代 / Japanese religious art / evil / 宗教美術史 / 鬼の表象
Outline of Final Research Achievements

The project examines Buddhist representations of demonic beings and _banzoku_ (lit., savages), contributing to our understanding of world views from an imperial center as depicted on selected 7th-8th c.icons.Midway through the project an innovative approach to interpreting the Healing Buddha _honzon_ pedestal at Yakushiji, Nara, developed.Results were published in English and French (2018, 2019, 2020) and Japanese (forthcoming), also at workshops and invited lectures in Europe,the US,and Japan. Portions of a book manuscript were drafted at Harvard’s Reischauer Institute for Japanese Studies in 2022. The book traces imperial and personal cosmologies made legible on Buddhist icons (documented or surviving) at Horyuji, Daikandaiji, Yakushiji, and others. The Yakushiji icon’s imagery draws from an idealized past and present, the base a “cosmoscape” of symbols: a Sinic imperium, right rule, Mt. Sumeru, and Buddhism---a fascinating _imaginaire_ with key parallels to the 720 _Nihon Shoki.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

本研究課題は、古代の世界観が造形におけるモチーフやコスモスケープ(本研究では、この語を造形的に表現された世界観という意味で用いる)を通して表現されていることを検証した。中でも、仏教寺院における須弥山のような世界観の表象と機能について、7~8世紀の日本で制作された台座を例に邪悪表見とその援用に関連する表象などの観点から分析した。また、薬師寺薬師如来像台座の図像分析を通じ、周辺と中心、宗教・支配者・臣民の関係など、帝国的イデオロギーとのかかわりを明らかにした。これらの研究成果は、日本古代宗教史の総合的解釈のための基盤を築き、古代仏教史、日本書紀、ヤマト王権に関する新しい論点を開拓するものである。

Report

(6 results)
  • 2022 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2021 Annual Research Report
  • 2020 Annual Research Report
  • 2019 Annual Research Report
  • 2018 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (34 results)

All 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 Other

All Int'l Joint Research (7 results) Journal Article (10 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 7 results,  Peer Reviewed: 7 results,  Open Access: 7 results) Presentation (10 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 8 results,  Invited: 4 results) Book (4 results) Remarks (1 results) Funded Workshop (2 results)

  • [Int'l Joint Research] ハーバード大学/コロンビア大学(米国)

    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] 梨花女子大学(韓国)

    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] Vietnam Nat'l Inst. of Culture and Art/Vietnam Museum of Ethnology(ベトナム)

    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] University of London SOAS(英国)

    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] Harvard University/Columbia University(米国)

    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] Ehwa University(韓国)

    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] Columbia University/Harvard University(米国)

    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] 薬師寺本尊台座再考-天武天皇の見たコスモスケープ2023

    • Author(s)
      Bogel, Cynthea J.
    • Journal Title

      Frames and Framings in a Transdisciplinary Perspective

      Volume: ー

    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] A Group of Twelfth-Century Japanese Kami Statues and Considerations of Material Intentionality: Collaborative Research Among Wood Scientists and Art Historians2022

    • Author(s)
      田鶴寿弥子
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Asian Humanities at Kyushu University

      Volume: 7 Pages: 127-158

    • DOI

      10.5109/4843145

    • ISSN
      2433-4391, 2433-4855
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Transnational Dialogues and Contemporary Art in Japan: Missing Pieces2022

    • Author(s)
      Bogel, Cynthea J. Rebecca Jennison
    • Journal Title

      Routledge Handbook of Asian Transnationalism

      Volume: ー Pages: 361-379

    • DOI

      10.4324/9781003152149-34

    • ISBN
      9781003152149
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] “A Group of Twelfth-Century Japanese Kami Statues and Considerations of Material Intentionality: Collaborative Research Among Wood Scientists and Art Historians”2022

    • Author(s)
      Mertz, Mechtild, Tazuru Suyako, Ito Shiro, and Cyntha Bogel
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Asian Humanities at Kyushu University (JAH-Q),

      Volume: 7 Pages: 127-158

    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] "Un cosmoscape sous le Bouddha : le piedestal de l'icone principale de Yakushi-ji, soutien de l'empire des souverains", La Tribune de l'art dans Japon2020

    • Author(s)
      Cynthea J. Bogel
    • Journal Title

      Perspective : actualite en histoire de l'art

      Volume: 2020 Pages: 141-166

    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report
    • Open Access
  • [Journal Article] 書評論文Review of ”Word Embodied, The Jeweled Pagoda Mandalas in Japanese Buddhist Art” by Halle O’Neal.2020

    • Author(s)
      Cynthea J. Bogel
    • Journal Title

      Monumenta Nipponica

      Volume: 75.1 Pages: 333-341

    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] “Daigoji Temple. A Shingon Esoteric Buddhist Universe in Kyoto.” Exhibition Review in English2019

    • Author(s)
      Bogel, Cynthea J.
    • Journal Title

      Korean Journal of Art History 美術史學研究

      Volume: 301 Pages: 101-103

    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Daigoji Temple: Shingon Esoteric Buddhist Universe in Kyoto2019

    • Author(s)
      Cynthea J. Bogel
    • Journal Title

      Misulsahak Yongu 美術史學研究 (韓国)

      Volume: 301 Pages: 101-103

    • DOI

      10.31065/ahak.301.301.201903.001

    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Demon Roof Tiles: A Study of the Dazaifu Type Onigawara Style I-A2019

    • Author(s)
      Igata Susumu, Translation Cynthea J. Bogel
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Asian Humanities at Kyushu University (JAH-Q)

      Volume: 4 Pages: 109-125

    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Cosmoscapes: Interpreting Buddhist Imagery in Ancient Japan2018

    • Author(s)
      Cynthea J. Bogel
    • Journal Title

      CENTER 38, National Gallery of Art, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts

      Volume: 38 Pages: 59-63

    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
    • Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] “The Shosoin and the Todaiji Great Buddha” (Panel Discussion)2023

    • Author(s)
      Cynthea J. Bogel, Brian Lowe, Ryuichi Abe, Akiko Walley
    • Organizer
      The Shosoin Imperial Treasury: New Directions in Research
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Buddhist Materialities in Premodern Japan2021

    • Author(s)
      Cynthea Bogel
    • Organizer
      United Kingdom Buddhist Studies Association conference
    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] The Demonic, Converted, Hybrid, and Foreign: “Cosmoscapes" Beneath the Buddha and the Construction of a Chinese-style Imperial State2021

    • Author(s)
      Cynthea Bogel
    • Organizer
      American Academy of Religions Annual Conference
    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Beings and being in this world: Repossessing malevolent spirits and human agency in early medieval Japan2021

    • Author(s)
      Cynthea Bogel
    • Organizer
      16th International Conference of the European Association for Japanese Studies
    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] “Demons and Gods on Display: The Pageantry of Popular Religion as Crossroads Encounters”2020

    • Author(s)
      Cynthea Bogel
    • Organizer
      AAS-in-Asia
    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] “Japanese Prints (ukiyoe 浮世絵) and Dong Ho Painted Prints in a Comparative Light.” (英語)2019

    • Author(s)
      Bogel, Cynthea J.
    • Organizer
      THE SAFEGUARDING AND PROMOTION OF DONG HO WOODBLOCK PAINTINGS IN CONTEMPORARY LIFE (venue: Vietnam)
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Transmission and Talisman in Ancient Buddhist Visual Culture2018

    • Author(s)
      Bogel, Cynthea J.
    • Organizer
      College Art Association Conference, New York
    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Heritage Values, Policies, and the Crafting of Impermanence: Japan’s National Treasure System2018

    • Author(s)
      Bogel, Cynthea J.
    • Organizer
      World Social Science Forum
    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Imagery ca. 700 Japan: Cosmoscapes of Rule and Religion2018

    • Author(s)
      Bogel, Cynthea J.
    • Organizer
      UCLA (Los Angeles), Invited Annual Lecturer for the Annual Shinto Lecture
    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Cosmoscapes and Hybrid Traces on an Eighth-century Japanese Buddhist Icon2018

    • Author(s)
      Bogel, Cynthea J.
    • Organizer
      EuroAsian Connections. NYU-Shanghai, China
    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Book] Journal of Asian Humanities at Kyushu University (JAH-Q), vol. 72023

    • Author(s)
      Bogel, Cynthea J., Editor,
    • Total Pages
      165
    • Publisher
      九州大学人文科学研究院
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] Journal of Asian Humanities at Kyushu University vol. 52020

    • Author(s)
      Bogel, Cynthea J. , Carter, Lazarus, Schweizer, Van Goethem. Editors
    • Total Pages
      123
    • Publisher
      Kyushu University
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] Selected Essays on Dong Ho Woodblock Printings2019

    • Author(s)
      Bogel, Cynthea J. and multiple authors
    • Total Pages
      400
    • Publisher
      The Gioi Publishing House
    • ISBN
      9786047769995
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] Journal of Asian Humanities at Kyushu University2019

    • Author(s)
      Cynthea J. Bogel, Editor
    • Total Pages
      125
    • Publisher
      Kyushu University
    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
  • [Remarks] Artistic Exchange between Korea and Japan

    • URL

      https://en.ewhakyushu-exhibition.com

    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
  • [Funded Workshop] The Shosoin Imperial Treasury: New Directions in Research2023

    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
  • [Funded Workshop] Premodern Visual Culture in Japan Workshop2022

    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report

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Published: 2018-04-23   Modified: 2024-01-30  

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