Symposium: Sacred Music & Buddhist Ritual at Tōdaiji followed by a Gagaku Sacred Music Concert

[Max Moerman]

Symposium: Sacred Music & Buddhist Ritual at Tōdaiji
followed by a Gagaku Sacred Music Concert
(English-Japanese simultaneous interpretation to be provided)

Saturday, November 8, 2025 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM 

(Doors open at 12:30 PM)
Kinshō Hall at Tōdaiji Temple (Tōdaiji Museum building)

Opening Music by Mayumi Miyata (shō [17-pipe mouth organ])

Symposium Presenters: 

Yukio Lippit (Harvard University)
“Gigaku Masks: Civilization, Archetype, and Performance in the Early Yamato State”

Abigail MacBain (University of Edinburgh)
Dancers and Dynamics: Foreign Music and Dance at the Tōdaiji Eye-Opening

Samuel C. Morse (Amherst College)
Jitchū, Eleven-Headed Kannon and the Origins of the Omizutori Ritual

Fabio Rambelli (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Bugaku in Buddhist Liturgies: From Tōdaiji's Daibutsue until the Present

Akiko Walley (University of Oregon)
“(Re-)Awakenings: Reinventing the Nara-Period Eye-Opening Ceremony at Tōdaiji”

Panel Discussion Moderated by D. Max Moerman (Barnard College, Columbia University)

Performance of Gagaku, Gigaku and Bugaku by Gagaku Music Society of Tenri University

Free and open to the public, but please register in advance.
https://tinyurl.com/ycwj5ykr

Organized by the IMJS: Institute for Japanese Cultural Heritage Initiatives, Columbia University

Sponsored by Toshiba International Foundation and Medieval Japanese Studies Foundation

[Amanda Stinchecum]

Is this program available online, in real time or after the event, or in-person only?

Amanda 

On Oct 27, 2025, at 2:56 AM, Max Moerman <dmoe...@barnard.edu> wrote:



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