Professor

Patricia FISTER

Current Research
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Education:

2007 - present: Professor, International Research Center for Japanese Studies
2001 - 2007: Associate Professor, International Research Center for Japanese Studies
1998 - 2001: Associate Professor, Hakuho Women's College
1995 - 1998: Visiting Associate Professor, International Research Center for Japanese Studies
1991 - 1994: Research Associate, International Research Center for Japanese Studies
1984 - 1991: Assistant Professor, University of Kansas / Curator of Oriental Art, Spencer Museum of Art
1983 - 1984: Curator of Japanese Art, New Orleans Museum of Art

Japanese art history

Imperial Buddhist convents; art by Buddhist nuns of the Edo period

Imperial convents, Buddhist nun artists, Japanese women artists

2009: A Hidden Heritage: Treasures of the Japanese Imperial Convents (co-author and editor), Sankei Shimbun.
2003: Art by Buddhist Nuns: Treasures from the Imperial Convents of Japan, Institute for Medieval Japanese Studies, Columbia University, New York.
1994: Kinsei no josei gakatachi: Bijutsu to jendā (Japanese Women Artists of the Kinsei Era), Shibunkaku Shuppan.
1988: Japanese Women Artists, 1600-1900, Spencer Museum of Art / Harper & Row.

2011: “Sanmi no Tsubone: Ashikaga Wife, Imperial Consort, Buddhist Laynun and Patron”, Japan Review 23.
2007: “Merōfu Kannon and Her Veneration in Zen and Imperial Circles in Seventeenth-century Japan”, Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 34:2.
2000: “Creating Devotional Art with Body Fragments: The Buddhist Nun Bunchi and Her Father, Emperor Gomizuno-o”, Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 27:3/4.

Director of Research, Medieval Japanese Studies Institute (Center for the Study of Women, Buddhism, and Cultural History), Kyoto
Research Associate, Institute for Medieval Japanese Studies, Columbia University, New York
Hōkyōji Doll Exhibition Steering Committee Member
Enkū Grand Award Selection Committee Member, Gifu Prefectural Government