Organizers

Jiang Wu, PhD, Director, Center of Buddhist Studies and Professor, Department of East Asian Studies, College of Humanities, University of Arizona
John Johnston, PhD, Senior Fellow, Center for Buddhist Studies, College of Humanities, University of Arizona
James Baskind, PhD, Senior Fellow, Center for Buddhist Studies, College of Humanities, University of Arizona

Exhibition Acknowledgements

This exhibition was conceived by Professor Jiang Wu, Director of the Center for Buddhist Studies of the University of Arizona with curatorial oversight by Dr. John Johnston and website design by Jeffrey Liu. Dr. Patricia Graham, Dr. John Johnston, and Dr. Elizabeth Sharf wrote the narrative texts, guided the exhibition’s design, and assisted the Exhibition Committee in choosing objects for the exhibition. We wish to thank Dr. Paul Berry for assisting with the selection of objects, and the artist Mansheng Wang for transcribing many calligraphic inscriptions. Collectively, our efforts honor the pioneering research on Ōbaku visual arts by the late Professor Stephen Addiss.

Exhibition Committee

James Baskind, PhD, Senior Fellow, Center for Buddhist Studies, College of Humanities, University of
Arizona
Paul Berry, PhD, Kansai Gaidai Professor Emeritus
Harald Conrad, PhD, Chair of Modern Japanese Studies III, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf,
Managing Director/Geschäftsführer, Institut für Modernes Japan
Patricia J. Graham, PhD, independent scholar and Research Associate, Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas
Gary Ho 何國慶, President, Ho Chuang-shih Foundation for Calligraphy and Painting, Taiwan
John Johnston, PhD, Senior Fellow, Center for Buddhist Studies, College of Humanities, University of
Arizona
Stuart Katz, PhD, Retired, Department of Psychology, University of Georgia
Joshua Schlachet, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Arizona
Elizabeth Horton Sharf, PhD, Independent Scholar, Berkeley, CA
Sinéad Vilbar, PhD, Curator of Japanese Art, Cleveland Museum of Art
Guohao Wu 吳國豪, Chief Curator and Researcher, Ho Chuang-shih Calligraphy Foundation, Taiwan
Jiang Wu, PhD, Director, Center for Buddhist Studies and Professor, College of Humanities, University of
Arizona 

Lenders

We are grateful to the following institutions and individuals that generously supplied images
and image rights for this special presentation:

The Art Institute of Chicago
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection of Harald Conrad
Collection of Stuart Katz​
Detroit Institute of Arts
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art
Gitter-Yelin Foundation
Gitter-Yelin Collection
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art
Ho Chuang Shi Calligraphy Foundation
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Minneapolis Museum of Art
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Philadelphia Museum of Art
The Saint Louis Art Museum
Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas
University of Michigan Museum of Art

GIS Advisors

Philip Stoker, Assistant Professor, School of Landscape Architecture and Planning, the University of Arizona
Chris Lukinbeal, Director of Geographic Information Systems Technology Programs and Professor of the School of Geography Development and Environment, the University of Arizona

GIS Coordinators

Jeffrey Liu, Ph. D candidate, Department of East Asian Studies; program coordinator, Center for Buddhist Studies, College of Humanities, University of Arizona
Ziling Wan, Ph. D student, Department of East Asian Studies, College of Humanities, University of Arizona

Content Coordinator

Jinhui Wu, PhD, Fellow, Center for Buddhist Studies, College of Humanities, University of Arizona 

Web Page Design

Katherine Leyton, Senior Editor, Digital Content, College of Humanities, University of Arizona
Yvonne Bourgeois, Web Services & IT Operations Manager, College of Humanities,University of Arizona