Sherry Fowler, Associate Professor, History of Art

Sherry Fowler, Associate Professor, History of Art

Bio

Sherry Fowler received her Ph.D. in Japanese Art History from UCLA. Among her publications are Muroji: Rearranging Art and History at a Japanese Buddhist Temple (University of Hawai’i Press, 2005); “Locating Tomyoji and Its “Six” Kannon,” in Capturing the “Original”: Archives for Cultural Properties (Tokyo: National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, 2010); “Views of Japanese Temples and Shrines from Near and Far: Precinct Prints of the Eighteenth and NineteenthCenturies,” Artibus Asiae 68/2 (2008); and “Travels of the Daihoonji Six Kannon Sculptures” Ars Orientalis 36 (2006). Her current project examines the development of the Six Kannon cult in Japan, with particular emphasis on associated sculptures and paintings; makes connections between this cult and the still active Thirty-Three Kannon cult; and considers how the patronage of Kannon cults changed from an elite to a popular practice. Through her research, she discovered that, beginning in the tenth century, the island of Kyushu was the site of great activity in the history of the Six Kannon cult.