Kurofune docked at port in Nagasaki (photo taken on a field trip for Visiting Professor Harry Schley’s course “Foreigners and Foreignness,” December 2018)

































Students with Professor Schweizer at Hakozaki Shrine, 2018
View of center zone, Ito Campus 2018
Harry Schley addressing students & Professors Schweizer and Bogel at Izumiyama, Arita 2018
Professor Lazarus briefing students at Ōe before the annual Kōwakamai 幸若舞 performance
Nearing sunset at Futamigaura, coastline of Ito peninsula
Arita porcelain display at the Kyushu Ceramics Museum, 2018
Visiting Professor Bernard Scheid with students at Kamado Shrine in Daizaifu, 2018
Budoor Almurbati ('18) celebrating at Graduation
Mashimizu Zouroku providing a tour of his kiln: Gengengama, Karatsu 2018
Kyudai faculty and students with visiting Professor Scheid
Visiting Professor Bergmann with Alex Wood ('20), 2018
Nachi Falls (Kyoto-Kumano trip, 2018)
View of East Zone, Ito Campus 2018
Hiking a Kumano pilgrimage route (Kyoto-Kumano trip, 2018)
Professors Carter and Lazarus with Harry Schley and Alex Evans ('20) at Dejima, Nagasaki 2018
Professor Kris Kersey on "Reconsidering the Eyeless Sūtra," 2018
Visiting Professor DeWitt with Priest at the Munakata Shrine, Intensive Course 2019
Dazaifu Tenmangu Shrine, 2019
Visiting Professor DeWitt with Students on Ooshima, 2019
Shrine by the Sea on Intensive Course Trip, Ooshima, 2019
Dr. Justin Stein (Bukkyo University) Presenting on Buddhist Youth, April 2019
Street in Nishijin, 2019
Traditional Japanese Garden at Ohori Park, 2019
Street Market for Sakura Hanami, Ohori Park, 2019
Seasonal Sakura at Hatae near Campus
Prof. Schweizer with Bayu Indra (2019) in the Rurikoji Temple
Yayoi Kusama Pumpkin outside of Fukuoka City Art Museum
Downtown Nakasu
Kanmon Bridge connecting Kyushu to Honshu
Dr. Jolyon Baraka Thomas (University of Pennsylvania) Presenting on Religious Freedom in Occupied Japan (2019)
Prof. Schweizer with Students at Rurikoji Temple
Sesshu's Zen Garden
Congratulations to IMAP&IDOC faculty member Ellen Van Goethem who was promoted to full professor this month!
Congratulations to Raditya Halimawan Nuradi, the first IDOC graduate.
IMAP alumnus Kurtis Hanlon recently completed his PhD at the University of British Columbia and started teaching classical Japanese language and literature courses as a lecturer at Yale University.
First-year MA student Dino Van de Velde has received a scholarship 関西・大阪21世紀協会奨学金. Congratulations!
Professor Carter has been awarded a Harvard-Yenching Visiting Scholar’s Fellowship for the 2024-25 academic year to continue his research on mountaineering, religiosity, and modernity.