Curriculum Vitaes

YEN YI CHAN

(CHAN YEN YI)

Profile Information

Affiliation: Assistant professor, Faculty of Liberal Arts Department of Liberal Arts, Sophia University

Researcher number: 80975178
J-GLOBAL ID: 202201017856772650
researchmap Member ID: R000043624

Research Interests

1

Art History, Buddhist Art, Buddhist Icons, Kofukuji, Architectural Reconstruction, Images of Shaka, Relic Worship, East Asian Buddhist Art Exchanges

Research Areas

1

Humanities & social sciences / Art history /

Research History

4

Sep, 2022 - Present

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Sophia University
Feb, 2022 - Jul, 2022

Project Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Fu Jen Catholic University
Sep, 2020 - Jan, 2022

Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica
Sep, 2019 - Sep, 2020

Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Fellow, Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures

Education

2

Committee Memberships

1

Jul, 2023 - Present

Executive Committee Member, Asian Studies Conference Japan

Awards

4

Papers

3

“Fashioning the Body of the Historical Buddha: The Robes of the Bujōji Shaka Statue and Appropriation of Song Dynasty Chinese Art.”

Yen-Yi Chan

Artibus Asiae, 85(1) 35-80, Jun, 2025 Peer-reviewed
Revealing the Miraculous: Objects Placed inside the Statue of the Kōfukuji Nan’endō Fukūkenjaku Kannon.

Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, 49(1) 45-88, 2022 Peer-reviewed
權力、共同體與信仰網絡：興福寺南圓堂不空羂索觀音像的複製 (Power, Communities, and the Network of Worship: The Replications of the Kōfukuji Nan’endō Fukūkenjaku Kannon)

國立台灣大學美術史研究集刊, (49) 187-242, Sep, 2020 Peer-reviewed

Misc.

1

“Report for the Talk “Word Embodied: Entangled Icons in Medieval Japanese Buddhist Art.”

E-Bulletin of the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures, Apr, 2020 Invited

Presentations

17

“Presence and Performance: Devotional Images of Shaka and His Sacred Body in Medieval Nara.”

Kanagawa University, Sep 24, 2025 Invited
"從武則天到光明皇后與孝謙女皇：女主、佛教信仰與不空羂索觀音造像 From Empress Wu (624-705) to Empress Kōmyō (701-760) and Empress Kōken (718-770): Female Rulers, Buddhist Devotion, and Images of Amoghapāśa Avalokiteśvara).”

Yen-Yi Chan

The International Conference "Crossing: New Approaching to the Material Cultures of the Sui and Tang Empires, Oct 26, 2024 Invited
Re-envisioning Shakyamuni: The Buddha’s Buddhist Robe in the Ishiyamadera Nirvana Painting

Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, Mar 15, 2024
"Fabricating the Body of the Historical Buddha: The Robe of the Bujōji Sculpture and Appropriation of Song Chinese Visual Culture"

Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, Mar 17, 2023
“異國意象的挪用：宋風佛像與日本中世佛教"

東亞文化的多元論述與跨界對話讀書會, 國立成功大學, Nov, 2022
“Revealing the Miraculous: Objects Placed within the Statue of the Kōfukuji Nan’endō Fukūkenjaku Kannon,”

The Workshop “Absence, Presence, and Materiality: Refiguring Japanese Religious Art and Culture,”, Jul 9, 2022
“製作聖跡：峰定寺釋迦如來像的袈裟與宋代美術受容

第六屆「東亞文獻與文學中的佛教世界」學術研討會, Nov 26, 2021 Invited
“Iconography of Power: The Illustrations of Deer Skin in Copies of the Fukūkenjaku Kannon in the Nan’endō at Kōfukuji,”

European Association for Japanese Studies, Aug, 2021
“A Divine Vison on Earth: One Thousand Images of Kannon from Kōfukuji,”

United Kingdom Association for Buddhist Studies Annual Conference, Jul, 2021
“歐美對宗教藝術的研究實例與應用"

國立中央大學藝術史研究所, Apr, 2021
"原點的回歸與三國意識：興福寺僧侶貞慶的釋迦信仰與相關圖像"

國立政治大學佛學研究中心, Mar, 2021
“日本與東亞佛教美術史研究概況 (The Status of the Fields of Japanese and East Asian Buddhist Art History),”

東亞文化意象的多稜視角」系列講座：漢傳佛教在東亞, 中央研究院中國文哲研究所, Nov, 2020
“The Kōfukuji Nan’endō and Its Buddhist Art: Building a Realm of Death, Memory, and Family.”

Third Thursday Lecture, Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures, United Kingdom, Jun, 2020
“Making Copies, Making Ties: The Replications of the Buddhist Icon Fukūkenjaku Kannon at the Kōfukuji Nan’endō,”

College Art Association 106th Annual Conference, Feb, 2018
“Emplacing Memories: The Creation of the Nan’endō and Its Buddhist Icons in the Early Ninth Century,”

The Eleventh International Workshop on Japanese Art History for Graduate Students (JAWS), Mar, 2017
“Rendering Memories and Family History: The Kōfukuji Nan’endō and Its Buddhist Icons from the Ninth to the Twelfth Century,”

Kyoto Asian Studies Group, Dōshisha University, Kyoto, Oct, 2016
“Buddhist Icons and Family History: Images in the Kōfukuji Nan’endō and the Fujiwara Family,”

Regional Joint Southwest Conference and Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, Oct, 2014

Professional Memberships

2

Academic Activities

4

Discussant for the Book 玄奘三蔵：新たなる玄奘像をもとめて for the workshop "對論與方法：佛教的過去、現在與未來" held by Department of Buddhist Studies at the Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts

Others

Apr 12, 2024
Discussant for the Paper “夢殿觀音：費諾羅沙之評價與鑑賞此像的多元視角 (Yumedono Kannon: Fenollosa’s Comment and the Diverse Ways of Appreciating This Image)” by Pei-Jung Wu, 2022 International Symposium on Art History & Visual Culture, National Central University.

Others

Oct, 2022
Organizer of the Workshop “Absence, Presence, and Materiality: Refiguring Japanese Religious Art and Culture,” Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures

Planning, Management, etc., Panel moderator, Session chair, etc.

Jul 8, 2022 - Jul 9, 2022
Organizer of the Panel “Power, Praxis, and People: Re-envisioning Political and Religious Realms in Premodern Japan,” European Association for Japanese Studies, Ghent, Belgium

Planning, Management, etc.

Aug, 2021

To the list screen

メニュー/MENU

▶上智大学ホームページ

▶Sophia University Home Page

▶researchmap（日本語）

▶researchmap（English）