4:30 pm January 26, 2018 243 Royce Hall   In 1907, three sets of eighth-century objects were discovered from underneath the bronze pedestal of the seated Vairocana Buddha in the Great Buddha Hall, Tōdaiji, Nara prefecture. The objects were initially identified as examples of “platform pacifying objects” (chindangu), but their actual function has been debated...

The Yanai Initiative at UCLA and Waseda University presents   Heteroglossolalia: Bakhtin, Bakin, Translation, and Early Modern Japanese Prose a lecture by Glynne Walley   12:30 pm January 25, 2018 243 Royce Hall   Glynne Walley will discuss significant features of the prose style of early modern Japanese novelist Kyokutei Bakin, as well as some...