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SUMMARY:Works-in-Progress Session: Saihōji’s Moss Garden
DESCRIPTION:\nPresented by Sunhui Choi\, Ph.D. Student\, University of Cali
 fornia\, Los Angeles\n\nHosted by the Early Modern Research Group\n\nOnlin
 e event via Zoom\nTo register\, please visit: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting
 /register/pLNOlEHQQviw5U6V0-k6-g\n\n\nSaihōji in Kyoto\, Japan\, is famou
 s for its moss-covered garden and is thus referred to as Kokedera\, meanin
 g “the moss temple.” What if\, however\, the design of the moss garden
  was not intended when it was originally established? If so\, how and why 
 has Saihōji’s garden become the moss garden that it is today? Based on 
 the perspectives of critical plant studies and ecocriticism\, this work-in
 -progress session examines how the often-overlooked presence of moss deter
 ritorializes the boundaries of design and inverts the center and periphery
  of the landscape\, directing it in unpredictable ways during early modern
  Japan and continuing to do so in the present day.\n\nSunhui Choi is a Ph.
 D. student in the Department of Art History at UCLA\, studying the interse
 ction of art\, space\, and ecology. In her doctoral research\, she examine
 s visualized scientific knowledge and ecological sensibility within built 
 environments\, particularly during the Edo period (1603–1868). Her previ
 ous works include a thesis on the imagery of birds and flowers as a materi
 al transitional trajectory between medieval and early modern East Asia.\n\
 n\n\nImage: Saihōji’s garden\, Kyoto\, Japan. Photo by Sunhui Choi.
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