Fengyu Wang 王風雩
A PhD student at Institute for East Asian Art History at Heidelberg University, Germany, Fengyu specializes in emaki 絵巻 or illuminated handscrolls, and his current project investigates their research history, reproduction, and digitization. He grew up in Beijing and ventured out for college in Wisconsin, studying fine arts and Japanese literature. After he embarked on his M.A in Transcultural Studies in Heidelberg, Fengyu researched Mishima Yukio 三島由紀夫, got fed up, and was proselytized by East Asian Art History. Though his research interests have moved on to the Karmic Origins of the Tenjin Deity (Tenjin engi 天神縁起) and medieval Japanese paintings, Mishima has managed to hold on to his spot on Fengyu’s bookshelf among other whimsical, pedantic authors like Márquez and Nabokov. Other significant distractions from writing his dissertation include graphic design, Chopin and Shostakovich, and deciphering komonjo 古文書 or Japanese paleography.