Professor Kanayama is a researcher on life and death studies, and teaches courses on religious folklore, Buddhist literature, both domestically and internationally.　From his research perspective, he became very interested with Shiozawa’s Buddhist paintings, and he came to see the works in Kyoto.

He invited a variety of people with similar interests to come with him.

Everyone sat around Shiozawa and listened intently to his explanation of Buddhist paintings.

 Cheers with beer at lunch!

Professor Kanayama mentioned, ”Even if we cannot be conveyed things to people through academics only, by working with Shiozawa who can visualize the invisible in paintings, we will be able to convey it to even more people”

In the future, with the guidance of Professor Kanayama, it seems that the path to new developments will open up.