1 Transcultural Studies 2011. 1 2011. 1 EDITOR’S NOTE Monica Juneja .02 ARTICLES Rudolf G. Wagner China “Asleep” and “Awakening.” A Study in Conceptualizing Asymmetry and Coping with It. .04 Series on Multi-Centred Modernisms: Hiroyuki Suzuki The Buddha of Kamakura and the “Modernization” of Buddhist Statuary in the Meiji Period .140 Translation: Atsushi Shibasaki Tomonaga Sanjuro’s Epistemology of International Relations: The “Self-State-International Relations” Proto-Paradigm in Modern Japan. Translated by Gaynor Sekimori .159 Themed Section: Byzantium beyond its Eastern Borders Christine Stephan-Kaissis Byzantium Beyond its Eastern Borders. An Introduction. .188 Stefan Faller The World According to Cosmas Indicopleustes – Concepts and Illustrations of an Alexandrian Merchant and Monk. .193 Zsuzsanna Gulácsi Searching for Mani’s Picture-Book in Textual and Pictorial Sources. .233 Claudia Wenzel The Image of the Buddha: Buddha Icons and Aniconic Traditions in India and China. .263 307 Transcultural Studies 2011.1 Transcultural Studies, No 1, 2011, ISSN: 2191-6411 Editor: Rudolf G. Wagner, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg Managing Editor: Andrea Hacker Editorial Board: Christiane Brosius, Harald Fuess, Madeleine Herren, Monica Juneja, Birgit Kellner, Joachim Kurtz, Axel Michaels, and Roland Wenzlhuemer. Transcultural Studies is an open-access e-journal published bi-annually by the Cluster of Ex- cellence, “Asia and Europe in a Global Context: Shifting Asymmetries in Cultural Flows“ at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. For more information see: www.transculturalstudies.org CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE: Rudolf G. Wagner is co-director of the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Glo- bal Context: Shifting Asymmetries in Cultural Flows” at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. He is a sinologist whose research focuses on Chinese intellectual history with a strong focus on transcultural conceptual interaction. Hiroyuki Suzuki is Professor of Art History at Tokyo Gakugei University. His research interests in the history of Japanese art span medieval ink painting, the history of art in- stitutions, nineteenth century exhibition strategies, and art historiography and theories. Atushi Shibasaki is Lecturer of International Relations in the at Tokyo’s Komazawa Universi- ty. His research focuses on issues of international relations and international cultural relations. Gaynor Sekimori is a Research Associate in the Centre for the Study of Japanese Religions at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and concurrently Visiting Professor at Kokugakuin University, Tokyo. Her research focuses on Japanese religious history. Christine Stephan-Kaissis is Lecturer at the Department of Byzantine Archaeology and Art History at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. She specializes in Byzantine visual theory and art history with a focus on Byzantine transcultural interaction. Stefan Alfred Faller is Lecturer in the Department of Classical Philology at the Albert- Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg. His research interests include tragedies in the Roman Re- public, Quintus Ennius, and the comedies of Plautus. Zsuzsanna Gulácsi is Professor of Art History and Religious Studies in the Asian Studies Program at Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff. She specializes in Asian art history, Buddhist and Islamic art, and illuminated manuscripts. Claudia Wenzel is Research Associate at the research project “Buddhist rock scriptures in Northern China” in Heidelberg Academy of Sciences. She researches visual practices, image theory and image cult in Chinese Buddhism.