This September 22, 2020, lecture was presented by Dr. Sinéad Vilbar, Curator of Japanese Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Dr. Vilbar curated the exhibition Shinto: Discovery of the Divine in Japanese Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) April to June 2019. The project officially concluded with a visit of gratitude to Japan by CMA’s director, William Griswold, in late August of 2019. One year on, Vilbar reflects on the process of generating the exhibition and its catalogue with a wide network of contributors, and discusses 10 works of art featured in the exhibition. Dr. Vilbar holds an MA and a PhD from Princeton, a BA from Yale, and studied at Tōhoku University in Sendai, Japan. Recent publications include Shinto: Discovery of the Divine in Japanese Art (2019) and “A Celestial Landing: The Seven Stars and the Nine Celestials Descending at Kasuga” in Arts of Asia (2018).