The following list does not attempt to be comprehensive, but includes recent and forthcoming publications that fellows or associates themselves have indicated were in some way indebted to their tenure at the Sainsbury Institute, either through fellowship support or subvention of collaborative research projects. The Sainsbury and Handa Research Fellows are based in the Department of Art and Archaeology, SOAS.

Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Pennsylvania
Sainsbury Fellow 2002-03

Utamaro and the Spectacle of Beauty: Ukiyo-e and the Artist in Late Eighteenth-century Japan, London: Reaktion Books, 2007.

'Kitagawa Utamaro and his Contemporaries, 1780-1804' in Amy Newland, ed., The Hotei Encyclopedia of Japanese Woodblock Prints. Amsterdam: Hotei Publishing, 2005, pp. 135-166.

'A Second Glance', Art Quarterly, the journal of the UK Art Fund, Autumn 2006, pp. 36-39.

'Utamaro to Ehon Taikoki' ('Utamaro and the Ehon Taikoki') Ukiyo-e Geijutsu, no. 152 (2006), pp. 88-93.

Curatorial Assistant, Japanese Division, British Museum
Research Associate, Sainsbury Institute; Handa Fellow 2004-06

'The Birth of True Views in Nanga School Painting: Hyakusetsu Genyo's Wondrous Scenery of Kinosaki', Kajima bijutsu kenkyu nenpo, no. 22 (2005).

'Ike no Taiga hitsu Seiko Shunkei Sento kancho-zu byobu no shudai kosatsu: Zuyo to bungaku-teki tenkyo o saguru' (Spring Views of the West Lake and Tidal Bore on the Qiantang River by Ike no Taiga), Museum, no. 599 (2005).

Professor of Japanese Literature Emeritus, Columbia University
Presenter of the Toshiba Lectures in Japanese Art, 2003

Frog in the Well: Portraits of Japan by Watanabe Kazan, 1793-1841. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006.

Assistant Professor of Japanese, University of Colorado at Boulder
Sainsbury Fellow 2002?03

'Chujohime' (translation of a work of late-medieval Japanese fiction), in Traditional Japanese Literature, an Anthology: Beginnings to 1600, ed. Haruo Shirane. New York: Columbia University Press, in press.

'Little Atsumori and The Tale of the Heike: Fiction as Commentary, and the Significance of a Name', Proceedings of the Association for Japanese Literary Studies 5, 2004, pp. 325-36.

'Nomori no kagami and the Perils of Poetic Heresy', Proceedings of the Association for Japanese Literary Studies 4, 2003, pp. 99-114. 

Preachers, Poets, Women & the Way: Izumi Shikibu and the Buddhist Literature of Medieval Japan. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies, in press.

'Reading the Miraculous Powers of Japanese Poetry: Spells, Truth Acts, and a Medieval Buddhist Poetics of the Supernatural', in Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 32, no. 1 (spring 2005): pp. 1-33.

Curator of East Asian Collections, Chester Beatty Library, Dublin
Sainsbury Fellow 2003-04

'Nihonga Meets Gu Kaizhi: A Japanese copy of a Chinese painting in the British Museum'. The Art Bulletin, vol. 87, (December 2005).

Research Associate, Sainsbury Institute, 2006-07; Handa Fellow 2005-06

The Empty Museum: Western Cultures and the Artistic Field in Modern Japan. Aldershot: Ashgate, forthcoming 2007.

'The Iemoto System and the Avant-gardes in the Japanese Artistic Field: Bourdieu's Field Theory in Comparative Perspective', Sociological Review, vol. 54, no. 2 (May 2006): pp. 283-302.

Part-time Lecturer, Gakushuin University
Handa Fellow 2001-02

Shoki ukiyo-e to kabuki: yakusha-e ni chumoku shite. Tokyo: Kasama Shoin, 2005.
This volume was awarded both the prestigious Kokka Prize (the premier recognition for publications in Japanese art history) and one of the two annual Tokugawa Prizes (for excellence in publications on Edo studies).

'Ukiyo-e no naka no yujo: shoki no ichimai-e ni chumoku shite' (Courtesans in Ukiyo-e, with Special Attention to Early Single-sheet Prints), Edo Bungaku, no. 33 (November 2005). + Buy + Kasamashoin site

Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, University of Washington
Sainsbury Fellow 2004-05; Handa Fellow 2003-04

'Characters of Concrete', in Crafting a Modern World: The Architecture and Design of Antonin and Noemi Raymond. Princeton Architectural Press, 2006.

'Christopher Dresser and the Evolution of his "Art Botanical" Depiction of Nature', Decorative Arts Society Journal, 2005, pp. 53-65.

'The Max/Mini Koban', Domus 889, February 2006.

Luce Assistant Professor of Asian Studies, Occidental College
Sainsbury Fellow 2001

Handmade Culture: Raku Potters, Patrons, and Tea Practitioners in Japan. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2005.

Japanese Tea Culture: Art, History, and Practice (editor). London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003.

What's the Use of Art? Functions, Movements, and Memories of Asian "Art Objects" (edited with Jan Mrazek). Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, in press.

Professor of History of Japanese Art, SOAS
Senior Associate of Sainsbury Institute 1999-2004

Japan Extolled and Decried: Carl Peter Thunberg and the Shogun's Realm 1775-1796 (editor and author of introduction). London: Routledge, 2005.

Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns: Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1787-1812 (editor and author of introduction). London: Routledge Press, 2006.

Associate Professor of Art History, Duke University
Sainsbury Fellow 2005-06

'Japanese Typographic Design and the Art of Letterforms', in Jerome Silbergeld and Dora C.Y. Ching, eds., Bridges to Heaven: Essays on East Asian Art in Honor of Professor Wen C. Fong. Princeton, P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art, Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University in association with Princeton University Press, in press.

'Reinscribing Tradition in a Transnational Art World', in Asian Art History in the Twenty-First Century (Clark Studies in the Visual Arts). Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, MA, in press.

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