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Publications

Books

The Power of Dogu:
Ceramic Figures from Ancient Japan

Edited by Simon Kaner
The British Museum Press, 2009

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Sharaku and Other
Hidden Japanese Masterworks
from the Land of NAUSICAA

Tokyo Metropolitan Edo-Tokyo Museum, 2009

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Arata Isozaki
Edited by Arata Isozaki and Ken Tadashi Oshima
Phaidon, 2009
Ken Tadashi Oshima, Associate Professor of Architecture, University of Washington, Seattle; Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Fellow, 2004; Handa Fellow, 2003

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Okinawa:
The Rise of an Island Kingdom

Edited by Richard Pearson
British Archaeological Reports, 2009

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Reading Surimono:
The Interplay of Text and Image in Japanese Prints

Edited by John T. Carpenter
Hotei, 2008

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Preachers, Poets, Women, and the Way
By Keller Kimbrough
University of Michigan, 2008
Associate Professor, Department of Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Colorado, Boulder; Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Fellow 2002-03

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Britain and the 'Re-Opening' of Japan:
The Treaty of Yedo of 1858 and the Elgin Mission

Sir Hugh Cortazzi
Former Ambassador to Japan
The Japan Society, London, 2008

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Utamaro and the Spectacle of Beauty
By Julie Nelson Davis
Associate Professor of East Asian Art, Department of the History of Art, University of Pennsylvania; Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Fellow 2002-03
Reaktion, 2008

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Crafting Beauty in Modern Japan
Edited by Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere
The British Museum Press, 2007

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Frog in the Well:
Portraits of Japan by Watanabe Kazan, 1793-1841

By Donald Keene
Columbia University Press, 2006

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Imperial Calligraphy of Premodern Japan:
Scribal Conventions for Poems and Letters from the Palace

Edited by John T. Carpenter
(with contributions by Kawashima Masao, Genjo Masayoshi, et al.)
Kyoto: Art Research Center, Ritsumeikan University, 2006


Hokusai and His Age:
Ukiyo-e Painting, Printmaking and Book Illustration in Late Edo Japan

Edited by John T. Carpenter
Hotei, 2005

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Jomon Reflections:
Forager Life and Culture in the Prehistoric Japanese Archipelago

Edited by Kobayashi Tatsuo, edited by Simon Kaner with Oki Nakamura
Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2004

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Kazari:
Decoration and Display in Japan 15th-19th Centuries

Edited by Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere
The British Museum Press, 2002

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Reflecting Truth:
Japanese Photography in the 19th Century

Edited by Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere and Mikiko Hirayama
Hotei, 2004

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Births and Rebirths in Japanese Art:
Essays Celebrating the Inauguration of the
Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures

Edited by Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere
Hotei, 2001

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