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This volume brings together five essays by prominent scholars of Japanese studies, each discussing a central topic in Japanese cultural history. Based on a series of lectures marking the inauguration of the Sainsbury Institute in Norwich and London, each essay introduces in concise and readable form subjects that the authors have worked on as part of larger publishing projects. The authors have distilled their views on aspects of their research that relate to an important artistic, cultural, or intellectual 'birth' or 'rebirth' in Japanese history. Contributors: Helmut Brinker, Tsuji Nobuo, Timon Screech, Donald Keene and John Rosenfield
About the author
Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere is founding Director of the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures, Norwich. She received her BA (Archaeology, 1986), MA (Regional Studies, 1988) and Ph.D. (art history, 1998) from Harvard University. Her publications include:
Vessels of Influence (Duckworth, forthcoming), editor and contributor to
Hall of the Thirty-Three Bays: Photographs by Hiroshi Sugimoto (SCVA, 1997) and
Kazari: Decoration and Display in Japan, 15th-19th Centuries (British Museum Press, 2002), and editor of
Births and Rebirths (Hotei, 2001) and
Reflecting the Truth: Japanese Photography in the 19th-century (Hotei, 2004) with Mikiko Hirayama. She wrote essays and entries in
Japan's Golden Age, Momoyama (Dallas Museum of Art, 1996) and
Edo: Art in Japan 1615-1868 (National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., 1998, and
Jiki, (Museo Internazionale Delle Ceramiche, 2004). Her research interests include, Japanese decoration, early modern ceramics in East Asia and trade networks, the history of exhibition and collecting in Japan and in Europe.
