Early Modern Art(efacts)

Monograph Project

Vivid Images: The Aesthetics of Animation in Early Modern Japanese Portraiture.

Online Talk: Between Myth and Exoticism: Paradise Birds in Early Modern Japan youtube Boundary Flights: Transcultural Birds in Asia International Conference

Peer-reviewed Articles

2022 ‘Dynamic Scribal Culture in Late Seventeenth-century Japan: Focusing on Ihara Saikaku’s Engagement with Handscrolls’, Japan Review 37: 77-100.  Related paper online presentation

2022 ‘Vengeful Promises: The Agency of Love Oaths as Materially Hybrid Texts in Late Seventeenth-Century Japan’, East Asian Publishing and Society 12.1: 46-72.

2017 ‘Turning “Sites of Remembrance” into “Sites of Imagination”: The Case of Hideyoshi’s Great Buddha’, Journal of Asian Humanities at Kyushu University 2: 125-35.

2014 ‘Brazilian Cannibals in 16th century Europe and 17th century Japan’, Comparative Critical Studies 11 supplement: 109–30.

Book Chapters

2023 (in press) Stripes and Feathers: Trade and the Geographical Imaginary in Late Seventeenth-century Japan. In: Christine Guth, Melanie Trede and Mio Wakita (eds.) Japanese Art – Transcultural Perspectives. Leiden: Brill.                                review of seed conference

2023 The Media Trajectory of Kano Naganobu’s ‘Merrymaking under Cherry and Aronia Blossoms’. In: Between Manuscript and Print: Transcultural Perspectives, ca. 1400–1800. Berlin: de Gruyter open access.

2017 Cartographies of Alterity: Shapeshifting Women and Periaquatic Spaces in Seventeenth-century Japan. In: Lara Blanchard and Kristen Chiem (eds.) Gender, Continuity, and the Shaping of Modernity in the Arts of East Asia, 16th–20th Centuries. Leiden: Brill, 21-52.

PhD Thesis

2015 The Backward Glance: Concepts of Outside and Other in the Japanese Spatial Imaginary between 1673 and 1704      SOAS 5-minute presentation video

Book Reviews

2016 Partners in Print: Artistic Collaboration and the Ukiyo-e Market, by Julie Nelson Davis. Pacific Affairs 89-3: 669-71.

Other Publications

2013 ‘Akogare no hate e – kinsei zenki ni okeru Yōkihi ni kanren suru kūkan hyōshō no hensen ni tsuite’ [Abodes of Longing – Places Associated with Yang Guifei in Seventeenth-century Japan]. Kamizono 9: 58-64.