Publication Listings
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Bunmei Kaika: Political Landscape in Early Modern and Modern Japan, by Monique D'Almeida
Published by The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center Vassar College, 2026
Buddhist Bells and Dragons: Under and Over Water, In and Out of Japan, by Sherry Fowler
Published by University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2025
Exploring Art, Knowledge and Movement in Japanese Fashion, by Vivien Jiaqian Zhu
Published by Eliva Press, 2025
In the Shadow of Empire: Art in Occupied Japan, by Alicia Volk
Published by University of Chicago Press, 2025
Japanese Art – Transcultural Perspectives, by Ed. Melanie Trede, Mio Wakita, and Christine M. E. Guth
Published by Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2024
オペレーションの思想：戦後日本美術史における見えない手 (Thinking Operationally: Invisible Hands in Postwar Japanese Art), by Reiko Tomii
Published by East Press, Tokyo, 2024
Fashion and the Floating World, by Jackson, Yamada
Published by V&A Publishing, 2024
Enduring Encounters: Maps of Japan from Leiden University Libraries, by Leca
Published by Brill, 2024
Tea of the Sages: The Art of Sencha (revised edition), by GRAHAM
Published by Floating World Editions, 2024
A Year in the Capital: Nishikawa Sukenobu's Ehon miyako zōshi explained, by Henri Kerlen
Published by Uhlenbeck Publishers, 2023
Igaguri: Young Judo Master, by Fukui Eiichi with an essay by Ryan Holmberg
Published by Bubbles Zine, 2024
非凡の人三田平凡寺 趣味家集団「我楽他宗」の磁力, by Hekena Capkova, Aramata Hiroshi, Ando Reiji, Rebecca Salter, Natsume Fusanosuke, Fujino Shigeru, and Kumano Kazusa
Published by Kamogawa Shuppan, 2024
Ikeda Koson and the Construction of Rinpa: Pictorial Negotiation of Art History in Nineteenth-Century Japan, by Wibke Schrape
Published by VDG Weimar, 2023
Discovery & Wonder—The Harry F. Bruning Collection at Brigham Young University, by Jack Stoneman and Aaron Skabelund
Published by BYU Academic Publishing, 2022
Hiroshige. Nature and the City, by John Carpenter, Jim Dwinger, Andreas Marks, Rhiannon Paget, Shiho Sasaki
Published by Ludion, 2023
Divine Felines: The Cat in Japanese Art, by Rhiannon Paget
Published by Tuttle, 2023
My Picture Diary, by Fujiwara Maki, trans. Ryan Holmberg
Published by Drawn & Quarterly, 2023
Nejishiki, by Yoshiharu Tsuge, trans. Ryan Holmberg
Published by Drawn & Quarterly, 2023
The Way of Washi Tales, by Ibe Kyoko and Elise Thoron
Published by The Legacy Press, 2023
Art Kimono: Aesthetic Revelations of Japan 1905-1960, by Roger Yorke, forward by Kendall Brown
Published by Yorke Antique Textiles, 2023
- Su, Stephanie. “Redefining Femininity in Imperial Japan: The Chinese Female Body in Uemura Shōen’s Yōkihi (1922).” Japan Forum (June 2025). DOI: https://doi-org.smithsonian.idm.oclc.org/10.1080/09555803.2024.2435842
- Han, Ji Hye. “Against Typical Yokosuka: Ishiuchi Miykao’s Zesshō, Yokosuka Story.” Japan Forum (February 2026). DOI: 10.1080/09555803.2026.2630752
- Sapin, Julia. “Kimono in the Age of Japonisme: From Japanese Merchandising Strategies to Signs of British Women’s Liberty.” Journal of Japonisme vol. 9, no. 2 (Nov 2024). DOI: (part of a dedicated issue on Japonisme in Fashion, Elizabeth Emery and Mei Mei Rado, eds.)
- Ayelet Zohar. ““Picturing the Ainu: Representations of Ainu and Americans in Hokkaidō and beyond, during the Meiji Era (1871–1909)”.” ().
- Sun; Zancan, Wei; Claudia. “Showcasing Japan: A Journey of Japanese Identity through Archaeology and Ancient Art Exhibitions in Italy.” Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie orientale 60 (July 2024). DOI: 10.30687/AnnOr/2385‑3042/2024/01/014
- Han, Ji Hye. “Photographs Of The US Military Base In Cold War Korea: Through The Photographic Gaze Of Kuwabara Shisei.” The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus Volume 22 | Issue 2 | Number 2 (February 2024).
- Karen M. Fraser. “From Print to Photograph, Stage to Page, and East to West: Transmedial Narratives and Cross-Cultural Understanding in Ogawa Kazumasa’s Scenes from the Chiushingura and the Story of the Forty-Seven Rōnin.” Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide 22 no. 2 (Autumn 2023 ).
- Atwood, Sara. “Memoirs from the Road: Yamanashi Shigako, Kii no Kuni meisho zue, and Women’s Pilgrimage to Mount Kōya.” Andon 115 (July 2023).
- Ars Orientalis 52 (Spring 2023 ).
- Journal of Asian Humanities at Kyushu University 7 (Spring 2022).
- Yurika Wakamatsu. “The Affective Riverscape: Resonance and Sociality in Okuhara Seiko’s Spring Colors on the Sumida River, 1887.” Artibus Asiae 82.2 (2022).
- Kunimoto, Namiko. “Transwar Art in Japan.” Third Text 36.6 (2022).
- Yen-Yi Chan. “Revealing the Miraculous: Objects Placed inside the Statue of the Kōfukuji Nan’endō Fukūkenjaku Kannon.” Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 49.1 (2023).
- Beatrice Shoemaker. “Ōoka Shunboku - Osaka between China and Japan.” Andon 114 (December 2022).
- Namiko Kunimoto. “Situating Being a Statue of a Japanese 'Comfort Woman:' Shimada Yoshiko, Bourgeois Liberalism, and the Afterlives of Japanese Imperialism.” Verge: Studies in Global Asias 8.2 (2022).
- Nakamura Kimihiko. “Shinoda Tōkō: Ink, Abstraction, and Radical Individualism.” Women's Art Journal 43.1 (2021).
- Sherry, Fowler, and Yui Suzuki. “Japanese Buddhist Sculpture.” Oxford Bibliographies in Art (February 2022).
- Zohar, Ayelet. “An Exploration of the Scarcity of Asian Images in Morimura Yasumasa’s Oeuvre, 1991–2010.” Third Text 172.35.5 (September 2021).
- Magdalena Kolodziej. “Studying Art in Colonial Libraries.” Bodies and Structures 2.0: Deep-Mapping Modern East Asian History ().
- Abbe, Daniel. “Re-staging postwar Japanese photography: Ōtsuji Kiyoji, APN and straight photography.” Japan Forum (September 2021).
- McCormick, Kelly. “Tokiwa Toyoko, the nude shooting session, and the gendered optics of Japanese postwar photography.” Japan Forum (September 2021).
- Impressions 42: Part Two of Double Issue (July 2021).
- Andon - the Journal of the Society for Japanese Art, #111 (June 2021).
- Journal of Asian Humanities at Kyushu University (JAH-Q) Vol. 6 (March 2021). DOI: https://www.lib.kyushu-u.ac.jp/publications_kyushu/jahq
- “Special issue: Japon.” Perspective: actualité en histoire de l’art No. 1 (2020). DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/perspective.13884
- Zohar, Ayelet. “Re-Enacting ‘The Raising of the Flag on Iwo jima’: Repetition and Recollection, War Memory and Nationalism, Japan and the USA in Morimura Yasumasa’s Gift of the Sea (2012) (translated by Murakami Akira) 硫黄島の星条旗」を再演する：森村泰昌「海の幸」における反復と記憶、過去の戦争とナショナリズム、日本と合州国 （村上東 訳）.” Tohoku Studies in American Literature Vol. 44 (March 2021).
- Deichert, Theresa. “Contested Sites, Contested Bodies: Post-3.11 Collaborations, Agency, and Metabolic Ecologies in Japanese Art.” Journal of Transcultural Studies 11 (2) (2021). DOI: https://doi.org/10.17885/heiup.jts.2020.2.24246
- Wakamatsu, Yurika. “Imagined Selves: Mediating Desires and Subject Positions in the Japanese Literati Art of Okuhara Seiko (1837–1913).” Archives of Asian Art 70, no. 2 (2020). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00666637-8620348
- Guth, Christine M.E. “From Book to Film: Gender and Japanism in Mary McNeil Fenollosa's The Dragon Painter.” Journal of Japonisme 6 (2021).
- “Photography of the Heisei Era (1989-2019): Memory and Transformation, Crises and Opportunities.” Review of Japanese Culture and Society vol. 31 (2019).
- Kolodziej, Magdalena. “Jiko ni chūjitsu ni ikyōtoshita gaka – Funakoshi Mieko 「自己に忠実に生きようとした画家―船越三枝子」.” Kindai gasetsu『近代画説』 no. 29 (2020).
- Graham, Patricia J. and Frank L. Chance. “Japanese Literati Painting and Calligraphy.” Oxford Bibliographies (February 2021). DOI: 10.1093/OBO/9780199920105-0163
- Volk, Alicia. “Art and Women’s Liberation in a Newly Democratic Japan, with a Focus on Migishi Setsuko and Akamatsu Toshiko” （「日本の民主化における美術と女性解放ー三岸節子と赤松俊子を中心に」).” US-Japan Women’s Journal 57 (2020).
- Kunimoto, Namiko. “Tsujimura Kazuko and the Body Object.” The Asia-Pacific Journal Japan Focus Vol. 19 Iss. 3 No. 1 (February 2021).
- Pamela Winfield, . “"Curating Culture: The Secularization of Buddhism Through Museum Display"” In Secularizing Buddhism: New Perspectives on a Dynamic Tradition, edited by Richard K. Payne. : Shambhala Press, 2021.
- Jones, Meghen. “National Treasure Tea Bowls as Cultural Icons in Modern Japan” In The Construction and Dynamics of Cultural Icons, edited by Erica van Boven and Marieke Winkler. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021.
- Tsuchikane, Yasuko. “Defining Modernity in Japanese Sculpture: Two Waves of Italian Impact on Casting Techniques” In Finding Lost Wax: The Disappearance and Recovery of an Ancient Casting Technique and the Experiments of Medardo Rosso, edited by Sharon Hecker. Leiden: Brill, 2021.