Research Interest:

Early Modern Japanese painting, Warrior culture, Ukiyoe (especially actors and shini-e), Horses in Japanese art

Selected Publications

"The Artist As Professional in Japan" (Editor) including “Introduction” and essay "Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Tosa Mitsunobu (1434-ca.1523) and the Afterlife of a Name." Contributors include Donald McCallum, Karen Brock, Louise Cort, Julie Davis, Christine Guth, and Jonathan Reynolds. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004

"Worlds Seen and Imagined: Japanese Screens from the Idemitsu Museum of Arts". Co-authored with Kuroda Taizô and Yamane Yûzô New York: Asia Society, 1995. Essay, “The Golden Link: Place, Poetry, and Paradise in a Medieval Japanese Design,” pp. 30-53

"Taiga's True Views: The Language of Landscape Painting in Eighteenth Century Japan", Stanford University Press: 1992