Publications and Translations
Books and Catalogues
Delightful Pursuits: Highlights from the Lee Institute for Japanese Art at the Clark Center. General Editor (with Kobayashi Tadashi). Tokyo: Nihon keizai shimbun, 2002.
Bukkyō girei (Buddhist Ritual). General Editor (with Asaeda Zenshō). Kyoto: Tankyūsha, 1998.
Shaped with Passion — The Carl A. Weyerhaeuser Collection of Modern Japanese Ceramics. Duxbury, MA: The Art Complex Museum, 1998
Object as Insight — Japanese Buddhist Art and Ritual (with Anne Nishimura Morse). Katonah, N.Y.: Katonah Museum of Art, 1996.
Bridge of Fire: Two Potters East and West. Exhibition Catalogue (with Anne Nishimura Morse). Springfield, Massachusetts: Museum of Fine Arts, 1992.
Japanese Crafts — New England. Exhibition Catalogue (with Anne Nishimura Morse). Brattleboro, Vermont: Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, 1987.
Essays and Articles
“The Buddhist Transformation of Japan in the Ninth Century:The Case of Eleven-headed Kannon.” In Centers and Peripheries in Heian Japan. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, (forthcoming, 2005).
“Jōchō in the Insei Period.” In Festschrift on the Occasion of the Sixtieth Birthday of Professor Asaeda Zensho. Kyoto: Nagata bunshōdō (forthcoming, 2004).
“Jingūji—Sacred Sites of Religious Mediation in Early Japan”. In Figures and Places of the Sacred. Kyoto: International Research Center for Japanese Studies, 2003. pp. 327-348.
“Kaikei saku Jizō bosatsu ryūzō” (A Standing Image of Ksitigarba by Kaikei). Kokka , no. 1286 (December, 2002), pp. 23-24.
“Jizō in Medieval Japan—Three Works in the Clark Center Collection.” Orientations , vol. 33, no. 7 (September, 2002).
“Religious Art in the Collection of The Clark Center for Japanese Art.” In Delightful Pursuits: Highlights from the Lee Institute for Japanese Art at the Clark Center. Tokyo: Nihon keizai shimbun, 2002.
“The Hossō School and Image-Making in Ninth Century Japan.” Nara bukkyō to "Ryōiki" teki sekai (Nara Buddhism and the World of the Ryōiki). Tsukuba: Tsukuba University Department of History and Anthropology, 2001.
“Sculpture — Late Nara.” “Sculpture — Heian.” The Dictionary of Art. New York: Macmillan, 1996.
“Style As Ideology — Realism and Kamakura Sculpture.” Realism in Oriental Art — Proceedings of the International Symposium on Art Historical Studies 12, (1994).
“Kyūsai e no yosoi” (Dressed for Salvation). In Hito no katachi hito no karada (The Human Form and the Human Body). Tokyo: Heibonsha, 1994.
“Dressed for Salvation — the Hadaka Statues of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries.” Proceedings of the International Symposium on the Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Property — Interregional Influences in East Asian Art History. Tokyo National Research Institute of Cultural Properties, 1994.
“Heian kōki no Jōchō yōshiki to sono bunkateki igi” (The Cultural Significance of the Jōchō Style in the Late Heian Period). In Nihon bijutsu zenshū (Compendium of Japanese Art), vol. 6, Byōdō-in to Jōchō (Jōchō and the Byōdō-in). Tokyo: Kōdansha, 1994.
“Jōchō's Amida at the Byōdō-in and Cultural Legitimization in Late Heian Japan.” RES, vol. 23, (1993).
“Sculpture.” The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Japan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
“Kūkai to Tō-ji kōdō no shoson” (Kukai and the Statues in the Lecture Hall at Tō-ji). Tsuji Nobuo sensei kanreki kinen rombunshū (Festschrift in Honor of the Sixtieth Birthday of Professor Nobuo Tsuji). Tokyo: Perikan, 1993.
“The Jingo-ji Yakushi and the Indian Mode — Continental Influences on the Plain-wood Sculpture of the Early Heian Period.” Influence in Oriental Art — Proceedings of the International Symposium on Art Historical Studies 7, (1990).
“Yakushi shinkō to shirakizō” (Yakushi Worship and the Plain-wood Style). In Nara bukkyō (Nara Buddhism), vol. 1 of Zusetsu Nihon no bukkyō (Japanese Buddhism). Tokyo: Shinchōsha, 1989.
“Japanese Wood Sculpture — The Heian Period.” In The Real, The Fake and The Masterpiece. New York: The Asia Society, 1988.
“Japanese Sculpture In Transition: An Eighth-Century Example from the Tōdai-ji Buddhist Sculpture Workshop.” Museum Studies, vol. 13, no. 1 (1987).
“The Standing Image of Yakushi at Jingo-ji and the Formation of the Plain-wood Style.” Archives of Asian Art, vol. 40 (1987).
“Buddhist Sculpture at Tōdai-ji.” In The Great Eastern Temple. Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1986.
“Living National Treasures of Japan: Traditional Craftsmen in the Modern World.” American Craft, April, 1983.
Selected Scholarly Papers
Society for the Study of Japanese Religion, 2003 Annual Meeting, New York. “Kami as Yakushi–Yakushi as Kami.”
Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture, Columbia University, December, 2002.
Symposium–Japanese Buddhist Narrative. “Image Making and the Nihon ryōiki.”
Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture, Columbia University, October, 2002. Symposium–New Perspectives in the Study of Shinto. “I Don’t Want to be a Kami: Jingūji and the Religious Culture of Early Japan.”
Edwin O Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University, June, 2002. Symposium–Centers and Peripheries in Heian Japan. “The Buddhist Transformation of Japan in the Ninth Century: The Case of the Eleven-headed Kannon.”
International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto, November 2001. Symposium–Figures and Places of the Sacred. Keynote Address: “Jingū-ji: Sacred Sites of Religious Mediation in Early Japan.”
Department of History and Anthropology, Tsukuba University, May, 2001. “The Hossō School and Image-making in Early Heian Japan.”
Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture, Columbia University, November, 2000. Symposium–New Perspective on Studying Medieval Japan. “Image-making and Religious Authority in Ninth Century Japan.”
Association for Asian Studies, 1999 Annual Meeting, Boston. Panel--The Constructed Environment in Japan--Designing the Ensemble. “Jingū-ji as Ensembles of Cultural Compromise in Early Japan.”
Kyoto National Museum, November, 1998. Symposium--Art and Ritual of the Aristocratic Age. “Japanese Buddhist Art and Ritual Efficacy.”
Center for East Asian Studies, Yale University, October, 1998. Symposium--From Precept to Practice: New Perspectives on Japanese Buddhist Culture. “Competing Agendas--Image-Making and Religious Authority In Ninth Century Japan.”
College Art Association, 1994 Annual Meeting, New York. Panel--The Byōdō-in as Displaced Center. "The Byōdō-in as Ideal Prototype: The Shōkōmyō-in of Retired Emperor Toba."
Society for International Exchange of Art Historical Studies, Kyoto. July, 1993. "Style as Ideology--Realism and Kamakura Sculpture."
Tokyo National Research Institute of Cultural Properties, Tokyo, September, 1992. 16th International Symposium on the Preservation of Cultural Property--The Human Figure in the Art of East Asia. "Dressed for Salvation--the Hadaka Statues of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries."
British Museum, London, November 1991. Symposium held in conjunction with the exhibition "Kamakura: The Renaissance of Japanese Buddhist Sculpture 1185-1333." " Enlivening the Image: Symbolic Naturalism in the Sculpture of the Kamakura Period."
College Art Association, 1990 Annual Meeting, New York. Panel -- Significant Spaces in East Asia. "The Architectural Space of Esoteric Buddha Halls of the Kamakura Period."
Society for International Exchange of Art Historical Studies, Kyoto. June, 1988. "The Jingo-ji Yakushi and the Indian Mode--Continental Influences on the Plain-wood Sculpture of the Early Heian Period."
Department of Religion, Harvard University. April, 1988. "Fear of Vengeful Spirits of the Dead--the Role of Onryō in the Production of Images in the Early Heian Period."
Japan Forum, Harvard University. April, 1988. "Jōchō's Amida at the Byōdō-in and Cultural Legitimization in Late Heian Japan."
Association for Asian Studies, Panel--Buddhist Art and Practice in East Asia. San Francisco, March, 1988. "The Lecture Hall at Tō-ji: Innovation and Meaning in Early Ninth Century Japan."
New England East Asian Art History Forum. Cambridge, Mass., March, 1988. "Some Thoughts on the Use of Inlaid Crystal Eyes in Japanese Buddhist Sculpture."
Little Three Colloquium, Williams College. January, 1987. "Jōchō's Amida at the Byōdō-in and Social Legitimization in Late Heian Japan."
New England Conference of the Association of Asian Studies. Cambridge, Mass., October, 1980. "Korean Origins of the Early Heian Style of Japanese Buddhist Sculpture."
Translations — Books and Articles
Tōdai-ji. Translation of a guide to the temple written by the Reverend Morimoto Kōsei. Nara: Tōdai-ji, 1994.
Ryōsen-ji. Translation of a guide to the temple written by the Reverend Tōyama Kōshi. Nara: Ryōsen-ji, 1989.
The Great Eastern Temple. Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1986. Translation and adaptation of fifteen catalogue entries.
“The Paintings of the Four Deva Kings in the Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.” Translation and adaptation of essay by Yanagisawa Taka. Archives of Asian Art, Fall, 1984.
Classic Buddhist Sculpture: The Tempyō Period. Translation and adaptation of Tempyō chōkoku by Sugiyama Jirō. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1982.
“A Study of the Painting Style of the Ryokai Mandala at the Sai-in Tō-ji - With Special Emphasis on their Relationship to Late T'ang Painting.” Translation and adaptation of essay by Yanagisawa Taka (with Anne Nishimura Morse). Proceedings of the International Symposium on the Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Property - Interregional Influences in East Asian Art History. Tokyo: Tokyo National Research Institute of Cultural Properties, 1982.
“The Li-tai-ming-hua-chi and the Paintings in the Shōsō -in Repository.” Translation and adaptation of essay by Kawakami Kei. Proceedings of the International Symposium on the Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Property--Interregional Influences in East Asian Art History. Tokyo: Tokyo National Research Institute of Cultural Properties, 1982.
The Collected Works of Mitsumasa Anno. Translation and adaptation. New York: Collins World, 1980.
Shino and Oribe Ceramics. Translation and adaptation of Shino to Oribe by Fujioka Ryōchi. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1977.
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