Ava Bush studies the transregional origins of the pictorial and spatial traditions undergirding early Japanese Esoteric Buddhist art and material culture. Drawing on ethnobiological and art historical inquiry, Ava investigates themes of embodiment...
Carolyn Bell studies the history of ritual dress and bodily adornment in medieval Japan, focusing on the production and reception of East Asian textiles in relation to Buddhist visual and material culture. She received her BA in Asian Studies and History...
Xuanzang’s Journey to the East: Picto-textual Efficacy in the Genjō Sanzō emaki
Ties that Bind: Exploring Complex Semantic and Social Relationships in Inscribed Paintings through the Topic of the “First Skipjack Tuna of the Season” (Hatsugatsuo)
Painting in Between: Gender and Modernity in the Japanese Literati Art of Okuhara Seiko (1837-1913)
