I am an Associate Professor in the Asian Studies Department, affiliated with the History Department, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I teach Asian Studies courses in premodern Japanese history and culture, and advise graduate students in the History Department with interests in medieval and early modern Japan, material culture, and other issues in Asian history. I am also the Director of the Triangle Center for Japanese Studies, a collaboration of Duke University, North Carolina State University, and UNC-Chapel Hill. Some of my writing can be found through the following links: online:
- what's
the use of art? asian visual and material culture in context
(university of hawaii press, december 2007), edited by jan mrazek and
morgan pitelka
- handmade
culture: raku potters, patrons, and tea practitioners in japan
(university of hawaii press, 2005), nominated for the John Whitney Hall Book Prize and the Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History
- japanese
tea culture: art, history, and practice
(routledgecurzon, 2003), editor and author (issued in 2007 in
paperback)
articles:
- "the tokugawa storehouse: ieyasu's encounters with things," early modern things: objects and their histories, 1500-1800, ed. paula findlen (routledge, 2013)
- "art, agency, and networks in the career of tokugawa Ieyasu," blackwell companion to asian art, ed., deborah hutton and rebecca brown (new york: wiley-blackwell, 2011)
- "the empire of things: tokugawa ieyasu's material legacy
and cultural profile," japanese
studies
29:1 (may, 2009)
- "introduction
to the early modern warrior experience," early modern japan
16 (2008)
- "a raku wastewater container and the problem of
monolithic sincerity," impressions 30 (2008)
- "back to the fundamentals: 'reproducing' rikyu and
chojiro in japanese tea culture," in rupert cox, ed., the
culture of copying in japan: critical and historical perspectives
(routledge, september 2007)
- "tea
taste: patronage and collaboration among tea masters and potters in
early modern japan," early modern japan: an interdisciplinary
journal (fall, 2004)
- "sadô ni okeru ‘tezukuri’ no imi,” [the meaning of the
“handmade” in tea culture], kumakura Isao, ed., yûgei
bunka to dentô [the culture and tradition of the arts of play]
(yoshikawa bunko, 2003)
- “kinsei ni okeru rakuyaki dentô no keisei,” [the
structure of tradition in early modern raku ceramics] nomura bijutsukan kiyô
(spring, 2000)
current
research:
- finishing a book titled material culture, tokugawa ieyasu (1543-1616), and the politics of warrior sociability, a study of the role of things in the culture and politics of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, with particular focus on the career of the founder of the tokugawa shogunate.
- writing a book titled daily life and destruction in medieval japanese castle towns on the archaeology of the everyday and its demise in towns such as ichijodani, bungo funai, azuchi, and kusado sengen.
- writing a book titled the cultural politics of time in kyoto on the cultural practices and products of tea masters, aristocrats, and elite urban commoners in the imperial capital in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.
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