About the Author

Khanh Trinh is curator of Asian art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Monica Bethe is director of medieval Japanese studies at the Institute in Kyoto, Japan and has taught at the Kyoto Consortium for Japanese Studies at Columbia University. Eric C. Rath is professor of history at the University of Kansas and a specialist in premodern Japanese culture. J. Thomas Rimer is professor emeritus of Japanese literature and theatre at the University of Pittsbugh. Mikio Takemoto is professor of Japanese literature at Waseda University, Tokyo. He is the director of the Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum at Waseda University.