Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere is founding Director of the Sainsbury
Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures, Norwich. She
received her BA (Archaeology, 1986), MA (Regional Studies, 1988)
and Ph.D. (art history, 1998) from Harvard University. Her
publications include: Vessels of Influence (Duckworth,
forthcoming), editor and contributor to Hall of the Thirty-Three
Bays: Photographs by Hiroshi Sugimoto (SCVA, 1997) and Kazari:
Decoration and Display in Japan, 15th-19th Centuries (British
Museum Press, 2002), and editor of Births and Rebirths (Hotei,
2001) and Reflecting the Truth: Japanese Photography in the
19th-century (Hotei, 2004) with Mikiko Hirayama. She wrote essays
and entries in Japan's Golden Age, Momoyama (Dallas Museum of Art,
1996) and Edo: Art in Japan 1615-1868 (National Gallery of Art,
Washington D.C., 1998, and Jiki (Museo Internazionale Delle
Ceramiche, 2004). Her research interests include, Japanese
decoration, early modern ceramics in East Asia and trade networks,
the history of exhibition and collecting in Japan and in
Europe.
Mikiko Hirayama was the Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Fellow at the
Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures in
2002. She is currently Assistant Professor of Japanese Art History
at the University of Cincinatti, Ohio. Hirayama received her Ph.D.
from the University of Pittsburgh in 2001 having already published
several articles, including ‘Ishii Hakutei and the Future of
Japanese Painting’ in Art Journal (Autumn 1996), pp. 57-63.
Hirayama’s research focuses on the study of modern Japanese art,
Japanese photography, art criticism and theory.
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