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Initial brainstorming for a project that would eventually evolve into Japan Past & Present was undertaken by the 2019–20 Premodern Japanese Studies (PMJS) Steering Committee. We gratefully acknowledge their contributions.

Lani Alden
Raiyah bint Al-Hussein
Linda Chance
Maria Chiara Migliore
Rebecca Corbett
Cheryl Crowley
Paula R. Curtis
Torquil Duthie
Stephen Forrest
Nadia Kanagawa
Christopher Kern
Christina Laffin
Abigail MacBain
Christopher Mayo
Thomas McAuley
Michael McCarty
Vvjayanthi Selinger
Tariq Sheikh
Raji Steineck
Michael Watson

Image Credits

• Female Shinto Deity. Wood with traces of polychromy, 12th cen; 25 × 17 × 10.8 cm. Art Institute of Chicago, 2008.159.

• Whose Sleeves? 誰が袖屏風 （左隻）. Color and gold on paper, 18th cen; 175.7 × 369.7 cm. Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art, F1907.127.

• Kabuki actor Nakamura Kyozo in a performance of “Shujaku jishi” for UCLA students in November 2019, hosted by the Yanai Initiative.
  

• Recumbent bottle (yokobe). Stoneware with natural ash glaze (Sue ware), late 6th cen; 37.1 × 44.1 cm. The Met, 2015.300.259.

• Yabu Chosui, Portrait of a Rabbit. Color woodblock print; surimono, 1867; 24.9 × 18.3 cm. Art Institute of Chicago, 1972.1434.

• Shinsaku Izumi, Tunnel of Light. Photograph, Gelatin silver print, 1931; 33.97 × 27 cm. LACMA.
  

• “Flame-Rimmed” Cooking Vessel (Kaen doki). Earthenware, Jomon period (ca. 10,500 BCE–ca. 300 BCE); H 53.1 cm. The MET, 2015.300.258.

• Katsushika Hokusai, Breaking Waves. Ink and color on silk, 1847; 126 × 46.7 cm. National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian, F1905.276.

• Robe (Kaparaamip). Cotton plain weave, with cotton plain weave appliqué and cotton embroidery, 19th cen; Center back length 125.73 cm. LACMA.
  

• Head and Torso of a Dancing Figure. Earthenware, 401 CE–700 CE; 
  48.3 × 35 × 15.8 cm. Art Institute of Chicago, 1989.85.

• Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, Ichikawa Danjūrō IX as Kezori Kuemon. Color woodblock prints; ōban triptych, c.1890; 74 × 37 cm. Art Institute of Chicago, 1984.566.

• Kabuki actor Nakamura Kyozo performing for UCLA students in November 2019, hosted by the Yanai Initiative.
  

• Emperor Go-yozei 後陽成天皇, Imperial Ancient Poetry on a Square Cardboard 宸翰 古歌御色紙. Color and ink on paper, 16th cen; 21.0×18.2 cm. Tokyo Fuji Art Museum.

• 諸国名所百景　信州桔梗ヶ原. Color woodblock print, Edo period; 36×24 cm. 信州デジタルコモンズ.

• 大東京寫眞帖. Photograph, 1930. National Diet Library Digital Collections, Y994-J8149.