Japan Past & Present is deeply appreciative of the technical, design, and curatorial expertise that made this website what it is, and are pleased to recognize their efforts here.

Web Development

text & bytes

Concept & Design, UI/UX

Herrmann Germann

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Folder Studio

Project Design

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 x 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.