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Books

2009: A Hidden Heritage: Treasures of the Japanese Imperial Convents (co-author and editor), Sankei Shimbun.
2003: Art by Buddhist Nuns: Treasures from the Imperial Convents of Japan, Institute for Medieval Japanese Studies, Columbia University, New York.
1994: Kinsei no josei gakatachi: Bijutsu to jendā (Japanese Women Artists of the Kinsei Era), Shibunkaku Shuppan.
1988: Japanese Women Artists, 1600-1900, Spencer Museum of Art / Harper & Row.

Articles

2011: “Sanmi no Tsubone: Ashikaga Wife, Imperial Consort, Buddhist Laynun and Patron”, Japan Review 23.
2010: “Bikuni gosho no sekai: Futari no kinsei kōjo no shinkō to bunka katsudo” Edo no hito to mibun 4, Mibun no naka no josei, Yoshikawa Kōbunkan.
2009: “Kinsei Nihon bijutsu ni okeru joseiteki na kankaku” (Feminine Perceptions in Japanese Art of the Kinsei Era) , Miki Sōko and Rebecca Jennison eds., Hyōgen suru josetachi, Daisan Shobō.
2008: “Buson no keisho: Yokoi Kinkoku, Yokochi Sankyū” (Buson’s Successors: Yokoi Kinkoku and Yokochi Sankyū), Baitei/Kinkoku: Ōmi Buson to yobareta gaka, Ōtsu City Museum of History.
2007: “Merōfu Kannon and Her Veneration in Zen and Imperial Circles in Seventeenth-century Japan”, Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 34:2.; “Jissōin-zō Merōfu Kannon zō no nazu no hensen” (The Transformation in Identity of Jissōin’s Merōfu Kannon), Nihon kenkyū 35.
2005: “Merōfu no sonkakka to kinsei Nihon no zenshūkai oyobi kōzokukan no Merōfu shinkō”, Manabe Shunshō hakushi kanreki kinenshū: Bukkyō bijutsu to rekishi bunka, Hōzōkan.
2004: “Tagami Kikusha: Bohemian Nun, Haikai Poet, and Poet-Painter”, Simply Haiku: An E- Journal of Haiku and Related Forms 2(6). (www.simplyhaiku.com)
2003: “From Sacred Leaves to Sacred Images: The Buddhist Nun Gen'yō's Practice of Making and Distributing Miniature Kannons”, Figures and Places of the Sacred, International Symposium 18, International Research Center for Japanese Studies.
2002: “The Legacy of Yosa Buson: Exploring the Impact of His Painting Tradition in Ōmi, Owari, and Osaka”, An Enduring Vision: 17th to 20th Century Japanese Painting from the Gitter-Yelen Collection, New Orleans Museum of Art.
2000: “Creating Devotional Art with Body Fragments: The Buddhist Nun Bunchi and Her Father, Emperor Gomizuno-o”, Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 27:3/4.
1999: “Sannin no kinsei nisō to Ōbaku” (Three Edo-period Nuns and Ōbaku), Ōbaku bunka 118.
1997: “Feminine Perceptions in Japanese Art of the Kinsei Era”, Japan Review 8.
1993: “Kinsei no joryū gakatachi” (Kinsei Women Painters), Nihon no kinsei 15, Chūōkōron Shinsha Inc.
1992: “Nihon no joryū geijutsukatachi” (Women Artists of the Edo Period), Nihon no bigaku 19.
1991: “Female Bunjin: The Life of Poet-Painter Ema Saikō”, Recreating Japanese Women, 1600-1945, University of California Press.
1990: “Women Artists in Traditional Japan”, Flowering in the Shadows: Women in the History of Chinese and Japanese Painting, University of Hawaii Press.; “The Life and Art of Chō Kōran”, Flowering in the Shadows: Women in the History of Chinese and Japanese Painting, University of Hawaii Press.; “The Impact of Shugendō on the Painting of Yokoi Kinkoku”, Ars Orientalis 18.

Other (Presentations at Academic Conferences, etc.)

2010: “Sanmi no Tsubone: Ashikaga Wife, Imperial Consort, Buddhist Laynun and Patron”, Association of Asian Studies Meeting, Philadelphia
2006: “The Art of Princess-Nuns at Japan’s Imperial Convents”, The Japan Center, Dongseo University, Pusan, Korea; “Artistic Practices of Imperial Nuns at Convents in Kyoto and Nara”, International Symposium: Exploration & Dialogue for Comparative Japanese Studies, Ochanomizu University, Tokyo; “Researching the Lives and Art of Imperial Buddhist Nuns in Japan”, Research on Art and Music in Japan: A Colloquy with Foreign Scholars Resident in Japan, Nichibunken, Kyoto
2002: “Buddhist Paintings, Gourds, and Seto Ceramics: New Materials Related to Yokoi Kinkoku”, New Orleans Museum of Art International Symposium.
2001: “From Sacred Leaves to Sacred Images: The Buddhist Nun Gen'yō's Practice of Making and Distributing Miniature Kannons”, 18th International Research Symposium on Figures and Places of the Sacred, International Research Center for Japanese Studies.
1998: “Two 17th Century Buddhist Nuns and Their Art: Bunchi-ni and Gen'yō-ni”, International Symposium on “The Culture of Convents in Japanese History”, Columbia University, New York.

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