Copying the Master and Stealing His Secrets

Contributors

Frank Chance is Associate Director of the Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.His research interest is in early modern Japanese art and its pedagogy. Karen M. Gerhart is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the author of The Eyes of Power: Art and Early Tokugawa Authority (University of Hawai‘i Press,1999) and articles in Monumenta Nipponica and Ars Orientalis. Brenda G. Jordan was Assistant Professor of Art History at Florida State University during the final phases of work on this book. She is now Assistant Director of the Asian Studies Program at the University of Pittsburgh. Her publications include essays in John Singleton, ed., Learning in Likely Places: Varieties of Apprenticeship in Japan (Cambridge University Press, 1998), and Helen Hardacre, ed., New Directions in the Study of Meiji Japan (E. J. Brill, 1997). Martha J. McClintock is currently a freelance translator inTokyo concentrating on art-related texts and a Guest Researcher at the National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo.This is her first publication on Seiko in English, following several in Japanese, in Koga City publications and the annual report of the Kajima Art Foundation. 243 Contributors J. Thomas Rimer is Chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author and editor of numerous translations, articles, and books on Japanese art, drama, and literature .In 1997 he was awarded the Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbons,by the Japanese government in acknowledgment of his various contributions in these areas. Victoria Weston is Associate Professor at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She is author of Japanese Painting and National Identity: Okakura Kakuzò and His Circle (University of Michigan Press, forthcoming). Contributors 244 ...