From the Editors
- From the Editors
The editors would like to thank Kadowaki Mutsumi for serving as Assistant Editor of the Review of Japanese Culture and Society from 2006-2011. The Review benefitted tremendously from her expert guidance, and we are grateful for her tireless efforts, commitment, and generosity. We would like to take this opportunity to wish her the very best in her future endeavors. [End Page v]
Miya Elise Mizuta is Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and the Department of Art History. She is managing editor of the Review of Japanese Culture and Society (Jōsai University). The essay that appears here is drawn from her book manuscript Aesthetic Life: The Artistic Discourse of Beauty in Modern Japan. Her current book project explores the trope of illumination in literary works and the convergence of technology and art in light-based artistic media and is titled From Shadow to Illumination: Art, Literature, and Electric Light in Modern Japan.
(mizuta@usc.edu)
