Crossing the sea : essays on East Asian art in honor of Professor Yoshiaki Shimizu

Foreword and Acknowledgments 7 Preface 11 Contributors 14 Chronology 15 Catching the Last Bus: Yoshiaki Shimizu and the Art of Creative Digression, Mimi hall Yiengpruksawan 19 Bibliography of Yoshiaki Shimizu 29 PART I PICTURING THE TALE OF GENJI Veiled in Shadow: Recent Discoveries and Technical Analyses of the Harvard Art Museum's Tale of Genji Album, Anne Rose Kitagawa 39 A Changing Suma: Varied Illustrations for The Tale of Genji, Bruce A. Coats 55 PART II VISION / PRACTICE The Evidence of Our Eyes: The Epistemology of Vision(s) in Early Medieval Japan, Kevin Gray Carr 77 A Brief Reconsideration of a Fragment of The Illustrated Collected Gleanings of the Legends of Past Virtues, Sinead R. C. Kehoe 95 Mountains, Magic, and Mothers: Envisioning the Female Ascetic in a Medieval Chigo Tale, Melissa McCormick 107 PART III THE BODY Picturing Yusai: The Poet Evoked, Andrew M. Watsky 137 Shiseido Chic: The Cosmopolitan Aesthetics of Japanese Cosmetics, Gennifer Weisenfeld 159 PART IV PICTURING THE WORLD What Is in a Place? New Initiatives in Ink Landscape Painting in Eastern Japan during the Later Muromachi Period, Eva Havlicova 183 The Perfect Gift: Premodern Japanese Screens Sent Abroad, Janice Katz 203 PART V COMBINATORY VISUAL CULTURES Redeeming Qualities: Absolving the Sin of Secular Art and Literature in Early Medieval Japan, Nicole Fabricand-Person 221 Seer of Sounds: The Muqi Triptych, Yukio Lippit 243 Innumerable Embodiments of Hotei: The Emergence of a Literati Persona, Xiaojin Wu 267 PART VI VISION / HISTORY On Return: Kano Eitoku's Flowers and Birds of the Four Seasons and the Digital World, Gregory P. A . Levine 285 Selected References 309 Selected Glossary 329 Photo Credits 335