Tomoko Sakomura
Assistant Professor of Art History
Office: Beardsley 206
Telephone: 610-328-8119
Email: tsakomu1@swarthmore.edu
Education:
B.A. Keio University, Tokyo (1997)
M.A., Columbia University (1998)
Ph.D., Columbia University (2007)
Area of Specialization:
East Asian Art
Courses:
ArtH 001H FYS: The Art of Japanese Tea Ceremony
ArtH 003 East Asian Art
ArtH 032 Crafting Nature: The Art of Japanese Tea Culture
ArtH 033 Famous Places and Sacred Sites: The Art of Landscape in East Asia
ArtH 039 Contemporary Japanese Visual Culture
ArtH 034 East Asian Calligraphy
ArtH 136 Word and Image in Japanese Art (Seminar)
Selected Publications:
Poetry as Image: The Visual Culture of Waka Poetry in Late Medieval Japan
[In Progress]
"Negotiating Word and Image: The Case of Ôgi no sôshi (Imêji to tekisuto no fukusôteki kankei--"Ôgi no sôshi" o rei toshite)." In New Horizons in Japanese Literary Studies: Canon Formation, Gender, and Media (Ekkyô suru nihon bungaku kenkyû--kanon keisei, gendâ, media), edited with Introduction by Haruo Shirane, 120-123, E108-110. Tokyo: Benseisha, 2009. [Bilingual publication]
"Unfolding Narratives: Visualising the Tales of Genji and Heike on the Folding Screen." In The Golden Journey: Japanese Art from Australian Collections, edited by James Bennett and Amy Newland, 78-89. Adelaide: Art Gallery of South Australia, 2009.
"Japanese Games of Memory, Matching, and Identification." In Asian Games: The Art of Contest, edited by Colin Mackenzie and Irving Finkel, 253-71. New York: Asia Society, 2004.
Kazari: Decoration and Display in Japan 15th-19th Centuries, edited by Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere. London: British Museum Press, 2002. Contributing author.
Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology 1600-1900, edited by Haruo Shirane. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. Contributing author.
Teabowl, named Yûgure (Twilight)
Chôjirô (1516-?1592)
Momoyama period (1573-1615), last quarter of the 16th c.
Red raku ware; glazed earthenware
H. 9 cm (3 5/8 in.)
The Gotoh Museum, Tokyo