Contributors

• Paul Berry
  Independent scholar and former professor at Kansai Gaidai University and University of Washington

  Narratives of Japanese Art History: Where Are the Women?

• Einor Cervone
  Associate Curator of Arts of Asia, Denver Art Museum

  Introduction

  On the Fong-Johnstone Study Collection and the Power of Access

  Acknowledgments

• Patricia Fister
  Professor Emeritus, International Research Center for Japanese Studies and Director of Research, Medieval Japanese Studies Institute/Center for the Study of Women, Buddhism, and Cultural History

  Shining Light on Art by Japanese Buddhist Nuns

  Calligraphy, Poems, and Paintings: by Japanese Buddhist Nuns

• Dr. John Fong
  An osteopathic physician and former director of a state psychiatric hospital, a hospital reviewer for the National Institutes of Mental Health, and a forensic psychiatrist in Pennsylvania and Delaware.

  Collector’s Note

• Patricia Graham
  Research Associate, Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas
• Christoph Heinrich
  Frederick and Jan Mayer Director, Denver Art Museum

  Director’s Foreword

• Tomoko Kawao
  Internationally acclaimed shodō artist based in Kyoto

  Tomoko Kawao—Calligraphy Performance

• Andrew Maske
  Professor of Museum Studies and Director of Gordon L. Grosscup Museum, Wayne State University

  Artists’ Biographies

• Melissa McCormick
  Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Japanese Art and Culture, Harvard University

  Ōtagaki Rengetsu’s Buddhist Poetics: Gender and Materiality

• Alison Miller
  Associate Professor of Art History and Director of Asian Studies, The University of the South

  Finding Gender in Japanese Literati Painting

• Karuna Srikureja
  Interpretive Specialist for Arts of Asia, Denver Art Museum

  Galleries as Sites of Connection: Visitor Experience in Her Brush

• Amy Beth Stanley
  Wayne V. Jones II Research Professor in History, Northwestern University

  Reading an Archive of Everyday Life

• Marcia A. Yonemoto
  Professor of History, University of Colorado, Boulder

  Her Brush, Her Needle: Rethinking the Relationship between Art and Artisanal Work by Women in Early Modern Japan