Contributing authors
Dr Adam Clulow is an associate professor at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of The company and the shogun: the Dutch encounter with Tokugawa Japan (Columbia University Press, 2014) and Amboina, 1623: conspiracy and fear on the edge of empire (Columbia University Press, 2019). He is the creator of The Amboyna Conspiracy Trial, an online interactive trial engine that received the New South Wales Premier’s History Award in 2017, and Virtual Angkor, with Tom Chandler, which received the Roy Rosenzweig Prize for Innovation in Digital History. Dr Mark K. Erdmann, a lecturer in art history at the University of Melbourne, specialises in Japanese pre-modern architecture and the intersection of space, painting, carpentry and power. His research focuses on castles, warrior residences and palaces, as well as the Jesuit mission in Japan and its impact on visual culture. He received his doctorate from Harvard University in 2016 and a master’s from the University of London, SOAS in 2001. He is currently working on a book titled Azuchi Castle: Oda Nobunaga and the origins of the Japanese castle. Erdmann is a core member of the Azuchi Screens Research Network, a group of scholars and artists attempting to discover the fate of a lost painting of Azuchi Castle gifted by Oda Nobunaga to Pope Gregory XIII, via the Jesuits, in 1585. He is also working on an annotated translation of Shōmei (Elucidation of the craft), a secret sixteenth-century architectural manual. David Forrest, CBE, is a specialist in nineteenth- and twentiethcentury Japanese woodblock prints and, together with the artist Jánis Nedéla, is currently the Director of Gallery East in Perth, established in 1991. David has presented numerous exhibitions around Australia featuring prints created during the Edo period (1615–1868) and Meiji era (1868–1912). Over the past five years he and Jánis have concentrated on researching and cataloguing warrior prints created by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797–1861), as well war prints created during the Sino-Japanese (1894–95) and Russo-Japanese (1904–05) wars.
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