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William Wayne Farris is Sen Distinguished Professor of Traditional Japanese History and Culture, Emeritus at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

Dr Erik Hermans

Jun Hu is Assistant Professor of East Asian art at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. In addition to his work on Nara, he has a forthcoming publication on Buddhist mural painting in early medieval China and is currently completing a book manuscript, tentatively entitled “The Perturbed Circle: Chinese Architecture and Its Periphery.” Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

Adams Tracy

Tracy Adams and Ian Fookes also leverage the early modern French court as a basis for their comparative study. However, they provide a less obvious, but intriguing, comparison with Japan in their examination of court women and the role of courtesans in both contexts. Adams and Fookes parallel the Ôoku, or “great interior,” of the Japanese court with that of early modern France and also compare French salon culture with the Yoshiwara, which was home to elegant and refined courtesans. They reveal that, although France lacked a true courtesan culture in the same overt way as could be found in the Yoshiwara, both courts offer interesting similarities in terms of the framework of court culture to which women had to conform to thrive and survive. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

Fabio Parasecoli