Meibutsu, Japanese swords and sword fittings in American collections

This collection presents twenty-seven new essays in Japanese aesthetics by leading experts in the field. Beginning with an extended foreword by the renowned scholar and artist Step...

Abstract Until recently, many Japanese believed that they lived in the richest country in the world, and in the early 1990s, they welcomed the end of one-party do...

This edited collection provides a timely account of the social, institutional and user impacts of e-legal deposit. Since legal deposit regulations were introduced in the United Kin...

Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2023 A critical analysis of contemporary art collections and the value form, this book shows why the nonprofit system is unfit to admini...

A detailed look at Admiral Yi's four 1592 sorties that defeated the Japanese navy and established him as a national hero. In 1592, Korean Admiral Yi Sun-sin plann...

Letter collections in late antiquity give witness to the flourishing of letter-writing, with the development of the mostly formulaic exchanges between elites of the Graeco-Roman wo...

Managing previously unmanaged collections can be challenging. The process of securing the collection and making it accessible needs the mindset of a collections manager as well as ...