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Name: Ikumi Kaminishi
Title: Associate Professor of Art and Art History
Departmental Affiliation: Art & Art History Department
Degrees: Ph.D. The University of Chicago; M.A. The University of Chicago; A.B. The University of Chicago
Expertise: Japanese Art, Chinese Painting, Buddhist Art and Women's Studies
Major Awards: National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, Mary I. Bunting Fellowship, Andrew Mellon Research Fellowship (Tufts University), Faculty Research Award (Tufts University), Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies Travel Grant, Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Summer Travel Grant, Whiting Dissertation Fellowship, Charlotte W. Newcomb Dissertation Fellowship
E-mail: ikumi.kaminishi@tufts.edu

Scholarship & Research: Explaining Pictures: Buddhist Propaganda And Etoki Storytelling in Japan. Honolulu: The University of Hawai'I Press, 2006.

"ETOKI, or deciphering pictures, of Buddhist propaganda," Word & Image, volume 18, number 3 (July-September 2002): 191-209.

"The Two Dimensional World of Emakimono," Kaleidoscope Kyoto, No. 17 (November-December, 1985): 10-12.

"Gender in Japanese Art" by Chino Kaori, Aesthetics, no. 7 (March 1996), translation. Tokyo: The Japanese Society for Aesthetics, 49-68.

Kumano Bikuni or Prostitute Nuns from Kumano, the proselytizers of Buddhism in early modern Japan

New theory on the so-called Matsushima Screens at Freer Gallery, Washington, D.C.

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