This year I began a new position as an associate professor teaching in the Communication Department at Kōgakkan University (皇學館大学) in Ise City (伊勢市), Japan. My former office at Grinnell was wonderful, but this one is a little more spacious,…
This Friday, I will present a paper at the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) in Philadelphia as part of a panel titled “Buddhist Monks, Aristocrats, and Warriors in 14th- and 15th- Century Japanese Society.” If you are in town, and…
Here’s something to do in Grinnell: get interviewed for the school paper! Yishi Liang interviewed me a few days ago for the weekly Grinnell College newspaper, Scarlet & Black. The paper printed it in Volume 130, Issue 14, on page…
I am teaching four courses at Grinnell College this semester: two regular ones, a seminar, and a directed reading on Pan-Asianism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (actually, the directed reading is called a Mentored Advanced Project, or…
What more is there to say? Actually, quite a bit, but I’ll save that for future blog posts. Finishing my dissertation defense is enough for one day. The Abstract This dissertation examines religion and warrior culture during Japan’s sixteenth century.…
This is a collection of Internet and print resources that have been helpful for me as a graduate student. The specific categories are aimed at students in East Asian studies and History. I want to thank the many students and…
I was googling myself recently in Google Images and came across a picture of my doppelgänger on the University of Kansas website. The page lists the winners of the 2007 Snyder Book Collecting Contest. Why is the person in the…
Bryan Lowe and I organized this workshop, which was held at Princeton University on March 24th and 25th, 2012. We’re pleased to have received so much generous support from sponsors, and overwhelmed by the positive response from the academic community.…
The 6,355 kanji below, 1,945 of which are classified as Jōyō Kanji (常用漢字), are all of the kanji most of us will ever encounter in Japanese. They compose the standard kanji character set from the JIS X 0208, a combination…
The 6,355 kanji below, 1,945 of which are classified as Jōyō Kanji (常用漢字), are all the kanji most of us will ever encounter in Japanese. They compose the standard kanji character set from the JIS X 0208, which comprises the…