His research focuses on the history of the samurai, tea culture, and ceramics, and the methodology of material culture studies. Morgan Pitelka is the director of the Carolina Asia Center and an associate professor in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he teaches premodern Japanese history. She is now working on a book that tries to answer the following question: How did Japan make the revolutionary leap from a manorial economy to a market economy in the seventeenth century? She has served as president of the Association for Asian Studies and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her publications include Hideyoshi (Harvard University Press, 1982), The Culture of Civil War in Kyoto (University of California Press, 1994), and Japan in Print: Information and Nation in the Early Modern Period (California, 2006). Mary Elizabeth Berry is Class of 1944 Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley.
Sōtatsu’s Times: Perspectives on the Culture and Politics of Kyoto
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