Andrew M. Watsky Department of Art and Archaeology 316 McCormick Hall Princeton University Princeton, NJ 08544 e-mail: [email protected] tel.: 609-258-9338 ∙ fax: 609-258-0103
Education
Princeton University ∙ Ph.D., June 1994 • Dissertation: “The Art of the Ensemble: The Tsukubusuma Sanctuary, 1570-1615.”
Princeton University ∙ M.A. January 1990 • Japanese Art and Archaeology • Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities
o September 1986–June 1987 o September 1988–June 1991 o September 1993–June 1994 • Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies, Fellowship Program for Completion of Doctoral Dissertations in Japanese Studies
o July–August 1993 • Metropolitan Center for Far Eastern Art Studies Doctoral Grant
o January–June 1993 • Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship
o September–December 1993 • Japan Foundation Dissertation Fellowship
o September 1991–August 1992 • Spears Travel and Research Grant, Princeton University
o March–April 1990 Oberlin College ∙ B.A., May 1979 • Art History • Elected to Phi Beta Kappa • Oberlin Shansi Memorial Association Fellow, Japan
o September 1980–July 1982
May 4, 2021 Employment • Professor, Princeton University, Department of Art & Archaeology, June, 2008–present • Director, P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art, July 2017–present • Atsumi Visiting Associate Professor in Japanese Art, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University, New York, July–December 2006 • Associate Professor, Art History, Vassar College, New York, July 2001–June 2008 and September 1994–June 2001 • Curatorial Assistant/Assistant Curator of Japan: The Shaping of Daimyo Culture, 1185- 1868, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., June 1987–September 1988 • Assistant Director, Gallery Ueda, Tokyo, April 1982–July 1986
Professional Grants and Fellowships • John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, July 2007–-June 2008 • Publication Support Grant, Metropolitan Center for Far Eastern Art Studies, Kyoto, 2002. • Northeast Asia Council Research Travel Grant, May 2000–July 2000 • Travel and Research Grant, Vassar College, July 1995–August 1995; July 1996; May– July 2000; annual grants from 2001–2008 • Travel and Research Grant, Metropolitan Center for Far Eastern Art Studies, Kyoto, July 1996 • Visiting Scholar Grant, Tokyo National Research Institute of Cultural Properties, July– August 1995
Publications “A Double Take on Picturing Place in Japan,” Princeton University Art Museum Magazine (Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum, Winter 2019): 8-10.
Picturing Place|Japan, brochure prepared in conjunction with exhibition Picturing Place in Japan, co-authored with Caitlin Karyadi (Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum, 2018).
“Powdered Tea Container (Chaire) and Dish with Handle,” Asian Art Museum of San Francisco: Collection Highlights (San Francisco, Asian Art Museum, Chong-Moon Lee Center for Asian Art and Culture, 2018): 268-269.
Around Chigusa: Tea and the Arts of Sixteenth-Century Japan, co-edited with Dora C.Y. Ching and Louise Allison Cort (Princeton: P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art, 2017).
2 Chigusa monogatari: Futatsu no umi o watatta karamono chatsubo [The Tale of Chigusa: The Karamono Tea Jar That Crossed Two Seas], co-edited with Takeuchi Jun’ichi, Oka Yoshiko, and Louise Allison Cort (Kyoto: Shibunkaku, 2016). [Revision and Japanese translation of Chigusa and the Art of Tea, co-edited with Louise Allison Cort (Washington, D.C.: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, 2014).]
“Chigusa no na” [Chigusa’s Names”], in Chigusa monogatari: Futatsu no umi o wattata karamono chatsubo, co-edited with Takeuchi Jun’ichi, Oka Yoshiko, and Louise Allison Cort (Kyoto: Shibunkaku, 2016). [Revision and Japanese translation of “Chigusa’s Name(s),” in Chigusa and the Art of Tea, co-edited with Louise Allison Cort (Washington, D.C.: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, 2014).]
“Chatsubo mei ‘Chigusa’” [The Tea Jar Named ‘Chigusa”], co-authored with Louise Allison Cort, Kokka no. 1441 (November 2015): 33-39. [in Japanese]
Chigusa and the Art of Tea in Japan, brochure, co-authored with Louise Allison Cort (Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum, 2014).
“Chigusa’s Name(s),” in Chigusa and the Art of Tea, co-edited with Louise Allison Cort (Washington, D.C.: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, 2014).
Chigusa and the Art of Tea, co-edited with Louise Allison Cort (Washington, D.C.: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, 2014).
“Representation in the Nonrepresentational Arts: Poetry and Pots in Sixteenth-Century Japan,” in Japanese Visual Culture: Performance, Media, and Text, ed. Haruo Shirane, Kobayashi Kenji and Saitō Maori, 145-152 (Tokyo: National Institute of Japanese Literature, 2013). Re-edited in Impressions no. 34 (2013):140-148. Also published in Japanese, “Jūroku seiki no Nihon ni okeru shika to ōtsubo: ‘Repurezentēshon’ o meguru kōsatsu,” in Amerika ni wattata monogatarie—emaki, byōbu, ehon, ed. Kokubungaku Shiryōkan, 178- 191 (Tokyo: Pelikansha, 2013).
“Picturing Yūsai: The Poet Evoked,” in Crossing the Sea: Essays on East Asian Art in Honor of Professor Yoshiaki Shimizu, ed. Gregory Levine, Gennifer Weisenfeld, and Andrew M. Watsky, 137-158 (Princeton: P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art, 2012).
Crossing the Sea: Essays on East Asian Art in Honor of Professor Yoshiaki Shimizu, coedited with Gregory Levine and Gennifer Weisenfeld (Princeton: P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art, 2012).
Review of Morgan Pitelka, Handmade Culture: Raku Potters, Patrons, and Tea Practitioners in Japan (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2005), in Artibus Asiae 68, no. 1 (2008), pp. 160-161.
“Japanese Art at Vassar,” Art at Vassar (Fall 2004), pp. 4-5.
3 “Locating ‘China’ in the Arts of Sixteenth-Century Japan,” chapter in Location, ed. Deborah Cherry and Fintan Cullen, 68-92 (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2007). First published in Art History 29: 4 (September 2006): 600-624.
Translation of entries in Masterpieces of the Kyoto National Museum (Kyoto: Kyoto National Museum, 2004).
Chikubushima: Deploying the Sacred Arts in Momoyama Japan (Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2004).
• Shimada Prize, 2006, awarded biennially by the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. and The Metropolitan Center for Far Eastern Art Studies in Kyoto, Japan for an outstanding publication on the history of East Asian art.
• John Whitney Hall Book Prize, 2006, awarded annually by the Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies to an outstanding English language book published on Japan or Korea.
• Reviewed by:
o Gregory Levine, Monumenta Nipponica 59, no. 3 (Autumn, 2004): 421-424; o Bruce A. Coats, CAA Reviews (August 2005); o Melanie Trede, Art Bulletin 87, no. 2 (2005): 343-346; o Morgan Pitelka, The Journal of Japanese Studies 31.2 (2005): 445-449; o Kendall H. Brown, The Journal of Asian Studies 64.2 (May 2005): 480-481; o Janice Katz, Early Modern Japan 14 (2006): 72-73. “Shi no bijutsu kara, Benzaiten no bijutsu e: Tsukubusuma Jinja Honden moya ni tsuite” [“From the Art of Death to the Art of Benzaiten: Concerning the Tsukubusuma Jinja Moya”], in Zen Kindai Nihon no shiryō isan purojekuto: Kenkyū shūkai hōkokushū 2001-2002, by COE Japan Memory Project (Tokyo: Historiographical Institute (Shiryo Hensan-jo), The University of Tokyo, 2003): 146-157. [in Japanese]
“Floral Motifs and Mortality: Restoring Numinous Meaning to a Momoyama Building,” Archives of Asian Art 50 (1997-1998): 62-92.
Review of Japan’s Golden Age: Momoyama, ed. Money L. Hickman, in Apollo 145, no. 421 (March 1997): 63-64.
“Sutemaru no gen’ei: Tsukubusuma Jinja Honden moya o megutte” (“Memorializing Sutemaru: Regarding the Moya of the Tsukubusuma Sanctuary Main Hall”), Bijutsu kenkyū no. 366 (February 1997): 51-76. [in Japanese]
4 “Commerce, Politics, and Tea: The Career of Imai Sōkyū,” Monumenta Nipponica 50, no. 1 (Spring 1995): 47-65. Reprinted in Japanese Tea Culture: Art, History, and Practice, ed. Morgan Pitelka, 18-38 (London: Routledge, 2003).
Entries in Japan: The Shaping of Daimyo Culture, 1185-1868, ed. Yoshiaki Shimizu (Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1988).
Exhibitions “Picturing Place in Japan,” curated with Caitlin Karyadi and Cary Liu, Princeton University Art Museum, October 20, 2018-February 24, 2019.
“Chigusa and the Art of Tea in Japan,” co-curated with Louise Allison Cort, Princeton University Art Museum, October 11, 2014-February 1, 2015.
“Chigusa and the Art of Tea,” co-curated with Louise Allison Cort, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, February 22-July 27, 2014.
Conference Papers, Lectures, Panels “Withered, Shrivelled, and Cold, Etcetera: Translating Tenshō Tea Aesthetics in a Global Age,” Beyond the Southern Barbarians: Repositioning Japan in the First Global Age, International Online Symposium, Kyushu University, 2/21.
“About Wabi: Japanese Tea in the Late Sixteenth Century,” Tea Culture(s), International Colloquium, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 11/19.
“Exhibiting Japan: Pictures of Famous, Sacred, and Imagined, Places,” Place Making in the Arts: Japan and Beyond panel, Princeton University Art Museum, 11/18.
“Gained in Translation: The Vocabvlario and Japanese Tea,” Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 10/18.
“The Vocabvlario as Insight: The Portuguese and Tea at the Turn of the Sixteenth Century,” Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 10/18.
“‘Hearing with the Eyes’: Tea, Aesthetics, and the Senses in Sixteenth-century Japan,” Brown University, 10/18.
“Beside Baroque: The Portuguese Encounter with Wabi,”Japan’s Global Baroque, Council on East Asian Studies, Yale University, 4/18.
“Five Paintings by Hakuin,” Zen Ink: Paintings by Hakuin Ekaku panel, Princeton University Art Museum, 4/18.
“Revaluating Chinese Objects in Sixteenth-Century Japan,” Religion, Literature, Image in East Asian Cultural Exchanges, Sixth Annual Fudan-Tokyo-Princeton Conference, Princeton University, 12/16.
5 “Engaging the Object: The Art of Tea in Sixteenth Century Japan,” Tea Times: Cultures, Commerce, and Conflict,” Seattle Art Museum, 10/16.
“Reframings: Chanoyu and Its Objects in Sixteenth-Century Japan,” University of Washington, Seattle, 10/16.
“Furēmu toshite no chanoyu: Jūroku seki o chūshin ni” [“Chanoyu as Frame, Sixteenth-century Japan”], Furēmu no chōiki bunkagaku II: Sekai ninshiki to kotenchi [Frames and Framings in a Transdisciplinary Perspective II: ‘Creating Worlds’ in Classical Knowledge Systems], Gakushuin University, Tokyo, 7/16 [in Japanese].
“Cracks in the Canon: Positioning Large Jars in Sixteenth-century Chanoyu,” The History of Art Collecting and Patronage in Chanoyu, Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures, Norwich, UK, 6/16.
“Appropriation and the Objects of Tea in Sixteenth-Century Japan,” Yale University, 5/16.
“Embodying the Object in Sixteenth-Century Chanoyu,” The Culture of Tea in Japan, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 10/15.
“Chigusa’s Contexts,” Chigusa in Context: In and Around Chanoyu in Sixteenth-Century Japan, P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art, Princeton University, 11/14.
“Valuing the Chinese Vessel in Sixteenth-Century Chanoyu,” Hierarchy and Aesthetics of Ceramics: The Japanese Tea Wares and Earthenware of India and Southeast Asia, Sixth International Academic Lecture, Lee & Won Foundation, National Museum of Korea, Seoul, 8/14.
“Tea Utensil/Sacred Relic: Objects In and Out of Sixteenth-century Chanoyu,” Materiality in Japan: Making, Breaking and Conserving Works of Art and Architecture, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 4/14.
“Chigusa Embodied,” Chigusa: Transformations of a Tea Jar, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington, D.C., 3/14.
“In and Around the Arts of Tea in Momoyama Japan,” Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, 2/14.
“Embodying the Ceramic Vessel in Sixteenth-Century Japanese Tea Culture,” University of California, Berkeley, 2/14
“‘Hearing with the Eyes’: Tea and Its Objects in Sixteenth-century Japan,” Columbia University, New York, 10/13
“Recalibrating the Classical Allusion: Named Objects in Early Seventeenth-Century Kyoto,” The Art of Historical Imagination in the 17th-Century Kyoto Renaissance, annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Toronto, 3/12.
6 “Earth, Metal, Paper, and Silk: Assembling the Ensemble in Sixteenth-Century Japanese Tea,” Bard Graduate Center, New York, 2/12
“Chigusa’s Name(s),” The Story of Chigusa: A Japanese Tea Jar’s 700-year History, online workshop, sponsored by Freer Gallery of Art & Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington, D.C., 11/11.
“Representation in the Non-representational Arts: Poetry and Pots in Sixteenth-century Japan,” International Symposium on Japanese Visual Culture: Performance, Media, and Text, Columbia University, 9/11.
“’Unparalleled in the Realm’: Tea Utensils in Sixteenth-century Japan,” East Asian Studies Speaker Series, Johns Hopkins University, 4/11.
“Found, Famed, and Named; Lost, Broken, and Reclaimed: Tea Treasures in Sixteenth-century Japan,” Walters Art Museum, 4/11.
“From Common Container to Meibutsu to Sacred Object, the Life of Tsukumo,” Elite Patronage and Viewership of Japanese Art in the Age of the Toyotomi-Tokugawa Transition panel, sponsored by the Japan Art History Forum, annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Honolulu, 4/11.
“The Decade in Art, 1580-1589, Japan: In and Outside the Realm of Chanoyu,” Asian Traditions: Connections and Innovations, Society for Asian Art, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, 3/11.
“Useful, Excellent, Famed, and Named: Expectations of the Object in Sixteenth-century Japan,” Japan Forum lecture series, Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University, 2/11.
“Excellent, Famed, and Named Objects: Pots, Paintings, and Rocks in Sixteenth Century Japan,” Trapp Japanese Art Lecture Series, The Art Institute of Chicago, 11/10.
“The Cultivated Object: Named Things in Momoyama Japan,” Japanese Art Society of America lecture, Japan Society, New York, 12/09.
“Picturing Yūsai: Portrait of an Embodied Poet,” Lords of the Samurai Symposium The Hosokawa Collection: Cultural Arts and Military Arts, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, 6/09.
“Re-Shaping Tea Ceramics in Momoyama Japan (1568-1615),” inaugural lecture for the John Nason East Asian Fund, Carleton College, 5/09.
“Re-assembling the “Pieces of Sengoku,” special remarks for Pieces of Sengoku: Interpreting Historical Sources and Objects from Japan's Long Sixteenth Century workshop, Princeton University, 4/09.
7 “Portrait of Hosokawa Yūsai: Picturing the Embodied Poet,” Friends at a Brushwood Gate: A Symposium on East Asian Art in Honor of Professor Yoshiaki Shimizu, Princeton University, 4/09.
“The Named Object in Momoyama Japan,” Washington University, St. Louis, 9/08.
“The Instability of Art: Architecture, Ornament, and an Island in Momoyama Japan,” Nelson I. Wu Memorial lecture, St. Louis Art Museum, 9/08.
“Eitoku and Mitsunobu, At Work on the Ensemble,” Current Research on the Works of the Momoyama Painter Kano Eitoku symposium, Kyoto National Museum, 11/07.
“Japanese Lacquer, from 10,000 B.C.E. to 2007 C.E.” Docent Council, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, 9/07.
“Warriors and Merchants, Aesthetes All: Hideyoshi, Rikyū, and the Arts of Momoyama Japan,” Famous Faces, Famous Places; The Impact of Personalities and Patronage on the Arts of Asia," Society for Asian Art, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, 9/07.
“’Tang Things’ and Japanese Names: Paintings, Pots, and Places in Sixteenth-century Japan,” Japan History and Culture Study Group, Duke University, 4/07.
“Tea Masters, ‘Tang Things,’ and ‘New Wares’: The Arts of Tea in Momoyama Japan (1568- 1615," Arts of Japan lecture series, Society for Asian Art, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, 2/07.
“‘Named Objects’ in Momoyama Japan," Colloquium: Interaction in the Arts of the Momoyama Period, Freer Gallery of Art & Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington, D.C., 12/06.
“Returning to the Island: Chikubushima, 1568-1615, 1980-2006,” Shimada Prize Award Ceremony lecture, Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 12/06.
“The Arts of Momoyama and Edo Japan,” two lectures in professional development course, in cooperation with NYC Department of Education, From Emaki to Manga: The Development of Japanese Literary Art & Multi-Functionalism, Japan Society, New York, 8/06.
“’Tang Things' in Momoyama Japan,” Reinventing the Past: Antiquarianism in East Asian Art and Visual Culture—Part 1, University of Chicago, 5/06.
“Japan’s Early Modern Appropriation of China’s Past: Painting, Ceramics, and Poetry,” Daniel H. Silberberg Lecture Series, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 2/06.
“Chinese Pots and Japanese Poetry in Momoyama Japan,” The Kawai Arts and Culture Roundtable, Brown University, 1/06.
New Definitions in Art and Criticism, chair of panel at New York Conference on Asian Studies Annual Meeting, State University of New York, New Paltz, 10/05.
8 “Re-forming Tea Ware: The Aesthetic Languages of Ceramics in Pre-modern Japan,” Art History Association lecture series, State University of New York, New Paltz, 5/05.
“Transforming the Arts of Tea in Momoyama Japan (1568-1615),” Murphy lecture series, Kansas University, 4/04.
“The Politics of Construction and Reconstruction: From Benzaiten Hall to Tsukubusuma Shrine Main Hall,” Hidden Agendas: Political Symbolism in Japanese Art panel, at annual meeting of the College Art Association, Seattle, 2/04.
“Secular Authority and the Sacred Arts in Momoyama Japan,” Society for the Study of Japanese Religions panel, annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, New York, 3/03.
“Openness and Isolation in Japanese Art,” keynote address at The Arts of Japan: Teacher Institute, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, 10/02.
“Warlords and Merchants, and their Transformations of Tea in Momoyama Japan (1568-1615),” Japan Society, New York, co-sponsored by the Asia Society. 4/02.
“Reconfiguring Meaning in Momoyama Japan, 1568-1615: The Tsukubusuma Main Hall on Chikubushima,” Special Lecture Series, Japan Research Centre, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 2/02.
“Teaching Asian Art in Liberal Arts Colleges,” roundtable discussion, annual meeting of the New England Association for Asian Studies, Williams College, 10/01.
“Shi no bijutsu kara, Benzaiten no bijutsu e: Tsukubusuma Jinja Honden moya ni tsuite” [“From the Art of Death to the Art of Benzaiten: Concerning the Tsukubusuma Jinja Moya”], Nihon chūsei shiryō, Bukkyō shiryō no kokusaiteki riyō [International Symposium on Historical and Buddhist Sources in Medieval Japan], Historiographical Institute, The University of Tokyo, 7/01 [in Japanese].
Consultant, interviewee on “Kokuhō tanbō: Ōmi no umi no seinaru takara—Biwako Chiku- bushima” (“Examining National Treasures: The Island of Chikubushima, Lake Biwa, Sacred Treasure of Ōmi’s Lake”), NHK, aired on January 20, 2001 [in Japanese].
“Interpreting the Materials of Sacred Adornment in Momoyama Japan (1568-1615),” Daniel H. Silberberg Lecture Series, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 12/00.
“Architecture, Ornament, and Chikubushima: Reconfiguring the Sacred in Momoyama Japan,” Asian Studies Group, Kyoto, 5/00.
“‘Perfectly Good and Perfectly Beautiful’: Assessing Excellence in Momoyama Japan,” Princeton University, 3/00.
“Assemblage and Appropriation: The Unstable Ensembles of the Momoyama Period (1568- 1615),” The Constructed Environment in Japan: Designing the Ensemble panel, delivered in absentia at annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Boston, 3/99.
9 “Learning to Look: Teaching from Original Art,” with Susan Kuretsky, for the New York Friends of the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, 10/98.
“Our Stake in the Field,” keynote address at Japanese Art Workshop, Sixth Bi-annual Conference, Princeton University, 3/98.
“‘The Most Universal Art of the Kingdom’: Lacquer of the Momoyama Period (1568-1615),” M. Victor Leventritt Symposium: The Art of Japanese Lacquer, Harvard University Art Museums, 9/98.
“‘Exhausting the Possibilities of Goodness and Beauty’: Recognizing the Momoyama Masterpiece,” The Nature of the Masterpiece in Japan and Europe conference, University of East Anglia, Norwich, England, 9/97.
“Flowers of the Dusty World: Restoring Numinous Meaning to a Momoyama Building,” Momoyama colloquium, Dallas Museum of Art, 10/96.
“The Place of the Sacred Site: Chikubushima in Momoyama and Edo Japan,” Time and Place in Japanese Art colloquium, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 6/96.
“Creating and Replicating the Sacred Site: The Case of Chikubushima,” Sacred Geography in Japanese Religious Culture: Four Representative Sites panel, annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Honolulu, 4/96.
“Tsukubusuma Jinja Honden moya no aikonogurafi” [“The Iconography of the Tsukubusuma Jinja Honden Moya”], Eastern Regional Branch of the Art History Society (Bijutsushi Gakkai), Tokyo, 8/95; Tokyo National Research Institute of Cultural Properties, Tokyo, 7/95 [in Japanese].
“The Tsukubusuma Shrine Honden: Examination of a Momoyama-period Monument,” Japanese Art Workshop Conference, Tokyo, Japan, 3/90 [in Japanese].
“Arms and Armor of Japan,” part of lecture series for Daimyo: The Shaping of Daimyo Culture, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 11/88.
Professional Affiliations • College Art Association • Association for Asian Studies • Japan Art History Forum
10 Professional Service • Editorial Board, Archives of Asian Art • Board Member, Princeton Community Japanese Language School • Book manuscript reviews: University of Washington Press, University of Hawai‘i Press • Tenure reviews, various U.S. universities
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