SOAS Research Online

Authored Books

Carpenter, John, Matsumoto, Ikuyo, Kawashima, M. and Kaneko, T. (2006) Imperial Calligraphy of Premodern Japan. Scribal Conventions for Poems and Letters from the Palace. Kyoto: Art Research Center, Ritsumeikan University (Kyoto) and Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures.

Mirviss, Joan B. and Carpenter, John (2000) アメリカの3女性が集めた文化・文政の珠玉の摺物 = Jewels of Japanese printmaking: surimono of the bunka-bunsei era 1804-1830. Tokyo: Ota Memorial Museum and Nihon Keizai Shinbun.

Hickman, Money L., Carpenter, John, Rosenfield, John M. and Guth, Christine (1996) Japan's Golden Age: Momoyama. New Haven and London: Dallas Art Museum /Yale University Press.

Mirviss, Joan B. and Carpenter, John (1995) The Frank Lloyd Wright Collection of Surimono. New York: Weatherhill; Phoenix, Ariz.: Phoenix Art Museum.

Edited Book or Journal Volume

Carpenter, John, ed. (2008) Reading Surimono: The Interplay of Text and Image in Japanese Prints. Leiden: Brill; Boston: Hotei Publishing.

Carpenter, John, ed. (2005) Hokusai and His Age: Ukiyo-e Painting, Printmaking and Book Illustration in Late Edo Japan. Amsterdam: Hotei Publishing.

Calza, Gian Carlo and Carpenter, John, eds. (1994) Hokusai Paintings: Selected Essays. Venice: The International Hokusai Research Centre, University of Venice.

Book Chapters

Carpenter, John (2008) 'Der kulturelle und literarische Kontext von Surimono.' In: Spalinger, Iris, (ed.), Surimono: Die Kunst der Anspielung in japanischen Holzdrucken. Zurich: Museum Rietberg.

Carpenter, John (2008) 'Inventing New Iconographies: Historicist and Nativist Motives in Late-Edo Surimono.' In: Carpenter, John, (ed.), Reading Surimono: The Interplay of Text and Image in Japanese Prints. Leiden: Brill; Boston: Hotei Publishing, pp. 72-83.

Carpenter, John (2008) 'The Literary Network: Private Commissions for Hokusai and his Circle.' In: Meech, Julia and Oliver, Jane, (eds.), Designed for Pleasure: The World of Edo Japan in Prints and Paintings. New York: The Asia Society/University of Washington Press.

Carpenter, John (2007) 'Chinese Calligraphic Models in Heian Japan: Copying Practices and Stylistic Transmission.' In: Cox, Rupert, (ed.), The Culture of Copying in Japan: Critical and Historical Perspectives. London: Routledge, pp. 156-195.

Carpenter, John (2006) 'Handwriting Empowered by History: The Aura of Calligraphy by Japanese Emperors.' In: Carpenter, John, (ed.), 天皇の詩歌と消息 = Imperial Calligraphy of Premodern Japan: Scribal Conventions for Poems and Letters from the Palace. Kyoto: Art Research Center, Ritsumeikan University, pp. 14-55.

Carpenter, John (2005) 'Painting and Calligraphy of the Pleasure Quarters: Interaction of Image and Text in Hokusai's Early Bijinga.' In: Carpenter, John, (ed.), Hokusai and His Age. Ukiyo-e Painting, Printmaking and Book Illustration in Late Edo Japan. Amsterdam: Hotei Publishing, pp. 32-61.

Carpenter, John (2004) 'Calligraphy and Painting of the Pleasure Quarters: Poetic and Pictorial Interaction in Hokusai's Courtesan Portraits.' In: Carpenter, John, (ed.), Hokusai and His Age: Ukiyo-e Painting, Printmaking and Book Illustration in Late Edo Japan. Amsterdam: Hotei Publishing.

Carpenter, John (2004) 'Textures of Antiquarian Imagination: Kubo Shunman and the Kokugaku Movement.' In: Newland, A.R., (ed.), The Commercial and Cultural Climate of Japanese Printmaking. Amsterdam: Hotei Publishing, pp. 77-113.

Carpenter, John (2002) 'The Fictive Realms of Ukiyo-e Painting.' In: Rotondo-McCord, L, (ed.), An Enduring Vision: 17th to 20th Century Japanese Painting from the Gitter-Yelen Collection. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 164-83 (essay), 277.

Carpenter, John (2002) 'Twisted Poses: The Kabuku Aesthetic in Early Edo Genre Painting.' In: Rousmaniere, Nicole Coolidge, (ed.), Kazari: Decoration and Display in Japan, 15th through 19th Centuries. London: British Museum Press, 42-49 (plus catalogue entries).

Carpenter, John and Clark, Timothy (2001) 'Translations and commentaries on calligraphy and poems.' In: Clark, Timothy, (ed.), The Dawn of the Floating World 1650-1765: Early Ukiyo-e Treasures from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. London: Royal Academy of Arts.

Carpenter, John (1998) 'The Human Figure in the Playground of Edo Artistic Imagination.' In: Singer, Robert T., (ed.), Edo:Art in Japan 1615-1868. New Haven: National Gallery of Art USA/Yale Univ Press, pp. 367-397.

Carpenter, John (1994) 'Hokusai and Kyoden: Portrayals of Courtesans in Painting and Poetry.' In: Calza, Gian Carlo, (ed.), Hokusai Paintings: Selected Essays. Venezia: International Hokusai Research Centre, University of Venice, pp. 91-116.

Journal Article

Carpenter, John (2007) 'By Brush or Block Printing: Transmitting Cultural Heritage in Premodern Japan.' Orientations, 38 (8). pp. 57-66.

Carpenter, John (2007) 'Wild Boars and Dirty Rats: Kyōka Surimono Celebrating Ichikawa Danjūrō VII as Arajishi Otokonosuke.' Impressions: Journal of the Japanese Art Society of America (28). pp. 40-59.

Carpenter, John (2003) 'Hokku, Waka and Kyoka: Poetic Inscriptions on Ukiyo-e Prints.' Asiatica Venetiana, 6.

Carpenter, John (2002) 'Calligraphy as Self-Portrait: Poems and Letters by Retired Emporer Gotoba.' Orientations, 33 (2). pp. 41-49.

Carpenter, John (2002) 'Edo Actors in Osaka Prints: Surimono by Ukiyo Utayoshi.' Andon: bulletin of the Society for Japanese Arts and Crafts, 72/73. pp. 95-101.