Ceramics and Modernity in Japan
Division Head and Assistant Professor Meghen Jones recently co-edited with Louise Allison Cort and wrote two chapters for the book Ceramics and Modernity in Japan. New in the Routledge Research in Art History series, it features essays from scholars based in the UK, Japan, Korea, Ireland, Germany, and the US. Together, they offer a set of critical perspectives on ceramics discourse during Japan's most dramatic period of modernization, the 1860s to 1960s
The Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures hosted the initial workshop on the subject, and SISJAC and the Kyoto Ceramic Art Association provided publication subventions. It is available as a hardback, eBook, and rental: At the bottom is a flyer with a 20% discount code.

Table of Contents:
1 A potter’s paradise: The realm of ceramics in modern Japan
MEGHEN JONES
2 Tradition, modernity, and national identity: Celadon production at the Makuzu ceramic workshop 1870–1916
CLARE POLLARD
3 More than “Western”: Porcelain for the Meiji Emperor’s table
MARY REDFERN
4 Modernizing ceramic form and decoration: Kyoto potters and the Teiten
GISELA JAHN
5 Unifying science and art: The Kyoto City Ceramic Research Institute (1896–1920) and ceramic art education during the Taisho era
MAEZAKI SHINYA
6 The spark that ignited the flame: Hamada Shōji, Paterson’s Gallery, and the birth of English studio pottery
JULIAN STAIR
7 Okuda Seiichi and the new language of ceramics in Taisho (1912–1926) Japan
SEUNG YEON SANG
8 The nude, the empire, and the porcelain vessel idiom of Tomimoto Kenkichi
MEGHEN JONES
9 Veiled references: The role of glaze in Japanese avant-garde ceramics
LOUISE ALLISON CORT
10 Koyama Fujio’s view of modern Japanese ceramics and his role in the creation of “Living National Treasures”
KIDA TAKUYA
11 Found in translation: Ceramics and social change
TANYA HARROD
