Joshua S. Mostow is Professor of Asian Studies at The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, where he teaches pre-modern Japanese literature and visual culture. His research focuses on the inter-relations between text and image; Japanese women’s writing in the court tradition; the ideological construction of the Heian period in the modern era; and Japanese “national erotics” (that is, the use of sexuality in cultural self-definition). His books include: Gender and Power in the Japanese Visual Field, with Norman Bryson and Maribeth Graybill (Hawai‘i, 2003); The Hundred Poets Compared: A Print Series by Kuniyoshi, Hiroshige, and Kunisada, with Henk J. Herwig (Hotei, 2007); The Ise Stories: Ise monogatari, with Royall Tyler (Hawai‘i, 2010); and his sole-authored Courtly Visions: The Ise Stories and the Politics of Cultural Appropriation (Brill Japanese Visual Culture 12, 2014). Hyakunin’shu: Reading the Hundred Poets in Late Edo Japan will be published by University of Hawai‘i in May 2024.