Brenda Jordan is a Japanese art historian who teaches for the Departments of East Asian Languages and Literatures and History of Art and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research interests are early modern and modern Japanese art history, specifically issues of the dynamics of modernization and modernity in Japan.
Image: Woman with Morning Glories, c. 1820; hanging scroll, opaque color and ink on silk, pasted to paper; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Public domain. www.lacma.org