East Asian Studies

Yoshiaki Shimizu is an Associated Faculty in the East Asian Studies department.  Shimizu, Frederick Marquand Professor of Art and Archaeology, specializes in Japanese and Chinese painting and calligraphy. He received his B.A. in Art History from Harvard, M.A. in Art History from the University of Kansas and M.F.A. and Ph.D. in Art and Archaeology from Princeton. Professor Shimizu has taught at University of California at Berkeley, University of Heidelberg, and Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, and has been a Curator of Japanese Art at the Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC and Guest Curator, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. His publications include JAPANESE INK PAINTINGS (with Carolyn Wheelwright), Princeton University Press (1976); MASTERS OF JAPANESE CALLIGRAPHY (with John Rosenfield), The Asia Society Galleries and Japan Society Gallery, NYC (1984); and JAPAN: THE SHAPING OF DAIMYO CULTURE, 1185-1868, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (1988).