A Courtesan's Day: Hour by Hour

Portrait

Alfred H. Marks is Professor Emeritus of American Literature at SUNY, New Paltz, New York, where he taught from 1963 to 1985. Monika Hinkel recently finished completed her Ph.D. at the Department of Japanese Studies, Bonn University on the topic of the historical prints of Toyohara Kunichika, with a focus on the Western influences on his art. Amy Reigle Newland has worked as a specialist editor and writer on Japanese woodblock prints for some fifteen years, with a particular interest in works of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Cecilia Segawa Seigle is Professor Emerita of Japanese Studies in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Pennsylvania, where she taught from 1984 to 1999. Harue M. Summersgill is Professor Emerita of Japanese Language and Literature at Chaminade University, Honolulu, where she taught from 1976 to 1997. Her publications and translation work include 'The Influence of William James and Henry Bergson on Natsume Soseki's Higan sugi made' (Kyushu American Literature XXII, 1981) and Bonchi (by Yamasaki Toyoko; trans., 1982).