Professor Timon Screech
After teaching the History of Japanese Art at SOAS, University of London, for 30 years, Timon Screech left the UK because of Brexit and is now Professor at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken) in Kyoto. He has also taught at numerous universities including Chicago, Heidelberg, Meiji and Waseda. He is an expert on the art and culture of the Edo Period, including its international dimension, and has published some dozen books on the subject. In 2016 his field-defining overview of the Edo arts, Obtaining Images, was paper-backed. In 2020, he published Tokyo before Tokyo: Power and Magic in the Shogun's City of Edo, and The Shogun's Silver Telescope: God, Art and Money in the English Quest for Japan, 1600-1625. His work has been translated into Chinese, French, Japanese, Korean, Polish and Romanian.