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Our primary thanks goes to our colleagues who contributed their work to the volume over the course of the last several years. Their intellectual contributions go beyond the essays printed here to include many back-and-forth dialogues and fruitful conversations. We are privileged to work with such a professional and engaged group of scholars; the volume's impetus, final shape, and contribution indeed relies on their unflagging work. In particular, De-nin Lee spent time with us at the very outset, strategizing the approach we might take to the volume. Ive Aaslid Covaci, who completed her PhD at Yale while we worked on this volume, helped us to identify potential contributors in Japanese art. Their words of advice truly shaped our thinking as we moved forward with the volume. We would not have entered into such a major project were it not for the unflagging support of Jayne Fargnoli at Wiley. Jayne has been with us through both Blackwell volumes and remains our biggest cheerleader; Margot Morse, Annie Jackson, and Lisa Eaton joined us for this volume and have been incredible sources of support and energy. Our thanks to them for their patience and help at every stage. Our respective partners have made us more cups of coffee and more martinis than we can count as we hunched over our keyboards. Without Google Docs and video iChat, this book would have been something very different, or ... log in or subscribe to read full text