About the Author

Rupert Faulkner is Senior Curator in the Asian Department at the Victoria and Albert Museum, where he is responsible for the collections of Japanese ceramics, contemporary crafts and ukiyo-e woodblock prints. His publications include Masterpieces of Japanese Prints: Ukiyo-e from the Victoria and Albert Museum (1991), Japanese Studio Crafts: Tradition and the Avant-Garde (1995) and Hiroshige Fan Prints (2001).