After completing my PhD in Asian and Japanese art at the University of Kansas, and following years of professional experience in art museums and universities, and research and travel in Japan, I began my own business based in Lawrence, Kansas, as an independent researcher and appraiser of a broad range of Asian art and antiquities. I conduct research for private collectors, museums, universities, and businesses, providing information on their art, assessing quality and determining valuations of their collections. I am a Certified Member of the Appraisers Association of America (member since 2002; certified in 2009 in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean arts), and qualified to appraise a wide variety of Asian arts including SE Asian, Indian, and Himalayan fine arts and crafts. In addition, I completed a certification course and examination in USPAP (Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice), in October 2008.

Complementing this business, I lecture about Japanese culture, art, and Chinese influences on Japanese culture, at museums, universities, professional organizations, scholarly symposia, and businesses throughout the United States and internationally.

I also plan and lead personalized cultural tours to Japan for adult and university student groups. These focus on two areas of my interest and expertise: 1) art, architecture, and design and 2) Japan's efforts to create a sustainable society for the future, looking both to the past and to the future for inspiration.

My research studies on various aspects of Japanese art (including Chinese influences on Japan) have been published in museum catalogues, encyclopedias, multi-authored scholarly books, and journals such as Orientations, and in two books: Tea of the Sages, the Art of Sencha (1998) and Faith and Power in Japanese Buddhist Art: 1600-2005 (2007), both on subjects not previously addressed in non-Japanese literature.

In addition, I produce professional quality stock and art photography of public art, pre-modern and contemporary buildings, gardens, temples, and urban life in Japan.

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