James Ulak is senior curator of Japanese art at the Freer and Sackler. Before his arrival at the Freer and Sackler, he was a researcher at the Cleveland Museum of Art, associate curator of Asian art at Yale University Art Gallery, and associate curator of Japanese art at the Art Institute of Chicago. Jim has produced more than twenty exhibitions and has published on a wide range of topics in Japanese art including medieval Japanese narrative painting, eighteenth-century "eccentric" painters, and Japan's artistic encounters with modernity in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In 2010, he was inducted into the Japanese Order of the Rising Sun, an honor accorded by the Japanese government, for his outstanding contribution to the field of Japanese art. Ann Yonemura is senior associate curator of Japanese art at the Freer and Sackler. Her publications on Japanese painting, lacquer, calligraphy, and prints include Masterful Illusions: Japanese Prints in the Anne van Biema Collection and a two-volume work, Hokusai, published in 2006.