Timothy Clark FBA is Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Asia at the British Museum. Until 2019 he was Head of the Japanese section at the Museum. Asano Shugo is Director of The Museum Yamato Bunkakan, Nara, Director of the Abeno Harukas Art Museum, Osaka, and President of the International Ukiyo-e Society. Roger S. Keyes (1942-2020) was a leading scholar of early modern print culture in Japan, particularly Hokusai. Together with Peter Morse (1935-1992) he created the Catalogue Raisonne of the Surviving Single Sheet Woodblock Prints of Katsushika Hokusai . Alfred Haft is JTI Project Curator for Japanese Collections at the British Museum. He is the author of Hiroshige: artist of the open road (2025).

Angus Lockyer taught history at SOAS University of London from 2004 to 2019. He currently teaches at the Rhode Island School of Design. Japan: A History in Objects , based on the collection of the British Museum, will be published in 2026. Matsuba Ryoko is Professor of Digital Humanities for Arts and Cultures at Ritsumeikan University and will become a new faculty member at the College of Arts and Design and Graduate School of Science in Arts and Design, which expects to welcome its first students in April 2026.