Education
Ph.D. (Art and Architecture), University of Pittsburgh
Additional Campus Affiliations
Affiliate Assistant Professor, School of Art & Design
Highlighted Publications
Gunji, N. (forthcoming). Amidaji: Emperor Antoku's Mortuary Temple and Its Culture. Brill Japanese Visual Culture series. Brill.
Recent Publications
Gunji, N. (2018). Taira no Tokushi’s Birth of Emperor Antoku. In K. M. Gerhart (Ed.), Women, Rites, and Ritual Objects in Premodern Japan (pp. 89-137). (Brill's Japanese Studies Library; Vol. 63). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004368194_005
Gunji, N. (2017). Heike Paintings in the Early Edo Period: Edification and Ideology for Elite Men and Women. Archives of Asian Art, 67(1), 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1215/00666637-3788627
Gunji, N. (2015). Horrified Victors: Spirit Pacification of Heike Losers. In M. S. Adolphson, & A. Commons (Eds.), Lovable Losers: The Heike in Action and Memory (pp. 166-184). University of Hawaii Press. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvsrg7f.14
Gunji, N. (2013). The Ritual Narration of Mortuary Art: The Illustrated Story of Emperor Antoku and Its Etoki at Amidaji. Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, 40(2), 203-245. https://doi.org/10.18874/jjrs.40.2.2013.203-245
Gunji, N. (2011). Redesigning the Death Rite and Redesignating the Tomb: The Separation of Kami and Buddhist Deities at the Mortuary Site for Emperor Antoku. Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, 38(1), 55-92. https://doi.org/10.18874/jjrs.38.1.2011.55-92