AMIKO MATSUO’s ceramic art investigates identity and the notion of invented traditions and cross cultural exchanges occurring throughout ceramic history. Her article on the ceramic village of Echizen appeared in Kyoto Journal 81, and she has also published on Japanese American ceramists and the work of Suzuki Osamu. With Brad Monsma, she is translator of Art+Place+Japan: A Vision for Renewal by Kitagawa Fram, forthcoming from Princeton Architectural Press in 2015.