TIMON SCREECH taught at SOAS, University of London, for 30 years before moving to the International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken), Kyoto, in 2021. He has published 15 books on the culture of the Edo Period, probably the best-known being Sex and the Floating World, and Tokyo before Tokyo. In 2016, his field-defining overview of Edo art, Obtaining Images, was paper-backed. Screech’s work has been translated into Chinese, French, Japanese, Korean, Polish and Romanian. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and in 2022 was awarded both the Yamagata Bantō Prize and the Fukuoka Asia Prize.
