Ezra Toback

Ezra received his B.A. in East Asian Studies and Japanese Language and Literature from Dartmouth College. His research focuses on theories and expressions of landscape in Edo-period and Meiji-period literature and visual culture. He is the author of "Liminality: Mikoshî" (in Japanese Media and Popular Culture: An Open-Access Digital Initiative of the University of Tokyo, 2020), "Kôda Rohan's Fûryûbutsu: Semiotic Polyvalency and 'Salvific' Prose" (Journal of Japanese Studies, 2019), “Processional Prints of the Kanda Festival: Popular Visual Culture and Neighborhood Identity” (Japan Forum, 2018), and “Cross-Modal Iconism at Tully’s Coffee Japan: Authenticity and Egalitarian Sociability as Projections of Distinction” (Semiotic Review, 2017).