University of Pittsburgh

Faculty

Richard Smethurst

UCIS Research Professor
PhD, University of Michigan (1968)

University of Pittsburgh
Department of History
3536 Posvar Hall
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
412-648-7472
rsmet@pitt.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Field(s)

Modern Japan
Japanese Economic History
World War II in Asia

 

Teaching

Japanese Economic History
World War II in Asia
Selected Publications

From Foot Soldier to Finance Minister: Takahashi Korekiyo, Japan’s Keynes, Harvard University Asia Studies Center, 2007.  Published in Japanese by Tôyô keizai shinpô in 2010.

Agricultural Development and Tenancy Disputes in Japan, 1870–1940 (Princeton University Press, 1986)

A Social Basis for Prewar Japanese Militarism: The Army and the Rural Community (University of California Press, 1974)

 

Honors/Awards

Visiting Professor, Keio University (2000–01)
Visiting Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong (2000)
Visiting Fellow, School of Oriental Studies, Cambridge (1999)
SSRC/ACLS Research Fellowships (1977–78, 1984, 1995–96)
Japan Foundation Research Fellowship (1984)
Fulbright-Hays Senior Research Fellowship (1974–75, 2000–01)

 

Project(s)

A team of members of the Pitt community, headed by Professors Richard and Mae Smethurst, has put online through the University of Pittsburgh Library System a digital archive of woodblock prints of the Japanese noh and kyogen theaters by the artist Tsukioka Kogyo (1869-1927). Most of the prints are scenes from plays either showing stage action or representing the stories as they are described in the plays. The photos are taken from two sets of prints, “Representations of the Noh Theater,” 261 prints, and “Fifty Prints of the Kyogen Theater.” A third set of 200 prints, a gift to the university by Richard and Mae Smethurst, will go online in the near future.

Use the following web address to access the photographs.
http://digital.library.pitt.edu/k/kogyo/