John Max Rosenfield is an American

United States

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 art historian, with a specialization in Japanese art

Japanese art

Japanese art covers a wide range of art styles and media, including ancient pottery, sculpture in wood and bronze, ink painting on silk and paper and more recently manga, cartoon, along with a myriad of other types of works of art...

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He began teaching at Harvard University

Harvard University

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 in 1968, and is now the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller

Abby Aldrich Rockefeller

Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, , was a prominent socialite and philanthropist and the second-generation matriarch of the renowned Rockefeller family...

 Professor of East Asian Art, Emeritus and Curator of Oriental Art at Harvard's Fogg Art Museum

Fogg Art Museum

The Fogg Museum, opened to the public in 1896, is the oldest of Harvard University's art museums. The Fogg joins the Busch-Reisinger Museum and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum as part of the Harvard Art Museums....

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In March, 2001, he was awarded the 19th Yamagata Banto prize for his contributions in spreading Japanese culture outside Japan.

Literary works

• Rosenfield, John M. Dynastic arts of the Kushans. 1967. (1993 ISBN 81-215-0579-8)
• Rosenfield, John M. Japanese Arts of the Heian Period
  Heian period
  The is the last division of classical Japanese history, running from 794 to 1185. The period is named after the capital city of Heian-kyō, or modern Kyōto. It is the period in Japanese history when Buddhism, Taoism and other Chinese influences were at their height...
  
  , 794-1185. Asian Society, 1967.
• Rosenfield, John M. and Shujiro Shimada. Traditions of Japanese Art : Selections from the Kimiko and John Powers Collection. Harvard University Press, 1970. (ISBN 0-674-90125-8)
• Rosenfield, John M. The courtly tradition in Japanese art and literature: selections from Hofer and Hyde collections. Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, 1973.
• Rosenfield, John M. and Elizabeth Ten Grotenhuis. Journey of the Three Jewels: Japanese Buddhist Paintings from Western Collections. Tuttle Publishing, 1979. (ISBN 0-87848-054-4)
• Rosenfield, John M. et al. eds. Extraordinary Persons : Works by Eccentric, Non-Conformist Japanese Artists of the Early Modern Era (1580-1868) in the collection of Kimiko & John Powers. 3 vols. Harvard University Press, 1998. (ISBN 1-891771-00-0)
• Rosenfield, John M. and Buson Yosa. Mynah Birds and Flying Rocks: Word and Image in the Art of Yosa Buson (Franklin D. Murphy Lectures, XVIII). Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, 2004. (ISBN 0-913689-48-3)