Shigemi INAGA, professor at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto, was born in 1957 in Tokyo and grew up in Hiroshima. He defended his Ph.D. at Université Paris 7 in 1988. He taught in Mie University (1990–1997) before moving to the International Research Center for Japanese Studies (1997–) where he was appointed deputy director in 2016. His publications in Japanese include The Orient of Painting: from Orientalism to Japonism (1999), Images on the Edge: A Historical Survey of East-Asian Trans-cultural Modernities (2013), and In Search of Haptic Plasticity.