Description: A history of the Japanese archipelago through its material artifacts over fifteen millennia.
Brief description: Angus Lockyer is a historian of modern Japan, who taught Japanese, East Asian, and global history at SOAS University of London. He collaborated on the redesign of the British Museum's Mitsubishi Corporation Japanese Galleries (2006) and was a cocurator of the British Museum exhibition Hokusai: Beyond the Great Wave (2017). He currently teaches at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD).