Gian Carlo Calza is Professor of East Asian Art at the University of Venice, and Director of the International Hokusai Research Center in Milan. A distinguished authority on Hokusai and Japanese art, he has published many books, exhibition catalogues and articles in this field, and is currently preparing a catalogue raisonne of Hokusai's paintings. He was awarded the 2004 Uchiyama Prize by the International Ukiyo-e Society of Tokyo for his contribution to the study of Japanese ('Floating World') culture.
Roger S. Keyes is Visiting Professor in the History of Art at Brown University, an Associate in Research at the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard University, and Director of the Center for the Study of Japanese Prints.
Matthi Forrer is Curator of the Japanese Department at the National Museum of Ethnology, University of Leiden John. M. Rosenfield is Professor Emeritus of East Asian Art, Harvard University, and Curator of Asian Art at the Harvard University Art Museum.
Richard Lane is an Independent scholar.
Asano Shugo is Chief Curator of the Municipal Museum of Art, Chiba.
Tsuji Nobuo is Rector of Tama University of Fine Arts, Tokyo, and Emeritus Professor of East Asian Art at the University of Tokyo.
Kobayashi Tadashi is Director of the Municipal Museum of Art, Chiba, and Professor of East Asian Art History at the University Gakushuin of Tokyo.