Alistair Seton

Alistair Seton graduated from Oxford University and Aberdeen College of Education and spent five years in Arab and West African countries (where he was also a collector) before coming to Japan in 1972. Since then, he has taught at various universities and was a guest lecturer for eight years at Kobe University. He is a professor at Tezukayama Gakuin University. In 1993 he founded and still edits Daruma, a quarterly magazine on Japanese antiques and art. In addition to several books on drama,...See more

Alistair Seton graduated from Oxford University and Aberdeen College of Education and spent five years in Arab and West African countries (where he was also a collector) before coming to Japan in 1972. Since then, he has taught at various universities and was a guest lecturer for eight years at Kobe University. He is a professor at Tezukayama Gakuin University. In 1993 he founded and still edits Daruma, a quarterly magazine on Japanese antiques and art. In addition to several books on drama, songs, and Japanese vocabulary, he is the author of Igezara Printed China , the first study of non-handpainted Japanese porcelain. He lives in Kobe with his university professor wife and two children. See less