Needham, Massachusetts
John Rosenfield passed away in Needham, Massachusetts. The obituary was featured in The Cambridge Chronicle on December 17, 2013, The Arlington Advocate on December 17, 2013, and The Brookline Tab on December 17, 2013.
Professor Rosenfield changed my life. His direction while in Kyoto directed me to grad school at Harvard, where he facilitated my first publication. I've just had the pleasure of thanking him in the dedication to my newest book The Rhetoric of Death and Discipleship in Premodern Japan. I will never forget his wisdom and kindness.
Mack Horton
December 16, 2019 | Berkeley, CA | Student
right to left: John Rosenfield, Julia Meech (sitting), self, Tadashi Kobayashi and Joe Price at the First Hokusai Conference, Venice University 1990
I was deeply touched by the news of John Rosenfield's passing and aggrieved by having found out so late, and not having been able to participate at that time. For this I offer my apologies and participation to his great spirit and to his friends. John has always been ready to help in any initiative to promote culture and the arts. As a younger and little know colleague I deeply appreciated his support and availability to getting involved and even more so in a gendre, ukiyoe, that was not...
Gian Carlo Calza
December 27, 2014 | Venezia
Without having had the honor of meeting him, Dr Rosenfield's writing and research have been a great resource and inspiration in my work and studies. I am so sorry to hear of his passing, and am forever appreciative of his contributions and mentoring of so many great scholars.
Anne Alene
May 05, 2014 | Santa Monica, CA
what a wonderful teacher and mentor; your joy and humor about art sent waves of influence out around the world. how lucky we were to work with you.
Pia Massie
March 18, 2014 | Vancouver, BC
John Rosenfield was the single most inspiring teacher and mentor I have ever had the privilege to know. He delivered some of the first lectures I heard on Japanese Art when he chaperoned some of the first Associated Kyoto Program tours to famous temples (his daughter Sarah was a fellow student that year), and then when I was a graduate student at Harvard, he edited my first publication. During one graduate seminar in Japanese painting, we students were all stumped for an answer to one of...
Mack Horton
January 08, 2014 | Berkeley, CA
Prof. Rosenfield was an amazing teacher and mentor, brilliant, kind, and inspiring. He will be remembered always.
Emma T.
January 06, 2014 | Cambridge, MA
We wish to honor the memory of John Rosenfield with many thanks for his stellar lectures given for the Ellen Bayard Weedon Foundation! We enjoyed meeting him very much.
Mary Pollock
January 04, 2014 | Charlottesville, VA
Very dear Jake,
After35 years of you-author--me-editor, even marvelous memories can not fill the hole in my heart. Go well, friend.
Stretszch (Naomi Noble Richard)
December 30, 2013
My condolences to your family..May you draw close to god throuh prayer during this time.
Danielle R.
December 24, 2013
