His recent publications include Localizing Paradise: Kumano Pilgrimage and the Religious Landscape of Premodern Japan (Harvard, 2005); "The Archeology of Anxiety: An Underground History of Heian Religion" in Centers and Peripheries in Heian Japan (Hawaii, 2007); "Dying Like the Buddha: Intervisuality and the Cultic Image," Impressions: The Journal of the Japanese Art Society of America 28 (2007-2008); and Geographies of the Imagination: Buddhist Cosmology and the Japanese World Map, 1364-1865 (Harvard, forthcoming).