Example of a digital essay produced in Professor Adam L. Kern's "EA433/833: Topics in East Asian Visual Culture—The Spectacular Culture of Early Modern Japan" at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Students in the course convey what they learn about early modern Japanese visual culture through the medium of the digital essay, which the course trains students to produce.

This particular digital essay is by Rebecca Shearier, a student with no prior experience producing digital essays. Hers is titled "Illuminating Deception: Light and the Scientific Gaze in the Edo Period Culture of Play." Used with permission. ©2011 by Rebecca Shearier.