Year: 2016

Kelly McCormick, University of California Los Angeles, has won the 2018 Chino Kaori Memorial Prize for her essay "The Cameraman in a Skirt: Tokiwa Toyoko, the Camera Boom, and the Nude Shooting Session." This Japan Art History Forum prize recognizes outstanding graduate student scholarship in Japanese art history. The prize was established in 2003 in memory of the distinguished art historian Chino Kaori, and is…

This year, not one but two JASA publications were recognized among winners in the publishing industry’s prestigious annual Folio: Awards, announced on October 31. Impressions 37 (2016) received Honorable Mention in the Folio: Eddie Awards for the Full Issue category. Rare Correspondence: Letters from Harry Packard to Edwin Grabhorn 1950–64, the supplementary issue of Impressions 36 (2015), received Honorable Mention in the Folio: Ozzie Awards…

JASA member John Resig—creator of Ukiyo-e.org, the Japanese woodblock print database and search engine, has volunteered to record audio of a selection of JASA lectures and combine it with the slides used by the presenter.  These videos can be watched by anyone interested in Japanese art and culture, and from anywhere in the world.  As a lecture is completed. it will be announced on the…