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Give a JASA Membership

Now it’s easy for members to to give the unique and special gift of Japanese art to someone you care about! Purchase a JASA membership online by direct debit or credit card through PayPal. If you prefer to pay by check or mail, please fill out our membership form onscreen, then print out, using your browser's print button.
December 22, 2020
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Lecture: Quelling Demons and Disease in Japanese Art (Dr. John T. Carpenter)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sH2Aa69U7eQ In our December 16, 2020, Webinar, Dr. John T. Carpenter, Mary Griggs Burke Curator of Japanese Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, talks about Quelling Demons and Disease in Japanese Art. A former JASA Board Member, Dr. Carpenter has chosen, for this occasion in this unusual year, to share his recent scholarly exploration of a most timely subject. Throughout Japanese history, records show…
December 17, 2020
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In Memoriam: Roger Keyes

In Memoriam Roger Keyes 1942-2020 JASA mourns the loss of Roger Keyes, a greatly beloved and highly respected scholar of Japanese prints. His conversation with Timothy Clark, the retired head of Japanese Art at the British Museum, was published in the current issue of our journal, Impressions 41 (2020), paints an affectionate portrait of a scholar deeply devoted to his work and to the many people…
December 1, 2020
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Robert Hatfield Ellsworth’s DISCOVERY

This provocative unpublished memoir came to light when noted Asian art dealer Robert Hatfield Ellsworth died at age 85 in 2014. Copies can be ordered for $28 within the U.S., or $50 overseas, by contacting Impressions Sales or through the JASA Store.
December 1, 2020
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Lecture: Joryū Hanga Kyōkai, 1956–1965: Japan’s Women Printmakers (Dr. Jeannie Kenmotsu)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXaHNFejzzA On November 19, 2020, Dr. Jeannie Kenmotsu, the Japan Foundation Associate Curator of Japanese Art and Interim Head of Asian Art at the Portland Art Museum, gave this Webinar lecture on Japan’s women printmakers. The 1950s and ’60s in Japan saw printmaking thrive as an art form, propelled by a foreign audience’s enthusiasm for Sōsaku Hanga (Creative Prints). But few women were featured in…
November 19, 2020
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Lecture: Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UheHINiH1YU JASA’s 50th anniversary in 2023 will be celebrated with a special exhibition, and catalog, Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan, an important reevaluation of a seminal era of turmoil, transformation and creativity in Japan spanning the mid-19th to early-20th centuries. The Exhibition Committee, chaired by JASA Vice President Dr. Emily Sano, has appointed two co-curators, Dr. Chelsea Foxwell, Associate Professor of Japanese art…
October 23, 2020
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Lecture: Kami in Cleveland: Creating the exhibition Discovery of the Divine Japanese Art (Dr. Sinéad Vilbar)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SX2B9bBf3Us This September 22, 2020, lecture was presented by Dr. Sinéad Vilbar, Curator of Japanese Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Dr. Vilbar curated the exhibition Shinto: Discovery of the Divine in Japanese Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) April to June 2019. The project officially concluded with a visit of gratitude to Japan by CMA's director, William Griswold, in late August…
September 23, 2020
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Chino Kaori Prize 2020

Mai Yamaguchi, a doctoral student of Professor Andrew Watsky at Princeton University, has won the 2020 Chino Kaori Memorial Prize for her essay “Hold the Brush: Reprinting and Adapting Chinese Painting Manuals in Nineteenth-Century Japan” 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,…
August 31, 2020
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Lecture: Stranger in the Shogun’s City (Dr. Amy Stanley)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SZl0zTZO_w In this August 26, 2020, lecture, Dr. Amy Stanley, Professor of Japanese History at Northwestern University, speaks about her exciting new book, Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World (Scribner, 2020). This vivid, deeply researched work of history explores the life of an unconventional woman during the first half of the 19th century in Edo, now known as Tokyo. The…
August 30, 2020