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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