Year: 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNx0Lk3LTa8 Samuel Leiter, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Theater at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of CUNY, speaks on his latest book, Meiji Kabuki: Japanese Theatre through Foreign Eyes. This publication is an annotated collection of English-language documents by foreigners writing about Japan’s kabuki theater in the half-century after the country was opened to the West in 1853. Using memoirs, travelogues, diaries, letters and reference…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFNTjOv3vU0 Contemporary Japanese metalworking breathes life into traditional methods that have been passed down and practiced over generations. The history of Japanese metalworking evolved over two millennia, through cross-cultural exchange and internal innovation. Techniques unique to Japan flourished as metalworkers created armaments, Buddhist ornaments, and vessels used in Japanese tea practice. In this January 20, 2025, talk, Dr. Sol Jung examines examples of contemporary Japanese…