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Impressions 45 (2024) Part Two of a Double Issue

Impressions 45, Part Two of a Double Issue (2024), is 259 pages and features Meiji Japan, notably reviews by Hollis Goodall of an exhibition and catalog of ceramics by Seifu Yohei III at the Cleveland Museum of Art and JASA's “Meiji Modern” exhibition and catalog. Elizabeth Lillehoj reviews Tim Clark’s Late Hokusai; Sam Leiter takes a look at Jonathan Zwicker’s Kabuki’s Nineteenth Century; and William…
November 9, 2024
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Impressions Earns 2024 Design Award

Congratulations to JASA and Impermanent Press, our Impressions designer, for yet another award! Graphic Design USA (GDUSA) presented a 2024 American InHouse Design Award to Impermanent Press for Impressions 45 (2024), Part One of a Double Issue.
July 15, 2024
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Lecture: Hiroshige’s 100 Famous Views of Edo (Dr. Andreas Marks)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHiaUhUS8nk Our May 3, 2024, webinar was the second JASA program this spring to focus on Utagawa Hiroshige’s One Hundred Famous Views of Edo. Following the Zoom webinar featuring the Brooklyn Museum’s rare set that is currently on exhibition through August 4, 2024, noted curator and author, Dr. Andreas Marks, Mary Griggs Burke Curator of Japanese and Korean Art and Director of the Clark Center…
May 19, 2024
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Impressions 45, Part One of a Double Issue

Impressions 45 Part One (2024) features a photo tour and six essays illuminating Anxiety and Hope in Japanese Art, an exhibition at The Met until July 2024. Also in this issue is our interview with a retired art dealer in Japan, Mika Hirama. Hollis Goodall reviews the Kodōjin exhibition in Minneapolis, and Evgeny Steiner looks at the Leskowicz Collection of Hiroshige fan prints at the…
January 12, 2024
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Impressions 44 wins Two Design Awards

Congratulations to JASA and Impermanent Press, our Impressions designer, for yet another award! Graphic Design USA (GDUSA) presented a 2023 American Graphic Design Award to Impermanent Press for Impressions No. 44 (2023), Parts One and Two. Impressions 44, Part One of a Double Issue (2023), also won the 2023 Ozzies award for design. Eddie and Ozzie Awards, presented by Folio Magazine, are the magazine industry’s…
November 22, 2023
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Impressions 44, Part Two of Double Issue

Impressions 44 Part Two (2023) features an essay by the late Shirley Z. Johnson, who shared her research about Sekiya Shiro, a metalworker designated a Living National Treasure. Also in this issue, Marco Leona and his team at The Metropolitan Museum of Art analyze dyes in kimono and other Japanese garments dating from the 18th to the early 20th centuries. In tandem with textile dyes,…
August 8, 2023
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How to make JASA payments with Zelle

The Japanese Art Society is now connected with Zelle so that members can pay for memberships, publications and JASA-sponsored events without using PayPal or dropping a check in the mail. Zelle is an easy way to send money directly between almost any U.S. bank accounts, typically within minutes. With just an email address, you can quickly, safely and easily send and receive money with more…
June 9, 2023
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Impressions 44, Part One of a Double Issue

In Impressions 44, Part One of a Double Issue, we learn about the Iwasaki family, founders of the Mitsubishi conglomerate, their dramatic rise from poverty to powerhouse, and their collection of masterpieces of Chinese and Japanese art now housed in a Tokyo museum. The author, Kumiko Makihara, spent her early years in Japan but now works as a journalist based in New York City. With…
January 3, 2023
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Now Available: Impressions 43 Part Two (2022)

In this issue, Fredric Schneider tells us how and why he formed a collection of cloisonné enamels, now a promised gift to the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem. We pay tribute to two JASA members, Jacqueline Avant, a Los Angeles lacquer collector, and Kōichi Yanagi, a premier art dealer with a gallery in New York. At the Jewish Museum in New York, Evgeny Steiner considered a…
August 5, 2022
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Impressions 43 Part One Wins Design Award

Graphic Design USA announced that Impressions 43 Part One of Double Issue (2022) was a winner, among nearly seven thousand entries, in the fifty-ninth anniversary American Inhouse Design Awards, ™ the oldest and largest program for inhouse creative excellence.
July 21, 2022