Lecture Videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkmYuViiaU0 On June 9, 2021, this first lecture of a two-part series (view Part 2) explored the nature of color in Japanese painting and prints. Renowned scientist and head of the Scientific Laboratory of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Marco Leona, shared the studies of his department and collaborations with art historians and curators. With the Met’s outstanding collection of screens, paintings and woodblock prints,…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n17X53BJR0M On May 12, 2021, Elizabeth Emery, PhD, Professor of French at Montclair State University, spoke about her new book, Reframing Japonisme: Women and the Asian Art Market in Nineteenth-Century France, 1853–1914 (Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020). The talk was moderated by Rachel Saunders, PhD, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Curator of Asian Art at Harvard Art Museums, and recently elected member of the JASA Board of Directors.…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFpjc-GNyN8 The connection between fashion and economy is often indicated by frequent changes in style. Extensive textile production, development of new techniques, designs of novel patterns, the regular publication of woodblock-printed pattern books were amongst the sectors of economy devoted to the ever-changing supply of garments in early modern Japan. In this April 21, 2021, presentation, Monika Bincsik, PhD, Diane and Arthur Abbey Associate Curator…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSNcJNEu6XI On April 6, 2021, John Carpenter, Mary Griggs Burke Curator of Japanese Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, introduced this special three-month-only rotation (March 8–May 31) in the Print Room (Gallery 231) in the Arts of Japan Galleries. The exhibition highlights masterworks of ukiyo-e prints from the collection of Florida-based collector Lee E. Dirks, who is interviewed in Impressions 42, Part One. The…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Z3AfSr6rBIThis talk on the Making Meiji Modern exhibition was presented on March 14, 2021, by Professor Chelsea Foxwell of the University of Chicago and Dr. Bradley Bailey of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, moderated by Michelle Yun Mapplethorpe, vice president for Global Artistic Programs at Asia Society and director of the Asia Society Museum in New York.View more lecture recordings

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w114UQ_777o The zodiacal year 2021 is the Year of the Ox. In recognition of this special occasion, the image of the ox in Japanese folklore and religion will be explored through netsuke and sagemono. In this February 17, 2021, Webinar co-sponsored by the International Netsuke Society, netsuke collector Dr. David Butsumyo speaks about these miniature sculptures, which originated in 17th-century Japan. Netsuke and sagemono were…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wt6BRfv63qk Japanese folk art and crafts both fall into the collecting category Mingei. This overarching term covers everything from pre-industrial crafts to handmade everyday tools and vessels. In this February 7, 2021, Webinar, Kyoko Utsumi Mimura, Waseda University arts faculty member and former Director of the Mingeikan in Tokyo; Ty Heineken, Joint Director, Studio Japan, in Kingston, New Jersey, and author with his wife, Kiyoko,…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voIECq_k1xE   Even after a century of prolific scholarship, the life and work of the monk-painter Sesson Shūkei (ca.1492-1577) remain enigmatic. This January 12, 2021, lecture by Professor Yukio Lippit, Jeffrey T. Chambers and Andrea Okamura Professor of the History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University, addresses questions of artistic geography and pictorial meaning through a study of one of his most famous works,…

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…

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…