Lecture Videos

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…

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…

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…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8PbBzM06cQ In this July 28, 2020, presentation, Dr. Frank Feltens, Japan Foundation Assistant Curator of Japanese Art at the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, introduces the current exhibition Hokusai: Mad About Painting, featuring the renowned works by Hokusai assembled by one of America’s greatest collectors of Asian art, Charles Lang Freer. This exhibition presents a new focus on Hokusai’s…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yn0OT71HdE In this January, 15, 2020, lecture, Talia Andrei, Assistant Professor or Art History and East Asian Studies at Wesleyan University, speaks on sankei mandara (pilgrimage mandalas), which are large-scale, boldly colored paintings that depict sacred places and the roads leading to them. The genre appeared in late-medieval Japan and served as marketing material for temples and shrines in need of financial support after a…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nL4K2xchbII This December 9, 2019, talk by Aaron Rio, Associate Curator of Japanese Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, takes a recently rediscovered painting by the prolific but little known Japanese painter Keison as a starting point to examine the contours of ink painting in late-medieval eastern Japan. Active around the middle of the 16th century in the eastern Kantō region, Keison’s oeuvre reveals…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvDgtEKbEBM In this January 11, 2018, conversation, noted textile expert Andrea Aranow of Textile Hive and JASA board member John Resig screen images of modern kimono from late Meiji through mid-Showa and hand-painted, life-size zuan produced for cloth to be colored using the figurative technique of yuzen and kata-yuzen. They look at the fascinating story of how tastes changed during the first six decades of…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4U6awcza-3k In this May 1, 2014, talk, JASA member John Resig discusses and demonstrates the use of of the Ukiyo-e.org Japanese woodblock print database and search engine, a new tool for ukiyo-e researchers, scholars, and collectors that simplifies print research. He also presents new research that this site has made possible. The database currently contains over 213,000 prints from 24 institutions and has received 6.3…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKK3dnx-zrY On November 18, 2013, Timothy Clark—Head of the Japanese Section, Department of Asia at the British Museum from 1988 to 2019—spoke on the topic of the exhibition Shunga: Sex and Pleasure in Japanese Art. View more lecture recordings