Impressions 44
Part One of Double Issue (2023)

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In This Issue

 

33

Snapshots from the Iwasaki Family Album: The Founders of Mitsubishi

Kumiko Makihara

61

Propaganda Textiles Reconsidered

Klaus J. Friese

81

The Vogue for Tekagami: Calligraphy Albums and Appraisers of the Edo Period

Akiko Walley

105

Pas de Trois: An Artist, An Actor & A Ballerina—Iacovleff, Utaemon and Pavlova

Evgeny Steiner

 

Tributes

121

In Remembrance of Benito Ortolani (1928–2022): Leading Light in Asian Theater Studies

Samuel L. Leiter

125

Patricia Ann Salmon (1933–2022): Plenty of Charm and Taishō Chic

Julia Meech

With Michael Dunn; Mary Ann Rogers; Stephen Little; Kendall H. Brown; Douglas Akagi

155

The Kōichi I Knew

Matthew P. McKelway

 

Reviews

173

Listening to Clay: Conversations with Contemporary Japanese Ceramic Artists
Alice North, Halsey North and Louise Allison Cort (New York: Monacelli, 2022)

Bert Winther-Tamaki 

183

Japan: Courts and Culture
Edited by Rachel Peat (London: Royal Collection Trust, 2020)

Hollis Goodall

 

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Contributors