Impressions 46 (2025)

Check your mailbox: Impressions 46 (2025) has been sent out to JASA members. This issue features an essay by Kawashima Tadashi on Mauyama Matsutaro (1882-1935), founder of the famed Mayuyama gallery in Tokyo. An interview with Richard Danziger (1933-2024) reveals the collector’s life story and collecting strategy. There are book reviews by Gennifer Weisenfeld, J. Keith Vincent and Samuel Leiter, as well as tributes to…

Lecture: Exploring the Art of Manga (Dr. Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=236m0JM9f64 In this October 6, 2025, Zoom Webinar, Dr. Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere, Research Director of the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Art and Culture at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, England, speaks on manga, a Japanese visual narrative art form that has evolved over the past century into a global phenomenon. Once referring primarily to comics and graphic novels, manga now encompasses…