Year: 2026

https://youtu.be/Uxftmp9iBNs Our October 6, 2026, lecture focuses on the topic of meibutsu with Christine Guth, art historian and scholar, drawing on her recent book Exemplary Things: Meibutsu in Premodern Japan. In this talk, Dr. Guth unlocks the long and multifaceted history of meibutsu and its role in laying the foundations for the identification, classification and preservation of Japanese cultural heritage. Meibutsu is a Japanese cultural…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_dzOh51D0Q In this July 1, 2026, lecture, Dr. Rhiannon Paget, Curator of Asian Art at The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Florida State University, introduces her current exhibition, In the Flesh: The Nude in Modern Japanese Art, featuring prints and one painting from the 1910s to 1970s. Dr. Paget discusses how the nude entered Japanese art at the end of the 19th century,…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08yRvLciFbo On view through June 7, 2026, at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, the exhibition Bunmei Kaika explored the impact of the late Edo- and Meiji-period political climate on culture, thought, and the dissemination of prints in Japan. In this live webinar on June 2, Chelsea Foxwell, Professor of Art History, University of Chicago, in conversation with the exhibition’s curator, Monique…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BhD2-1gN_4 On May 7, 2026, Dr. Janice Katz, Roger L. Weston Curator of Japanese Art at the Art Institute of Chicago, discussed her exhibition, Emerging from Darkness: Prints by Hamanishi Katsunori (on view from at the Institute April 8 to June 22, 2026). Over his long and distinguished career, Hamanishi (born 1949) has focused on the production of mezzotint prints. Mezzotints are perhaps the most…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr7lse8aGWs Following her popular in-person exhibition tour in February  2026, Dr. Monika Bincsik, Diane and Arthur Abbey Curator for Japanese Decorative Arts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, presented a lecture on April 23, 2026, to discuss the exhibition she has curated in the Arts of Japan Galleries of the museum, on view until August 8, 2027, in three rotations. (Harry Packard: The Infinite Artistry…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idIDeN-uBBI On March 22, 2026, prior to JASA’s annual meeting, Meghen Jones, Professor of Art History at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, gave the talk We Do Not Work Alone: Kawai Kanjirō and Ceramics in Modern Kyoto. View more lecture recordings

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTIEIHxV8_Q In this March 3, 2026, lecture, Dr. Rosina Buckland, Asahi Shimbun Curator in the Department of Asia at the British Museum, discusses the major exhibition Samurai at the museum until May 4, 2026. The exhibition examines the history and myths of the samurai, from their warrior origins in the 11th century to their pervasive presence in popular culture today. As Lead Curator, Dr. Buckland…