JASA News

Impressions 45 Part One (2024) features a photo tour and six essays illuminating Anxiety and Hope in Japanese Art, an exhibition at The Met until July 2024. Also in this issue is our interview with a retired art dealer in Japan, Mika Hirama. Hollis Goodall reviews the Kodōjin exhibition in Minneapolis, and Evgeny Steiner looks at the Leskowicz Collection of Hiroshige fan prints at the…

Congratulations to JASA and Impermanent Press, our Impressions designer, for yet another award! Graphic Design USA (GDUSA) presented a 2023 American Graphic Design Award to Impermanent Press for Impressions No. 44 (2023), Parts One and Two. Impressions 44, Part One of a Double Issue (2023), also won the 2023 Ozzies award for design. Eddie and Ozzie Awards, presented by Folio Magazine, are the magazine industry’s…

Impressions 44 Part Two (2023) features an essay by the late Shirley Z. Johnson, who shared her research about Sekiya Shiro, a metalworker designated a Living National Treasure. Also in this issue, Marco Leona and his team at The Metropolitan Museum of Art analyze dyes in kimono and other Japanese garments dating from the 18th to the early 20th centuries. In tandem with textile dyes,…

The Japanese Art Society is now connected with Zelle so that members can pay for memberships, publications and JASA-sponsored events without using PayPal or dropping a check in the mail. Zelle is an easy way to send money directly between almost any U.S. bank accounts, typically within minutes. With just an email address, you can quickly, safely and easily send and receive money with more…

In Impressions 44, Part One of a Double Issue, we learn about the Iwasaki family, founders of the Mitsubishi conglomerate, their dramatic rise from poverty to powerhouse, and their collection of masterpieces of Chinese and Japanese art now housed in a Tokyo museum. The author, Kumiko Makihara, spent her early years in Japan but now works as a journalist based in New York City. With…

In this issue, Fredric Schneider tells us how and why he formed a collection of cloisonné enamels, now a promised gift to the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem. We pay tribute to two JASA members, Jacqueline Avant, a Los Angeles lacquer collector, and Kōichi Yanagi, a premier art dealer with a gallery in New York. At the Jewish Museum in New York, Evgeny Steiner considered a…

Graphic Design USA announced that Impressions 43 Part One of Double Issue (2022) was a winner, among nearly seven thousand entries, in the fifty-ninth anniversary American Inhouse Design Awards, ™ the oldest and largest program for inhouse creative excellence.

Impressions 43 Part One of a Double Issue (2022) has been mailed to members! This issue examines the life and work of the potter Kitaōji Rosanjin from three viewpoints. Monika Bincsik and John Weber have fun discussing the Weber kimono collection. Julia Meech introduces textiles acquired by the famed print collector Louis Ledoux. Kendall Brown explains the marketing of prints by Ohara Koson. We pay…

JASA received a 2021 American Graphic Design Award from Graphic Design USA for our Impressions 42 (2021) double issue.

In Impressions 42 Part Two of a Double Issue (2021), Miyeko Murase sits for a long-overdue interview; we learn about the little-known collection of David and Nayda Utterberg in Seattle; we receive advice on donations to museums from Ray Bushell; Neil Davey takes us into the auction room at Sotheby’s, London, in 1974; the Japanese collector Uragami Toshirō is eulogized; Eleanor Soo-ah Hyun reviews Kay…