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Impressions 47 (2026)

Impressions 47 (2026) is on the way to JASA members! Essays discuss Takashi Murakami and his experimentation with ukiyo-e subjects. We introduce the dealer Hasebe Jun’ichi, feature reviews of John Fiorillo’s book on Hokuei and an exhibition of Hokusai in Rome, and we include a photomontage of Harry Packard’s Japanese pots at the Met. Tributes are given to Suzanne Valenstein and Peter Dailey. (View the…
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Impressions Special Issue (2026)

The spring 2026 Impressions is a Special Issue devoted to Japanese ceramics that came to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in 1975 as part sale, part gift from the dealer and collector Harry G. C. Packard (1914–1991). Twenty-two articles and sixteen authors cover everything from Jomon to Edo, from soba cups to Nabeshima dishes for daimyo. (View the Table of Contents here.)  This…
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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…
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Impressions 2025 Special Issue

Yanagi: A Family of Art Dealers in Kyoto, a Special Issue of Impressions 2025, arrived in JASA members’ mailboxes in February. It includes interviews with and tributes to eight members of the Yanagi family. (View the Table of Contents here.) Additional copies can be ordered for $25 (plus shipping) through the JASA Store or our online Publications Order Form.  Impressions 46 (2025) will be available in…
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Impressions 45 (2024) Part Two of a Double Issue

Impressions 45, Part Two of a Double Issue (2024), is 259 pages and features Meiji Japan, notably reviews by Hollis Goodall of an exhibition and catalog of ceramics by Seifu Yohei III at the Cleveland Museum of Art and JASA's “Meiji Modern” exhibition and catalog. Elizabeth Lillehoj reviews Tim Clark’s Late Hokusai; Sam Leiter takes a look at Jonathan Zwicker’s Kabuki’s Nineteenth Century; and William…
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Impressions Earns 2024 Design Award

Congratulations to JASA and Impermanent Press, our Impressions designer, for yet another award! Graphic Design USA (GDUSA) presented a 2024 American InHouse Design Award to Impermanent Press for Impressions 45 (2024), Part One of a Double Issue.
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Lecture: Hiroshige’s 100 Famous Views of Edo (Dr. Andreas Marks)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHiaUhUS8nk Our May 3, 2024, webinar was the second JASA program this spring to focus on Utagawa Hiroshige’s One Hundred Famous Views of Edo. Following the Zoom webinar featuring the Brooklyn Museum’s rare set that is currently on exhibition through August 4, 2024, noted curator and author, Dr. Andreas Marks, Mary Griggs Burke Curator of Japanese and Korean Art and Director of the Clark Center…
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Impressions 45, Part One of a Double Issue

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…
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Impressions 44 wins Two Design Awards

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…
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Impressions 44, Part Two of Double Issue

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,…