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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…

In Impressions 42, Part One of a Double Issue (2021), Shirley Z. Johnson tells us what we need to know about storage boxes; the print collector Lee E. Dirks speaks up; Rosina Buckland interviews the British collector Jeffrey Pollard; Andrew Maske focuses on a Takatori dish; Noriko Okubo introduces sumo wrestlers, men of bulk; Kit Brooks tackles a masterpiece by Watanabe Seitei; Veronica Miller, Geoffrey…

In 2021, please consider making a tax-deductible donation to JASA! Image shown: Ivory ox, inlaid eyes of amber; Kaigyokusai Masatsugu (1813–1882); Ex Buquet Collection