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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

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Impressions 41 (2020) and our designer, Margery Cantor of Impermanent Press, received a 2020 American Graphic Design Award from Graphic Design USA.

This provocative unpublished memoir came to light when noted Asian art dealer Robert Hatfield Ellsworth died at age 85 in 2014. Copies can be ordered for $28 within the U.S., or $50 overseas, by contacting Impressions Sales or through the JASA Store.

In Memoriam Roger Keyes 1942-2020 JASA mourns the loss of Roger Keyes, a greatly beloved and highly respected scholar of Japanese prints. His conversation with Timothy Clark, the retired head of Japanese Art at the British Museum, was published in the current issue of our journal, Impressions 41 (2020), paints an affectionate portrait of a scholar deeply devoted to his work and to the many people…

Mai Yamaguchi, a doctoral student of Professor Andrew Watsky at Princeton University, has won the 2020 Chino Kaori Memorial Prize for her essay “Hold the Brush: Reprinting and Adapting Chinese Painting Manuals in Nineteenth-Century Japan” This Japan Art History Forum prize recognizes outstanding graduate student scholarship in Japanese art history. The prize was established in 2003 in memory of the distinguished art historian Chino Kaori,…

Suhyun Choi, University of British Columbia, has won the 2019 Chino Kaori Memorial Prize for her essay “The Dressing Difference: Representations of Chima Chogori in Japan and the Ethics of Subjectivity.” This Japan Art History Forum prize recognizes outstanding graduate student scholarship in Japanese art history. The prize was established in 2003 in memory of the distinguished art historian Chino Kaori, and is awarded annually…