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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This provocative unpublished memoir came to light when noted Asian art dealer Robert Hatfield Ellsworth died at age 85 in 2014.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…

We are proud to announce that, in October 2017, Impressions 38 received prestigious Honorable Mentions from Folio: magazine for both the Eddie and the Ozzie Awards for design as well as for editorial content in an international field of professional journals.

As the Year of the Dog scampers to a close, please consider making a tax-deductible donation to JASA in 2018! Image shown: Puppies among Bamboo in the Snow, 1784. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. Allan C. Balch Fund (M.58.9.1-.2). Photo (detail) © Museum Associates/LACMA.

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Kelly McCormick, University of California Los Angeles, has won the 2018 Chino Kaori Memorial Prize for her essay "The Cameraman in a Skirt: Tokiwa Toyoko, the Camera Boom, and the Nude Shooting Session." 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…