Lecture Videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yn0OT71HdE In this January, 15, 2020, lecture, Talia Andrei, Assistant Professor or Art History and East Asian Studies at Wesleyan University, speaks on sankei mandara (pilgrimage mandalas), which are large-scale, boldly colored paintings that depict sacred places and the roads leading to them. The genre appeared in late-medieval Japan and served as marketing material for temples and shrines in need of financial support after a…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nL4K2xchbII This December 9, 2019, talk by Aaron Rio, Associate Curator of Japanese Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, takes a recently rediscovered painting by the prolific but little known Japanese painter Keison as a starting point to examine the contours of ink painting in late-medieval eastern Japan. Active around the middle of the 16th century in the eastern Kantō region, Keison’s oeuvre reveals…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvDgtEKbEBM In this January 11, 2018, conversation, noted textile expert Andrea Aranow of Textile Hive and JASA board member John Resig screen images of modern kimono from late Meiji through mid-Showa and hand-painted, life-size zuan produced for cloth to be colored using the figurative technique of yuzen and kata-yuzen. They look at the fascinating story of how tastes changed during the first six decades of…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4U6awcza-3k In this May 1, 2014, talk, JASA member John Resig discusses and demonstrates the use of of the Ukiyo-e.org Japanese woodblock print database and search engine, a new tool for ukiyo-e researchers, scholars, and collectors that simplifies print research. He also presents new research that this site has made possible. The database currently contains over 213,000 prints from 24 institutions and has received 6.3…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKK3dnx-zrY On November 18, 2013, Timothy Clark—Head of the Japanese Section, Department of Asia at the British Museum from 1988 to 2019—spoke on the topic of the exhibition Shunga: Sex and Pleasure in Japanese Art. View more lecture recordings