Lecture Videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w114UQ_777o The zodiacal year 2021 is the Year of the Ox. In recognition of this special occasion, the image of the ox in Japanese folklore and religion will be explored through netsuke and sagemono. In this February 17, 2021, Webinar co-sponsored by the International Netsuke Society, netsuke collector Dr. David Butsumyo speaks about these miniature sculptures, which originated in 17th-century Japan. Netsuke and sagemono were…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wt6BRfv63qk Japanese folk art and crafts both fall into the collecting category Mingei. This overarching term covers everything from pre-industrial crafts to handmade everyday tools and vessels. In this February 7, 2021, Webinar, Kyoko Utsumi Mimura, Waseda University arts faculty member and former Director of the Mingeikan in Tokyo; Ty Heineken, Joint Director, Studio Japan, in Kingston, New Jersey, and author with his wife, Kiyoko,…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voIECq_k1xE   Even after a century of prolific scholarship, the life and work of the monk-painter Sesson Shūkei (ca.1492-1577) remain enigmatic. This January 12, 2021, lecture by Professor Yukio Lippit, Jeffrey T. Chambers and Andrea Okamura Professor of the History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University, addresses questions of artistic geography and pictorial meaning through a study of one of his most famous works,…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sH2Aa69U7eQ In our December 16, 2020, Webinar, Dr. John T. Carpenter, Mary Griggs Burke Curator of Japanese Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, talks about Quelling Demons and Disease in Japanese Art. A former JASA Board Member, Dr. Carpenter has chosen, for this occasion in this unusual year, to share his recent scholarly exploration of a most timely subject. Throughout Japanese history, records show…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXaHNFejzzA On November 19, 2020, Dr. Jeannie Kenmotsu, the Japan Foundation Associate Curator of Japanese Art and Interim Head of Asian Art at the Portland Art Museum, gave this Webinar lecture on Japan’s women printmakers. The 1950s and ’60s in Japan saw printmaking thrive as an art form, propelled by a foreign audience’s enthusiasm for Sōsaku Hanga (Creative Prints). But few women were featured in…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UheHINiH1YU JASA’s 50th anniversary in 2023 will be celebrated with a special exhibition, and catalog, Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan, an important reevaluation of a seminal era of turmoil, transformation and creativity in Japan spanning the mid-19th to early-20th centuries. The Exhibition Committee, chaired by JASA Vice President Dr. Emily Sano, has appointed two co-curators, Dr. Chelsea Foxwell, Associate Professor of Japanese art…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SX2B9bBf3Us This September 22, 2020, lecture was presented by Dr. Sinéad Vilbar, Curator of Japanese Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Dr. Vilbar curated the exhibition Shinto: Discovery of the Divine in Japanese Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) April to June 2019. The project officially concluded with a visit of gratitude to Japan by CMA's director, William Griswold, in late August…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SZl0zTZO_w In this August 26, 2020, lecture, Dr. Amy Stanley, Professor of Japanese History at Northwestern University, speaks about her exciting new book, Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World (Scribner, 2020). This vivid, deeply researched work of history explores the life of an unconventional woman during the first half of the 19th century in Edo, now known as Tokyo. The…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8PbBzM06cQ In this July 28, 2020, presentation, Dr. Frank Feltens, Japan Foundation Assistant Curator of Japanese Art at the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, introduces the current exhibition Hokusai: Mad About Painting, featuring the renowned works by Hokusai assembled by one of America’s greatest collectors of Asian art, Charles Lang Freer. This exhibition presents a new focus on Hokusai’s…

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…