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Artist as Performer: Third Thursday Lectures – Spontaneous and Playful
Last month’s Third Thursday Lecture (TTL) was given by the wonderful Dr Sadamura Koto, a fellow at the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures…
CJS Seminar-Enduring Crisis: North Korea & Postwar Japan’s Transformation
In early March this year, we were treated to highly informative, if somewhat complicated and controversial, lecture given by Dr Sebastian Maslow as part of the Centre for…
Which Calligraphy? A Discussion of Post-War Avant-Garde Calligraphy Led by Dr Eugenia Bogdanova-Kummer
Last week, we were treated to a special class by our own Dr Eugenia Bogdanova-Kummer, whose most recent publication Bokujinkai: Japanese Calligraphy and the Postwar Avant-Garde (2020) provided…
The JAFC and Dissertation Research
In its earliest days, film was a perishable art form. Some conservative estimates place the percentage of lost live-action silent films, the majority from the earliest days of…
Edmund de Waal and Providence
I first encountered Edmund de Waal in the seventeenth century. More precisely, from the “cute,” to use his words, collection of two-hundred and sixty-four netsuke (根付). The journey…
Spectacle and Art: A Case Study of the 2011 Tōhoku Earthquake and Tsunami
Last week marked the 11th anniversary of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami (otherwise known as the ‘Great East Japan Earthquake’), a devastating event that resulted in the…
Japan as Continuity: the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford
“Wow! It’s so dark in here.” “Yes. Yes, it is.” We had arrived at the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Anthropology, the University of Oxford’s official university mu…
In the Shadow of the Emperor: Napoleon in the Japanese Imagination and ‘Kaigai Jinbutsu Shoden’
*Image: Wikimedia commons Shadows are an apt metaphor as if they were made for the pretensions of students such as myself. Shadows, created when light is blocked by…
The Role of Resistence in Colonial Photography
There is something to be said of the need to photograph. Whether it is today where social media apps such as Instagram, which was set up with an…
Yuri!!! On ICE and the importance of identity
For the final article of the year, I wanted to turn my attention towards something more personal than what I usually write about. However, I’ll admit that when…
Hokusai’s The Great Picturebook of Everything – A Review of The British Museum Exhibition and Dr Alred Haft’s TTL
For SISJAC’s final Third Thursday Lecture of 2021, I and an estimated one-hundred people attended from around the world in order to hear Dr Alfred Haft talk about…
Missing the Point: The Art of Translating Mishima Yukio – A CJS Online Lecture
On the 9th of December, I was invited to join another CJS lecture hosted this time by Dr. Hannah Osborne and given by Professor Stephen Dodd, a professional…
Time and Space in Leiko Ikemura’s ‘Usagi in Wonderland’ Exhibition
This week, I want to talk about the relevance of time and space in the work of renowned artist Leiko Ikemura and, more specifically, her ‘Usagi in Wonderland’…
Establishing the Shogun: Art and Power in the Official Visits of Tokugawa Ienari – RIJS Postdoctoral fellow Hiraki Shiori Lecture Review
In one of my very first blog posts, I discussed the SCVA’s saragaku mask and its importance to the development of Japan’s artistic, cultural, and social history during…
Sainsbury Institute Third Thursday Lecture – The Bridge to Heaven: Comparing UK-Japan Heritage
One of the great benefits of doing an MA in Japanese Studies at the University of East Anglia is an invitation to the Third Thursday Lectures hosted by…
Centre and Periphery: Challenges to Traditional Interpretations of History
History is defined by power. Traditionally speaking, power resides and is wielded by those who possess great political and economic influence. Consequently, certain locations and institutions – Tok…
Edge of Empire: Thoughts on “Siberia Under Snow” by Kuroshima Denji
Kuroshima Denji’s Siberia Under Snow is, on the surface, a powerful critique of Japanese expansionism and warfare. Denji uses the theme of isolation to highlight war’s unforgiving nature…
‘Securing Japan: Tokyo’s Grand Strategy and the Future of East Asia’ – A Chapter Review
What can a book published fourteen years ago tell us about Japan’s international relations and security? Can it tell us anything, and if it can how relevant are…