Category Archives: culture

Fun Link Friday: Kanazawa in Spring

Posted on April 4, 2014 by LM

This Friday, brush up on your floral vocabulary with this tour of Kanazawa’s early-spring flowers over on かなざわ風便り. There’s dogtooth violet (片栗の花), camellias (椿), and more. Plus a stunning cityscape! Happy spring (and warm wishes for spring to come to colder … Continue reading →

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Call for Papers: Contemporary Asian Craft Worlds

Posted on April 2, 2014 by Paula

We welcome submissions across disciplines and addressing any region in Asia for the panel below, which will be part of the annual College Art Association conference held in New York city, February 11-14, 2015. Contemporary Asian Craft Worlds Rebecca M. … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Gender and Law in the Japanese Imperium

Posted on March 30, 2014 by LM

Via University of Hawai’i Press. Gender and Law in the Japanese Imperium Editor: Burns, Susan L.; Brooks, Barbara J.; 312pp. December 2013 Cloth – Price: $45.00ISBN: 978-0-8248-3715-0 Beginning in the nineteenth century, law as practice, discourse, and ideology became a … Continue reading →

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Fun Link Friday: Your Cat as a Cat-Bus

Posted on March 28, 2014 by LM

Sweet Ipomoea has done what many cat-owning Miyazaki fans have dreamed of for Halloween: made her cat a Catbus costume from Tonari no Totoro. For more photos and instructions, check out the full post on her blog.

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Workshop: Reading Kuzushiji

Posted on March 24, 2014 by Paula

The Japan Committee of the University of Chicago invites applications for the 2014 Summer Workshop: Reading Kuzushiji taking place June 16-21. The workshop will meet each day from 9-4. It is open to students and faculty with a working knowledge … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Conquering Demons: The “Kirishitan,” Japan, and the World in Early Modern Japanese Literature

Posted on March 23, 2014 by Paula

Jan C. Leuchtenberger Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies, No. 75 Copyright 2013, xii + 240 pages, 7 illustrations, 4 tables Hardback: ISBN 978-1-929280-77-3 ($65.00) Paperback: ISBN 978-1-929280-78-0 ($25.00) Published by the Center for Japanese Studies, The University of Michigan … Continue reading →

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Deadline extended: The Noh Training Project

Posted on March 20, 2014 by Paula

The Noh Training Project based in Bloomsburg, PA is extending its early registration deadline until March 31st. Please see our website http://www.nohtrainingproject.org/ for details. This year, the Noh Training Project is celebrating its 20th anniversary culminating in torchlight performances of the classical noh … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Regionalizing Culture: the political economy of Japaneses popular culture in Asia

Posted on March 16, 2014 by Paula

“Regionalizing Culture: the political economy of Japaneses popular culture in Asia” (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press). ISBN: 978-0-8248-3694-9 (Cloth $42.00) http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/p-9036-9780824836948.aspx This ambitious work provides a comprehensive, empirically grounded study of the production, circulation, and reception of Japanese popular culture … Continue reading →

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Fun Link Friday: Nihon no Kaomoji

Posted on March 14, 2014 by Travis

Today’s FLF Link is JapaneseEmoticons.net, or 日本の顔文字. I’ve been looking for a site like this for a long time. There are quite a few of them out there, to be sure, but this is probably the cleanest, most nicely organized … Continue reading →

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Exhibition: DECO JAPAN: Shaping Art and Culture, 1920–1945

Posted on March 12, 2014 by LM

DECO JAPAN: Shaping Art and Culture, 1920–1945 May 10–October 19, 2014 Seattle Asian Art Museum Tateuchi Galleries Art Deco, a 20th-century style that came to worldwide prominence in the interwar period, left its mark on almost every medium of visual … Continue reading →

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