Dec 3

The Korean origins of Japanese ceramics

Part 1: Yanagi Sōetsu and Mingei Yanagi Sōetsu (1889–1961) was a Japanese philosopher who pioneered the influential aesthetic concept and...

Nov 14

Tomoka Shibasaki pushes the short story to a new level in A Hundred Years and a Day

In her new collection, A Hundred Years and a Day: 34 Stories , Tomoka Shibasaki —acclaimed author of the novel Spring Garden —offers a...

Oct 26

Early encounters of Japanese and Western art

In Allen Weiss’s forthcoming book on Kyoto’s artistic landscape, Illusory Dwellings , he writes about the unease with which modern...

Sep 14

Manga in the English-speaking world

Recently, writer and translator Frederik L. Schodt was inducted into the Manga Publishing Hall of Fame at this year’s American Manga...

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