reopening hype is at fever pitch 🙊

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

when @ippikiookami.bsky.social sends you an Ay-Ō print you happen to already own

my final(?) exhibition at the National Museum of Asian Art, Cut+Paste: Experimental Japanese Prints and Photographs, is up until November 30! asia.si.edu/whats-on/exh...

“Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.” George Orwell, born on this day in 1903

"i asked grok" "i asked chagpt" yeah well I asked a rare books librarian and they found things I didn’t even know I was looking for, while answering questions about provenance

happy friday 13

support my sempai's architecturally and historically accurate design for a sushi shop Lego set to become reality 🥳: beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...

Happy St. Patrick's Day! Such beautiful greens in both the cover and illustrations of this absolute gem of a 17th-c. manuscript of The Tale of the Heike from Princeton's Treasures of the East Asian Library. #ManuscriptMonday dpul.princeton.edu/catalog/z603...

@smithsonianmag.bsky.social published an article that covered both shows 🥳: www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-...

Today’s #NCCShowcase is a fantastic student-curated exhibition coordinated by Kana Jenkins & Dr. Alicia Volk: Onchi Kōshirō, Graphic Artist: Picturing Postwar Japan, envisioned as an unofficial companion exhibit to "Print Generation" at the Smithsonian! prangecollection.wordpress.com/2024/12/08/s...

!! An exhibition by the amazing @ippikiookami.bsky.social got a write-up in the Washington Post! Read about "The Print Generation," a retrospective on the sōsaku hanga (creative print) movement in early 20th century Japan. 😍 Link archived to avoid the paywall: archive.ph/kJ9UU

#ManuscriptMonday used to be a thing; I'd like to join the effort to bring it back. What better manuscript could there be for my first Bluesky #ManuscriptMonday than Princeton Art Museum's 12th-c. indigo scripture inscribed with gold script and silver lines 📜 artmuseum.princeton.edu/collections/...

Hannah Rothstein's work in this beautiful book, along with Monet, Hokusai, & Whistler. The painting, “Waheed’s Mother,” reimagines a famous Whistler painting & is part of a series that celebrates immigrants’ importance in America. Authors: Kit Brooks & Katherine Roeder gilesltd.com/product/tale...

Fascinating online (and physical) exhibit on "how women and their families experienced pregnancy and childbirth in early modern Japan," with many amazing images like this one, a parodic rendering of the Buddhist Ten Realms Mandala placed within the womb. www.nichibun.ac.jp/online/ucsf_...

At Princeton tomorrow, Monday, Dec 2, 4:30 PM: "Devotional Creatures: Amphibians, Bugs, and Creepy Crawlies in Chinese Religions," a lecture by Stuart Young and Daniel Burton-Rose about their new collaborative project. csr.princeton.edu/events/2024/...

Telling a machine I am not one of them so that it, the machine, will permit me access to the things that are mine

If you are attending @aasasianstudies.bsky.social #AAS2025 in March and are interested when all the panels on premodern and early modern Japan are happening, I've created my annual list to help you build your program! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

absolute unit

my favourite part of exhibitions is always the install #theprintgeneration #創作版画

my new co-authored book with Prof. Kerry Roeder came out this week! Writing with Kerry was a dream, and I'm grateful to all the colleagues who helped our weird little idea come to life 🥂 gilesltd.com/product/tale... #japaneseart #hokusai #whistler

Today in super cool stuff: @ippikiookami.bsky.social & K. Roeder collaborated on "A Tale of Two Balconies," about Hokusai’s The Sazaidō of Gohyakurakanji and Whistler's Variations in Flesh Colour and Green--and it has cut-out activities?! Want! 😍 Available for preorder! www.amazon.com/dp/1913875822

And now for something joyful: revisiting this 1974 painting by Ay-Ō (b. 1931) from my visit to @ippikiookami.bsky.social's amazing "Ay-Ō's Happy Rainbow Hell" exhibit last year. This piece "Smoky Mountain" was one of my favorites. There's no way to *really* capture the vibrant colors on camera.

Timeless

happy eclipse to all who celebrate

A huge thanks to everyone who contributed to running the @jppinfo.bsky.social booth over #AAS2024! Michael Emmerich, @bmychui.bsky.social, @ippikiookami.bsky.social, Nadia Kanagawa, Elizabeth Leicester, & Rebecca Corbett did an amazing job repping the project & getting word out to the community. 🥰🌟

Went to the Modern Meiji exhibition at The Asia Society in NYC a few weeks back and this embroidered (EMBROIDERED!!!) screen haunts me. It's about 6' tall and it's silk embroidery (over 250 shades of thread!!) on undyed silk. I thought it was a painting until I was close enough to se the threads.

Did you know the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art has long been part of making rare Japanese exhibition & museum collection catalogs available globally through the Japan Art Catalog Project? 😮🎨 They now have 10.5k+ vols! Read on the project's origins: guides.nccjapan.org/homepage/new...