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Issue 3 Inside this issue: Spring 2014 Editor’s Note 2 Upcoming Events 3 IAJS News: A summary of Japan-related academic events in 6 Israel Special Feature: Voices in Japanese Art Research in Israel 10 Featured Article: The Brush and the Keyboard: On Being an 13 Artist and a Researcher Collecting Japanese Erotic Art: Interview with Ofer Shagan 18 Japanese Art Collections in Israel 21 New Scholar in Focus: Interview with Reut Harari, PhD Candidate 29 at Princeton University New Publications: A selection of publications by IAJS members 32 The Israeli Association for Japanese IAJS Council 2012-2013 The Israeli Association of Studies Newsletter is a biannual Japanese Studies (IAJS) is a non publication that aims to provide Honorary President: -profit organization seeking to information about the latest Prof. Emeritus Ben-Ami encourage Japanese-related developments in the field of Japanese Shillony research and dialogue as well as Studies in Israel. (HUJI) to promote Japanese language education in Israel. We welcome submissions from IAJS Council Members: members regarding institutional news, Dr. Nissim Otmazgin (HUJI) For more information visit the publications and new researches in the Dr. Michal Daliot-Bul (UH) IAJS website at: Dr. Irit Averbuh (TAU) www.japan-studies.org Image: Itsukushima, Aki. Utagawa field of Japanese Studies. Please send Dr. Sigal Ben-Rafael Galanti Hiroshige II (1829-1869). Section of your proposals to the editor at: (Beit Berl College & HUJI) General Editor: Ms. Irit Weinberg emaki-mono, ink and colour on paper, [email protected]. Dr. Helena Grinshpun (HUJI) Language Editor: Ms. Nikki Littman 1850-1858. ©Tikotin Museum of Art Dr. Alon Levkowitz (HUJI) Dr. Rachel Shaoul (TAU) IAJS Newsletter, Spring 2014 1 EDITOR’S NOTE Dear Friends of IAJS, paintings of the monk artists It is with great pleasure that we present the third issue of Hakuin Ekaku and Sengai the IAJS Newsletter. This issue is dedicated to the Gibon; Dr. Shalmit Bejarano research and exhibition of Japanese art in Israel. on the emergence and development of Kōshokuzu, Japanese art is a major focus of interest in Israel, for pictures of rice agriculture laypeople and scholars alike. Israel is the home of the and silk production; and Dr. Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art, the only museum of its Etty Glass Gissis on the artistic and metaphoric role of kind in the Middle East, dedicated specifically to Japanese mirrors in Ukiyo-e. art and comprising more than 7,000 items. Israel also hosts a number of other important Japanese art collections, The newsletter also includes announcements of upcoming including the Jacob Pins Collection which features a events related to Japanese studies, as well as reports on number of rare woodblock prints. major events of the last six months and announcements of new publication by IAJS members. Finally, we conclude In this issue we highlight the commitment of Israeli scholars with our regular feature: an interview with a promising and curators to Japanese art. Three Israeli curators young scholar. This time we talk to Ms. Reut Harari, a PhD present the Japanese art collections held in their candidate at Princeton University. Ms. Harari’s research museums: Dr. Ilana Singer talks of the Tikotin collection; deals with Japanese medical history from the Meiji era Ms. Shir Meller-Yamaguchi presents several exhibitions of through to the Pacific War, specifically focusing on: the Japanese modern art held at the Wilfrid Israel Museum of relationship between medicine, war, and gender; the place Asian Art and Studies; and Ms. Miriam Malachi from the of medical hierarchies on the battlefield; medical ethics; Israel Museum discusses the Marcel Lorber Department of and the interaction between military technology, and Asian Art which includes the Pins Collection of Japanese medical practices and knowledge. Art. In addition, Dr. Shalmit Bejarano conducts an interview with Mr. Ofer Shagan, an Israeli collector of It was our goal to shed some light on the work being Japanese art based in Japan, whose passion for Japanese undertaken in the field of Japanese art in Israel, and we art has made his shunga collection one of the biggest in sincerely hope you will enjoy this issue. the world and motivated him to write five books on the Irit Weinberg topic. IAJS Newsletter Editor We also feature an article by Dr. Ayelet Zohar, an artist and scholar of Japanese art, who talks about the intersection between the research and the practice of art. In addition, this issue introduces the recent research of three scholars of Japanese art in Israel: Dr. Galit Aviman on the Zen IAJS Newsletter, Spring 2014 2 UPCOMING EVENTS International Workshop on 12th Biennial Conference Japan’s Anime Industry: of Asian Studies in Israel Attainments and Prospects Venue: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Truman Venue: University of Haifa, May 25-26, 2014 Institute, May 21, 2014 Keynote Speaker: George Wada, president of Wit Studios The 12th Biennial Conference of Asian Studies in Israel will Organizers: Dr. Nissim Otmazgin, Hebrew University and take place at the University of Haifa on May 25-26, 2014. Dr. Michal Daliot-Bul, University of Haifa The theme of this year's conference is “Asia as an Idea/ Asia as a Consolidating Unity” and it will focus on the interactions and intersections between various Asian countries and cultures, as well as transcultural flows in Asia. IAJS members will participate in various discussions and presentations on subjects ranging from the pan-Asian contextualization of the Tōhoku disaster, through changes in Japanese industry and politics in the global age, to mutual influences in art and popular culture between Japan and its neighbors. For additional information please visit: On May 21, 2014, the Department of Asian Studies at the http://asia.haifa.ac.il/ASI2014/ Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Louis Frieberg Center for East Asian Studies will hold an international workshop entitled “Japan's Anime Industry: Attainments and Prospects,” bringing together scholars and professionals from the anime industry in Japan, Israel, and beyond. The participants include the famous anime producer, Mr. George Wada, president of Wit Studios. Panelists will address topics related to media distribution and convergence, and the changing structure and the globalization of the anime industry. For additional details and program please visit: http://new.huji.ac.il/en/event/21071 IAJS Newsletter, Spring 2014 3 UPCOMING EVENTS Prof. Carol Gluck Visits Israel Performing Japanese Traditions: Lecture series and workshop for Temporal and Spatial doctoral students Reconsideration of Dramatics, Poetics, and Rituals Practices Venu: The Zalman Shazar Center and the Historical Research Workshop of the Israel Society of Israel Science Foundation Jerusalem, 27.5-1.6.2014 Venue: Tel Aviv University, June 15-17, 2014 Prof. Carol Gluck of Columbia University, New York, will Language of the Workshop: English and Japanese (with give a course of lectures titled "Modern Japan and the translation) Work of History" in the framework of the lecture series "The Keynote Speaker: Prof. Mikio Takemoto, Waseda Jerusalem Lectures in History in Memory of Menahem University, Tokyo Stern" established by the Historical Society of Israel. The Organizers: Prof. Zvika Serper and Dr. Irit Averbuch, Tel Aviv University lectures schedule is as follows: Sponsors: Israel Science Foundation (ISF); The Japan Tuesday, May 27, 2014: "The Arrow of Time" Foundation; Center for Japanese Studies, Thursday, May 29, 2014: "The Angel of History" University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), USA; Tel Aviv University. Sunday, June 6, 2014: "After the Shipwreck" In addition, on May 28, 214, the Historical Society of Israel in collaboration with IAJS will host a special workshop in which Prof. Gluck will meet with doctoral students in the The research workshop will investigate the performative field of Japanese Studies from all the universities in Israel. aspects of Japanese traditions through several prisms, with The students will present their research and receive the cooperation of a diverse group of prominent scholars valuable feedback from this renowned scholar. from Japan, Europe, USA, Canada, and Israel. It will focus Prof. Gluck is a well-known mainly on two general fields—the performing arts and historian of modern Japan. Among religious ritual practice—in both their temporal and spatial the works she has authored and dimensions, and will touch upon further performative edited are Japan's Modern Myths aspects of politics, gender, and the arts. (Princeton University Press, The workshop will open with an examination of the junction 1985), Showa, The Japan of of religious ritual and performing arts, focusing on the Hirohito (Norton, 1992), Asia in Western and World History Shugendō tradition. It will then explore medieval and (M.E. Sharpe, 1997), and Words in Motion: Toward a modern esoteric traditions and imperial rites, in both their Global Lexicon (Duke University Press, 2009). political and spatial dimensions. A discussion on the IAJS Newsletter, Spring 2014 4 UPCOMING EVENTS performative aspects of Zen practice will further the Mariko Okada, Oberlin University, Tokyo & University of examination of this focal theme of religious ritual Michigan Kimie Ōshima, Kanagawa University, Yokohama performance. In the field of the traditional performing arts, Fumi Ōuchi, Miyagi Gakuin Womens' University, Sendai consolidation of performance genres, as well as temporal Cody Poulton, University of Victoria, Canada changes and transformations of performative elements, will Jacob Raz, Tel Aviv University be explored in relation to Nō, Kyōmai, Kabuki, and Jennifer Robertson, University of Michigan Bunraku. A consideration of performative aspects of the Stanca Scholz-Cionca, University of Trier, Germany Gaynor Sekimori, SOAS, University of London arts in their spatial dimensions will be followed by Zvika Serper, Tel Aviv University discussions on the performance of gender in both Ben-Ami Shillony, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem traditional and modern theatres and on the various Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei, University of California, Los possibilities of performing narrations in pre-modern and Angeles modern Japan.
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  • Japanese Prints of the Floating World

    Japanese Prints of the Floating World

    James Madison University JMU Scholarly Commons Senior Honors Projects, 2020-current Honors College 5-8-2020 Savoring the moon: Japanese prints of the floating world Madison Dalton James Madison University Follow this and additional works at: https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/honors202029 Part of the Acting Commons, Art Education Commons, Asian Art and Architecture Commons, Buddhist Studies Commons, Fine Arts Commons, History of Religions of Eastern Origins Commons, Japanese Studies Commons, Modern Art and Architecture Commons, and the Other History of Art, Architecture, and Archaeology Commons Recommended Citation Dalton, Madison, "Savoring the moon: Japanese prints of the floating world" (2020). Senior Honors Projects, 2020-current. 10. https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/honors202029/10 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Honors College at JMU Scholarly Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Senior Honors Projects, 2020-current by an authorized administrator of JMU Scholarly Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Savoring the Moon: Japanese Prints of the Floating World _______________________ An Honors College Project Presented to the Faculty of the Undergraduate College of Visual and Performing Arts James Madison University _______________________ by Madison Britnell Dalton Accepted by the faculty of the Madison Art Collection, James Madison University, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Honors College. FACULTY COMMITTEE: HONORS COLLEGE APPROVAL: Project Advisor: Virginia Soenksen, Bradley R. Newcomer, Ph.D., Director, Madison Art Collection and Lisanby Dean, Honors College Museum Reader: Hu, Yongguang Associate Professor, Department of History Reader: Tanaka, Kimiko Associate Professor, Department of Sociology Reader: , , PUBLIC PRESENTATION This work is accepted for presentation, in part or in full, at Honors Symposium on April 3, 2020.