Photo credit to Debra Shipley. Manga-style image taken at the British Museum Manga exhibition. In 2019, the British Museum held the CITI Manga (マンガ) ExhibitionRead More
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The extent to which Nihonga (日本画) (1) is entangled with politics is a contested issue. The term was first used in the late 19th centuryRead More
The Bokujinkai, or “People of the Ink”, were a post-war avant-garde calligraphy group that challenged the classical constraints on calligraphy. By highlighting, and arguably emphasising,Read More
The following essay is an examination of the difficulties that an anthropologist might hypothetically face in the field, when studying a tent city in aRead More
The relationship between anthropology, photography and Japanese governmental policy, in colonial Taiwan, was intricate and complicated. Photography was utilised to emphasise anthropology as a scientificRead More
Photograph of the Atomic Bomb Dome in Hiroshima The study of Japanese history has traditionally been centred around the metropole but this is fundamentally limitingRead More
Photograph of Heian Shrine (平安神宮) gardens, Kyoto Lecture given in 2016 as part of The Third Ishibashi Foundation Lecture Series – Japanese Gardens: To WhomRead More
Photograph of a Meiji Period plaque in the V&A’s Japan collection, that is discussed in the article below. The restricted access to museums and artRead More
‘Spirits of Action: Japanese Manga and Sports’ Japan Foundation Webinar with Yoshimura Kazuma (followed by discussion with Rayna Denison). Yoshimura Kazuma’s lecture ‘Spirits of Action:Read More
History Painting in the Meiji Era: A Consideration of the Issues discusses the introduction of the concept of ‘history painting’ into Japan as well asRead More