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An inspiring platform for sharing knowledge and experience regarding every aspect of the visual and applied arts of Japan!

15/01/2026

SJA SYMPOSIUM | Shaping the Image of Japan: Nation Branding in the early 20th Century
Date: 6/7 🫣February, 2026
Location: Leiden, the Netherlands
Costs: members: €45,00; non-members: €75,00; Students: €12,50 (Students must contact the secretary to sign up).

This winter, the Japan Museum SieboldHuis in Leiden hosts a solo exhibition dedicated to Kawase Hasui, master of the 20th-century landscape print — marking the first exhibition of its kind in Europe. Following an exclusive SJA viewing of the exhibition on Friday, the symposium will continue on Saturday with four lectures in the Wereldmuseum. The event concludes with a cocktail party and optional dinner.
We are delighted to announce an exciting list of speakers: Gennifer Weisenfeld, Alicia Volk, Kendall Brown and Monika Hinkel. Their lectures will explore how Japanese artists such as Hasui navigated the turbulent first half of the twentieth century.

To sign up, please use the form at our website:
Go to www.societyforjapaneseart.org
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Hope to see you there!

06/01/2026

HAPPY 2026✨HAPPY YEAR OF THE HORSE 🐴✨

The SJA board looks forward to an exciting year, which we will kick off with a fascinating symposium and visit to the exposition about Kawase Hasui in Leiden in February! Further posts about the symposium will follow this week.

In the meantime reading my latest ANDON with snow y branches in the background. Almost like a Japanese print!

Have a beautiful, healthy and artsy 2026!

Img: Sonan Noda mid 20th century

19/11/2025

Save the Date:
SJA Symposium 6-7 February 2026

We are pleased to announce that on Friday 6 and Saturday 7 February, 2026, the SJA will hold the symposium “Shaping the Image of Japan: Nation Branding in the Early 20th Century”.

This winter, the Japanmuseum SieboldHuis in Leiden will present a solo exhibition dedicated to Kawase Hasui, master of the 20th-century landscape print — marking the first exhibition of its kind in Europe. Following an exclusive SJA viewing of the exhibition on Friday, the symposium will continue on Saturday with an exciting list of speakers: Gennifer Weisenfeld, Alicia Volk, Kendall Brown and Monika Hinkel. Their lectures will explore how Japanese artists such as Hasui navigated the turbulent first half of the twentieth century.

More details will follow soon, but if you wish to sign up early, you can email the secretary:

[email protected]

Img: Kawase Hasui. Tennō-ji, 1927.

15/06/2025

ANDON 118 | Have you read de new Andon already? This edition three nice articles …

24/01/2025

NEW EVENT | 22 FEBRUARY 2025
Shapes and Sizes
Museum visit and lecture series

The year 2025 kicks off with an exciting event: you are cordially invited to join us on 22 February (Saturday) for the lecture series ‘Shapes and sizes: production and materiality of Japanese prints’. The event includes a visit to the Japan Museum SieboldHuis exhibition ‘Shapes and Sizes’ with an assessment by Matthi Forrer, and presentations by Daan Kok and Julie Nelson Davis.

Please visit www.societyforjapaneseart.org for more information on the event and how to sign up.

04/01/2025

Happy Newyear to all of you!✨For 2025 we wish you a peaceful, loving and healthy year, with the enjoyment of lots of (Japanese) ART!

Print by Totoya Hokkei ca. 1822, poem by Kyoku Sanjin, surimono 199x184mm.
From Rijksmuseum Amsterdam: object nummer: R-P-1958-342.

Titel:
Een bloemlezing van gehoorde dingen, heden en verleden.

Slang, twee meloenen en een houten doos. De Chomonjû is een 30-delen tellend boekwerk geschreven door Tachibana no Narisue in 1254. Eén van de verhalen gaat over een meloen die aan Fujiwara no Michinaga (921-1005) wordt gegeven. Er blijkt een slang in de meloen te zitten, waar men op tijd achter komt.

An anthology of things heard, past and present.

Snake, two melons and a wooden box. The Chomonjû is a 30-volume work written by Tachibana no Narisue in 1254. One of the stories is about a melon given to Fujiwara no Michinaga (921-1005). There appears to be a snake in the melon, which is discovered in time.

12/11/2024

ANDON 118 | There it is, ANDON 118 autumn 2024! Did you receive it allready?

The first article by the novelist Katherine Govier reminisces about her fascination with the artist Katsuhika Ōi and invites us into the intriguing world of Ōi and her father Hoikusai.

Kit Brooks presents an interesting investigation of dog and wolf motifs and their evolving imagery across the nineteenth century.

Saskia Goldschmid, winner of this year’s Heinz Kaempfer Fund thesis award, provides us with captivating insights into depictions of blind and visually impaired people in woodblock prints.
The book review by Leah Crews is about the British Museum publication: Salon Culture in Japan Making Art, 1750–1900 edited by Akiko Yano.

*On the cover: detail of Utagawa Totokuni, Snow from Three Beauties.

12/11/2024

ANDON 117 | In this issue three fascinating contributions.
First article by Yurika Wakamatsu explores the handscroll ‘Plum Blossoms in Tsukigase Valley’ by Okuhara Seiko(1837-1913), produced in 1896.

John Fiorillo’s contribution discusses the rare depictions of bunraku puppets in Osaka prints.

In Kabuki, Ghosts, and Social Criticism, Wojtec Doria Dernalowicz provides interpretations of late Edo prints on the theme of Oiwa.

On the cover: detail of Okuhara Seiko, Plum Blossoms in Tsukigasa Valley.

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