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Curator of Asian Art at Princeton University Art Museum プリンストン大学美術館・アジア美術担当学芸員 they/them

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Dr. Paula R. Curtis @paularcurtis.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Opening in a couple days!!! I am so intensely jealous of folks who get to see this amazing new exhibition by @ippikiookami.bsky.social. Desperately want to bring it to @hammer.ucla.edu and teach a whole class on Heike. 😍 hypebeast.com/2026/8/taked...
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Takeda Hideo Subverts Samurai Mythology in ‘Genpei: Defying Authority’
For the first time, all 22 screenprints by the Japanese artist unite in the U.S. to deliver a satirical, highly graphic reinterpretation of ‘The Tale of the Heike.’
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Dr. Paula R. Curtis @paularcurtis.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Absolutely must find a reason to get to Princeton before January 3!! 😍 So so excited about this upcoming exhibit curated by the incredible @ippikiookami.bsky.social on contemporary visions of Tale of the Heike. This art is like nothing you've ever seen. artmuseum.princeton.edu/exhibitions-...
A print by Takeda Hideo titled "The Final Illness of Taira Kiyomori." It depicts Taira no Kiyomori as a naked white hairless figure sitting cross-legged and leaning on his courtier's baton. Illness, or perhaps madness, is depicted as an androgynous red demon with large breasts covered in tattoos of demons having sex. The demon sits on Kiyomori's back, its toes and dingers digging into his shoulders and skull. The background is a swirling gray, black, and orange design with figures fighting and fucking.
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Dr. Paula R. Curtis @paularcurtis.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
This INCREDIBLE upcoming exhibit by @ippikiookami.bsky.social is website official!! 😍 I am beyond pumped. Anyone interested in the Global Middle Ages, Japan, memory studies, classic lit, contemporary art, or just really cool shit should plan to check it out! artmuseum.princeton.edu/exhibitions-...
A print by Takeda Hideo titled The Final Illness of Kiyomori. It depicts Kiyomori as a naked white androgynous figure sitting cross legged and angrily contemplative leaning on his courtiers baton. On his back a red demon is perched leering over him with fingers and toes dug into the flesh of Kiyomori’s shoulders and head. The demon is covered in tattoos of demons fucking. The background is a marbled swirl of grays and oranges.
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kit brooks @ippikiookami.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
reopening hype is at fever pitch 🙊
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At Princeton, a Storied Old Collection Gets a Stunning New Home
The Princeton University Art Museum opens its David Adjaye-designed building, measuring some 146,000 square feet, on October 31.
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kit brooks @ippikiookami.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
#streetfighterII
Dhalsim graphic overlaid onto the rim of a Mayan ceramic vessel
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Dr. Paula R. Curtis @paularcurtis.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
when @ippikiookami.bsky.social sends you an Ay-Ō print you happen to already own
A print of two cats next to each other rendered in rainbow shades of vibrant color. The cat on the right is staring straight ahead with huge round eyes and the cat on the left is nuzzling its cheek.A photo of two cats sitting side by side, in the left a cream colored tabby named Fox wearing a cone of shame with his giant eyeballs round and wide, a tortie cat named Rigatoni to his right nuzzling his cheek to comfort him.
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kit brooks @ippikiookami.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
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...
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Cut + Paste: Experimental Japanese Prints and Photographs - National Museum of Asian Art
This exhibition showcases twentieth and twenty-first century Japanese artists whose multilayered works pushed the limits of their mediums.
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Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
“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
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Jordan Alexander Stein @jordanstein.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
"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
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kit brooks @ippikiookami.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
happy friday 13
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kit brooks @ippikiookami.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
support my sempai's architecturally and historically accurate design for a sushi shop Lego set to become reality 🥳: beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...
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Sushi Restaurant | LEGO® Ideas
Irasshaimase! いらっしゃいませ! LEGO and Japanese timber frame architecture are both defined by modularity. This LEGO IDEAS project connects these two mediums into an a…
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Bryan Lowe @bryandaniellowe.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
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...
Cover of Heike book.Image of book opened with Japanese text on left and man under waterfall in green hills on right with two figures standing on clouds in top right.
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kit brooks @ippikiookami.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
@smithsonianmag.bsky.social published an article that covered both shows 🥳: www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-...
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See the Groundbreaking Work of 20th-Century Printmakers Who Formed an Innovative Arts Society in Japan
The sosaku hanga movement, now explored in an exhibition at the National Museum of Asian Art, was a showcase for new techniques in creative prints
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NCC (北米日本研究資料調整協議会) @nccjapaninfo.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
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...
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Dr. Paula R. Curtis @paularcurtis.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
!! 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
A print bast in shades of magenta, sky blue, and brown with small accents of black. It shows a group of people rendered in a stylized fashion walking the streets of Ginza in Japan. Their faces are simplified, barely showing details or only showing eyes and rosy cheeks, and their clothes are rendered with thick, vector-like lines that emphasize movement and shape. The buildings behind them are the magenta color and the sky is strips of magenta and blue. The print is: Kawakami Sumio, “Night of Ginza From Recollections of Tokyo,” 1945. Woodblock print, ink and color on paper. (Colleen J. Dugan/Kawakami Sumio/National Museum of Asian Art)
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Bryan Lowe @bryandaniellowe.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
#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/...
Indigo paper with gold drawing of Buddha and assembly. Can also see title of the text in gold and silver lines.Rolled up indigo scroll and its box.
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Giles Art Books @gilesartbooks.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
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...
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Bryan Lowe @bryandaniellowe.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
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_...
This print serves as a parodic rendering of the Kanjin jukkai zu (Ten Realms Mandala), a graphic text that extols the teachings of Buddhism, visible within the abdomen of a geisha-like woman, with the kanji character for "heart" in the center. The Ten Realms illustration functions here to reflect the new, modern world of Meiji-era Japan, in which the upper realms depict those who commit good deeds and the lower realms, evil.
The text in the upper left explains the importance of treating all living things, even insects, with the same respect as is given to humans, and without losing one's sense of compassion. The text and image combined present a perspective of re-evaluating even Buddhist teachings within the context of modern society.
Title: Fubu no on o shiru zu
Date: 1880
Collection: UCSF Japanese Woodblock Print Collection
Owning Institution: UC San Francisco, Library, Special Collections
Source: Calisphere
Date of access: December 5 2024 15:37
Permalink: https://calisphere.org/item/ark:/13030/hb2r29p0bv/
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Bryan Lowe @bryandaniellowe.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
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/...
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Devotional Creatures: Amphibians, Bugs, and Creepy Crawlies in Chinese Religions
From the silkworms that serve as a synecdoche for civilization itself to the locusts that periodically ravage agricultural society, the multifarious little creatures known as chong 虫/蟲 contributed to ...
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The Ken In Yellow @kenlowery.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Telling a machine I am not one of them so that it, the machine, will permit me access to the things that are mine
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Dr. Paula R. Curtis @paularcurtis.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
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...
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2025 - AAS - Premodern Japan-related panels
Premodern Japan-related Sessions, Association for Asian Studies 2025 Below is a list of sessions at AAS 2024 related to premodern Japan. I’ve done my best to locate everything, but if anything has ...
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Dr. Paula R. Curtis @paularcurtis.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
absolute unit
A carving of a dog made from black persimmon wood. The dog is delightfully plump, has never not been fed, and is gazing wistfully upwards while holding a rope in its mouth.
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kit brooks @ippikiookami.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
my favourite part of exhibitions is always the install #theprintgeneration #創作版画
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kit brooks @ippikiookami.bsky.social · 19/10/2024
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
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A Tale of Two Balconies - Giles ltd
A cleverly designed book about Katsushika Hokusai’s The Sazaidō of Gohyakurakanji and James McNeill Whistler’s Variations in Flesh Colour and Green – The Balcony, that includes drawing, collage, colou...
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Dr. Paula R. Curtis @paularcurtis.bsky.social · 05/09/2024
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
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Dr. Paula R. Curtis @paularcurtis.bsky.social · 25/07/2024
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.
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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 20/04/2024
Timeless
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open can of brainworms 🥫🧠🪱 @onlinefunctions.bsky.social · 08/04/2024
happy eclipse to all who celebrate
The Eclipse from Berserk
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Dr. Paula R. Curtis @paularcurtis.bsky.social · 18/03/2024
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. 🥰🌟
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Christine Sandquist @eriophora.bsky.social · 30/11/2023
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.
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NCC (北米日本研究資料調整協議会) @nccjapaninfo.bsky.social · 08/12/2023
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...
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