Reposted by kit brooksDr. Paula R. Curtis @paularcurtis.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Opening 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...hypebeast.comTakeda 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.’ 0114
Reposted by kit brooksDr. Paula R. Curtis @paularcurtis.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Absolutely 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-... 4196
Reposted by kit brooksDr. Paula R. Curtis @paularcurtis.bsky.social · 31/03/2026This 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-... 095
kit brooks @ippikiookami.bsky.social · 23/10/2025reopening hype is at fever pitch 🙊news.artnet.comAt Princeton, a Storied Old Collection Gets a Stunning New HomeThe Princeton University Art Museum opens its David Adjaye-designed building, measuring some 146,000 square feet, on October 31. 063
kit brooks @ippikiookami.bsky.social · 24/07/2025artmuseum.princeton.edu/collections/...artmuseum.princeton.eduTripod vessel with baby jaguar sacrifice scene (y1986-98) 010
Reposted by kit brooksDr. Paula R. Curtis @paularcurtis.bsky.social · 06/07/2025when @ippikiookami.bsky.social sends you an Ay-Ō print you happen to already own 1134
kit brooks @ippikiookami.bsky.social · 06/07/2025one of my favourite works in the show, "Pig Wall," by Ida Shōichi (1973) 041
kit brooks @ippikiookami.bsky.social · 05/07/2025my 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...asia.si.eduCut + Paste: Experimental Japanese Prints and Photographs - National Museum of Asian ArtThis exhibition showcases twentieth and twenty-first century Japanese artists whose multilayered works pushed the limits of their mediums. 1235
Reposted by kit brooksRay 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 416152
Reposted by kit brooksJordan 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 293170660
kit brooks @ippikiookami.bsky.social · 23/05/2025support my sempai's architecturally and historically accurate design for a sushi shop Lego set to become reality 🥳: beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...beta.ideas.lego.comSushi Restaurant | LEGO® IdeasIrasshaimase! 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… 06217
Reposted by kit brooksBryan Lowe @bryandaniellowe.bsky.social · 17/03/2025Happy 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... 0162
Reposted by kit brookskit brooks @ippikiookami.bsky.social · 10/01/2025@smithsonianmag.bsky.social published an article that covered both shows 🥳: www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-...smithsonianmag.comSee the Groundbreaking Work of 20th-Century Printmakers Who Formed an Innovative Arts Society in JapanThe sosaku hanga movement, now explored in an exhibition at the National Museum of Asian Art, was a showcase for new techniques in creative prints 083
kit brooks @ippikiookami.bsky.social · 10/01/2025@smithsonianmag.bsky.social published an article that covered both shows 🥳: www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-...smithsonianmag.comSee the Groundbreaking Work of 20th-Century Printmakers Who Formed an Innovative Arts Society in JapanThe sosaku hanga movement, now explored in an exhibition at the National Museum of Asian Art, was a showcase for new techniques in creative prints 083
Reposted by kit brooksNCC (北米日本研究資料調整協議会) @nccjapaninfo.bsky.social · 10/01/2025Today’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... 252
Reposted by kit brooksDr. 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 0175
Reposted by kit brooksBryan 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/... 16631
Reposted by kit brooksGiles Art Books @gilesartbooks.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Hannah 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... 051
Reposted by kit brooksBryan Lowe @bryandaniellowe.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Fascinating 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_... 112634
Reposted by kit brooksBryan Lowe @bryandaniellowe.bsky.social · 01/12/2024At 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/...csr.princeton.eduDevotional Creatures: Amphibians, Bugs, and Creepy Crawlies in Chinese ReligionsFrom 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 ... 13012
Reposted by kit brooksThe Ken In Yellow @kenlowery.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Telling a machine I am not one of them so that it, the machine, will permit me access to the things that are mine 171341163
Reposted by kit brooksDr. Paula R. Curtis @paularcurtis.bsky.social · 19/11/2024If 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...docs.google.com2025 - AAS - Premodern Japan-related panelsPremodern 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 ... 1124
kit brooks @ippikiookami.bsky.social · 10/11/2024my favourite part of exhibitions is always the install #theprintgeneration #創作版画 150
kit brooks @ippikiookami.bsky.social · 19/10/2024my 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 #whistlergilesltd.comA Tale of Two Balconies - Giles ltdA 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... 075
Reposted by kit brooksDr. Paula R. Curtis @paularcurtis.bsky.social · 05/09/2024Today 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 021
Reposted by kit brooksDr. Paula R. Curtis @paularcurtis.bsky.social · 25/07/2024And 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. 031
Reposted by kit brooksopen can of brainworms 🥫🧠🪱 @onlinefunctions.bsky.social · 08/04/2024happy eclipse to all who celebrate 227065
Reposted by kit brooksDr. Paula R. Curtis @paularcurtis.bsky.social · 18/03/2024A 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. 🥰🌟 083
Reposted by kit brooksChristine Sandquist @eriophora.bsky.social · 30/11/2023Went 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. 671712685
Reposted by kit brooksNCC (北米日本研究資料調整協議会) @nccjapaninfo.bsky.social · 08/12/2023Did 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... 133