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While the Society now addresses all aspects of Japanese art and culture, it traces its origins to a small group of ukiyo-e print collectors in and around New York City in 1973, at a time when Parke-Bernet Galleries (later to merge with Sotheby's) had begun to develop a market for Japanese art.
William Sturgis Bigelow (April 4, 1850 in Boston, Massachusetts [1] –1926) was a prominent American collector of Japanese art. [2] The art collection trips he funded in the 1880s helped to form the standards by which Japanese art and culture were appreciated in the West.
Sanbo Kyodan is a contemporary Japanese Zen lineage which had an impact in the West disproportionate to its size in Japan. It is rooted in the reformist teachings of Harada Daiun Sogaku (1871–1961) and his disciple Yasutani Hakuun (1885–1971), who argued that the existing Zen institutions of Japan ( Sōtō and Rinzai sects) had become ...
There is significant awareness of Japanese popular culture in the United States.The flow of Japanese animation, fashion, films, manga comics, martial arts, television shows and video games to the United States has increased American awareness of Japanese pop culture, which has had a significant influence on American pop culture, including sequential media and entertainment into the 21st century.
Makoto Fujimara explains kintsugi ceramic art during a speech at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship, London, November 2023. Fujimura is an author of several books including Art+Faith: A Theology of Making (Yale U. Press, 2021), [11] Refractions: A Journey of Faith, Art and Culture (NavPress, 2009), [12] and Culture Care (IVPress, 2020). [13]
First home of the Japanese American National Museum at First and Central. The Japanese American National Museum (全米日系人博物館, Zenbei Nikkeijin Hakubutsukan) is located in Los Angeles, California, and dedicated to preserving the history and culture of Japanese Americans. Founded in 1992, it is located in the Little Tokyo area near ...
A Collection of Essays on Japanese Art by Members of the Society for Japanese Arts and Crafts, The Hague, Society for Japanese Arts and Crafts, 1971. ISBN 0-87093-156-3; Kapur, Nick (2018). Japan at the Crossroads: Conflict and Compromise after Anpo. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-98442-4.
Ernest Francisco Fenollosa (February 18, 1853 – September 21, 1908) was an American art historian of Japanese art, professor of philosophy and political economy at Tokyo Imperial University. An important educator during the modernization of Japan during the Meiji Era , Fenollosa was an enthusiastic Orientalist who did much to preserve ...