Tag: Japan
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Old is New Again: Mishima Yukio’s Five Modern Noh Plays
A few years ago here, we talked about the Japanese theatrical genre of noh (aka, the one with masks). While kabuki (the one with makeup) was and remains the more well-known and popular stage form in Japan, the older and more technical noh, born as it was from Shinto temple rituals, has deep roots, and…
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Day Tripping at the Met, Part 3: A Little Bit of Everything Else
Okay, folks we’ve made it to the third and final entry in my Met roundup, where I try to wrap up everything else that I saw after I escaped the first floor of the museum (and try not to think about all of the stuff I didn’t have time to see). A truly impossible task,…
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Renos and Revamps: Updates From the CMOA and CMNH
I am up to my eyeballs in pre-publication work for The Gourd and the Stars, so I’m afraid I don’t have a super substantial post for this week. But I did take a much-needed mental break trip to the Carnegie museums last week, and since there were a number of changes to exhibits and situations…
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Continuity, Change, and Collaboration: Post-Meiji Art and Printmaking in Japan
I love Japanese art and culture, but I usually don’t spend a lot of time saying so in public because that statement generally elicits presupposed knowledge about anime or J-Pop, of which I am a dilettante (the former) or almost completely ignorant (the latter). No, most of you who have been playing the home game…
Sarah Holz 