Kōsaku Yamada at Carnegie Hall
Kōsaku Yamada The First Japanese Conductor at Carnegie Hall Kōsaku Yamada, approximately 1915–1920. Photograph published by the Bain News Service. George Grantham Bain Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, LC-DIG-ggbain-27699. In 1918 and 1919, Kōsaku Yamada (Yamada Kōsaku; 1886–1965) conducted two programs of his compositions at Carnegie Hall. Carnegie Hall identifies him as […]
Witness and Memory: A-Bomb and WWII Testimonies in New York
WITNESS AND MEMORY A-Bomb and WWII Testimonies in New York This exhibit brings together the voices of Japanese and Japanese American individuals whose lives were forever altered by the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan and by the broader experience of World War II as residents of New York. Some were survivors of […]
Hoshina Seki (1941- )
Lecture on Yasuo Kuniyoshi: Life and Work in New York by Prof. Shun Ito, Okayama University
Yasuo Kuniyoshi (1889–1953) was a Japanese-born modern artist who built his career in the United States and became one of the most highly regarded painters working in New York during the first half of the twentieth century. His development and success were shaped not only by his talent, but also by American art schools, teachers, […]
Rutgers Meets Japan: A Trans-Pacific Network of the Late Nineteenth Century
This website was created for the Interdisciplinary Honors Seminar “Rutgers Meets Japan,” taught by Professor Haruko Wakabayashi at the Rutgers University, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures in Spring 2020, which explored this crucial moment of early U.S.-Japan cultural exchange as we revisited Rutgers’ historical encounters with Japan. Students took part in building this website as they posted their works over the course of the semester.