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 the first Japanese conductor to appear there. The concerts introduced U.S. audiences to a Japanese composer working within European-derived orchestral traditions. They were also shaped by wartime diplomacy and by expectations that Japanese artists should represent an identifiable and culturally distinct “Japan.” Yamada’s reception in New York reveals both the possibilities and the limitations of […]
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 the a-bombs, or hibakusha, who later made their way to the United States. Others experienced growing up in the internment camps and migrating to the east coast. All joined the Japanese diaspora in New York and New Jersey and have carried those histories forward. Each story shared here is a personal one, shaped by war, […]
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, patrons, fellow artists, and cultural institutions. Kuniyoshi was selected for the Museum of Modern Art’s landmark exhibition Nineteen Living Americans in 1929, received first prize at the Carnegie Institute’s international exhibition in 1944, and was honored with a major retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1948. In 1952, he was selected as […]
Rutgers Meets Japan: A Trans-Pacific Network of the Late Nineteenth Century
このウェブサイトは、2020年春にラトガース大学アジア言語文化学部で若林晴子教授が担当した学際的オナーズセミナー「Rutgers Meets Japan」のために作成されたもので、ラトガース大学と日本との歴史的な出会いを再考しながら、この日米文化交流初期の重要な瞬間を探求した。学生たちは学期中に作品を投稿し、このウェブサイトの作成に参加した。