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Huntington Library Virtua Lecture: Stranger in the Shogun’s City: A Woman’s Life in Nineteenth-Century Japan, Nov. 19 at 4PM PST

The Huntington Library Virtual Lecture https://www.huntington.org/events/stranger-shoguns-city-womans-life-nineteenth-century-japan Stranger in the Shogun’s City: A Woman’s Life in Nineteenth-Century Japan Thurs., Nov. 19, 4 p.m. Date: Thu., Nov. 19, 2020 | 4 p.m.–5:30 p.m. Category: Lectures Location: Huntington Zoom event Event Notes: Free with reservation Reserve: https://tickets.huntington.org/events/90f17d58-5b1b-dccb-0f38-873e11c91fbf Amy Stanley, professor of history at Northwestern University, introduces the vibrant social and cultural […]

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Huntington Library Virtual Lecture: The Past and Future of The Huntington’s Asian Gardens, Oct. 29, 4PM -5PM, PDT

The Past and Future of The Huntington’s Asian Gardens https://www.huntington.org/events/past-and-future-huntington-asian-gardens Date: Thu., Oct. 29, 2020 | 4 p.m.–5 p.m. Category: Lectures Location: Huntington Zoom event Event Notes: Free with reservation Reserve: https://tickets.huntington.org/events/ff36b7ef-b557-cbe2-4967-5df285a728ec For this presentation, James Folsom, Marge and Sherm Telleen/Marion and Earle Jorgensen Director of the Botanical Gardens, recounts the physical and intellectual origins of Liu Fang Yuan, reminding us of […]

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Huntington Library: Center for East Asian Garden Studies to present “Unscholarly Gardens: Rethinking the Gardens of China” symposium, Feb. 29, 8:30 am – 5 pm

The Huntington Library and Botanical Gardens Center for East Asian Garden Studies presents: “Unscholarly Gardens”: Rethinking the Gardens of China Saturday, Feb. 29, 8:30 a.m. – 5 p.m. Rothenberg Hall Registration required, $15 The image of the “Chinese garden” that most commonly comes to mind is that of the white-walled, gray-tiled gardens built by scholar-officials […]

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2020 / Huntington Library: East Asian Garden Lecture “The Making of a Medium” by Prof. S.E. Kile, Feb. 20

The Huntington Library and Botanical Gardens The Center for East Asian Garden Studies presents: The Making of a Medium: Borrowing Views from Painting and Fiction in Early Modern Chinese Garden Design Thursday, Feb. 20, 7:30 p.m. Rothenberg Hall Free; no reservations required. S. E. Kile, assistant professor of Chinese literature at the University of Michigan, […]

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Huntington Library acquires 19th-century Japanese illustrated scrolls depicting Commodore Perry’s ships

News Release – The Huntington Acquires Archive Documenting a Notorious Colonial Plot to Defraud Native Americans of Ancestral Land in Pennsylvania https://www.huntington.org/news/huntington-acquires-walking-purchase-archive Feb. 6, 2020 Library Collectors’ Council also purchases 19th-century Japanese illustrated scrolls, a rare set of Confederate photography, and the archive of novelist Jeanette G. W. Kelsey (1850–1930) SAN MARINO, Calif.—The Huntington Library, […]

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UCLA accepting application for outreach program fund to promote Japanese American community, deadline, Jan. 31, 2020

Forwarded for UCLA Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies Paul I. and Hisako Terasaki Community Outreach Program Fund This fund is designed to promote deeper understanding among members of the Japanese American community of their rich and diverse heritage. Non-profit organizations and qualified individuals are invited to apply for funding to co-sponsor exhibits and public seminars […]

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2020 / UCLA receives $25 million from Uniqlo founder for Japanese literature and culture studies

http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/25-million-uniqlo-founder-japanese-literature-and-culture January 15, 2020 – UCLA has received a $25 million gift from Tadashi Yanai, the chair, president and CEO of Japan-based Fast Retailing and founder of clothing company Uniqlo. The funds will endow the Tadashi Yanai Initiative for Globalizing Japanese Humanities, which will bolster UCLA’s status as a leading center for the study of […]