Episodes
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The Meiji era (1868-1912) was a major turning point in Japanese history, moving from their long-lasted samurai feudal society to the new paradigm of a modern nation-state that was greatly influenced by Western scientific, technological and political ideas. Thus, Meiji Japan is often missunderstood as super-westernized, thus losing its traditional aesthetics in art and culture.
Recently published The Splendour of Modernity: Japanese Arts of the Meiji Era (2024) challenges this common misconception by examining more than 200 artworks of the period between 1865 and 1915.
Arisa is joined by the author of The Splendour of Modernity, Rosina Buckland and talks about Japanese art during this transformative period.
Buy it now from Reaktion Books:
https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/the-splendour-of-modernity -
To Be A Girl (2021) is a sensational novel of a transgendergirl’s fight to survive as herself in Victorian England.
Arisa is joined by the author of To Be A Girl, Alexandra Hamer. Alex explains why this breathtaking story was written and how she puts her own experiences into words.
Buy it now from Amazon:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Be-Girl-transgender-breathtaking-Victorian-ebook/dp/B09BP64F1W
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In Japan, since 1945, a lot of films were created in major studios and established a new pattern of Japanese cinema. Very interestingly, there were numbers of ‘effeminate characters’ that appeared in postwar films, showing unique expressions of Japanese ideas of sex and gender. Dr Kenta Kato, a Senior Assistant Professor at the School of Commerce, Meiji University, will discuss the issues not only around sexuality and gender identity, but also race, politics and nationalism of post-war Japan under the American occupation.
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Kimono is now globally known as a traditional Japanese garment. This episode examines how kimonos were represented and experienced on stage at the West End theatres during the second half of the nineteenth century. The host of the show, Arisa Yamaguchi, talks about the Victorian Japanese-themed musicals that were performed in London and beyond. The whole discussion on the Victorian and Edwardian experiences of kimonos was included in Yamaguchi's recently published book, Sarotial Japonisme and the Experience of Kimonos in Britain, 1865-1914 (Routledge, 2023).
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Hello! This is a brand new podcast series for the lovers of art, culture and hisrory called, Weaving Words, hosted by a dress historian in Japan, Dr Arisa Yamaguchi.
The episodes will be uploaded once or twice a month.
