Institute for Medieval
Japanese Studies

$15 plus shipping + handling, ISBN4-87974-042-X-C3022, 85 pp., 3 color plates, Medieval Japanese Studies Institute, Kyoto, 2004. Italian Art historian Prof. Wakakuwa explores the relationship between women and the religious faith that both sustained and oppressed them in medieval Japan and the faith of Japanese women converts to Christianity and their martyrdom during the turbulent 16th to 17th centuries.

$15 plus shipping + handling, ISBN4-9902832-1-X,75pp., 24 black and white plates, Medieval Japanese Studies Institute, Kyoto, 2005. Prof. Nochlin demonstrates the impact of Japanese Ukiyoe woodblock print artists on American women artists such of Mary Cassatt and Georgia O’Keeffe. Includes an interview of Prof. Nochlin by Prof. Midori Yoshimoto on Modern Japanese women artists.

$15 plus shipping + handling, ISBN4-9902832-2-8, 56 pp., 17 black and white plates, Medieval Japanese Studies Institute, Kyoto, 2006. Collaborative artists Tomiyama Taeko and Takahashi Yuji present unique slide works which combine music, poetry, and art creating a new genre of artistic expression surrounding the tragedies of the Japanese colonial period in Korea and other effects of Japanese militarism.

Modern media specialist Sharon Kinsella analyses high school girl sexuality and other forms of female revolt in contemporary Japanese manga, anime, and film as essentially the products of male imaginative creations in the Japanese media.

Gakushuin University Lecturer and Associate Professor of the International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kim Hyeshin lectured on modern Korean women’s artists and their way of expressing their art and their gender with special focus on the works and activities of the artist Yun Suk Nam.