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kit brooks
@ippikiookami.bsky.social
Curator of Asian Art at Princeton University Art Museum プリンストン大学美術館・アジア美術担当学芸員 they/them
reopening hype is at fever pitch 🙊
At Princeton, a Storied Old Collection Gets a Stunning New Home
The Princeton University Art Museum opens its David Adjaye-designed building, measuring some 146,000 square feet, on October 31.
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October 23, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
October 9, 2025 at 4:42 AM
July 23, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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when @ippikiookami.bsky.social sends you an Ay-Ō print you happen to already own
July 6, 2025 at 1:53 PM
my final(?) exhibition at the National Museum of Asian Art, Cut+Paste: Experimental Japanese Prints and Photographs, is up until November 30!

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Cut + Paste: Experimental Japanese Prints and Photographs - National Museum of Asian Art
This exhibition showcases twentieth and twenty-first century Japanese artists whose multilayered works pushed the limits of their mediums.
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July 5, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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“Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.”
George Orwell, born on this day in 1903
June 25, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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"i asked grok" "i asked chagpt" yeah well I asked a rare books librarian and they found things I didn’t even know I was looking for, while answering questions about provenance
June 15, 2025 at 7:09 PM
support my sempai's architecturally and historically accurate design for a sushi shop Lego set to become reality 🥳: beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...
Sushi Restaurant | LEGO® Ideas
Irasshaimase! いらっしゃいませ! LEGO and Japanese timber frame architecture are both defined by modularity. This LEGO IDEAS project connects these two mediums into an a…
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May 23, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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Happy St. Patrick's Day! Such beautiful greens in both the cover and illustrations of this absolute gem of a 17th-c. manuscript of The Tale of the Heike from Princeton's Treasures of the East Asian Library. #ManuscriptMonday
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March 17, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Today’s #NCCShowcase is a fantastic student-curated exhibition coordinated by Kana Jenkins & Dr. Alicia Volk: Onchi Kōshirō, Graphic Artist: Picturing Postwar Japan, envisioned as an unofficial companion exhibit to "Print Generation" at the Smithsonian! prangecollection.wordpress.com/2024/12/08/s...
January 10, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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!! An exhibition by the amazing @ippikiookami.bsky.social got a write-up in the Washington Post! Read about "The Print Generation," a retrospective on the sōsaku hanga (creative print) movement in early 20th century Japan. 😍 Link archived to avoid the paywall: archive.ph/kJ9UU
December 19, 2024 at 3:07 PM
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#ManuscriptMonday used to be a thing; I'd like to join the effort to bring it back. What better manuscript could there be for my first Bluesky #ManuscriptMonday than Princeton Art Museum's 12th-c. indigo scripture inscribed with gold script and silver lines 📜 artmuseum.princeton.edu/collections/...
December 9, 2024 at 2:26 PM
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Hannah Rothstein's work in this beautiful book, along with Monet, Hokusai, & Whistler. The painting, “Waheed’s Mother,” reimagines a famous Whistler painting & is part of a series that celebrates immigrants’ importance in America.
Authors: Kit Brooks & Katherine Roeder
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November 21, 2024 at 10:54 AM
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Fascinating online (and physical) exhibit on "how women and their families experienced pregnancy and childbirth in early modern Japan," with many amazing images like this one, a parodic rendering of the Buddhist Ten Realms Mandala placed within the womb. www.nichibun.ac.jp/online/ucsf_...
December 5, 2024 at 3:39 PM
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At Princeton tomorrow, Monday, Dec 2, 4:30 PM: "Devotional Creatures: Amphibians, Bugs, and Creepy Crawlies in Chinese Religions," a lecture by Stuart Young and Daniel Burton-Rose about their new collaborative project. csr.princeton.edu/events/2024/...
Devotional Creatures: Amphibians, Bugs, and Creepy Crawlies in Chinese Religions
From the silkworms that serve as a synecdoche for civilization itself to the locusts that periodically ravage agricultural society, the multifarious little creatures known as chong 虫/蟲 contributed to ...
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December 1, 2024 at 11:35 PM
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Telling a machine I am not one of them so that it, the machine, will permit me access to the things that are mine
December 2, 2024 at 1:36 AM
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If you are attending @aasasianstudies.bsky.social #AAS2025 in March and are interested when all the panels on premodern and early modern Japan are happening, I've created my annual list to help you build your program! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
2025 - AAS - Premodern Japan-related panels
Premodern Japan-related Sessions, Association for Asian Studies 2025 Below is a list of sessions at AAS 2024 related to premodern Japan. I’ve done my best to locate everything, but if anything has ...
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November 19, 2024 at 7:43 PM
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absolute unit
November 16, 2024 at 4:25 PM
my favourite part of exhibitions is always the install #theprintgeneration #創作版画
November 10, 2024 at 7:35 PM
my new co-authored book with Prof. Kerry Roeder came out this week! Writing with Kerry was a dream, and I'm grateful to all the colleagues who helped our weird little idea come to life 🥂

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#japaneseart #hokusai #whistler
A Tale of Two Balconies - Giles ltd
A cleverly designed book about Katsushika Hokusai’s The Sazaidō of Gohyakurakanji and James McNeill Whistler’s Variations in Flesh Colour and Green – The Balcony, that includes drawing, collage, colou...
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October 19, 2024 at 7:19 PM
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Today in super cool stuff: @ippikiookami.bsky.social & K. Roeder collaborated on "A Tale of Two Balconies," about Hokusai’s The Sazaidō of Gohyakurakanji and Whistler's Variations in Flesh Colour and Green--and it has cut-out activities?! Want! 😍 Available for preorder! www.amazon.com/dp/1913875822
September 5, 2024 at 12:56 PM
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And now for something joyful: revisiting this 1974 painting by Ay-Ō (b. 1931) from my visit to @ippikiookami.bsky.social's amazing "Ay-Ō's Happy Rainbow Hell" exhibit last year. This piece "Smoky Mountain" was one of my favorites. There's no way to *really* capture the vibrant colors on camera.
July 25, 2024 at 4:22 PM
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Timeless
April 20, 2024 at 9:29 PM