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ippikiookami.bsky.social
kit brooks
@ippikiookami.bsky.social
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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
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ippikiookami.bsky.social
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)
SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.
October 9, 2025 at 4:42 AM
ippikiookami.bsky.social
#streetfighterII
Dhalsim graphic overlaid onto the rim of a Mayan ceramic vessel
July 23, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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paularcurtis.bsky.social
when @ippikiookami.bsky.social sends you an Ay-Ō print you happen to already own
A print of two cats next to each other rendered in rainbow shades of vibrant color. The cat on the right is staring straight ahead with huge round eyes and the cat on the left is nuzzling its cheek. A photo of two cats sitting side by side, in the left a cream colored tabby named Fox wearing a cone of shame with his giant eyeballs round and wide, a tortie cat named Rigatoni to his right nuzzling his cheek to comfort him.
July 6, 2025 at 1:53 PM
ippikiookami.bsky.social
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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rboomhower.bsky.social
“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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jordanstein.bsky.social
"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
ippikiookami.bsky.social
happy friday 13
June 13, 2025 at 11:49 PM
ippikiookami.bsky.social
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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bryandaniellowe.bsky.social
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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Cover of Heike book. Image of book opened with Japanese text on left and man under waterfall in green hills on right with two figures standing on clouds in top right.
March 17, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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ippikiookami.bsky.social
@smithsonianmag.bsky.social published an article that covered both shows 🥳: www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-...
See the Groundbreaking Work of 20th-Century Printmakers Who Formed an Innovative Arts Society in Japan
The sosaku hanga movement, now explored in an exhibition at the National Museum of Asian Art, was a showcase for new techniques in creative prints
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January 10, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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nccjapaninfo.bsky.social
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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paularcurtis.bsky.social
!! 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
A print bast in shades of magenta, sky blue, and brown with small accents of black. It shows a group of people rendered in a stylized fashion walking the streets of Ginza in Japan. Their faces are simplified, barely showing details or only showing eyes and rosy cheeks, and their clothes are rendered with thick, vector-like lines that emphasize movement and shape. The buildings behind them are the magenta color and the sky is strips of magenta and blue. The print is: Kawakami Sumio, “Night of Ginza From Recollections of Tokyo,” 1945. Woodblock print, ink and color on paper. (Colleen J. Dugan/Kawakami Sumio/National Museum of Asian Art)
December 19, 2024 at 3:07 PM
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bryandaniellowe.bsky.social
#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/...
Indigo paper with gold drawing of Buddha and assembly. Can also see title of the text in gold and silver lines. Rolled up indigo scroll and its box.
December 9, 2024 at 2:26 PM
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gilesartbooks.bsky.social
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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bryandaniellowe.bsky.social
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_...
This print serves as a parodic rendering of the Kanjin jukkai zu (Ten Realms Mandala), a graphic text that extols the teachings of Buddhism, visible within the abdomen of a geisha-like woman, with the kanji character for "heart" in the center. The Ten Realms illustration functions here to reflect the new, modern world of Meiji-era Japan, in which the upper realms depict those who commit good deeds and the lower realms, evil. The text in the upper left explains the importance of treating all living things, even insects, with the same respect as is given to humans, and without losing one's sense of compassion. The text and image combined present a perspective of re-evaluating even Buddhist teachings within the context of modern society. Title: Fubu no on o shiru zu Date: 1880 Collection: UCSF Japanese Woodblock Print Collection Owning Institution: UC San Francisco, Library, Special Collections Source: Calisphere Date of access: December 5 2024 15:37 Permalink: https://calisphere.org/item/ark:/13030/hb2r29p0bv/
December 5, 2024 at 3:39 PM
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bryandaniellowe.bsky.social
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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kenlowery.bsky.social
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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paularcurtis.bsky.social
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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paularcurtis.bsky.social
absolute unit
A carving of a dog made from black persimmon wood. The dog is delightfully plump, has never not been fed, and is gazing wistfully upwards while holding a rope in its mouth.
November 16, 2024 at 4:25 PM
ippikiookami.bsky.social
my favourite part of exhibitions is always the install #theprintgeneration #創作版画
November 10, 2024 at 7:35 PM
ippikiookami.bsky.social
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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paularcurtis.bsky.social
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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paularcurtis.bsky.social
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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johnholbein1.bsky.social
Timeless
April 20, 2024 at 9:29 PM