On this week! (8 - 14 May 2017) (post-Golden Week edition)

A busy post-Golden Week in Tokyo with plenty on. Anyone interested in printing and bookmaking is in luck: there are next exhibitions on Edo-period "hanga" prints of Nagasaki; a Geidai exhibition on the art of the misprint ("Zureta"), and a new Waseda Central Library exhibition of rare materials - including Nicholas Love's "Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ" (c. 1400). This popular work of devotional literature also contained "polemical additions against the Lollard positions on the ecclesiastical hierarchy", which as you can imagine made it a massive 15th-century bestseller.

Finally, an exhibition of work by prominent Irish artists and poets inspired by W.B. Yeats ("A lonely impulse of delight") is also opening this week at Geidai: see our Facebook post from last week for details.

Talks on this week: John Weber on collecting Japanese art; Ben Crystal on Shakespearean original pronunciation; Sharalyn Orbaugh on Japanese street theatre during the war; Seigo Mikuriya on Noh theatre; and more. Also a Jewish music and dance concert at Rikkyo, and Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" (in modern rather than original pronunciation...)

**5/8 - Asiatic Society of Japan - John Weber, "Sharing: A Collector's Journey" (talk on collecting Japanese/Asian art), International House of Japan, 6.30pm

**5/8, Joerg Loeschke, "Practical Reasons as Appropriate Value Responses", UTokyo, Tokyo Forum for Analytical Philosophy

**5/8 - Ben Crystal, "Shakespeare’s Original Pronunciation - the Accent of Shakespeare", Kodaira Campus, Tsuda University, 4.20pm

**5/9 - Ben Crystal, "Shakespeare (As He Would Have Heard It)", Aoyama Gakuin University, 4.50pm

**5/10 - Ben Crystal, "Original Pronunciation Shakespeare - As He Would Have Heard It?", Waseda University, 6.15pm

**5/10 - Joerg Loeschke (Bern), "Practical Reasons as Appropriate Value Responses", Tokyo Forum for Analytic Philosophy, UTokyo (TBA)

**5/10 - Jose Morias (ambassador), "Mozambique and Japan", Waseda School of International Liberal Studies, 4.30pm
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**5/11 - Sharalyn Orbaugh, "What was sacred in Japan’s “sacred war”?: the boundaries of the sacred and profane in wartime kamishibai", Sophia University, 5.30pm

**5/11 - "Living Diversity: A Comparative View on Identity, Gender and Sexual Orientation in Contemporary Japan and Germany", German Institute for Japanese Studies, 6.30pm

5/11 - Open lecture (Seigo Mikuriya, Noh actor, Wakikata Hôshô school), "The World of Traditional Japanese Culture: Noh", ICU, 1.15pm

**5/11, Dalia El-Shayal, "Landmarks in the Art and Culture of Egypt", Rikkyo, 6.15pm

**5/12 - Guy Ryder (Director-General of ILO) - "Future of Work: Towards Decent Jobs for All?", United Nations University, 6.30pm

5/13 - Soundings English Literary Association research presentation on Jonathan Swift, Sophia University

**5/13 - Eastern European Jewish music concert and performance (東欧ユダヤの音楽「クレズマー」－リヴァイヴァルと異文化接触を聴く--), Rikkyo University, 5pm

5/13 (Japanese) - "The Charm of Chanoyu: Ceramics of Japan, the Korean Peninsula, and China",  Tokyo National Museum, 1.30pm

5/13 (Japanese) - 「南アジアにおける ベンガルを問う」(Bengal in South Asia symposium), TUFS, 1.30pm

5/13 - Japan Society for Children's Literature in English, Spring branch meeting, Hosei University

5/13 - Yozaburo Shirahata, "Sir Joseph Banks and the Plant Hunters - What we Learn from the History of Plants", ICU Hachiro Yuasa Memorial Museum, 2pm

5/13 - 5/14 - Japan Society for Literature and Christianity Annual Conference, Showa Women's University

5/8 - 5/20 - Yoshinobu Kato Exhibition — Spatial Beauty of Japanese Gardens, Gallery Kawafune

5/10 - 6/2 - "Waseda University Central Library 25th Anniversary Exhibition Part 3: The Materials from Across the Sea", Waseda University

5/10 - 6/17 - Collection of Nagasaki hanga relating to the Dutch trade (富田万里子コレクション長崎版画展), Waseda Aizu Museum (see also related exhibition here)

5/10 - 5/21 - Photography exhibition: "Wind under the wings – Année de l’oiseau de Muriel Pénicaud", French Institute Tokyo

5/10 - 5/27 - Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night", International Theatre Company London, dir. Paul Stebbings, various locations in Tokyo

5/11 - 5/28 - Zureta (the misprint), International Contemporary Printed Art exhibition, Tokyo University of the Arts

5/11 - 5/28 - "A Lonely Impulse of Delight: W.B. Yeats Print Collection", Tokyo University of the Arts University Museum Chinretsukan Gallery

5/13 - 8/6 - Exhibition on Japanese TV dramas (テレビの見る夢 − 大テレビドラマ博覧会), Tsubouchi Memorial Museum

until 5/12 - "Screening of Masterpieces of Tibetan Films Commemorating the Release of "The River"", TUFS

until 5/14 - Exhibition by photojournalist Hiromi Nagakura ("crawl and run towards the future"), Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Ebisu

until 5/14 - "Picture Scroll Enthusiasts" (絵巻マニア列伝), Suntory Museum of Art

until 5/14 - Fukuneko: Cat Art at Hyakudan Kaidan, Meguro Gajoen

until 5/18 - Laura Lieverani: Ainu Exhibition, Italian Cultural Institute

until 5/21 - Session: A Singular Painter, University Art Museum, Ueno

until 5/25 - Robert Doisneau: Through the Lens, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum

until 5/27 - The World of Imperial Costume (宮廷装束の世界), Gakushuin University

until 5/28 - Special Exhibition: "Akamon Gate: From Yo-hime Palace to the University of Tokyo", University of Tokyo Museum

until 5/28 - "Animals in Ukiyo-e", Ota Memorial Museum of Art

​until 6/4 - "Chanoyu: The Arts of Tea Ceremony, The Essence of Japan", Tokyo National Museum (Ueno)

until 6/4 - Journey to 19th century Paris - searching for forgotten streets (19世紀パリ時間旅行―失われた街を求めて―), Nerima Art Museum

until 6/5 - Alfonso Mucha Exhibition (ミュシャ展), National Art Center, Tokyo

until 6/11 - Treasures of the Natural History Museum in London, National Museum of Nature and Science Ueno

until 6/11 - Indian contemporary artist N.S. Harsha, Mori Art Museum, http://www.mori.art.museum/english/contents/n_s_harsha/

until 6/18 - "Old Masters from the State Hermitage Museum", Mori Arts Center Gallery

until 6/18 - "The formation process of print typeface: from movable type to digital font", Printing Museum Tokyo

​until 6/18 - "Adolf Wölfli: A Kingdom of 25,000 Pages", Tokyo Station Gallery

​until 6/24 - Saul Leiter retrospective, Bunkamura Theatre, Shibuya

until 6/25 - "Setsu Nagasawa 100th Anniversary: Master of Drawing, Charismatic Leader of Setsu Mode Seminar", Yayoi Museum

until 6/25 - "Chefs-d’œuvre du Musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims", Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Museum of Art

until 6/25 - "Reflections of Nature", Yohohama Museum of Art

​until 6/25 - "Japan, the Archipelago of the House: Contemporary Japanese houses seen through photographs by a French photographer and architects" (日本、家の列島), Shiodome Museum Rouault Gallery

​until 6/25 - "The Elegant Other: Cross-Cultural Encounters in Fashion and Art", Yokohama Museum of Art

​until 6/25 - Marvel: Age of Heroes, Roppongi Hills Tokyo City View

until 6/25 - "Novelists and Newspapers: The Golden Age 1900 - 1939", Komaba Museum

until 6/30 - The Major Works of Goethe (ゲーテの主要著作), Goethe Museum Tokyo

until 7/2 - "The Sophisticated Women and Men of Edo as Seen in Their Kimonos and Accessories", Tobacco and Salt Museum

until 7/2 - The Art of Eric Carle, Setagaya Art Museum

until 7/2 - Exhibition on "Bruegel's ‘The Tower of Babel'", Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum (http://www.tobikan.jp/en/exhibition/h29_babel.html)

until 9/3 - "Geodaisia – Modern Cartography from Tadataka Ino to Remote Sensing", Intermediatheque

​until 9/19 - "ut pictura poesis - 詩は絵のように", Setagaya Literary Museum

​until 9/24 - "The Art of Disney - The Magic of Animation", Miraikan

until 1/21/2018 - "Treasures from Foreign Lands - The Jewelry of Desert Tribes", Intermediatheque