What I Learned Today… Japanese Library Resources Blog. Nov 08 2012 Japanese Art Lecture: Captured Buddha Professor Gregory Levine from the Department of History of Art at University of California, Berkeley will be presenting the following lecture: Captured Buddha: Kawabata Ryūshi’s “Rakuyō Captured Buddha: Kawabata Ryūshi’s “Rakuyō Kōryaku” November 19 (Monday) Lasserre 105, 12-2 p.m. This lecture considers Kawabata Ryūshi’s (1885-1966) monumental painting, The Capture of Luoyang (Rakuyō kōryaku; 1944), part of the important and controversial corpus of Japanese War Painting (Sensō kiryokuga ), noting its formal features, relationship to Japanese colonial control of and scholarship on Chinese Buddhist sites, and brief but significant exhibition in 1945.
Shirane Lecture: “Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons” Haruo Shirane, Shinchō Professor of Japanese Literature and Culture at Columbia University, will be coming to UBC to deliver the inaugural John Howes Lecture in Japanese Studies. For more information and to register, click here. Poster. Libraries & Life. Librarian in Black Blog – Sarah Houghton-Jan. Information Tyrannosaur. Handmade Librarian | Information & Inspiration for Crafty Readers & Makers. Emerging Technologies Librarian. Librarians'-blogs.