The Japan Society of Boston Events

Win 2 Business Class Tickets to Japan on the new direct JAL Flight (01 May 2012)

Tue, 01 May 2012 04:00:00 GMT

May is membership appreciation month!

The Japan Society of Boston is grateful for the support of all our members.

Throughout the month of May we will be drawing winners at random and giving away a number of prizes from books, to CDs, to Incense and more.

Win 2 Business Class
Tickets to Japan!

The grand prize will be a pair of Business Class tickets on the new Japan Airlines' Boeing 787 Dreamliner direct flight from Boston to Tokyo!

You must be a dues paying member to register to win.
Only 1 registration per member

Receive an extra chance to win for every new member you refer.*
*New members must be paid in full by May 31 and enter your name when they register as a member to be eligible.

Drawing to will be held on Friday June first. Membership must be paid in full by Midnight on May 31st to be eligible.

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Win a set of JSB note cards (17 May 2012)

Thu, 17 May 2012 04:00:00 GMT

May is membership appreciation month!

The Japan Society of Boston is grateful for the support of all our members.

Throughout the month of May we will be drawing winners at random and giving away a number of prizes from books, to CDs, to Incense and more.

Next Drawing Monday 5/21
10 Members will each will a set of 5 JSB Exclusive note cards

"Boston from the banks of the Sumida River"

Membership must be paid in full and up to date to win.
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Pilgrimage to Hokusai's Waterfalls - Opening Reception (17 May 2012)

Thu, 17 May 2012 21:30:00 GMT

Pilgrimage to Hokusai's Waterfall
at the Worcester Art Museum

Opening Reception with
Odaiko New England

Opening Reception
May 17th
5:30 - 8:00
Featuring Music By Odaiko New England
Guided Tour at 6:30
and Japanese Refreshments
Admission $14

On display May 17th - November 21, 2012
More Info Here

The newly redesigned Japanese gallery spotlights WAM’s very rare, first edition impressions of A Tour of Waterfalls in the Provinces (ca. 1833), a masterpiece woodblock-print series by the famous Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849). Pioneering the theme of falling water, Hokusai made liberal use of the newly fashionable imported Prussian blue pigment and imbued the prints with atmospheric breadth and timeless intimacy through his faith in the purifying power of waterfalls. A permanent display of Japanese ceramics, ranging in date from 17th century to the 21st century, as well as the imposing early 10th century wooden sculpture of the Eleven-headed Kannon, will also be on view.

Taiko Drumming by Odaiko New England
Odaiko New England (ONE) began drumming in 1994 and is fast becoming one of the premier taiko groups on the East Coast. By combining Japanese aesthetic sensibility with the bold American spirit, ONE is forging its own modern distinctive style and voice as it challenges the very definition of the art of taiko.

Coffee Life in Japan - Booktalk with Corky White (18 May 2012)

Fri, 18 May 2012 19:00:00 GMT

Coffee Life in Japan
Booktalk by
Merry "Corky" White
Friday, May 18
3:00 pm
Harvard Bookstore
Cambridge, MA

Free and open to the public

Harvard Book Store is pleased to welcome professor MERRY WHITE for a discussion of her new book on Japanese cafe culture, Coffee Life in Japan.

This fascinating book part ethnography, part memoir traces Japan's vibrant café society over one hundred and thirty years. Merry White traces Japan's coffee craze from the turn of the twentieth century, when Japan helped to launch the Brazilian coffee industry, to the present day, as uniquely Japanese ways with coffee surface in Europe and America. Coffee Life in Japan takes up themes as diverse as gender, privacy, perfectionism, and urbanism. White shows how coffee and coffee spaces have been central to the formation of Japanese notions about the uses of public space, social change, modernity, and pleasure. White describes how the café in Japan, from its start in 1888, has been a place to encounter new ideas and experiments in thought, behavior, sexuality , dress, and taste. It is where a person can be socially, artistically, or philosophically engaged or politically vocal. It is also, importantly, an urban oasis, where one can be private in public.

General Info
(617) 661-1515
info@harvard.com

Cherry Tree Planting - Pawtucket RI (19 May 2012)

Sat, 19 May 2012 13:00:00 GMT

Cherry Tree Planting
Pawtucket RI

Saturday, May 19
9:00 am
Pawtucket Cherry Tree Grove
Welcome Island, Pawtucket, Rhode Island

In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the nation of Japan’s donation of 3000 Cherry Blossom Trees to the Capital City of the United States of America. Today we renew the friendship expressed at that time with a new commitment of friendship and appreciation of mutual cultures.

These saplings are of the same variety as those planted in the Tidal Basin in Washington, DC in 1912. They are presented by the Government of Japan to the City of Pawtucket Rhode Island in deep appreciation for the aid and assistance given to Japan during the 2011 Tohoku earthquake.

More Information Here

Potter's talk with Ken Matsuzaki (03 Jun 2012)

Sun, 03 Jun 2012 18:00:00 GMT

Potter's Talk with Ken Matsuzaki

Sunday, June 3
2:00 - 4:00

Ken Matsuzaki will discuss his practice and the works featured in his exhibition Rising from the Ashes at the Gallery
Sunday, 3 June, 2012
2:00– 4 pm

Ken Matsuzaki was born in Tokyo in 1950 and received a degree in Ceramic Art from Tamagawa University School of Fine Arts, Tokyo. After graduating he moved to Mashiko in 1972 to apprentice with Tatsuzo Shimaoka (who himself had moved to Mashiko to study with Shoji Hamada). After a five year apprenticeship, Matsuzaki established his own kiln, Yuushin Gama, down the road from Mr. Shimaoka. Matsuzaki's works have a strong grounding in the Mingei philosophy though his approach is very contemporary, introducing a focus on the Oribe style with yohen, shino, and oribe glazing.

Works by Matsuzaki have been accepted into the collections of the Cleveland Museum of Art (Ohio), The Worcester Museum of Art (Massachusetts), the Tikotin Museum (Israel), and the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York).

June 3 through July 16
at
Pucker Gallery
171 Newbury Street, Boston
RSVP to
Perri Osattin
peri@puckergallery.com
Pucker Gallery