My copy of the first issue hasn't arrived yet, so I can't substantively comment on its contents, but I can report that it welcomes manuscripts from a wide range of disciplines of the humanities: history, visual culture including the history of art and design, the decorative arts, painting and the graphic arts, architecture, fashion, film, literature, aesthetics, art criticism, and music, provided that they show how Japanese art and culture influenced and permeated Western society and culture since the opening of Japan to the West in the 1850s. In addition, the journal will also consider articles addressing Japanese art and artistic cross-cultural relations within the Asian region, as well as on institutional or individual collectors of Japanese art in the West. The journal is published in English and all articles are subject to peer review before publication.
In addition to three book reviews, the first issue contains the following articles:
Reflecting on Japonisme: The State of the Discipline in the Visual Arts by Gabriel P. Weisberg
The Bracquemond-Rousseau Table Service of 1866: Japoniste Ceramics and the Realignment of Medium Hierarchies in Nineteenth-Century French Art by Sonia Coman
Eastern Wind, Northern Sky: Japanese Art and Culture in A Danish Optic in the Latter Half of the 19th and the Early 20th Centuries by Malene Wagner
Japonisme and the Birth of Cinema: A Transmedial and Transnational Analysis of the Lumière Brothers' Films by Daisuke Miyao
Water Lilies Among the Wheat Fields: John Scott Bradstreet's Japanese Gardening in Minneapolis by Sarah Sik
The journal is available in both paper and electronic formats. Those wishing to subscribe can do so here. The second issue will feature an article about S. Bing's famed 1890 ukiyo-e exhibition, Exposition de la gravure japonaise à l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts à Paris.
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