Asato Ikeda

Bio

Asato Ikeda is an Assistant Professor of non-Western Art at Fordham University. She co-edited Art and War in Japan and its Empire: 1931-1960 (Brill, 2012), the first English-language book on Japanese art produced during the Second World War, and is writing a monograph tentatively titled Envisioning Japan: Japanese Art of the Second World War.

Contributions

The Japanese Art of Fascist Modernism: Yasuda Yukihiko’s The Arrival of Yoshitsune/Camp at Kisegawa (1940-41)

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Introduction In 2011, the Japanese government designated Yasuda Yukihiko’s Camp at Kisegawa ( Kisegawa no jin, 1940-41) as an Important Cultural Property ( Jūyō bunkazai) (fig. 1). The left half of the painting, which portrays Minamoto Yoshitsune (1159-1189), a famous warrior from the Kamakura period (1185-1333), was initially produced and exhibited in 1940 as The Arrival of Yoshitsune (Yoshitsune sanchaku). The right half, which depicts Yoshitsune’s older brother Yoritomo (1147-1199), was added...

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