When

Saturday May 21, 2016 from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM EDT
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Royal Ontario Museum
100 Queens Park
Toronto, ON M5S 2C6

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Christy Laidlaw
Japanese Art Society of America
917-658-3955
japaneseartsoc@yahoo.com

JASA: 05/21/16 Royal Ontario Museum Visit

ONE DAY JASA VISIT TO ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM IN TORONTO, CANADA

Saturday, May 21, 2016


	Wakashu with a Shoulder Drum Hosoda Eisui (active 1790-1823) Sir Edmund Walker Collection Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada

Dr. Asato Ikeda,Assistant Professor of Asian Art at Fordham University and the Bishop White Postdoctoral Fellow of Japanese Art at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), and Dr. John Carpenter, Mary Griggs Burke Curator of Japanese Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, have planned an exciting day at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) in Toronto in conjunction with the groundbreaking exhibition "A Third Gender: Beautiful Youths in Japanese Prints."

The day begins with a special guided tour by Dr. Ikeda of the permanent gallery, the"Tattoos: Ritual. Identity. Obsession. Art" exhibition and the "Third Gender" exhibition. After lunch, Dr. Carpenter will present a lecture titled Amusements in a Samurai Mansion: Wakashu Entertainers in Early-Edo Paintings and Prints. Following the lecture Dr. Ikeda will take attendees to museum storage for a private viewing of paintings and prints.

Limited to 25 JASA Members.

MUSEUM Fee: $25 (lunch, airfare, and hotel are NOT included.)

Registration is first come, first served. If you would like to attend, please register by clicking the register now button below and fill out the registration form.

Please contact Christy Laidlaw, membership coordinator, with any questions via email: japaneseartsoc@yahoo.com or phone: 917-658-3955917-658-3955 .