Word: kitagawa
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...treasures, all hand-printed from wood blocks, encompass the best of ukiyo-e - "images of the floating world" of geishas, Kabuki actors and pleasure houses that flourished in 18th and 19th century Edo, as Tokyo was known. These include works by such giants as Utagawa Hiroshige, Katsushika Hokusai and Kitagawa Utamaro. Rarer still are the fierce battle scenes from the Sino-Japanese war of 1894-95 that Monet collected, as well as images of Westerners relaxing in Yokohama, the port city that became the focus of Japanese contact with the West. Monet had several of Hiroshige's scenes from...
...traditional route of tertiary achievement sees a Japanese high school student scoring high on the college entrance examination and entering the prestigious University of Tokyo. An education abroad is usually only considered at the graduate level, say Yoshitaka Yamamoto ’08 and Takuya Kitagawa...
...Kitagawa contributed to a book with a very stark title: “Let’s Go to Harvard Rather Than University of Tokyo...
...However, Kitagawa feels that when he speaks to students at his alma mater, Nada High School, he is putting Harvard within a more attainable reach...
...Kitagawa also points out that “Marks of Enlightenment” is well-suited for casual observers, considering the collection’s origins. Barnet and Burto were initially attracted to Japanese calligraphy without knowing anything about it and have since made themselves experts. The goal of the exhibit is to have visitors reenact the process of the collectors, from unknowing, to curious, to potentially captivated...