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Workshop "The Wonders of Woodblock Printing", Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge (UK), 13 August 2022

Dear Colleagues and Friends,

If you are in Cambridge (UK) on 13 August 2022 (2pm), please join block cutter Nagai Saeko and printer Ogawa Nobuto, with Curator Elenor Ling and Laura Moretti at the Fitzwilliam Museum for the workshop "The Wonders of Woodblock Printing. Experiencing Early Modern Japan." 

NEW BOOK: Shoji Yamada. Tokyo Boogie-woogie and D.T. Suzuki. University of Michigan Press

Appologies for the cross-posting. The author of Shots in the Dark: Japan, Zen, and the West (University of Chicago Press, 2009) has published a new book about D.T. Suzuki. The author depicted an unknown facet of Suzuki, a father in agony, by delving into his relationship with his son, Alan Masaru Suzuki, who wrote the lyrics to a famous popular song “Tokyo Boogie-woogie” (1947), and his influence on the counter-culture.