1st Edition
Street Nihonga The Art of Jimmy Tsutomu Mirikitani
Director’s foreword – Saralyn Reece Hardy, Marilyn Stokstad Director, Spencer Museum of Art
Acknowledgments
Note to the reader
Introductory essay: Street Nihonga: In Pursuit of Collage Aesthetics and Collaboration – Maki Kaneko
Sidewalk Stories
Street Nihonga
Tule Lake Memory-scape
Multiple Ground Zeros
Affinities and Connections
Entangled Memories
Interpretive texts for twelve select works Linda Hattendorf, Masa Yoshikawa, and Maki Kaneko
Essays:
The Paradox of Nihonga in the Art of Mirikitani – Noriko Murai
Tule Lake troubles – Scott Tsuchitani
When “A-Bomb Art” Goes Beyond Borders – Yukinori Okamura; translated by Daisuke Murata
Curation and Collage: Lived Experience in the Art of Mirikitani – Kris Imants Ercums
Making The Cats of Mirikitani – Linda Hattendorf
List of select exhibitions
Contributors
Index
Biography
Maki Kaneko is Associate Professor in the Kress Foundation Department of Art History at the University of Kansas. She has published on Japanese and Japanese diaspora artists from the 1930s to the present, including Mirroring the Japanese Empire: The Male Figure in Y.ga Painting, 1930–1950 (2015).
Kris Imants Ercums is Curator of Global Contemporary and Asian Art at the Spencer Museum of Art. His curatorial practice bridges historical and contemporary perspectives, with a focus on transnational exchange. He has organized exhibitions and residencies highlighting global Asian artists and themes of modernity, queerness, and speculative futures.
