Japan and Dai Viet (former Vietnam) in the 17th century: privileged partners?
Conference by Pierre-Emmanuel Bachelet, lecturer in Modern and Contemporary History of East Asia and South-East Asia at the École Normale Supérieure of [...]
Reflections of Japan at the turn of modernity. Ukiyo-e and Shin hanga prints from the Paul Tavernier legacy
Exhibition at the Cernuschi Museum, tour guided by Justine Claude, curator of the exhibition. The Cernuschi Museum honors the great patrons who have worked to enrich its collections [...]
At the court of Prince Genji, a thousand years of Japanese imagination
Visit-conference by Sylvie Ahmadian, speaker at MNAA-GUIMET. This exhibition is dedicated to one of the masterpieces of Japanese literature, Genji Monogatari or the Tale of Genji, [...]
Japanese cuisine: a 19th century invention?
Conference by Alexis Markovitch, contract doctoral student at Inalco. The idea of Japanese cuisine is an invention of the 19th century and, if it did not exist before, it was built on a base [...]
Art museums in Japan, tradition and modernity
Conference by Giada Ricci, architect, museologist and scenographer, Doctor in art history, UNESCO expert. In Japan the museum is a recent institution whose birth is located [...]
Kimono
Visit of the Kimono exhibition at the Musée du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac with comments by Julien Rousseau, curator of the Asia collections at the Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac. [...]
Sculpture and Philhellenism in Japan (1930-1945)
Lecture by Michael Lucken, Professor at INALCO. In Japan, philhellenism manifested itself most clearly in sculpture between 1930 and 1945. It is an aspect of the art [...]
Japanese Painting in Search of Western Realism
Wednesday 19 October at 18 p.m.: Japanese Painting in Search of Western Realism, Conference by Christine Shimizu, Honorary General Curator of Heritage, former Director of the [...]
The main Japanese Buddhist currents
Lecture by Frédéric Girard, emeritus director of studies at the EFEO. Buddhism has become acclimatized in Japan in several forms, popular and scholarly, in symbiosis with [...]
The bow and the saber – Imaginary warrior of Japan
Visit-conference by Sylvie Ahmadian, lecturer at MNAA-Guimet. The term samurai is mentioned for the first time in a 10th century text, but is not used in its current sense until [...]
