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SUMMARY:Gen’ichirō Inokuma’s NYC Salon
DESCRIPTION:Gen’ichirō Inokuma’s NYC Salon is the first New York solo museum exhibition of the Japanese modern artist Gen’ichirō Inokuma (1902–1993). Organized by Japan Society Gallery in collaboration with the Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art (MIMOCA) in Marugame\, Japan\, the exhibition explores Inokuma’s paintings shown at the Willard Gallery and various multimedia works created during his twenty-year residence in NYC (1955–1975). Along with important holdings from MIMOCA\, the exhibition presents Inokuma’s works in the Japan Society collection and the recently discovered Hirose Family Collection. \nInokuma’s Manhattan sojourn was shaped by meaningful connections with the American avant-garde: Jasper Johns\, Mark Rothko\, Robert Rauschenberg\, Alexander Calder\, David Smith\, Isamu Noguchi\, Yoko Ono\, John Cage\, Merce Cunningham\, and many others. Inokuma and his wife\, Fumiko\, also served as a social and cultural bridge between American and visiting Japanese artists and architects\, often hosting gatherings at their New York apartments. The exhibition features photographs\, film footage\, and ephemera documenting these artistic interactions. \nBy illuminating Inokuma’s little-known role in postwar American art history\, NYC Salon brings new insights into New York City’s mid-20th-century art world—both its collaborative artistic atmosphere\, and its vibrant international social scene \nTimed Tickets: $20 Nonmembers\, $15 Students and seniors \nGallery Exhibition Hours\n\nTuesdays-Fridays: 11 am-5 pm\n\n\nSaturdays & Sundays: noon-6 pm\n\n\nFree First Fridays: 5 pm-7 pm*\n\n\n*October 9\, 2026; November 6\, 2026; December 4\, 2026\, January 8\, 2027
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/genichiro-inokumas-nyc-salon/
LOCATION:Japan Society\, 333 East 47th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10017\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art Exhibit
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261028T190000
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SUMMARY:Annual Sake Tasting
DESCRIPTION:Brooklyn Kura launched in 2016 in Brooklyn\, NY\, breaking ground as New York’s first sake brewery. Over the past 10 years\, Brooklyn Kura would provide sake education and awareness far beyond NYC and fundamentally change the trajectory of the American sake landscape. Tonight\, Brandon Doughan\, Co-Founder and Master Brewer of Brooklyn Kura\, speaks about the past 10 years of American sake\, exploring topics from authenticity to innovation\, and discusses what he believes to be future of sake brewing NYC and the USA. \nFollowing Doughan’s talk\, attendees will be able to sample sake from Brooklyn Kura along with the sake of select sake brewers all across Japan. \nOnly for attendees 21+. \nParticipating Breweries \nThe full list of participating breweries will be shared closer to the event. Attendees will be able to sample sake from breweries including: \n\n\n\nBrooklyn Kura (New York)\nDassai Blue (New York)\nHakkaisan (Niigata Prefecture)\nKato Sake Works (New York)\nNanbu Bijin (Iwate Prefecture)\nOku no Matsu Brewery (Fukushima Prefecture)\nTenzan Brewery (Saga Prefecture)
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/annual-sake-tasting/
LOCATION:Japan Society\, 333 East 47th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10017\, United States
CATEGORIES:Drink
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261106
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261108
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SUMMARY:The Age is Yours\, My Liege! A Tale of Proto-Japan
DESCRIPTION:CONTEMPORARY DANCE  | INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE \nFriday\, November 6 at 7:30 pm—Followed by a Private Gathering for Artists and Members\nSaturday\, November 7 at 7:30 pm—Followed by an Artist Q&A \nA sudden force in the Asian dance scene\, the sharp choreographic provocateur Reisa Shimojima and her Tokyo-based company KEDAGORO arrive in New York with The Age is Yours\, My Liege! A Tale of Proto-Japan\, a frenzied international premiere hurling you headfirst into an ancient Japanese festival eating itself alive. Known for exhilarating physicality that slices through contemporary events with glee\, Shimojima turns the scalpel inward\, dissecting Japanese national identity and imperial myth as her dancers cycle through a slowly revolving human-sized hamster wheel. Frankenstein-ing together sacred rite\, wartime fervor and primeval festival culture into a lurching carnival of national symbolism\, she takes direct aim at the throne and the nations built to serve it. \nTickets: $51 Nonmembers\, $38 Members
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/the-age-is-yours-my-liege-a-tale-of-proto-japan/
LOCATION:Japan Society\, 333 East 47th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10017\, United States
CATEGORIES:Dance,Performance
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261110T190000
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SUMMARY:An Interview with Mieko Kawakami: An Owl Takes Flight at Dawn
DESCRIPTION:Mieko Kawakami is one of the most critically acclaimed contemporary authors on the planet and perhaps the foremost contemporary female author hailing from Japan. Born in Osaka\, Kawakami made her literary debut as a poet and published her first novella\, My Ego\, My Teeth\, and the World\, in 2007. Her books\, translated into over 40 languages\, are known for their poetic qualities\, insights into the female body\, and an immersion into the themes of ethics and modern society. Starting with her win of the Akutagawa Prize for Chichi to Ran and later with the International Booker Prize for Heaven and the National Book Critics Circle Award for All the Lovers in the Night\, she has broken major domestic and international barriers\, all while championing feminism through her work and life. Kawakami’s further works include Breasts and Eggs and Sisters in Yellow. \nMieko Kawakami will appear live at Japan Society conversation with Professor Amanda Seaman. This conversation will go through her career with an in-depth discussion of her major themes and books. It will be followed by a signing with the author. \nBook Signing \nAttendees of Japan Society’s Mieko Kawakami talk will be able to purchase copies of her books at the event or bring books from home for a signing session following the author’s talk. \nMieko Kawakami\nMieko Kawakami is the acclaimed author of the internationally best-selling novel Breasts and Eggs\, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and one of Time’s Best 10 Books of 2020. Her other novels\, translated by Sam Bett and David Boyd\, include Heaven\, shortlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize\, and All the Lovers in the Night\, a finalist for the 2023 National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. In 2024\, Sisters in Yellow\, which was translated by Laurel Taylor and Hitomi Yoshio\, won the Yomiuri Prize for Literature. Kawakami’s books\, translated into over 40 languages\, are known for their insights into the female body\, and philosophical questions surrounding gender\, class\, and ethics in modern society. Born in Osaka\, Kawakami lives in Tokyo\, Japan. \nHitomi Yoshio\nHitomi Yoshio is the translator of Natsuko Imamura’s This Is Amiko\, Do You Copy? (Pushkin Press) and co-translator of Mieko Kawakami’s Ashes of Spring (Amazon Audible) and Sisters in Yellow (Knopf). Her short story translations have appeared in Granta\, The Atlantic\, Freeman’s\, Words without Borders\, Monkey\, World Literature Today\, the Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories\, and the Penguin Book of the International Short Story. She received her PhD in Japanese literature from Columbia University\, and is professor of Global Japanese Studies at Waseda University in Tokyo.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/an-interview-with-mieko-kawakami-an-owl-takes-flight-at-dawn/
LOCATION:Japan Society\, 333 East 47th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10017\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book,Discussion
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261120
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261207
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SUMMARY:NIKKATSU’S GOLDEN AGE OF EROS
DESCRIPTION:Amid the last breaths of Japan’s studio era as the strain of plummeting attendance and the rise of television brought the industry into collapse\, Japan’s oldest film studio\, Nikkatsu\, abandoned mainstream productions in favor of erotica. An unprecedented move by any measure\, Nikkatsu’s decision established the legendary Roman Porno\, a prestige line of studio-backed softcore cinema that\, for 17 years\, would usher in an era of creatively ambitious and artistic cinematic expression\, fostering a new wave of young talents who would go on to shape 80s and 90s mainstream cinema. \nAdhering to a strict set of conventions—a sex scene every 15 or so minutes\, brisk 70-minute runtimes\, medium-sized budgets and tight 10-day shooting schedules—the Roman Porno became known as one of the few avenues for aspiring filmmakers to make their debut and hone their craft as the studio apprenticeship system buckled. Nagisa Oshima\, in critique of the genre\, would declare\, “Roman Porno films take sex as their subject matter but not as their theme”—but it was precisely this distinction that allowed the genre to flourish while earning the respect and praise of critics. \nCommemorating 55 years since Nikkatsu’s move to instate the Roman Porno in 1971\, Japan Society presents a unique selection from across its 17-year reign—a bold period that has since become an essential part of Japanese film history. \nDisclaimer: the films are recommended for audiences age 18 and above.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/nikkatsus-golden-age-of-eros/
LOCATION:Japan Society\, 333 East 47th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10017\, United States
CATEGORIES:Film
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SUMMARY:White Stones
DESCRIPTION:A stone can mark a boundary. Or it can open one… Japanese-American musician Kaoru Watanabe and Lakota performance/visual artist Kite (Suzanne Kite) bring two inheritances together\, asking what it means to seek ancestral guidance in a country built on forgetting. On Japanese drums\, flute\, koto\, voice\, violin\, electronics and invented instruments\, they weave a soundscape moving between meditative stillness and ritual intensity\, while Kite’s sovereign AI\, built entirely from Indigenous worldviews and ancestral stories\, shapes what unfolds in real time. Drawing on the sacred vocabularies of Noh theater and Lakota ceremonial practice — both centered on stone\, here cast in patterns across the performance space — the artists forge the friction of these visions into something neither tradition could reach alone.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/white-stones/
LOCATION:Japan Society\, 333 East 47th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10017\, United States
CATEGORIES:Music,Performance
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