JASA: Japanese Art Society of America

The Japanese Art Society of America offers lectures and discussions by eminent figures in the world of Japanese art and culture, covering a wide range of topics. Members are able to go “behind the scenes” to visit museum storage areas, private collections and leading galleries.

JASA communicates with an increasing national and international audience through its newsletter and its annual journal Impressions, recipient of the 2009 Donald Keene Prize for the Promotion of Japanese Culture, awarded by the Donald Keene Center, Columbia University. Both publications are free to paying members.

JASA also sponsors important exhibitions, such as Designed for Pleasure: The World of Edo Japan in Prints and Paintings, 1680–1860, shown at Asia Society in New York City, Spring 2008.