Gods and Monsters, Peace and Prime Ministers

An Early Autumn Round-Up

A warm welcome to new subscribers to IlluminAsia and apologies to existing ones for not having posted in a while. I’m looking forward to resuming my regular posts later this month. In the meantime, I thought I’d share links to some of the writing I’ve done elsewhere over the past weeks.

Fans of Japanese arts and crafts might be interested in this review of a Mingei exhibition - ‘Art Without Heroes’ - at the William Morris Gallery in London. It runs until 22nd September, so there’s still a chance to go and have a look. I also reviewed a wonderful exhibition of Japanese woodblock prints at the Dulwich Picture Gallery. This one is on until 3rd November.

This autumn marks the 70th anniversary of the first Godzilla film, in honour of which I wrote an essay for Engelsberg Ideas about how Japan’s turbulent modern history has helped fuel its apocalyptic imagination.