These modules represent diverse perspectives on the histories of Japanese women in photography. You can explore them by time period or theme. New modules will be added each year, so check back for new material often!
これらのモジュール（教材）には、日本の女性写真家の歴史について多様な視点が提示されています。時代別、テーマ別にご覧いただけます。毎年、新しいモジュールを追加していきますので、ぜひ頻繁にアップデートをご確認ください。
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In Conversation: Nagashima Yurie and Handa Yuri
インタビュー：長島有里枝・半田ゆり
October 16, 2025
インタビュー：長島有里枝・半田ゆり
Nagashima Yurie introduces her groundbreaking book, From Their “Onna no ko shashin” to Our Girly Photo (2020, Daifuku Shorin). 長島有里枝が、革新的な著書『「僕ら」の「女の子写真」からわたしたちのガーリーフォトへ』(2020, Daifuku Shorin)について紹介します Join acclaimed photographer and feminist scholar Nagashima Yurie to learn about the motivation and background behind her book, From Their “Onna no ko shashin” to Our Girly Photo(2020, Daifuku Shorin). In an interview […]
Between Industry and Art: Marketing, Gender, and Photographic Aesthetics in Early 20th-Century Japan
産業と芸術の間：20世紀初頭の日本におけるマーケティング、ジェンダー、写真美学
October 16, 2025
産業と芸術の間：20世紀初頭の日本におけるマーケティング、ジェンダー、写真美学
Kerry Ross examines how Japanese people made photography a part of everyday life in the early twentieth century. ケリー・ロスが、20世紀初頭の日本人にとって写真は、どのように日常生活の一部であったのかを検証します。 Join Kerry Ross for an introduction to the spread of photographic practices among Japan’s new middle class. Ross analyzes marketing materials, how-to literature, and the resulting work by photography hobbyists to unpack the relationship between consumerism […]
Women, Children, and Gochō Shigeo’s Radical Everyday, 1968-69
女性、子供たち、牛腸茂雄の過激なる日常
October 16, 2025
女性、子供たち、牛腸茂雄の過激なる日常
Philip Charrier analyzes how Gochō Shigeo’s photography of everyday life presented a challenge to male-dominated documentary photography. フィリップ・シャリエが、日常の何気ない風景をとらえた牛腸茂雄の写真は何故、男性優位のドキュメンタリー写真に対する挑戦であったのかを分析します。 Join Philip Charrier for an introduction to street photographer Gochō Shigeo’s everyday photography of women and children published in camera magazines in the late 1960s. Created at the height of the student protest movements, Charrier reads Gochō’s […]
A Photographic History of the Image of the Emperor
天皇のイメージの写真史
October 16, 2025
天皇のイメージの写真史
Kohara Masashi examines how photographs of the Japanese emperor have changed over time. 小原真史が、天皇の写真は時代の中でどのように変化をしたのかについて考察します。 Join Kohara Masashi for a look at how imperial portraiture has changed from the official photographs of Emperor Meiji to mass-media depictions of the Shōwa Emperor in the postwar era. Kohara analyzes the gendered aspects of imperial imagery to show how […]
Community Activism and the Choir: Mao Ishikawa’s The Great Ryūkyū Photographic Scroll (2010-2023), Between History and Memory
地域社会活動と合唱団：石川真生「大琉球写真絵巻」（2010-2023）— 歴史と記憶の間で
October 16, 2025
地域社会活動と合唱団：石川真生「大琉球写真絵巻」（2010-2023）— 歴史と記憶の間で
Ayelet Zohar analyzes activist-photographer Ishikawa Mao’s The Great Ryūkyū Photographic Scroll. アイェレット・ゾーハーが、アクティビスト写真家である石川真生の「大琉球写真絵巻」を分析します。 Join Ayelet Zohar for a look at the epic artwork The Great Ryūkyū Photographic Scroll (2010-2023) created by one of Okinawa’s leading photographers, Ishikawa Mao. Zohar presents the ten large scrolls, which portray different episodes from Okinawa’s history, as a form of activism […]
Imai Hisae
今井壽惠
October 16, 2025
今井壽惠
Toda Masako introduces the pioneering yet underrecognized work of Imai Hisae (1931–2009). 戸田昌子が今井壽惠（1931–2009) の先駆的でありながら十分に評価されてこなかった作品を紹介する。 In this presentation, photography historian Toda Masako introduces the pioneering yet underrecognized work of Imai Hisae (1931–2009), a postwar Japanese photographer whose genre-defying practice spanned experimental projection photography, poetic visual narratives, and commercial work. Drawing on her 2022 monograph published by […]
In Conversation: Aileen Mioko Smith and Namiko Kunimoto
対談：アイリーン・美緒子・スミスと奈美子国許
October 16, 2025
対談：アイリーン・美緒子・スミスと奈美子国許
Aileen Mioko Smith discusses her social documentary work in Minamata with Namiko Kunimoto. アイリーン・美緒子・スミスが、水俣での自身の社会派ドキュメンタリー作品について、奈美子国許と対談します。 Join Aileen Mioko Smith for a conversation with Professor Namiko Kunimoto on the intersection of activism and photojournalism. In this presentation and conversation, recorded at Ohio State University, Smith recounts her time with W. Eugene Smith learning to use photojournalism to […]
Modern Japanese Empresses in Photography
写真で見る近代日本の皇后たち
May 27, 2022
写真で見る近代日本の皇后たち
Alison Miller traces the early history of photographic representations of Japanese Empresses Shōken and Teimei.
Women and Portrait Photography in Late 19th and Early 20th Century Japan
19世紀後半から20世紀初頭の日本と女性、そしてポートレート写真
May 27, 2022
19世紀後半から20世紀初頭の日本と女性、そしてポートレート写真
Karen Fraser examines women as producers and consumers of early portrait photography in Japan.
Critical Perspectives on Araki Nobuyoshi’s Photography
荒木経惟の写真をめぐる批判的視点
May 27, 2022
荒木経惟の写真をめぐる批判的視点
Hagiwara Hiroko offers a critical perspective on the industry surrounding the photographer Araki Nobuyoshi.
Ainu Representation and Gender in Japanese Photography
日本の写真におけるアイヌの表象とジェンダー
May 27, 2022
日本の写真におけるアイヌの表象とジェンダー
Christina Spiker examines representations of Indigenous Ainu women in 19th-century Japanese photography.
Looking for a History of Photography for WWII Japanese War Brides
第二次世界大戦中の日本人花嫁の写真撮影の歴史を探る
May 27, 2022
第二次世界大戦中の日本人花嫁の写真撮影の歴史を探る
Elena Creef builds an archive of snapshot photographs to begin constructing a history for WWII Japanese war brides.
Curating Araki Nobuyoshi
荒木経惟のキュレーション
April 27, 2022
荒木経惟のキュレーション
Maggie Mustard considers issues of gender and power in relation to curatorial ethics in the contemporary museum world.
Hiroshima Seen Though Camera Lenses
カメラレンズを通して見る広島
April 27, 2022
カメラレンズを通して見る広島
Yoshiaki Kai analyzes photobooks centered on the city of Hiroshima by contemporary street photographers Sasaoka Keiko and Fujioka Aya.
Postwar Photobooks by Japanese Women
日本人女性による戦後写真集
April 27, 2022
日本人女性による戦後写真集
Russet Lederman introduces forty-one photobooks by Japanese women from the 1950s to the present.