Shibui Katsura
My article, “Shibui Katsura: The Emergence of a Japanese Global Icon, 1921-70,” is published in the latest issue (Vol. 82, Issue 1) of Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. ABSTRACT“Katsura is shibui”—this persistent slogan originated in two special issues of House Beautiful published in 1960. Themed “Discover shibui” and “How to be shibui with American things,” these publications linked the […]