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As shown in this photograph – with “the beginnings of an engineer” written on the back – Kenneth showed an early mechanical aptitude. According to one article, as a youth he "built a model steam shovel to scale and operated it with an electric motor.…

Keith McMahon studies Ming and Qing fiction, male and female character types, Chinese eroticism, the culture of opium smoking in 19th century China and Euro-America, psychoanalytic theory, and the history of imperial polygamy from the legendary past…

The pendant represents the Keeper of the Pearls who lives inside shells to protect the treasures they hide. I wanted to create something that shows the magic I believed to exist in the world as a child and to this day. This work was created using…

It depicts a bear climbing out of a tent, using the visual of this unlikely situation to communicate that animals need to be left alone so that they remain without interference from humans./This was created in my Viscom 204 class last semester, where…

Kawabata Yasunari (1899-1972) is the first Japanese to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Kawabata made a debut in 1927 with his short story Izu no odoriko (Izu Dancer), which became one of his representative works in his earlier career. With…

Kawabata Yasunari zenshū [Works by Kawabata Yasunari]. 37 v. Tokyo: Shinchosha, 1981-1983.

Utsukushii Nihon no watashi [Japan the Beautiful and Myself]. Tokyo: Kodansha, 1969.

Yukiguni [Snow Country]. Tokyo: Sōgensha, 1937.