Staging Shimomura Lecture Series: Staging the Incarceration: Roger Shimomura’s Seven Kabuki Plays

Hiroko Ikegami (Associate Professor, Kobe University) examines Roger Shimomura’s Seven Kabuki Plays (1985–1987) against the backdrop of his Diary paintings (1980–1983), both of which draw on his grandmother’s diary entries during the WWII incarceration of Japanese Americans. She is joined in conversation with Spencer Curator Kris Ercums and KU Associate Professor of Japanese Art Maki Kaneko. In 2018, Ikegami and Kaneko conducted an interview with Shimomura for the Oral History Archives of Japanese Art, where Ikegami serves as vice director.