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Sun Sep 4, 2005 - Fri Dec 23, 2005

TAISHO CHIC

JAPANESE MODERNITY, NOSTALGIA, AND DECO


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Location
Date and Time
UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
2626 Bancroft Way
Berkeley, CA 94720 map
cross street: between Bowditch and College
district: Berkeley

Sun Sep 4, 2005 (11 am - 5 pm, till 7 pm on Th)
Wed Sep 7, 2005 (11 am - 5 pm, till 7 pm on Th)
Thu Sep 8, 2005 (11 am - 5 pm, till 7 pm on Th)
Fri Sep 9, 2005 (11 am - 5 pm, till 7 pm on Th)
Sat Sep 10, 2005 (11 am - 5 pm, till 7 pm on Th)

Description
The Taisho era was a brief but dynamic period in Japan's modern development that is often described as a Japanese version of the Roaring Twenties. Officially it lasted from 1912 to 1926, the reign of the Emperor Taisho, but the phrase “Taisho culture” evokes a society in transition in the twenties and early thirties, when Western Jazz Age mores and styles bumped up against traditional Japanese values of harmony and tranquility. During this period, as Japan was becoming an international power, the gap, born in the Meiji era, between a traditional agriculturally based population and the modern industrial sector widened.

Excerpt from description by Constance Lewallen, Senior Curator for Exhibitions