Stephanie M. Hohlios (Ph.D. UC Berkeley, 2021) is Assistant Professor of Art History at Flagler College. Her research considers issues of labor and identity as articulated in modern and contemporary visual art and performance from Japan, East Asia, and the world. Her recent article in a special issue of Review of Japanese Culture and Society (2024/25), devoted to the cultural production of East Asian and Transpacific diasporas, analyzes critical engagement in the visual culture of Japanese experimental theater with colonial memory and ethnic Korean experience. Her in-progress book Coal Visualities: Labor, Gender, and Regional Consciousness in Chikuhō examines the social role of the arts in a former coal mining community in Japan from the late nineteenth to early twenty-first centuries.
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Yamamoto Sakubei, Meiji Chikuhō barasura (1970). 27.1 x 38.1cm. Private collection.
Ōtsuka Seigo (Photographer), Chikushi Misuko and troupe performing Inferiority Complex [Higami nesei], February 1980, Kaho gekijō, Iizuka, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. Printed in Ōtsuka Seigo, The World of Chikushi Misuko: Saga Niwaka, Woman Zachō of Laughs and Tears [Chikushi Misuko no sekai: Saga niwaka warai to namida no onna zachō] (Tokyo: Gaifūsha, 1981), 42.