The Japan Society of New York is currently presenting an exhibition  
on the renowned Japanese artist Serizawa Keisuke, who produced a  
gorgeous work entitled A Don Quixote Picture Book (1937), which  
presents Don Quixote as a samurai in a traditional Japanese setting.  
The exhibition catalogue includes an essay on this work, Matthew  
Fraleigh's "Crafting a Japanese Don Quixote."  The essay discusses  
the commissioning of the work by a Boston aficionado of Don Quixote  
and examines its aesthetics and iconography.

The exhibition is called "Serizawa: Master of Japanese Textile  
Design" and continues through Jan. 17 at the Japan Society in Manhattan.

The New York Times recently published a review of the exhibit as  
"Interplay of Fabric, Dyes, and Don Quixote:"  http://www.nytimes.com/ 
2009/10/16/arts/design/16textile.html?_r=2&scp=1&sq=don%20quixote&st=cse

For those interested in this topic, the "Don Quixote, East and West"  
issue of The Review of Japanese Culture and Society (Dec. 2006)  
includes two articles on Serizawa's A Don Quixote Picture Book, as  
well as many color images from the work.  The two articles are  
Matthew Fraleigh's "El ingenioso samurai Don Kihote del Japón:  
Serizawa Keisuke's A Don Quixote Picture Book" (Full version of his  
article above) and Jugaku Bunsho's "The Origins of A Don Quixote  
Picture Book" (First-hand account of how the work came to be).  Here  
is a link to the journal's website: http://www.josairjcs.com/ 
issues.html#d06.