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.