To support a webcast panel discussion “Whistler and Kiyochika: Modernity, Melancholy, and the Nocturne.” At this event, five scholars from Japan, France, and the US consider the nocturne as a vehicle for both James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903) and Kobayashi Kiyochika (1874–1915) to express a particularly modern sensibility. The program is presented online in English, French, and Japanese.