Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere

Current Research

Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere's current research includes completing a manuscript for the British Museum Press entitled Four Hundred Years of Japanese Porcelain based on the British Museum holdings, to be published in 2010. She is currently working with an important Japanese manga artist exploring how he interprets the Japanese archaeological past through the medium of manga.

Contact

Address: 64, The Close, Norwich NR1 4DH , United Kingdom
Email: n.rousmaniere@sainsbury-institute.org
Telephone: +44 (0)1603-624349
Fax: +44 (0)1603-625011

Authored Book

Vessels of Influence: China and Porcelain in Medieval and Early Modern Japan, Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd, London (forthcoming).

Edited Books

Crafting Beauty in Modern Japan, British Museum Press, London (2007).

Jiki: Porcellana Giapponese tra Oriente e Occidente 1610-1760 (catalogue of the exhibition Jiki: Imari for Japanese Shoguns and European Kings at the Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche di Faenza), Palombi, V., Rousmaniere, N. and Salpietro, S. eds., Electa-Mondadori, Italy (2004).

Reflecting Truth: Japanese Photography in the Nineteenth Century, Hirayama, Mikiko and Rousmaniere, Nicole C. eds., Hotei Publishing, The Netherlands (2004).

Kazari: Decoration and Display in Japan 15th-19th Centuries, British Museum Press and HNA Books, London (2002).

Births and Rebirths in Japanese Art: Essays Celebrating the Inauguration of the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Culture, Hotei Publishing, The Netherlands (2001).

Hall of Thirty-Three Bays: Photographs by Hiroshi Sugimoto, Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts, Norwich (1997).

Chapters in Books and Catalogues

'Yanagi in America: Soetsu Yanagi's Two Extended Stays in the United States and Their Impact on America', Mingei: Two Centuries of Japanese Folk Art, Japan Folk Crafts Museum (editor and publisher), 1995, pp.48-62, ISBN: B000GFB4WW (revised version in pp.10-12, Studio Potter, vol. 25/1, Dec 1996).

'Defining Tenmoku: Jian Ware Teabowls Imported into Japan' in Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell and Partridge Feathers: Chinese Brown and Black Glazed Ceramics, 400-1400, Robert Mowry (editor), Harvard University Press, 2nd edn 1997, pp.43-58, ISBN: 978-0916724887.

'Ornament and Edo Culture' and 28 entries, Edo: Art in Japan 1615-1868, Robert T. Singer (editor), National Gallery Washington, 1998, pp.49-67, ISBN: 978-0300077964.

'Arts of Kazari: Japan on Display' in Kazari: Decoration and Display in Japan 15th-19th Centuries, Nicole Rousmaniere (editor), British Museum Press, 2002, pp.20-31, ISBN: 978-0810967489.

'The Tea Ceremony, Tea Utensils and Ceramics' in Japan's Golden Age: Momoyama, Money L. Hickman (editor), Yale University Press, New edn 2002, pp.203-35, ISBN: 978-0300094077.

'Collecting Japan in 19th-Century Europe' with Simon Kaner in Europe and the Asia-Pacific, Stephanie Lawson (editor), Routledge Curzon, 2002, pp.195-211, ISBN: 978-0415297240.

'The Sainsburys, Japanese Art and the Creation of an Institute' in Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts 25 Years, Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts (Norwich: University of East Anglia), 2003, pp.53-58, ISBN: 0946009503.

'The Japanese Market for Porcelain in the 16th-17th Centuries' in Nihon bijutsu no kukan to keishiki: Kawai Masatomo kyoju kanreki kinen ronbunshu, Kawai Masatomo Kyoju Kanreki Kinen Ronbunshu Kankokai, Tokyo, 2003.

11 entries in Arts of Japan: The John C. Weber Collection, Melanie Trede (editor) with Julia Meech, Museum of East Asia Art, National Museums in Berlin, Oct 2006, ISBN: 3-88609-537-1.

'Augustus Wollaston Franks (1826-17) and James Lord Bowes (1834-1899): Collecting Japan in Victorian England?' in Biographical Portraits, Hugh Cortazzi (editor), Global Oriental in association with the Japan Society, 2007, pp.262-270, ISBN: 978-905246-33-5.

'Craft in Britain and Japan: Cross-Cultural Perspectives' in Contemporary Crafts in Japan, Inga Shigemi (editor), Traditional Japanese Arts and Crafts in the 21st Century, Reconsidering the Future from an International Perspective. International Symposium 27, International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto, 2007, pp.29-45.

'Continuity and Change: Understanding Japanese art crafts in context' in Crafting Beauty in Modern Japan, Nicole Rousmaniere (editor), British Museum Press, 2007, pp.12-33, ISBN: 978-0714124483.

'Towards the Discovery of a Fan Painting by Sharaku' in Sharaku and Other Hidden Japanese Masterworks form the Land of NAUSICAA (exhibition catalogue), Exhibition Committee (editor), Edo-Tokyo Museum and Yomiuri Shimbun, Tokyo, 2009, pp.35-38.

Rediscovering Dogu in the Twentieth Century in The Power of Dogu: Ceramic Figures from Ancient Japan (exhibition catalogue), Simon Kaner (editor), British Museum Press, 2009, pp.70-83.

Articles in Journals and Conference Proceedings

'Visions of the Other in Seventeenth-Century Fuzoku-ga', Philosophy (Tokyo), vol. 95, June 1993 pp.137-152.

'The Accessioning of Japanese Art in Early Nineteenth-Century America: Ukiyo-e Prints in the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem', Apollo, vol. 145, March 1997, pp.23-29, ISSN: 0003-6536.

'The Shibata Gift of Porcelain to the British Museum', Apollo, vol. 147/443, March 1998, pp.23-27, ISSN: 0003-6536

Towards a New Suburbia?' Insight Japan, vol. 8/1, June 1999, pp.24-25, ISSN: 0966-8071.

'Nihon no Kindai Togei ni okeru Rinpa Isho no Tenkai' (with Arakawa Masa'aki) (in Japanese), Idemitsu Museum of Arts Bulletin, vol. 108, Aug. 2000, pp.31-42, ISSN: 0389-0902.

'Japanese Art and the World in the 17th Century', The Japan Society Proceedings, vol.135, Summer 2000, pp.26-38, ISBN: 0952-2050.

'Porcelains in the British Museum', Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society, vol. 65, 2000-2001, pp.83-92, ISSN: 0306-0926.

'Buying up a Storm' Asian Art in London Journal, 2001, pp.18-21, ISSN: 1472-488x.

'China Mania: The Passion for China (Karamono) and Chinese Influence on Japanese Porcelains, The Museum of East Asia Art Journal, vol. 4, 2001, pp.5-10, ISSN: 1-897734-12-3.

'Eikoku Bikutoria Jidai no Nihon Tojiki Shushu' (in Japanese with English Abstract), Bijutsu Forum 21, vol. 5, Winter 2001 (Daigo Shobo), pp.97-110, ISSN: 0386-9393.

'An Interview with Bill Clark', Asian Art, Feb. 2002, pp.2-4, ISSN: 0004-4083.

'Nezumi Shino Budomon Ohachi' [Nezumi-shino Bowl with Grape Design in the Mary Griggs Burke Collection] (in Japanese with English Abstract), Kokka, vol. 1286, 2002, pp.34-35, ISSN: 0023-2785.

'A. W. Franks, N. Ninagawa and the British Museum: Collecting Japanese Ceramics in Victorian Britain', Orientations, vol. 33/2, Feb. 2002, pp.26-34, ISSN: 0030-5448.

'Arts of Japan: Five Centuries of Decoration and Display', The Lady, 11-17 Feb. 2003, pp.40-41.

'Taming the Exotic: Imports, Transformations and Kazari in Pre-modern Japan', Orientations, vol. 35/4, May 2004, pp. 42-46, ISSN: 0030-5448.

'Vessels for Painting: New Styles of Artistic Expression on Early Modern Ceramics in the John C. Weber Collection', Orientations, vol. 37/7, Oct. 2006, pp.72-77, ISSN: 0030-5448.

'New Displays in the Japanese Galleries at the British Museum and the Special Exhibition Crafting Beauty in Modern Japan', Arts of Asia, vol. 37, no. 4, July-August 2007, pp. 87-91.

'Daiei Hakubutsukan no naka no Nihon: Nihon Gyarari no shin josetsuten to Hoton Gyarari no tokubetsuten wo toshite' (Exhibiting Japan at the British Museum: through the new permanent Japanese Galleries and the special exhibition to be held at the Houtung Gallery), Tanko, Kyoto: Tankosha, April 2007, pp.54-60, ISSN: 0289-3908.

'The history of the Japanese ceramics collection at the British Museum (Daiei hakubutsukan shozo Nihon no Toki korekushon no rekishi)', Women and Leadership Programme Ninth International Japanese Studies Symposium: Exploration and Dialogue on Japanese Studies II (Nihon gaku kenkyu no taiwa to shinka II), Ochanomizu University, July 2007, pp.133-139.

'Bijutsu Ato dewa naku, Kurafuto=Kogei dewa nai: Bijutsukan ni okeru tojiki no tenji ni tsuite no kosatsu' (Bijutsu is not Art and Craft is not Kogei: Thoughts on the Display of Ceramics in Art Museums), pp.15-22, Bunka Shigen Gaku 2007 (Cultural Recourses Studies 2007), vol. 6, March 2008, ISSN: 1880-7232.

'Rethinking Kakiemon Style Wares in the United Kingdom from the 18th Century to the Present Focussing on Issues of Design, Reputation and Interpretation' in Adoption of the Kakiemon-style Porcelain in the 17th- and 18th-century England, Kakiemon-style Ceramic Art Research Center, Kyushu Sangyo University 21st Century COE Programme, Kyushu, 2009.

'Dining on China in Japan: Shifting Taste for Chinese Ceramics in 15th-to 17th-centry Japan' in Transfer: the Influence of China on World Ceramics, Colloquies on Art & Archaeology in Asia No. 24 held November 5th ? 7th, 2007, Stacey Pierson (editor), Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, SOAS, 2009, pp.47-58.

'Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts: Sir Robert and Lady Sainsbury's Collection of Japanese Art' in Arts of Asia, vol. 39, no. 4, Arts of Asia Publications Ltd., Hong Kong, 2009, pp.60-71.

Exhibitions

2007 (July-October):
Crafting Beauty in Modern Japan: Celebrating 50 Years of the Japan Art Crafts Association, British Museum.

2006 (October-December):
Alsace et Japon: une longue histoire. Offices of the Département de Haut Rhin, Colmar, Alsace.

2006 (opened October): Japan from Prehistory to the Present. Japanese Galleries, British Museum, London (permanent exhibition).

2006 (September-October):
Bernard Leach and the concept of 'craft' in Japan, Embassy of Japan, London.

2002:
Kazari: the art of decoration in Japan from the 17th-19th centuries. Japan Society Galleries, New York. Japanese Galleries, British Museum, London 1997.

Hiroshi Sugimoto. Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts.