Sadamura Koto
Sadamura Koto is interested in the impact of interactions between Japan and Europe/the U.S. on Japanese art in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Her research focus is on a Japanese painter Kawanabe Kyōsai [1831-1889] who had frequent contact with foreign residents and visitors in Japan especially in his later years, and his creative activities took place in active communication with these international collocutors. She is particularly interested in what influence Kyōsai had on European and American understanding of Japanese art, and vice versa, what influence European and American interest and ideas of Japanese art had on Kyōsai?s creative activities. She is a PhD candidate in the department of Comparative Literature and Culture in Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies at the University of Tokyo where she completed her MA in 2009. She is a Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science since 2011. Her publication includes "The Interrelations between the Reception of Kawanabe Kyōsai and the Appreciation of Hokusai in Late Nineteenth-century Europe", Ukiyo-e Art, No.159, Tokyo: International Ukiyo-e Society, January 2010, 34-47.