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Alternative Paths in Japanese Arts: Ishibashi Foundation Network Leader Fellowship Programme Workshop
Thursday 9 July, 2026 – Saturday 11 July, 2026 @ All Day – In-person attendance for the main workshop programme is available for invited guests only. However, online participation is open to everyone. To register, please click the link at the bottom of the page. The two keynote lectures are open to everyone and may be attended either in-person or online. Registration is available via the respective links […]
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[Closed] Call for Applications: The Ishibashi Foundation Network Leader Fellowship Programme in Japanese Arts 2026-27
Project Summary: Since 2025, the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures has established the Ishibashi Foundation Network Leader Fellowships in Japanese Arts, a programme offered to exceptional candidates from around the world and generously supported by the Ishibashi Foundation. In 2025–26, five Network Leader Fellows were selected, and their research projects […]
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Ishibashi Foundation Network Leader Fellowship Programme in Japanese Arts 2025-2026
Connecting and creating a network of emerging global leaders in Japanese art studies. This innovative new programme supports six emerging scholars in Japanese arts and cultures to create and deliver a research project through expert guidance and training, while simultaneously fostering new connections and networks internationally across the field.
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Selected Fellows – Ishibashi Foundation Network Leader Fellowships
We are pleased to announce that we have chosen from a large number of applications six fellows for the Ishibashi Foundation Network Leader Fellowships in Japanese Arts 2025-2026 following a rigorous selection process. The names of the candidates, their institutions, and the projects they are pursuing as part of the programme are as follows:
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[Closed] Call for Applications: The Ishibashi Foundation Network Leader Fellowship Programme in Japanese Arts 2025-26
Please note that submissions for this programme are now closed. Further information on the programme can be found below. Project Summary: Starting in 2025, the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures is establishing a programme of Ishibashi Foundation Network Leader Fellowships in Japanese Arts, offered to exceptional candidates from anywhere in […]
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Ishibashi Foundation Network Leader Fellowship Programme in Japanese Arts
Thanks to the generous support of the Ishibashi Foundation, the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures is delighted to announce the launch of a major new initiative, the Ishibashi Foundation Network Leader Fellowship Programme in Japanese Arts. Directed at postgraduate students in Japanese arts from around the world, the programme is […]
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Research Assistantship for Digitisation of UK Japanese Collections, funded by Ishibashi Foundation – 2024
Since June 2022, the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures has launched the innovative ‘Ishibashi Foundation Digital Futures’ initiative. This initiative, generously supported by the Ishibashi Foundation, aims to establish pioneering digital platforms that forge connections between students, early career researchers, curators, and established specialists, granting them access to Japanese art […]
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The Ishibashi Foundation Forum talk with Ryoko Matsuba
Friday 7 June, 2024 @ 6:30pm JST – 8:00pm JST – イギリスから「日本」を見る─セインズベリー日本藝術研究所による日本芸術文化の国際普及 Dr Ryoko Matsuba will give a talk on the history of the Sainsbury Institute, its research, and future challenges for international cultural exchange at a forum organized by the Ishibashi Foundation, which has supported the Institute’s projects since 2013.
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Ishibashi Foundation Digital Futures: Report on a Research Trip to Amsterdam
Following their previous visit to Paris in the spring, the group of young scholars involved in the Ishibashi Foundation Digital Futures Project embarked on their second research trip to Amsterdam from 14th – 17th June. Dr Eugenia Bogdanova-Kummer, Lecturer in Japanese Arts, Cultures, and Heritage at the Sainsbury Institute, organised and led the trip. The […]
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Research Assistantship for Digitisation of UK Japanese Collections, funded by Ishibashi Foundation
Since June 2022, the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures has launched the innovative ‘Ishibashi Foundation Digital Futures’ initiative. This initiative, generously supported by the Ishibashi Foundation, aims to establish pioneering digital platforms that forge connections between students, early career researchers, curators, and established specialists, granting them access to Japanese art […]
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Ishibashi Foundation Digital Futures: Report on a Research Trip to Paris
In late March, Ishibashi Foundation Digital Futures fellows Kuniko Matsui, Matthew Hitchmough, Stefano Turina, Wei Sun and Ishibashi Foundation Digital Project Officer, Yuhan Ji went on a research trip in Paris led by Sainsbury Institute Acting Director and Lecturer in Japanese Arts, Cultures, and Heritage, Dr Eugenia Bogdanova-Kummer. This is one component of the Ishibashi […]
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Report on a visit to the Phillips Library as part of the Ishibashi Foundation Digital Futures Project
In November 2022, Professor Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere, Dr Matsuba Ryoko and Yuhan Ji visited the Phillips Library in Rowley, Massachusetts as part of the Ishibashi Foundation Digital Futures Project. Home of the Edward Sylvester Morse Archive, the Phillips Library of the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) is a rare book and special collections library. Its expansive holding is made up of the […]
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[Closed] Call for Ishibashi Foundation Digital Futures Scholars: Archives of Postwar Japanese Art in Europe
The Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures together with the Centre for Japanese Studies at the University of East Anglia launches a new initiative in digital Japanese arts. Building on the successes of our previous Ishibashi Foundation Summer Fellowships and Online Summer Programmes in Japanese Arts and Cultures, this initiative will […]
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Ishibashi Foundation Digital Futures 22/23 – An Overview
The Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures (SISJAC) together with the Centre for Japanese Studies (CJS) at the University of East Anglia (UEA) launches a new initiative in digital Japanese arts. Building on the successes of our previous Ishibashi Foundation Summer Fellowships and Online Summer Programmes in Japanese Arts and Cultures, […]
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[Closed] Job Vacancy: Ishibashi Foundation Digital Project Officer at Sainsbury Institute
Applications are invited for the above post, which will be based in the Sainsbury Institute’s offices in the Cathedral Close, Norwich. You will undertake a variety of digital tasks across a range of Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures (SISJAC) projects and initiatives contributing to the Institute’s Digital Japan strand of […]
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Ishibashi Foundation Summer Fellowship in Japanese Arts and Cultures
On Saturday 22nd July, twenty two international scholars of Japanese arts and cultures arrived in Norwich to participate in the second Ishibashi Foundation Summer Fellowship. Organised by the University of East Anglia and the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures, and generously funded by the Ishibashi Foundation, the three week-long programme […]
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Ishibashi Foundation Summer Fellowship
The Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures, and the Centre for Japanese Studies at the University of East Anglia are now inviting applications for an intensive three-week postgraduate Ishibashi Foundation Summer Fellowship in Japanese Arts and Cultural Heritage. The academic leads on this programme are SISJAC’s Dr Jennifer Coates and Dr Eugenia Bogdanova-Kummer. Dates: […]
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The Fifth Ishibashi Foundation Lecture Series (2018)
Sunday 9 December, 2018 @ All Day – Tokiwamatsu Hall, Kokugakuin University Blades, Bushi and Benkei: Weapons and Warfare in Premodern Japan In association with the Organization for the Advancement of Research and Development, Kokugakuin UniversitySponsored by the Ishibashi Foundation Opening remarksMasuhisa Akai, President, Kokugakuin UniversityDavid Richardson, Chair of the Sainsbury Institute & Vice-Chancellor of UEA Lecture 1 Searching for the Swordsmen: A […]
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Ishibashi Foundation Lecture 4
Saturday 27 May, 2017 @ 1:00pm JST – 4:00pm JST – Fourth Ishibashi Foundation Lecture Series Japanese Tea as Culture, Japanese Tea as Product Doors open at 12:30 13:00-13:05　Opening remarks13:05-14:50　Session 1 – Lectures14:50-15:05　break15:05-16:00　Session 2 – Panel discussion VenueMuseum Hall, Kyushu National Museum4-7-2, Ishizaka, Dazaifu-CityTel: 050-5542-8600 Japanese tea culture is often considered to be one of the most unfathomable Japanese cultural phenomena for outsiders. However, recent research […]
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The Fourth Ishibashi Foundation Lecture Series (2017)
Saturday 27 May, 2017 @ 1:00pm BST – 4:00pm BST – Venue: Museum Hall, Kyushu National Museum Japanese Tea as Culture, Japanese Tea as Product Japanese tea culture is often considered to be one of the most unfathomable Japanese cultural phenomena for outsiders. However, recent research by scholars in the West show that the culture and history surrounding tea have been nurtured in a profoundly international […]
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The Third Ishibashi Foundation Lecture Series (2016)
Saturday 12 March, 2016 @ 1:30pm GMT – 4:30pm GMT – Japanese Gardens: To whom do they belong? Kyoto University of Art and Design. Room J41 Japanese gardens are deeply rooted in the intimate relationship between man and nature. Japanese gardens can be found throughout the world and provide space for joy and comfort. Since when, though, did the appeal of these gardens extend beyond Japan […]
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The Second Ishibashi Foundation Lecture Series (2014)
Saturday 25 October, 2014 @ 1:30pm BST – 4:00pm BST – Euro-Japanese Archaeological Exchangesfrom the 19th Century to Today Tokyo National Museum, Heiseikan Auditorium Lecture 1What the Foreign Specialist William Gowland Saw in the Burial MoundsSimon Kaner, Head, Centre for Archaeology and Heritage, Sainsbury Instituteabstract Lecture 2Molecular Archaeology: Investigating Diet, Food and Cuisine from Stonehenge to the Jōmon?Oliver CraigBioArCh, Department of Archaeology, University of Yorkabstract Panel […]
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Inaugural Ishibashi Foundation Lecture Series (2013)
Saturday 7 December, 2013 @ 2:00pm JST – Ishibashi Foundation Lecture Series: Euro-Japanese Exchange in the World of Creative Expression Fukutake Hall, The University of Tokyo, Hongo Campus SpeakersPaul Greenhalgh, Director, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts (video: begins at 4.11 mark) Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere, Research Director, Sainsbury Institute; Curator, The British Museum (video: begins at 58.22 mark) ModeratorOsano Shigetoshi, Dean, Faculty of Letters […]
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Ishibashi Scholarship: Study art history in Japan | CLOSED
Ishibashi Scholarship Ishibashi Scholarship for Graduate Students Majoring in Art History in Japan Ishibashi Foundation is offering a scholarship through Japan Educational Exchanges and Services (JEES) to graduate students who are planning to conduct research in art history in one of the selected universities in Japan. Amount and Duration of Scholarship 150,000 yen/month（Maximum duration: Two […]
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October 2026 message from the Executive Director
I am writing this en route from London to Fukuoka in northern Kyushu where I will be speaking at a conference on The Sacred Island of Okinoshima and Associated Sites of the Munakata Region World Heritage Site, where we will be concluding a Memorandum of Understanding with the Fukuoka Prefectural World Heritage Promotion Division to […]
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September 2026 message from the Executive Director
I hope you have enjoyed a restorative and relaxing summer break. In the UK we have endured some of the hottest weather on record and seen the smoke from wild fires over Norwich. Much of the country has officially been in drought (干ばつkanbatsu), only very recently alleviated by the welcome sound of pouring rain (ざあざあ振りzaazaafuri). […]
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July 2026 message from the Executive Director
I write this minutes after Samurai Blues were knocked out of the World Cup by a resurgent Brazil, after keeping us on tenterhooks, and highly entertained, well into the second half. Ah well, as they say in Japan どんまい、次は頑張ろ. As Naomi Osaka reminded us on the opening day of the Wimbledon season, though, Japan wins […]
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“Militia of Freedom”: The Art Pedagogy of Kitagawa Tamiji
Thursday 9 July, 2026 @ 6:00pm BST – 7:30pm BST – Keynote lecture for the Ishibashi Foundation Network Leader Fellowship Workshop, Alternative Paths in Japanese Arts, in person at The Town Close Auditorium, Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery, Castle Hill, Norwich, NR1 3JU, and online on Zoom. Free and open to all, booking essential. To check your time zone conversion if you are joining from outside […]
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In the Shadow of Empire: Art in Occupied Japan
Thursday 16 July, 2026 @ 6:00pm BST – 7:00pm BST – Keynote lecture for the Ishibashi Foundation Network Leader Fellowship Workshop, Alternative Paths in Japanese Arts, in person at the Khalili Lecture Theatre SOAS, London and online via Zoom. 50 min lecture followed by Q&A. Free and open to all, booking essential. To check your time zone conversion if you are joining from outside the UK, click here. […]
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Traversing the Transnational: A Report on the Sainsbury Institute’s May Events
In May, the Sainsbury Institute had one of its busiest weeks yet with various activities across Norwich and further afield in the UK. The events began with a workshop in Cambridge on Friday 07 and Saturday 08 May exploring “The Role of Heritage in Shaping Ontological Security in the Contemporary World”. Held in collaboration with […]
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How to Curate a Region? Japan, Asia, and the Politics of Display
Friday 29 May, 2026 @ 9:00am CST – 6:00pm CST – How to Curate a Region? Japan, Asia, and the Politics of Display is an international symposium bringing together scholars and curators from Latin America and Japan to explore a central question: how do exhibitions shape the idea of a region? Taking place on 29 May 2026 at El Colegio de México, the symposium will open […]
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April 2026 message from the Executive Director
As the clocks go forward and we get to enjoy lighter evenings, as well as cherry trees and magnolias in full blossom around the Norwich Cathedral Close, we are delighted to release details about our conference in honour of the memory of Toshio Watanabe (1945-2025), our Emeritus Professor of Japanese Arts and Heritage, on May […]
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Towards 150 years of Japanese archaeology and its broader Asian connections
Thursday 14 May, 2026 @ 6:30pm BST – 8:00pm BST – This lecture forms part of the Japan Studies: Past, Present and Future series in collaboration with the Royal Asiatic Society (RAS), and the Courtauld Institute of Art. In person lecture at the Royal Asiatic Society, 14 Stephenson Way London,NW1 2HD and online via Zoom. Speaker Professor Simon Kaner (Executive Director, Sainsbury Institute) About the Talk In 1877 […]
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February 2026 message from the Executive Director
I am writing from Cochin (Kochi) in Kerala, India, likely the ancient major port of Muzuris, mentioned in 1st century CE sources including Pliny the Elder and the Periplus of the Erythrean Sea, where we are wrapping up a fascinating fortnight of visits and meetings relating to our new research project on Japan and the […]
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November 2025 message from the Executive Director
October was a busy month for Japan: a first woman prime minister, a visit by Donald Trump, unprecedented encounters with bears, Sumo wrestlers in London (and at Stonehenge!). I spent much of the month in Korea and Japan: world heritage dolmens in Gochang (my distinguished forebear William Gowland noted the presence of these monuments during […]
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October 2025 message from the Executive Director
Autumn has arrived in the Cathedral Close, blown in on the wings of the first named storm of the season, Storm Amy. Fresh autumn breezes have also ushered in a new age in Japanese politics, with the election of Takaichi Sanae as the first female President of the Liberal Democratic Party and on track to […]
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June 2025 message from the Executive Director
Our most pressing task as June begins is to select our inaugural cohort of Ishibashi Foundation Network Leader Fellows. We have been delighted by the response to this new programme and with the deadline for applications just past, we are looking forward to reading all the proposals – although the decisions will doubtless be difficult. […]
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April 2025 message from the Executive Director
We are delighted to launch our new initiative, the Ishibashi Foundation Network Leader Fellowship programme in Japanese arts. Since 2014 when we held the inaugural Ishibashi Foundation Lecture Series in Tokyo, we have enjoyed a close relationship with the Foundation. The lecture series continued until 2018, and can be accessed here. We published a synthetic […]
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Dr Ryoko Matsuba
Sadly for the Institute, Ryoko leaves us this month to take up a newly established professorial position in Kyoto in a new Department of Art and Design at her alma mater, Ritsumeikan University. Ryoko has been with the Sainsbury Institute since 2018, when she curated our first major foray into the world of digital arts, […]
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January 2025 message from the Executive Director
Happy New Year! According to Japanese traditional belief, the Year of the Snake (巳) promises wisdom, adaptability and transformation, and is particularly associated with renewal, revival, and financial good fortune (encouraged by carrying a bit of snakeskin with you in some form): the snake is one of the incarnations of Benzaiten, the Goddess of Wealth […]