Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures
Last week in the UK, the clocks went forward an hour hailing the beginning of British Summer Time (BST) and lighter evenings. While the weather remains somewhat overcast here in Norwich, we are hoping for sunnier days as we head closer to the summertime. At the end of March, we bid a very fond farewell […]
With great interest and attention, I attended the Sainsbury Institute Third Thursday lecture given on March 16th by Dr Mary Redfern entitled “Exemplary women, poets and prints – Untangling a surimono series by Yashima Gakutei”. Dr Redfern introduced a luxurious surimono series “Framed Paintings of Women for the Katsushika Circle” (葛飾連額面婦人合 Katsushikaren gakumen fujin awase) […]
From 27th February to 3rd March, the project to digitise the Japanese hanging scroll collections took place at the British Museum under the special guidance of Dr Ryoko Matsuba, Lecturer in Japanese Digital Arts and Humanities. This project, which is relevant to the British Museum’s research project: ‘Making art together in Japan 1780–1880’, was jointly […]
From the 16–27th of January 2023 the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Art and Cultures (SISJAC) in collaboration with the Art Research Center at Ritsumeikan University (ARC) ran a two-week programme aimed at digitising the British Museum’s extensive tsuba 鍔 (sword guard) collection. Under the leadership of Dr Ryoko Matsuba, Dr Akiko Yano […]