Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures
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 […]
Dr Matsuba Ryōko’s March 2025 Third Thursday Lecture marked the end of her tenure at UEA and the Sainsbury Institute. She has taken up a professorship in Ritsumeikan University’s newly founded College of Arts and Design and Graduate School of Science in Arts and Design. We wish her every success as part of this exciting […]
From 17 to 21 February 2025, a five-day digitisation programme took place at the British Museum, focusing on the Japanese sword ornaments collection. This project was supported by the FY 2024 International Joint Research Fund from the Art Research Center at Ritsumeikan University (ARC). It was conducted by Dr Ryoko Matsuba during her time at […]
There is always a book for everyone’s taste. That was also the case in late 19th-century Japan, as I attested during my work on digitising part of the Victoria and Albert Museum’s (V&A) 19th-century Japanese books collection. Taking place between February 10 and 14, this programme was a joint project between the V&A’s Asia department […]