January 2023 Message from the Acting Director

I would like to wish a very Happy New Year of the Rabbit to all of our readers as we enter 2023. The Year of the Rabbit is thought to bring more calm and balance after last year’s Year of the Tiger, and we hope it will be a healthy and productive one! We ended […]

Report on the talk ‘A Diplomat’s Guide to the Geography of Japan’

On Thursday 25th December, the Sainsbury Institute welcomed his excellency, Paul Madden CMG, former British Ambassador to Japan and Special Adviser to UEA’s Centre for Japanese Studies (CJS), for the final Third Thursday Lecture of the year. As a special bonus for a select group of UEA students, Paul also kindly led an hour-long seminar […]

Workshop report – Re-thinking Japonisme: Digitisation of the V&A’s Collection of Japanese Ukiyo-e Prints and Illustrated Books and Researching Its Formation in the Late 19th Century

Thanks to the collaboration between the V&A, the Art Research Center at Ritsumeikan University (ARC) and the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures (SISJAC), a workshop as part of the project “Re-thinking Japonisme: Digitisation of the V&A’s Collection of Japanese Ukiyo-e Prints and Illustrated Books and Researching Its Formation in the […]

Publication Announcement – Okinawan Art in its Regional Context: Historical Overview and Contemporary Practice

The Sainsbury Institute is delighted to announce the publication of the second volume in our Occasional Paper Series, Okinawan Art in its Regional Context: Historical Overview and Contemporary Practice. The paper is the result of a conference supported by the Sainsbury Institute in October 2019 and organised by Dr Eriko Tomizawa-Kay which brought together researchers […]