Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures
I write this as I return from the 10th World Archaeological Congress held in Darwin in Australia’s Northern Territories. It was the final Congress presided over by the long-time friend of the Institute, Koji Mizoguchi, Professor of Social Archaeology at Kyushu University. Koji has been President of WAC for twelve years, and was also in […]
A significant collection of works and archives by the artist Morita Shiryū (1912–1998) was recently discovered in his family’s home in Kyoto, Japan. An online lecture by Dr Eugenia Bogdanova-Kummer was held during the project to survey this collection, remarkably within the very house where it was found, surrounded by newly uncovered materials. This rare […]
From 16 to 20 June 2025, a small group of researchers led by Dr Eugenia Bogdanova-Kummer (Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures) travelled to Uji, Kyoto Prefecture, to conduct archival research into the private collection of the prominent avant-garde calligrapher Morita Shiryū (1912–1998). The Morita archive has had a fragmented history—at […]