Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures
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 […]
On a sunny evening in a full room with many others joining online, the Sainsbury Institute welcomed Dr Clara Momoko Geber-Mérida (Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Fellow) for their June Third Thursday Lecture – the penultimate in their current academic programme. In this talk, Dr Geber-Mérida provided a fascinating insight into traditional craft (dentō kōgei) within […]