Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures
After our third bank holiday of the month here in the UK, I hope all our readers are feeling a little more rested and enjoyed the warmer weather last week. May was a busy month for the institute. On 10th May, colleagues at the institute visited the exhibition Circles of Stone: Stonehenge and Prehistoric Japan. […]
Following the release of the new publication ‘3000 Years of Human Happiness Theory: A Dialogue with Yamazaki Mari x Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere’, Professor Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere reflects on her first introductions with manga artist Yamazaki Mari, and how this latest project came into being. Yamazaki Mari’s (b. 1967) manga has enthralled me for some time. […]
We are delighted to congratulate Professor Kobayashi Tatsuo, Senior Advisor for Archaeology to the Sainsbury Institute, on his election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. This honour recognises Professor Kobayashi’s sustained contribution to bringing the archaeology of the Jomon period to a global audience. Professor Kobayashi was elected along with other luminaries in […]
I was very fortunate to be able to view the Sainsbury Institute Third Thursday lecture on May 18 by Dr. Alison Miller, titled: “Stations, Steam, and Speed: Railroads and the Spatial Imaginary in Nineteenth Century Japanese Woodblock Prints.” Dr. Miller’s talk explored woodblock prints as a critical space for the construction and circulation of discourse […]
2 JUNE – 7 JULY 2023The Alison Richard Building, Cambridge Kaori Yoshikawa | Makoto Morimura | Marie Nohara | Shin Ikeda | sonsengocchabacco | So Shimada | Hajime Wada Artworks often afford glimpses into the inner worlds of others: the forms and textures that populate artists’ minds. While some of the artists in this show […]
In April 2016, I joined the three-year AHRC funded research project ‘Late Hokusai–Thought, Technique and Society’, which was led by Timothy Clark, then Head of the Japanese Section at the British Museum, and Angus Lockyer, then Lecturer in the History of Japan at SOAS University of London. This project led to the major British Museum […]