Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures
With the wisteria above my front door about to burst into blossom, I recall many happy visits to gardens and parks in Japan at this time of year, and amid the less cheery news stories noted that the 150 year-old wisteria (fuji 藤 in Japanese) in the Ashikaga Flower Park in Tochigi prefecture bloomed early […]
Contemporary rice-inspired art, as well as the need for stewardship of rice paddies and their culture, formed the basis for this visually and conceptually rich pair of talks by Dr. Christine Guth, author and distinguished historian of Japanese art and design, and artist Isao Miura, originally from Akita prefecture in northern Japan and now based […]
In February 2019 I travelled to Japan in part to attend a conference about the potential inscription onto the World Heritage List of Amanohashidate, a landscape with a beautiful sand bar separating two bays, Miyazu and Ine, on the Sea of Japan. The relationship between the sandbar and its surrounding cultural heritage, and with the […]