Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures
As this issue of our monthly e-bulletin reaches you, our Japanese colleagues will be enjoying Golden Week (春の大型連休), a cluster of national holidays including Shōwa Day, Constitution Memorial Day, Greenery Day and Children’s Day. And here in the UK we enter the spring bank holiday weekend, the first Monday in May being a national holiday […]
April’s Third Thursday Lecture was a fascinating and beautiful talk given by Singaporean art historian, Dr Eve Loh-Kazuhara, focusing on the little-known story of Tanaka Isson, who having been enrolled at the prestigious Tokyo School of Fine Arts, discarded what might have been an illustrious and much celebrated career in Japan’s mainstream art world for […]
My name is Sangmin Kim, and I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities Contents, specializing in Cultural Heritage (Archaeology), at Mokpo National University in Korea. From August 2024 to January 2026, I undertook an overseas research fellowship at the Sainsbury Institute. The Sainsbury Institute is dedicated to the study of Japanese and […]