Dear Friends and supporters of the Sainsbury Institute,
We are bringing you the spring version of our e-magazine when it finally looks like winter might be coming to an end in England. While cherry trees in Japan were in full bloom during March, it was just last week when the ones in the Cathedral Close started to flower. In this edition, you will find the third and last installment of our interview with Dame Elizabeth Esteve-Coll, our trustee. Dame Elizabeth talks about her vision of the future of the Institute, encouraging us to move into new terrains for our research activities. We are pleased to present an article from another member of our Board, Professor Kawai Masatomo, who will introduce the Chiba City Museum where he serves as Director. There are many other interesting articles including one by our librarian Hirano Akira on the Cortazzi map collection. The library will celebrate its tenth anniversary this year with a special exhibition of these maps at the Embassy of Japan in London starting from late June. We hope you will all be enticed to visit the exhibition. – Mami Mizutori, Executive Director

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Issue 03 April 2013
Dear Friends and supporters of the Sainsbury Institute, We are bringing you the spring version... -
Fellows at the Sainsbury Institute
Maya Yamada A visit to the Lisa Sainsbury Library feels like a real treat. The... -
Custom and Culture: Japanese National Holidays
January, February, March April and May As we saw in Issues one and two of... -
The Sainsbury Institute Abroad
Exhibition: Arts of Fire, Transformation of Space: Masterworks of Contemporary Japanese Porcelain The opening of... -
Museums in Japan
Chiba City Museum of Art Professor Kawai Masatomo, Director of Chiba City Museum of Art... -
The Institute and Our Community
The Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society’s Library at the Institute The Sainsbury Institute is a... -
Interview with Founders and Staff
Dame Elizabeth Esteve-Coll: Part 3 Dame Elizabeth Esteve-Coll, the former Vice-Chancellor of University of East... -
Treasures of the Library
Do you know why Japan is called ‘Japan’ in English and not ‘Nihon’ or ‘Nippon’...