Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures
Tuesday 1 September, 2026 – Sunday 13 September, 2026 Exhibition at The Old Piano Shop Gallery, 19 St. Benedicts Street, Norwich NR2 4PE About the exhibition Behind the doors of Tokyo’s oldest family workshops, a generational change is taking place. Women in the traditional craft industry of Japan have long been working in the background […]
Saturday 27 September, 2025 – Sunday 25 January, 2026de Young / Legion of Honor fine arts museum of San Francisco First large-scale exhibition in the Americas to explore manga as an art form, features artists Akatsuka Fujio, Araki Hirohiko, Chiba Tetsuya, Oda Eiichiro, Tagame Gengoroh, Takahashi Rumiko, Tanaami Keiichi, Taniguchi Jiro, Yamashita Kazumi, Yamazaki Mari, […]
Wednesday 17 July, 2024 – Thursday 25 July, 2024The Shoe Factory, Norwich An exhibition by the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures in partnership with the Hokusai-kan Museum, Obuse. Co-curated by Dr Ryoko Matsuba – a report on the exhibitions is available here. This exhibition, building on the earlier displays for Hokusai: […]
Friday 5 July, 2024 – Saturday 13 July, 2024Wells Maltings, Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk An exhibition by the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures in partnership with the Hokusai-kan Museum, Obuse. Co-curated by Dr Ryoko Matsuba. Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) is perhaps Japan’s most renowned artist, particularly famous for his work The Great Wave off Kanagawa. […]
20 – 25 May 2024The Forum, Norwich A display and associated events by the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures in collaboration with Hasedera. A full report on the activities of the week can be found here. As part of the Japan in Norwich programme celebrating 25 years of the Sainsbury […]
Co-curated by Professor Simon Kaner, Executive Director of the Sainsbury Institute Circles of Stone: Stonehenge and Prehistoric Japan, on display at the Stonehenge Visitor Centre 30 September 2022 – 3 September 2023, celebrates the rich culture of prehistoric Japan. Through a number of exquisite objects, some seen for the first time outside of Japan, the […]
On display at Avebury, Wiltshire from May 2023. The prehistoric Jomon inhabitants of the Japanese archipelago constructed stone monuments which, although not megalithic, are comparable in area and function to the great stone circles of Avebury and Stonehenge. They were built and used over many years spanning multiple generations. They were used to mark time […]
19 May – 23 Sep 2018
Städtische Museen Freiburg, Germany
10 May – 23 Jun 2017
Centro Cultural Hispano-Japonés, Salamanca, Spain
11 – 15 Mar 2014
Asia House, 63 New Cavendish Street, London
7 Jun 30 Oct 2013
Corfu Museum of Asian Art, Greece
Exhibition, Partners EventThursday 18 Apr 2013 – Saturday 22 Jun 2013 | The Brunei Gallery, SOAS, University of LondonThornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG About the Workshop Tenri Central Library, in Japan, holds an extraordinary collection of rare books, including manuscripts and documents, about 1,830,000, roughly two-thirds of which are Japanese, Korean and Chinese […]
13 Nov – 16 Nov 2012
Assembly House, Norwich
4 Oct 2012 – 20 Jan 2013
British Museum, London
