Professor Emerita
Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere, Ph.D., is the founding Director and currently the Research Director of the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures and Professor of Japanese Art and Culture at the University of East Anglia, Norwich UK. She wrote Vessels of Influence: China and the Birth of Porcelain in Medieval and Modern Japan with Bloomsbury Academic in 2012 and translated Professor Tsuji Nobuo’s A History of Art in Japan with Tokyo University Press in 2018, re-issued by Columbia University Press in 2020, among numerous other publications. She was the lead curator for the Crafting Beauty in Modern Japan exhibition in 2007 featuring Moriguchi Kunihiko and his father’s yuzen kimono, and the Citi Exhibition Manga マンガ in 2019, both held at the British Museum where she was curator from 2008-2019. She is currently curator of the major exhibition, The Art of Manga, held in the San Francisco Art Museums in Autumn of 2025. She was made the Tottori Prefecture furusato ambassador in 2021.
Selected publications
- In 2010 she helped facilitate and translate the British Museum’s first manga, Hoshino Yukinobu’s Professor Munakata’s British Museum Adventure.
- In 2012 she wrote Vessels of Influence: China and the Birth of Porcelain in Medieval and Early Modern Japan (Bloomsbury Academic).
- Her recent translation of Tsuji Nobuo’s History of Art in Japan was published by Tokyo University Press and won the Japanese Translator’s award prize for 2018. In 2019 it has been reissued as a paperback from Columbia University Press.
- She has also had two major catalogues arising from exhibitions she has curated, including the Citi Exhibition Manga マンガ, and Art of Manga.