Newsletter2005-06 / issue 3 ken tadashi oshima

The signing of the cooperative research agreement in 2005 between the Sainsbury Institute and the Art Research Center (ARC), Ritsumeikan University at the Lisa Sainsbury Library in Norwich (left to right): Simon Kaner, Mami Hatayama, Masayoshi Genjö, Cassy Payne, Peter Yeoh, Masae Kurahashi, Ryö Akama, Ikuyo Matsumoto, Masatsugu Hongö, Masao Kawashima, Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere, John T. Carpenter, Princess Akiko of Mikasa, Jane Oksbjerg, Junko Mutö, Alan Jones, Hiromi Uchida, Sue Womack, Alice Livingstone, Akira Hirano

FROM THE DIRECTOR

agreement with Kyushu University, was facilitated by the strong support The past year which was inaugurated last year by a of the Embassy of Japan in the UK, in has been another series of lectures on archaeology in particular Ambassador Yoshiji Nogami. Fukuoka and Norwich. The commitment of funding means extremely busy and We are pleased to announce the that we can continue to support the commitment of generous funding to secondment of Hiromi Uchida to the fruitful time for the assist the British Museum raised by Japanese Section in the Department of Sainsbury Institute the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Asia at the British Museum. Industry, which is initially assured Among the past year’s highlights in both Norwich for three years. This crucial funding were the one-day workshop ‘Displaying Korea and Japan’ held at the British and London, as well Museum, and the Toshiba Lectures as at institutions in Japanese Art, presented by Louise Allison Cort at the British Museum abroad with whom and SOAS in London, and as part of the Third Thursday Lecture Series in we have embarked on Norwich. collaborative ventures. Finally, we would particularly like to express our thanks to the Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Charitable Trust Along with our affiliations to the for its continuing support of two University of East Anglia, the School of annual postdoctoral fellowships, and Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), to Haruhisa Handa for his sponsorship and the British Museum, we have of the Handa Fellow programmes in entered into new collaborative research Norwich and London. Most of all, we agreements with Japanese academic are deeply indebted to the unstinting institutions. In Kyoto, the Art Research support of Lady Sainsbury, and to the Centre (ARC) at Ritsumeikan University vision she and her late husband, Sir has drawn up an agreement with Robert, has bestowed on the Institute. n the Institute to cooperate on various Toshiba Lectures in Japanese Art poster for research and digital archive projects. ‘Towards A Better Tea Bowl: Art, Industry and Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere We have also signed a new collaborative Ambition in Seventeenth-Century Japan’ 02 Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures Lecture Series E FF I CL

TOSHIBA LECTURES IN JAPANESE ART AT R ENN An overarching theme of the Toshiba Lectures GL has been the illumination of a particular era of Japanese art through the eyes of an individual

artist or important cultural figure of the time. Louise Allison Cort

Morita set up a workshop where on In the course of Louise’s lectures, occasion he took his portable wheel audiences were introduced to a rich out to actually demonstrate the potting array of tea ceramics accompanied by process in daimyo drawing rooms. explanations as to how these objects With the 2005 lectures focusing captured the changing aesthetics and on ceramics, the Sainsbury Institute taste of the period. The products of the was honoured to be able to dedicate the Odo kilns were set in the context of series to the memory of Oliver Impey, the development of domestic Japanese former Keeper of Japanese Art at the ceramic manufacture and the influences Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, who from Korea and China. died in September 2005 after a battle The first lecture was given at the BP Masahiro Ogura, Menno Fiske with cancer. The first lecture in the Lecture Theatre in the British Museum. series was accordingly prefaced by a The series was introduced by Timothy In 2003, Donald Keene gave an account moving statement by Menno Fitski, Clark, Head of the Japanese Section in of the life and times of the Edo period Oliver Impey’s son-in-law and curator the Department of Asia at the British literati painter Watanabe Kazan, and at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, and Museum, and Masahiro Ogura of the following year John Rosenfield made we were grateful to Oliver’s widow, Jane Toshiba Europe. Monk Chōgen of the Nara period the Impey, for attending the lecture. The second lecture, on 14 November, focus of his presentations in London and was introduced by Craig Clunas, Norwich. Percival David Professor of Chinese Louise A. Cort, the speaker for last Art and Head of Department of Art year’s Toshiba Lectures in Japanese Art, and Archaeology at SOAS, and John continued in this vein by tracking the Carpenter, Lecturer in Japanese Art at activities of Morita Kyūemon, a talented SOAS and Head of the London Office of potter of the Tosa domain, who also the Sainsbury Institute. seemed to be particularly in tune with Louise travelled to Norwich to give important people and cultural trends the third and final talk in the series in throughout Japan at that time. Louise’s conjunction with the Third Thursday series of talks was invitingly entitled Lecture Series, supported by the Great ‘Towards a Better Tea Bowl’. Britain Sasakawa Foundation and the Morita Kyūemon initially set up a Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Charitable kiln in the relatively unknown town of Trust, was given in Blackfriars’ Hall in Odo, but was despatched to Edo in 1678 central Norwich. It was introduced by by Yamauchi Toyomasa, the fourth lord David Eastwood, Vice-Chancellor of of Tosa, a highly cultivated samurai the University of East Anglia and Chair who was a patron of Noh theatre. In the of the Board of Management of the course of his journey to the military Sainsbury Institute, and Nicole Coolidge capital Morita took in important kilns Rousmaniere. along on the way, including that of the The Sainsbury Institute is most son of Nonomura Ninsei. grateful to the Toshiba International In Edo he was taken under the wing Foundation for their generous of the tea master and cultural advisor sponsorship of the lecture series, and to the Tosa clan, Nishiyama Kyūbei. Donald Keene’s new book, Frog in the Well: to the Japan Society and the British Portraits of Japan by Watanabe Kazan, A portable potter’s wheel and a supply 1793-1841, is based on the Toshiba Lectures Museum for their assistance with of clay from Tosa was sent to Edo and Professor Keene gave in November 2003 promoting the lectures. n Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures 03 and Symposia

SYMPOSIUM DISPLAYING KOREA AND JAPAN WORKSHOP NAVIGATING THE MEIJI/VICTORIAN To mark Japan-Korea WORLDS Friendship Year, on 10 9 On 13 May 2005 the Sainsbury November 2005 a one- Institute co-organised a symposium with TrAIN (Transnational Art, Identity day public workshop & Nation) research centre at the Chelsea College of Art and Design. was organised by the This interdisciplinary workshop brought together scholars of archaeology, art Sainsbury Institute and architecture to examine aspects of and the Department the work of Christopher Dresser (1834- 1904), Edward Sylvester Morse (1838- of Asia at the British 1925) and Josiah Conder (1852-1920), Seunghye Sun Yukiko Shirahara three late nineteenth-century figures Museum on the theme who transcended national identity and at the British Museum, James Lewis academic specialisation. of ‘Displaying Korea from the Faculty of Oriental Studies at The diversity of Christopher and Japan’. the University of Oxford, spoke about Dresser’s work was presented by relations and comparisons between Korea and Japan from antiquity to the Nine speakers discussed topics relating present day. Gina Lee Barnes, Durham to the display of Korean and Japanese University, discussed how archaeology objects in museum contexts, including moves beyond the objects themselves the definition of Korea and Japan to understand the regional contexts of in the present and the past, special their production, circulation and use. considerations when displaying Asian Simon Kaner of the Sainsbury Institute objects outside their countries of origin closed the morning session by presenting and national cultural policies. the history of the Gowland collection of Following an introduction by Robert Korean and Japanese antiquities at the Left to right: Toshio Watanabe, Nicole Knox, Keeper of the Department of Asia British Museum as a case study. Coolidge Rousmaniere, Simon Kaner In the second session, Yukiko Ken Tadashi Oshima, who described Shirahara (a former Handa Fellow at the Dresser’s many roles as ornamentalist, Institute), described the collections and designer, collector, Modernist and exhibitions of Japanese and Korean art Victorian. Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere at the Seattle Art Museum where she spoke on Morse’s interest in Japanese is Curator of East Asian Art. Seunghye pottery and his association with the Sun, just arrived from the opening of the Peabody Essex Museum, while Simon Kaner discussed Morse’s contribution new National Museum of Korea where to Japanese archaeology and zoology. she is Curator of Japanese Art, gave an Toshio Watanabe, Director of TrAIN, introduction to the new museum and discussed the significance of Conder’s issues concerning the Japanese gallery. landscape gardening in Japan to both In the final session of the day, Japan and the West, while Timothy Beth McKillop, Anna Jackson, Jane Clark of the British Museum examined Portal and Timothy Clark talked about the collaboration between Conder with the collections for which they are the artist Kawanabe Kyosai. responsible in the Victoria and Albert To conclude the workshop, papers Museum and the British Museum. offering an Anglo-Japanese context The presentations were followed were given by Angus Lockyer of SOAS, who spoke on nineteenth-century by lively discussion from three museums, and by Princess Akiko of commentators, Louise Allison Cort Mikasa who focused on the collecting of the Smithsonian Institution, activities of William Anderson. n Poster of ‘Displaying Korea and Japan’ workshop Masatomo Kawai of Keio University, and at the British Museum Youngsook Pak at SOAS. n 04 Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures Recent News

collections on Japanese archaeology and cultural heritage. While the remit of the Lisa Sainsbury Library focuses on Japanese art and culture, many of our visitors want to know more about the Norwich and Norfolk setting of the Sainsbury Institute. We were delighted, therefore, when the Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society (NNAS), one of the oldest County Archaeology Societies in the UK, decided to place their library holdings, which date back over 150 years, on long-term loan with the Lisa Sainsbury Library. The ground floor seminar room at 64 The Close has now kham

r been converted to an additional reading ki ID room to house the NNAS Library. DA V The Library was awarded a major View of the Institute’s offices and the Lisa Sainsbury Library at 64 The Close, Norwich grant by the Metropolitan Foundation in Kyoto which has allowed us to THE LISA SAINSBURY LIBRARY purchase a number of important works, including a CD-ROM version of Kokka, Late last year, the Lisa Sainsbury Library in the major Japanese art history journal. We are grateful to the Metropolitan Norwich was presented with over 3,000 volumes Foundation, and to all of those who have donated books or copies of their recent on Japanese art and religion from the collection publications to the Library. n of the late Professor Taka Yanagisawa.

Professor Yanagisawa of the National of Japanese art from the collection he Cultural Properties Research Institute built over the time Sir Hugh was British (Tōbunken) in Tokyo was a leading Ambassor to Japan and in subsequent specialist in Buddhist art, and this years. collection represents a crucial addition We have also recently received over to our library. The donation has many 1,000 books on Japanese archaeology extremely rare or out-of-print books from Professor Gina Barnes of the on Japanese religious art not already University of Durham, which are included in the Sainsbury Institute currently being added to the online or SOAS libraries. Part of the former catalogue by our librarian Akira Hirano. Yanagisawa collection was also donated Other major donations include to the research library at the Asian Art art exhibition catalogues donated Museum in Seattle. As with previous by the cultural section of the Asashi major donations to the library, we are Shinbun in Tokyo. Also we have indebted to Masatomo Kawai of Keio entered into an agreement with Niigata University for facilitating this bequest. Prefectural Museum of History to Sir Hugh and Lady Cortazzi, who acquire collections of books on Japanese have already made generous donations archaeology. of early European maps of Japan and The Library collections have ukiyo-e prints as well as numerous rare continued to expand so rapidly that books on Japanese art, culture, and additional book stacks were needed, and diplomatic history to the Lisa Sainsbury a new store has now been completed at A rare book on the history of the East-India Company’s dealings with Japan dating to 1670, Library, have recently entrusted us with St Michael at Pleas, a short walk from 64 recently donated to the Lisa Sainsbury LIbrary by other important rare books and objects The Close. This building will house our Sir Hugh Cortazzi. Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures 05

JAPANESE GOVERNMENT DECORATION The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon, has been bestowed upon Dame Elizabeth Esteve-Coll, in recognition of her outstanding work to help promote Japanese culture and art studies in the UK and Europe.

The decoration was presented to Dame Dame Elizabeth was appointed to the Elizabeth by Ambassador Yoshiji Sainsbury Institute’s Board of Trustees Nogami on behalf of the Emperor and the Board of Management. She of Japan at a reception held at the has devoted herself to promoting and Ambassador’s residence in London on 28 publicising the Sainsbury Institute and November 2005. its activities, working closely with her Dame Elizabeth’s interests in counterparts at European and Japanese Japanese art and culture led her to help research institutes. Sir Robert and Lady Sainsbury establish From the very inception of the the Institute in 1999, and oversee its Sainsbury Institute, Dame Elizabeth creation and continuing development placed an emphasis on making its on a daily basis. She actively supported activities accessible to as many people Lady Sainsbury’s vision for the research as possible on many different levels. She centre. The Lisa Sainsbury Library, has helped organise and find funding which is already recognised as one of the for the highly-acclaimed Third Thursday leading libraries in Europe for the study Lecture series in Norwich, given both by Dame Elizabeth Esteve-Coll and Ambassador of Japanese art and archaeology, was the Sainsbury Institute staff and guest Yoshiji Nogami opened in 2002 under her supervision. speakers. n

DORAEMON IN NORWICH

9 Patricia Hiramatsu and her were displayed in trendy stores fans and Japanophiles who The Norwich phenomenon, husband, Kenji, Minister and aimed at young people. think kanji are trendy and wear however, seems a bit different. Consul-General at the Embassy We first noticed T-shirts with them without having any idea It seems to be the work of of Japan in the UK, travelled the names of Japanese cities of what they say is not new. someone who knows something to Norwich with their two written on the back, as if they In fact, the appeal of words more about Japan, someone daughters in November 2005. were football clubs: OSAKA written in foreign languages who has been there, liked what Patricia recently sent along 6, TOKYO 8, or KYOTO 8. as fashionable decoration she or he saw and is trying a letter with some of her first Surprised at our discovery, on clothes is also commonly to introduce it to a broader impressions of the city, which and wondering if anyone would seen in Japan where young audience who may not be yet she has kindly allowed us to really buy and wear such people often wear T-shirts interested in Japan at all. reprint here. things, we soon realised that featuring inscriptions they don’t The towel handbag is they were not some isolated understand. evidence of this. Doraemon, Our first trip to Norwich was specimens. In the same shop barely known abroad, would on a chilly November weekend we found a handbag made certainly have its place in a to visit the Sainsbury Institute out of towel with Doraemon shop for obsessive manga offices, which was followed by motifs, a pair of trainer boots aficionados, but here among a tour of the Cathedral and the with the inscription ‘Hanami’ Nike, Adidas, Puma, and other Close. Sunday morning was (flower viewing), jackets with upscale brands, the handbag free, so we wandered the city embroidered badges of 69 stands out as the odd find. centre where we unexpectedly UNIVERSITY TOKYU (an We still have yet to encounter came across shops selling imaginary university), and shirts Doraemon in London. But it was clothes and accessories with with meaningless combinations an unexpected and pleasant Japanese themes, such as of Japanese writing, and others surprise to find it comfortably funny images of Doraemon, the with more linguistically logical nestled in Norwich. n blue cat-robot manga character, phrases but still inscrutable. PATRICIA HIRAMATSU now a pop icon in Japan. They The phenomenon of anime Doraemon towel handbag 06 Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures Recent News

COOPERATIVE PROJECT WITH THE BRITISH MUSEUM SEMINAR SERIES DOES Hiromi Uchida of the Sainsbury Institute has HERITAGE continued to work in the Japanese Section of MATTER ? the Department of Asia at the British Museum. 9 On 21 September, as part of the 2005 Seminar Series sponsored by the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation Over the past year Hiromi has worked Following a major programme of on ‘The Arts, Culture and Society in in an administrative capacity to help refurbishment, the Japanese Galleries the UK and Japan’, the Sainsbury Institute, in cooperation with the Japan organise public education and outreach at the British Museum will reopen in Society, organised a special seminar programmes at the British Museum. autumn 2006 with a new permanent on the topic of ‘Does Heritage Matter: She has created courses on Japanese (but regularly rotating) exhibition Is the Past Serving the Present in woodblock prints for secondary schools called Perspectives on Japan. The newly Japan and Europe?’. Presenters at and a series of events in conjunction designed display spaces will incorporate the seminar comprised: Lord Rupert with the major international exhibition works from the Japanese collections Redesdale, Secretary of the All Party Kabuki Heroes on the Osaka Stage, at the Museum covering a wide Parliamentary Archaeology Group 1780-1830, held at the British Museum chronological range. Hiromi has been (APPAG); Köji Mizoguchi, Associate in 2005. closely involved with the planning of the Professor in the Graduate School She has also planned special new galleries on the administrative side of Humanities at Kyushu University; workshops for Club Taishikan with the of things, and with the development of Richard Hodges OBE, Professor at the School of World Art Studies and Embassy of Japan in London, which related education programmes. Museology at the University of East are intended to further understanding The funding for Hiromi’s Anglia (UEA) and Scientific Director of of Japanese arts and cultures through secondment to the British Museum has the Butrint Foundation; and John Mack, exposing young people to the Japanese been generously funded by the Japanese concurrently Professor of World Art collections at the Museum. Taking Chamber of Commerce and Industry Studies at the School of World Art and advantage of the Kabuki Heroes for a three-year period. We would like to Museology, University of East Anglia exhibition, most of the 2005 workshops especially thank the Embassy of Japan and Head of the British Museum’s focused on the theme of the culture of in London, and Ambassador Yoshiji International African Programmes. The performance in Japan. Nogami for his strong support. n seminar was chaired by Simon Kaner of the Sainsbury Institute. The four speakers addressed the significance of heritage and the role it plays in culture and society in Japan and Europe. In Europe, heritage is at the heart of the creation of a sense of place, but it is also often contentious, fraught with questions of contested ownership, access and meaning. In Japan, heritage sites rapidly become part of a naturalised milieu, unchallenged once established, their status helping them to become taken-for-granted. In both Europe and Japan, though, while spending on heritage is at record levels, heritage practitioners are being forced to be innovative in making heritage of relevance to the contemporary world. The lively discussion after the presentations considered the justification for public funds being made available for cultural heritage projects, the efficacy of heritage policies, and the appropriateness of representations of heritage in contemporary society. n Hiromi Uchida and Mavis Pilbeam show ukiyo-e to Club Taishikan students at the British Museum Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures 07

MANAGEMENT BOARD NEWS FROM THE DIRECTOR

9 Since its inauguration in 1999, the Sainsbury Institute has been guided in its mission by our Board of Management, including Dame Elizabeth Esteve-Coll, who we are proud to announce has recently been recognized by the Japanese government for her efforts to promote the study of Japanese art and culture in the UK (see story on page 5). Two members of our Board of Management will retire as of this year as they step down from their positions at their respective institutions to pursue other careers in academia. Professor David Eastwood, the Chair of the Board and Vice-Chancellor of the University of East Anglia, will shortly move on to head the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE). This summer, Professor Colin Bundy will complete his tenure as the Director and Principal of the School of Oriental Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere, with representatives from Idemitsu Museum of Arts, including (left to and African Studies (SOAS). We look right) Tsunehiko Wada, Masaaki Arakawa and Masato Naitö forward to welcoming their successors to the Board of Management. New members of the Board will Along with carrying out her administrative be offically announced later this year, but in the meantime we are honoured duties at the Sainsbury Institute and the British that Masatomo Kawai, Professor of Japanese Art History at Keio University, Museum, Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere has Tokyo, has kindly agreed to continue in his capacity as special advisor to the continued her research on the East Asian Sainsbury Institute. n porcelain trade and the history of Japanese art collecting in Europe.

Her forthcoming book, Vessels of systematic surveys of Japanese art Influence: Chinese Porcelain in Medieval collections in other European countries. Japan will be published as part of Along with her work on the history Duckworth’s Debates in Archaeology of ceramics, last year she lectured widely series. in Europe, including at Oxford Brookes Nicole also continues to work on University and at the conference at the a project in cooperation with Masaaki European Centre for Japanese Studies in Arakawa of the Idemitsu Museum of Alsace. In Japan, Nicole participated in Arts, Tokyo, to catalogue the entire the World Cultural Forum sponsored by collection of Japanese porcelain in the the Toshiba International Foundation British Museum, over 2000 pieces. As and a special conference at Nichibunken part of this project, next year she will in Kyoto sponsored by the Ministry of publish a volume introducing many of Education, Culture and Technology. the Museum’s most significant works in She is currently involved in planning 400 Years of Japanese Porcelain (British a workshop on craft in Japan and the Kawai Masatomo was a Visiting Scholar Museum Press). UK in conjunction with the Embassy of at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, last autumn and winter. The British Museum project is part Japan, scheduled to take place in London of a long-term goal to carry out other in autumn 2006. n 08 Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures Archaeology

JAPANESE ARCHAEOLOGY PROGRAMMES WORKSHOP

a symposium organised by graduate RADIOCARBON The programme students in archaeology. DATING IN JAPAN of research into Simon returned to Kyushu in August for a special symposium 9 A research workshop was held at Japanese archaeology marking the signing of the Consortium 64 The Close in Norwich in February Agreement between the Kyushu 2005 on the implications of new at the Sainsbury University COE and the other nine radiocarbon dates for Japanese Institute continues participating members and gave a paper archaeology. Shin’ichirö Fujio from the on ‘Aspects of the Internationalisation of National Museum of Japanese History gave an introduction to research being to develop apace, Japanese Archaeology’. undertaken by his museum into the In October 2005 Simon was invited complemented by chronology of the transition between the to participate in a Pre-Symposium for Jömon and Yayoi periods, traditionally recent major donations the Research Institute in Humanities dated to 2,300 years ago. and Nature (RIHN, Kyoto), a new New methods (including the and acquisitions of inter-university research institute. calibration of radiocarbon dates He is a core member of a major new obtained using accelerator mass books, journals and interdisciplinary project on Japanese spectrometry (usually abbreviated to site reports related to landscape archaeology and history, led AMS) suggest that the Yayoi period in by Junzō Uchiyama, which will include a Kyushu should now be regarded as Japanese archaeology series of research seminars at Sainsbury beginning around six hundred years earlier than previously thought, perhaps Institute. for the Lisa Sainsbury as early as 900 BCE. We will welcome Takeshi Ishikawa Other speakers included: Töru Library. to Norwich as our third Handa Japanese Miyao from the Niigata Prefectural Archaeology Fellow in June 2006. Museum of History; Öki Nakamura, Takeshi is a lecturer in archaeology Handa Fellow in Japanese Archaeology; On 14 January 2006 Simon Kaner at Kyushu University and specialist Jane Oksbjerg, a PhD student at SOAS organised a workshop at the World in Jōmon archaeology. We are very associated with the Institute; and Archaeology Congress (WAC) grateful to Haruhisa Handa and the Christopher Bronk Ramsey, Director Intercongress at the Osaka City International Jōmon Culture Conference of the Oxford University Radiocarbon Historical Museum, the first major for their continuing support of Japanese Dating Unit. n international archaeology congress archaeology at the Sainsbury Institute. n to be held in Japan for many years. In conjunction with this workshop, Simon Kaner and Lorenc Bejko of the International Centre for Albanian Archaeology visited museums and archaeologists in the Kanto and Kansai regions in preparation for a new Sainsbury Institute-ICAA collaborative project on prehistoric ceramic figurines. In February 2005 the Sainsbury Institute signed an agreement of research cooperation with the Kyushu University 21st Century COE Programme, Interactions and Transitions in East Asian History. The programme leader, Yuichirō Imanishi, visited Norwich with Kōji Mizoguchi. As part of the collaborative agreement, Simon Kaner and SOAS PhD student Simon Kaner visiting the excavation of the Yachi site (Final Jömon) in the Niigata Plain, with Jane Oksbjerg spent a week in May at archaeologists Öki Nakamura (Handa Archaeology Fellow 2003-05) and Yusuke Terasaki (Niigata Prefectural Archaeology Research Centre), August 2005. This is part of the Shinano River Project, a Kyushu University. Simon gave a series collaborative project of the Institute and the Niigata Prefectural Museum of History, in part sponsored of lectures and Jane participated in by the British Academy, investigating the historic landscapes of central Japan. Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures 09 Calligraphy

RESEARCH PROJECT JAPANESE CALLIGRAPHY AND COURT CULTURE ACTOR SURIMONO BY UTAGAWA KUNISADA Earlier this year the Art Research Center (ARC) at Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, and the Sainsbury Institute co-published a volume on calligraphy by emperors and empresses regnant of premodern Japan as part of a research project on Japanese calligraphy and court culture.

This publication is the result of weekly research seminars conducted at ARC during John Carpenter’s extended visits to Kyoto in 2003 and 2004. Along with John’s introductory essay,

Surimono by Utagawa Kunisada, Ichikawa ‘Handwriting Empowered by History: Danjürö VII as a Medicine Seller in front of The Aura of Calligraphy by Japanese a cartouche of Danjürö IV as Kagekiyo, ca. Emperors’, which surveys the entire 1818-20. Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge University, gift of E. Evelyn Barron in 1937. history of premodern shinkan (imperial calligraphy), the volume includes a fully 9 Iwata Hideyuki of Atomi University, illustrated catalogue of some thirty Saitama, Japan, has headed a examples of shinkan of the thirteenth to collaborative project researching nineteenth centuries from the collection surimono (privately published Japanese of the Fujii Eikan Bunko, which was prints) by Utagawa Kunisada and other recently bequeathed to Ritsumeikan ukiyo-e artists in various collections in University. Japan, Europe and the USA. For the Highlights of the collection include past few summers since 2002, John a section of the Hirosawa-gire by Carpenter (SOAS / Sainsbury Institute) and Ellis Tinios (Honorary Lecturer in Emperor Fushimi of the Kamakura the School of History, Leeds University) Period, poems on kaishi writing paper by Emperor Kōgon and other members have travelled with Professor Iwata on John T. Carpenter, with contributions by various occasions to view collections of the Northern Court inspired by Kawashima Masao, Genjo Masayoshi, and take photographs of prints and themes from the Lotus Sutra (designated Matsumoto Ikuyo and Kaneko Takaaki. The Fujii illustrated books. an Important Cultural Property), as Eikan Bunko Collection. Imperial Calligraphy After creating a digital archive of Premodern Japan: Scribal Conventions for well as several other examples of poems Poems and Letters from the Palace (193 pp; 145 of more than 500 images, the prints and letters by emperors and empresses illustrations, 10 in colour). have been fully catalogued and dated, regnant of the medieval and Edo with actors, roles and performances periods. All texts, including compostions identified when possible. This research in chirashigaki (scattered writing) format presentation entitled ‘Calligraphy of is the preliminary stage of a long-term Japanese Emperors: Scribal Conventions project to study and translate actor have been fully deciphered, and many surimono produced in Edo, with special waka composed at palace gatherings versus Individual Style’ . attention given to ukiyo-e artists’ have been translated into English. Copies of the volume are available interaction with kyöka poetry groups This project has been carried out by contacting the ARC office in Japan and kabuki fan clubs. The project has with primary funding from the 21st (www.arc.ritsumei.ac.jp) or through the been supported by the Nihon Gakujutsu Century COE (Center of Excellence) Sainsbury Institute office in Norwich. Shinkökai, Japan Society for the programme at the Art Research Center. An exhibition with highlights of Promotion of Science (JSPS). Other A digital archive of the collection was the Fujii Eikan Bunko, including a support for research travel has been also created by Takaaki Kaneko. At selection of the shinkan, will be held at provided by the Sainsbury Institute. n a colloquy held in Kyoto at the ARC the Hosomi Art Museum in Kyoto in the on 20 December 2005, John gave a summer of 2006. n 10 Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures Research Fellows

RECENT PUBLICATIONS AND OTHER NEWS As the Handa and Robert & Lisa Sainsbury fellowship programmes sponsored by the Sainsbury Institute pass the five-year mark, it is an apt time to reflect on the accomplishments of our past fellows, all of whom have continued to bring much distinction to the Institute through their ongoing research and publication projects as well as their other impressive Sandalwood shrine imported to Japan from professional successes. China by Kükai in 803. Collection, Mt. Köya Treasures Hall.

Morgan Pitelka, Luce Assistant ninth-century Buddhist monk Kūkai, Professor of Asian Studies, Occidental is scheduled for publication with the College, has recently published University of Washington Press in 2007. Handmade Culture: Raku Potters, She recently received a collaborative Patrons, and Tea Practitioners in Japan Getty Foundation Grant with Eugene (University of Hawaii Press, 2005), Wang from Harvard and Ian Astley which was one of the publication from the University of Edinburgh; in projects he worked on as our very a co-authored book they will examine first Robert and Lisa Sainsbury the ritual goods, art, and texts imported Fellow in 2001. He has also finished by Kūkai from China to Japan in the editing an anthology of essays with early ninth century. Bogel has also Jan Mrazek, tentatively entitled Lost received a research grant from the Japan Worlds: Situating Asian ‘Art Objects’ in Foundation. Under the auspices of the Ritual, Performance, and the Everyday, grant, she will be affiliated with Kyoto forthcoming from University of Hawaii University for the last nine months of Press. Morgan’s new research focuses 2007. on warrior culture, and is divided J. Keith Vincent (Sainsbury Fellow into two projects: first, a study of the 2001–02) is Assistant Professor of cultural practices and material legacy East Asian Studies and Comparative of Tokugawa Ieyasu, tentatively entitled Literature, New York University. He Shogun, Deity, National Hero: Tokugawa Morgan Pitelka, Handmade Culture: Raku recently translated Okamoto Kanoko’s Potters, Patrons, and Tea Practitioners in Japan novella A Riot of Goldfish (Kingyo Ieyasu and Japanese Culture; and second, (University of Hawaii Press, 2005) an edited volume entitled Alternative ryōran, 1937) for a gorgeous book Histories of the Samurai: Social and Kingyo: The Artistry of Japanese Goldfish Cultural Practices of ‘Warriors’ in Seattle Asian Art Museum are Beyond (Kōdansha International, 2004), which Premodern Japan. the Paper Plane: Japanese Prints from the features hundreds of pages of images of Yukiko Shirahara, John A. McCore 1950s to 1970s (Sept. 2004–June 2005) goldfish. Keith’s essay ‘Hamaosociality: Foundation Associate Curator of and Elegant Earth: Photographs by Johsel Narrative and Fascism in Hamao Shiro’s Asian Art at the Seattle Art Museum Namkung (May–Aug. 2006). The Devil’s Disciple’, originally presented (Handa Fellow 2000–01) was awarded Cynthea Bogel (Sainsbury Fellow at the Japan Research Centre, SOAS, will the Patterson Sims Fellowship for 2004 2001–02) has recently been promoted be published in Culture and Fascism in by the Seattle Art Museum, an annual to Associate Professor of Art History Interwar Japan (Duke University Press, fellowship awarded to a curator who was at the University of Washington, forthcoming). He is also finishing up a outstanding in curatorial work in a given Seattle. Her book on Buddhist visual book manuscript entitled Two-Timing year. Among recent and forthcoming culture and representational forms Modernity: Homosocial Narrative in exhibitions Yukiko has organized for and practices associated with the Modern Japanese Fiction. Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures 11 and Associates

Mutö Junko (Handa Fellow 2001–02) Julie Nelson Davis (Sainsbury language exhibition catalogue, Osaka last year was awarded the Kokka Prize, Fellow 2002–03) is Assistant Professor kabuki: Kamigata yakusha-e to toshi one of the most prestigious annual of Art History at the University of bunka, based on the British Museum awards for books dealing with Japanese Pennsylvania. She has recently published catalogue written and edited by Drew art. The volume, entitledShoki ukiyo-e a number of essays on ukiyo-e, Gerstle, Timothy Clark and Akiko Yano to kabuki (Kasama Shoin, 2005), was including: ‘Artistic Identity and Ukiyo-e (British Museum Press, 2005). Akiko the result of her work in London. The Prints: The Representation of Kitagawa has also been carrying out research on volume includes the full version (in Utamaro to the Edo Public’, in Melinda the late eighteenth-century Osaka artist both Japanese and English) of a paper, Takeuchi, ed., The Artist as Professional Ryukosai Jokei under the auspices of a ‘Listening to Pictures in Early Ukiyo-e: in Japan (Stanford University Press, grant from the Ota Memorial Ukiyo-e Single-sheet Prints and Printed Libretti’ 2004); ‘Diversions in the Floating World: Museum. She is also working to finish which she presented at the Early Ukiyo- Selected Ukiyo-e Prints from the Bergen up her PhD thesis from Keio University, e: New Perspectives workshop held in Museum of Art’ in Ukiyo-e: Bilder fra which she plans to submit early next London in 2002. Along with various den Flytende Verden (Pictures from the year. essays on actor prints published in Floating World) (Bergen Kunstmuseum, Timon Screech, Reader in the Japanese, a short essay by Junko on 2004); and ‘Kitagawa Utamaro and his History of Japanese Art, SOAS and theatrical prints was recently published Contemporaries, 1780-1804’ in Amy Chair of the Japan Research Centre, in Ukiyo-e, an English version of the Newland, ed., The Hotei Encyclopedia of has published modern English editions catalogue of an ukiyo-e exhibition held Japanese Woodblock Prints (Amsterdam: of two books composed by European in Milan, edited by Gian Carlo Calza Hotei Publishing, 2005), for which she travellers to Japan in the mid-Edo (Phaidon, 2005). also served as a special advisor. Julie’s period: Japan Extolled and Decried: Mikiko Hirayama (Sainsbury Fellow book manuscript on Kitagawa Utamaro Carl Peter Thunberg and the Shogun’s 2001–02) now teaches history of East (1753?-1806) will be published by Realm, 1775–1796 and Secret Memoirs of Asian art at the University of Cincinnati. Reaktion Books in 2007. the Shoguns: Isaac Titsingh and Japan, Along with working on various long- Akiko Yano (Handa Fellow 2003- 1779-1822 (both published in 2005 by term publication projects, she was a co- 04) worked as a Research Assistant for Routledge, London). The research for translator of Not a Song Like Any Other: the exhibition Kabuki Heroes on the these books, including for their extensive Anthology of Mori Ogai (University Osaka Stage: 1780-1830, which was annotations and introductions, was of Hawaii Press, 2004), for which she held in 2005 at the British Museum supported by the Sainsbury Institute contributed the English translation of and at venues in Osaka and Tokyo. She during his tenure as Senior Associate Ogai’s art criticism. also translated and edited a Japanese- from 1999 to 2004. He has also recently R. Keller Kimbrough (Sainsbury Fellow 2002-03) will take up a new position at the University of Colorado at Boulder beginning in August 2006. He is currently spending a sabbatical year as Visiting Research Fellow at the Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture at Nanzan University in Nagoya. Keller’s book Preachers, Poets, Women and the Way: Izumi Shikibu and the Buddhist Literature of Medieval Japan will be published next year by the Center for Japanese Studies at the University of Michigan. Forthcoming articles include: ‘Murasaki Shikibu for Children: The Illustrated Shinpan Murasaki Shikibu of ca. 1747’ (Japanese Language and Literature, spring 2006) and ‘Tourists in Paradise: Writing the Pure Land in Medieval Japanese Timon Screech, Japan Extolled and Decried: Fiction” (Japanese Journal of Religious Muto Junko, Shoki ukiyo-e to kabuki (Early Carl Peter Thunberg and the Shogun’s Realm, Studies, fall 2006). Ukiyo-e and Kabuki) (Kasama Shoin, 2005) 1775-1796 (Routledge, 2005) 12 Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures Research Fellows

RECENT PUBLICATIONS + OTHER NEWS CURRENT FELLOWS

published an article in The Art Bulletin, Architecture at the University of ‘“Pictures (the Most Part Bawdy)”: The Washington. Ken has just started During the 2005–06 Anglo-Japanese Painting Trade in the teaching courses in architectural history academic session, by Early 1600s’ (March 2005), and Edo no and design with a focus on Japan. The igirisu netsu: Rondon-bashi to rondon- exhibition ‘Crafting a Modern World: coincidence, all three dokei (Edo Enthusiasm for England: The Architecture and Design of Antonin London Bridge and the London Clock), and Noémi Raymond’ that he co- of our London-based translated by Murayama Kazuhiro curated will open at the University of research fellows, (Kōdansha, 2006). Since summer 2004 Pennsylvania in June (to be accompanied Timon is also Permanent Visiting by a full-length book, Princeton Masaaki Morishita, Professor at Tama University of the Arts, Architectural Press). He is currently Tokyo, concurrently with his SOAS post. completing a monograph on the design Alicia Volk and Shane McCausland (Sainsbury and writings of architect Arata Isozaki Gennifer Weisenfeld, Fellow 2003-04) has been appointed to be published by Phaidon in 2007. Curator of the East Asian Collections at Matsumoto Ikuyo, a researcher are working on topics the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin. in the history of medieval Japanese Amongst other projects, he is managing Buddhism based at the Art Research related to modern and the HUMI (Humanities Media Interface) Center, Ritsumeikan, spent three contemporary Japan. Project at the Library in cooperation months in summer 2005 as a visiting with Keio University. This long-term scholar based at the London office of project involves digitizing about eighty Sainsbury Institute. She has recently Masaaki Morishita (Handa Nara e-hon illustrated books and scrolls published Chūsei ōken to sokui kanjō Fellow 2005-06) is working on a in the collection of the Chester Beatty (Imperial Authority and Accession monograph based on his PhD thesis Library, most of which date to the early Initiation Rituals in Medieval Japan: (Open University, 2003) tentatively Edo period. His research while at the Historical Evidence from Buddhist entitled The Empty Museum: Western Institute has recently borne fruit in Texts) (Shinwasha, 2005). The volume Cultures and the Artistic Field in the form of a substantial article in The discusses approaches to the study of Modern Japan (Ashgate, forthcoming). Art Bulletin (December, 2005) entitled imperial accession rituals associated In February 2006 he presented a paper ‘Nihonga Meets Gu Kaizhi: A Japanese with Shingon sects in medieval times, ‘Empty Museums: Transculturation Copy of a Chinese Painting in the British and introduces documentary evidence and the Development of Public Art Museum’. concerning early esoteric iconography. Museums in Japan’ at a Japan Research Tamaki Maeda (Sainsbury Fellow While in London, Ikuyo gave a Centre seminar at SOAS. In March 2004-05) has continued to work on a presentation on her recent research at he participated in a symposium, book manuscript entitled Crossing the a symposium ‘Foundation Myths in ‘What a Difference a Region Makes: Border: Tomioka Tessai and Literati Japan’, sponsored by the Centre for the Cultural Studies/Cultural Industries in Painting in the Early Twentieth Century, Study of Japanese Religions at SOAS. n East Asia’, organised by the Japanese a study of the Sino-Japanese artistic Cultural Studies Programme at Birkbeck exchange that took place between the College and the Asia-Pacific Cultural fall of Qing China and the beginning of Studies Forum at Goldsmiths College. the Asian-Pacific War. Her forthcoming He has also been giving lectures on articles include ‘From Feudal Hero museology and cultural heritage for to National Icon: An Iconology of the continuing education programme the Kusunoki Masashige Image, 17th at Birkbeck College/British Museum Century to 1945’. Tamaki has just (Diploma in World Arts and Artefacts) accepted a two-year postdoctoral and the postgraduate programme at fellowship at Wellesley College, a liberal King’s College (MA in Cultural and arts college in the Boston area. Creative Industries), as well as in MA Ken Tadashi Oshima, upon the seminar courses at SOAS. His recent completion of his two-year stay in publications include ‘The Iemoto System London as research fellow at the Maeda Seison, Viewing Paintings (Kan ga), Kyoto and the Avant-garde in the Japanese Institute, moved to Seattle in summer Municipal Museum of Art, an image discussed in Shane McCausland, ‘Nihonga Meets Gu Kaizhi: Artistic Field: Bourdieu’s Field Theory in 2005 to assume a new post as Assistant A Japanese Copy of a Chinese Painting in the Comparative Perspective’ in Sociological Professor in the Department of British Museum’, The Art Bulletin (Dec. 2005). Review (May, 2006). Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures 13 and Associates

for 2006–07 for continued research Sachiko Idemitsu, Handa Fellow on the book manuscript she is writing 2004–06, is concurrently a Curatorial based on her dissertation. Alicia has also Assistant in the Japanese Section of recently accepted a position as Assistant the Department of Asia at the British Professor of Japanese Art History at the Museum. While based in the UK she has University of Maryland, College Park, also been conducting surveys of literati where she will begin teaching in the paintings in other European collections. autumn of 2007. Her recent publications include: ‘Ike Gennifer Weisenfeld, Associate no Taiga hitsu Seikō Shunkei Sentō Professor of Art History of at Duke kanchō-zu byōbu no shûdai kōsatsu: University, has recently presented a Zuyō to bungaku teki tenkyō o saguru’ series of lectures in the UK, including (Spring Views of the West Lake and one for the Transnational Art Identity Tidal Bore on the Qiantang River by Ike and Nation (TrAIN) research centre no Taiga : Pictorial Motifs and Literary seminar series at Chelsea College of

kham Sources), Museum 599 (2005); and ‘The r

ki Art and Design, which was based on

ID Birth of True Views in Nanga School:

DA V ‘From Baby’s First Bath: Kao Soap Hyakusetsu Genyō’s Wondrous Scenery Clockwise from top-left: Gennifer Weisenfeld, and Japanese Modern Commercial of Kinosaki’ in Kajima bijutsu kenkyû Alicia Volk, Sachiko Idemitsu, Masaaki Morishita Design’, an essay recently published nenpo 22 (2005). In September 2005, in The Art Bulletin (September 2004). Sachiko presented a talk in Norwich as Alicia Volk has been revising her Yale She also gave a lecture based on recent part of the Sainsbury Institute’s Third PhD thesis, ‘The Japanese Expressionist: research, ‘Art and Disaster in Japan: Thursday Lecture series: ‘Mt Fuji in Yorozu Tetsugorō and the Language Picturing the Great Kanto Earthquake China? Ike no Taiga’s Innovative Views of Modern Art’, into book form. She is of 1923’, for the Japan Research Centre, of Japanese Landscape’. Earlier this also preparing a paper on ‘The Problem SOAS. In April 2006 she gave a talk spring she submitted to Keio University of the Print in Postwar Japanese Art’, entitled ‘Reinscribing Tradition in a in Tokyo her doctoral dissertation which is based on research she did for Transnational Art Market: Asian Art examining mid-18th century Chinese- her recent publication Made in Japan: in the 21st Century’ at the conference Japanese relations through a study of The Postwar Creative Print Movement ‘Asian Art History in the Twenty-First Japanese scholar landscape paintings, (University of Washington Press, 2005). Century’, co-organized by the Sterling particularly those by Ike no Taiga and In October Alicia presented a paper and Francine Clark Art Institute Obaku Zen preists. n entitled ‘The Expressionist Aesthetics and the Asia Society. She will also of Taishō Modernism – In Pursuit of present a paper ‘Japanese Commercial Universalism’ at ‘The Space Between: The Photography and the Modernist Cartographic Imagination of Japanese Imagination’ at a symposium in July Modernism’ conference at the University organized by the Victoria and Albert of California at Berkeley. In January Museum in conjunction with their 2006 she gave a lecture entitled ‘Subjects exhibition Modernism: Designing a in Japanese Art History: Reading and New World 1914-1939, which opened in Writing the Modern’ for the Japan April 2006. Gennifer has just published Research Centre and Department of Art ‘Women and Words: Two Language and Archaeology at SOAS. Alicia has just Artists in Contemporary Japan’, in been awarded two research grants. One Dora C.Y. Ching, ed., Persistence/ is a Japan Research Grant sponsored Transformation: Text as Image in the Art by the Center for Historical Studies at of Xu Bing (P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang the University of Maryland at College Center for East Asian Art, Department Park, for a future research project of Art and Archaeology, Princeton using the holdings of the university’s University in association with Princeton Prange Collection (the world’s largest University Press, 2005). She is currently Occupation-period archive) entitled working on two book projects: one on ‘Democratizing Japanese Art, 1945– modern Japanese commercial design: 1960’. The other is a Getty Foundation and the other on cultural responses to A Taiga painting discussed by Sachiko Idemitsu Non-Residential Postdoctoral Fellowship the Great Kantō Earthquake of 1923. in a recent article in Museum 599 (2005) 14 Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures Third Thursday

50TH THIRD THURSDAY LECTURE In December 2005 we celebrated the fiftieth in our ever-popular Third Thursday Lecture series with a lecture by the Director of the Institute.

In her talk, ‘Dynamism in Innovation: Louise Allison Cort, from the Freer We also are grateful as always to our Re-examining Japanese Porcelain in and Sackler Galleries, Smithsonian colleagues at SOAS, including Drew the 17th Century’, Nicole Coolidge Insitution in Washington, D.C., gave a Gerstle, John Breen, Lucia Dolce and Rousmaniere brought to a close another lecture in Norwich as the third and final Angus Lockyer, for journeying up from year of these lectures which represent a presentation in the Toshiba Lectures. London to share their recent research. major outreach project for the Sainsbury In March 2006 we were especially Institute, through which we disseminate pleased to welcome to Norwich Josef knowledge about Japanese arts and Kreiner, Director of the Institute of cultures in all their diversity to a wide Japanese Studies at the University of audience from Norwich and much Bonn, for the first lecture we have had further afield. on the culture of the indigenous people Along with the lectures given by of Hokkaidō and northern Honshū, ‘The members of Sainsbury Institute affiliated Ainu of Japan: European images of an staff and fellows, guest speakers in enigmatic people’. 2005 included Joy Hendry from Oxford The Sainsbury Institute and our Brookes University, who gave an Third Thursday audiences are deeply illuminating and entertaining excursion grateful to the Great Britain Sasakawa into the world of Japanese theme parks Foundation and the Robert and Lisa from an anthropological point of view Sainsbury Charitable Trust for their in ‘The Orient Strikes Back: Park-sized High-footed, moulded dish with hare, moon and ongoing support of this important Pavilions of the Late 20th Century’. waves, Nabeshima ware, The British Museum lecture series. n

THIRD THURSDAY LECTURES / NOVEMBER 2001 – MARCH 2006

15 November 2001 16 May 2002 19 December 2002 19 June 2003 Simon Kaner Victor Harris / The British Museum Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere R. Keller Kimbrough Sainsbury Institute William Gowland: An Amateur Sainsbury Institute Colby College / Sainsbury Fellow Japanese Archaeology: A Comparative Archaeologist in Old Japan Kazari: Japanese Decoration and Preachers, Poets, and the Popular Perspective Design, 15th to 19th Centuries Fiction of Medieval Japan 20 June 2002 20 December 2001 Ellis Tinios / University of Leeds 16 January 2003 17 July 2003 Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere ‘Art Books’ in Early Nineteenth-Century John T. Carpenter Peter Kornicki Sainsbury Institute Kyoto SOAS University of Cambridge Japanese Ceramics: A Sixteen- Sainsbury Institute Women Readers in Seventeenth-Century Thousand-Year Legacy 18 July 2002 Poetic Inscriptions on Japanese Japanese Prints and Paintings Gina Lee Barnes Courtesan Paintings 17 January 2002 University of Durham 21 August 2003 John T. Carpenter Links Between Ancient Japan and Korea 20 February 2003 Sir Hugh Cortazzi SOAS+Sainsbury Institute Simon Kaner Former British Ambassador to Japan Early Ukiyo-e and Poetic Imagination 15 August 02 Sainsbury Institute Early Maps of Japan Hideyuki Iwata / Atomi University Salmon, Jade and Monuments in 21 February 2002 Kabuki and Actor Prints Prehistoric Japan 18 September 2003 Timon Screech John T. Carpenter SOAS+Sainsbury Institute 19 September 2002 20 March 2003 SOAS+Sainsbury Institute Royal Cult of the Shoguns: The Marie Therese Barrett Julie Nelson Davis ‘Amusements in a Mansion’: Mausoleum Complex at Nikko Independent Lecturer University of Pennsylvania Social rebellion and the Fashionable Japonism: The Influence of Japanese Sainsbury Fellow Life in 17th-century Genre Painting 21 March 2002 Aesthetics on the West Utamaro and the City of Prints Lady Julia Boyd 16 October 2003 Wife of the former 17 October 2002 17 April 2003 Minister Haruhisa Takeuchi British Ambassador to Japan Akio Kobayashi / Visiting Fellow Sebastian Dobson Embassy of Japan Hannah Riddell: a nineteenth-century The Gloom of a Japanese Novelist: Independent Lecturer Early Japanese Travellers Who Never English missionary in Japan Soseki Natsume and English Literature Daimyo & Daguerrotypes: Made it Home Perception and Reality in Early 18 April 2002 21 November 2002 Japanese Photography 20 November 2003 Mikiko Hirayama Lawrence Smith Donald Keene / Shincho Professor University of Cincinnati Former Keeper of Japanese Antiquities, 15 May 2003 Emeritus, University of Columbia Sainsbury Fellow The British Museum Carmen Blacker Watanabe Kazan: Painter & Martyr: Painting’s Evil Twin?: Illuminations on Japanese Prints during the Allied University of Cambridge Confucian Politician and Literati Early Japanese Photography Occupation 1945-52 Japanese Ghosts Painter Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures 15 Lecture Series adyen cf ew m r and

Josef Kreiner delivers a Third Thursday lecture on ‘The Ainu of Japan’ in the thirteenth-century setting of the Great Hospital, Norwich

THIRD THURSDAY LECTURES / NOVEMBER 2001 – MARCH 2006

18 December 2003 15 July 2004 17 February 2005 15 September 2005 Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere Shane McCausland Ken Tadashi Oshima / Sainsbury Fellow Sachiko Idemitsu / Handa Fellow Sainsbury Institute Sainsbury Fellow Christopher Dresser and the ‘Japanese Mt. Fuji in China? Ike no Taiga’s The Japanese Passion for Blue in Painting for Asia: The Chinese World of Idea of Symmetry’ Innovative Views of Japanese Porcelain Two Nihonga artists Landscape 17 March 2005 15 January 2004 19 August 2004 John Carpenter 20 October 2005 Timon Screech / SOAS Sandra Sheckter SOAS / Sainsbury Institute Angus Lockyer / SOAS Anglo-Japanese Painting Exchanges in University of East Anglia Imperial Calligraphy of Medieval Japan Exhibiting Japan, 1862-2005 the Early 17th Century The Lure of Lacquer: Japan Mania in the 18th and 19th Centuries 21 April 2005 17 November 2005 19 February 2004 Tim Clark / The British Museum Louise A. Cort / Freer and Sackler Timothy Clark / British Museum+ 16 September 2004 Ready for a Close-up: Likenesses of Galleries, Smithsonian Institution Sainsbury Fellow Toshio Watanabe Kabuki Actors in Edo and Osaka 1750- Screens, Pots and Dried Fish: Regime Change in Japan, 1786-7, and Chelsea College of Art and Design 1850 Inventing Official Gifts the Floating World Buddhism and the Construction of Japanese Art History 19 May 2005 15 December 2005 18 March 2004 Tamaki Maeda / Sainsbury Fellow Nicole Rousmaniere / Sainsbury Institute Simon Kaner / Sainsbury Institute 21 October 2004 Literati painting in Modern Japan Dynamism in Innovation: Re-examining Medieval Archaeology in Japan Ellis Tinios / University of Leeds Japanese Porcelain in the 17th Century An Introduction to the Illustrated Book 16 June 2005 15 April 2004 in the Tokugawa Period 1615-1868 Lucia Dolce / SOAS 19 January 2006 Drew Gerstle / SOAS Esoteric Turns: Ritual Appropriations Simon Kaner / Sainsbury Institute Creating Celebrity: Kabuki Actors, 18 November 2004 and the Creation of Buddhist Icons in The Painted Tombs of the Early Poets, & Artists John M. Rosenfield Medieval Japan Japanese State Harvard University 20 May 2004 Salvation in the Pure Land of the West 21 July 2005 16 February 2006 Anna Jackson / Victoria & Albert Museum Joy Hendry Gennifer Weisenfeld / Duke University The Fashion for the Foreign: The Taste 16 December 2004 Oxford Brookes University +Sainsbury Fellow for Exotic Textiles and Dress Simon Kaner / Sainsbury Institute The Orient Strikes Back: Park-Size From Baby’s First Bath: Kao Soap and in Momoyama and Edo Period Japan Reflections on Jomon Japan pavilions of the late 20th century Japanese Modern Commercial Design

17 June 2004 20 January 2005 18 August 2005 16 March 2006 Ken Tadashi Oshima / Handa Fellow John Breen / SOAS Drew Gerstle / SOAS Josef Kreiner / University of Bonn A Tale of Three Pavilions: From Norwich Calendars, Almanacs and the Practice Kabuki Heroes on the Osaka Stage The Ainu of Japan: European Images of to the World of Everyday Life in Tokugawa Japan 1780-1830 an Enigmatic People 16 Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures Upcoming Events

POSTGRADUATE WORKSHOP IN JAPANESE ART HISTORY THE BRITISH MUSEUM REOPENING OF THE JAPANESE GALLERIES

9 Timothy Clark, Head of the Japanese Section in the Department of Asia at the British Museum, has recently been working towards the reinstallation of the Japanese Galleries, which will reopen in September 2006. He has been assisted in the research and selection of objects for the opening displays by Nicole Rousmaniere and Simon Kaner of the Sainsbury Institute. The refurbished galleries will give the museum a chance to re-present in a new way its collections that relate to Japan. Perspectives on Japan, as the newly-designed exhibition space will be called, will consist of a sequence of significant stories told by fascinating A map of India and East Asia by Abraham Ortelius, published in Antwerp, 1570-71, from the map objects. The dynamic relations between collection of Sir Hugh Cortazzi currently on view at the Lisa Sainsbury Library, Norwich. the art, artefacts and history within and without the remarkable cultures of Japan are explored from many Students from Japan, Europe and the USA will angles. Particular emphasis is given to gather this June for the Postgraduate Workshop continuities. Sometimes, however, the long, often unbroken threads of ancient in Japanese Art History (PWJAH), hosted in cultural forms collide with the modern in surprising ways. The displays will the UK by the Sainsbury Institute. reconnect the history of Japan with East Asia and, for more recent times, with the The workshop has taken place seven discussion periods at the St. Gabriel’s wider world. times since its inception in 1987, under Conference Centre in Ditchingham, Entering the newly refurbished the name of JAWS (Japanese-American Suffolk, and SOAS, University of galleries, the visitor is welcomed Art Workshops). The new name reflects London. Visits to private and public by the statue of a Buddhist saviour deity, ‘Kudara Kannon’, an actual-size the expansion of participation to include Japanese art collections in the UK have replica of the famous eighth century students from European universities, also been scheduled. A full roster of National Treasure, made for the British though the workshop will continue participants and titles of presentations is Museum in the 1920s. A ‘Time Line’ to promote the goals established by available on the Institute website. We are of Japanese history is signalled by an its predecessors. The central aim of also pleased that several senior scholars impressive ‘feudal lord’s clock’ on a the workshop remains the fostering in the field of Japanese art studies from lacquer and mother-of-pearl stand. The of mutual understanding among Japan and Europe have kindly agreed to Urasenke Tea House, used for regular postgraduate (or in North American participate as discussants. demonstrations of the ‘Way of Tea’ is usage, graduate) students of Japanese The organising committee would complemented with a small display of art history by creating an opportunity like to acknowledge the generous tea wares. for them to share their ongoing PhD funding from the Toshiba International The displays in the three rooms of the Japanese Galleries are essentially research in a mutually supportive, but Foundation, which has made it possible chronological, with modern objects stimulating intellectual environment. to sponsor this international event. The occasionally brought back into the About thirty postgraduate students Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, narrative to juxtapose with older works. from Japan, Europe and North America Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation, A special feature of the new displays have been invited to participate in Japan Foundation and Kajima Art will be the focus on modern Japan PWJAH. The one-week programme, Foundation have also lent invaluable in the final room, the Konica-Minolta lasting from June 19th to 25th, includes support and financial assistance to the Gallery. n three days of student presentations with workshop. n Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures 17

WORKSHOP THE CHINO KAORI MEMORIAL ‘NEW VISIONS’ LECTURE SERIES THE CONCEPT OF CRAFT IN 20TH-CENTURY The Sainsbury JAPAN AND THE UK Institute will host

9 The Sainsbury Institute is currently the Fourth Chino planning a workshop on the concept of ‘craft’ in modern Japanese and British Kaori Memorial ‘New contexts in conjunction with the British Visions’ Lecture on Museum and the Embassy of Japan in the UK. The primary organizers Friday 20 October are Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere of the Sainsbury Institute and Sadahiro 2006 at SOAS, Suzuki of Ochanomizu University. The workshop is tentatively being called University of London. ‘Craft in 20th-Century Japan and the UK: Reassessing the Impact of the Our invited speaker is Sharon Kinsella, Mingei Movement, Bernard Leach and who will speak on the ‘Feminine the Concept of Craft’. Revolt in Male Cultural Imagination in Haruhiko Fujita of Osaka University Contemporary Japan’. After teaching has been invited to give the keynote at Yale University in Connecticut, Dr lecture on September 8th, which will Kinsella has returned to London and followed by a workshop at the British continues to lecture and publish as an Chino Kaori (1952–2001) Museum on the next day. Speakers will independent scholar, while also being include Takuji Hamada (independent affiliated to the Institute for Social Administered by the new Kyoto- scholar and grandson of the famous and Cultural Anthropology at Oxford based Center for the Study of Women, potter Shöji Hamada), Kyöko Mimura University. This coming autumn she Buddhism, and Cultural History, the (The Mingeikan, Tokyo), and Glenn Adamson (Victoria & Albert Museum), will be a visiting professor at the MIT in Chino Lectures are intended to inspire among others. We are also looking Cambridge, Massachusetts. new ways to interpret Japanese visual ino the possibility of planning a small The ‘New Visions’ Lecture Series arts in the context of religion, gender, exhibition at the Embassy of Japan takes place on an annual basis, rotating narrative, and cultural history. Each focusing on Bernard Leach (1887- between Japan and Europe or the lecture is published bilingually in 1979) and celebrating the recent Leach USA. The lectures commemorate the Japanese and English. Previous speakers Pottery Restoration Project in St Ives. n groundbreaking contribution the late include Midori Wakakuwa (Professor Professor Chino Kaori of Gakushuin Emerita of Chiba University) and University made to the field of Japanese Professor Linda Nochlin (Institute of art studies from a feminist perspective. Fine Arts, New York University). n

MA COURSES IN JAPANESE ART AT SOAS 2005-06

The Department of Art and Archaeology Art and Religious Experience at SOAS provides a broad range of in Premodern Japan courses in the history of art, architecture John Carpenter + Simon Kaner (Term 1) and material culture of Africa and Asia, Shogunal Iconography from their origins to modern times. in the Edo Period The Sainsbury Institute works in close Timon Screech (Term 1) cooperation with the Department in Archaeology of the the teaching of the history of Japanese Japanese Archipelago art and archaeology and its East Asian Simon Kaner (Term 2) research seminar programme. Japanese Calligraphy: For students specialising in Japanese History and Reading Practice art the following half-unit courses will John Carpenter (Term 2) From a collection of over two hundred books be offered during the 2006–07 session. formerly owned by Janet and Bernard Leach Popular Practice now in the Lisa Sainsbury Library in Norwich. For descriptions, see the Departmental in the Edo-period Arts specialist website at: www.soas.ac.uk/art Timon Screech (Term 2) 18 Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures Research ニコール・ルーマニエール（所長） 日本考古学研究 今年1月に大阪歴史博物館で開催された世 界考古学学会（World Archaeological Con- gress － WAC）で、当研究所と国際アルバニ ア考古学センター(ICAA)が前史時代ヨーロ ッパの土偶に関するワークショップを共同 企画しました。ICAAとは、現在、先史時代の 陶製土偶に関するプロジェクトも企画してお り、今後このような協力関係をもとに、更に 日欧間の考古学分野の共同研究が発展する ことが期待されます。 昨年2月、九州大学の21世紀COEプログ ラム「Interactions and Transitions in East Asian History」と研究協力の合意に 達し、合意を受けて、プログラムリーダーの 今西裕一郎氏が溝口孝司氏と共にノリッチ を訪問しました。この研究協力の一環とし て、昨年はサイモン・ケイナーが九州大学で 講義を行い、九州大学COEと他の参加九団体 が主催するコンソーシアム記念シンポジウム に参加し、日本考古学の国際化に関する論 文を発表しました。

Left to right: Töru Miyao, Yasutami Nishida, Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere, Simon Kaner at the signing of a cooperative agreement with Niigata Prefectural Museum of History, Nagaoka

現在、日本陶磁器の流通に関する Vessels of Influence（ダックワース出版）と 400 Years of Japanese Porcelain（大英博物館出版）の二冊の著書を執筆中です。後者は、出光美術 館の荒川正明氏と行っている大英博物館の陶磁器コレクション調査をまとめた研究書です。 昨年は、長野の小布施市と英国オクスフォード・ブルックス大学で客員講義を行う他、東芝 国際交流財団主催の世界文化フォーラムや文部科学省主催・国際日本文化研究所開催の学

会で論文を発表しました。昨年12月には当研究所の記念すべき50回目の第三木曜レクチャ Detail of Jömon earthernware figurine, Robert ーで講演し、現在は、今年9月に在英国日本大使館の協力で開催予定の日英の工芸に関する and Lisa Sainsbury Collection, UEA, Norwich ワークショップの準備を進めています。n ケイナーはまた、昨年10月には、内山純 蔵氏率いる景観考古学と歴史二分野間研究 サイモン・ケイナー（副所長） プロジェクトのメンバーとして、総合地球環 現在は、一昨年に研究所が主催した学会 ムの発展に従事するかたわら、SOAS修士課 境学研究所(RIHN)のプレシンポジウムへの The Archaeology of Medieval Towns in 程で日本考古学の講義を行い、ケンブリッ 招待を受けました。総合地球環境学研究所 Japan and Beyondで発表された論文集の ジ大学、九州大学、立命館大学などでも意 は、京都に新設された異大学共同機関法人 出版準備をすすめるとともに、アルバニアと 欲的に研究発表を行いました。n コソボを中心とする南東ヨーロッパ地域と日 です。このプロジェクトのもと、今年6月の第 本から出土した前史時代の土偶に関するプ 一回をかわきりに、当研究所において今後 ロジェクトの立ち上げに取り組んでいます。 一連のセミナーが予定されています。 昨年の夏には新潟県立歴史博物館と新潟 今年度の日本考古学フェローとして、九 県埋蔵文化財調査事業団の研究者達とと もに、信濃川流域における景観考古学プロ 州大学で縄文考古学を専門とする石沢健氏 ジェクトに関する現地調査を行いました。ま を迎えることになりました。研究所が提供 た、日本考古学の歴史とヨーロッパの関係 するこのフェローシップは、半田晴久氏と国 についても研究を進めており、3月にSOASに 際縄文学会のご支援によるもので、ヨーロッ てロンドンジャパン協会とジャパン・リサー Participants in the symposium on landscape チ・センター主催で「ウィリアム・ガウランド パでの日本考古学の理解と研究促進を目的 archaeology (including Simon Kaner, と早期の日本古墳調査」の題で講演をしま Junzo Uchiyama (RIHN)) visit the island of としています。新たな専門家をノリッチに迎 した。当研究所の日本考古学研究プログラ Chikubushima in Lake Biwa, October 2005 え、ますます幅広い活動を目指します。n Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures 19

立命館大学アート・リサーチセンター ハンダ・フェロー 研究所はロバート＆リサ・セインズベリー・ フェローシップとハンダ・フェローシップの 二つのポストドクトラルフェローシップを提 供しています。特に、ハンダ・フェローシップ は日本の若手研究者を対象にしており、半田 晴久氏のご支援のもと継続しています。過去 の研究所フェローたちの近況はこのニュース レターの英文ページで詳しく紹介しています が、ここでは特にハンダ・フェロー達の近況 を簡単にお知らせします。

白原由起子(2000-01）

現在、シアトル美術館勤務。美術館が毎年 優秀な学芸員に授与する Patterson Sims Fellowship を2004年に受賞しました。

武藤純子(2001-02）

昨年、著書『初期浮世絵と歌舞伎』（笠間書 院）で2005年の国華賞を受賞しました。

Waka kaishi by Emperor Go-Kashiwabara in the collection of Fujii Eikan Bunko, Ritsumeikan University 矢野明子(2002-03） 2004年と2005年は、大英博物館、大阪歴史 ジョン・カーペンターは立命館大学アート・ するCOEプログラムによるもので、COE研究員 博物館、早稲田大学坪内逍遥演劇博物館の リサーチ・センター(ARC)21世紀COEプログ の金子貴昭氏が、藤井永観文庫の所蔵品の 三館が共催した、大坂歌舞伎ヒーロー展の ラムとの共同研究「日本の書跡と宮廷文化」 デジタルアーカイブとウェブサイトにおける リサーチ・アシスタントを務め、特別展の企 の成果として、今年年初に「天皇の詩歌と消 検索システムの構築を担当しました。この研 画準備から展覧会図録「上方役者絵と都市 息―宸翰にみる書式―」と題する図録を出 究成果の一部として2005年12月にARCで「藤 文化」の製作に携わりました。 版しました。図録は、ARCの川嶋將生、源城 井永観文庫展：天皇の詩歌と消息―宸翰に 政好、松本郁代、金子貴昭諸氏との協力によ みる書式―」が開催されました。カーペンタ ケン・タダシ・オオシマ(2003-04） るものです。 ーは、12月20日にはARCで、西洋と日本のカ 「天皇の詩歌と消息」は、カーペンター リグラフィーを比較しながら「天皇のカリグ シアトルのワシントン大学の建築学部で日 が2003年から2004年にかけて京都に滞在し ラフィー―写しの特徴と文字スタイルの独自 本建築史とデザイン史を教えています。現在 た際、ARCで毎週行われたカリグラフィープ 性―」と題する講演を行いました。なお、図 は、建築家磯崎新氏についての著書を執筆 ロジェクト研究会の研究成果です。巻頭論 録で紹介した宸翰は、今年六月に細見美術 中です。 文である「書跡の歴史的位置―天皇のカリ 館で開催される「藤井永観文庫の優品―生 グラフィーにみる特徴―」では、前近代にお 涯を古美術蒐集に捧げた精花―」展にも出 出光佐千子(2004-05） ける天皇の書跡に関する歴史を総体的に論 品される予定です。 n フェローとして研究所に在籍しながら、職業 じています。本図録には、立命館大学ARCに 体験・訓練のプログラムで、大英博物館日本 寄贈された藤井永観文庫所蔵の13世紀から セクションにも籍をおき、館蔵品のデータベ 19世紀にかけての天皇の書、およそ30点の ース作成や文人画作品の研究に携わってい 全写真が収められており、鎌倉時代の天皇 ます。 であった伏見天皇宸翰による「伏見天皇宸 翰歌集断簡（広沢切）」一軸と、北朝天皇で 森下正昭(2005—06） あった光厳天皇による「法華経要文和歌懐 紙」一軸（重要文化財）、鎌倉時代から江戸 現在、2003年に提出した博士論文をもとにし E

FF た研究書 The Empty Museum: Western Cul- 時代までの天皇や女性天皇による宸翰和歌 I CL

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出版は、立命館大学ARCを研究拠点と ENN (Ashgate) の執筆に取り組んでいます。n GL John T. Carpenter 20 Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures Recent News

リサ・セインズベリー図書館ニュース 役員人事 1999年の設立以来、研究所は理事役員メン バーの指導のもと活動を続けていますが、 今年、理事会の2人の役員が辞任することと なりました。現イースト・アングリア大学学 長で当研究所理事長のデイビッド・イースト ウッド教授は、イングランド高等教育助成 機関(HEFCE)への移動が決まり夏から新し い職務に就くことになります。また、ロンド ン大学アジア・アフリカ研究学院（SOAS）学 長コリン・バンディ教授が現職からの退職 に伴い役員の任も終了します。新役員人事 は後日正式に決定し、報告されることになり ます。慶応義塾大学の河合正朝教授には、 引き続き特別学術顧問として研究所の相談 役を務めて頂きます。n

褒章受賞

11月3日文化の日、当研究所理事役員である デイム・エリザベス・エステベ・コルが、英国 での日本美術促進の努力と貢献により、旭 日中綬章を受賞したとの嬉しいニュースが 舞い込みました。デイム・エリザベスは、セ インズベリー日本藝術研究所の設立という ロバート、リサ・セインズベリーご夫妻の夢 の実現に大きく貢献し、その後も研究所の 発展や日本美術研究の促進に尽力していま す。n Curatorial staff at the National Cultural Properties Research Institute in Tokyo with Masatomo Kawai and Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere, with the book collection of the late Professor Taka Yanagisawa recently donated to the Lisa Sainsbury Library, Norwich

昨年、慶応義塾大学の河合正朝教授のご協 の寄贈があり、新潟県立歴史博物館とは今 力とご尽力により、3000冊にのぼる故柳沢孝 後の日本考古学分野の文献蔵書に関してご 教授（東京文化財研究所）の蔵書が研究所 協力をいただくこととなりました。 に寄贈されました。教授のご専門であった仏 このような図書館の蔵書の増加にとも 教美術分野の大きな寄贈により、研究書図 ない、研究所本部に近いノリッチ市内に新 書館は更に充実し、寄贈資料は貴重な文献 たな書庫を増設しました。この新書庫には、 として利用されることでしょう。 日本考古学・文化遺産関係の文献を収蔵す ヒュー・コルタッツィ卿ご夫妻からは、 ることになります。考古学分野の蔵書として 既に多くの日本関連の文献や版画などの寄 は、ノーフォーク考古学協会から、協会が 贈のほか、日本古地図を引き続き長期間借 150年にわたって収集した英国考古学関連の り受けています。この日本古地図は、立命館 文献を長期的に借受けることとなりました。 大学赤間亮教授とアート・リサーチ・センタ 研究所の訪問者には、ノリッチとノーフォー ーのご協力により高解像度デジタル映像化 ク地域に興味をもつ人々も多く、この考古学 され、当研究所のホームページからそのデ 協会の資料は今後、広く利用されることでし ータベースにアクセスすることが可能です。 ょう。 コルタッツィ卿ご夫妻からは更に、卿が在日 昨年はまた、京都のメトロポリタン財団 英国大使であられた期間中に収集した貴重 からの助成金により、『国華』のCD-ROM版を 本や美術作品なども寄贈いただくことになっ はじめとした重要な文献を蔵書に加えるこ ています。 とができました。研究所の図書館は殆ど、こ ダーラム大学のジーナ・バーンズ教授か のような助成金や個人・団体からの寄贈に らは、1000巻を数える日本考古学分野の書 支えられています。助成を頂いた団体、そし 籍資料を寄贈いただきました。朝日新聞社 て寄贈者の皆さん一人一人のご協力に改めて Dame Elizabeth Esteve-Coll (本社）文化事業部からは多数の展覧会図録 お礼を申し上げます。n Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures 21 and Events

大英博物館との協力プロジェクト 日本美術史大学院生会議 研究所職員、内田ひろみは大英博物館ア ジア部日本セクションへの出向を続けてい ます。昨年は、英国の中高生を対象とした 木版画のワークショップ、国際巡回展「大坂 歌舞伎ヒーロー展」関連の教育プロブラム などの教育・一般向け活動を企画・実施し ました。さらに、在英国日本大使館と協力し て、大英博物館の日本美術コレクションを 利用した若者向けの特別ワークショップも 担当しています。このワークショップは、英 国の若者たちが日本美術作品に間近に触 れ、日本美術・文化への理解を更に深める ように企画されたものです。大英博物館と の協力プロジェクトをご支援頂いているロン ドン日本商工会議所と、その会員企業の皆 様、そして在英国日本大使館のご指導・ご 協力に感謝致します。n

Iron carp by Muneyori, 19th c., British Museum, gift of Prof. and Mrs John Hull Grundy 大英博物館日本ギャラリー

大英博物館の日本ギャラリーは、大規模な 改装を経て今秋新装オープンします。新常 設展示では、古代から現代に至る時代と広 範な地域を紹介する予定で、現在はオープ ニングに向けて準備がすすめられていま A detail of an early map of Japan by Joannes Janssonius, published in Amsterdam in 1658, from the す。新たな展示には、研究所のルーマニエ map collection of Sir Hugh Cortazzi currently on view at the Lisa Sainsbury Library, Norwich. ールとケイナ−も各専門分野で協力していま す。この展示は、大英所蔵の日本関係の作 品を新しい視点で紹介する試みで、特に日 研究所は、JAWSの名で日米の日本美術研究 会議期間中、参加者はノリッチの研究 本の歴史の連綿とした「継続性」に焦点を 者に知られている日本美術史大学院生会議 所本部や、今春改装オープン予定のセインズ 当て、日本と東アジア、アジア以外の国との を6月19日から25日に英国にて主催します。 ベリー・センター美術館（イースト・アングリ 関係も再検討します。新展示では、古代か ら現代まで、時代を追って遥か昔の作品と JAWSは、1987年に東京大学を幹事校として ア大学）を訪問します。また、その他の在英 今世紀の作品が交錯し共鳴しあい、日本の 第一回目を開催して以来、今回で第八回目を 日本コレクション観賞の他、日本文化美術研 「継続性」を考える上での一つのきっかけ 数えます。過去、交互に日本と北米を会場に 究者たちや日本から参加する日本美術史大 を提示します。n 開かれていましたが、今回は会議史上初のヨ 学院生会議運営役員の先生方との交流も企 ーロッパでの開催となります。 画されており、会議が参加する学生達にとっ 20世紀の日英工芸ワークショップ 英国サフォーク州ディッチンガムとロン て実り多きものとなることを期待します。 大英博物館と在英国日本大使館の協力で、 ドンを主会場とする会議には、日本、北米、 参加予定者名簿と発表論文題は、研 今年9月上旬に２０世紀の日本と英国の工芸 欧州から30名の大学院生が参加し、中世か 究所のホームページに掲載されています。 についてのワークショップを企画中です。研 ら現代に至るまでの日本視覚美術について (www.sainsbury-institute.org） 究所のルーマニエールと、御茶ノ水女子大 様々なテーマで発表を行う予定です。ヨーロ 日本美術史大学院生会議は、東芝国際 学の鈴木禎宏氏が中心となり企画されてい るこのワークショップでは、民芸運動が後 ッパでの初開催を反映して、イギリスをはじ 交流財団、国際交流基金、鹿島美術財団か 世に残したもの、バーナード・リーチの存在 め、フランス、チェコ、ポーランド、スイス、ド らの多大な助成により実現可能となりまし と活躍、工芸とは何か、などについて再検 イツなどからも学生が参加することになり、 た。また、グレイト・ブリテン・ササカワ財 討を試みます。大阪大学の藤田治彦教授に この会議を通じて日本文化美術研究がヨー 団、大和日英基金、ジャパンファンデーショ よる基調講演に続き、ロンドンにて、日本と 英国の研究者たちによるワークショップが ロッパで更に奨励されることを願っていま ン・エンダウメント委員会からもご協賛と助 開催されます。n す。 成を受けています。n 22 Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures Lectures

Displaying Korea and Japan Workshop 第三木曜レクチャー

2005年12月、当研究所が好評のうちに毎月 主催している第三木曜レクチャーが50回目 を迎えました。通常は研究所本部で行われ るこのシリーズですが、記念すべき50回目 のレクチャーは、ノリッチ市内の歴史的建 造物グレートホスピタルを会場として、ルー マニエールが「革新のダイナミズム：17世紀 日本磁器を再検証する」と題した発表を行 いました。 第三木曜レクチャーは、研究所を代表 する一般向プログラムであり、日本の芸術文 化に関する情報・最新研究知識を、ノリッ チやその周辺の人々に広めるという大切な 役割を果たしています。 2005年シリーズでも各分野で活躍する 講演者から多様な内容のレクチャーがあり ました。オックスクスフォード・ブルックス大 学のジョイ・ヘンドリー教授は、日本のテー マパークを文化人類学的立場から分析し、 今までとは違った角度から日本の文化の一 面を紹介しました。また、大英博物館で開 催された「大坂歌舞伎ヒーロー展」を企画 監修したデリュー・ガーストル教授（SOAS） が「上方役者絵と都市文化」についての講 演をし、その講演に刺激された観客が、特 別展に足を運ぶといったこともありました。 昨年は特に、ジョン・ブリーン、ルチア・ドル チェ、そしてアンガス・ロキヤー諸氏といっ たSOASの同僚から協力を得たことは、今後 のSOASとの関係をより一層深めるものとし Participants in the ‘Displaying Korea and Japan’ workshop (left to right): Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere, て意義があります。 Masatomo Kawai, Youngsook Pak, Louise Allison Cort, Timothy Clark, Anna Jackson, Beth McKillop 2006年のシリーズも好調にスタートし、 3月にはボン大学日本学研究所からジョセ セインズベリー日本藝術研究所と大英博物 ることであることを論じ、サイモン・ケイナー フ・クライナー教授を迎えました。教授によ る北海道と本州北部の原住民族に関する 館アジア部は、日韓友情年2005を記念して、 はそのケーススタディとして、大英博物館に 講演「日本のアイヌ：ヨーロッパがイメージ 朝鮮半島と日本以外の国で、これらの国の文 おけるウィリアム・ガウランドが蒐集した日 した謎の民族」は130名の聴講者を集めま 化がどのように紹介されているか、そこで制 朝関連資料について発表しました。続いて、 した。 作された作品がどのように展示されているか 白原由起子氏（前ハンダ・フェロー）が、現在 第三木曜レクチャーは、グレイトブリテ ン・ササカワ財団とロバート＆リサ・セイン という点について話しあう公開ワークショッ 東アジア美術の学芸員として勤務するシアト ズベリー・チャリタブル・トラストの助成のも プを共催しました。 ル美術館における、日朝美術のコレクション と開催されています。n 11月10日に開催されたこのワークショッ と展示方法について解説をし、スンヘ・スン プには9人の研究者が参加し、過去と現在に 氏は、開館間もない韓国国立博物館の概要 おけるこれらの国の定義、制作された本国 と日本ギャラリーが直面する諸問題につい 以外で作品を展示する場合に必要な特別な て述べました。ビクトリア＆アルバート博物 配慮、国の文化政策など、博物館・美術館で 館と大英博物館からは、ベス・マキロップ、ア 朝鮮半島・日本の資料を展示する際に関わ ナ・ジャクソン、ジェーン・ポータル、ティム・ る点を検討しました。大英博物館アジア部長 クラークの諸氏が参加し、それぞれが担当し ロバート・ノックス氏による開会の挨拶を受 ている朝鮮半島・日本コレクションについて けて、ジェイムス・ルイス教授（オックスフォ 発表しました。 ード大学）が古代から21世紀までの日朝関 全発表終了後、ルイーズ・アリソン・コ 係の変遷を通して今回のワークショップの大 ート氏（スミソニアン研究所）、河合正朝教 枠を紹介しました。ジーナ・リ−・バーンズ教 授(慶應義塾大学）、ユン・スック・パク教授 授（ダラム大学）は、考古学とは物質的な資 (SOAS美術・考古学部）の三氏のコメンテー 料そのものを研究するだけでなく、それらの ターを加えた活発なディスカッションが繰り Handa Fellows Masaaki Morishita and Sachiko Idemitsu at a Third Thursday lecture 資料と特定の地域、社会との関連を理解す 広げられました。n Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures 23 and Symposia

明治・ビクトリア朝往来：19世紀の日英交流 SEMINAR SERIES 文化遺産は重要か

9月21日、大和日英基金が主催する2005年セ ミナーシリーズ「英国と日本の芸術・文化・ 社会」の一環として、研究所は「文化遺産は 重要か：過去は現在に役立っているのか−日 本とヨーロッパを例として」と題するセミナ ーを共同企画しました。 急速にグローバル化する世界において 文化遺産が一大ビジネスとなっている事情 を背景に、4人のパネリスト（下記参考）が、 日欧の文化と社会における文化遺産の意味 とその役割を論じました。ヨーロッパでは、 文化遺産は地域のアイデンティティ形成の 中心となりうる一方、所有権、アクセス、価 値などの問題をはらみ、議論の的となって います。日本では文化遺産の地位は、一度 認識されると揺るぎないものとなります。日 欧に共通しているのは、昨今、文化遺産へ の投資額が記録的水準に達している一方、 文化遺産は現代社会での意味付けを必要と しているということです。 全政党国会考古学委員会(APPAG)の事 務局長を務め、英国国会での考古学の理 解の促進に尽力しているルパート・リーズデ ール卿は、今日のイングランドにおける文化 遺産の位置付けと意義についての深い考察 を述べました。溝口孝司氏は、現代日本で 文化遺産の社会学を理解するための理論 を発表しました。アルバニアのビュトリント 世界遺産地区で調査に携わるリチャード・ ホッジス教授は、独自の調査結果を例に、 Participants at the TrAIN/Sainsbury Institute ‘Navigating Meiji/Victorian Worlds’ symposium (left to 文化遺産が文化、経済に貢献する大きな可 right): Takehiko Matsuki, Tamaki Maeda, Masaaki Morishita, Ken Tadashi Oshima and Timothy Clark 能性を示唆しました。四人目のパネリスト、 ジョン・マック氏は、ウェールズでの文化遺 産対策についての見解を具体的に紹介しま 2005年5月13日、ロンドンのチェルシー・カレ クス博物館との関わりを交えながら考察し した。 ッジ・オブ・アート＆デザインに新設された ました。更に、サイモン・ケイナーは、モース 発表に続いてのディスカッションでは、 研究所TrAIN (Transnational Art Identity の日本考古学と動物学への貢献を論じ、そ 文化遺産プロジェクトへの公共投資の正当 and Nation)との初共催でシンポジウムを開 の多彩な経歴を一層明確にしました。 性、文化政策の有効性、そして現代社会に おいてどのように文化遺産を紹介するのが 催しました。シンポジウムには、考古学、美 三番目の人物コンドルに関しては、 適正か、といった点が話し合われました。n 術史、建築史の三分野から研究者が参加し、 TrAIN所長渡辺利夫教授が、コンドルの著書 １９世紀後半に訪日し日本に少なからず影響 『日本の庭園術』を紹介し、この本における を残した三人の人物―クリストファー・ドレ 日本・西洋双方にとっての重要性を考察した パネリスト： ッサー(1834–1904)、エドワード・シルヴェス 他、ティム・クラーク氏（大英博物館日本セク Simon Kaner 司会 ター・モース(1838–1925)、ジョサイア・コンド ション長）は、コンドルと河鍋曉斎の友人・パ (サイモン・ケイナー) ル(1852–1920)をテーマに、国籍や専門分野 トロン関係を検証し、建築家として名を成す Lord Rupert Redesdale の枠を超えて活躍した彼らの知られざる側 コンドルが、芸術家でもあったことを論じま (ルパート・リーズデール卿） 面について興味深い発表がありました。 した。 全政党国会考古学委員会 Mizoguchi Koji (溝口孝司) ケン・タダシ・オオシマ氏（前セインズベ アンガス・ロキヤー氏（SOAS）からは 九州大学 リー・フェロー）は、装飾・商業デザイナー、 19世紀の博物館についての発表があり、ま Richard Hodges (リチャード・ホッジス） 収集家などとしてのドレッサーの多岐にわた た、三笠宮彬子女王（オックスフォード大 イースト・アングリア大学 る活動について論じました。エドワード・モ 学）は、ウィリアム・アンダーソンが収集した ビュトリント財団 John Mack (ジョン・マック） ースが抱いていた日本陶磁器への興味と情 大英博物館所蔵日本美術作品を紹介するな イースト・アングリア大学 熱については、当研究所のニコル・ルーマニ ど、19世紀末の日英のつながりをより明確に 大英博物館 エールが、モースと米国ピーボディー・エセッ するワークショップとなりました。n Newsletter2005-06 / issue 3 所長あいさつ 東芝日本美術レクチャー

2005年も、当研究所にとって充実した一年 となりました。このニュースレターで報告さ れている数々のプロジェクトやイベントの実 施に加え、日本とヨーロッパの研究機関と の新しいパートナーシップが実現しました。 その一例として、九州大学と、立命館大学ア ート・リサーチ・センターとの提携が挙げら れます。また、大英博物館との協力関係も続 いています。野上義二駐英大使をはじめとす る在英国日本大使館のご協力と、ロンドン日 本商工会議所会員の諸企業からの暖かいご 支援により、研究所職員内田ひろみの大英 博物館アジア部日本セクションへの出向が 2008年まで継続されることとなりました。今 後、更に博物館と協力し、教育普及プログラ ムなどを含め、日本コレクションを中心とし

た活動を発展させていくことが期待されま Teabowl with flying cranes, Odo ware, second half of 17th c., The British Museum (Franks 2084), す。 discussed by Louise Allison Cort in the Toshiba Lectures in Japanese Art 昨年の主要プロジェクトとしては、博物 館・美術館における朝鮮半島・日本の美術 昨年で三回を迎えた東芝日本美術レクチャ 後期における茶器の生産・消費、茶の美学 作品の展示をテーマにしたワークショップ、 ーシリーズでは、前年同様にロンドンとノリ が織りなす複雑な世界を細やかに映し出し 東芝日本美術レクチャー、ノリッチ本部での ッチで三講演がありました。 ています。土佐の手透き和紙から成るこの日 第三木曜レクチャーなどがありました。 毎年の東芝レクチャー・シリーズでは、 記は今日まで受け継がれ、コート氏によって こうした一連の活動には各方面からの 芸術家個人と彼らが生きた時代が一貫した 英訳されています。 ご協力を頂きました。特に、研究所の大切な テーマとなっています。2003年のドナルド・ コート氏の講演は、久右衛門の当時の プログラムの一つであるフェローシップを継 キーン教授による江戸時代の洋学者・画家 生活を鮮やかに蘇らせ、観客を茶器の世界 続してご提供下さっている半田晴久氏、ロバ 渡辺華山、2004年のジョン・ローゼンフィ へと誘い、やきものと移りゆく美学や嗜好の ート＆リサ・セインズベリー・チャリタブルト ールド教授の鎌倉時代の僧侶重源に続き、 関係を鮮明に、そして魅力的に描き出しまし ラストにこの場をかりて御礼を申し上げま 2005年はフリア＆サックラー美術館のルイー た。また、当時の日本国内の陶器生産の発 す。そして何よりも、リサ・セインズベリー夫 ズ・アリソン・コート氏が19世紀の陶工、森 展や海外からの影響など、豊富な歴史的文 人のたゆまない全面的なご支援に、所員一 田久右衛門とその業績について講演を行い 献や作品の映像によって裏づけられ、江戸 同心より感謝の念を捧げたいと思います。n ました。 時代の献上品制度の複雑さと、小堀遠州や 陶磁器をテーマとした2005年のシリー 金森宗和といった茶匠が嗜好の形成に果た ニコール・クーリッジ・ルーマニエール ズは、同年9月に他界したオックスフォード した役割を明確にしました。 市アシュモレアン美術館前日本美術部長オ 大英博物館、ロンドン大学アジア・アフ リバー・インピー氏に捧げられました。大英 リカ研究学院(SOAS）、ノリッチのブラック・ 博物館での初回の講演に先立ち、インピー フライヤーホールの三会場にて行われた講 氏の親族でアムステルダム国立博物館のメ 演には、各回、東芝ヨーロッパ副社長の小倉 ンノ・フィツキ氏による心温まるスピーチが 正弘氏、大英博物館アジア部日本セクション あり、ジェーン・インピー夫人にも講演にご 長のティム・クラーク氏、SOAS美術・考古学 出席頂きました。 部長のクレイグ・クルーナス教授、当研究所 1678年、一人の陶工が土佐から江戸に向 理事長でイースト・アングリア大学学長のデ かいました。陶工の名は森田久右衛門。久右 イビッド・イーストウッド教授などから謝辞、 衛門は、土佐藩のお抱えとして、茶道具の研 挨拶がありました。 究と、尾戸焼の顧客開拓のために一年間江 このレクチャーシリーズは、東芝国際交 kham r ki

ID 戸に滞在しました。久右衛門はこの一年間 流財団からのご支援と、ロンドン・ジャパン

DA V の生活・出来事を、こと細かに覚書帳に記録 ソサエティー、大英博物館のご協力により開 Sainsbury Institute, 64 The Close, Norwich しています。久右衛門のこの日記は、17世紀 催しています。n