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Recent Grants

Library Grants
2011/2012
 Freer|Sackler Galleries
University of Heidelberg
Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures
University of Washington
2010/2011
 Freie Universitat Berlin
School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London
University of Kansas Libraries
2009/2010
 Columbia University
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
Louisiana State University Libraries
H.H. Mu Far Eastern Library-Royal Ontario Museum
University of Heidelberg
  
2008/2009
 Freie Universität Berlin
Portland Art Museum
Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Culture
University of Kansas Libraries
University of Maryland
University of Virginia 		 
2007/2008
 Columbia University
Heidelberg University, Center for East Asian Studies
Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Culture
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
University of Washington Libraries		  
2006/2007
 The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
Denver Art Museum
Freie Universität Berlin
H.H. Mu Far Eastern Library, Royal Ontario Museum
The Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Sinological Institute, University of Leiden
Alderman Library, University of Virginia
 

Institutional Grants
2011/2012 Arizona State University, “Accessing the Scrolls:Chinese Painting
   and Calligraphy in an Expanded Digital Archive”
Reaktion Books, publication support for Obtaining Images: Art,
   Production and Display in Edo Japan, by Timon Screech
Reaktion Books, publication support for A Story of Ruins:
   Presence and Absence in Chinese Art and Visual Culture, by Wu
   Hung
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, publication support for Invitation to
   Reclusion: Seventeenth Century Chinese Painting (exhibition
   catalogue)

2010/2011
 Clark Center for Japanese Art: exhibition and publication
    support for “Purity of Form: The Evolution of Fukami
    Sueharu’s Ceramics”
Heidelberg University: publication subsidy for a festschrift for
   Lothar Ledderose
Newark Museum: support for the “Red Lacquer Collection
   Project”
UC Berkeley Art Museum: public programming to coincide with
   the exhibition “Delightful Pursuits: Japanese Art from the
   Clark Center”
University of Hong Kong: publication support for “Rethinking
   Visual Narratives from Asia: Intercultural and Comparative
   Perspectives” 		 
2009/2010
 Reaktion Books: publication support for “The Art of the Yellow
   Springs: Reading Chinese Tombs,” by Wu Hung
University of Zurich: support for conference, “Connoisseurship
   in East Asian Art”
 
2008/2009
 Japan Society Gallery: support for Gallery Lectures associated
   with the exhibition “New Bamboo: Contemporary Masters”
Phoenix Art Museum: conference support for the exhibition “A
   Tradition Redefined: Modern and Contemporary Chinese
   Paintings from the Chu-tsing Li Collection” 		 
2007/2008
 Chazen Museum of Art: support for symposium "Competition
   and Collaboration: Japanese Prints of the Utagawa School"
Freien Universitat Berlin: "Publication of lecture series about
   Buddhist art and ritual"
  
2006/2007
 Philadelphia Museum of Art: publication support for “Masters of
    the brush: Ike Taiga and Tokuyama Gyokuran”
Scripps College: publication support for “Chikanobu: Modernity
    and Nostalgia in Japanese Prints		  

Individual Grants
2011/2012 Asato Ikeda,publication support for “The Dark Valley:
   Japanese Art and the Second World War”
Elizabeth Lillehoj, publication support for “Symbol and
   Strategy: the Palace, Warriors, and Art in Japan, 1580-1680”
John Szostak, research and publication support for “Kokuten:
   Tsuchida Bakusen and the Modernization of Traditional
   Japanese Painting”
Alice Tseng, research for “Commemorative Architecture in
   Modern Japan”
2010/2011
 Dr. Caroline Hirasawa: publication support for “Hellbent on
   Heaven: Damnation and Salvation in Tateyama mandara”
Dr. Andrew Maske: support for publication of “Potters and
   Patrons in Edo Japan: Takatori Ware and the Kuroda Domain”
Dr. Nancy S. Steinhardt: acquisition of photographs and
   permissions for “The Borders of Chinese Architecture”
  
2009/2010
 Stephen Addiss and Audrey Seo: research for "The Sound of
   One Hand: Paintings and Calligraphy by Zen Master Hakuin"
Maki Kaneko: research for "Art at the Service of the State:
   Japanese Artists in the War, 1907-1952"
Yeewon Koon: research for "Template of a Modern Artist: Su
   Renshan (1814-c.1850)"
Sonya Lee: production support for "Surviving Nirvana: Death
   of the Buddha in Chinese Visual Culture"
Jong Phil Park: research and publication support for "Ensnaring
   the Public Eye: Painting Manuals of Late Ming China
   (1550-1644) and the Negotiation of Taste"
Alicia Volk: publication support for "In Pursuit of Universalism:
   Yorozu Tetsugoro and Japanese Modern Art"
 
2008/2009
 Dr. Karen Fraser: research support for “The Tomishige Studio:
   A Regional Study of Early Japanese Photography”
Dr. Mikiko Hirayama: research support for “A New Realism:    Ethnic Identity and Art Criticism in Modern Japan”
Dr. Julia K. Murray: research support for a 2010 exhibition on    Confucius, at the China Institute Gallery 		 
2007/2008
 Dr. Craig Clunas: publication support for "Empire of Great
   Brightness: Visual and Material Cultures of Ming China"
Dr. Haruo Shirane: publication support for "Envisioning the
   Tale of Genji: Media, Gender, and Cultural Production"
Dr. Melanie Trede: research support for "The Adaptation of
   Hachiman Paintings in early modern Japan: Innovative
   visions of the Sumiyoshi school 		 
2006/2007
 Dr. Stephen Addiss: publication support for “77 Dances:
    Japanese Calligraphy by Poets, Monks, and Scholars,
    1568-1868”
Dr. Anthony Barbieri-Low: publication support for
    “Artisans in Early Imperial China”
Dr. Dorothy Wong: publication support for“H_ry_-ji
    Reconsidered”

Doctoral Grants
2011/2012 Seokwan Choi, “Fashioning Identities in Late Ming Portraits: Zeng
    Jing (1564-1647)and the Literati of Late Ming Jiangnan”
Jiayao Han, “Creating Visual Emblems for Militarized Frontier
    Societiesof Eastern Zhou Dynastic China (771-221 BCE)”
Lihong Liu, “Places and Place: Wen Zhengming’s Late Work and
    the Significance of Jing”
2010/2011
 Phillip Bloom: “A Textile Tester of Brick: Maitreya Eschatology,
    Popular Esotericism, and the Pagoda at Xiuding Monastery”
Aurelia Campbell: “Qutan Monastery and Early Ming Dynasty
    Frontier Politics”
Jiayao Han: “Creating Visual Emblems for Militarized Frontier
    Societies of Eastern Zhou Dynastic China (771-221 BCE)”
  
2009/2010
 Youn-mi Kim: "Eternal Ritual: Relic Crypts of the Chaoyang
   North Pagoda (1043-1044 CE)"
Hilary Pedersen: "The Five Great Space Repository
   Bodhisattvas and Imperial Power in Ninth-Century Japan"
Amanda Wright: "Qiu Ti’s (1906-1958) Contributions to the
   Storm Society (1931-1935): Modernist Ideology, Public
   Receptivity, and Personal Identity"
2008/2009 Youn-mi Kim: “Buddhist Cosmology, Rituals, and Mingling of
   Buddha Boddies: Chaoyang North Pagoda (1043 A.D. – 1044
   A.D.)”
2007/2008 Mari Takamatsu: “Painting on Performance, Painting as
   Performance: The Function of the Gaze in Early Modern
   Japan (1596-1644)”		  
2006/2007
 Naoko Gunji: “Amidaji: Mortuary Art, Architecture, and Rites of
    Emperor Antoku's Temple”
Seng Kuan: “The Building, the Monument, and the City: Kenzo
    Tange's Reconfiguration of Postwar Japanese Cities in Three
    Scales”
Haicheng Wang: “Writing and Civilization in Early China Seen
   in Comparative Perspective”
Jui-man Wu: “Art and Identity: Tombs of Elite Foreigners in
    China during the Northern Zhou Period (557-581 CE)”		  

 
 
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