Recent Grants Library Grants 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   2005/2006 Birmingham Museum of Art C.V. Starr East Asian Library, Columbia University Rubel Asiatic Research Collection, Harvard University University of Kansas Philadelphia Museum of Art Ruprecht-Karls-Universitat, Heidelberg Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Culture Staatliche Museen zu Berlin 2004/2005 Denver Art Museum The Ruth & Sherman Lee Institute for Japanese Art School of Oriental and Asian Studies (SOAS) Ruprecht-Karls-Universitat, Heidelberg Virginia Museum of Fine Arts   Institutional Grants 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   2005/2006 Free University of Berlin: lecture series on "Rituals in     Buddhist Art" Reaktion Books: publication support for Remaking     Beijing - Tiananmen Square and the Creation of a     Political Space, by Wu Hung   2004/2005 Elvehjem Museum of Art: exhibition catalogue for     "Competition and Collaboration in Edo Print Culture" Philadelphia Museum of Art: research travel for "Masters of     the Brush: Ike Taiga and Tokuyama Gyokuran" Ruprecht-Karls-Universitat, Heidelberg: support for     conference, "Stone Inscriptions forEternity in North China" University of Hawai'I Press: publication support for     Drawing Boundaries: Architectural Images in Qing China, by Anita Chung University of Michigan, Center for Japanese Studies:     publication support for newsletter   Individual Grants 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”   2005/2006 Dr. Cynthea Bogel: publication support for Secret Matrix:     Icon, Image, and Institution in Early Medieval Japan Dr. Sherry Fowler: research for "Accounts and Images     of the Six Kannon Cult in Japan" Dr. Yu Jiang: research for "Statecraft and Cemetery     in Early Dynastic China: Yu Funerary Arts in the Zhou" Dr. Annette Juliano and Dr. Dorothy Wong: research for     "The Formation of a Metropolitan Art Style:     Chan'gan Buddhist Sculptures from the Berlin Museum,     6th-9th Centuries" Dr. Richard Kent: research for "Early 20th-Century Amateur     Photographic Societies Active in Shanghai" Dr. Marco Pompili: research for "Modern Architecture in Japan." Yamaguchi Bunzo (1902-1978): Bunriha, Sousha,     and Rationalism"   2004/2005 Dr. Qianshen Bai: research for "Reflections on the Canon     Formation in Chinese Calligraphy" Dr. Matthew P. McKelway: research for "Capitalscapes:     Rakuchû Rakugai-zu and the Political Imagination in     16th Century Kyoto" Dr. Julia K. Murray: research for "Narrative Illustration     in China: Art and Confucian Ideology" Dr. Eugene Wang: publication support for The Shape     of the Visual: The Lotus Sutra and the World-making in Medieval     Chinese Buddhist Art Dr. Richard Wilson: research for "Printopia: Chinese     Literature and Domestic Environments in     Seventeenth-Century Japan" Dr. Dorothy Wong: publication support for Chinese Steles:     Pre-Buddhist and Buddhist Use of a Symbolic Form   Doctoral Grants 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)”   2005/2006 Karen Hwang: "Visual and Religious Cultures of Ninth     and Tenth Century China: A Study of Dunhuang,     Sichuan, and the Central Plains" Jiyeon Kim: "Status and Identity: Works and Social     Relations of Lat Choson Chungin Painters"   2004/2005 Jiyeon Kim: "Chungin (Middle People) Literati Painters     in Late Choson Dynasty Hao Sheng: "The Miraculous Buddhist Images     of Medieval China: Their Reproduction and Reception" Yasuko Tsuchikane: "Dômoto Inshô (1891-1975)     and Buddhist Monastery Paintings in Japan"