Events
The charm of Japanese culture as seen from abroad
2017.08.19(Sat)
Lecture & Discussion
Overview
Heading to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, now is the time to promote Japanese crafts internationally!
Date & Time: 8/19/2017 (Sat.) 13:00 ~ 15:15
Sponsored by The Japan Kogei Association・MOA Museum of Art
Supported by Atami City l Board of Education
Place: MOA Museum of Art Noh Theater
(26-2 Momoyama-cho, Atami city, Shizuoka prefecture)
Charge: Free (admission fee is required)
Capacity of 500 (on a first-come-first-served basis including those who had pre-booked.)
Opening Remarks by Hideki Hayashida (The Japan Kogei Association)
Lecture
‘The Charm of Japanese Culture as seen from the European Viewpoint’
Lecturer: Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere
(IFAC Handa Curator of Japanese Art, The British Museum and Research
Director of the Sainsbuy Institute)
After having received her PhD from Harvard University in 1998, she established the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Culture in 1999 and became the founding director and Professor of Japanese Art and Culture at the University of East Anglia. She spent three years on secondment as a Visiting Professor in Cultural Resource Studies at Tokyo University (2006-2009). From Summer 2011 she is Research Director of the Sainsbury Institute. She is currently seconded to the British Museum as IFAC Handa Curator of Japanese Art in the Department of Asia.
Her research interests include early modern to contemporary ceramics in East Asia and particularly Japan, East Asian trade networks, the history of archaeology as well as Japanese manga. In 2012 she published ‘Vessels of Influence: China and the Birth of Porcelain in Medieval and Early Modern Japan (published by Bloomsbury Academic)’.
Currently she is also working on Manga Research Project at the British Museum.
Discussion
Promoting Japanese Kogei crafts internationally
Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere (same as above)
Seichi Kondo (President of the Kondo Research Institute of Cultural and Foreign Affairs, and previous Commissioner of Japan’s Agency for Cultural Affairs)
Born in 1946 in Kanagawa prefecture. Graduated from Faculty of Education British Studies Section, Tokyo University. Joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan in 1972. He held prominent positions including UNESCO Ambassador, Deputy Secretary-General of the Organization for Economic Affairs Bureau, Counsellor for Public Affairs, and then Minister, Embassy of Japan in Washington and Ambassador to Denmark. He was the commissioner for Cultural Affairs from July 2010 to July 2013. He is currently project professor of Tokyo University, guest professor of the Tokyo University of the Arts, the chairman of Kyoto Arts and Culture Foundation, the chief director of Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, and The Japanese Classical Dance Association. He has written numerous books. He is also the director of Kondo Institute for Culture & Diplomacy.
Ryohei Miyata (Honorary Professor at Tokyo University of the Arts)
Metalwork artist. He was born in Sado, Niigata Prefecture as the third son of wax casting artist Rando Miyata. In 1972 graduated from Global Art Practice (MFA) Graduate school of Fine Arts in Craft, Metalsmithing. He participates in both domestic and international exhibitions frequently including ‘Ryohei Miyata Exhibition’(solo exhibition), displaying such renowned series of dolphin motifs. In 2005 he became the 9th president of Tokyo University of the Arts, and after having managed the school for 10 years, he became the Commissioner for Cultural Affair as of April 2016. He also served as the chairperson of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Organizing Committee (OOC) and the Emblems Selection Committee.
MC: Kazumi Murose
(Urushi artist, Holder of Important Intangible Cultural Property/
Living National Treasure of Japan as a maki-e lacquer artist)
Makie Urushi lacquer artist. He was born in 1950 in Tokyo as a son to an established and esteemed urushi artist, Murose Shunji and became to aim to study in the same field. Murose learned urushi in earnest at the Tokyo University of the Arts, and studied under the urushi master and Living National Treasure Matsuda Gonroku and Gonroku’s principal student, Taguchi Yoshikuni. While studying at school, he also devoted his time in Japan as well as abroad to the restoration of cultural assets and the spread of the beauty of urushi to the world. In 2008, he was designated as an important intangible cultural property for maki-e technique and received many awards including the Purple Ribbon Medal and Tokyo Metropolitan Governor Prize at the Japan Art Craft Exhibition in the same year. His latest book ‘Maki-e Urushi Murose Kazumi’s Collection of works was published in 2014 (by Shicho-sha). He is currently serving as the vice chairperson of the Japan Art Crafts Association. Kazumi Murose’s public art collection is found at sites such as the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Tokyo University of the Arts, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Victoria and Albert Museum, and Metropolitan Museum
Advance booking is available for members of the MOA Museum of Art Members’ Club.
(Application Deadline: 8/9 (Wed.) We will stop accepting applications once all the places are taken.)
Please send your application by fax or postcard upon filling in the required items below.
We will send you an admission ticket to the lecture & discussion.
①Participant’s Name ②Members’ Club membership number ➂ telephone number
Inquiry and Application: MOA Museum of Art Curatorial Department
Tel. 0557-84-2531 Fax. 0557-84-2570
Address: 〒413-8511
26-2 Momoyama-cho, Atami, Shizuoka prefecture
Brief Biographical Outlines