（様式）FY2020 Annual Report for International Joint Research with Research FundInternational Joint Digital Archiving Center for Japanese Art and Culture (ARC-iJAC),Art Research Center, Ritsumeikan University
Date (year/mm/dd): 2021/05/10
1. Title of the Research Project
Using Digital Archives to Create a Research Network of Japanese Cultural Resources in the UK and Utilising
Digital Resources for Japanese Studies
2. Research Leader
Name

Organization and title

松葉 涼子 （まつば りょうこ）

Lecturer in Digital Japanese Arts and Humanities,
Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts andCultures (SISJAC)

3. Co-researcher (Total：persons)

Name

Organization and title

Contact (Phone and e-mail)赤間亮（あかまりょう）立命館大学

e-mail: rat03102@lt.ritsumei.ac.jp

Simon Kaner

Executive Director,SISJAC

e-mail: S.Kaner@uea.ac.uk

Toshio Watanabe

Professor, SISJAC

Eugenia BogdanovaKummer

Lecturer, SISJAC

Tania Moore

Chief Curator of Art,
Sainsbury Centre for
Visual Arts

Andrew Hutcheson

Research Fellow, SISJAC

ARC
MemberXe-mail: t.watanabe@sainsbury-institute.org
e-mail: E.Bogdanova-Kummer@uea.ac.uk
e-mail: Tania.Moore@uea.ac.uk

e-mail: A.Hutcheson@uea.ac.uk

4. Overview of the Research Project (About 150 words) Note: If you have changed your project since the time of
application submission, please write clearly where you made changes.

This research project, conducted jointly by the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of JapaneseArts and Cultures (SISJAC) and Art Research Center (ARC), forms part of a larger project to gain
new insights into Japanese arts and cultures by cataloguing all public (and some private)
Japanese collections in the UK. While some preliminary surveys have been undertaken of thecollections of Japanese artefacts, there still is no satisfactory overview of the breadth of UKcollections. As the UK’s dedicated research centre for Japanese Arts and Cultures, SISJAC will
be a key institute in developing the digital archive, as well as in raising awareness about its
utility within the British and global academic communities and engaging in public outreach.
Alongside these digital archiving projects, we will organise workshops with curators from UK
museums with Japanese collections and students from local universities to enrichunderstanding of Japanese collections in the UK.

（様式）5. Overview of the Research Results Note: We may use this section for the Center’s PR.

The COVID-19 lockdown, during which collections and heritage sites were closed to thepublic, has highlighted the importance of assuring digital access to our cultural assets. Ourconnection with the ARC provides us with an excellent opportunity to develop digitisation
methods further, in addition to the ways in which we utilise digital resources. Furthermore,
the establishment of a new MA programme at SISJAC and the University of East Anglia (UEA)in Interdisciplinary Japanese Studies, starting in September 2020, has helped us to advancedigital archiving methods further, allowing us to teach digital-archiving methods to young
researchers. As part of this drive, we have conducted a joint research assistantship with ARC
for 12 weeks this year to provide digital archive experience via online communication. Suchexperience has assisted students in identifying their own research materials as well as theirresearch topics.
6. Research Activities(1) Books
・The archaeology of medieval towns: Case studies from Japan and Europe; 1 Sept 2020; Archaeopress: Oxford;
Simon Kaner (Editor), Brian Ayers (Editor), Richard Pearson (Editor) and Oscar Wrenn (Editor), 154 pages.
・Bokujinkai: Japanese Calligraphy and the Postwar Avant-Garde; 15 Dec 2020; Brill: Leiden and Boston;Eugenia Bogdanova-Kummer (Author), 185 pages.
・Japonisme in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy; Dec 2020; Ferenc Hopp Museum of Asiatic Arts: Budapest;
Toshio Watanabe (Editor), Mirjam Dénes (Editor), Györgyi Fajcsák (Editor) and Piotr Spławski (Editor), 328 pages.
・Collected Papers by Toshio Watanabe: Interpreting Japan; Dec 2020; Sainsbury Institute for the Study ofJapanese Arts and Cultures: Norwich; Toshio Watanabe (Author) and Christopher Hayes (Editor), 228 pages.
(2) Articles
・Eugenia Bogdanova-Kummer, “Ink Splashes on Camera: Calligraphy, Action Painting, and Mass Media inPostwar Japan”; Mar 2021; Johns Hopkins University Press; Modernism/modernity; 27 (2); pp.299-321; peerreviewed.
・ Ryoko Matsuba, “Establishing the production chronology of the iconic Japanese woodblock print ‘Red Fuji’”;Jan 2021; ISTE OpenScience; ISTE OpenScience; 21-5; 24 pages; peer-reviewed.
・ Andy Hutcheson, “Divergent heritages? UNESCO and the cultural heritage of landscapes in the UK andJapan”; Mar 2021; Taylor & Francis; The Historic Environment: Policy & Practice; 12; 12 pages; peer-reviewed.
(3) Presentations
・Eugenia Bogdanova-Kummer. “Japanese Printed Calligraphy and Postwar Avant-Garde”; 22 June - Sunday 28
June 2020; Before and Beyond Typography E-CONFERENCE by Stanford University; online; peer-reviewed.
・Simon Kaner. “From Shibayama to Stonehenge: William Gowland – pioneer of archaeology in Japan andEngland”; Oct 2020; ORDINARY MEETING OF FELLOWS LECTURE; online; Dr Luke Edgington-Brown (copresenter); not peer-reviewed.
・Ryoko Matsuba. “From Ehon to Manga: The Historical Roots of Japanese Visual Storytelling”; Dec 2020;
World Art Research Seminar at University of East Anglia; online; not peer-reviewed.
・Simon Kaner. “Nara to Norwich: art and belief at the ends of the Silk Roads”; 25 Jan 2021; Silk Roads Seminar
Series at the UCL Institute of Archaeology; online); not peer-reviewed.
(4) Symposiums and/or research meeting you organized・ “Online Summer Programme in Japanese Cultural Studies”; online; 27th July to 7th August; 358 participants;
Ishibashi Foundation and Toshiba International Foundation.
(5) Other research activities (Lectures to the general public, and appearances in/contributions to massmedia)
・Online public lecture, Simon Kaner, “Dig Dogs — The Archaeology of Dogs in Japan: Talk by Prof SimonKaner”; Oct 2020; Japan House London.
・Online public lecture, Simon Kaner, “Okinoshima in world perspective: Weaving narratives of ritual, politics
and exchange”; 19 Jan 2021; Preservation and Utilization Council of "Sacred Island of Okinoshima and AssociatedSites in the Munakata Region" Headquarters: World Heritage Division, Fukuoka Prefecture.
・Online public lecture, Ryoko Matsuba, “英国における『日本』展－大英博物館企画展を事例として－”; Nov
2020; 国際日本学講演会, お茶の水女子大学.
・Online public lecture, Ryoko Matsuba, “Edo Iconography: Reading Popular Prints in Early Modern Japan”; Jan（様式）2021; Third Thursday Lecture, Sainsbury Institute.
・Online public lecture, Simon Kaner, “Cultural Properties Recovered? 10 Years on from the Great East Japan
Disaster”; Feb 2021; Third Thursday Lecture, Sainsbury Institute.