The Metropolitan Center for Far Eastern Art Studies, Kyoto, and the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. award the Shimada Prize biennially for the outstanding publication on the history of East Asian Art. Nominations of distinguished contributions in the field of East Asian art are currently being solicited for books, research papers, and collaborative studies, in any language, published during the calendar years 1999 and 2000.
Individual authors are welcome to submit their own works for consideration.
In making the award, the Selection Committee will give priority to originality and quality of research, clarity of exposition, and historical importance of the topic. U.S.A. A copy or offprint of the publication should accompany the letter of nomination and the nomination form . Publications will be retained by the Selection Committee. Staff members at the Freer and Sackler galleries are not eligible. The next Shimada Prize recipient will be announced by the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in September 2001.