Japan Art History Forum (JAHF) is pleased to announce the fifteenth annual Chino Kaori Memorial Prize competition. Established in 2003 in memory of the distinguished art historian Chino Kaori, the Chino Prize is awarded annually to a graduate student who has written an outstanding essay on a topic in the study of Japanese art history or visual culture. The award recognizes excellence in scholarship, with several past prize-winning essays later published in peer-reviewed journals. For more about past Chino Prize essays, please go to: https://jahf.net/chinoprizewin
Thanks to a generous gift from the Japanese Art Society of America (JASA), the winner of this year’s competition will receive a prize of $1,000. JASA has pledged to support the Chino Kaori Prize in this way for the next five years.
The prize is also generously supported by the University of Hawai’i Press. The prize recipient will be awarded $400 in books from the University of Hawai’i Press catalogue as well as a complimentary two-year membership to JAHF.
The competition is open to graduate students from any university. Submissions should include an essay, abstract, and illustrations (see Submission Guidelines below). Essays may not be previously published in any form or currently under review for publication.
*Submission Guidelines:*
– Essay, under 10,000 words (excluding notes), in Times New Roman, 12 pt., double-spaced.
– Abstract, 250 words.
– Illustrations, with the size of each image less than 75 dpi, the maximum size of the total file 5MB.
– Please send the above three items in a single Word or PDF file.
*The deadline for submission is August 10, 2016.*
*Please send submissions to Justin Jesty, JAHF Secretary, at justin.jesty(AT)gmail(DOT)com
Submissions that do not meet the above specifications will not be accepted. The recipient of the prize will be announced in September. The selection committee will post an abstract of the prize winning paper on the JAHF website.
The 2016 Committee is looking forward to your submissions.