BOOK SUBVENTION PRIZE
The JAHF Book Subvention Prize is awarded once a year toa book project that will make a substantial contribution to the field of Japanese art history, broadly defined. Applications will be judged based on the overall quality of the project and the need for financial support.
The award is for a maximum of $4,000. The winner can choose to use the award to defray publishing costs (in which case JAHF will send the funds to the publisher) or to defray the cost of acquiring permission to use images (in which case JAHF will reimburse the author, contingent upon the author providing itemized receipts). This year we welcome submissions from authors publishing first, second, or third books or beyond. First book publications will be prioritized.
All proposal submissions must be monographs strictly related to the field of Japanese art history and visual culture.
The JAHF Book Subvention Prize is made possible by Japan Art History Forum membership dues.
Past Winners
2020 Chihiro Saka for From Old Hag in Hell to Guide to the Pure Land. An Examination of the Representation of Datsueba in Literature and Visual Imagery Together with Rituals and Worship Practices (Brill).
2019 Nozomi Naoi for Yumeji Modern: Designing the Everyday in Twentieth Century Japan (University of Washington Press).
2018 Erin Schoneveld for Shirakaba and Japanese Modernism: Art Magazines, Artistic Collectives, and the Early Avante-garde (Brill).
2017 Halle O’Neal for Word Embodied: The Jeweled Pagoda Mandalas in Japanese Buddhist Art (Harvard University Asia Center).
Submission Instructions
Eligibility
The award may be granted to books on Japanese art history, after the consideration and evaluation of the JAHF Book Subvention Committee.
Applicant authors must have been members of JAHF for at least two years prior to the application and must currently be JAHF members.
The subvention will be awarded only for completed manuscripts that have a contract with an established academic publisher.
The JAHF Board reserves the right to award one or more prizes, or to award no prizes, in any given year.
Application Process
Authors should download the application form.
The deadline for completed applications is September 15, 2024. All application materials should be submitted to the JAHF President: president@jahf.net
A JAHF-appointed committee will review applications year and announce results within approximately six weeks. Re-application for the grant is allowed.
Questions should be directed to the JAHF President: president@jahf.net