CHINO KAORI
MEMORIAL PRIZE

2024 Mia Kivel The Ohio State University “The Jōmon Imaginary in Postwar Japanese Art.” 

2023 Lillian T. Wies University of Maryland, College Park “Marked: Shima Seien and the Curse of a ‘Female Artist’”

2023 Mew Lingjun Jiang University of Oregon “Pride of the Self and Prejudice Against the Other: Daylight Fireworks in Nineteenth-Century Japanese Woodblock Prints”

2022 Eve Loh Kazuhara National University of Singapore “Tanaka Isson’s Landscapes of Isolation and Wilderness from Amami Oshima”

2021 Trevor Menders Harvard University “Painter in the City: Placing Shimomura Kanzan”

2020 Mai Yamaguchi Princeton University “Hold the Brush: Reprinting and Adapting Chinese Painting Manuals in Nineteenth-Century Japan”

2019 Suhyun Choi University of British Columbia “Dressing Difference: Representations of Chima Chogori in Japan and an Ethics of Subjectivity”

2018 Kelly McCormick University of California Los Angeles “The Cameraman in a Skirt: Tokiwa Toyoko, the Camera Boom, and the Nude Shooting Session”

2017 Carrie Cushman Columbia University “Temporary Ruins, Recurring Memories: Miyamoto Ryuji’s Architectural Apocalypse (1988)”

2016 Elizabeth Self University of Pittsburgh “A Mausoleum Fit for a Shogun’s Wife: the Two Seventeenth-Century Mausolea for Sugen-in”

2015 Yurika Wakamatsu Harvard University Feminizing Art in Modern Japan: Noguchi Shohin (1847-1917) and the Changing Conceptions of Art and Womanhood“

2014 Eugenia Bogdanova-Kummer Heidelberg University “The Material Is The Message: Rubbings and Prints in Postwar Japanese Calligraphy”

2012 Sara Sumpter University of Pittsburgh “Visualizing the Invisible: Supernatural Sight and Power in Early-Medieval Japanese Handscrolls”

2011 Jeannie Kenmotsu University of Pennsylvania “Sites and Sights of Pleasure in the Eastern Capital: Poetry, Place, and Patronage in Suzuki Harunobu’s Zashiki hakkei and Furyu zashiki hakkei”

2010 Christina M. Spiker University of California, Irvine “Creating an Origin, Preserving a Past: Arnold Genthe’s 1908 Ainu Photography”

2009 Hyunjung Cho University of Southern California “Building the Narrative of Postwar Japan: Tange Kenzo’s Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park”

2008 Namiko Kunimoto UC Berkeley “Electric Dress and the Circuits of Subjectivity”

2007 Ryan Holmberg Yale University “It was not so easy to be born: Hayashi Seiichi manga”

2006 Jung-Ah Woo UCLA “The End of Eternity: Yoko Ono and Art after the War”

2005 Maki Kaneko University of East Anglia “Art and the State: Government-Sponsored Art Exhibitions and Art Politics in Wartime Japan”

2004 Alicia Volk Yale University “When the Japanese Print Became Avant-garde: Yorozu Tetsugoro and Taisho period Creative Prints”

2003 John Szostak University of Washington “Hada Teruo: An Exploration of the Life and Practice of a Modernist Buddhist Painter”