Last year it was the catalogue for ‘China’s Hidden Century’ for the British Museum.
Earlier this year I designed ‘Salon culture in Japan: making art, 1750–1900’ to accompany the special display in the British Museum Mitsubishi Corporation Japanese Galleries: ‘City life and salon culture in Tokyo and Osaka: 1770–1900’.
In early modern Japan, cultural salons were creative spaces for people of all ages and social levels to pursue painting, poetry and other artistic endeavours, as serious but amateur practitioners. They all used a pen- or art-name. Individuals were therefore able to socialise and interact broadly through these artistic activities, regardless of official social status as regulated by the shogunal government.
The display is one of the results of a three-year collaborative international research project exploring salon culture in Kyoto and Osaka, supported by UK Research and Innovation through the Economic and Social Science Research Council, and by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science through an international joint research programme.
Earlier this year I designed ‘Salon culture in Japan: making art, 1750–1900’ to accompany the special display in the British Museum Mitsubishi Corporation Japanese Galleries: ‘City life and salon culture in Tokyo and Osaka: 1770–1900’.
In early modern Japan, cultural salons were creative spaces for people of all ages and social levels to pursue painting, poetry and other artistic endeavours, as serious but amateur practitioners. They all used a pen- or art-name. Individuals were therefore able to socialise and interact broadly through these artistic activities, regardless of official social status as regulated by the shogunal government.
The display is one of the results of a three-year collaborative international research project exploring salon culture in Kyoto and Osaka, supported by UK Research and Innovation through the Economic and Social Science Research Council, and by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science through an international joint research programme.
