12 October 2022
The current exhibition at Klei in London is of work by Daiwa Scholarships alumna Symy Ong. Currently Oxford-based, artist Symy Ong is exhibiting her first body of work back in the UK since spending time in Japan on the Daiwa Scholarship!
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Very many congratulations to former Daiwa Scholarships in Japanese Studies Scholar Warren A. Stanislaus who was awarded the 2022 Ian Nish Prize for his article “From Cool Japan to Cold Japan: Grime Cyborgs in Black Britain” (2022). The Ian Nish Prize is awarded annually for the best article by an early career researcher in any
Read on7 September 2022
Oki will be performing at Glad Cafe in Glasgow on 11 November, at the White Hotel in Salford on 12 November and at Cafe Oto in London on 14 November. The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation is delighted to be supporting travel to the UK by Ainu artist Oki on a debut UK tour with Rumiko
Read on6 September 2022
16 Daiwa Scholars from the 2020, 2021 and 2022 cohorts have arrived in Japan! The start of the programme has been delayed by two years in the case of the 2020 Scholars and by one year in the case of the 2021 Scholars. We wish them a great twelve months of language study (at Waseda),
Read on4 September 2022
Daiwa Scholarships alumnus and figurative painter Carl Randall was invited by the Japan Society London to give a talk on 4 July 2022. (Link to the video of the talk is below.) The talk took place at the Swedenborg Society in Bloomsbury, central London. In this illustrated lecture Carl gave an insight into his series
Read on28 June 2013
I have spent this week (Tuesday 25th June-Friday 28h June) on work experience at Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation in London, and during my time here I have been keeping a diary of everything I do. I have hugely enjoyed my time here and I hope to come back again soon. Many thanks to everyone at Daiwa
Read on28 June 2013
An exhibition of traditional and innovative maki-e artworks by Shokan Matsuda and some of his followers will be held in the Old College Library at the Chelsea College of Art and Design from 4th-20th July. Matsuda is a renowned Japanese maki-e lacquer artisan who uses both traditional and experimental approaches to apply maki-e to everyday
Read on27 June 2013
The current Jiro Takamatsu exhibition at the Stephen Friedman Gallery celebrates the influential post-war artist, theorist and teacher with the first solo showcasing of his works which includes both his acclaimed Shadow Paintings series and other less well-known pieces such as his installation sketches. The Shadow Paintings are a series of shadow images which are so
Read on27 June 2013
The current exhibition at Hauser&Wirth gallery in London showcases an excellent selection of Takesada Matsutani’s works both old and new, familiar and never before seen.
Read on27 June 2013
Here is a job advert for an Associate Lecturer in Japanese at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLAN). Please click through the link below if you are interested. The application deadline is 28 July 2013.
Read on27 June 2013
On Thursday 27 June, Japanese violinist Sayaka Shoji joins the Philharmonia Orchestra at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall for a performance of Tchaikovsky’s iconic Violin Concerto. Described by The Sunday Times as displaying a ‘passionate, free, almost improvisatory virtuosity of the highest order’, Shoji is one of classical music’s most exciting talents and the Orchestra
Read on27 June 2013
From 11 June-20 July 2013, the Stephen Friedman Gallery will be hosting an exhibition of the works of Jiro Takamatsu, a celebrated Japanese artist.
Read on26 June 2013
Japan Portraits, a short documentary showing Carl Randall drawing and painting in Japan, is now available to watch online via the National Portrait Gallery’s website.
Read on26 June 2013
Hauser and Wirth gallery is exhibiting the works of Takesada Matsutani in A Matrix until 27 July.
Read on25 June 2013
Yuko Otsu will be hosting a poetry recital in Japanese of works by female poet, Noriko Ibaragi (1926-2006) read by Hiroko Oba.
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