30 May 2019
Daiwa Scholarship alumnus and artist Carl Randall will be exhibiting his recent large oil painting Waterloo Bridge, London at The Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition 2019 from 10 June to 12 August at The Royal Academy of Arts, central London. Approximately 700 works from public submission were selected from over almost 12,000 international entries.
Read on29 May 2019
We are looking for interns to join the events team to assist in target research for our social science seminars.
Read on1 May 2019
Divided into six different ‘zones’ the exhibition promises to be a playful and immersive showcase of original Japanese manga, its relevance and importance to Japanese culture and history and Manga’s influence across the globe. Some highlights of the exhibition include the 17m long Shintomiza Kabuki Theatre Curtain (featuring painted demons and ghosts), high profile loans from famous Japanese artists (including Hokusai and Kyosai) through
Read on18 April 2019
Acclaimed Japanese singer and songwriter Ichiko Aoba, started playing classical guitar at the age of 17 and debuted her first album, “Kamisori Otome” (Razor Girl), at the age of 19. Since then, she has released several original albums. She will be performing at Babel Art House, Stoke Newington on Tuesday, 28 May 2019 as part
Read on16 April 2019
Daiwa Scholarship alumnus and artist Carl Randall’s Japan drawing ‘Shibuya’ has been used on the front cover of Gateways to Drawing, A Complete Guide, a book about drawing published by Thames & Hudson. Inside features drawings by da Vinci, Michelangelo, Rembrandt, van Gogh, Raphael, Durer, Ingres, Ando Hiroshige, Breughel, Daumier, Cezanne, Delacroix, William Blake, Alice
Read on15 April 2019
2017 Daiwa Scholar Edmund Stenson’s new documentary, Finding Fukue has won the best film award in the NSI (National Screen Institute Canada) Online Short Film Festival. The film went live on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) website and on YouTube last year. It reached nearly half a million views in two weeks, and the Foundation
Read on30 March 2019
The Oxford University Orchestra (OUO) is the University’s premier student ensemble. It has provided decades of top-class opportunities to players at the University of Oxford, impressing audiences from the University community, Oxford area and beyond. It has recently received a Daiwa Foundation Small Grant and Violetta Suvini, who is in charge of fundraising, has written the piece below.
Read on12 March 2019
We will be holding a talk about the Daiwa Scholarships programme and Daiwa Scholarships in Japanese Studies on Wednesday 22nd May at 3pm at Daiwa Foundation Japan House.
Read on3 March 2019
A Master’s student from Japan will be able to study at Cambridge from this October thanks to a new scholarship, the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Cambridge Scholarship, which will be jointly funded by the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation and the Cambridge Trust. The scholarship will fund the tuition fee for any one-year Master’s course available at the University, up to a cap of £35,000, as well as a stipend. It is tenable at any College within the University of Cambridge. Applicants must be citizens of Japan.
Read on26 February 2019
A new, large Japan painting by Daiwa Scholarship alumnus and artist Carl Randall is being exhibited at ART FAIR TOKYO 2019, March 7th – 10th, Tokyo Japan. It is the largest art fair in Japan and the oldest in Asia, exhibiting artists include Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Leonard Fujita, Michael Craig-Martin, Taro Okamoto, Julian Opie; as well as a range of more traditional Japanese arts (ink and calligraphy paintings, nihonga, pottery, netsuke).
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