Art and Culture

TIFO supports exhibitions of Japanese arts and culture held at museums and galleries, and other activities that introduce Japanese arts and culture to communities outside Japan.

FY2021 Grant Example

Symposium on the exhibition “Love, Fight, Feast – The art of story-telling in Japan”
Museum Rietberg Zurich, Switzerland

Symposium on the exhibition “Love, Fight, Feast – The art of story-telling in Japan”

Held in October 2021 in tandem with an exhibition on the multifaceted features of Japanese narrative art—its thematic, stylistic and material diversity—the symposium emulated courtly practice of uta awase, a poetry contest. Eight international scholars and curators of Japanese art performed a happyō awase, a pairing of presentations offering in-depth discussions of key works embodying the art. The exhibition itself, 105 paintings and prints, pieces of lacquerware and metalwork, and textiles, dating from the 13th to the 20th century, illustrated the multiplicity of Japanese narrative art, and revealed additional stories that went beyond the objects themselves. While highly esteemed in Japan, the genre of narrative art featured in the exhibition is less known in the West, making the exhibition a truly innovative event.

Sharing Edo Culture with an International Audience Through the Oyama Pilgrimage
Oyama Pilgrimage History Promotion Committee, Japan

Sharing Edo Culture with an International Audience Through the Oyama Pilgrimage

Mount Oyama, about 70-kilometers southwest of Tokyo, has been a place of pilgrimage since the Edo period. The Committee promotes international sharing of information and activities related to this slice of Japanese culture, and has produced for exhibition a quilt, made from pilgrim’s clothing, that tells the story of the pilgrimage. Two videos, one about Oyama the other the Oyama pilgrimage, have also been produced in English, and released on YouTube.

FY 2022 Grant Activities (Plan)

  • Europe
  • Europe, Middle East And Africa

The Americas

Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens
Japanese Traditional Music Stage II: Community Outreach Program

The Americas

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Survey for the Japanese Drawing Access and Documentation Project

The Americas

Institute for Medieval Japanese Studies: Japanese Cultural Heritage Initiatives, Columbia University
Online Archives (Video Library) of Japanese Heritage Instruments and Their Music

Europe

Associazione Culturale ISSHO-NI San Marino & Giappone, San Marino
Photo exhibition “Nagasaki Beyond” and other events introducing Japanese culture

Europe

Yamashiroya, Japan
"Samurai Exhibition" in Russia

Europe

Sanjo Ika Association, Japan
Sanjo Rokkaku Battle Azerbaijan Tournament
Society for Future Japanese education
Easy Japanese -Towards a Carbon-Decarbonized Society- Japanese-English Bilingual Booklet
Oyama Pilgrimage History Promotion Committee
Sharing Edo Culture with an International Audience Through the Oyama Pilgrimage
Japan Trad Innovators Committee
Exploring Japanese Music
KATARIBE World Network
International KATARIBE Workshop
Cultural Sending Promotion Committee
Tokyo Tower Arts Festival VI
Meiji Jingu Intercultural Exchange Committee
Publication of Waka poetry composed by Emperor Meiji (bilingual)
Japanese Culture Promotion and Management
Japanese Traditional Music Workshops Phase 2 (Part 2)
Focus on Okinawa: Introducing the shakuhachi and koto in Japanese K-12 local schools.
Kanayama Megaliths Research Center
Project for Reviving Jomon Megalithic Astronomy
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