Ann Yonemura

Senior Associate Curator, Japanese Art

Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
Smithsonian Institution
Washington, D.C. 20560-0707

ann.yonemura@asia.si.edu

Research Interests

Japanese art history and aesthetics, encompassing painting, calligraphy, lacquer, prints and graphic arts, and their interrelationships.

Current Research Projects

Japanese art of the Rimpa school in the Freer Gallery of Art. Japanese ukiyo-e and modern prints in the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. History of Japanese calligraphy.

Current or Projected Exhibits

Real and Imagined Places in Japanese Art (Freer Gallery of Art 2001), Ukiyo-e Prints from a Private Collection (Arthur M. Sackler Gallery 2002).

Recent Publications

"Transcending Decoration: the Significance of Maki-e in the Arts of Japan," in Miyeko Murase and Judith G. Smith, ed., The Arts of Japan: an International Symposium (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000), pp. 110-131.

"Decoration and Representation in Japanese Lacquer," Oriental Art vol. XLV no. 3 (1999), pp. 16-22.

Entries on Heike kindachi soshi, Landscape by Soen, lacquer box for tanzaku, Tale of Shuten Doji by Kano Shoun et.al., Prints of Yokohama and Meiji Japan, Box with sagittaria design by Akatsuka Jitoku (1871-1936), in Thomas Lawton and Thomas W. Lentz, Beyond the Legacy: Anniversary Acquisitions for the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery (Washington, DC: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, 1988).

"Imperial Gift: an Artistic Legacy," introduction to Twelve Centuries of Japanese Art form the Imperial Collections (Washington, DC: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, 1997), pp. 25-31.

"Beyond the Brush: Japanese Prints, Paper Works, and Photographs," Oriental Art vol. XLII no. 3 (October 1997), pp. 31-41.

"The Art of Calligraphy and the Wakan roei shu ," chapter 5 in Jonathan Chaves and Thomas Rimer, tr., Japanese and Chinese Poems to Sing: the Wakan roei shu (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997), pp. 260-270 and figs. 5.1-5.11.

"Japanese Lacquer," The Dictionary of Art (London: Macmillan, 1996), vol. 17, pp. 297-305.

"Conservation and Mounting of Japanese Painting," Asian Art & Culture , winter 1996, pp. 53-67.