Shimada price

The Shimada Prize ( english The Shimada Prize ) is an after art historian Shujiro Shimada named (1907-1994) price , in Washington, DC for the world's best scientific work in the field of East Asian Art History is awarded.

The prize was founded in 1992 and has been awarded every two years by an international selection committee since 1993 by the Metropolitan Center for Far Eastern Art Studies in Kyoto , the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. The prize pool is $ 10,000. The last award of the prize so far (as of 2019) took place in 2010.

Award winners

1993 The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Mo., for The Century of Tung Ch'i-ch'ang (1555–1636), 1992.
1995 Hirata Yutaka : The Age of the Buddhist Master Painter ( Japanese ), Chuokoron Bijitsu Press, 1994.
1997 Su Bai : Zhongguo shikusi yanjiu (“Studies on Chinese Cave Temples”), Beijing: Wenwu Chubanshe , 1996; Shanxi Province Archaeological Institute: Houma taofan yishu ("The Art of Houma Foundry"), illustrated by Li Xiating and Liang Ziming, with the Chinese archaeological report translated by Robert W. Bagley and Jay Xu
1999 Kihara Toshie : Yubi no tankyu: Kanō Tan'yū ron; Osaka University Press, 1998.
2001 Zou Heng (Ed.): Tianma-Qucun (1980-89). Beijing: Science Press, 2000.
2003 Stanley K. Abe : Ordinary Images. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2002.
2006 Andrew M. Watsky : Chikubushima : Deploying the Sacred Arts in Momoyama Japan. University of Washington Press, 2004.
2008 Patricia Berger : Empire of Emptiness: Buddhist Art and Political Authority in Qing China. University of Hawai'i Press, 2003.
2010 Patricia Ebrey : Accumulating Culture: The Collections of Emperor Huizong. University of Washington Press, 2008.