Chino Kaori Prize 2020

Mai Yamaguchi, a doctoral student of Professor Andrew Watsky at Princeton University, has won the 2020 Chino Kaori Memorial Prize for her essay “Hold the Brush: Reprinting and Adapting Chinese Painting Manuals in Nineteenth-Century Japan” This Japan Art History Forum prize recognizes outstanding graduate student scholarship in Japanese art history. The prize was established in 2003 in memory of the distinguished art historian Chino Kaori, and is awarded annually to the best research paper written in English on a Japanese art history topic. The essay winner receives $400 in books from Brill Publishing’s catalog and a complimentary two-year membership to JAHF.