2022 DNP Foundation for Cultural Promotion Research Grants for Academic Studies Relating to Graphic Design and Graphic Art: Selected Research Topics
Application Overview
Application Period: April 1 through June 17, 2022
Number of Applications
| Subtotal | Breakdown | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Domestic | Overseas | ||
| Category A | 46 | 43 | 3 |
| Category B | 13 | 12 | 1 |
| Total | 59 | 55 | 4 |
2022 Selected Research Topics
| Category | Research Topic | Applicant Affiliated Institution |
Grant Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
A |
Modernity in Commemorative Printed Textiles: Representations of Nation-States, Traditions, and Ethnicity |
MONDEN Sonoko Institute for Global Leadership, Ochanomizu University |
500,000 JPY |
A |
History of Posters and Cultural History of Design in Prewar Japan |
TAJIMA Natsuko Ome Municipal Museum of Art |
499,200 JPY |
A |
The Manufacture of Type for Typewriters in Switzerland |
WIETLISBACH Sophie ECAL/University of Art and Design, Lausanne |
500,000 JPY |
A |
Postal Media's Representation of the Sporting Female Body at Athletic Meet in Prewar Japan |
SAKITA Yoshihiro Faculty of Education, Hokkaido University |
450,000 JPY |
A |
Felice Rix-Ueno as an educator and her influence on the Japanese postwar design. |
MAKITA Hisami Archival Research Center, Kyoto City University of Arts |
400,000 JPY |
A |
The Current State and Expressive Potential of Street Photography in a Surveillance-Recording Society |
ENDO Yuseke Graduate School of Language and Culture, Osaka University |
250,000 JPY |
A |
Expression in the Plant: Juxtaposition of Art with Life in Postwar Japan |
SABAE Hideki Kyoyo Seika University |
460,000 JPY |
A |
The Hiroshima Panels: Research on the graphic culture / With Regards the Woodcut Prints from the 1950s |
GOTO Shusei Maruki Gallery for the Hiroshima Panels |
400,000 JPY |
B |
Photography as “Anonymous Document”: The Formation of a New Realism of Photography in the Late 1960s and early 70s Japan |
KUGO Kasumi Binghamton University |
400,000 JPY |
B |
Overview Survey of Non-film Materials Stored at Regional Film Archives in Japan |
ISHIHARA Kae Film Preservation Society, Tokyo |
500,000 JPY |
B |
Kirishitan-ban in the Digital Age: A Study of the Opportunities and Limitations of Applying Digital Methods to Kirishitan-ban |
MORRIS James Harry Waseda University, Waseda Institute for Advanced Study |
481,000 JPY |
B |
An archive of rephotography projects along Tohoku’s recovering coast |
McLEOD Gary University of Tsukuba |
400,000 JPY |
2022 Continuation Grants (2021 Selected Research Topics)
| Category | Research Topic | Applicant Affiliated Institution |
Grant Amount 2021 Grant Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
A |
Nihon Kobo's External Propaganda Magazine CANTON and the Sino-Japanese Propaganda War in Canton in 1939 |
CHEN Ying Kyoto Institute of Technology |
400,000 JPY 400,000 JPY |
A |
On the Reception of Photography During the Italian Futurism: Explaining the Experiment of "Fotodinamismo" |
TSUNODA kahlua Keio University |
500,000 JPY 500,000 JPY |
A |
Interactions and Boundaries between Prints and Graphic Design in Japan from the 1950s to the 1970s |
NAKAO Yui The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo |
400,000 JPY 400,000 JPY |
A |
Landscape theory: with a focus on Hara Masato's works and criticisms |
SASAKI Yusuke Faculty of Regional Sciences, Tottori University |
400,000 JPY 400,000 JPY |
A |
Cipe Pineles's Editorial Design and Educational Activities: Difficulty and Overcome in the Life of A Female Designer in the 20th Century United States |
SAKURAI Kanoko Gifu University |
160,000 JPY 340,000 JPY |
A |
Graphics as a National Representation: Focusing on the Exhibition of Japanese Print Culture Held in Nazi-Era Berlin |
EGUCHI Minami University of Tsukuba |
500,000 JPY 500,000 JPY |
A |
Richard Hamilton's Inkjet Printed Digital Works: Questioning the Distinction between Paintings, Photographs, and Prints |
YOSHIMURA Noriko Miyagigakuin Women's University |
400,000 JPY 400,000 JPY |
A |
Expressions of Louis Sullivan's Thought in Ornament |
KURATA Keiichi The University of Tokyo |
500,000 JPY 500,000 JPY |
B |
The Archiving of Wakae Kanji's Photographic Documentation of Joseph Beuys |
SANBONMATSU Tomoyo The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura & Hayama |
500,000 JPY 500,000 JPY |
B |
Research on the archiving and digital archiving of MatsuzawaYutaka's works and materials and making them available on the web |
KINOUCHI Mayumi Nagano Prefectural Art Museum |
500,000 JPY 500,000 JPY |
B |
Practical research on archiving and utilization of "Dyeing pattern paper" as a local resource—Target at Iwadeyama (Osaki City) and along Hago Kaido— |
HIRAOKA Yoshihiro School of Project Design, Department of Value Creating Design, Miyagi University |
500,000 JPY 500,000 JPY |