2023 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 16, 2023
Number of Applications
| Subtotal | Breakdown | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Domestic | Overseas | ||
| Category A | 46 | 39 | 7 |
| Category B | 14 | 14 | 0 |
| Total | 60 | 53 | 7 |
2023 Selected Research Topics
| Category | Research Topic | Applicant Affiliated Institution |
Grant Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
A |
The Visual Culture of ‘Fringe’ Science: Thoughtography as Global History |
HSIUNG Hansun Durham University |
500,000JPY |
A |
Symbology of Rroms (Gypsies) |
SUMI Yusuke Kobe City University of Foreign Studies |
500,000JPY |
A |
Jean-Émile Laboureur and Société des Peintres-graveurs Indépendants: Revival of Printing in the First Half of the Twentieth Century France |
TAKANO Shiori Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts |
500,000 JPY |
A |
Contemporary Art Practice through Woodblock Prints: A Case Study in Indonesia and Malaysia |
HIROTA Midori Professional Institute of International Fashion |
500,000 JPY |
A |
“Paper Thought”: Approaching the Digital Humanities through Toda Tztom’s Criticism |
GABRAKOVA Dennitza Victoria University of Wellington |
200,000 JPY |
A |
A Study on the Mutual Influence of Sheet Music Printing and Musical Culture in the Digital Age |
SEKI Shintaro Japan Society for the Promotion of Science |
500,000 JPY |
A |
Connecting People and Countries through Photography by Kazumasa: Anglo-Japanese Photographic Exchange in the Meiji Era |
SHIMIZU Yuki Tsuda University |
500,000 JPY |
A |
Photographs of “Butsudori” in Modern Japan: Focusing on the 1920s to 1960s |
ASHITAKA Ikuko Shiga Museum of Art |
500,000JPY |
A |
Research on MAXI GRAPHICA, a Japanese printmaker collective—Relationship between region and print representation |
HORIMOTO Sotoku Osaka Metropolitan University |
200,000JPY |
A |
Ramayana in South and Southeast Asian Graphic Culture |
RAO Anandi SOAS, University of London |
500,000JPY |
B |
Investigation of Chinese Islamic Pictures, Calligraphies, and Posters in China and Japan: Toward the Creation of a Catalog and Archive |
UNNO Noriko Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University |
500,000JPY |
B |
Building of Digital Archives of Taizanseitosho |
SAKAGUCH Eishin Tokyo University of the Arts |
500,000JPY |
B |
Research of Genichiro Inokuma’s works of 1930-1940's magazine cover and Build out open database of the collection |
YOSHIZAWA Hiroyuki Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art |
500,000JPY |
B |
East Asian typography：Trends from 2000 to the present―Through the International Typography Biennale Typojanchi― |
SEO Hye School of Human Cultures, Department of Living Design, The University of Shiga Prefecture |
470,000JPY |
2023 Continuation Grants (2022 Selected Research Topics)
| Category | Research Topic | Applicant Affiliated Institution |
Grant Amount 2022 Grant Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
A |
Modernity in Commemorative Printed Textiles: Representations of Nation-States, Traditions, and Ethnicity |
MONDEN Sonoko Institute for Global Leadership, Ochanomizu University |
500,000JPY 500,000JPY |
A |
History of Posters and Cultural History of Design in Prewar Japan |
TAJIMA Natsuko Ome Municipal Museum of Art |
497,400JPY 499,200 JPY |
A |
Postal Media's Representation of the Sporting Female Body at Athletic Meet in Prewar Japan |
SAKITA Yoshihiro Faculty of Education, Hokkaido University |
400,000JPY 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 |
400,000JPY 400,000JPY |
A |
Expression in the Plant: Juxtaposition of Art with Life in Postwar Japan |
SABAE Hideki Kyoto Seika University |
450,000JPY 460,000 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 |
400,000JPY 400,000JPY |
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 |
481,000JPY 481,000JPY |
B |
An archive of rephotography projects along Tohoku’s recovering coast |
McLEOD Gary University of Tsukuba |
400,000JPY 400,000JPY |