Collections & Japan Lecture Series with the Royal Collection Trust

Coinciding with the exhibition Japan: Courts and Culture at The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, explore how Japanese art and design has been collected and exhibited across the ages in a series of lectures held in partnership with Royal Collection Trust. Events in the series are held at both The Queen’s Gallery and Japan House London and presented by leading academics and curators from key institutions with major Japanese collections.

Events at Japan House London

Thursday 8 September 2022, 18:30-19:30: ‘Courts and Culture’ – Treasures from the Royal Collection

Speaker: Rachel Peat, Assistant Curator of Non-European Works of Art at Royal Collection Trust and curator of the exhibition ‘Japan: Courts and Culture’

Wednesday 25 January 2023, 18:30-19:30: Collecting and Displaying Japan at the British Museum

Speaker: Dr Rosina Buckland, Curator of Japanese Collections, British Museum

Events at The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace

Thursday 2 February 2023, 13:00-14:00: Lunchtime Lecture: Diplomatic and Royal Gifts from Japan 

Speaker: Gregory Irvine, Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Victoria and Albert Museum

Monday 6 February 2023, 13:00-14:00: Lunchtime Lecture: Nabeshima Ware 

Speaker: Dr Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere, Research Director of the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures and Professor of Japanese Art and Culture at the University of East Anglia

Entry to the talks at The Queen’s Gallery is free with standard admission to the exhibition Japan: Courts and Culture.