Event

“館史資料からみた東京国立博物館と外国博物館との文化財交換 (The History of the Exchanges of the Cultural Objects between the Tokyo National Museum and the Museums in Foreign Counties)”

This talk will be given in Japanese.

Katsuya Shirai is Chief Curator of Archaeology of the Curatorial Research Department at the Tokyo National Museum. Mr. Shirai received a master’s degree from the University of Tokyo in Archaeology, and he has been working at the Tokyo National Museum since 1996. His main research specialty is the archaeology of the Korean Peninsula. His recent research includes the trading interactions in East Asia during the Yayoi and Kofun periods, as well as the interactions between the Japanese and foreign museums in their early years.

*This event is sponsored by the E. Dale Saunders Council on Buddhist Studies.

*For more information, please contact Yoko Nishimura at yokonish@sas.upenn.edu.