Anna Jackson is Keeper of the Asia Department at the Victoria and Albert Museum. A specialist in Japanese textiles and dress, she is the curator of the exhibition Kimono: Kyoto to Catwalk, which was staged at the V&A in 2020 and subsequently toured to four venues in Europe. She has also written widely on the subject of cultural exchange between Asia and Europe. In 2004 she was co-curator of Encounters: the Meeting of Asia and Europe 1500-1800 and in 2009 lead curator of Maharaja: the Splendour of India’s Royal Courts. In December 2020, Anna was awarded the Foreign Minister’s Commendation by the Japanese Government for her contribution to the promotion of Japanese art and culture in Britain.

 

Masami Yamada is Curator of Japanese Art in the Asia Department at the Victoria and Albert Museum where she has responsibility for the museum’s renowned collections of woodblock prints, netsuke, lacquerware and contemporary crafts. She has contributed to various publications, including Kimono: Kyoto to Catwalk (2020) and The Art of the Illustrated Book (2022). Her latest book, co-written with Anna Jackson, is Fashion and the Floating World: Japanese Ukiyo-e Prints which was published in October. Masami was also one of the curators of the exhibition Japan: Myths to Manga at Young V&A (2023-24), which is now touring in the USA.

 

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