Rosina Buckland

Research Assistant

Japan

Department: Asia

Telephone: +44 (0)20 7323 8832
Email: rbuckland @ thebritishmuseum.ac.uk

Rosina Buckland is a Research Assistant working with the collection of Japanese art. She read Japanese Studies at Christ’s College, Cambridge, and took a Master’s in Asian Art History at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

She obtained her PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, examining the career of the painter Taki Katei (1830–1901) and the role of Chinese culture in Japan in the late nineteenth century. Her primary interests are the art and culture of the late Edo period (1615–1868) and early Meiji era (1868–1912), with a focus on the literati arts.

Current British Museum projects

Conducting a survey of the Japanese paintings collection (approximately 3,500 works), with cataloguing and photography, for the Collection database online

 

Previous British Museum projects

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External fellowships/ honorary positions/ membership of professional bodies

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Publications

R. Buckland, T. Clark, S. Oikawa, A Japanese Menagerie: Animal Pictures by Kawanabe Kyosai (London, British Museum Press, 2006)

R. Buckland, Golden Fantasies: Japanese Screens from New York Collections (New York, Asia Society, 2004)

R. Buckland, ‘The Message of the Monkeys’, in Oriental Art, vol. XLIX, no. 5 (2004), pp. 2-10