2014 Chino Kaori Memorial Prize for Graduate Students
 
Japan Art History Forum (JAHF) is pleased to announce the thirteenth annual Chino Kaori Memorial Prize competition. Established in 2003 in memory of the distinguished art historian Chino Kaori, the Chino Prize is awarded annually to a graduate student who has written an outstanding essay on a topic in the study of Japanese art history or visual culture. The award recognizes excellence in scholarship, with several past prize-winning essays later published in peer-reviewed journals. For more about past Chino Prize essays, please go to: https://jahf.net/chinoprizewin
 
The Chino Prize is administered by JAHF and generously supported by the University of Hawai’i Press. The prize recipient will be awarded $400 in books from the University of Hawai’i Press catalogue and a complimentary two-year membership to JAHF. 
 
The competition is open to graduate students from any university. Applicants must be JAHF members (the membership fee for students is $10). Submissions should include an essay, abstract, and illustrations (see Submission Guidelines below). Essays may not be previously published in any form or currently under review for publication. 
 
Submission Guidelines:
– All submission matterials must be written in English.
– Essay, under 10,000 words (excluding notes), in Times New Roman, 12 pt., double-spaced. 
– Abstract, 250 words.
– Illustrations, with the size of each image less than 75 dpi, the maximum size of the total file 4MB. 
– Please send the above three items in a single Word or PDF file.  
 
The deadline for submission is August 1, 2014
Please send submissions to Xiaojin Wu, JAHF Vice-President, at: XiaojinW@SEATTLEARTMUSEUM.ORG
 
Submissions that do not meet the above specifications will not be accepted. The recipient of the prize will be announced in September. The selection committee will post an abstract of the prize winning paper on the JAHF website.
 
The 2014 Committee is looking forward to your submissions.