Caring for Japanese Arts at the Chester Beatty Library

Yoshiko Ushioda

ISBN 10: 1628971843 / ISBN 13: 9781628971842

Published by Dalkey Archive Press, US, 2018

About this Item

Caring for Japanese Art at the Chester Beatty Library is a memoir of Yoshiko Ushioda , looking back at more than five decades of life in Dublin. The story begins in 1960, when she traveled from Tokyo with her young son to join her husband, a research-fellow at University College Dublin. Beginning as a volunteer at the Chester Beatty Library in 1970, she would go on to become curator and accompany masterpieces loaned by The Chester Beatty Library to special exhibitions all around the world. Both inspiring and heartfelt, Mrs. Ushioda's memoir will be of interest to both lovers of Japanese Art and those interested in Irish-Japanese relations.

Seller Inventory # LU-9781628971842

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Caring for Japanese Arts at the Chester Beatty Library
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press, US
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1628971843
• ISBN 13: 9781628971842
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

Caring for Japanese Art at the Chester Beatty Library is a memoir of Yoshiko Ushioda, looking back at more than five decades of life in Dublin. The story begins in 1960, when she traveled from Tokyo with her young son to join her husband, a research-fellow at University College Dublin. Beginning as a volunteer at the Chester Beatty Library in 1970, she would go on to become curator and accompany masterpieces loaned by The Chester Beatty Library to special exhibitions all around the world. Both inspiring and heartfelt, Mrs. Ushioda’s memoir will be of interest to both lovers of Japanese Art and those interested in Irish-Japanese relations.

About the Authors

Yoshiko Ushioda was born in 1931 in Mito, Japan, and moved to Dublin in 1960. In 1970, she began volunteering at the Chester Beatty Library, and was promoted to curator of the Japanese Arts Collection in 1980. She retired in 1996, and currently lives in Dublin with her huband.

was born in 1959 in Nagasaki and has worked as a translator for Ericsson Japan in Fukuoka and Shin-Yokohama. She currently lives in Dublin, Ireland.