Anne Rose Kitagawa (born 1965) is the chief curator of collections and

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and director of academic programs at the

Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art :''see also the ''Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art'', Washington State University, Pullman, Washington Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) is an art museum located on the campus of the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon. The original building ...

at the

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. She is an authority of the Harvard Art Museums' ''

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'' album.

Early life and family

Anne Rose Kitagawa was born in 1965 to

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of Japan, and

Evelyn Mae Rose Evelyn Mae Kitagawa (1920 – September 15, 2007) was an American sociologist and demographer who worked as a professor at the University of Chicago and became president of the Population Association of America and chair of the U.S. Census Bureau's ...

of Hanford, California, who was of Portuguese Catholic descent. Her father travelled to the United States in order to study at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific but was

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after the

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as an

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. He became an ordained minister while interned and was transferred to the

Minidoka War Relocation Center Minidoka National Historic Site is a National Historic Site in the western United States. It commemorates the more than 13,000 Japanese Americans who were imprisoned at the Minidoka War Relocation Center during the Second World War.

in Idaho where he met his future wife who was a sociologist working for the United States government doing statistical research. The couple were married after the Second World War after which Evelyn was disowned by her parents and never had contact with them again. Kitagawa spoke some words of Japanese at home as a child but did not learn to speak the language fluently until she was at college.

Career

Kitagawa's interest in Asian art was kindled by travelling to Japan and Asia as a child with her parents. Informed by her father's criticism of the way much Asian art has been presented in purely aesthetic terms, even in Asia, Kitagawa has sought to approach Asian art by placing in its original cultural context and examining the rituals behind the works of art. Kitagawa worked for the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and at the

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, before becoming the Cunningham assistant curator of

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at the

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. She joined the Jordan Schnitzer museum at the University of Oregon in 2010,''Anne Rose Kitagawa''.
''UO Today'', 23 July 2012, No. 504. YouTube. Retrieved 12 April 2016. where she is chief curator of collections and Asian art and director of academic programs.Staff.
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. Retrieved 12 April 2016. In 2016, Kitagawa contributed the introduction to a new edition ''The Tale of Genji'' by the Folio Society based on the translation by

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and illustrations from the Genji album in the

Harvard Art Museums The Harvard Art Museums are part of Harvard University and comprise three museums: the Fogg Museum (established in 1895), the Busch-Reisinger Museum (established in 1903), and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum (established in 1985), and four research ...

Selected publications

*''Symbol and substance: The Elaine Ehrenkranz Collection of Japanese lacquer boxes: Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 26 September 1998 to 3 January 1999.'' Harvard University Art Museums, 1998. *''Behind the scenes of Harvard's "Tale of Genji album"''. ''

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'', 2001, 477, pp. 28–35. *"Introduction" in ''The Tale of Genji'' by

Murasaki Shikibu was a Japanese novelist, poet and lady-in-waiting at the Imperial court in the Heian period. She is best known as the author of '' The Tale of Genji,'' widely considered to be one of the world's first novels, written in Japanese between abou ...

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, London, 2016.

References

External links

Asian Gallery Tour with Anne Rose Kitagawa.
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