Dr Eriko Tomizawa-Kay, CJS Director
Dr Eriko Tomizawa-Kay is a Sainsbury Institute Associate Professor in Japanese Art History at the University of East Anglia and Director of the Centre for Japanese Studies. She received her PhD from SOAS, University of London, and has held fellowships at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures. Most recently, she served as Toyota Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan (2023–2024).
Current Research
Her research focuses on modern and contemporary Japanese art, with particular expertise in Nihonga, Okinawan visual culture, and transnational art history. She is co-editor of East Asian Art History in a Transnational Context (Routledge, 2019) and Okinawan Art in its Regional Context (SISJAC, 2022). Her latest publication is Contested bodies: female imagery in pre-war Okinawa (Japan Forum, 2025).
Further information can be found on her UEA staff profile here.