グランティ・データベース

Clara CHOW

• 2026
• Literature
• Singapore から Japan

To participate in Japan’s traditional fire festivals, expanding her understanding of this tradition and its relation to similar practices in Singapore and China. Chow’s fellowship will take her to fire festivals across Japan, offering opportunities to interview festival organizers, participants, artisans of Japanese paper and fire festival goods, and fellow artists and writers whose practices center on fire. Engaging with locals will also offer an opportunity to share paper-burning traditions from her Singaporean-Chinese heritage. Through conversations and observing and participating in these events, Chow hopes to better understand the psychology behind the use of fire, how related beliefs and practices change and in some cases conflict with one another, and how fire festivals and related burning practices have been sustained across cultures and over time.

YAU Kit Sze Jessy

• 2026
• Architecture
• Hong Kong から Japan

To observe and learn hands-on processes of architectural regeneration and explore revitalization models that may be applied to villages and abandoned architecture in Hong Kong. Yau is a recipient of the Young Architects Fellowship, awarded by the Hsin Chong Foundation in partnership with the American Institute of Architects Hong Kong Chapter. Through their three-month research fellowship in Kobe, Japan, Yau will participate in diverse on-site activities, including the surveying of abandoned houses; hands-on learning related to regeneration and revitalization models; and interviewing peer professionals and local residents. A graduate of The University of Hong Kong’s Department of Architecture, Yau currently manages heritage conservation outreach initiatives for a Hong Kong nonprofit.

Ying Chiun LEE

• 2026
• Crafts
• Taiwan から Japan

To conduct research in Okinawa, Japan, focusing on the impact of postwar U.S. military presence on local Ryukyu glass culture and urban development. Lee aims to explore Ryukyu glass and urban development of “American Village” in Chatan and Okinawa City. They will conduct archival research and interviews with glass artisans, local historians, and community members to examine how Okinawan society has engaged with, adapted, and reinterpreted foreign influences post-World War II from a material culture perspective.

Oliver WANG

• 2026
• Arts Criticism
• United States から Japan

To explore how American car culture has shaped Japanese aesthetics of design, craft, and self-expression, tracing trans-Pacific exchanges that connect material culture, visual style, and everyday forms of creativity. Wang will conduct fieldwork and interviews with car customizers and event organizers and participants influenced by American automotive culture. He will also visit lowrider hangouts with close connections to counterparts in Southern California, tracing how a visual language of creativity inspired by L.A.’s Chicano community becomes articulated through Japanese cultural contexts. Wang hopes to interpret these practices not only as social phenomena but as acts of aesthetic invention that reveal trans-Pacific artistic exchange and, in parallel, challenge narrow definitions of artistic practice, showing how creativity flourishes beyond galleries and museums – in garages, on city streets, and within grassroots communities.

QIU Yang

• 2026
• Film/Video
• China から Japan

To research and collect stories of mixed-culture families and communities in Okinawa and explore how the human condition is tested in subtle, intimate spaces between families. Qiu will explore how the lives of Okinawa’s residents, especially those of Chinese descent, are challenged under the shadow of the region’s complex history and geopolitics. He will also investigate how memory, culture, and tradition transform across generations Qiu will follow stories across Okinawa, including neighborhoods near U.S. military bases, areas where centuries of exchange with Fujianese communities remain visible, and sites that speak to earlier Chinese presence and regional movement. Archival research and meeting scholars and community groups will further inform his understanding.

Sherwin YANG

• 2026
• Music
• Taiwan から Japan

To study Japanese traditional music in Tokyo, focusing on Noh and supplemented by Kabuki Nagauta. The main focus of Yang’s three-month fellowship to Japan is Noh. He will study individually with Noh masters and integrate himself in groups studying traditional music, such as amateur ensembles like Tesarugaku no Kai and university Noh clubs. Yang will also explore techniques to innovate Noh in other languages with the aim of creating Mandarin-scripted Noh. Through immersive engagement with local communities and intensive fieldwork, Yang aims to build networks within the Japanese music scene and lay the foundation for future cross-cultural music production collaborations and academic research.

Mo LAI Yan Chi

• 2025
• Theater
• Hong Kong から Japan

To investigate how stories are told in Japan through the lens of classical and contemporary Japanese theater forms—including Noh, Kabuki, Bunraku, and Butoh—to better understand the artistic aesthetics and styles as a multidisciplinary art form and "total theater" practice.

SHAO Chun

• 2025
• Crafts
• China から Japan

To explore the poetic connection between spirituality, craftsmanship, and natural materials through researching the Japanese aesthetic and philosophy Wabi-sabi.

Elspeth Mary LEE and Donn HOLOHAN

• 2025
• Architecture
• Hong Kong から Japan

To explore traditional building techniques in Japan, from timber joinery to stone and earth construction, by engaging with local artisans and studying historic structures to understand the regionally specific methods of material sourcing and construction.

Esther LU

• 2025
• Curation
• Taiwan から India, Japan

To engage with artists, collectives, and experimental communities in eco-villages and regions in Japan and India, to explore their ecological philosophies, land ethics, and structural challenges posed by international politics.

WEN Peng

• 2025
• Crafts
• China から Japan

To research the relationship between space and plants in Japan by studying ikebana—the Japanese art of arranging flowers—visiting temples in Kyoto, and studying garden typologies and architecture in Tokyo, Osaka, and Sapporo.

Bridge for the Arts and Education

国/地域:
• Japan

• 2024
• Theater
• Malaysia から Japan

To conduct a workshop series facilitated by five artists from Malaysia and Japan involving open rehearsals and artist's talks to explore the link between Asian performance and the theme of death and rebirth through philosophy, movement, and sound.

• 2021
• Theater
• Japan から Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand

A music workshop and open forum for artists from Asia coming to Japan to participate in a production of the Mahabharata that will be held as part of the official cultural events for the 2021 Olympic Games in Tokyo.

• 2020
• Theater
• Japan から Asia

A 6-month Organization/Project Grant to support a joint film project around Hiroshi Koike’s Mahabharata Series with participating artists from nine countries across Asia

• 2019
• Theater
• Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Thailand から Indonesia

to support cross-cultural workshops in Jogjakarta for performing artists from Japan and Southeast Asia to create a collaborative interpretation of the Mahabharata