Mimi Hall Yiengpruksawan

Terasaki Center For Japanese Studies

Established in 1991, the UCLA Terasaki Center has been a platform for research on Japan. Our distinguished faculty, students, postdoctoral fellows, visiting scholars, and the board of advisors have been contributing to the field of Japanese studies for over 20 years.

Faculty Board of Advisors Chair in US-Japan Relations Postdoctoral Fellows Alumni

Students Visitors Staff Supporters Dr. Paul I. Terasaki

The Terasaki Center sponsors a vast array of events throughout the year. With its colloquium series, the Center brings academics from diverse fields to UCLA each year. Special workshops and annual conferences bring leading scholars to discuss topics relating to Japan.

Center News Annual Newsletter

Center Events Community Events Past Events

The Center is proud to support our faculty, current and prospective students, and the local community through a variety of grants and fellowships.

Internal Funding
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External Funding
Funding sources in this section are not administered by the Center.

Center programs were established with strong support from the local community to promote research and instruction in Japanese studies, with a recent focus on the profound transformations unfolding in contemporary Japanese society.

UCLA Japanese Studies
Programs by Faculty and Students

Global Japan Initiative
Understanding Japan/Japanese culture within a global context.

The Terasaki Center is actively expanding support for faculty and graduate students, building relationships with other universities as well as Japan and Japanese Studies related organizations, and enhancing its role in the community.

Mission & History
Digital Archive

Global Hub
The Center is dedicated to connecting Japanese communities around the world with those engaged in the study of Japan and the Japanese.

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Mimi Hall Yiengpruksawan

Professor, Yale University

Art History PhD, 1988
http://arthistory.yale.edu/faculty/faculty/faculty_yiengpruksawan.html

Mimi Hall Yiengpruksawan received her Ph.D. in Japanese Art from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1988. She has taught at Yale University since 1990. In her research and writing Yiengpruksawan focuses on Buddhist art and iconography with emphasis on political and social perspectives in the analysis of devotional imagery and ritual. She is currently working on two books that look at the Buddhist cultural productions of early medieval Kyoto from perspectives that encompass environmental factors and the impact of transmarine exchange linking Heian Japan to Wu Yue, Northern Song, and Liao as revealed in the primary record. The first book in the series, Art and Catastrophe in the Japanese Middle Ages, currently under contract with Brill, takes up the role of exogenous determinants—epidemic disease, supernovae, a spike in the number of seagoing Chinese traders coming ashore along Japan’s western seaboard—in the emergence of an iconographically and artistically innovative Buddhist visual culture in Kyoto at the turn of the second millennium.