Contemporary

The British Museum Purchases Major Steel Work by Junko Mori

This unprecedented and impressive steel sculpture was the first in Junko Mori's series of ring shaped forms.

Sentinel, 2016, by Susan Wraight, acquired by the British Museum

This netsuke, hand-carved and stained boxwood and buffalo horn with inlaid amber and gold leaf was completed in 2016 and purchased immediately by the British Museum.

Temple Newsam acquires Junko Mori’s Silver Poetry; Spring Fever Ring, 2014

Silver Poetry; Spring Fever Ring is a tour de force of contemporary silversmithing techniques.

Hitomi Hosono’s Nazuna Vase goes on display at London’s newly opened Japan House on Kensington High Street

Manga – new body of work by Hitomi Hosono

The British Museum acquires ‘Shoka Vase’, by Hitomi Hosono