"The Institute works to develop an integrated approach to art as a global phenomenon through a combination of disciplinary approaches, exhibitions and programming".[2]
The Sainsbury Institute has among other divisions the Centre for Archaeology and Heritage which was established in 2011. The Centre focuses on research projects in the field of archaeology in Japan as well as the cultural heritage, working as a hub of researchers and students interested in the prehistoric to historic background of Japanese culture.
The Lisa Sainsbury Library
In 2003, the facilities of the Lisa Sainsbury Library was inaugurated by Orita Masaki, the Ambassador of Japan on the Norwich headquarters of the Sainsbury Institute. Researchers of Japanese studies can make appointment to use the library for reference books and digitized materials.[5]
Management Board
Ex-officio Members
David Richardson, Vice-Chancellor, University of East Anglia (Chair)[6]
Jeffett, William; Pierson, Douglas; Kirili, Alain; Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts; French Institute (London, England); Talbot Rice Gallery (1994). Alain Kirili, open form sculpture: exhibition. Norwich, England: Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia. ISBN0946009198. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
セインズベリー日本藝術研究所年次報告書 [Annual Report, Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures] (in English and Japanese). Norwich, England: Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures (2003). Kazari: decoration and display in Japan, 15th-19th centuries (Videodisc). Neil MacGregor (narrator); Eye to Eye Television (production). Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures; Nagasaki University Library (2003). Reflecting truth: Japanese photography in the nineteenth century [Old photography study]. Vol. 2. Nagasaki, Japan: Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures. Retrieved 8 April 2019. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
Carpenter, John T; International Hokusai Research Centre, University of Venice; Art Research Center, Ritsumeikan University (2005). Hokusai and his age: ukiyo-e painting, printmaking and book illustration in late Edo Japan. Amsterdam: Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures. ISBN9074822576.
21st Century COE Program: "Kyoto Art Entertainment Creation Research", Ritsumeikan University; Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures (2006). Ten'nō no shiika to shōsoku: Shinkan ni miru shoshiki: Fujii Eikan bunko shozō [Imperial calligraphy of premodern Japan: scribal conventions for poems and letters from the palace: the Fujii Eikan Bunko collection] (in Japanese and English). Kyoto; Norwich, UK; London. ISBN490344600X. Retrieved 8 April 2019.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
Bailey, Douglass W. (Douglass Whitfield); Cochrane, Andrew; Zambelli, Jean (2010). Unearthed: a comparative study of Jōmon dogū and Neolithic figurines. Norwich; Swindon; San Francisco: Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures: Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts: University of East Anglia; Arts and Humanities Research Council, San Francisco State University. ISBN9780954592127. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
Cortazzi, Hugh (2013). A miscellany of Japanese sketch books and print albums (1840-1908). Norwich: Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures. ISBN9780954592141.
Hirano, Akira (2013). Japan: historical images: from the Cortazzi collection. Translated by Wright, Simon. Norwich: Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures.: an exhibition catalogue at Embassy of Japan in London, between 24 June and 18 July 2013
^Foster Associates (London, England); Foster, Norman (1992). "Crescent Wing, Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts, Norwich". Foster Associates : recent works (in Japanese). Academy Editions , St. Martin's Press. Retrieved 8 April 2019.