This fellowship marks the first collaboration between the Burke Center for Japanese Art and the Italian Academy at Columbia University, bridging Japanese art studies with interdisciplinary approaches to art history shaped by David Freedberg’s The Power of Images. My project, “Encounters and Confluences: Chinese Literati Baimiao Painting Tradition and European Drawing in the Eighteenth-Century Qing Court,” examines monochrome ink drawing as a potential global genre, connecting Chinese baimiao, Japanese hakubyō, and European drawing traditions. This research led to the organization of the international conference “Baimiao, Hakubyō, and Beyond” at Academia Sinica and the National Palace Museum, held on November 18–19, 2025, with scholars from Harvard, the University of Tokyo, Myongji University, and other institutions.

During my term at Columbia, in addition to activities at the Italian Academy, I am also actively participating in Professor Matthew McKelway’s teaching, including his museum seminar and related academic programs.