Sinead Kehoe

Assistant Curator of Asian Art


Sinéad Kehoe is responsible for Japanese and Korean art, as well as for assistance with Chinese art and other Asian projects. A graduate of Yale Univeristy in East Asian Studies (B.A. 1995), she is currently completing her Ph.D. at Princeton University on early Pure Land school painting in Japan. She received her M.A. in Art and Archaeology from Princeton in 2002. In 2006 she organized the exhibition Japanese Views of East and West: Imprinting the Other in Meiji Eyes. Her most recent publication is “Shoki Jodoshu kaiga no kenkyu: Chion-in shozo ‘Niso mandara zu’ wo megutte (Research on Early Pure Land School Painting: Concerning the Mandala of Two Patriarchs at Chion-in Temple)” in the journal Kajima bijutsu kenkyu, no. 22 (2005).

Place made: Japan, Asia
Japanese, Edo period, 1600 - 1868
Kōdaiji box with cover 高台寺蒔絵の箱
early 17th century
Wood with lacquer, gold, and silver paste
h. 12.7 cm., diam. 24.7 cm. (5 x 9 3/4 in.)
Museum purchase
y1986-35 a-b
photo: Bruce M. White