The Shimada Prize was a biennial award bestowed jointly by the American National Museum of Asian Art and the Japanese Metropolitan Center for Far Eastern Art Studies for academic works in East Asian art history. It was established in honor of Japanese art historian Shūjirō Shimada in 1992, with the first prize bestowed in September 1993, shortly prior to Shimada's death the following year. The winner of the prize received a $10,000 award from the Metropolitan Center, funded by the Harry G. C. Packard Collections Charitable Trust. The prize has not been awarded since 2010.
Recipients +Recipients of the Shimada PrizeYearPortraitAuthor(s)Work1993Nelson-Atkins Museum of ArtThe Century of Tung Ch’i-ch’ang (1555–1636)1995Hirata YutakaThe Age of the Buddhist Master Painter1997Su Bai中國石窟寺研究. [Studies on the Cave Temples of China]Li Xianting, Liang Ziming, Robert W. Bagley, Jay XuArt of the Houma Foundry1999Kihara Toshie幽微の探究 : 狩野探幽論 [The Search for Profound Delicacy: The Art of Kano Tan’yu]2001Zou Heng天马-曲村: 1980-1989 [Tianma-Qucun: 1980–89]2003Stanley K. AbeOrdinary Images2006Andrew M. WatskyChikubushima: Deploying the Sacred Arts in Momoyama Japan2008Patricia BergerEmpire of Emptiness: Buddhist Art and Political Authority in Qing China2010Patricia Buckley EbreyAccumulating Culture: The Collections of Emperor Huizong
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