Yoshiko Kakudo

Yoshiko Kakudo
Born(1934-06-15)June 15, 1934
Osaka, Japan
DiedJanuary 12, 2016(2016-01-12) (aged 81)
California, U.S.
OccupationsCurator, philanthropist
Known forFirst curator of Japanese art at the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco

Yoshiko Kakudo (June 15, 1934 – January 12, 2016) was a Japanese-American curator and philanthropist. She was the first curator of Japanese art at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco.

Early life and education

Kakudo was born in Osaka. She graduated from Kobe College in 1957, with a degree in sociology. She earned a master's degree in decorative art from the University of California, Berkeley in 1964, for her studies in Japanese ceramic arts.[1][2]

Career

Kakudo started at the Asian Art Museum as a research assistant in the Avery Brundage Collection.[3][4] She became the museum's first curator of Japanese art in 1970, and planned for the Japan Center gallery during its construction.[5] She was also curator of the museum's Korean art collection until 1989. She curated more than thirty exhibitions,[6][7] gave lectures, organized conferences, and wrote articles. She retired from the museum in 1994.[8]

Kakudo was also a translator, artist, and philanthropist. She had her family's tea house shipped from Osaka to donate it to the Hakone Gardens in California. She was inducted into the Bunka Hall of Fame in 2012. In 2009, she established the Glenn Glasow Graduate Fellowship at the California State University, East Bay, in memory of her partner,[9] and supported the Father Michael Monchau Scholarship in Homiletics at Graduate Theological Union. She donated photographs by William Abbenseth to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.[10]

Publications

  • "An Unusual Square Ao-Oribe Dish in the Avery Brundage Collection" (1968)[11]
  • "The Tartar Screens and Kanō Sōshū" (1971)[12]
  • "A Stem Bowl by Okuda Eisen" (1972)[13]
  • Art of Japan: Masterworks in the Asian Art Museum (1991, catalog)[14]
  • Toru Takemitsu, Confronting Silence: Selected Writings (1994, translator, with Glenn Glasow)[15]
  • Shozo Kajima, Evening Clearing (1994, poetry, translator, with Glenn Glasow)[16][17]

Personal life

Kakudo's longtime partner was music professor Glenn Glasow; he died in 2002,[18] and she died in 2016, at the age of 81, after a stroke.[1] Her estate funded the Yoshiko Kakudo Donor Advised Fund of the San Francisco Foundation; the Asian Art Museum has a Yoshiko Kakudo Memorial Acquisition Fund named in her memory.[19]

References

  1. ^ a b "Yoshiko Kakudo's Obituary, Visitation & Funeral Information". Chapel of the Chimes Oakland Funeral, Cemetery and Cremation Services. Retrieved 2025-11-16.
  2. ^ "At College Women's Club: Japanese Songs, Kabuki Dances". The Berkeley Gazette. 1963-05-09. p. 9. Retrieved 2025-11-16 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ Schroeder, Mildred (1966-08-25). "Brundage Researchers: Tender Loving Care for Priceless Art". The San Francisco Examiner. p. 33. Retrieved 2025-11-16.
  4. ^ "New Showcase of Asian Art". Peninsula Daily News. 1966-12-05. p. 10. Retrieved 2025-11-16 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "New Gallery for Japan Center". San Francisco Banner. 1972-09-22. p. 1. Retrieved 2025-11-16 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Asian museum sets exhibit". The Peninsula Times Tribune. 1978-04-13. p. 24. Retrieved 2025-11-16 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Gala reception opens 'A Flower from Every Meadow'". San Francisco Banner. 1973-07-20. p. 5. Retrieved 2025-11-16 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Yoshiko Kakudo (1934–2016)". Artforum. 2016-02-05. Archived from the original on 2023-11-08. Retrieved 2025-11-16.
  9. ^ Noceda, Kristofer (2009-05-24). "University honors longtime professor". Oakland Tribune. p. 10. Retrieved 2025-11-16 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ "Yoshiko Kakudo Obituary (1934 - 2016) - Oakland, CA - San Francisco Chronicle". Legacy.com. Retrieved 2025-11-16.
  11. ^ Kakudo, Yoshiko (1968). "An Unusual Square Ao-Oribe Dish in the Avery Brundage Collection". Archives of Asian Art. 22: 104–105. ISSN 0066-6637. JSTOR 20111005.
  12. ^ Kakudo, Yoshiko (1971). "The Tartar Screens and Kanō Sōshū". Archives of Asian Art. 25: 88–90. ISSN 0066-6637. JSTOR 20111034.
  13. ^ Kakudo, Yoshiko (1972). "A Stem Bowl by Okuda Eisen". Archives of Asian Art. 26: 74–75. ISSN 0066-6637. JSTOR 20111045.
  14. ^ Asian Art Museum of San Francisco; Kakudo, Yoshiko, eds. (1991). The art of Japan: masterworks in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. San Francisco: Asian Art Museum : Chronicle Books. ISBN 978-0-8118-0055-6.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link)
  15. ^ Takemitsu, Toru; Kakudo, Yoshiko; Glasow, Glenn; Ozawa, Seiji (1995-01-01). Confronting Silence: Selected Writings. Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. ISBN 978-1-4616-6484-0.
  16. ^ Kajima, Shōzō (1994). Evening Clearing: Poems and Drawings from the Mountain. Cadence Books. ISBN 978-1-56931-018-2.
  17. ^ Guest, Harry (July–August 1995). "on Kajima Shozo". Poetry Nation Review (PNR). 21 (6). Archived from the original on 2025-09-13. Retrieved 2025-11-16.
  18. ^ "Glenn Glasow--composer, professor". San Francisco Chronicle. 2002-08-01. p. 26. Retrieved 2025-11-16 – via Newspapers.com.
  19. ^ "Yoshiko Kakudo, philanthropist and Asian Art Museum's first curator of Japanese art, dies". Nichi Bei News. 2016-02-04. Archived from the original on 2024-09-10. Retrieved 2025-11-16.
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