The Kajima Foundation for the Arts Awards were held at the Kajima KI Building (Minato-ku, Tokyo), hosted by the Kajima Foundation for the Arts (Chairperson: Kimiko Kajima), on May 14, 2024, when winners of the 30th awards, which had been postponed due to COVID-19, and the 31st awards were honored.

These awards are held every year to recognize outstanding art history research. Each winner was given a certificate and an additional prize (1,000,000 yen for the Foundation Award and 500,000 yen for the Award of Excellence) before they were given the opportunity to present their findings.

The foundation was established in 1982 with the aim of enhancing and enriching Japanese culture. It provides grants for research in the arts, supports related publications and international exchanges, and promotes the arts, primarily targeting young and mid-level art researchers across Japan.

The winners were selected from among the reports and papers published in Volumes 39 and 40 of the "Kajima Journal of Art Studies", issued in 2023, that met the requirements of the awards.

[30th Foundation Award]
Mayumi Yamashita (Curator, Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts)
A Study of the Evolution of Cityscape Drawings and Characteristics of Actual-view Drawings in the Edo Period: Around "Edo Fukei Zugaku (Framed Edo Landscape Painting)" by Oki Ichiga

Akiko Kato (Curator, Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum)
An Attempt to Reconstruct the “Manet and the Post-impressionists” Exhibition: Acceptance of French Modern Art in Britain in the 1910s

[30th Award of Excellence]
Tomoyo Shimizu (Curator, The Museum of Kyoto)
A Study of Avant-garde Painters in Kyoto in Wartime: Around Noboru Kitawaki and Gentaro Komaki

Yoshito Uketa (Lecturer, College of the Arts, Kurashiki University of Science and the Arts)
How Alexandre Falguière (1831–1900) Viewed Shaping

[31st Foundation Award]
Kaho Kakizawa (Assistant, Waseda Aizu Museum)
A Study of "Hamaguri Kan' non-zu (Kannon on a Clam Shell)" by Hakuin Ekaku: Influence of "Hamaguri no Soshi" from Otogi Zoshi

Aya Nakama (Associate Professor, Hakubi Center for Advanced Research/Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University & Associate, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University)
A Study of Illustrations in the Annotated Manuscript of Hohes Lied (owned by Bamberg State Library, Bibl. 22, fol. 4v, 5r): Representations of the Virgin Mary as Virgo Inter Virgines and a Bride

[31st Award of Excellence]
Wang Shu (Doctoral Student, Waseda University Graduate School of Letters, Arts and Sciences)
An Iconographic Study of Statues of "Buddha Underneath a Tree" from the Eastern Wei and Northen Qi Dynasty Periods

Mayuko Mori (Curator, Hiroshima Prefectural Art Museum)
Public Architectural Ornaments by Maurice Denis