PhD Student Michiko Kubota traveled to Japan from July through August to conduct research on postwar calligraphy. Supported by the Murnane Travel Scholarship, Start-up Departmental Research Funds, and the Graduate Research Small Grant, Michiko was able to travel between Kyoto and Tokyo researching modern and contemporary museums responses to calligraphy. Beginning with the 76th Mainichi Shodo exhibition, and the Mainichi Shodo Library where she was able to research archival materials. She also visited the Zojoji Treasures Gallery for their special exhibition on Tokugawa Ieyasu and the Zojoji Three Buddhist Canons while stopping by their foyer’s public mural by postwar abstract calligraphist Toko Shinoda. Michiko visited various other museums such as the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum; Tokyo National Museum; the National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo’s Opening Documents, Weaving Memories: A Special Exhibition Featuring Works from the Museum Collection on art made during WWII covering the issue of wartime responsibility; Taito City Calligraphy Museum; and teamLab Planets’ 3D calligraphy display. In Kyoto, Michiko visited various temples and shrines: among which were Kodaiji, where she participated in copying a Buddhist sutra at the Rishōdō, and Ryuanji known for its Zen rock garden. She stopped by the Kanji Museum and Library to experience its interactive augmented reality technology before departing. Concluding her trip, she traveled to Chiba where the Naritasan Museum of Calligraphy held an exhibition on Postwar Japan the Shape of “New Calligraphy.”