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.[1] [2] [3] The winner of the prize received a $10,000 award from the Metropolitan Center, funded by the Harry G. C. Packard Collections Charitable Trust.[4] The prize has not been awarded since 2010.
| 1993 | Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art | The Century of Tung Ch’i-ch’ang (1555–1636) | ||
| 1995 | Hirata Yutaka | The Age of the Buddhist Master Painter | ||
| 1997 | Su Bai | 中國石窟寺研究. [Studies on the cave temples of China] | ||
| Li Xianting, Liang Ziming, Robert W. Bagley, Jay Xu | The Art of the Houma Foundry | |||
| 1999 | Kihara Toshie | 幽微の探究 : 狩野探幽論 [The search for profound delicacy: the art of Kano Tan’yu] | ||
| 2001 | Zou Heng | 天马-曲村: 1980-1989 [Tianma-Qucun: 1980–89] | ||
| 2003 | Stanley K. Abe | Ordinary Images | ||
| 2006 | Andrew M. Watsky | Chikubushima: Deploying the Sacred Arts in Momoyama Japan | ||
| 2008 | Patricia Berger | Empire of Emptiness: Buddhist Art and Political Authority in Qing China | ||
| 2010 | Patricia Buckley Ebrey | Accumulating Culture: The Collections of Emperor Huizong |