  We discuss the sensitivity to anisotropies of stochastic gravitational-wave
backgrounds (GWBs) observed via space-based interferometer. In addition to the
unresolved galactic binaries as the most promising GWB source of the planned
Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), the extragalactic sources for GWBs
might be detected in the future space missions. The anisotropies of the GWBs
thus play a crucial role to discriminate various components of the GWBs. We
study general features of antenna pattern sensitivity to the anisotropies of
GWBs beyond the low-frequency approximation. We show that the sensitivity of
space-based interferometer to GWBs is severely restricted by the data
combinations and the symmetries of the detector configuration. The spherical
harmonic analysis of the antenna pattern functions reveals that the angular
power of the detector response increases with frequency and the detectable
multipole moments with effective sensitivity h_{eff} \sim 10^{-20} Hz^{-1/2}
may reach $\ell \sim$ 8-10 at $f \sim f_*=10$ mHz in the case of the single
LISA detector. However, the cross correlation of optimal interferometric
variables is blind to the monopole (\ell=0) intensity anisotropy, and also to
the dipole (\ell=1) in some case, irrespective of the frequency band. Besides,
all the self-correlated signals are shown to be blind to the odd multipole
moments (\ell=odd), independently of the frequency band.
