Professor
INAGA Shigemi
Education:
- 1979
- B.A., University of Tokyo
- 1981
- M.A., University of Tokyo
- 1988
- Docteur ès Lettres de l'universite Paris VII (Nouveau Régime)
Professional Experience:
- 2004 - present
- Professor,International Research Center for Japanese Studies
- 1997 - 2004
- Associate Professor, International Research Center for Japanese Studies
- 1990 - 1997
- Associate Professor, Mie University
- 1988 - 1990
- Associate Professor, The University Museum, The University of Tokyo
Specialized Fields:
Comparative literature and culture; history of cultural exchange
Current Research Themes:
Formation process of modernism in art; Japonism and orientalism
Keywords for Research:
Modernism, Japonism, orientalism, cross-cultural communication
Major Publications:
Books
- 2005
- Depiction and Description : Morphology of Modern Visuality and marketplace in Transition - Methodological Reflections, Special Issue, Art History Forum,vol.20 (Guest Editor, presentation in Korean)
- 2001
- Crossing Cultural Borders: Beyond Reciprocal Anthropology, (ed.), International Research Center for Japanese Studies.
- 1999
- The Orient of the Painting: Orientalism to Japonisme (in japanese with English Summary), The University of Nagoya Press.
- 1997
- Le Crépuscule de la peinture : la lutte posthume d'Édouard Manet (en japonais avec un sommeaire en français), Nagoya : The University of Nagoya Press
Paper Contributions to Books and Proceedings
- 2002
- Japanese Hermeneutics, Current Debates on Aesthetics and Interpretation, Michael marra (ed.) University of Hawai'i Press
- Approches critiques de la pensée japonaise du XXe siècle, Livia Monnet (éd.) les Presses universitaires de Montréal
- Geschichte der Haut, Hg. Ch. Geismar-Brandi et al, Stroemfeld Verlag.
- Monet and Japan, National Gallery of Australia.
- 2001
- Dodonaeus in Japan, W.F. vande Walle(ed.),Leuven University Press.
- Return to Japan from Pilgrimage to the West, Yôichi Nagashima (ed.)Aarhus University Press.
Articles
- 2004
- "Sister Nivedita and her Kali the Mother, The Web of Indian Life and Art Criticism: New Insight into Okakura Kakuzo's stay in India,” Japan Review, Nr.16, pp.129-159
- 2004
- "Either Useful or Useless: Reviving Inventiveness,” The 7th Kitakyûshû Biennale, Kitakyûshû Municipal Museum, March 31, pp.13-19
- 2002
- "Claude Monet between Impressionism and Japonism.” In Monet and Japan, National Gallery of Australia. pp.64-76
- "Un destin de pensése, L'Impact d'Okakura Kakuzô (Tenshin) sur le développement de l'histoire de l'Art en Inde et au Japon au début du XXe siècle." In Approches critiques de la pensée japonaise du XXe siècle, Critical Readings in Twentieth Century Japanese Thought, Les Presses universitaires de Montreál. pp.329-348
- "Cognition Gaps in the Recognition of Masters and Masterpieces in the Formative Years of Japanese Art History 1880-1900, Historiography in Conflict." In Japanese Hermeneutics: Current Debates on Aesthetics and Interpretation, University of Hawaii Press. pp.115-126
- "In der Haut des Anderen, Iwaaki Hotoshis Comic-Roman "Parasitentiere" als Herausforderung an das unteilbare Individuum," Geschichte der Haut, Hg. Ch. Geismar-Brandi et al, Stroemfeld Verlag, SS. 129-146
- "Additional Recommendations for the Dialogue among Civilizations," International Conference on the Dialogue of Civilizations, United Nations University, Tokyo. (http://www.unu.edu/dialogue)
- 2001
- "Okakura Kakuzô's Nostalgic Jorney to India and the Invention of Asia, " Susan Fisher(ed.) Nostalgic Jorneys, Literary Pilgrimages Between Japan and the West, Institute of Asian Research, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, pp.119-132
- 1999
- "Confession and Exposure: Nagasawa Mitsuo's Adult Video Actresses and Japan's Male Intellectual Consciousness ," Love and Sexuality in Japanese literature, Proceedings of the Midwest Association for Japanese Literary Studies, Vol.5, pp.19-45
- "Between Revelation and Violation: The Ethics of Intervention," Shigemi Inaga(ed.) Crossing Culutural Borders: Toward an Ethics of Intercultural Communicaton-Beyond Reciprocal Anthropology, IRCJS, pp.125-138
Others (Presentations at Academic Conferences, etc.)
- 2005
- "Philosiphia, Ethica and Aestetica in the Far-Eastern Culutural Sphere:Reseptions of the Western Ideas The Second International Congress on Reciprocal Knowledge, International Transculture Conference, Goa, Pondicherry, and Delhi, Oct 17-24.
- "Freedom in Suffering and Freedom of Suffering," The First International Conference for Literature and Religion in Korea, Daejeoung, June 29 - July 2.
- 2004
- "Kim Soun, Tsuchida Bakusen and Kajiyama Hiroyuki : Social Reception of Literary Text and Question of Visual Literacy in Cross-Cultural Transmission," Nordic Association of Japanese and Korean Studies, Götebrorg University, Aug 21.
- "Okakura tenshin and India: An Intellectual Exchage in Modernizing Asia," International Comparative Literature Association Hongkong Congress, Aug 12.
- "Arts and Crafts in Japanese Context," Manggha Center for Japanese Art, Krakov, Oct. 31.
- "Qui est maîter de mètre?" Conference international La Mesure de la mesure ou le mètre sans maître, Centre national des arts et métiers, Paris, 28 mai.
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"La Prise de position critique des arts et métiers tranditionnels au Japon d'aujourd'hui : le cas de tissage de soie chez Kôhô Tatsumura," Maison de la culture du Japon,Paris, mai 21.
- 2002
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"Use and Abuse of Images in Japanese History Textbooks and the History Textbooks Controversy 2000-2001," Histoiography and Japanese Conscionsness of Value and Norms, IRCJS, Oct.30 - Nov.3.
- 2000
- "Mediators, Sacrifice and Forgiveness: Laurens van der Post's Vision of Japan in the P.o.W.Camp," International Comparative Literature Association Pretoria Congress,g Aug..
- 1999
- "Tahiti et la Migration des signes: Réinterprétation du paradis terrestre chez Paul Gauguin et la quête de créolité dans le langue plastique au tournant des XIXe et XXe siècles," Multiculturalisme et identités en littérature et en art, Association internationale de littérature comparée, Colloque international, Université de la Polynésie française, Tahiti. 28 août.
Fellowships, Grants, and Awards:
Awards
- 2001
- Watsuji Tetsuro Culture Award
- 1998
- Special Award, Shibusawa-Claudel Prize
- 1998
- Suntory Prize for Social Sciences and Humanities
- 1998
- Ringa Art Incentive Award
- 1980
- Japonaiserie Study Society Award
Academic Society Membership:
International Comparative Literature Association, Japan Comparative Literature Association, Japan Art History Society, Meiji Art Association, Japonisme Research Society, Société franco-Japonaise d'art et d'archéologie, Word and Image, Sociologie de l'art, Association for Asian Studies, European Association of Japanese Studies, Centre d'études de l'écriture
