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Books

2011
“Artistic Vagabondage and New Utopian Projects: Transnational Poďetic Experience in East-Asian Modernity (1905-1960) ”,(ed.) International Research Center for Japanese Studies
2010
Monokeiro (co-ed.), Bigaku-shuppan
Art and Globalization (co-author), Pennsylvania State University Press.
2008
Books on Ukiyoe and Japanese Arts in English by Yone Noguchi (ed.), Vol. I, II, and III, Eidition Synapse.
The Proceedings of the East Asian-South American Comparative Literature Workshop 2007’ 18th Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association (co-author), Tezukayama gakuin University.
La Rencontre du Japon et de l’Europe, Images d’une découverte, Publications orientalistes de France.
2007
The Modernity in Survival: Yagi Kazuo and Kiln Fired Objet (ed. with Hida Toyoro),Bigaku Shuppan (in Japanese).
Is Art History Global? (co-author)(ed. James Elkins), Routledge.
Beyond Border’ Japanese Studies in the 21st Century (co-author), Warsaw University.
Traditional Japanese Arts snd Crafts in the 21st Century -Reconsidering the Future from an International Perspective (ed with Patricia Fister), International Research Center for Japanese Studies
2006
Traditional Japanese Arts and Crafts: A Reconsideration from Inside and Outside Kyoto (ed. with Patricia Fister), Kyoto: Shibunkaku Shuppan Ltd (in Japanese).
Culture and Translation (co-author), Academic Sinica.
2005
Depiction and Description : Morphology of Modern Visuality and marketplace in Transition - Methodological Reflections, Special Issue, Art History Forum 20,(Guest Editor, presentation in Korean)
First International Conference on Literature and Religion (co-author), Chungnam National University, Daejon, Korea.
2002
Japanese Hermeneutics, Current Debates on Aesthetics and Interpretation (co-author), Michael marra (ed.) University of Hawai'i Press
Approches critiques de la pensée japonaise du XXe siècle (co-author), Livia Monnet (éd.) les Presses universitaires de Montréal
Geschichte der Haut (co-author), Hg. Ch. Geismar-Brandi et al, Stroemfeld Verlag.
Monet and Japan (co-author), National Gallery of Australia.
2001
Crossing Cultural Borders: Toward an Ethics of Intercultural Communication -Beyond Reciprocal Anthropology- (ed. with Kenneth L. Richard), International Research Center for Japanese Studies.
Dodonaeus in Japan (co-author), W.F. vande Walle(ed.),Leuven University Press.
Return to Japan from Pilgrimage to the West (co-author), Yôichi Nagashima (ed.), Aarhus University Press.
2000
I bunka rikai no rinri ni mukete (Ethics of Understanding Different Cultures) (author and ed.), The University of Nagoya Press (in Japanese).
1999
The Orient of the Painting: Orientalism to Japonisme, The University of Nagoya Press (in Japanese with English Summary).
1997
Le Crépuscule de la peinture : la lutte posthume d'Édouard Manet, Nagoya : The University of Nagoya Press (in Japanese with French Summary)
1993
Hanasu to iu koto (Ce que parler veut dire by Pierre Bourdieu) (Japanese translation from French), Fujiwara Shoten.

Articles

2009
“The Interaction of Bengali and Japanese Artistic Milieus in the First Half of the Twentieth Century (1901–1945): Rabindranath Tagore, Arai Kanpō and Nandalal Bose”, Japan Review, No. 21, International Research Center for Japanese Studies, pp.149-181.
2008
“Japanese Encounter with Latin America and Iberian Catholicism (1549-1973)”, The Comparatist, pp.27-35.’
2007
“Les Traces d’une blessure créatrice, Yagi Kazuo entre la tradition japonaise et avant-garde occidnetal ”, Japan Review, No.19, pp.133-159.
2006
“Images changeantes de l’art japonais”, JTLA, pp.73-93.
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
1995
"Negative Capability of Tolerance: The Assassination of Igarashi Hitoshi." In The Condition of Reciprocal Understanding, A Centennial Conference, International House, The University of Chicago, Sep.12-17, 1992. (French version: "Epiphanie et alterité," Dédale, revue internationale Nos. 1-2, 1995.)
1988
"L'impossible avant-garde au Japon," Transcultura, Connaissance et reciprocité Ciaco Editeur. (English translation: " The Impossible Avant-Garde in Japan," Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature 41, 1993.)
1983
"La réinterpréation de la perspective linéaire au Japon (1740-1830) et son retour en France (1860-1910)," Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales 49. (English abridged version: "Reinterpretation of the Western Linear Perspective in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Japan: A Case of Cultural Translation," Dodonaeus in Japan, Leuven University Press.

Other (Presentations at Academic Conferences, etc.)

2009
“Distance Reading-Migration of Meaning and Metempsychosis through Translation”, Old Margins and New Centers/Anciennes frontières et nouveau centres: The Legacy of European Literatures in a Global Age/L’héritage littéraire européen dans une ère de globalisation, ICLA, Université Libre de Bruxelles, August 26.
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.
"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.
"La Prise de position critique des arts et metiers tranditionnels dans le Japon d'aujourd'hui," Centre culturel du Japon a Paris, 25 mai 2003 "Arts and Crafts in Japanese context," Manggha Center for Japanese Art, Krakov, Oct 31
2002
"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..
"The Making of Museums and Collections in Modern Japan," Interpreting Asian Cultures in Museums, Displays, Activities, Strategies, International Workshop, The British Museum/The Museum of Mankind, London.
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.
"Rethinking Okakura Tenshin as the Inventor of Oriental Art History," Association for Asian Studies, Boston.
Disclosing Double Mirror: Further Analysis in Nagasawa Mitsuo's Adult Video Actress in the light of Judith Herman's Traum and Recovery, Visions, Revisions, Incorporations: Theorizing Gender, the Body and the Visual in Contemporary Japanese Popular and Mass Culture, L'Université de Montréal, Canada.
 
"Édourad Manet's Posthumous Struggle for Glory," The Donald Keene Center for Japanese Culture, Department of Art History, Columbia University.
1998
"Confession and Exposure: Nagasawa Mitsuo's Adult Video Actress and Japan's Male Intellectual Consciousness," Keynote speech, 7th Midwest Association of Japanese Literary Studies, Purdue University.
 
"Reconsidering the Mingei Undo as a Colonial Discourse: The Politics of Visualizing Asian Folk Craft," Rethinking the Urban Mass-Culture in 1920's and 30's in Japan, Universität Zürich, Zürich.
 
"Réputation de Hokousaï dans le contexte du Japonisme," La Culture et la Société du Japon à l'ére Tokugawa: nouvelles docouvertes et nouvelles interpretations: Centre cuturel du Japon.
"Reinterpretation of the Western Linear Perspective in 18-19th Century Japan: A Case of Cultural Translation," Keynote speech, Translation of Culture and Culture of Translation, Leuven Catholic University, Leuven.

Fellowships

2006-2007
Washington D.C., Library of Congress, Kluge Scholar Chair recipient.

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