Professor
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; Global Hegemony and Local Resistances
Current Research Themes:
Formation process of modernism in art; Japonism and orientalism
Keywords for Research:
Modernism, Japonism, orientalism, cross-cultural communication
Major publications:
Books
- 2011
- Artistic Vagabondage and New Utopian Projects: Transnational Poïetic Experience in East-Asian Modernity (1905-1960) ,(ed.) International Research Center for Japanese Studies
- 2007
-
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.
- 2001
- Crossing Cultural Borders: Toward an Ethics of Intercultural Communication
-Beyond Reciprocal Anthropology- (ed. with Kenneth L. Richard), International Research Center for Japanese Studies.
- 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)
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 21, International Research for Japanese Studies, pp.149-181.
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
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