Faculty

Aesthetics and Science of Arts
Western Art History

My research focuses on Dutch art and the art market of the early modern period, with particular emphasis on the reception and valuation of seventeenth-century Dutch painting in the international art market of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. I am currently interested in eighteenth-century reproductive drawings in watercolor made after pictures by seventeenth-century Dutch masters, and the changing notion of copies/reproductions in theory and practice.

Aesthetics and Science of Arts
Western Art History

My major field is the history of the Italian architecture in the 16th and 17th centuries, especially that of Florence and Rome. I am also interested in the prints and sculpture of the same period. Recently, my main research concern is about the correlation between the art/architecture and science of the period, which may be best represented by the case of Galileo Galilei.

Aesthetics and Science of Arts
Western Art History

My research focuses on modern German art. I am particularly interested in the way in which ideas of social reform and aesthetic creative acts were uniquely combined in Germany during the transition from the 19th to the 20th century, and I examine the interrelationships between art, architecture, gardens (landscape gardening, garden design), design, and physical movement (dance, gymnastics) from the perspective of art and design theory. The artistic situation in Germany from the beginning of the 20th century to the period of the Weimar Republic is an important subject of recent research.

Aesthetics and Science of Arts
Japanese Art History

My research focuses on the history of ancient and medieval Buddhist sculpture in Japan, particularly the Pure Land Buddhist sculpture of the Heian period. I have a keen interest in the sculptures themselves and the various expressions of painting and craftsmanship that make up the spaces where they have been placed, in addition to the relationship between sculpture and viewer. Informed by my experiences working with museums, I enjoy discussions on how to present exhibitions of sculpture and craft.

Aesthetics and Science of Arts
History of Japanese Art, Paintings and Prints

My area of expertise is the history of painting and woodblock printing in the Edo period, while my research deals primarily with Ukiyo-e and Rinpa artists and their works. I also have a strong interest in all works from ancient to modern times that are connected with narrative and genre painting. Moreover, I am examining the monumental question of how Japanese art fits into the history of world art.

Aesthetics and Science of Arts
Arts Management

The term arts administration/arts management is used to refer to the management of arts organizations, many of which have a juridical status of nonprofit or public organization. The aim is primarily to give formal management education to arts managers and to enable arts organizations to attain effective and efficient management for social missions. Arts management is an interdisciplinary and pragmatic area, so its standard curriculum consists of various subjects such as nonprofit studies, organizational theory and behavior, strategic management, marketing, fundraising, accounting, quantitative analysis, and education in the arts. My main interests lie in nonprofit management, arts marketing, arts management education, and orchestra management.

Aesthetics and Science of Arts
Musicology, History of Western Music

I specialize in music from the Classical period, with a particular emphasis on W.A. Mozart. I focus on issues of Mozart's compositional process and the performance practice and contemporary reception of his works by studying the original manuscripts. My research interests also include court orchestras, theaters, public concerts, and music publishing in Vienna and Salzburg in the 18th century.

Aesthetics and Science of Arts
Musicology, History of Western Music

The main subject of my research is the music of Franz Liszt, a 19th-century Romantic-era musician. I am especially interested in his musical manuscripts for the purpose of elucidating the composition process of his religious compositions, the relationship between the many versions and arrangements of his works, and the environment in which Liszt worked and created.

Aesthetics and Science of Arts
Western Art History, Art Theory

The focus of my research is twofold: (1) to analyze early modern art and art theory in France concerning the art of Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665) in particular, and (2) to analyze the establishment and transformation of artistic theory at the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture in the latter half of the 17th century, a theory which commended the works of Poussin as a canon. My study considers the relationship between factors related to Poussin such as his theory of production, his works and their acceptance, discourses on works and painters, social contexts, and art collections.