The Journal of Art Studies (The Bijutsu Kenkyu)

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The Bijutsu Kenkyu

Since 1932. The journal, edited by the Department of Research Programming, carries monograms, research notes, explanations of plates, book reviews, exhibition reviews and materials for art research pertaining not only to Japanese and East Asian classical art but also European and American art related to modern and contemporary Japanese art (English summaries included).@

 

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Contents from No. 380 onwards

No. 396, Nov., 2008
coming soon
Watanabe Yuji The Context of the Juko-in Main Hall Wall Panel Paintings
Watada Minoru A Hypothesis on the Establishment Date of Juko-in: For A Reconsideration of its Wall Panel Paintings
Takahashi Shuji Research Note: Report on the Discovery of Torn Trousers by Fuji Gazo
Watada Minoru Exhibition Review: Kano Eitoku Exhibition (Kyoto National Museum)
No. 395, Aug., 2008
new!
Zheng Yan Reflections on the Problem of Audience for Han Dynasty Funerary Carved Pictorial Images
Watada Minoru Jiboku Sotan (Part 3)
Tanaka Atsushi Research Note: Odaka Senfnosuke and Kishida Ryusei
Kobayashi Mioko Research Note: For a Smooth Surface: A Reconsideration of Koide Narashige
@ Report of the Department of Research Programming
No. 394, Mar., 2008 Watada Minoru Jiboku Sotan (Part 2)
Aizawa Masahiko Tosa Mitsuyoshi and Large-Format Paintings
Chang Chin-sung Between Non-Attachment and Obsession: The Collecting Culture of Late Choson Korea
Emura Tomoko Material for Art Research: Scenes from the Tale of the Soga Brothers, Pair of Six-panel Screens by Tosa Mitsuyoshi
@ Index to Bijutsu Kenkyu, Nos. 389-394
No. 393, Jan., 2008 Katsuki Gen'ichiro The Reception of Amitabha Pure Land Images in Ancient Japan and Its Phases: Focusing on the True Nature of the Reception of the Horyuji Kondo Wall Painting No. 6 and the Taima Mandala and the Formation of Related Discourse
Sarai Mai The Yakushi Triad at Daigoji and the Structures of Temple Foundation
during the Early Heian Period (Part 2)
Watada Minoru Jiboku Sotan (Part 1)
Tanaka Atsushi Exhibition Review: Three Early Showa Era Painters: Kojima Zenzaburo, Tsuruoka Masao, Ai-Mitsu
Tsuda Tetsuei Book Review: Nedachi Kensuke, Japanese Medieval Buddhist Sculptors and Society: Unkei, the Kei School, and the Shichijo Busshi
No. 392, Sep., 2007 Sarai Mai The Yakushi Triad at Daigoji and the Structures of Temple Foundation
during the Early Heian Period (Part 1)
Emura Tomoko The Wealth from Birth on the Path to Becoming a Painter: The Environment Surrounding Ogata Korin and his Creation of Art Works
Shioya Jun Research on Kawabata Gyokusyo --I--
Kuraya Mika The Lower Half of the Painting: Japanese Nude Paintings from 1890 to 1945
Toda Teisuke Exhibition Review: Urgami Gyokudo Exhibition
@ Reports from the Editorial Committee and the Department of Fine Arts
No. 391, Mar., 2007 Chen Fangmei Seeking the Three Dynasties among the Ritual Vessels of Old: The Sung Dynasty Shift from "Investigating Antiquity" to "Appreciating Antiquity"
Pak Eunkyung A New Interpretation of the Food-Offering Figures in the Water-Moon Avalokitesvara Painting at Daitokuji in Kyoto
Aizawa Masahiko Haboku Landscape and Soen
Aoki Shigeru Exhibition Review: Mori Ogai and Japanese Modern Art
Tsuda Tetsuei Material for Art Research: Copy Figures of the Central Worship Images at Zenkoji
No. 390, Dec., 2006 Tanaka Atsushi Koki-Inshoha: Japanese Post-Impressionism around 1912
Shioya Jun Explanation of Plate: Kikuchi Yosai's Kannon Sutra in the Biblioteque Nationale de France
Tsuruta Takeyoshi Explanation of the Plate: Huang Fuzhou's Shebua (Tongue Painting): Study Materials on Painting during China's Republican Period
Sarai Mai Exhibition Review: Ko-Mikkyo: The Incipient Stages of Japanese Esoteric Buddhism
Tanaka Atsushi Exhibition Review: Cubism in Asia: Unbounded Dialogues
Kim Hyeshin Exhibition Review: The Cubism of Asia as Seen in Seoul's Old Palace, Cubism in Asia: Unbounded Dialogues
Hida Romi Book Review: A Century of Chinese Sculpture Studies in Japan: Reading Ishimatsu Hinako's Buddhist Images in the Northern Wei Period
Yamanashi Emiko Book Review: Arayashiki Toru's Grez-Sur-Loin et le Japon: Deux Artistes Japonais, Kouroda Seiki et Asai Chu
No. 389, Jun., 2006 Xie Mingliang The Appreciation of Guan Wares in Late Ming China and the Taste for Suiqi Cracked Ware
Ushiroshoji Masahiro Public Art at an Imperial University: Aoyama Kumaji's Mural for the Engineering Department of Kyushu University
Asai Kyoko Book Review: Yoshizawa Katsuhiro's Hakuin: The World of Zen Painting
Kitazawa Noriaki Book Review: Living Painters, Or the Paradox of Distance: Tanaka Atsushi's The Place of Painter: From the basic levels of Modern Japanese Painting
Tsuda Tetsuei, Sarai Mai Material for Art Research: Seated Wooden Bodhisattva at Hoonji, Hyogo Prefecture
Dainobu Yuji Material for Art Research: Kuroda Seiki's Notebook Recording his Letter Drafts and Diary for 1888 (Part III)
Tanaka Atsushi Material for Art Research: Kuroda Seiki's Notebook recording his Letter Drafts and Diary for 1888
@ Reports from the Editorial Committee and the Department of Fine Arts
No. 388, Feb., 2006 Christine Guth The Loaded Language of Cross-Cultural Evaluation: Curiosities, Curios, and Japan
Kim Youngna Lee In-sung's "Local Colors": Nationalism or Colonialism?
Shioya Jun Explanation of Plate: Kano Shosen'in Tabdanobu's Tatsuta Screen in the Baur Collections, Geneva
Watada Minoru Exhibition Review: A Feeling of "Inkiness" Hard to Position in Art History: Viewing the Takada Keiho and Koizumi Ayaru Exhibition
Toda Teisuke Exhibition Review: Sesshu and painting of the Ming Dynasty (Nezu Institute of Fine Arts)
Dainobu Yuji Material for Art Research: Kuroda Seiki's Notebook Recording his Letter Drafts and Diary for 1888 (Part II)
@ Index to Bijutsu Kenkyu, Nos. 383-388
No. 387, Oct., 2005 Tsuruta Takeyoshi On Western-Style Japanese Paintings Displayed in the First National Art Exhibition Held by the Ministry of Education of the Republic China, 1929: Research on the History of Chinese Painting of the Past 100 Years --VIII--
Tanaka Atsushi Exhibition Review: Regarding Early Showa Era Paintings
Nagoya Akira Exhibition Review: Thoughts on the Early Sutra Copies Exhibition
Arayashiki Toru Book Review: The Pantheon-kai Journal: A Social Meeting Ground for Japanese Students in Paris from 1900-1903
Dainobu Yuji Material for Art Research: Kuroda Seiki's Notebook Recording his Letter Drafts and Diary for 1888 (Part I)
No. 386, Jun., 2005 Watada Minoru The Twenty-eight Patriarchs at Sofukuji: From Unkoku Toeki and Mincho to Sesshu and Bunsei
Christophe Marquet Emmanuel Tronquois and the Mid-Meiji Era Western Painting Circles
Kobayashi Hiromitsu Exhibition Review: Southern Song Paintings: Elegant and Noble in Soul (Nezu Institute of Fine Arts)
Omote Tomoyuki Book Review: Changing Antiquarian Interests in the Early Meiji Era: A Review of Suzuki Hiroyuki's Antiquarian's 19th Century
Namiki Seishi Book Review: Takagishi Akira's Power and Painting in Muromachi Japan: A Study of the Early Tosa School
@ Report of the Institute
No. 385, Feb., 2005 Yanagisawa Taka New Information Regarding the Yellow Acalanatha (Ki-Hudo) Painting of Onjoji: Conservation Report
Takada Osamu Reading Yanagisawa Taka's "New Information Regarding the Yellow Acalanatha (Ki-Hudo) Painting of Onjoji"
Choe Song-geun Research on the Stone Standing Triad at Gaetaesa Temple: The Emergence of the Newly Unified Goryeo Dynasty and Buddhist Sculpture
Toda Teisuke Exhibition Review: Thoughts on the Rimpa Exhibition (National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo)
No. 384, Nov., 2004 Rong Xinjiang From Sogdia to China: The Transformation of Sogdian Zoroastrian Art during its Eastward Migration
Murakami Hiroya The Dialectics of Self-Image: An Interpretation of Matsumoto Shunsuke's Portrait of the Artist, Standing Figure, Five People, and Three People (Part II)
Shioya Jun Explanation of Plates: Gyoshu's Drawings of an Infant
Tsuruta Takeyoshi Material of Art Research: Publication of the Entire Set of Exhibited Works Catalogues for the Nikka (Chunichi) Kaiga Rengo Tenrankai (The Sino-Japanese Joint Exhibitions of Paintings): Research on the History of Chinese Painting of the Past 100 Years --VII, Continued--
No. 383, Aug., 2004 Tsuruta Takeyoshi Regarding the Nikka (Chunichi) Kaiga Rengo Tenrankai (The Shino-Japanese Joint Exhibitions of Paintings): Research on the History of Chinese Painting of the Past 100 Years --VII--
Murakami Hiroya The Dialectics of Self-Image: An Interpretation of Matsumoto Shunsuke's Portrait of the Artist, Standing Figure, Five People, and Three People (Part I)
Suzuki Hiroyuki Research Note: W. Anderson's "A History of Japanese Art" (1879)
@ Report of the Institute
No. 382, Mar., 2004 Shi Shouchien The Spirit of Immortals: Chen Zihe and the Taoist Ink Painting during the Ming Dynasty
Tsuda Tetsuei Explanation of Plates: A Portrait of Honen Shonin at Chion-in, Kyoto
Tanaka Atsushi Exhibition Review: Aoki Shigeru and Romanticism in Modern Japanese Art
@ Index to Bijutsu Kenkyu, Nos. 377-382
No. 381, Mar., 2004 Watada Minoru Sesshu in China: Unique Experiences for a Monk-Painter
Hayashi Yoko The Peripatetic Artist Foujita Tsuguharu: Discovering America after Japan and France
Asano Toru Book Review: Memories and Records: Reading Kimura Shohachi Diaries, Meiji Volume, Annotation and Research
No. 380, Mar., 2004 @ New Editorial Policies
Hong Sunpyo The Realm of "Self-Pleasure" and "Depicting Thoughts": Creative Trends and Painting Production Amongst Yeohang Munin during the Late Choson Period
Tanaka Atsushi Research Note: Aoki Shigeru and Kishida Ryusei
@ Report of the Institute

 

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