The Bijutsu Kenkyu
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@Since 1932. The journal, edited by the Department of Art Research, Archives and Information Systems, 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
No. 406 Mar., 2012
  Imperial Cultural Properties and Kaifeng in the Early Northern Song Dynasty: The Culture of the Imperial Court and the Buddhist Temples Qishengchanyuan and Daxiangguosi (Part II)
    Tsukamoto Maromitsu
  The Production of Portrait Sculptures of Deceased Medieval Period
    Tsuda Tetsuei
  Index to Bijutsu Kenkyu, Nos. 401-406
No. 405 Jan., 2012
  Special Edition: Japanese-Korean Symposia gThe Dynamics of Interaction between People and Objects: eAppraisalf in Art Historyh
  Foreword for Special Edition
    Tanaka Atsushi
  Report of Two Symposia
    (Editor)
  The Glory and Failure of a Nationalist Korean Art History: The Interpretation and Evaluation of Late Choson Painting
    Hong Sun-pyo
  Creativity and Value: Focusing on Yorozu Tetsugorofs Woman with a Balloon
    Tanaka Atsushi
  The Long Landscape Handscroll: Towards a Re-Evaluation of Sesshu
    Watada Minoru
  The Fallacy of Love: How to Interpret and Write about the Life and Work of Chong Son
    Chang Chin-sung
  The Expressive World of Early Edo Period Genre Paintings
    Emura Tomoko
  Shi Tao, the Sight of Evaluation as the Modern Individualism
    Moon Jung-hee
  Review of the Symposium in Tokyo
    Tanaka Atsushi
  Review of the Symposium in Seoul
    Inaba Mai
No. 404 Aug., 2011
  Imperial Cultural Properties and Kaifeng in the Early Northern Song Dynasty: The Culture of the Imperial Court and the Buddhist Temples Qishengchanyuan and Daxiangguosi (Part I)
    Tsukamoto Maromitsu
  Akimoto Shatei and Meiji Era Nihonga (Part I)
    Shioya Jun
  The Original Context of the Modern History of Craft Reflected in a Photograph
    Choi Gongho
  Material for Art Research: Standing Image of Yakushi Nyorai at Jinkoin, Kyoto
    Sarai Mai
  Material for Art Research: Standing Image of Prince Shotoku at Korinji, Iwate
    Tsuda Tetsuei
  Book Review: Kojima Michihiro, Egakareta Sengoku no Kyoto
    Matthew P. McKelway
  Report of the Department of Art Research, Archives and Information Systems
No. 403 Mar., 2011
  Historical Consideration of the Yakushi Nyorai Image at Jingoji
    Sarai Mai
  The Studio That Painted the Tengu Soshi
    Tsuchiya Takahiro
No. 402 Feb., 2011
  From Xia Wenyan to Sesshu: The Precious Mirror of Painting and the Shaping of Historical Knowledge of Landscape Painting in East Asia in the 14th and 15th centuries
    Shih Shou-chien
  Explanation of the Plates: Works by Kuroda Seiki Donated to the Tokyo National Museum in the Fiscal Year of 2009: Boat, Peonies, Battle of Niryusan in Sino-Japanese War and Two Portraits of Hayashi Masahumi
    Yamanashi Emiko
No. 401 Aug., 2010
  An Iconographic Study of Birth of Sakyamuni Imagery in the Joseon Dynasty Korea
    Chung Woo-thak
  Study of Kawabata Gyokusho (Part III)
    Shioya Jun
  Material for Art Research: Standing Image of the Two-year-old Prince Shotoku (Namu-butsu Taishi) in the Nara National Museum
    Tsuda Tetsuei
  Book Review: Tomishima Yoshiyuki, Mikkyo Kukan Shiron [Research on the History of Esoteric Buddhist Spaces]
    Sarai Mai
  Report of the Department of Research Programming
No. 400 Mar., 2010
  Southern Dynasty Buddhist Stone Sculptures in Wenchuan County, Sichuan Province
    Lei Yuhua, Li Yuqun, Luo Jinyong
  Study of Unkoku Toganfs Crows in Plum Trees: From the Guest House at Najima Castle to the Audience House at Fukuoka Castle
    Watada Minoru
  Research Note: Contemporary Art and Museums: Artist Interview Archives of the Tate and the INCCA
    Morishita Masaaki
  Book Review: Yoshida Chizuko, Kindai Higashi Asia Bijutsu Ryugakusei no Kenkyu [Research on Modern East Asian Overseas Art Students]: Imagining a Transnational Archive
    Park So-hyun
  Index to Bijutsu Kenkyu, Nos. 359-400
No. 399 Jan., 2010
  Positioning The Tales of Ise in the Teshhinsai Bunko Collection
    Tsuchiya Takahiro
  Study of Kawabata Gyokusyô (Part II)
    Shioya Jun
  Research Note: The Colors of Memory: An Observation on the Depiction of Figural Genre Images in Pleasure Quarter Paintings
    Emura Tomoko
  Exhibition Review: Paintings of Koreafs Joseon Dynasty and Japan (Tochigi Prefectural Art Museum and Three Other Venues)
    Emura Tomoko
No. 398 Aug., 2009
  The Yakushi Triad at Daigoji and the Structures of Temple Foundation during the Early Heian Period (Vol. III)
    Sarai Mai
  The Demise of Japanese-style Painting (Nihonga) in Taiwan: Local Color and Refracted Modernity
    Yen Chuan-ying
  Research Note: The gNew Womanh and Woman with a Balloon: What Lay behind the Creation of Yorozu Tetsugorofs Woman with a Balloon and its Expression
    Tanaka Atsushi
  Material for Art Research: Hollow Dry Lacquer Standing Bodhisattva
    Tsuda Tetsuei
  Material for Art Research: Compilation of Materials Related to the Sango-Kai (Appendix, Part II)
    Kikuya Yoshio, Shioya Jun
  Report of the Department of Research Programming
No. 397 Mar., 2009
  Images of gForeignersh in Pictures of Wrestling in Tomb Wall Paintings During the Koguryo Dynasty
    Lim Young-ae
 

A Long-Puzzling Self-Portrait by Mitsutani Kunishiro: The Importance of the Goseda Studio in Modern Japanese Art History

   

Tsunoda Takuro

 

Explanation of the Plates: Yorozu Tetsugorofs Acrobats and Road under the Sun

   

Tanaka Atsushi

 

Book Review: Onishi Makiko, Saiho-jodohen no Kenkyu [Study of Paintings of Amitabhafs Western Paradise]

   

Tsuda Tetsuei

No. 396 Nov., 2008
  The Context of the Juko-in Main Hall Wall Panel Paintings
    Watanabe Yuji
  A Hypothesis on the Establishment Date of Juko-in: For A Reconsideration of its Wall Panel Paintings
    Watada Minoru
  Research Note: Report on the Discovery of Torn Trousers by Fuji Gazo
    Takahashi Shuji
  Exhibition Review: Kano Eitoku Exhibition (Kyoto National Museum)
    Watada Minoru
No. 395 Aug., 2008
  Reflections on the Problem of Audience for Han Dynasty Funerary Carved Pictorial Images
    Zheng Yan
  Jiboku Sôtan (Part 3)
    Watada Minoru
  Research Note: Odaka Senfnosuke and Kishida Ryûsei
    Tanaka Atsushi
  Research Note: For a Smooth Surface: A Reconsideration of Koide Narashige
    Kobayashi Mioko
  Report of the Department of Research Programming
No. 394 Mar., 2008
  Jiboku Sôtan (Part 2)
    Watada Minoru
  Tosa Mitsuyoshi and Large-Format Paintings
    Aizawa Masahiko
  Between Non-Attachment and Obsession: The Collecting Culture of Late Choson Korea
    Chang Chin-sung
  Material for Art Research: Scenes from the Tale of the Soga Brothers, Pair of Six-panel Screens by Tosa Mitsuyoshi
    Emura Tomoko
  Index to Bijutsu Kenkyu, Nos. 389-394
No. 393 Jan., 2008
  The Reception of Amitabha Pure Land Images in Ancient Japan and Its Phases: Focusing on the True Nature of the Reception of the Horyûji Kondo Wall Painting No. 6 and the Taima Mandala and the Formation of Related Discourse
    Katsuki Gen'ichirô
  The Yakushi Triad at Daigoji and the Structures of Temple Foundation
during the Early Heian Period (Part 2)
    Sarai Mai
  Jiboku Sôtan (Part 1)
    Watada Minoru
  Exhibition Review: Three Early Shôwa Era Painters: Kojima Zenzaburô, Tsuruoka Masao, Ai-Mitsu
    Tanaka Atsushi
  Book Review: Nedachi Kensuke, Nihon Chusei no Busshi to Shakai : Unkei to Keiha,Shichijô@Busshi wo Chûsin ni[Japanese Medieval Buddhist Sculptors and Society: Unkei, the Kei School, and the Shichijô Busshi]
    Tsuda Tetsuei
No. 392 Sep., 2007
  The Yakushi Triad at Daigoji and the Structures of Temple Foundation
during the Early Heian Period (Part 1)
    Sarai Mai
  The Wealth from Birth on the Path to Becoming a Painter: The Environment Surrounding Ogata Kôrin and his Creation of Art Works
    Emura Tomoko
  Research on Kawabata Gyokusyô -I-
    Shioya Jun
  The Lower Half of the Painting: Japanese Nude Paintings from 1890 to 1945
    Kuraya Mika
  Exhibition Review: Urgami Gyokudô Exhibition
    Toda Teisuke
  Reports from the Editorial Committee and the Department of Fine Arts
No. 391 Mar., 2007
  Seeking the Three Dynasties among the Ritual Vessels of Old: The Sung Dynasty Shift from "Investigating Antiquity" to "Appreciating Antiquity"
    Chen Fangmei
  A New Interpretation of the Food-Offering Figures in the Water-Moon Avalokitesvara Painting at Daitokuji in Kyoto
    Pak Eunkyung
  Haboku Landscape and Sôen
    Aizawa Masahiko
  Exhibition Review: Mori Ôgai and Japanese Modern Art
    Aoki Shigeru
  Material for Art Research: Copy Figures of the Central Worship Images at Zenkôji
    Tsuda Tetsuei
No. 390 Dec., 2006
  Kôki-Inshoha: Japanese Post-Impressionism around 1912
    Tanaka Atsushi
  Explanation of Plates: Kikuchi Yôsai's Kannon Sutra in the Biblioteque Nationale de France
    Shioya Jun
  Explanation of the Plate: Huang Fuzhou's Shebua (Tongue Painting): Study Materials on Painting during China's Republican Period
    Tsuruta Takeyoshi
  Exhibition Review: Ko-Mikkyô: The Incipient Stages of Japanese Esoteric Buddhism
    Sarai Mai
  Exhibition Review: Cubism in Asia: Unbounded Dialogues
    Tanaka Atsushi
  Exhibition Review: The Cubism of Asia as Seen in Seoul's Old Palace, Cubism in Asia: Unbounded Dialogues
    Kim Hyeshin
  Book Review: A Century of Chinese Sculpture Studies in Japan: Reading Ishimatsu Hinako's Buddhist Images in the Northern Wei Period
    Hida Romi
  Book Review: Arayashiki Toru's Grez-Sur-Loin et le Japon: Deux Artistes Japonais, Kouroda Seiki et Asai Chû
    Yamanashi Emiko
No. 389 Jun., 2006
  The Appreciation of Guan Wares in Late Ming China and the Taste for Suiqi Cracked Ware
    Xie Mingliang
  Public Art at an Imperial University: Aoyama Kumaji's Mural for the Engineering Department of Kyushu University
    Ushiroshoji Masahiro
  Book Review: Yoshizawa Katsuhiro's Hakuin: Zenga no Sekai mThe World of Zen Painting]
    Asai Kyoko
  Book Review: Living Painters, Or the Paradox of Distance: Tanaka Atsushi's Gaka no iru 'basho': Kindai NIhon Bijutsu no kisô kara[The Place of Painter: From the basic levels of Modern Japanese Painting]
    Kitazawa Noriaki
  SeMaterial for Art Research: Seated Wooden Bodhisattva at Hôonji, Hyôgo Prefecture
    Tsuda Tetsuei, Sarai Mai
  Material for Art Research: Kuroda Seiki's Notebook Recording his Letter Drafts and Diary for 1888 (Part III)
    Dainobu Yuji
  Material for Art Research: Kuroda Seiki's Notebook recording his Letter Drafts and Diary for 1888
    Tanaka Atsushi
  Reports from the Editorial Committee and the Department of Fine Arts
No. 388 Feb., 2006
  The Loaded Language of Cross-Cultural Evaluation: Curiosities, Curios, and Japan
    Christine Guth
  Lee In-sung's "Local Colors": Nationalism or Colonialism?
    Kim Youngna
  Explanation of Plates: Kanô Shôsen'in Tabdanobu's Tatsuta Screen in the Baur Collections, Geneva
    Shioya Jun
  Exhibition Review: A Feeling of "Inkiness" Hard to Position in Art History: Viewing the Takada Keiho and Koizumi Ayaru Exhibition
    Watada Minoru
  Exhibition Review: Sesshû and painting of the Ming Dynasty (Nezu Institute of Fine Arts)
    Toda Teisuke
  Material for Art Research: Kuroda Seiki's Notebook Recording his Letter Drafts and Diary for 1888 (Part II)
    Dainobu Yuji
  Index to Bijutsu Kenkyu, Nos. 383-388

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