Center Staff Okada

Research / cooperative activities

  • Joint studies and cooperative projects in East Asia
  • Deterioration and the conservation of remains in Southeast Asia
  • Conservation of Cultural Heritage in West Asia
  • Public System and its Application for Protection of Cultural Heritage in European Countries

Conferences / meetings

  • 34th International Symposium on the Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Property  (19-21 January 2011)
  • Conference on International Cooperation on Conservation
  • Seminar on the Conservation of Asian Cultural Heritage
  • Workshop on the Public Systems for Protection of Cultural Property

Collection and transmission of information

Staff

Japan Consortium for International Cooperation in Cultural Heritage

History
 
Okada, Ken
Year of birth 1956
Position Head, Resource and Systems Research Section
Field of study Cultural Property Study
Education April 1981 -- March 1987
Master's Course and Doctorate Course, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
March 1983 -- July 1984
Student Studying Abroad, The Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, The People's Republic of China.
Occupation May 1987 - March 1992
Researcher, Nara National Museum.
December 1989 - January 1990
Specialist for Cultural Properties, Fine Art Division, Agency for Cultural Affairs.
April 1992 - June 1994
Researcher, Department of Fine Arts, Tokyo National Research Institute of Cultural Properties.
July 1994 - March 2001
Senior Researcher, Department of Fine Arts, Tokyo National Research Institute of Cultural Properties.
April 2001 - March 2003
Head, Conservation System section, Japan Center for International Cooperation in Conservation, National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, Tokyo, Independent Administrative Institution
April 2003 - March 2009
Head, Conservation Design section
April 2009 - present
Head, Resource and Systems Research Section
Membership The Japan Society for the Conservation of Cultural Property, the Japan Art History Society
Major Publications

OKADA, Ken
The Materialization and Characteristic of Northern Qi-style Buddhist Sculpture; Ars Buddhica 159 (1985)

OKADA, Ken
A Study on the Construction of Buddhist Images at Longmen Caves in the Early Tang Period 1 ---The Process of Development in the Sculptural Style Before the Zhenguan Era of Emperor Taizong; Ars Buddhica 171 (1987)

OKADA, Ken
A Review of Buddhist Images Produced at Chang'an in Early Tang Period; Ars Buddhica 177 (1988)

OKADA, Ken
A Study on the Construction of Buddhist Images at Longmen Caves in the Early Tang Period 2 ---Early Era of Emperor Gaozong; Ars Buddhica 186 (1989)

OKADA, Ken
A Study on the Construction of Buddhist Images at Longmen Caves in the Early Tang Period 3 ---Later Era of Emperor Gaozong; Ars Buddhica 196 (1991)

OKADA, Ken, and ISHIMATSU, Hinako
A Study of the Robes of Buddha in the period of the Northern and Southern dynasties I, II; The Bijutsu Kenkyu 356,357 (1993)

OKADA, Ken
The Gongxian Grottoes and Early Tang Dynasty Sculptural Style; The Bijutsu Kenkyu 360 (1994)

OKADA, Ken
Buddhist Sculptures of Huangshi-ya(Yellow-stone) Cliff in Licheng, Shandong; The Bijutsu Kenkyu 366 (1997)

OKADA, Ken
Standing Buddha, Gilt Bronze, Komyoji, Nara; The Bijutsu Kenkyu 368 (1997)

OKADA, Ken
Image of the Tang Dynasty in the Great Buddha Temple of Binxian ---Its Significance for the Study of Japanese Art History, Iconic Art of Buddha Temple in Binxian; Modern Press Publication, Beijing, China (1998)

OKADA, Ken
Toji's Bishamonten Image ---Thoughts on the Traditional Belief that the Image was Installed in the Rajomon Gate and its Dating I, II; The Bijutsu Kenkyu 370,371 (1998,1999)

OKADA, Ken
Research on Dharma-cakra Mudra Amitabha Images in the Early Tang Dynasty; The Bijutsu Kenkyu 373 (2000)

OKADA, Ken
The Longmen Caves in the Tang Dynasty; Longmen Caves, Miho Museum, Japan (2001)

OKADA, Ken
Observation on Buddhist Stone Sculpture from the Longxing Monastery, New Perspectives on China's Past in the twentieth century, Chinese Archaeology, Xaioneng Yang, Yale University Press, The Nelson-Atkins Museum (2004)

OKADA, Ken
The Relationship between Social Changes and Systems for the Protection of Deverse Types of Cultural Heritage: Example from Japan, Proceedings of Twelfth Seminar on the Conservation of Asian Cultural Heritage, NRICPT (2005)
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