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SCHWEIZER GEORG HEINRICH MAXIMILIAN EMANUEL LUDWIG
 
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Faculty of Humanities Department of Philosophy Professor
School of Letters Department of Humanities(Joint Appointment)
Graduate School of Humanities Department of Philosophy(Joint Appointment)
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Professor
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Schweizer is the author of Osaki Hachiman: Architecture, Materiality, and Samurai Power in Seventeenth Century Japan (Berlin, 2016) and co-editor of Japanische Lackkunst für Bayerns Fürsten: Die Japanischen Lackmöbel der Staatlichen Münzsammlung München (Munich, 2011). He presently works on two projects, one about courtesan culture in early modern Japan and the other on exchanges of material and visual cultures between East Asia, Europe, and the Americas in the age of the First Globalization.
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Degree

  • Doctor Phil. (PhD) Heidelberg University 2010.

  • Magister Artium (MA) LMU Munich 2002.

Research History

  • Heidelberg University, Centre for East Asian Studies, Institute of East Asian Art History, Assistant Professor (2004-2012). New York University, Institute of Fine Arts, Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow (2012-2014). Tulane University, Art Department, Professor of Practice (2014-2017).

Research Interests・Research Keywords

  • Research theme:Shared Coasts, Divided Historiographies: Mobilizing People, Ideas, and Artifacts in the East Asian Mediterranean

    Keyword:First Global Age, Second Global Age, art, history, material culture

    Research period: 2022.10 - 2025.8

  • Research theme:co-editor with Mimi Hall Yiengpruksawan: Beyond the Southern Barbarians: Relocating Japan in the First Global Age (working title). Under contract with Brill, Amsterdam.

    Keyword:First Global Age, art, history, material culture, nanban art

    Research period: 2022.1 - 2024.12

  • Research theme:Japanese textile appliqués in Schloss Rastatt (Germany)

    Keyword:First Global Age, art, history, material culture

    Research period: 2020.1 - 2024.8

  • Research theme:Architecture and Material Culture of Easily Modern Pleasure Districts in Japan

    Keyword:Art history; architectural history, material culture, othering, social identity construction.

    Research period: 2019.10 - 2024.10

  • Research theme:Material Cultures of the First Global Age.

    Keyword:Art history; material culture; transcultural exchange; export art; social identity construction.

    Research period: 2018.5 - 2023.5

Papers

  • “Puppets for the Margravine: Japanese Ephemera and their (Re)Construction in Eighteenth-Century Chinoiserie.” Reviewed International journal

    2 ( 1 )   3 - 46   2021.4

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    This article introduces a group of 23 textile appliqués, or oshi-e – scraps of padded and painted fabric applied to a support of papier mâché – that were manufactured in Japan during the final decades of the seventeenth century. The pieces were soon transferred to Europe and collected by Sibylla Augusta Margravine of Baden (1675–1733). One of Germany’s early advocates of the stylistic idiom of chinoiserie, by 1723 Sibylla had integrated the pieces into the decoration of her newly erected mansion Favorite near Rastatt.

    This article has two foci. First, it contextualizes the genre of textile appliqués within its Japanese culture of origin where such items served as ephemeral festival decoration, fashionable accessories, and tools of sophisticated pastime in the milieu of urban merchants. Secondly, the article explores practical and theoretical aspects of intercultural transfer and discusses the fundamental re-reading of transferred artifacts against the background of chinoiserie in central Europe.

    The appliqués at Schloss Favorite are significant in several respects. They count among the oldest surviving examples of this genre worldwide. They become even more valuable from the fact that their maker, Fujiya Saburōbei, can be unambiguously identified from existent documentation as a leading manufacturer of oshi-e and purveyor to the Dutch East India Company. While there is no conclusive evidence, there is a strong possibility that the appliqués at Schloss Favorite came to Europe as private merchandise of the famous traveler and author, Engelbert Kaempfer (1651–1716). Lastly, the pieces constitute exceedingly rare material evidence for the role of textiles and other ephemera in both early modern Japan and Europe as well as related practices of collecting and display.

    Other Link: DOI: https://doi.org/10.11588/xxi.2021.1.79014

  • “Nanban Lacquer: Global Styles and Materials in a Japanese Cabinet.” Invited Reviewed International journal

    2024.2

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  • Bridges into Metaphorical Space: Hideyoshi’s Imperial Landscapes at Osaka. Invited Reviewed International journal

    2023.4

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    This volume explores the role of landscape in the articulation and expression of
    imperial and elite identities and the mediation of relationships between courts and their
    many audiences in the early modern world. Twelve focused studies from East and South
    Asia, the Islamic world, and Europe illuminate how early modern courts and societies
    shaped, and were shaped by, the landscape, including both physical sites, such as
    gardens, palaces, cities and hunting parks, and conceptual ones, such as those of frontiers,
    idealized polities, and the cosmos.
    Courts and societies across early modern Eurasia were fundamentally transformed
    by the physical, technological and conceptual developments of their era. Evolving forms
    of communication, greatly expanded mobility, the spread of scientific knowledge, and the
    emergence of an increasingly integrated global economy all affected the means by which
    states articulated and projected visions of authority into societies that, in turn, perceived
    and responded to these visions in often contrasting terms. Landscape both reflected and
    served as a vehicle for these transformations, as the relationship between the land and its
    imagination and consumption became a fruitful site for the negotiation of imperial
    identities within and beyond the precincts of the court.

  • “The Elector’s Japan: Reading Export Lacquer in Baroque Germany.” Invited Reviewed International journal

    2018.6

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    In Patricia Frick and Annette Kieser (eds.): Production, Distribution and Appreciation: New Aspects on East Asian Lacquer Wares.

  • “Kōgeihin toshite no kenzōbutsu: Toyotomi-ki Ōsaka-jō no sōshoku ni kan suru kōsatsu” 工芸品としての建造物:豊臣期大阪城の装飾に関する考察 [Buildings as crafted objects: Some thoughts on the decoration of Osaka Castle during the Toyotomi era]. Invited Reviewed International journal

    Shūbi 聚美 11 (April, 2014)   68 - 79   2014.4

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  • co-authored with Avinoam Shalem: “Translating Visions: A Japanese Lacquer Plaque of the Haram of Mecca in the L. A. Mayer Memorial Museum, Jerusalem.” Ars Orientalis 39 (2010), pp. 148-173. Invited Reviewed International journal

    2010.11

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  • “Das unbeständige Original: Zur denkmalpflegerischen Problematik lackierter japanischer Architektur” [The changeable original: on the problem of conserving Japanese lacquered architecture]. Invited Reviewed International journal

    28 - 37   2010.9

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Books

  • Anton Schweizer

    Anton Schweizer( Role: Sole author)

    Berlin, Germany  2016.6 

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    Responsible for pages:Hammond Reihe   Language:English   Book type:Scholarly book

    Other Link: http://www.reimer-mann-verlag.de/controller.php?cmd=detail&titelnummer=101541&verlag=4

  • Anton Schweizer

    Anton Schweizer, co-edited with Martin Hirsch and Dietrich O. A. Klose( Role: Joint author)

    Munich, Germany  2011.11 

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    Language:Others   Book type:General book, introductory book for general audience

  • Anton Schweizer

    Anton Schweizer( Role: Sole author)

    Neuried, Germany  2002.5 

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Presentations

  • “Spektakel und Machtdemonstration: Das Toyokuni Fest von 1604 als politische Propaganda.” Invited International conference

    Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München  2024.2 

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    Event date: 2024.3

    Language:English   Presentation type:Public lecture, seminar, tutorial, course, or other speech  

    Venue:Munich   Country:Germany  

  • “Daibutsuden / Hōkoku Jinja: A Meiji Period Site of Hideyoshi Revivalism.” Invited International conference

    Marcin Tatarczuk (Kyoto U), Greg De St. Maurice (Keio U), Andrew Elliott (Doshisha Women’s College), Takagi Hiroshi (Kyoto U), Saito Aoi (Northwestern U), Anton Schweizer (Kyushu U.)

    Workshop Kyoto’s Imperial Modernity  2022.12 

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    Event date: 2024.3

    Language:English   Presentation type:Symposium, workshop panel (public)  

    Venue:Kyoto   Country:Japan  

  • “Material and Subject in Momoyama and Early Edo period Sword Mountings.” Invited International conference

    2022.12 

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    Event date: 2024.3

    Language:English   Presentation type:Public lecture, seminar, tutorial, course, or other speech  

    Venue:Fukuoka   Country:Japan  

  • “Nihon no busshitsu bunka ni okeru chansu imēji to ‘keshiki’ no gainen—seiyō riron no shiten kara” 日本の物質文化におけるチャンス・イメージと「景色」の概念―西洋理論の視点から―. Invited

    井手誠之輔 平井章一(関西大学) 河本真理 松原知生 Anton Schweizer

    Japanese Art History Association (Bijutsushi Gakkai 美術史学会)  2023.5 

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    Event date: 2024.3

    Language:English   Presentation type:Public lecture, seminar, tutorial, course, or other speech  

    Venue:Fukuoka   Country:Japan  

  • “Tanzen für Hideyoshi: Das Toyokuni-Fest von 1604 als politische Propaganda.” Invited International conference

    Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften  2023.6 

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    Event date: 2024.3

    Language:English   Presentation type:Public lecture, seminar, tutorial, course, or other speech  

    Venue:Vienna   Country:Austria  

  • “Die japanischen Textilappliken im Schlafzimmer des Erbprinzen Ludwig Georg: Kontext und Bedeutung.” Invited International conference

    Ulrike Grimm (Oberkonservatorin a. D., Karlsruhe) Anton Schweizer (Kyushu University, Japan) Kristel Smentek (MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts) Christian Katschmanowski (SSG) Ulrike Seeger (Universität Stuttgart / Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) Filip Suchomel (Regional Gallery, Liberec / UMPRUM, Prague) Errol Manners (E & H Manners Ltd., London) Stephan Graf von der Schulenburg (Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt) Maureen Cassidy-Geiger (Independent Scholar and Curator, New York) Petra Pechaček (SSG) Hertha Schwarz (Freie Historikerin, München) Birgitt Borkopp-Restle (Universität Bern) Käthe Klappenbach (Kustodin a. D., SPSG, Potsdam) Sandra Eberle (SSG) Katharina Hantschmann (Bayerisches Nationalmuseum München) Jacques Bastian (Antiquités Bastian, Straßburg)

    Staatliche Schlösser und Gärten Baden-Württemberg  2023.9 

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    Event date: 2024.3

    Language:English   Presentation type:Symposium, workshop panel (public)  

    Venue:Rastatt   Country:Germany  

  • “Dance of the Foreigners: Revisiting Kanō Naizen’s Toyokuni Festival Screens.” Invited International conference

    2023.10 

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    Event date: 2024.3

    Language:English   Presentation type:Symposium, workshop panel (public)  

    Venue:Los Angeles   Country:United States  

  • “Frauen als Sehenswürdigkeiten: Ort und Architektur als Bedeutungsträger in einer Holzschnittserie von Utagawa Kunisada” Invited International conference

    Forum Ostasiatische Kunstgeschichte, Freie Universität Berlin (Berlin, Germany)  2021.8 

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    Event date: 2022.6

    Language:Others   Presentation type:Oral presentation (invited, special)  

    Venue:Berlin/Online   Country:Germany  

  • Nanban Art as a Global Event Invited International conference

    Anton Schweizer, Jessica Rawson

    2022.5 

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    Event date: 2022.5

    Language:English   Presentation type:Public lecture, seminar, tutorial, course, or other speech  

    Country:Germany  

  • “Shaping a Deity: Architectural Form at the Toyokuni Shrine in Kyoto.” International conference

    2019.11 

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    Event date: 2019.11

    Language:Japanese   Presentation type:Symposium, workshop panel (public)  

    Venue:Fukuoka   Country:Japan  

  • “Shaping a Deity: Cult, Politics, and Architecture at the Toyokuni Shrine in Kyoto.” Invited International conference

    2020.5 

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    Event date: 2019.10

    Language:English   Presentation type:Oral presentation (invited, special)  

    Venue:Heidelberg   Country:Germany  

  • “Keichō shisetsu to Azuchijō zu byōbu no nazo” 慶長使節と安土城図屏風の謎 [The Keichō mission and the mystery of the Azuchi castle screens]. Invited International conference

    4th Symposium of the Azuchi Castle Screens Research Project / 安土城図屏風安土城図屏風探索プロジェクト第四回シンポジウム (Azuchi-chō, Japan).  2019.6 

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    Event date: 2019.6

    Language:Japanese   Presentation type:Symposium, workshop panel (public)  

    Venue:Azuchicho   Country:Japan  

  • 2019/04/21 “Kyōto kara Rasutatto e: Genroku no oshie-bina no saihakken” 京都からラスタットへ:元禄の押絵雛の再発見 [From Kyoto to Rastatt: The rediscovery of Genroku era textile puppets]. Invited

    2020.5 

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    Event date: 2019.4

    Language:Japanese   Presentation type:Oral presentation (invited, special)  

    Venue:Fukuoka   Country:Japan  

  • 「京都からラスタットへ:元禄の押絵雛の再発見」 Invited

    西日本日独協会  2019.4 

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    Language:Japanese   Presentation type:Public lecture, seminar, tutorial, course, or other speech  

    Country:Japan  

  • “Othering the Samurai: Exotic Materials on Japanese Campaign Coats.” Invited International conference

    2019.2 

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    Language:English   Presentation type:Symposium, workshop panel (public)  

    Venue:New York City   Country:United States  

    Jinbaori are a type of vest-like surcoat that were worn by elite samurai during battle or on certain ceremonial occasions. This paper discusses foreign materials on three sixteenth-century jinbaori: Persian knitted fabric, European felt, and birds’ feathers. All three examples incorporate rare, imported materials into profoundly unconventional costume creations. All three examples also constitute adoptions and adaptations of groups of materials with long histories of symbolical charging and therefore attest to the conscious deployment of materials for communicating prestige, numinous power, and access to global trade networks.
    Significantly, some of the exotic materials and manufacturing technologies—especially featherwork—seem to have been introduced to Japan first by Jesuit missionaries precisely for their potential to generate sensation and evoke associations with pre-existing concepts from religion, legend, and poetry and thus to serve as a powerful tool in proselytizing efforts. Patrons in Japan, however, swiftly appropriated and reinterpreted these materials for their own political ends.
    This paper approaches jinbaori as tools for social othering and the communication of charismatic rulership. Strategies of social othering had been employed for two centuries by members of the samurai, a professional group that relied on violence in a society that in theory privileged Buddhist precepts of non-harming. Charismatic rulership and the rhetoric of legitimate government became a principal tool of political propaganda in the process of re-unification at the turn of the seventeenth century. The paper demonstrates how in this historical and political context materials and surface textures referencing foreignness, exotic nature, and legendary creatures were deployed as tools of political iconography.

  • “Conserving Impermanence: Transcultural Approaches to Architectural Lacquering.” Invited International conference

    2018.9 

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    Event date: 2018.9

    Language:Japanese   Presentation type:Symposium, workshop panel (public)  

    Venue:Fukuoka   Country:Japan  

    This paper presents a case study of contemporary approaches taken to the conservation and restoration of "fully lacquered" (sō urushinuri) buildings. These fully lacquered buildings form a distinct architectural typology that became prevalent in Japan from the late sixteenth to the late seventeenth centuries.

    Rather than as a system of decoration, architectural lacquering is best understood as a practice. The surface coating with sap lacquer (urushi) involves a complex build-up of numerous priming and covering layers and is both time and resource consuming. The aesthetic impact resulting from this high investment of labor and materials is, however, remarkably unstable and changes drastically over a relatively short time. The initial high gloss and deep color saturation deteriorate quickly and usher into an increasingly dull and depleted appearance.

    Although lacquered buildings were in historical times eventually repaired, existing documentation shows that the depleted state was often left untreated for long periods and accepted as part of an inevitable cycle of creation and decay. This ephemeral character plays a key role in the overall significance of works of lacquered architecture.
    Curatorial and conservational approaches to lacquered architecture diverge greatly both in Japan and abroad. Although the traditional practice of recurring re-lacquering is often carried out, there have been many attempts at stopping the process of deterioration through protective measures such as secondary halls (variously made from metal, glass, wood, concrete) erected over the structures in question. Occasionally, components of lacquered buildings (doors, sculptures, ceiling panels) were removed and transferred to a museum.

  • “Clad in Otherness: Imported Materials on Japanese Campaign Coats.” Invited International conference

    2018.8 

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    Event date: 2018.8

    Language:English   Presentation type:Symposium, workshop panel (public)  

    Country:China  

  • 「京都からドイツまで:元禄の押絵雛の再発見」 Inaugural lecture, School of Humanities, Kyushu University (Fukuoka, Japan). Invited

    2018.5 

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    Event date: 2018.5

    Language:Japanese   Presentation type:Public lecture, seminar, tutorial, course, or other speech  

    Venue:Fukuoka   Country:Japan  

  • “Dressed to Kill: Momoyama Military Equipment.” Invited International conference

    2018.4 

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    Event date: 2018.4 - 2018.5

    Language:English   Presentation type:Public lecture, seminar, tutorial, course, or other speech  

    Venue:New Haven   Country:United States  

    Other Link: https://ceas.yale.edu/japans-global-baroque

  • “Puppets for the Margravine: Rediscovering Japanese Ephemera of the Seventeenth Century.” Invited International conference

    2018.2 

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    Event date: 2018.2

    Language:English   Presentation type:Public lecture, seminar, tutorial, course, or other speech  

    Venue:Los Angeles   Country:United States  

    Other Link: https://conference.collegeart.org/schedule/

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MISC

  • “Spectacular Buildings: Sendai's Legacy of Architecture and Art” Reviewed

    2020.5

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  • “‘Repair by Disassembly’ (kaitai shūri) in Japan” = Nihon ni okeru kaitai shūri 日本における解体修理. In: K. Weiler & N. Gutschow (eds.): Authenticity in Architectural Heritage Conservation: Discourses, Opinions, Experiences in Europe, South and East Asia.

    Fukuda, Miho 福田美穗 (author), Anton Schweizer (translator)

    2016.5

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Professional Memberships

  • Japan Art History Forum JAHF

  • Association for Asian Studies AAS

  • College Art Association CAA

  • Japanese art history association

  • European Association for Japanese Studies EAJS

  • European Association for Asian Art and Archaeology EAAA

  • Japanese Art Society of America JASA

  • Japanese German Association of West Japan

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Academic Activities

  • Co-organizer, presenter

    ( Kyushu University Japan ) 2023.5

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    Number of participants:450

  • Journal of Asian Humanities at Kyushu University JAHQ International contribution

    2023.4 - 2024.3

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  • Journal of Asian Humanities at Kyushu University JAHQ International contribution

    2022.4 - 2023.3

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  • Co-organizer, co-host, session and panel moderator International contribution

    Transcultural Exchanges: Mapping Movement of Art, Ideas, and People in Japan and beyond  ( Kyushu University Japan ) 2022.2

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    Number of participants:70

  • Organizer and host

    Roundtable Discussion "Career Paths for University Graduates"  ( Online Japan ) 2021.5

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    Number of participants:20

  • Co-organizer International contribution

    Five-day Online Symposium "Beyond the Southern Barbarians: Repositioning Japan in the First Global Age", Kyushu University & Yale University.  ( Online Japan ) 2021.2

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    Type:Competition, symposium, etc. 

    Number of participants:800

  • Co-organizer International contribution

    Symposium "The Many Shapes of Meaning: Object and Performance in Asia"  ( Kyushu University, Fukuoka Japan ) 2019.12

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    Number of participants:100

  • Organizer International contribution

    Workshop "Substance and Symbol in Japanese Architecture"  ( Kyushu University Japan ) 2019.11

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    Number of participants:30

  • Panel chair, “Materials, Makers, and Commissions: Moving Objects between Asia, Europe, and the Americas during the Early Modern Globalization” International contribution

    College Art Association (アメリカ美術史学会)  2018.2

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    Type:Competition, symposium, etc. 

    Number of participants:2,500

  • Journal of Asian Humanities at Kyushu University JAHQ International contribution

    2018.2 - 2019.4

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  • Discussant for the panel “Ruling Momoyama Arts: Implications of Authority in Visualized Forms of Cultural Exchange.” International contribution

    2017.8 - 2018.5

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    Number of participants:2,000

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Research Projects

  • This project brings together the next generation of art historians from the “East Asian Mediterranean”—centering around Kyushu, Okinawa, Taiwan, and South Korea. The project members will jointly explore exchanges of people, ideas, and artifacts in this geographical region during two historical periods, the First (1500–1850) and Second (1850–1945) Global Ages, respectively. We will revisit a history of continuous interaction, exchange, and transculturation in the fields of visual and material culture.

    Grant number:Shared Coasts, Divided Historiographies: Mobilizing People, Ideas, and Artifacts in the East Asian Mediterranean  2023 - 2025

    科学研究費助成事業  Getty Connecting Art Histories

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  • Shared Coasts, Divided Historiographies Mobilizing People, Ideas, and Artifacts in the East Asian Mediterranean International coauthorship

    2022.10 - 2025.8

    Getty Foundation 

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    This project aims at bringing together the next generation of art historians from the “East Asian Mediterranean”—here conceived as a geographic, historical, and cultural space of connections centering around the regions of Kyushu, Okinawa, Taiwan, and South Korea. We will explore exchanges of people, ideas, and artifacts in this geographical region during two historical periods, the First (1500–1850) and Second (1850–1945) Global Ages, respectively. We will revisit a history of continuous interaction, exchange, and transculturation in the fields of art, historiography, visual and material culture.
    The project will bring together about 15 junior academics, primarily affiliated with an institution in or researching a topic related to East Asia, for a period of two-years, beginning in the fall of 2023. We will hold a series of lectures and reading workshops, embark on two travel seminars in the region of the “East Asian Mediterranean,” and build a digital mapping platform.

  • Transcultural Exchanges: Mapping Movement of Art, Ideas, and People in Asia International coauthorship

    2022.2

    Japan, Taiwan, Korea, Germany, China, USA 

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  • Implementation of digital humanities structures, hardware, and database applications for research and teaching

    2022 - 2024

    Funding for developing Digital Humanities

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  • Beyond the Southern Barbarians: Repositioning Japan in the First Global Age

    2020 - 2021

    Program for Creating University Ventures (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology)

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  • Beyond the Southern Barbarians: Repositioning Japan in the First Global Age International coauthorship

    2019.9 - 2022.3

    Yale University, Council on East Asian Studies; Kyushu University Faculty of Humanities; Kyushu University Asia Oceania Cluster 

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  • Competitive grant issued by Kyushu University for preparing and conducting a major international symposium “Beyond the Southern Barbarians: Relocating Japan in the First Global Age.”

    2019 - 2021

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  • Travel grant for participation in the Annual Conference of the College Art Association (New York, USA).

    2019

    Kyushu University Research Activity Support Program.

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  • 1550~1650年の日本における外来要素 International coauthorship

    2018.8 - 2020.3

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    The core question to the proposed project is: How did Japan’s encounter with foreign materials and manufacturing technologies during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries change the way art and architecture were made and appreciated? This research and workshop collaboration with top scholars in the fields of art history and material culture will secure a strong basis for a larger, international research venture that investigates in ground-breaking ways through international workshops and future publications Japan’s changing array of imported and domestic visual, creative, and artistic materials (“material culture”) during the so-called “First Global Age.” Three case studies—castle walls; feathers on military attire; painted depictions of “Japanese as foreigners”—provide a unique foundation for an open-access worldwide web-based “QMC” databank, the first of its kind.

  • The Azuchi Castle Screens Research Project International coauthorship

    2018.6 - 2022.5

    Sugimoto Studio 

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  • The Many Shapes of Meaning: Object and Performance in Asia Across Time International coauthorship

    2018.5 - 2020.5

    Research Hub for the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Interdisciplinary Studies, Kyushu University (RINK) 

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    This interdisciplinary research-hub project explores the circulation of material objects and performance cultures throughout Asia. Material objects and structures will include buildings, statues, paintings, and crafts; performance cultures will include theatrical genres, musical styles, and embodied practices in a variety of spatial and temporal contexts. We will bring together top researchers from around the world with different academic backgrounds, including art historians, literary scholars, musicologists, performance studies scholars, ritual practitioners, and historians. As an English-language graduate program comprised of five non-Japanese but Japanese-fluent faculty members researching in Japan fields, we IMAP and IDOC faculty (International MA Program in Japanese Humanities, International Doctorate in Japanese Humanities) will strive to pair our knowledge with that of Japanese and non-Japanese colleagues within Kyudai and globally. The project will encourage a holistic rethinking of Asian humanities, resulting in the formulation of new research trajectories and related publications that move beyond national and disciplinary borders. It will introduce Japanese and non-Japanese Kyudai faculty to a global audience.
    In the first year we will build a research network through the following endeavors:
    • Host two international pre-conferences at two venues, National University of Singapore and Kyudai. Top researchers from Japan, Korea, China, Singapore, Europe, and the US will be invited to present papers. A balance of emerging younger voices in each field and established senior scholars will be achieved.
    • Collect and edit the most suitable papers from the two pre-conferences to be published in a special issue of The Journal of Asian Humanities at Kyushu University (JAH-Q), a peer-reviewed (査読) English-language international journal of the Faculty of Humanities.
    In the second year we will hold a major international symposium in September 2019. As with the pre-conferences, several papers will be published in JAH-Q. Additionally, we will collect a group of thematically coherent papers for an essays volume to be published by an international publisher.

  • 1550~1650年の日本における外来要素

    2018 - 2020

    科学研究費補助金 (文部科学省)

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  • The Many Shapes of Meaning: Object and Performance in Asia Across Time

    2018 - 2020

    Program for Creating University Ventures (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology)

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Educational Activities

  • Undergraduate and graduate teaching, supervising. All courses offered are taught in English. The courses focus on art and architectural history, material, and visual cultures in Japan. The principal period is late Medieval to Early Modern (Muromachi to late Edo) with occasional examples from the prehistorical through contemporary periods. Select seminar titles: "Drama, Sex, and Poetry: Ukiyoe," "Architecture and Urbanism in Japan," "Samurai as Patrons of Art," "Making Sense: Iconography, Facture, and Materiality in the Arts of Japan."

Class subject

  • Introduction to Japanese Studies

    2023.10 - 2024.3   Second semester

  • Japan: A survey of Art and Visual Culture

    2023.10 - 2024.3   Second semester

  • Reading Group

    2023.10 - 2024.3   Second semester

  • Japanese Humanities in Situ

    2023.4 - 2024.3   Full year

  • Master Thesis Guidance

    2023.4 - 2024.3   Full year

  • Research and Professional Development

    2023.4 - 2023.9   First semester

  • Research and Professional Development

    2023.4 - 2023.9   First semester

  • Architecture and Spatial Experience in Premodern Japan

    2023.4 - 2023.9   First semester

  • Japanese Humanities in Situ

    2023.4 - 2023.9   First semester

  • Reading Group

    2023.4 - 2023.9   First semester

  • Architectural space

    2023.4 - 2023.9   First semester

  • Research and Professional Development

    2022.10 - 2023.3   Second semester

  • Reading Group in Art Theory

    2022.10 - 2023.3   Second semester

  • Making sense

    2022.10 - 2023.3   Second semester

  • Edo Period Art—Visual and Material Cultures of Japan’s Early Modernity

    2022.10 - 2023.3   Second semester

  • Research Readings and Methods

    2022.4 - 2022.9   First semester

  • Japanese Humanities in Situ

    2022.4 - 2022.9   First semester

  • Drama, Sex, and Poetry: Japanese Woodblock Prints

    2022.4 - 2022.9   First semester

  • Theory and Method in Art History

    2021.10 - 2022.3   Second semester

  • Thesis Guidance

    2021.10 - 2022.3   Second semester

  • Thesis Guidance

    2021.10 - 2022.3   Second semester

  • Art Production during the Momoyama Period

    2021.10 - 2022.3   Second semester

  • Survey Japanese Art and Visual Cultures

    2021.10 - 2022.3   Second semester

  • Research Readings and Methods

    2021.10 - 2022.3   Second semester

  • Day excursions to Dazaifu, Taku

    2021.4 - 2022.3   Full year

  • Japanese Humanities in Situ

    2021.4 - 2021.9   First semester

  • Thesis Guidance

    2021.4 - 2021.9   First semester

  • Introduction to Japanese Studies (JICA)

    2021.4 - 2021.9   First semester

  • Object, Place, and Space

    2021.4 - 2021.9   First semester

  • Reading Group in art theory

    2021.4 - 2021.9   First semester

  • Thesis Guidance

    2021.4 - 2021.9   First semester

  • Research and Professional Development

    2021.4 - 2021.9   First semester

  • Day excursions to Dazaifu, Fukuoka

    2021.4 - 2021.9   First semester

  • Japanese Humanities in Situ

    2021.4 - 2021.9   First semester

  • Individual Studies with graduating students

    2021.4 - 2021.9   First semester

  • Making Sense: Iconography, Facture, and Context in Japanese Art

    2021.4 - 2021.9   First semester

  • International Humanities V (Art and Visual Culture I)

    2021.4 - 2021.9   First semester

  • Reading Group for Art Majors

    2020.10 - 2021.3   Second semester

  • Introduction to International Humanities VI

    2020.10 - 2021.3   Second semester

  • Artistic Production during the Momoyama Period

    2020.10 - 2021.3   Second semester

  • International Humanities VI (Art and Visual Culture II)

    2020.10 - 2021.3   Second semester

  • Master Thesis Guidance

    2020.10 - 2021.3   Second semester

  • Day excursions to Dazaifu, Fukuoka, Saga, Nagasaki

    2020.4 - 2021.3   Full year

  • Reading Group for Art Majors

    2020.4 - 2020.9   First semester

  • Introduction to Japanese Studies (JICA)

    2020.4 - 2020.9   First semester

  • Thesis Guidance

    2020.4 - 2020.9   First semester

  • Reading Group in art theory

    2020.4 - 2020.9   First semester

  • Introduction to International Humanities V

    2020.4 - 2020.9   First semester

  • Making Sense in Japanese Art

    2020.4 - 2020.9   First semester

  • Master Thesis Guidance

    2020.4 - 2020.9   First semester

  • Japanese Humanities in Situ

    2019.10 - 2020.3   Second semester

  • Architecture and Urbanism

    2019.10 - 2020.3   Second semester

  • Art Survey

    2019.10 - 2020.3   Second semester

  • Research Readings and Methods

    2019.10 - 2020.3   Second semester

  • Japan: A survey of Art and Visual Culture

    2019.10 - 2020.3   Second semester

  • Power Art and Urbanism in Japan

    2019.10 - 2020.3   Second semester

  • JICA: Introduction to Japanese Studies (co-taught)

    2019.10 - 2020.3   Second semester

  • Day excursions to Dazaifu, Fukuoka, Karatsu, Oita, Yamaguchi

    2019.4 - 2020.3   Full year

  • Reading Group for Art Majors

    2019.4 - 2019.9   First semester

  • Research, Readings, Methods

    2019.4 - 2019.9   First semester

  • Samurai as Patrons of Art

    2019.4 - 2019.9   First semester

  • Research Readings and Methods

    2019.4 - 2019.9   First semester

  • Topics in Japanese Art and Architecture III

    2019.4 - 2019.9   First semester

  • Undergraduate Lecture Edo-Period Material Culture

    2018.10 - 2019.3   Second semester

  • Thesis Guidance

    2018.10 - 2019.3   Second semester

  • Drama, Sex, and Poetry: Ukiyo-e

    2018.10 - 2019.3   Second semester

  • Day excursions to Dazaifu, Fukuoka, Onta

    2018.4 - 2019.3   Full year

  • Topics in Japanese art and architectural history

    2018.4 - 2018.9   First semester

  • Fieldwork Week (Kumano)

    2018.4 - 2018.9   First semester

  • Reading Group in art theory

    2018.4 - 2018.9   First semester

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FD Participation

  • 2024.3   Role:Moderator   Title:2023年度からの新開講 人文学・人文学セミナー・アカデミックプレゼンテーション・データサイエンス基礎に関するFD

    Organizer:[Undergraduate school/graduate school/graduate faculty]

  • 2023.6   Role:Planning   Title:Reviewing the student questionnaires 2022 and 2023 (first term)

    Organizer:[Undergraduate school/graduate school/graduate faculty]

  • 2022.3   Role:Speech   Title:人文院FD「令和4年度Xプログラムの報告と今後の展望」

    Organizer:[Undergraduate school/graduate school/graduate faculty]

  • 2021.5   Role:Participation   Title:4回Q-AOS Brown Bag Seminar Series

    Organizer:University-wide

  • 2021.3   Role:Speech   Title:オンラインシンポジウ : 学術的国際化のツール

    Organizer:[Undergraduate school/graduate school/graduate faculty]

  • 2020.12   Role:Participation   Title:Create a Future Vision for Kyushu University

    Organizer:[Undergraduate school/graduate school/graduate faculty]

  • 2018.5   Role:Speech   Title:Inaugural lecture: 京都からドイツまで:元禄押絵雛の再発見

    Organizer:[Undergraduate school/graduate school/graduate faculty]

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Other educational activity and Special note

  • 2022  Coaching of Students' Association 

  • 2018  Coaching of Students' Association 

Outline of Social Contribution and International Cooperation activities

  • Involvement in community politics and promotion of academic activities.
    Advertising for Kyushu University and the IMAP program as well as joint research at universities in the US (NYU, Columbia, Yale, UCLA), Germany (Heidelberg, Berlin, Munich), Austria (Vienna, Salzburg), UK (Glasgow, Edinburgh, London), Australia (Melbourne).

Activities contributing to policy formation, academic promotion, etc.

  • 2016.8 - 2017.6  

    Two class visits in the Scholar’s Program of Holy Cross High School, New Orleans, academic year 2016-2017

Travel Abroad

  • 2022.10

    Staying countory name 1:Germany   Staying institution name 1:Munich Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and Museum Fünf Kontinente

  • 2022.3

    Staying countory name 1:United States   Staying institution name 1:New York University, New York City

    Staying institution name 2:Columbia University, New York City

    Staying institution name 3:Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

  • 2019.10

    Staying countory name 1:Germany   Staying institution name 1:Heidelberg University

  • 2019.2 - 2019.6

    Staying countory name 1:United States   Staying institution name 1:Columbia University, Institute for Medieval Japanese Studies

    Staying institution name 2:New York University, Institute of Fine Arts

  • 2018.7

    Staying countory name 1:United Kingdom   Staying institution name 1:Sainsbury Institute for Japanese Art and Culture

    Staying countory name 2:Germany   Staying institution name 2:University of East Anglia

    Staying institution name 3:Freie Universitaet Berlin