Professor

Kyoto University

Nihonmatsu-cho, Yoshida
Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501

TEL: (075) 753-6624
FAX: (075) 753-6647
HOME: (075) 702-3693
EMAIL: amurakat@ip.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp

CAN BE INTERVIEWED FOR: Print, Radio, TV

INTERVIEW LANGUAGES: English, Japanese

SPECIALIZATIONS:

• ART, ART HISTORY, LITERATURE AND PERFORMING ARTS
  art; art history; literature; painting
• COMMUNICATION, INFORMATION AND MEDIA
  translation and interpretation
• HISTORY
  cultural history; early modern and modern history; history of US-Japan relations
• RELIGION
  philosophy and religion
• SOCIETY, CULTURE AND PSYCHOLOGY
  comparative and cross-cultural studies; cultural and social change; gender, sex roles, women; intercultural communications; Japanese Americans in US society

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Associate Professor, Kyoto University, 1978-1991; Chief, International Relations, Kyoto National Museum, 1973-78.

IN US: 1987-88 - visiting scholar; 1958-59, 1964-71 - study; repeated brief trips.

MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:

Fenollosa and his Circle I (Kyoto University Press, 2000; part II forthcoming); The Ernest F. Fenellosa Papers III. Literature (Museum Press, 1987); The Ernest F. Fenollosa Papers II. Lectures on Art (Museum Press, 1984); The Ernest F. Fenellosa Papers I. Art Education and Administration (Museum Press, 1982).