Professor

Nagoya College of Art and Design

6004 Nenjozaka Okusa
Komaki Aichi 485

TEL: (0568) 79-1111
FAX: (0568) 79-1070
HOME: (056) 932-3360

CAN BE INTERVIEWED FOR: Print, Radio, TV

INTERVIEW LANGUAGES: English (with interpreter) (for print only), Japanese

SPECIALIZATIONS:

• ART, ART HISTORY, LITERATURE AND PERFORMING ARTS
  art; arts exchange; ceramics; painting; sculpture; wood block prints
• HISTORY
  cultural history
• POLITICS, GOVERNMENT AND DEFENSE
  arts policy
• SOCIETY, CULTURE AND PSYCHOLOGY
  identity and concept of self; intercultural communications

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Assistant Professor, Professor, Nagoya Junior College of Art & Design, 1975-91.

IN US: 1976 - research; repeated brief trips.

MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:

Gazing at Hokusai's Constellation - Toward Polyphonic Vision (Bijutsu Shuppansha, 1990); Self Formed Through Physical Expressions (Bijutsu Shuppansha, 1987); Pivots of Japanese Art History - Viewed from the Standpoint of Contemporary Art Critique (Sugiyama Shoten, 1984); Vivid and Striking Fragments - Analysis of Japanese Traditional 'Man-made Things' for Our Contemporary Art (Sugiyama Shoten 1984).