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Ph. D. in Art Theory (Doshisha University)
Professor in the Department of Aesthetic and Art Theory in the Faculty of Letters, Doshisha University.
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Teaching Interests: History and Theory of Art, Photography, and Visual/Material Culture
Research Interest: Topography and Landscape in Modern Japan (Edo Doro-e, Yokohama Photographs, Pictorialist Photographs, etc.), Popular and Vernarcular Object-Images (Tourist Imagery, Mourning Photograhy, Railroad Photography, etc.)

Employment

• 4/2020 to present, Doshisha University, Professor in the Department of Aesthetic and Art Theory in the Faculty of Letters.
• 4/2020 to present, Kyoto Seika University, Professor Emeritus.
  
• 4/2008 to 3/2020, Kyoto Seika University,  Directer of the  Graduate School of Design.
• 4/2013 to 3/2020, Kyoto Seika University, Professor of Art History/Visual Culture in the Faculty of Design. Full time.
• 4/2012 to 3/2016 Kyoto Seika University, Dean of the Faculty of Design.
• 4/2011 to 3/2012, Kyoto Seika University, Director of Academic Affairs.
• 4/2008 to 3/2013, Kyoto Seika University, Associate Professor of Art History/Visual Culture s in the Faculty of Design. Full time.
• 4/2006 to 3/2008, Kyoto Seika University, Lecturer of Art History/Visual Culture in the Faculty of Design. Full time.
• 4/2004 to 3/2006, Kyoto Seika University, Lecturer of Art History/Visual Culture in the Faculty of Fine Art. Full time.
  

Education

• 7/2005, Doshisha University, Ph.D. in Art Theory
• Dissertation: "Topografii no Shikaku Bunka-ron: 19 Seiki Kōki kara 20 Seiki Shotō no Nihon ni okeru Keikan Hyōshō no Shosō (Topography and Visual Culture: Landscape Representations in the Late Nineteenth Century to Early Twentieth Century Japan) [In Japanese]." Committee Members: KISHI Fumikazu (adviser), OTA Takahiko, KATSU Kunioki.
• 4/1997 to 3/2003, Doshisha University, Ph.D. Candidate, Aesthetics and Art Theory.
• 5/1995 to 5/1996, Columbia University, M.A. in Liberal Studies: East Asian Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
• Master's Essay: "Edo Doro-e: Gaze on Urban Space in Early Modern Japan [In English]." Adviser: Henry D. Smith II.
• 5/1992 to 10/1994, Columbia University, B.A. in Art History, School of General Studies
• 4/1986 to 3/1992, Waseda University, School of Political Science and Economics
  

Awards

• 2012, 62nd Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology's Art Encouragement Prize for New Artists (in Criticism)
• 2001, 7th Koen Shigemori Award for Photography Criticism 

Books

• 2011, Topografi no Nihon Kindai: Edo Doro-e, Yokohama Shashin, Geijutsu Shashin (Topography and Japanese Modernity: Edo Doro-e, Yokohama Photography and Art Photography), Tokyo: Seikyu-sha [In Japanese].

Selected Essays and Articles  [In English Only; see Japanese CV for Essays in Japanese]

• 2017, "Invisible Systems," 20th Japan Media Arts Festival: Award-winning Works, Tokyo: Japan Media Arts Festival Executive Committee, 288-289
  
• 2016, "Vorwort/Preface," Andreas Lutz, Christoph Grünberger, Wutbürger, Berlin: DISTANZ Verlag, page unnumbered.
  
• 2016, "The Imaginative Power of Old Media," 19th Japan Media Arts Festival: Award-winning Works, Tokyo: Japan Media Arts Festival Executive Committee, 289-290
  
• 2015, "Railfan and Photographic Collection: A Way to Possess the World," Krystyna Wilkoszewska, ed., Aesthetics in Action. International Yearbook of Aesthetics. Volume 18 (2014), 424-432.
  
• 2015, "The Picture-Language of Industrial Capitalism: Allan Sekula and the Photographic Archive," trans. Christopher Stephens, Parasophia: Kyoto International Festival of Contemporary Culture 2015 [Official Catalogue], Kyoto: Kyoto International Festival of Contemporary Culture Organizing Committee, 162-164
  
• 2015, "Being Critically Conscious of Media," trans. William Andrews and Jaime Humphreys, 18th Japan Media Arts Festival: Award-winning Works, Tokyo: Japan Media Arts Festival Executive Committee, 284-285.
  
• 2014, "Consorting With Nostalgia," trans. Christopher Stephens, YOKOO by KISHIN, Tokyo; Geijutsu Shinbunsha, 2014, 18-20.
• 2009, "Photography, Handwriting and Memory in the Obituary of Natsume Soseki," Impressions: The Journal of Japanese Art Society of America, No. 30 (The Japanese Art Society of America) 73-80.
  
• 2005, "Representing 'Old Japan': Yokohama Shashin and the Visual Culture of the Late 19th Century," trans. Lori Hitchcock Morimoto, Iconics: International Studies of the Modern Image, vol. 8 (The Japan Society of Image Arts and Sciences) 37-54.
• 2004, "Tourist Gaze and the Picturesque in Early Yokohama Photographs," Aesthetics, No. 11 (The Japanese Society of Aesthetics) 185-191.
• 2002, "The City and Its Representation: Edo Doro-e as Visual Culture," Aesthetics, No.10 (The Japanese Society for Aesthetics)  75-86.

Selected Translations [To Japanese]

• 2010, Geoffrey Batchen, Burning with Desire: The Conception of Photography, Cambridge, Mass., The MIT Press, 1997. [with MAEKAWA Osamu and IWAKI Akihisa]
• 2001, Gilles Mora, Photo Speak: A Guide to the Ideas, Movements, and Techniques of Photography, 1839 to the Present, New York : Abbeville Press Publishers, 1998. [with MAEKAWA Osamu, AOYAMA Masaru and KOBAYASHI Mika]
• 2001, John A. Walker and Sarah Chaplin, Visual Culture: An Introduction, Manchester: Manchester U. P., 1997. [with KISHI Fumikazu, INOMO Nobuyuki, MAEKAWA Osamu, AOYAMA Masaru]

Selected Lectures, Symposia, Conferences [In English Only; see Japanese CV for presentations in Japanese]

• 9/2019. "Trace, Reproduction and Manipulation: Memorial Photography in Modern Japan." (Session: Encountering the Spiritual in Modern Japanese Art and Visual Culture), Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies 2019: El Colegio de México, Mexico City, Mexico.
  
• 7/2019, "Photogenicity in the Age of Digital Networking Visual Culture in Contemporary Japan." (Roundtable: Pop-Culture Studies in Japan and beyond), 20th International Congress of Aesthetics: University of Belgrade, Balgrade, Serbia.
  
• 6/2017, "Street Observation Movements in Japanese Popular Culture: Strolling, Observing, Collecting and Categorizing, " (Roundtable: Semiotics of Pop Culture in the 21st Century Japan), 13th World Congress of Semiotics: Kaunas University of Technology, Kaunas, Lithuania.
  
• 7/2016, "Popular Culture in the Modern History of Japan: Popular Entertainment and Kitch" (Roundtable: Pop-culture Studies from the viewpoint of Aesthetics), 20th International Congress of Aesthetics: Seoul National University, Korea.
• 7/2015. "The Mission to Visualise: Yokohama Photographs and Archiving Practices"  (PANEL 2: Perspectives on Media: Place and Identities）,  Shifting Perspectives on Media and Materials in Early Modern Japan: SOAS, University of London, London, U.K.
  
• 9/2014, "Self in Purikura: Photography and Japanese Popular Culture,”(Roundtable: Semiotics of Pop-culture -- Focusing on the Analysis and Effects of the Japan Pop), 12th World Congress of Semiotics: New Bulgarian University: Sofia, Bulgaria.
• 1/2014, "Introduction and Vernacularization of Photography in the Nineteenth Century Japan" and "Tourism, Photography and Expositions: Yokohama Shashin and the Visual Culture of the Late 19th Century," 2-Day Seminar -Japanese Photography from the Meiji Period: National Museum of Denmark and The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts: Copenhagen, Denmark.
• 7/2013, "Railfans and Photography: A Way to Possess the World" (Panel Session: Aesthetic Accounts on Japanese Pop-culture), 19th Jubilee International Congress of Aesthetics: Jagiellonian University、Kraków, Poland.
• 6/2013, Chair and Discussant in "Post-Medium Condition of Moving Image 2: Mediums," The 8th Annual Meeting, The Association for Studies of Culture and Representation: Kansai University, Osaka, Japan.
• 3/2013, Discussant in "the Critical Potential of Hybrid Cultures," Third International Convention on Manga, Animation, Game and Media Art (ICOMAG 2013): National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Tokyo, Japan.
• 7/2012, 'Object of Trade, Object of Desire: Yokohama Photography and the Imagined Japan in the Visual and Material Culture in the Late Nineteenth Century," (Session :The Art of Trading Art: Negotiating the Economic Value of European Art in Asia and the Americas, 1600-1900), The XVIth World Economic History Congress: Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
• 3/2012, Moderator in "Anime, Animation and Contemporary Culture" and Panelist in "Visualizing Imagination," Second International Convention on Manga, Animation, Game and Media Art (ICOMAG 2012): National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Tokyo, Japan.
• 11/2011, "Vernacular Photographs as Global/Local Objects," Teaching and Research of Art History in a Global World (Panel 2: Local and Global): Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil.
• 6/2011, Discussant in "Reproduction and Appropriation in the Japanese Arts," The 15th Asian Studies Conference Japan (ASCJ 2011）: International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan
• 2/2011, Moderator in "What issues are inherrent in Media Geijutsu?," International Convention on Manga, Animation, Game and Media Art (ICOMAG 2011): Tokyo Midtown Hall, Tokyo, Japan.
  
• 7/2007, "Yokohama Shashin and Representation of Japan in the Late Nineteenth Century Visual Culture" (Panel 5: Redrawing Other's Space: Landscapes, Geographies, and the Formation of Identities in the Japanese Empire), The Assocciation of Representation and Culture Annual Meeting: The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
  
• 5/2007, "Death of an Author: Photography, Handwriting and Memory in Natsume Sôseki's Obituary," Obijects and Images: Exploring Visual and Material Culture in Japan --A Symposium Honoring the Work of Henry Smith: Columbia University, New York, U.S.A.
  
• 6/2005, "Tourism, Photography and the Picturesque: Yokohama Photographs in Late Nineteenth Century Visual Culture," International Seminer: Le pittoresque aux limites du moderne/ The Picturesque on the limits of Modernity: Ecole d'Architecture Paris La-Villette, Paris, France.
• 7/2004, "Ways of Mourning: Photography and Memory"   XVI International Congress of Aesthetics: Brazil Federal University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• 5/2001, "Tourist Gaze and the Picturesque in Yokohama Photographs" XV International Congress of Aesthetics: Kanda University of International Studies, Makuhari, Japan.
• 3/2000, "Doro-e and Edo Urban Composition"（Session 148: Interiority and Exteriority in Japanese Landscape Painting）, The Association of Asian Studies Annual Meeting: Town and Country Convention Center, San Diego, U.S.A.
• 3/1998, "Doro-e in Edo Visual Culture: Urban-View Images as Media of Communication," The 6th JAWS Conference: Princeton University, New Jersey, U.S.A.

Teaching

• 2020 to Present.  Kyoto Seika University. Part-time Lecturer
• Faculty of Design. "Design Teory,"
• Graduate School of Design. "Design Theory for Graduate Students," "Design Theory Seminer"
  
• 2018 to Present. Okinawa Prefectural University. Part-time Lecturer
• Facuty of Arts and Crafts: "Art Theory"
• 2018 to 2019. Kobe University. Part-time Lecturer
• Faculty of Letters: "Art Theory"
  
• 2016 to 2017. Ritsumeikan University. Part-time Lecturer
• Faculty of Letters: "Representation and Media"
  
• 2015 to 2016. Kyushu University. Part-time Lecturer
• Faculty of Letters/Graduate School of Humanities: "Art and Culture"
  
• 2013 to 2020. Kyoto Seika University, Professor
• Liberal Arts Program: "Art Theory," "Theory of Photography," "Visual Culture."
  
• Faculty of Design: "Design Theory 1&3."
• Faculty of Fine Art: "Comparative Art Theory."
• Graduate School of Design: "Design Theory," "Design Studies Seminer."
  
• Graduate School of Fine Art:"Seminer for Doctoral Students."
• 2013 to 2014. Niigata University, Part-time Lecturer
  • Faculty of Humanities: "Conparative Expression."
• 2012 to 2013. Ritsumeikan University, Part-time Lecturer
  • Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences: "Applied Reading Seminer VIII."
• 2012 to 2013. University of Tokyo, Part-time Lecturer
  • Fuculty of Letters/Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology: "Aesthetics and Art Theory: Visual Culture and Modernity."
• 2011 to 2012. Osaka City University, Part-time Lecturer
  • Graduate School of Literature & Human Sciences: "Asian Culture and Urbanism II."
• 2009 to 2010. Konan University, Part-time Lecturer
• Faculty of Letters: "Image Theory."
• 2009 to 2010. Niigata University, Part-time Lecturer
• Faculty of Humanities: "Media Expressive Practice."
• 2006 to 2013, Kyoto Seika University, Associate Professor
• Faculty of Design: "Art Theory 1&2," "Theory of Photography," "Visual Culture1&2."
• Faculty of Fine Art: "Art Theory 1&2."
• Faculty of Humanities: "Art Theory."
• Graduate School of Design: "Design Theory," "Design Studies Seminer," "Project Planning Seminer." 
• Graduate School of Fine Art:"Seminer for Doctoral Students."
• 2006 to 2008, Kyoto Seika University, Lecturer
• Faculty of Art, Design and Manga: "Art Theory 1&2," "History of Photography," "Theory of Photography," "Visual Culture1&2."
• Faculty of Fine Art: "Art Theory 1&2," "Art Theory Seminer."
• Faculty of Humanities: "Introduction to Art Theory."
• Graduate School of Fine Art: "Contemporary Art," "Art History," "Art Theory Seminer," "Seminer for Doctorial Students."
• 2006, Kobe University, Part-time Lecturer
• Graduate School of Letters: "Reception of Art."
• 2006, Okinawa Prefectural University of Art, Part-time Lecturer
• Graduate School of Fine Art: "Aesthetics Seminar"
• 2004 to 2006, Kyoto Seika University, Lecturer
• Faculty of Art: "Intoroduction to Art Theory" "History of Photography," "Theory of Photography," "Japanese Art Histry for Foreign Students," "Art Theory Seminer," "Traditional Art and Craft of Kyoto."
• Graduate School of Fine Art: "Contemporary Art," "Art History."
• 2003 to 2020, Doshisha University, Part-time Lecturer
• Faculty of Letters, "Reading Seminer (English)"
• 2003 to 2005, Osaka Seikei University, Part-time Lecturer
• Faculty of Fine Art: "Introduction to Visual Culture."
• 2001 to 2004, Kindai University, Part-time Lecturer
• Faculty of Law/Faculty of Engineering: "Art Theory."
• Faculty of Fine Art: "History of Photography."
• 2001 to 2002, Tezukayama Gakuin University, Part-time Lecturer
• Faculty of Letters: "Japanese Art History."
• 2000 to 2009, Kyoto University of Art and Design, , Part-time Lecturer
• Faculty of Correspondence Education: "Visual Culture," "History of Modern Art."

Academic Affiliations

• The International Association for Aesthetics
• The Japanese Society of Aesthetics
  
• The Japan Society of Image Arts and Sciences
• The Society of Aesthetics and Art Theory
  
• The Society for Taisho Imagery Studies　（Board Member, Vice President)
  
• Japanese Association for Semiotic Studies　（Board Member, Editor in Chief)