OGAWA
Hiromitsu has been a Professor in the Department of East
Asian Art since 1992. Educated at the College of Liberal
Arts (B.A., 1973) and the Department of Art History (M.A.,
1977), the University of Tokyo, he became a Research Associate
at the Institute in 1979. After working as Associate Professor
at the Faculty of Arts and Letters, Tohoku University for
five years, he rejoined the Institute in 1987.His principal
field of research is the History of East Asian Art with
emphasis on Chinese painting from antiquity to the middle
ages. It is also an essential part of his work to maintain
and expand the archive which has about two hundred thousand
pieces of photographic documentation of Chinese paintings
kept in the Department. Having completed the second worldwide
research with his team and arranging the supplementary
photographic documents, he is now beginning to prepare
for a third intensive research on Chinese paintings throughout
the world.
His major publications include, Comprehensive
Illustrated Catalogue of Chinese Paintings: Second Series ,
4 vols. Tokyo: The University of Tokyo Press, 1998-2001.
Vol.1, 368 (pls.): Vol.2, 445 (pls.): Vol.3, 371 (pls.):
Vol.4, 633 (pls.), "The Continuity of Spatial Composition
in Sung and Yuan Landscape Painting," in M.K. Hearn & J.G.
Smith ed., Arts of the Sung and Yuan , pp. 339-366.
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1996, "On the
Diptych of ‘Cranes’ by Wen Cheng of Shokoku-ji Temple",
Parts 1-3. Kokka , no.1166: 5-17; no.1181: 3-8;
no.1182: 22-32, 1993-94, "The Sliding-door Paintings
in the Hojo of Daisen-in", Parts 1-3. Kokka , no.1120:
13-30; no.1121: 33-49; no.1122: 9-19, 1989, and "The
Famous Screen and Wall Paintings in the Northern Sung
Han-lin Academy", in Commemorative Essays on the History
of Chinese Painting for the Sixtieth Birthday of Prof . Kei
Suzuki , pp.23-85. Tokyo: Yoshikawa-kobunkan, 1981.
The Memoirs of Institute of Oriental Culture
and The Monograph Series of the Institute of Oriental Culture
are abbreviated in this section as MIOC and MSIOC.