Research Unit5 Islamic History and Culture

Some iconographical aspects of fantastic creatures in the Islamic Art

Paper readers:

HORIUCHI Masaru (Chukyo University)

"Camels"

KOBAYASHI Kazue (Waseda University)

"The iconographical studies on Karkaddan"

MASUYA Tomoko (National Museum of Ethnology)

"Feng-huang (phoenixes) in the Islamic Art"

MURANO Hiroshi (Tokai University)

"Studies on the demon figures: Some Oriental peculiarityties of demons in the Saray Album"

YAMANLAR MIZUNO Minako (To a University)

"Lung (Chinese dragons) in Seljuks and Il-Khanid Arts"

Discussant:

SUGIMURA Toh (Ryukoku University)

Chairperson:

YAMANLAR MIZUNO Minako

Date and Time:

Saturday, November 8, 1997; 14:00-18:00.

Location:

Bungakubu-Annex, Faculty of Letters, The University of Tokyo

Used Language: Japanese (No interpretation)

Map is on http://bun.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/IAS/Japanese/map-j.html

How to apply: Please contact Masayuki AKAHORI (Sophia University) by

e-mail.

5jimu@culture.ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp