MASUYA Tomoko is Professor of Islamic Art History. Her research covers Islamic art in various media ranging from architecture to painting and ceramics produced in the vast area from Islamic Spain to Central Asia. She received her B.A. from the University of Tokyo in 1986; her M.A.s from New York University in 1989 and from the University of Tokyo in 1990 and her Ph.D. from New York University in 1997. Before being appointed to her current position in 1999, she was Research Fellow at the National Museum of Ethnology.
Her major works include "Persian Tiles on European Walls – Collecting lkhanid Tiles in Nineteenth-Century Europe," Ars Orientalis, XXX (2000): 39-54, chapters on "Spain and Maghrib" and "The Safavids and the Qajars" and catalogue entries in Islamic Art , New History of World Art: Oriental Art , vol.17 ed. Toh Sugimura, (Tokyo: Shogakukan, 1999, 73-84, 221-232, 362-371, 391-394, 403-410, 418, 424-425, 428-431, 437-438), "The Ilkhanid Phase of Takht-i Sulaiman," Ph.D. dissertation (New York University, Graduate School of Arts and Science, Institute of Fine Arts, 1997, lii + 789 pp.), "The Condition of The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Small Shahnama and the Reconstruction of Its Text," in Illustrated Poetry and Epic Images: Persian Painting of the 1330s and 1340s , by Marie Lukens Swietochowski and Stefano Carboni (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1994), 129-145; and, with Stefano Carboni, Persian Tiles (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1993, 46 pp.).