ITAKURA Masaaki has been Associate Professor
at the Institute since 1999. The area of his research is
the history of East Asian painting, focusing primarily
on Chinese painting. He received his B.A. from the Faculty
of Letters of the University of Tokyo in 1988 and his M.A.
from the Department of Art History of the same university
in 1991. His interests include the comparison and investigation
of how visual images in the East Asian cultural sphere
were shared or differentiated, and the exploration of how
visual images were created, transmitted, and received.
In the study of individual paintings, he focuses especially
on works by artists of the Southern Song Imperial Painting
Academy.
Among his major publications are "The Historical
Significance of Qiao Zhongchang’s Handscroll Illustration
to the Second Prose Poem on the Red Cliff in the Collection
of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art", Kokka 1270
(August 2001): 9-22, "The Historical Position of Ma Yuan’s
Elegant Gathering in the Western Garden (The Nelson-Atkins
Museum of Art): Concerning the Pictorialization of This
Theme as Fiction", Studies in Art History 16 (December
1999): 49-78, Yuan Dynasty Painting , exhibition
catalogue (Nara: Museum Yamato Bunkakan, 1998, 173 pp.), Ming
Dynasty Painting , Palace Museum vol.4 (Tokyo: NHK,
1998, 91pp.), and "The Representation of Evening and Nighttime
Scenery in Tang and Song Dynasty Painting: Concerning Its
Relation to Media", Bijutsushi (Journal of the Japan
Art History Society) 134 (March 1993): 133-148.
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.