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Research Interests

• Japanese art, aesthetics, modernism, art of the 19th - 21st centuries, nihonga, yoga, bunjinga, sculpture, contemporary art

Education

• The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (Sokendai)., Department of Japanese Studies. School of Cultural and Social Studies., Ph.D., - 2018
• The University of Otago, Art History and Theory, M.A. (with Distinction), 2000 - 2001
• The University of Otago, Art History and Theory, B.A (Hons), 1996 - 1999

Association Memberships

• “Studies in ‘In-between-ness’ in Cross-Cultural Communication.” Nichibunken. Japan., Apr. 2016, Mar. 2020
• “How to readjust the orbit? Checking 20th Century Japanese Culture and Proposing a New Vision for the First Decade of the 21st Century.” Nichibunken. Japan., Apr. 2013, Mar. 2016

Books etc

• “Shohyō Yūjinia Bogudanova-kumā ‘Bokujinkai – Nihon shodō to sengo zenei geijutsu,’” pp.271-274
  吉川弘晃
  Nihon Kenkyū 70, Mar. 2025, Single work
• “Parareru modanizumu – Koga Harue to kindai Nihon no zen’ei geijutsu (Book review).” Nihon Kenkyū 67.
  Trans. “Nihon Kenkyū” henshū iinkai; Kataoka Mai.
  2023, Single work
• “Painting camellias, evoking the emergence of spring,” pp. 76-77.
  Matthew Larking
  Kyoto Journal v.104, 2023, Single work
• “Bokujinkai: Japanese Calligraphy and the Postwar Avant-Garde,” (Book review), pp. 193-195.
  Matthew Larking
  Japan Review: Journal of the International Research Center for Japanese Studies v.37, 2022, Single work, Review of Eugenia Bogdanova-Kummer. Bokujinkai: Japanese Calligraphy and the Postwar Avant-Garde (Japanese Visual Culture Series, Volume 19). Leiden and Boston: Brill (2020).
• “Parallel Modernism: Koga Harue and Avant-Garde Art in Modern Japan,” (Book review), pp. 175-177.
  Matthew Larking
  Japan Review: Journal of the International Research Center for Japanese Studies v.36, 2022, Single work, Review of Chinghsin Wu. Parallel Modernism: Koga Harue and Avant-Garde Art in Modern Japan. California: University of California Press (2019).
• “Modern Architecture in Kyoto.”
  Matthew Larking
  Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide: A Journal of Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture v.21:1 (online)., 2022, Single work
• Wallpaper City Guide Kyoto. Pp. 37, 64, 69.
  Matthew Larking
  Phaidon Press, London, 2020, Contributor
• “Death and the Prospects of Unification: Nihonga’s Postwar Rapprochements With Yōga,” pp.pp. 161-190.
  Matthew Larking
  Japan Review: Journal of the International Research Center for Japanese Studies v.34, 2019, Single work
• The Pan Real Art Association as an Early Postwar Avant-Garde of Nihonga (Ph.D dissertation).
  Matthew Larking
  The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (Sokendai). School of Cultural and Social Studies. Department of Japanese Studies. Japan., Mar. 2018, Single work
• “The Akita Ranga School and The Cultural Context in Edo Japan,” (Book review), pp. 216-217.
  Matthew Larking
  Japan Review: Journal of the International Research Center for Japanese Studies v.32, 2018, Single work, Review of Imahashi Riko. The Akita Ranga School and The Cultural Context in Edo Japan, trans. Ruth S. McCreery. Tokyo: International House of Japan (2016).
• “The Six Kannon and its multiple forms.” (book review). December 24 (2017), p. 18.
  Matthew Larking
  The Japan Times., Dec. 2017, Single work
• “Imitation and Creativity in Japanese Arts,” (Book review), pp. 597-599.
  Matthew Larking
  Pacific Affairs v.90:3, 2017, Single work, Review of Michael Lucken. Imitation and Creativity in Japanese Arts: From Kishida Ryusei to Miyazaki Hayao (Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture), trans. Francesca Simkin. New York: Columbia University Press (2016).
• “The Pan Real Art Association’s Revolt Against the ‘Beauties of Nature,’” pp. 319-334.
  Matthew Larking
  Lexignton Books, 2017, Single work, New Essays in Japanese Aesthetics, ed. Minh Nguyen.
• “Dali and Pre-War Japan.” In Salvador Dali, pp. 270-273.
  Matthew Larking
  The Yomiuri Shinbun, 2016, Single translation, Translator
• “Can nature solve mankind’s errors?” [meteor] Masato Kodama. Unpaged. In English and Japanese.
  Matthew Larking
  Masato Kodama, 2014, Single work
• “Nihonga Beside Itself: Contemporary Japanese Art’s Engagement with the Position and Meaning of a Modern Painting Tradition,” pp.24-37.
  Matthew Larking
  2013, Single work, Literature and Aesthetics v.23:2
• "Reorienting Painting," pp. 323-338.
  Matthew Larking
  Global Oriental, 2012, Single work, Rethinking Japanese Modernism, ed. Roy Starrs
• Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art. “Foreword”(p. 5) and exhibition section overviews: “Until the Advent of Impressionism” (p. 41); “Impressionism” (p. 73); “Impressionism on Paper” (p. 129); “From Post-Impressionism” (p. 171).
  Matthew Larking
  The Yomiuri Shimbun, Tokyo, 2011, Single translation
• “The original in modern craft tradition and contemporary oblivion.” July 12, (2010), online.
  Matthew Larking
  The Journal of Modern Craft (online)., Jul. 2010, Single work
• “Lacquer’s latency.”
  Matthew Larking
  The Journal of Modern Craft (online)., May 2010, Single work
• “The repetition of the commonplace.”
  Matthew Larking
  The Journal of Modern Craft (online)., May 2010, Single work
• “Decorative Works of Art in the Nezu Museum,” pp. 44-49.
  Matthew Larking
  Orientations, v.40:7, 2009, Single translation, Translator
• “Masterpieces of Religious Art in the Nezu Museum,” pp. 50-57.
  Matthew Larking
  Orientations, v.40:7, 2009, Single translation, Translator
• The Present Representing the Past: Nihonga in the Expanded Field, pp.49-57.
  Matthew Larking
  Orientations 40:1, 2009, Single work
• “War Grows Mundane: Two Views,” (Book review), pp. 86-87.
  Matthew Larking
  Kyoto Journal v.58, 2004, Single work, Reviews of Chris Steele-Perkins. Afghanistan: A Personal Homage. London: Westzone Publishing Ltd., 2001, and Kash Gabriele Torsello. Heart of Kashmir. United Kingdom: KashGT (2002).
• Titles and Their Entitlements (Master of Arts thesis).)
  Matthew Larking
  erUniversity of Otago. Department of Art History and Theory. New Zealand., 2001, Single work
• Cutting in on the Cut-outs (B.A. Honours (First Class) dissertation),
  Matthew Larking
  University of Otago. Department of Art History and Theory. New Zealand., 1999, Single work
• “Reticence Despite Ratification: McCahon’s Take on Tessai,” pp.44-59.
  Matthew Larking
  The Journal of New Zealand Art History, v.33, Single work

Presentations

• “Private Pleasure in Japanese Art.” (Discussant for the panel “Private Pleasure in Japanese Art”).
  Matthew Larking
  The Fourteenth Asian Studies Conference Japan (ASCJ). Waseda University, Japan., 19 Jun. 2010, 20 Jun. 2019, Oral presentation
• “The ‘Re-Japanization’ of Nihonga in the Postwar Era.” (Individual conference paper for the panel “Re-purposing the Past: Historicism in Contemporary Japanese Art”).
  Matthew Larking
  The 2016 Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference (AAS). Washington State Convention Center, America., 31 Mar. 2016, 03 Apr. 2016
• “The Landscape in Ruins, The Body in Diffusion: Recent Japanese Photography.” Doshisha University, Japan.
  20 Apr. 2015, Public discourse
• “The Pan Real Art Association’s Revolt Against the ‘Beauties of Nature.’” (Individual paper).
  Matthew Larking
  The 19th International Congress of the International Association of Aesthetics (IAA). Jagiellonian University, Poland., 21 Jul. 2013, 27 Jul. 2013, Oral presentation
• “The Pan Real Art Association as a Fledgling Postwar Avant-Garde of Nihonga.” The Kyoto Asian Studies Group (KASG). Doshisha University, Japan.
  26 Mar. 2013, Public discourse
• “Nihonga beside itself: contemporary Japanese art’s engagement with the position and meaning of a modern painting tradition.” (Individual paper for the panel “’Post-Bubble’ Contemporary Art in Japan: Toward an Art History of the 1990s and After”).
  The Sixteenth Asian Studies Conference Japan (ASCJ). Rikkyo University, Japan., 30 Jun. 2012, 01 Jul. 2012
• “Nihonga beside itself: contemporary Japanese art’s engagement with the position and meaning of a modern painting tradition.” (Individual conferenece paper for the panel “’Post-Bubble’ Contemporary Art in Japan: Toward an Art History of the 1990s and After”).
  Matthew Larking
  The Association for Asian Studies (AAS). Sheraton Centre, Canada., 15 Mar. 2012, 18 Mar. 2012, Oral presentation
• “Art History, Aesthetics, and Japanese Modernism: Reorienting Painting.” The Annual Presentation Meeting, Research Promotion Committee. Kyoto Notre Dame University, Japan.
  Matthew Larking
  12 Feb. 2011, Public discourse
• “Modern Japanese painting’s wrest: the rapprochement of Western-style Expressionism with Nanga.”
  Matthew Larking
  The 18th International Congress of the International Association of Aesthetics (IAA). Peking University, China., 09 Aug. 2010, 13 Aug. 2010, Oral presentation
• “Reorienting Painting.”
  Matthew Larking
  The Otago Conference on Japanese Modernism. University of Otago, New Zealand., 14 Aug. 2009, 16 Aug. 2009, Oral presentation
• “Nihonga in formation and in contemporary oblivion.” University of Canterbury, New Zealand.
  12 Aug. 2009, Public discourse
• “Julia Morison and her relation to New Zealand feminist art practices.” University of Otago, New Zealand.
  Matthew Larking
  08 Aug. 2000, Public discourse
• “Richard Killeen and aesthetic unity.” University of Otago, New Zealand.
  Matthew Larking
  24 Aug. 1999, Public discourse

Social Contribution

• Reader/Selection Committee. ICAS (International Convention of Asia Scholars) Book Prize. Japanese Edition (ICAS 書籍賞/IBP 2023日本語部門)., 2023, Others
• Art critic for The Japan Times, The Japan Times, The Japan Times, 2002-2020, Paper
• Art writer for CNN Style, CNN Style, 2017, Internet
• Art critic for Artscape Japan (Artscape International), Artscape Japan (Artscape International), 2006-2009, Internet

Others

• “Hiroshi Sugimoto: Spiritual recultivation in dark times.”
  2020/06, The Japan Times, June 18, 2020, p. 9. Review of “Hiroshi Sugimoto: Post Vitam.” Kyoto City Kyocera Museum of Art.
• “Consider the impossible – find the visionaries.”
  2020/04, Reprinted in Japan Up Close (https://japanupclose.web-japan.org/). The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan. April 1, 2020.
• “Bamboo crafts: Woven into Japan’s art history.”
  2020/04, Reprinted in Japan Up Close (https://japanupclose.web-japan.org/). The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan. April 1, 2020.
• “A sea change for Japanese sculptors.”
  2020/03, The Japan Times, March 9, 2020, p. 11. Review of “Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe 2020.” Cottesloe, Western Australia.
• “Postwar aesthetics: compelling if not confusing.”
  2020/02, The Japan Times, February 12, 2020, p. 10. Review of “Collection: Aesthetics of Contemporary Japan.” The National Museum of Art, Osaka.
• “Bamboo crafts: Woven into Japan’s art history.”
  2020/02, The Japan Times, February 26, 2020, p. 10. Review of “Japanese Bamboo Art From New York: The Abbey Collection, Gifts to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.” The Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka.
• “Art from the silver lining of life’s dark clouds.”
  2020/01, The Japan Times, January 2, 2020, p. 10. Review of “Ascending Art Annual Vol.3: Song of Life, Struggles of the Soul.” Wacoal Studyhall Kyoto.
• “Nino Caruso’s monumental contribution.”
  2020/01, The Japan Times, January 15, 2020, p. 10. Review of “Forms of Memory and Space: Nino Caruso – Giant of Contemporary Italian Ceramics.” The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto.
• “Consider the impossible – find the visionaries.”
  2020/01, The Japan Times, January 25, 2020, p. 10. Review of “Impossible Architecture: The Architects’ Dreams.” The National Museum of Art, Osaka.
• “Nakamura Hochu: The Osakan Rinpa pioneer.”
  2019/12, The Japan Times, December 4, 2019, p. 10. Review of “200th Anniversary Exhibition: Nakamura Hochu.” Hosomi Museum, Kyoto.
• “Maruyama Okyo’s legacy of drawing from life.”
  2019/11, The Japan Times, November 13, 2019, p. 10. Review of “Legendary Kyoto Painting from Maruyama Okyo to the Modern Era.” The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto.
• “Ryonosuke Shimomura: An eclectic ruler breaker.”
  2019/11, The Japan Times, November 27, 2019, p. 10. Review of “Shimomura Ryonosuke: In Praise of Play.” BB Plaza Museum of Art, Kobe.
• “Shaun Tan’s glimmers of hope in somber times.”
  2019/10, The Japan Times, October 2, 2019, p. 10. Review of “The World of Shaun Tan.” Museum “Eki” Kyoto.
• “The scrolls that keep immortal poets truly alive.”
  2019/10, The Japan Times, October 30, 2019, p. 10. Review of “Special Exhibition - The Thirty-Six Immortal Poets: Elegant Arts of the Classical Japanese Court.” Kyoto National Museum.
• “Fashion is game with a dress code to crack.”
  2019/09, The Japan Times, September 11, 2019, p. 10. Review of “Dress Code: Are You Playing Fashion.” The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto.
• “An enlightening buildup to Viennese modernism.”
  2019/09, The Japan Times, September 18, 2019, p. 10. Review of “Vienna on the Path to Modernism: The 150th Anniversary of the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations Between Japan and Austria.” The National Museum of Art, Osaka.
• “Genta Ishizuka: Beneath and on the surface.”
  2019/08, The Japan Times, August 14, 2019, p. 12. Review of “Genta Ishizuka: Polyphase Membrane.” Artcourt Gallery, Osaka.
• “Tokutaro Yamamura: Gatekeeper of art history.”
  2019/08, The Japan Times, August 28, 2019, p. 12. Review of “The Yamamura Collection: Gutai and the Japanese Avant-Garde 1950s-1980s.” Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art.
• “Yokoyama Kazan: The Edo Period influencer.”
  2019/07, The Japan Times, July 17, 2019, p. 12. Review of “Yokoyama Kazan: A Superb Imagination at Work.” The Museum of Kyoto.
• “Joan Miro and his ‘assassination’ of painting.”
  2019/07, The Japan Times, July 31, 2019, p. 12. Review of “Sculptures of Joan Miro from the Asahi Beer Collection.” Asahi Beer Oyamazaki Villa Museum of Art.
• “The Osakan artists who bucked the system.”
  2019/06, The Japan Times, June 12, 2019, p. 12. Review of “Gozonji Desu-ka: Osaka Gadan.” Shokado Garden Art Museum, Yawata City.
• “Cracking the glass ceiling of photography.”
  2019/06, The Japan Times, June 19, 2019, p. 12. Review of “Eiko Yamazawa: What I Am Doing.” Otani Memorial Art Museum, Nishinomiya City.
• “Kanjiro Kawai: Pots of incredible talent.”
  2019/05, The Japan Times, May 15, 2019, p. 12. Review of “Potter Kawai Kanjiro: Works from the Kawakatsu Collection.” The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto.
• “The rise, fall and resurrection of Kyosai.”
  2019/04, The Japan Times, April 17, 2019, p. 12. Review of “Kawanabe Kyosai.” Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art.
• “First, there was Matsumura Goshun.”
  2019/04, The Japan Times, April 24, 2019, p. 12. Review of “Road to Shijo School – Focus on Go Shun and Related Painters.” Otani Memorial Art Museum, Nishinomiya City.
• “Ways to never forget Christian Boltanski.”
  2019/03, The Japan Times, March 6, 2019, p. 12. Review of “Christian Boltanski: Lifetime.” The National Museum of Art, Osaka.
• “Japanese artisanship: As real as it can get.”
  2019/03, The Japan Times, March 27, 2019, p. 12. Review of “Amazing Craftsmanship: From Meiji Kogei to Contemporary Art.” Abeno Harukas Art Museum, Osaka.
• “Gentaro Komaki: a pioneer of surrealism.”
  2019/02, The Japan Times, February 7, 2019, p. 12. Review of “Komaki Gentaro.” The Museum of Kyoto.
• “The complicated perception of heroism.”
  2019/02, The Japan Times, February 27, 2019, p. 12. Review of “Heroes and People in Japanese Contemporary Art.” Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art.
• “The Year of the Boar finally gets its day.”
  2019/01, The Japan Times, January 16, 2019, p. 10. Review of “Boars Galore: Celebrating the Year of the Wild Boar.” Kyoto National Museum.
• “Left-field visions of Kyoto’s rising artists.”
  2019/01, The Japan Times, January 23, 2019, p. 10. Review of “Kyoto Art for Tomorrow 2019: Selected Artists in Kyoto.” The Museum of Kyoto.
• “Japan’s artistic rebels of the 1980s.”
  2018/11, The Japan Times, November 21, 2018, p. 10. Review of “New Wave: Japanese Contemporary Art of the 1980s.” The National Museum of Art, Osaka.
• “The art world’s oversight of Escher’s mathematical work doesn’t add up.”
  2018/11, The Japan Times, November 29, 2018, p.12. Review of “The Miracle of M.C. Escher: Prints from the Israel Museum, Jerusalem.” Abeno Harukas Art Museum, Osaka.
• “The cutting edge of Kyoto swordmaking.”
  2018/10, The Japan Times, October 17, 2018, p. 12. Review of “Swords of Kyoto: Master Craftsmanship from an Elegant Culture.” Kyoto National Museum.
• “Kichizaemon reads between Wols’ lines.”
  2018/10, The Japan Times, October 31, 2018, p. 12. Review of “Raku Kichizaemon X Wols.” Sagawa Art Museum, Moriyama.
• “The painterly prayers of Higashiyama.”
  2018/09, The Japan Times, September 12, 2018, p. 12. Review of “Higashiyama Kaii Retrospective 1908-1999.” The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto.
• “Keiichi Tanaami’s visually trippy past.”
  2018/09, The Japan Times, September 26, 2018, p. 12. Review of “Keiichi Tanaami Dialog.” Kyoto ddd gallery.
• “Tanaka Isson: Better late than never.”
  2018/08, The Japan Times, August 22, 2018, p. 12. Review of “Tanaka Isson: 110th Anniversary of his Birth.” Sagawa Art Museum, Moriyama.
• “An education in modernist art teaching.”
  2018/08, The Japan Times, August 29, 2018, p. 12. Review of “bauhaus imaginista: Corresponding With.” The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto.
• “Yokoyama Taikan: Driven by loyalty.”
  2018/06, The Japan Times, June 27, 2018, p. 12. Review of “The 150th Anniversary of his Birth: Yokoyama Taikan.” The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto.
• “The funny side of Edo period culture.”
  2018/05, The Japan Times, May 9, 2018, p. 12. Review of “Caricatures of the Edo Period: From Toba-Style Paintings to Hokusai, Kuniyoshi and Kyosai.” Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts.
• “Kasuga’s grand treasures hold history high.”
  2018/05, The Japan Times, May 30, 2018, p. 12. Review of “Commemorating 1,250 Years Since the Founding - Kasuga Taisha: Centuries of Worship Revealed in Sacred Treasures.” Nara National Museum.
• “When art met craft in Meiji Era Japan.”
  2018/04, The Japan Times, April 4, 2018, p. 12. Review of “The 150th Anniversary of the Meiji Period: Making and Designing Meiji Arts and Crafts.” The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto.
• “Kyotographie is still on the up and up.”
  2018/04, The Japan Times, April 11, 2018, p. 12. Preview of “Kyotographie 2018: ‘Up.’” Multiple venues, Kyoto.
• “Taiga: The ‘true view’ travel painter.”
  2018/04, The Japan Times, April 25, 2018, p. 12. Review of “Special Exhibition – The Genius of Ike no Taiga: Carefree Traveler, Legendary Painter.” Kyoto National Museum.
• “Turner: the landscaper of art genres.”
  2018/03, The Japan Times, March 14, 2018, p. 12. Review of “Turner: The and the Poetics of Landscape.” The Museum of Kyoto.
• “An excavation of Hu-man traits.”
  2018/02, The Japan Times, February 14, 2018, p. 10. Review of “Tang Dynasty Tomb Figures of the Hu People: Portraying the Multicultural Vigor on the Silk Road.” The Museum of Oriental Ceramics Osaka.
• “The multifaceted talents of Seiji Togo.”
  2018/02, The Japan Times, February 28, 2018, p. 10. Review of “The 120th Anniversary of the Birth of Seiji Togo: A Retrospective of Togo’s Depiction of Women.” Abeno Harukas Art Museum, Osaka.
• “The zero hour of Kobe’s avant-garde.”
  2018/01, The Japan Times, January 3, 2018, p. 12. Review of “Japan Kobe 0.” Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe.
• “Van Gogh’s long-distance love affair.”
  2018/01, The Japan Times, January 31, 2018, p. 12. Review of “Van Gogh and Japan.” The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto.
• “What makes a National Treasure.”
  2017/11, The Japan Times, November 1, 2017, p. 12. Review of “Kyoto National Museum 120th Commemorative Anniversary Special Exhibition – National Treasures: Masterpieces of Japan.” Kyoto National Museum.
• “Eblouissant: a center of attraction.”
  2017/11, The Japan Times, November 15, 2017, p. 12. Review of “Sachiko Kodama Exhibition: Eblouissant.” Seikado, Kyoto.
• “Beginning, end and rebirth of sculpture.”
  2017/11, The Japan Times, November 29, 2017, p. 12. Review of “Michio Fukuoka: A Sculptor Who No Longer Sculpts.” The National Museum of Art, Osaka.
• “A somber prelude to riots of color.”
  2017/09, The Japan Times, September 6, 2017, p. 12. Review of “Koji Kinutani: A Journey of Color and Imagery.” The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto.
• “Modern lacquer recalls past splendor.”
  2017/09, The Japan Times, September 13, 2017, p. 12. Review of “Kyoto’s Treasure: Tatsuaki Kuroda.” Museum (Eki) Kyoto.
• “The bigger picture is in the details.”
  2017/09, The Japan Times, September 20, 2017, p. 12. Review of “Tetsu Fusen: A Retrospective – 40th Anniversary of his Death.” Nara Prefectural Museum of Art.
• “Buddhist hells are frighteningly human.”
  2017/08, The Japan Times, August 9, 2017, p. 12. Review of “Millennial Memorial Exhibition: Imagining the Afterlife – Hells and Paradise Envisioned by the Buddhist Prelate Genshin.” Nara National Museum.
• “Take a dip into the art of darkness.”
  2017/08, The Japan Times, August 23, 2017, p. 12. Review of “Fear in Painting.” Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art.
• “Painting between the lines.”
  2017/07, The Japan Times, July 12, 2017, p. 12. Review of “Hideki Kimura and Sadaharu Horio exhibition: The Viewport - Unique Distances and Parallel Lines.” imura art gallery, Kyoto.
• “Alternative realities of realism.”
  2017/06, The Japan Times, June 7, 2017, p. 12. Review of “Out of Real.” Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art.
• “Ryan Gander looks back with humor.”
  2017/06, The Japan Times, June 14, 2017, p. 12. Review of “Ryan Gander: These wings aren’t for flying.” The National Museum of Art, Osaka.
• “Tokyo’s National Art Center showcases seven decades of art by Yayoi Kusama.”
  2017/05, CNN Style, May 12, 2017. Review of “Yayoi Kusama: My Eternal Soul.” National Art Center, Tokyo.
• “Kaikei: the name behind the gods.”
  2017/05, The Japan Times, May 24, 2017, p. 12. Review of “The Buddhist Master Sculptor Kaikei: Timeless Beauty from the Kamakura Period.” Nara National Museum.
• “Kyotographie, from Kyoto, with love.”
  2017/04, The Japan Times, April 19, 2017, p. 12. Preview of “Kyotographie.” Multiple venues, Kyoto.
• “From Kyoto, with love: Photos capture over a century of romance and loss.”
  2017/04, CNN Style, April 25, 2017. Review of “Kyotographie.” Multiple venues, Kyoto.
• “Kaiho Yusho: painting privilege.”
  2017/04, The Japan Times, April 26, 2017, p. 12. Review of “Kyoto National Museum 120th Anniversary Commemorative Special Exhibition: Kaiho Yusho.” Kyoto National Museum.
• “Coutelas: outside the outsiders.”
  2017/03, The Japan Times, March 1, 2017, p. 7. Review of “Robert Coutelas: I Seek the Small Golden Hand.” Asahi Beer Oyamazaki Villa Museum of Art, Yamazaki.
• “Masaaki Yamada: a painter of all stripes and colors.”
  2017/03, The Japan Times, March 15, 2017, p. 7. Review of “Endless: The Paintings of Yamada Masaaki.” The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto.
• “The tortured artist is not just a cliché.”
  2017/03, The Japan Times, March 29, 2017, p. 9. Review of “Sai Hashizume Solo Exhibition: This Isn’t Happiness.” imura art gallery, Kyoto.
• “The future looks bright for artists in the ancient capital.”
  2017/02, The Japan Times, February 1, 2017, p. 9. Review of “Kyoto Art for Tomorrow: Selected Artists in Kyoto 2017.” The Museum of Kyoto.
• “Between realism and abstraction.”
  2017/02, The Japan Times, February 15, 2017, p. 7. Review of “Pierre Alechinsky.” The National Museum of Art, Osaka.
• “Early birds do more than catch worms.”
  2017/01, The Japan Times, January 4, 2017, p. 8. Review of “Early Birds: Celebrating the Year of the Rooster.” Kyoto National Museum.
• “World War II: Yasuka Goto gets up close and personal.”
  2017/01, The Japan Times, January 11, 2017, p. 7. Review of “Yasuka Goto Exhibition: The Patch of Despair.” Kyoto Seika University Gallery Fleur.
• “Taking an art trip through time.”
  2017/01, The Japan Times, January 18, 2017, p. 7. Review of “Art Trip vol.01: The State of This World - Art and Thought.” Ashiya City Museum of Art and History.
• “Young artists to keep your eye on.”
  2016/12, The Japan Times, December 14, 2016, p. 7. Review of “CAF Art Award: Selected Group Exhibition.” Hotel Anteroom Kyoto.
• “Every hero has a few human flaws.”
  2016/11, The Japan Times, November 2, 2016, p. 9. Review of “Sakamoto Ryoma: Japan’s Favorite Hero – 150th Year Commemorative Special Exhibition.” Kyoto National Museum.
• “Kyoto celebrates works of native son Jakuchu.”
  2016/11, The Japan Times, November 16, 2016, p. 7. Review of “Jakuchu Revealed: 300th Anniversary of Ito Jakuchu’s Birth.” The Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto.
• “A play on the idea of performance art.”
  2016/11, The Japan Times, November 30, 2016, p. 7. Review of “The Play since 1967: Beyond Unknown Currents.” The National Museum of Art, Osaka.
• “Yosa Buson: a Japan-China relationship that works.”
  2016/09, The Japan Times, September 14, 2016, p. 7. Review of “Yosa Buson: 300th Anniversary Feature Exhibition.” Kyoto National Museum.
• “Foujita’s struggle between Paris and Tokyo.”
  2016/08, The Japan Times, August 10, 2016, p. 7. Review of “Leonard Foujita: Art Bridging the East and West.” Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe.
• “Salvador Dali: a life less ordinary.”
  2016/08, The Japan Times, August 17, 2016, p. 9. Review of “Dali.” The Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art.
• “The Informel whirlwind that swept across Japan.”
  2016/08, The Japan Times, August 31, 2016, p. 9. Review of “A Feverish Era: Art Informel and the Expansion of Japanese Artistic Expression in the 1950’s and ‘60s.” The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto.
• “The embellished world of Kozan Miyagawa’s ceramics.”
  2016/07, The Japan Times, July 6, 2016, p. 11. Review of “Miyazawa Kozan Retrospective.” The Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka.
• “Japan’s conflicted art of WWII.”
  2016/06, The Japan Times, June 8, 2016, p. 7. Review of “1945±5: The Works that Survived through the Turbulent and Reconstruction Era.” Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art.
• “Hakuin’s picture of Zen Buddhism.”
  2016/05, The Japan Times, May 3, 2016, p. 7. Review of “The Art of Zen: From Mind to Form.” Kyoto National Museum.
• “The many portraits of an artist as a young, and older, man.”
  2016/05, The Japan Times, May 18, 2016, p. 7. Review of “The Self-Portraits of Yasumasa Morimura: My Art, My Story, My Art History.” The National Museum of Art, Osaka.
• “Arita ware: from import to export to tradition.”
  2016/05, The Japan Times, May 21, 2016, p. 20. Review of “The Compelling Beauty of Arita Ceramics in the Age of the International Expositions.” The Museum of Ceramic Art, Hyogo.
• “Putting some faith into the art of decoration.”
  2016/04, The Japan Times, April 13, 2016, p. 7. Review of “Kazari: Decoration in Faith and Festival.” Miho Museum, Shiga.
• “The dyeing art of everyday kimono.”
  2016/03, The Japan Times, March 9, 2016, p. 7. Review of “Shimura Fuyuki.” The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto.
• “Salvador Dali: a life less ordinary.”
  2016, Reprinted in The Salvador Dali Collectors Bi-Monthly Journal 26:5 (2016), pp. 3, 6.
• “The ornate history of embroidery.”
  2015/06, The Japan Times, June 10, 2015, p. 7. Review of “Transcendent Artful Embroidery II.” Kobe Fashion Museum.
• “Seeing beyond Jiro Takamatsu’s Shadows.”
  2015/05, The Japan Times, May 20, 2015, p. 7. Review of “Takamatsu Jiro: Trajectory of Work.” The National Museum of Art, Osaka.
• “Diversity saved the Kano school.”
  2015/04, The Japan Times, April 22, 2015, p. 7. Review of “Kano Painters of the Momoyama Period: Eitoku’s Legacy.” Kyoto National Museum.
• “Nihonga didn’t ignore the west.”
  2015/02, The Japan Times, February 27, 2015, p. 12. Review of “150th Anniversary Since the Birth of Takeuchi Seiho.” Himeji City Museum of Art.
• “Where Buddhism and Shintoism Meet.”
  2015/01, The Japan Times, January 23, 2015, p. 12. Review of “New Year Exhibition - An Ancient Temple of the San’in Region: The Treasures of Gakuen-ji Temple in Shimane.” Kyoto National Museum.
• “Art is long, when life can be short.”
  2015/01, The Japan Times, January 30, 2015, p. 11. Review of “Commemorative Exhibition: The 20th Anniversary of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake.” Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art.
• “A revue of Japan’s femininity.”
  2014/09, The Japan Times, September 5, 2014, p. 12. Review of “Takarazuka Revue 100th Anniversary Exhibition.” Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art.
• “Lacquerware’s overseas journey into the arts.”
  2014/08, The Japan Times, August 1, 2014, p. 12. Review of “KYOTO, Re-creation of Reminiscence – Lacquerware in Modern Japan.” The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto.
• “Daigoji Temple celebrates its collection.”
  2014/08, The Japan Times, August 8, 2014, p. 12. Review of “The Universe of Daigoji: Esoteric Buddhist Imagery and Sacred Texts - Commemorating the National Treasure Designation of 70,000 Historic Documents and Sacred Texts of Daigoji Temple.” Nara National Museum.
• “World-weary and resigned, yet the samurai spirit soldiers on.”
  2014/07, The Japan Times, July 4, 2014, p. 12. Review of “Tetsuya Noguchi: Where the Samurai Are.” Asahi Beer Oyamazaki Villa Museum of Art.
• “Combinations that break the surface like a lotus.”
  2014/07, The Japan Times, July 18, 2014, p. 12. Review of “As Pure As the Lotus - East Asian Ceramics and the Eyes of the Photographer Muda Tomohiro.” The Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka.
• “Balthus’ renaissance of realism.”
  2014/07, The Japan Times, July 25, 2014, p. 13. Review of “Balthus: A Retrospective.” Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art.
• “Imagination runs wild in contemporary Japanese art.”
  2014/06, The Japan Times, June 12, 2014, p. 15. Review of “Nostalgia and Fantasy: Imagination and its Origins in Contemporary Japanese Art.” The National Museum of Art, Osaka.
• “The Uemura’s were not quite like mother, like son.”
  2014/06, The Japan Times, June 19, 2014, p. 11. Review of “Uemura Shoko.” The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto.
• “The evolution of Seiki Kuroda.”
  2014/06, The Japan Times, June 26, 2014, p. 13. Review of “Kuroda Seiki.” The Museum of Kyoto.
• “Japan’s isolation didn’t stop the West lending its colors.”
  2014/05, The Japan Times, May 22, 2014, p. 11. Review of “Edo Kaleidoscope: Sarasa, Biidoro, Oranda.” Miho Museum, Shiga.
• “The “Great Wave” that reached the West.”
  2014/05, The Japan Times, May 29, 2014, p. 11. Review of “Hokusai from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.” Kobe City Museum.
• “Best to approach Gursky’s photos with a painterly eye.”
  2014/04, The Japan Times, April 24, 2014, p. 11. Review of “Andreas Gursky.” The National Museum of Art, Osaka.
• “Centre Pompidou picks the fruits of its curatorial success.”
  2014/03, The Japan Times, March 6, 2014, p. 11. Review of “Fruits of Passion: The Collection from the Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris.” Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art.
• “Can nature solve mankind’s errors.”
  2014/02, The Japan Times, February 6, 2014, p. 13. Review of “Spatium SANDWICH #05 Masato Kodama Solo Exhibition ‘meteor’.” Gallery 9.5, Hotel Anteroom Kyoto.
• “’The Refusal of Time’ is worth every minute.”
  2014/02, The Japan Times, February 20, 2014, p. 13. Review of “Prelude exhibition: William Kentridge – The Refusal of Time.” Former Rissei Elementary School, Kyoto.
• “Trapped by human society.”
  2013/12, The Japan Times, December 5, 2013, p. 13. Review of “Your Portrait: A Tetsumi Kudo Retrospective.” The National Museum of Art, Osaka.
• “Somewhere between art and craft lies beauty.”
  2013/12, The Japan Times, December 12, 2013, p. 13. Review of “Satoshi Someya.” imura art gallery, Kyoto.
• “The influences on and of Tetsumi Kudo.”
  2013/12, The Japan Times, December 5, 2013, p. 13. Review of “Collection 3: Works Related to Your Portrait: A Tetsumi Kudo Retrospective: From Anti-Art of the 1960s to Art of the Present Day.” The National Museum of Art, Osaka.
• “The politics of Japan’s modern era of proletarian art.”
  2013/11, The Japan Times, November 14, 2013, p. 11. Review of “Art and Literature in Japan - 1926-1936.” Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art.
• “The Imperial Household of Tradition.”
  2013/11, The Japan Times, November 28, 2013, p. 13. Review of “Treasures of the Imperial Collections: The Quintessence of Modern Japanese Art.” The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto.
• “Explore the many ways to read cinema.”
  2013/10, The Japan Times, October12, 2013, p. 12. Review of “Reading Cinema, Finding Words: Art After Marcel Broodthaers.” The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto.
• “For women artists, elegance came at the expense of individuality.”
  2013/10, The Japan Times, October 24, 2013, p. 13. Review of “Painted by Women: Elegance of Showa Period.” Kyoto Prefectural Insho-Domoto Museum of Fine Arts.
• “Kansetsu Hashimoto’s Chinese Rebellion.”
  2013/09, The Japan Times, September 26, 2013, p. 12. Review of “Hashimoto Kansetsu Retrospective.” Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art.
• “The nature of Japanese lacquer art.”
  2013/08, The Japan Times, August 15, 2013, p. 16. Review of “Katsuyuki Shirako solo exhibition.” eN arts, Kyoto.
• “Aichi Triennale’s best works deal with disaster.”
  2013/08, The Japan Times, August 23, 2013, p. 18. Review of “Aichi Triennale.” Aichi Arts Center, Nagoya.
• “Get intimate with Ryota Aoki’s work and discover it’ secrets.”
  2013/06, The Japan Times, June 6, 2013, p. 12. Review of “Ryota Aoki.” Tomio Koyama Gallery, Kyoto.
• “The ghouls who played on the Japanese mind.”
  2013/05, The Japan Times, May 9, 2013, p. 12. Review of “Japanese ghosts and eerie creatures.” Osaka Museum of History.
• “Seeking impressions in the two-dimensional.”
  2013/05, The Japan Times, May 30, 2013, p. 12. Review of “Appetite for Painting.” imura art gallery, Kyoto.
• “Idiosyncrasies of the Kano School Explored in Kyoto.”
  2013/04, The Japan Times, April 11, 2013, p. 12. Review of “Kano Sanraku and Sansetsu.” Kyoto National Museum.
• “In front and behind closed temple doors.”
  2013/04, The Japan Times, April 25, 2013, p. 12. Review of the fusuma panels painted by Yuki Murabayashi for Jusho-in and Taizo-in, Myoshin-ji, Kyoto.
• “Hitoko Urago’s ‘Connected’: blot-tests of portraiture.”
  2013/03, The Japan Times, March 7, 2013, p. 12. Review of “Connected.” Mori Yu Gallery, Kyoto.
• “Breathing life into the forgotten and neglected.”
  2013/02, The Japan Times, February 14, 2013, p. 12. Review of “Nostalgia.” Tomio Koyama Gallery Kyoto.
• “Go with the flow from representational to abstract.”
  2013/02, The Japan Times, February 14, 2013, p. 12. Review of “Where water comes together with other water.” Taka Ishii Gallery Kyoto.
• “’What We See’ is not always what you get.”
  2013/02, The Japan Times, February 28, 2013, p. 12. Review of “What we see.” The National Museum of Art, Osaka.
• “Western influences on Suda’s nostalgic East.”
  2013/01, The Japan Times, January 3, 2013, p. 12. Review of “Looking Back 50 Years After his Death.” Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art.
• “Yokoo Tadanori unearths a future from personal past.”
  2012/12, The Japan Times, December 13, 2012, p. 12. Review of “Yokoo Tadanori: Han-han-puku-puku-han-puku.” Yokoo Tadanori Museum of Contemporary Art, Kobe.
• “Kyoto painting schools pushed nihonga to the limit.”
  2012/11, The Japan Times, November 8, 2012, p. 14. Review of “Masterpieces from the Permanent Collection 2: A Close Look at Kyoto’s Painting Studios.” Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art.
• “A fine line separates calligraphy and what’s called ‘art’.”
  2012/11, The Japan Times, November 15, 2012, p. 18. Review of “Ultimate Beauty: The Calligraphy of Japanese Emperors.” Kyoto National Museum.
• “The Fall and the Rise of ‘The Greek’.”
  2012/11, The Japan Times, November 22, 2012, p. 12. Review of “El Greco’s Visual Poetics.” The National Museum of Art, Osaka.
• “Fanning the flames of art.”
  2012/09, The Japan Times, September 6, 2012, p. 12. Review of “Shingo Tanaka Solo Exhibition: Captivated by Ephemera.” eN arts, Kyoto.
• “Where ‘Japanese sensibility’ looks to the West.”
  2012/08, The Japan Times, August 2, 2012, p. 12. Review of “Real Japanesque.” The National Museum of Art, Osaka.
• “Contemporary art’s cosmic diversity.”
  2012/08, The Japan Times, August 23, 2012, p. 12. Review of “The Cosmos as Metaphor.” Taka Ishii Gallery, Kyoto, and Hotel Anteroom Kyoto.
• “An artistic way with words.”
  2012/06, The Japan Times, June 14, 2012, p. 14. Review of “Shoichi Ida.” The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto.
• “Painting in awe of nature and the act of creation.”
  2012/06, The Japan Times, June 21, 2012, p. 14. Review of “Makito Okada: Impatience and Hopes.” imura art gallery, Kyoto.
• “Expressions that lie between functionality and art.”
  2012/06, The Japan Times, June 28, 2012, p. 12. Review of “Function Dysfunction.” Tomio Koyama Gallery, Kyoto.
• “Ceramics as a blossoming art form.”
  2012/04, The Japan Times, April 5, 2012, p. 12. Review of “Tashima Etsuko – Flowers.” imura art gallery, Kyoto.
• “A movement that rocked Japan’s art scene.”
  2012/04, The Japan Times, April 26, 2012, p. 12. Review of “Murayama Tomoyoshi: Get All of Me Seething.” The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto.
• “Representing Japan at Art Kyoto.”
  2012/04, The Japan Times, April 27, 2012, p. 14. Preview of “Art Kyoto 2012.”
• “Rich tales of Inka Essenhigh.”
  2012/03, The Japan Times, March 22, 2012, p. 12. Review of “The natural and the man-made.” Tomio Koyama Gallery, Kyoto.
• “A contemporary mix of nihonga and manga.”
  2012/02, The Japan Times, February 2, 2012, p. 12. Review of “Nobuya Hoki.” Taka Ishii Gallery, Kyoto.
• “Finding a piece of mind in contemporary art.”
  2012/02, The Japan Times, February 9, 2012, p. 12. Review of “Yayoi Kusama: Eternity of Eternal Eternity.” The National Museum of Art, Osaka.
• “Illustrators draw from pop culture for 3/11 exhibition.”
  2012/02, The Japan Times, February 9, 2012, p. 12. Review of “March 11 seen through the eyes of comic artists from all over the world: Magnitude Zero.” Kyoto International Manga Museum.
• “From picnic cups to vessels of the future.”
  2012/01, The Japan Times, January 12, 2012, p. 12. Review of “Ikeyan.” Tomio Koyama Gallery, Kyoto.
• “Japan’s role in the 19th century modernization of Chinese art.”
  2012/01, The Japan Times, January 26, 2012, p. 14. Review of “Modern Chinese Painting and Japan.” Kyoto National Museum.
• “Painting a picture of Yumeji Takehisa.”
  2011/12, The Japan Times, December 15, 2011, p. 12. Review of “Takehisa Yumeji in Memory.” National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto.
• “Preparing for the trials of adulthood.”
  2011/12, The Japan Times, December 29, 2011, p. 14. Review of “Kaori Watanabe: Good News of the Morning.” imura art gallery, Kyoto.
• “Chu Enoki’s sculptural landscapes, cast from an iron will.”
  2011/11, The Japan Times, November 3, 2011, p. 12. Review of “Enoki Chu: Unleashing the Museum.” Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art.
• “The Embodiment of Buddha Shakyamuni through art.”
  2011/11, The Japan Times, November 17, 2011, p. 12. Review of “The Path to Tendai Buddhism: In Quest of the Eternal Shakyamuni.” Miho Museum, Shiga.
• “Bringing Western-style painting back to the East.”
  2011/10, The Japan Times, October 6, 2011, p. 16. Review of “The 120th Anniversary of the Birth of Kishida Ryusei.” Osaka Municipal Museum of Art.
• “Wonderlands of the artist’s making.”
  2011/10, The Japan Times, October 13, 2011, p. 12. Review of “Ways of Worldmaking.” National Museum of Art, Osaka.
• “Tradition that hides in abstraction.”
  2011/09, The Japan Times, September 22, 2011, p. 12. Review of “Insho and Informel, ‘Gutai’/’Bokusho’ – Avant-Garde After World War II.” Kyoto Prefectural Insho-Domoto Museum of Fine Arts.
• “Fired-up tales of ceramics in wonderland.”
  2011/06, The Japan Times, June 2, 2011, p. 14. Review of “The Wonderland of Ceramic Art.” Tomio Koyama Gallery, Kyoto.
• “Takashi Hinoda.”
  2011/06, The Japan Times, June 16, 2011, p. 14. Review of “Alternative Muscles.” imura art gallery, Kyoto.
• “A marriage of East and West: something old, something borrowed and something blue.”
  2011/06, The Japan Times, June 23, 2011, p. 12. Review of “Ukiyo-e Collection from the MKG Hamburg – 150th Anniversary of Japan-German Treaty.” Jotenkaku Museum, Kyoto.
• “The enduring reputation of Shigeru Aoki’s brief career.”
  2011/06, The Japan Times, June 30, 2011, p. 12. Review of “Aoki Shigeru: Myth, Sea and Love.” The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto.
• “Yu Kiwanami Solo Exhibition.”
  2011/05, The Japan Times, May 12, 2011, p. 12. Review of “Yu Kiwanami Solo Exhibition.” imura art gallery, Kyoto.
• “Conceptualizing old ideas into ‘new’ art.”
  2011/04, The Japan Times, April 1, 2011, p. 17. Review of “Kaza Ana/ Air Hole: Another Form of Conceptualism from Asia.” The National Museum of Art, Osaka.
• “Paul Klee: Art in the Making 1883-1940.”
  2011/04, The Japan Times, April 8, 2011, p. 15. Review of “Paul Klee: Art in the Making 1883-1940.” The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto.
• “It’s a fine line between the eccentric and the experimental.”
  2011/04, The Japan Times, April 15, 2011, p. 15. Review of “Nagasawa Rosetsu: The Fanciful Painter.” The Miho Museum, Shiga.
• “Divides in the Pure Land.”
  2011/04, The Japan Times, April 29, 2011, p. 19. Review of “Honen: The Life and Art of the Founder of the Pure Land Buddhist Sect.” Kyoto National Museum. And “Shinran: The Founder of the Jodo-Shinshu Buddhism: His Life and Legacy.” The Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art.
• “It’s a woman’s world inside shojo manga.”
  2011/03, The Japan Times, March 25, 2011, p. 10. Review of “Genga — Exhibition Series: Watanabe Masako & Kai Yukiko, Fantastic Journey.” Kyoto International Manga Museum.
• “A tricky postscript on the art of abstraction.”
  2011/02, The Japan Times, February 4, 2011, p. 17. Review of “postscript.” Kodama Gallery, Kyoto.
• “Should Japanese painting represent the nation as a whole?.”
  2011/02, The Japan Times, February 11, 2011, p. 15. Review of “Natsunosuke Mise Solo Exhibition: Trying to Change This Moment into Eternity.” Kyoto City University of Arts Gallery.
• “Fill up on Morimura’s unusual ‘side dishes’.”
  2011/01, The Japan Times, January 7, 2011, p. 15. Review of “Depicted People: Women and Men — The Power of 'Others': Microcosm of Morimura Yasumasa.” Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art.
• “Spelling out China’s calligraphic influence.”
  2011/01, The Japan Times, January 14, 2011, p. 15. Review of “Spirit of Brush and Ink: The World of Chinese Paintings and Calligraphies.” Kyoto National Museum.
• “Saving the individual in times of conflict.”
  2011/01, The Japan Times, January 28, 2011, p. 15. Review of “Aso Saburo.” The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto.
• “The swinging trends of modern Japanese painting.”
  2010/12, The Japan Times, December 10, 2010, p. 17. Review of “Collection 3: Japanese Art 1950-2010.” The National Museum of Art, Osaka.
• “A figure outside the nihonga box.”
  2010/12, The Japan Times, December 24, 2010, p. 13. Review of “Depicting the Human Form: From Natural Sight and Sentiment to Modeling.” Insho-Domoto Museum of Fine Arts.
• “Exploring the stylistic diversity of nihonga.”
  2010/10, The Japan Times, October 1, 2010, p. 17. Review of “The AvantGarde of Nihonga 1938-1949.” The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto.
• “Breaking old conventions to find the new.”
  2010/10, The Japan Times, October 15, 2010, p. 21. Review of “The King’s Room: Never Ever Die, Forever Beautiful.” Tomio Koyama Gallery, Kyoto. And, “Ryota Aoki Exhibition.” eN Arts, Kyoto.
• “An education in Japanese-style painting.”
  2010/10, The Japan Times, October 22, 2010, p. 15. Review of “The 130th Anniversary of the Founding of Kyoto City University of Arts: The Formation of Kyoto Nihonga – The Master Painter’s Challenges.” The Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art.
• “Mizuki Shigeru: Illustrations of Yokai.”
  2010/09, The Japan Times, September 24, 2010, p. 15. Review of “Mizuki Shigeru: Illustrations of Yokai.” Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art.
• “Tales of Ueda Akinari and his contemporaries.”
  2010/08, The Japan Times, August 20, 2010, p. 15. Review of “Ueda Akinari 200th Memorial Retrospective.” Kyoto National Museum.
• “Komura Settai finds a new modern audience.”
  2010/07, The Japan Times, July 9, 2010, p. 17. Review of “The World of Komura Settai: The Aesthetic Sense and Sensibility of an Unknown Virtuoso Painter.” Kiyomizu Sannenzaka Museum, Kyoto.
• “The talented women of Kyoto.”
  2010/07, The Japan Times, July 16, 2010, p. 17. Review of “Women Artists of Kyoto: Bearing Burdens/ Burdens Born.” The Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art.
• “When science meets art, it gets confusing.”
  2010/07, The Japan Times, July 23, 2010, p. 17. Review of “Trouble in Paradise: Media(t)ion of Survival.” The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto.
• “Paramodel solo exhibition: The world according to P.”
  2010/07, The Japan Times, July 13, 2010, p. 15. Review of “Paramodel solo exhibition: The world according to P.” Mori Yu Gallery, Kyoto.
• “Brothers brought together by differences.”
  2010/06, The Japan Times, June 4, 2010, p. 15. Review of “The Inagaki Brothers: Chusei and Toshijiro.” The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto.
• “China’s modern art the grieves for the old.”
  2010/06, The Japan Times, June 11, 2010, p. 15. Review of “From the 11th Chinese National Art Exhibition 2009: Contemporary Fine Art from China.” Nara Prefectural Museum of Art.
• “The accessories that fanned the flames of screen painting.”
  2010/05, The Japan Times, May 7, 2010, p. 15. Review of “Fan Paintings from the Konoike Collection.” The Osaka Municipal Museum of Art.
• “Taking a name for themselves.”
  2010/04, The Japan Times, April 23, 2010, p. 15. Review of “Hasegawa Tohaku: 400th Memorial Exhibition.” Kyoto National Museum.
• “In the hope that death does not do us part.”
  2010/04, The Japan Times, April 30, 2010, p. 19. Review of “Funeral for Bioengineering to Not to Die — Early Works by Arakawa Shusaku.” The National Museum of Art, Osaka.
• “New dimensions in a chain.”
  2010/02, The Japan Times, February 26, 2010, p. 17. Review of “Yoshio Kitayama: New works and early works.” MEM, Osaka.
• “What’s real in the world of copies and clones?.”
  2010/01, The Japan Times, January 8, 2010, p. 15. Review of “Nobuaki Onishi: Chain.” Nomart, Osaka.
• “Habsburg treasures celebrate art history.”
  2010/01, The Japan Times, January 15, 2010, p. 17. Review of “Treasures of the Habsburg Monarchy.” Kyoto National Museum.
• “New art horizons seen from Kansai.”
  2010/01, The Japan Times, January 22, 2010, p. 15. Review of “Paintings by four artists.” Tomio Koyama Gallery, Kyoto. And, “Under 100.” YOD Gallery, Osaka.
• “Blooming successes flower in artwork.”
  2010/01, The Japan Times, January 29, 2010, p. 17. Review of “By the Water-lily Pond.” Asahi Beer Oyamazaki Villa Museum of Art. And, “From One Flower to Another.” The Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art.
• “The northern lights from Italy.”
  2009/11, The Japan Times, November 13, 2009, p. 17. Review of “Dove Tende Aurora.” The National Museum of Art, Osaka.
• “What lies behind the eccentric?.”
  2009/11, The Japan Times, November 20, 2009, p. 15. Review of “JAKUCHU Wonderland.” The Miho Museum, Shiga.
• “Adding and subtracting dimensions to further appreciate art.”
  2009/10, The Japan Times, October 23, 2009, p. 17. Review of “Shadow-Exhibition Obscura.” The Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art.
• “Breaking fairy-tale conventions of beauty.”
  2009/09, The Japan Times, September 11, 2009, p. 15. Review of “Miwa Yanagi: Po-po Nyangnyang!.” The National Museum of Art, Osaka.
• “Modern Living: Hiroe Komai.”
  2009/09, The Japan Times, September 18, 2009, p. 21. Review of “Modern Living.” Shin-bi Gallery, Kyoto.
• “Observing the pieces of a fragmented self.”
  2009/09, The Japan Times, September 25, 2009, p. 15. Review of “What We See & What We Know: Thinking About History While Walking, and Thus The Drawings Began to Move . . ..” The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto.
• “Expressionist Movements in Japan.”
  2009/08, Artscape International, August Issue, 2009. Review of “Expressionist Movements in Japan.” The Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art.
• “Modern Kyoto.”
  2009/07, The Japan Times, July 10, 2009, p. 15. Review of “Kyoto Studies: City of the Avant-Garde — Modernism in Kyoto.” The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto.
• “Striving for a more simple life.”
  2009/06, The Japan Times, June 5, 2009, p. 17. Review of “The Naxi Lifeworld: Native Painters in Northwestern Yunnan.” National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka.
• “A re-imagining of Osaka’s riverfront.”
  2009/06, The Japan Times, June 26, 2009, p. 17. Review of “Tadao Ando Exhibition 2009: The City of Water/Osaka vs. Venice.” Suntory Museum Tempozan, Osaka.
• “A new spirit for tea traditions.”
  2009/05, The Japan Times, May 15, 2009, p. 15. Review of “When Japan’s Tea Ceremony Artisans Meet Minpaku’s Collections: Creative Art in Perspective.” National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka.
• “The past, present and future of Yamaguchi Akira.”
  2009/03, Artscape International, March Issue, 2009. Review of “Now, Oyamazaki…: Yamaguchi Akira.” Asahi Beer Oyamazaki Villa Museum of Art.
• “So was Modernism Chinese?.”
  2009/03, The Japan Times, March 20, 2009, p. 17. Review of “No Frontiers: The Art of Ding Yanyong.” Hong Kong Museum of Art.
• “Western Japan’s Eclectic Master.”
  2009/02, The Japan Times, February 6, 2009, p. 17. Review of “Master Pieces from the Permanent Collection: The Studio of the Painter Takeuchi Seiho.” The Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art.
• “An abandoned history of Chinese influence.”
  2009/02, The Japan Times, February 13, 2009, p. 15. Review of “The World of Bunjinga in Early Modern Osaka.” Ashiya City Museum of Art and History.
• “Linking video games to their visual history.”
  2009/02, The Japan Times, February 27, 2009, p. 15. Review of “Ryuta Ohtake.” Taro Nasu Gallery, Osaka.
• “Words as Images.”
  2009/01, The Japan Times, January 1, 2009, p. 13. Review of “The Concrete Poetry of Niikuni Seiichi: Between Poetry and Art.” The National Museum of Art, Osaka
• “Looking back as Japan advanced.”
  2009/01, The Japan Times, January 16, 2009, p. 15. Review of “Kansetsu Hashimoto.” The Shohaku Art Museum, Nara.
• “The Visual, Verbal and Seasonal Turn: Yoshihisa Kitasuji’s ‘The Beginning of Autumn.”
  2008/11, Artscape International, November Issue, 2008. Review of “The Beginning of Autumn: Yoshihisa Kitasuji.” MEM Gallery, Osaka.
• “A Place for Women.”
  2008/11, The Japan Times, November 6, 2008, p. 19. Review of “Women Artists in Osaka: 20th Century Art from Japanese-style Bijinga Paintings to the Postwar Avant-garde.” Osaka City Museum of Modern Art, Shinsaibashi Temporary Exhibition Space.
• “Arts of Enlightenment.”
  2008/11, The Japan Times, November 27, 2008, p. 19. Review of “National Treasures of Miidera Temple.” Osaka Municipal Museum of Art.
• “Craftsmanship and Nationalism.”
  2008/10, The Japan Times, October 23, 2008, p. 19. Review of “Life and Art: Arts and Crafts from Morris to Mingei.” The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto.
• “Many forms from the ‘Zoology of the Maker.’’
  2008/09, The Japan Times, September 11, 2008 p. 19. Review of “The Maharoba Zoo – Animals in Art from the collection of Nara Prefectural Museum of Art.” Nara Prefectural Museum of Art.
• “A selection of cultural others.”
  2008/08, The Japan Times, October 16, 2008, p. 19. Review of “Self and Other: Asian and European Portraits.” The National Museum of Art, Osaka, and The National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka.
• “Faraway, so close: Motonori Inagaki.”
  2008/07, Artscape International, July Issue, 2008. Review of “Inagaki Motonori: distance.” Nomart, Osaka.
• “Chicks on Speed: Art Rules Kyoto 2008.”
  2008/05, The Japan Times, Art Brief, May, 2008, p. 19. Review of “Art Rules Kyoto 2008: Chicks on Speed and Douglas Gordon.” The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto.
• “A screen as canvas.”
  2008/05, The Japan Times, May 22, 2008, p. 19. Review of “Still/Motion: Liquid Crystal Painting.” The National Museum of Art, Osaka.
• “Developing Pictures.”
  2008/04, Artscape International, April Issue, 2008. Review of “Art of Photography, Photography as Art.” Osaka City Museum of Modern Art, Shinsaibashi Temporary Exhibition Space.
• “with love from… : A simulacrum of the city.”
  2008/04, The Japan Times, April 17, 2008, p. 19. Review of “Jarg Geismar: with love from….” Gallery HAM, Nagoya.
• “One hell of a time: Meiji period ‘Demon of Painting’ looked West.”
  2008/04, The Japan Times, April 24, 2008, p. 19. Review of “Commemorating the 120th Memorial of Kawanabe Kyosai: Bridge to Modernity, Kyosai’s Adventures in Painting.” Kyoto National Museum.
• “Yosa Buson: Detached or Mundane.”
  2008/03, The Japan Times, March 27, 2008, p. 19. Review of “Yosa Buson: On the Wing of Art.” The Miho Museum, Shiga.
• “Ryoko Aoki: Under the Secret.”
  2008/02, Artscape International, February Issue, 2008. Review of “Ryoko Aoki: Under the Secret.” Kodama Gallery, Kyoto.
• “Takayasu Itoh: From painting to Environment.”
  2008/02, The Japan Times, February 7, 2008, p. 19. Review of “Takayasu Itoh: From Painting to Environment.” The Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art.
• “Shimizu Ryukei: Being sacred and the profane.”
  2008/02, The Japan Times, February 14, 2008, p. 19. Review of “An Old Man's Mischief: The Works of the Buddhist Sculptor Shimizu Ryukei.” Kyoto National Museum.
• “The time before the ‘starchitects’.”
  2008/02, The Japan Times, February 28, 2008, p. 19. Review of “William Merrel Vories.” The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga.
• “Out of the shadows.”
  2008/01, Kansai Time Out, January, 2008, pp. 10-11.
• “Quixotic quest of a ‘revolutionary’ : Longed-for mainstream success escaped Hokuto Tamamura.”
  2008/01, The Japan Times, January 24, 2008, p. 19. Review of “Tamamura Hokuto: Revolutionary of Japanese Painting.” The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto.
• “The printer who wished to paint.”
  2007/12, The Japan Times, December 13, 2007, p. 19. Review of “Recent Acquisitions, The M & Y Collection: Ikeda Masuo’s Prints.” The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto.
• “Skin goes only so deep – a popular trend of recent times, but one stretched too far, perhaps.”
  2007/11, The Japan Times, November, 2007, p. 19. Review of “Skin of/in contemporary art.” The National Museum of Modern Art, Osaka.
• “Novel Approach.”
  2007/10, Artscape International, October Issue, 2007. Review of “Ryuta Iida – ‘Fact of Accumulation 07.” graf media gm, Osaka.
• “Shanghai School: Traditional China popped.”
  2007/09, The Japan Times, September 20, 2007, p. 19. Review of “Shanghai Modern.” Osaka Municipal Museum of Art.
• “Yukio Fujimoto: Silent Violence, Violent Silence.”
  2007/08, Artscape International, August Issue, 2007. Review of “Yukio Fujimoto: Plus/Minus.” The National Museum of Art, Osaka.
• “Hiroshi Asada: Obsessed with the super-real.”
  2007/08, The Japan Times, August 16, 2007, p. 19. Review of ‘Hiroshi Asada Retrospective.” The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto.
• “Moon and Yagi: Late to the art party in the 1980s.”
  2007/08, The Japan Times, August 23, 2007, p. 19. Review of “Moon Seung-Keun + Yagi Tadashi: works on paper and sculptures 1973-83.” The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto.
• “Yukio Fujimoto: Sounds of Smallness.”
  2007/07, The Japan Times, July 19, 2007, p. 19. Review of “Philosophical Toys – Yukio Fujimoto.” Otani Memorial Art Museum, Kobe.
• “Descriptive sharpness, painterly blur: Hiroshi Sugimoto.”
  2007/06, Artscape International, June Issue, 2007. Review of “Various Archetypes: Hiroshi Sugimoto.” The National Museum of Art, Osaka.
• “Breakthrough Women.”
  2007/05, The Japan Times, May 3, 2007, p. 19. Review of “Three Great Women Painters: Shoen Uemura, Yuki Ogura, Fuku Akino.” The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga.
• “Contemporary in Kansai: Creating Atmospheres.”
  2007/05, The Japan Times, May 17, 2007, p. 19. Reviews of Masahito Katayama “Lights of One Thousand.” Nomart Contemporary Art, Osaka. Torawo Nakagawa “Air Fort,” Kodama Gallery, Osaka. Alimo “Geopolitics,” and Shinsuke Kotani “She Acts Heroic Scene,” Voice Gallery, Kyoto. Chie Matsui “An Allegorical Vessel – Heidi 47.” MEM Gallery, Osaka.
• “Painting Space.”
  2007/04, Artscape International, April Issue, 2007. Review of “Nobuaki Onishi Exhibition: Desktop, Dress Grey.” Nomart, Osaka.
• “Storm clouds over an artist’s life cut short.”
  2007/03, The Japan Times, March 1, 2007, p. 19. Review of “Dreams of Art, Yuzo Saeki in Paris: The Osaka Collections.” The Osaka City Museum of Modern Art, Shinsaibashi Temporary Exhibition Space.
• “Insho Domoto: Testing Nihonga’s Limits.”
  2007/03, The Japan Times, March 15, 2007, p. 19. Review of “Insho Domoto’s Challenge – What is Nihonga?.” Kyoto Prefectural Insho Domoto Museum of Fine Arts.
• “Vehicles of Communication.”
  2007/02, Artscape International, February Issue, 2007. Review of “The 10th Anniversary of Kumi Sugai’s Death.” Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art.
• “The World of Immortals.”
  2007/01, The Japan Times, Art Brief, January 18, 2007, p. 17. Review of ‘The World of Immortals.” Kyoto National Museum.
• “Lost Between East and West: Modernizers of Japanese art tended toward tradition.”
  2007/01, The Japan Times, January 25, 2007, p. 17. Review of “Modern Art in Wanderings: In between Japanese and Western-style Paintings.” The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto.
• “More than Zero.”
  2006/12, Artscape International, December Issue, 2006. Review of “Nakahashi Katsushige: ZEROs – Interacting Memories.” The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga.
• “Shinji Ogawa: Teasing out new meanings from old works.”
  2006/12, The Japan Times, December 7, 2006, p. 17. Review of “Shinji Ogawa: Interfering Worlds.” The National Museum of Art, Osaka.
• “Okyo and Rosetsu- a realist and an eccentric.”
  2006/11, The Japan Times, November 16, 2006, p. 17. Review of “Okyo and Rosetsu.” Nara Prefectural Museum of Art.
• “Isamu Noguchi – Mixed Meanings.”
  2006/10, Artscape International, October Issue, 2006. Review of “Isamu Noguchi: connecting the world through sculpture.” The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga.
• “Subtle change in the matter: Qi Baishi updated literati painting with new subjects.”
  2006/09, The Japan Times, September 21, 2006, p. 17. Review of “Qi Baishi and his contemporaries.” Kyoto National Museum.
• “Tsugouharu Foujita: A Catholic Oeuvre.”
  2006/08, Artscape International, August Issue, 2006. Review of “Tsugouharu Foujita – 120th anniversary of his birth.” The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto.
• “Many Sawadas: artist explores her selves.”
  2006/08, The Japan Times, August 17, 2006, p. 19. Review of “Masquerade: 10 year retrospective of Tomoko Sawada.” KPO Kirin Plaza, Osaka.
• “Chen Chin: Bijinga of Taiwan.”
  2006/07, The Japan Times, June 15, 2006, p. 17. Review of “Centennial Celebration of Chen Chin.” Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art.
• “Sigmar Polke: Alice in Wonderland.”
  2006/07, Artscape International, June Issue. Review of “Sigmar Polke: Alice in Wonderland.” The National Museum of Art, Osaka.
• “Three curators, three artists: pieceing together contemporary art in Osaka.”
  2006/07, The Japan Times, July 6, 2006, p. 17. Review of “Three Individuals: Zon Ito, Hajime Imamura, Yoshihiro Suda.” The National Museum of Art, Osaka.
• “Hundertwasser: A modernism with real soul.”
  2006/04, The Japan Times, April 27, 2006, p. 17. Review of “Remainders of an Ideal: Vision and Practices of Hundertwasser.” The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto.
• ‘‘Nghệ thuật của chiến tranh.”
  2006/03, Talawas, March 7, 2006. “Vietnam: The Art of War” (The Japan Times November 24, 2005), was subsequently translated into Vietnamese by Nguyen Dinh Dang for this Vietnamese-language arts publication. This version includes an extended prefatory interview with the writer not in the original version.
• “Barlach: Swept up in winds of war.”
  2006/03, The Japan Times, March 16, 2006, p. 17. Review of “Ernst Barlach Retrospektive.” The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto.
• “Reconfiguring German pasts: photos create new histories.”
  2006/02, The Japan Times, February 2, 2006, p. 17. Review of “Zwischen Wirklichkeit und Bild: Positionen Deutscher Fotografie der Gegenwart.” The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto.
• “Alphonse Mucha: Modern, not Modernist.”
  2006/01, The Japan Times, January 12, 2006, p. 17. Review of “Alphonse Mucha: Treasures from the Mucha Foundation.” Suntory Museum Tempozan, Osaka.
• “Mono-ha: The thing itself.”
  2005/11, The Japan Times, November 10, 2005, p. 17. Review of “Mono-ha – Reconsidered.” The National Museum of Art, Osaka. And “Lee Ufan: The Art of Margins.” Yokohama Museum of Art.
• “Vietnam: The Art of War.”
  2005/11, The Japan Times, November 24, 2005, p. 15. Review of “Modern Paintings of Viet Nam.” Tokyo Station Gallery.
• “WAA: Women Artists’ Association.”
  2005/10, Kansai Time Out, 344, October, 2005, p. 52.
• “Surreal Vietnam imaginings.”
  2005/10, The Japan Times, October 7, 2005, p. 23. Review of “The Joy of the Imagination.” Caretta Shiodome BiCE, Tokyo.
• “Independent Brushstrokes: originality follows imitation in the history of Japanese oil painting.”
  2005/09, The Japan Times, September 15, 2005, pp. 15-16. Reviews of “Jutaro Kuroda: The Pioneer of Modern Japanese Oil Painting.” The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga. “The Age of Kuroda Seiki and Kishida Ryusei.” Pola Museum of Art, Kanagawa. “Cubism in Asia: Unbounded Dialogues.” The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. “The Life and Art of Nambata Tatsuoki.” Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery.
• “Mitteleuropean positions: Artists’ works join the EU.”
  2005/08, The Japan Times, August 17, 2005, p. 13. Review of “Positioning: In the New Reality of Europe.” The National Museum of Art, Osaka.
• “Gustave Moreau- A painter of his time?.”
  2005/06, The Japan Times, June 29, 2005, p. 11. Review of “Gustave Moreau: Oeuvres des Collections du Musee Gustave Moreau.” Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art.
• “Dresden, mirror of the world: A great selection from the Electors’ finest treasures.”
  2005/03, The Japan Times, March 23, 2005, p. 13. Review of “The State Collections Dresden, mirror of the world.” Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art.
• “Victor Hugo: The influence of a literary titan lasts for 200 years.”
  2005/03, The Japan Times, March 30, 2005, p. 11. Review of “Victor Hugo and the Romanticists.” Suntory Museum Tempozan, Osaka.
• “All the glory that was Florence.”
  2005/02, The Japan Times, February 2, 2005, p. 11. Review of “Alle origini dello ’stile fiorentino.” The Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art.
• “Chimeras and Shadows: Onodera’s photos and the unconscious.”
  2005/02, The Japan Times, February 9, 2005, p. 11. Review of “Yuki Onodera.” The National Museum of Art, Osaka.
• “Remaking Machiya.”
  2004/12, Kansai Time Out 334, December (2004), pp. 36-37.
• “Art stripped bare by mass produced ideas.”
  2004/12, The Japan Times, December 8, 2004, p. 13. Review of “Mirrorical Returns: Marcel Duchamp and 20th Century Art.” The National Museum of Art, Osaka.
• “The heyday of body art.”
  2004/11, The Japan Times, November 24, 2004, p. 13. Review of “Traces: Body and Idea in Contemporary Art.” The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto.
• “Should Buddhist art be left in the temples?”
  2004/04, The Japan Times, April 28, 2004, p. 11. Review of “Treasures of the Great Zen Temple - The Nanzenji: Commemorating the 700th Memorial Year of Emperor Kameyama.” Kyoto National Museum.
• “And never the twain shall meet, on canvas: Modernism in Kyoto.”
  2004/03, The Japan Times, March 3, 2004, p. 11. Review of “130 years of Western painting in Japan: Selected works from oil paintings and watercolours.” The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto.
• “In between art and life.”
  2003/12, The Japan Times, December 3, 2003, p. 11. Review of “Gokann: Finnish contemporary art.” Kyoto Art Centre, Seika University Gallery Fleur and Voice Gallery, Kyoto.
• “On a director’s storyboard far, far away.”
  2003/07, The Japan Times, July 2, 2003, p. 11. Review of “The Art of Star Wars.” Kyoto National Museum.
• “Klimt`s women: more feared than loved.”
  2003/07, The Japan Times, July 23, 2003, p. 11. Review of “Gustav Klimt and images of women, Vienna 1900.” Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art.
• “The end of art history and the last laugh.”
  2003/01, The Japan Times, January 29, 2003, p. 11. Review of “A perspective on contemporary art, continuity/transgression.” The National Museum of Art, Osaka.
• “Louis XIV understood power, absolute power.”
  2002/10, The Japan Times, October 30, 2002, p. 12. Review of “Fastes de Versailles.” Kobe Municipal Museum.