Division of Tangible Cultural Resources
Seiichi Nakamura, Division Leader

This division conducts survey, research, protection, and utilization regarding tangible cultural resources, things which exist in a certain form, like landscapes, archeological sites, various buildings, paintings, sculptures, and craftworks. As for specific research fields, it includes the disciplines of art history, craft history, archeology, architecture history, landscape history, cultural heritage studies, museology, etc, but it hopes to do research from diversified, comprehensive viewpoints, beyond the material, methodological limit inherent in each discipline. Naturally, its survey and research cover large area, from Asia and Europe to American continents. It also carries out a wide variety of activities, ranging from the excavation and preservation of cultural heritage sites to human resource development in education and utilization. Under these principles, it has conducted various international joint research activities: Jordon Archeology Studies and Education Cooperation Project, Vietnam Public Archeology Project, Indian Religious Architecture Survey and Research of Project, World Mixed Heritage Tikal Overall Project, pursuing abundant potential for international cultural resources studies.

 

STAFF

NAME	OFFICIAL TITLES	MAJOR
Seiichi Nakamura	Professor, Center for Cultural Resources Studies	AMayan archeology, World heritage studies
Takaharu Miyashita	Professor, School of Humanities	Italian art history
Sumio Fujii	Professor, School of Humanities	West Asian archaeology
Naomichi Yaguchi	Associate professor, School of Humanities	Eastern architectural history
Takuro Adachi	Associate professor, School of Humanities	West Asian archaeology, Museology
Masaaki Omura	Professor, School of Teacher Education	Fresco, oil, and tempera painting
Nozomu Eto	Associate professor, School of Teacher Education	Sculpture production studies, Carving design theory
Makoto Arimura	Project Associate professor, School of Humanities	World heritage studies
Shinji Tsukawaki*	Professor, Institute of Nature and Environmental Technology	Marine Geology
Mariko Yamagata	Project Professor, Center for Cultural Resource Studies	Southeast Asian Archaeology
Qin Xiao Li	Project Associate Professor, Center for Cultural Resource Studies	Chinese Archaeology, Museology
Yasuyuki Yoshida	Project Associate Professor, Center for Cultural Resource Studies	East Asian Archaeology, Museology
Eri Matumura	Project Assistant Professor, Center for Cultural Resource Studies	Cultural Anthropology
Koyanagi Yoshiki**		Chinese archeology
Masashi Abe**	National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, Tokyo Research Fellow	West Asian archaeology

*supporting professor　**visiting professor