Teaching Staff (Liberal Arts Core)

Title	Professor
Research Fields	Museology / Japanese art history / History of modern entertainment
Education	2010 Ph.D. (Literature), University of Tokyo 2006 Doctoral Course (Cultural Resources Studies – completed without degree), University of Tokyo 1983 Bachelor’s (Eastern and Japanese Art History), Tohoku University, Sendai
Selected Professional Experience	2021-Present Professor, Akita University of Art Adjunct Lecturer, Koriyama Women’s University, Fukushima 2012-2020 Director, Koriyama City Museum of Art, Fukushima 1984-2012 Curator, Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art
Recent Activities	<Selected curated exhibitions> 2020 Ishida Tomoko Installation Exhibition: Zouke – Ari no mama ni [Zouke: Just as you are]. Koriyama City Museum of Art, Fukushima 2019 Shimura Fukumi – Shiga Kenritsu Kindai Bijutsukan Korekushon o chushin ni [Shimura Fukumi: The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga Collection]. Various locations including the Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki; Koriyama City Museum of Art, Fukushima 2016 Aesthetic eyes of Morita Tadashi. Koriyama City Museum of Art, Fukushima Toile de Jouy, printed textiles from France. Various locations including Koriyama City Museum of Art, Fukushima 2011 Returning home: Edo paintings from the Gitter-Yelen Collection. Various locations including Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art 2008 Isa Toshihiko, Shimura Fukumi: Pioneers of dyeing and weaving. Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art 2006 Hagire no Nihon-bunka – Jiku o tsunagu nuno no chikara [Japan’s culture of cloth scraps: Cloth that connects times and spaces]. (Winner, 2006 Outstanding Essay Award, Independent exhibition category, The Japan Association of Art Museums) Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art   <Single-author book> 2013 Kinsei Shonai ni okeru geino-kogyo no kenkyu – Tsuruoka / Sakata / Kuromori [Research on arts and entertainment in modern Shonai: Tsuruoka, Sakata and Kuromori]. (Winner, Yasuji Honda Award, The Society of Folkloric Performing Arts, Waseda University) Serica Syobo
Courses Taught	Introduction to Museology Museum Management Exhibitions and Displays Museum Collections Collections Care Museum Education Museum Informatics and Media Curation Practicum Art and Architecture of the Tohoku Region

Further details (in Japanese) can be found at the following link: SAJI Yukari (Japanese page)