Study of the Correspondence between Yukio Yashiro and Bernard Berenson

• Project/Area Number: 26370128
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Fine art history
• Research Institution: Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music
• Principal Investigator: Koshikawa Michiaki 東京藝術大学, 美術学部, 教授 (60178259)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 山梨 絵美子 独立行政法人国立文化財機構東京文化財研究所, 文化財情報資料部, 部長等 (30170575)
• Research Collaborator: NELSON Jonathan ; タッティ ヴィッラ・イ ハーヴァード大学, 付属ルネサンス研究所, 前副所長 ; DELLA MONICA Ilaria ; NAKAMURA Akiko 大妻女子大学, 非常勤講師 ; KOBAYASHI Akiko 東京藝術大学, 非常勤講師 ; FUKADA Maria 東京藝術大学, 非常勤講師
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2016)
• Budget Amount: ¥4,680,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,080,000); Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000); Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000); Fiscal Year 2014: ¥2,340,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥540,000)
• Keywords: 西洋美術史 / 日本近代美術史学史 / イタリア・ルネサンス美術 / 東洋美術

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this research project we examined the unpublished correspondence between Yukio Yashiro and Bernard Berenson. We have determined plausible dates for the undated Yashiro letters and gathered information on numerous persons mentioned in the letters. Then we transcribed all the letters in English and published them in the online exhibition posted in the website of Villa I Tatti - Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies. Further, we have translated all the letters into Japanese, making them ready for book-form publication in Japanese. The friendship between Yashiro and Berenson had a decisive importance for the methodological development of art history in Japan, and the present research project has made possible for the first time the publication of the original correspondence of these distinguished scholars.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] The Publisher of the Woodcut Triumph of the Christian Knight after Battista Franco (2016)
  • Author(s): Michiaki Koshikawa
  • Journal Title: Aspects of Problems in Western Art History（東京芸術大学西洋美術史研究室紀要） Volume: 14 Pages: 107-114
  • NAID: 120006465912
• [Journal Article] ボッティチェリを語る日本人評論家―-『タイムズ・リテラリー・サプルメント』、1925年11月12日号より (2016)
  • Author(s): 平井彩可
  • Journal Title: Aspects of Problems in Western Art History（東京芸術大学西洋美術史研究室紀要） Volume: 14 Pages: 175-184
• [Journal Article] The Yashiro-Berenson Correspondence (2015)
  • Author(s): Michiaki Koshikawa
  • Journal Title: Yashiro and Berenson: Art History between Japan and Italy (online exhibition) Volume: 巻数なし
  • Open Access / Int'l Joint Research / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] Yukio Yashiro and the Institute of Art Research: Realizing the Goal of Introducing Berenson’s Methodology to Japan (2015)
  • Author(s): Emiko Yamanashi
  • Journal Title: Yashiro and Berenson: Art History between Japan and Italy (online exhibition) Volume: 巻数なし
  • Open Access / Int'l Joint Research / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] 矢代幸雄とバーナード・ベレンソン：往復書簡（1923-1959）の概要 (2015)
  • Author(s): 越川倫明
  • Journal Title: Aspects of Problems in Western Art History（東京芸術大学西洋美術史研究室紀要） Volume: 13 Pages: 189-198
  • NAID: 120005753504
  • Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] 国際シンポジウム「エル・グレコ―クレタ時代」（報告） (2014)
  • Author(s): 越川倫明
  • Journal Title: Aspects of Problems in Western Art History Volume: vol. 13 Pages: 139-141
• [Presentation] 矢代幸雄『受胎告知』を再読する (2016)
  • Author(s): 越川倫明
  • Organizer: 美術史家矢代幸雄における西洋と東洋
  • Place of Presentation: 東京文化財研究所
  • Year and Date: 2016-01-13
• [Presentation] ベレンソンと矢代幸雄をつなぐ両洋の美術への視点 (2016)
  • Author(s): 山梨絵美子
  • Organizer: 美術史家矢代幸雄における西洋と東洋
  • Place of Presentation: 東京文化財研究所
  • Year and Date: 2016-01-13
• [Presentation] 矢代幸雄と原三渓 (2015)
  • Author(s): 山梨絵美子
  • Organizer: 横浜美術館 招待講演
  • Place of Presentation: 横浜美術館
  • Year and Date: 2015-11-14
  • Invited
• [Presentation] Andrea Schiavone, Battista Franco and the Grimani Family: On the historical context of the Modena Triptych and its visual sources (2014)
  • Author(s): MIchiaki Koshikawa
  • Organizer: International Conference: El Greco: The Cretan Years
  • Place of Presentation: Historical Museum of Crete, Heraklion
  • Year and Date: 2014-06-22
  • Invited
• [Book] Yashiro and Berenson: Art History between Japan and Italy (2015)
  • Author(s): Jonathan Nelson, Emiko Yamanashi, Michiaki Koshikawa
  • Publisher: Villa I Tatti - Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies (website)
• [Book] 『美術家列伝』第三巻 (2015)
  • Author(s): ジョルジョ・ヴァザーリ、森田義之、越川倫明、ほか
  • Total Pages: 546
  • Publisher: 中央公論美術出版
• [Remarks] Yashiro and Berenson
  • URL: http://yashiro.itatti.harvard.edu/
• [Funded Workshop] 美術史家矢代幸雄における西洋と東洋 (2016)
  • Place of Presentation: 東京文化財研究所
  • Year and Date: 2016-01-13