The West Cliff of Omura (1868- 1967), formerly known as Yanze Ji Feng, is a famous art historian and art critic. He used to be a professor at Tokyo Fine Arts School, his alma mater, teaching courses such as art, sculpture, aesthetics, archaeology, oriental history and oriental art history. Later, he served as the director of the sculpture department of the Palace Museum.
1906 participated in the establishment of the Academy of Fine Arts. 1923, together with Wang Yiting and Wu Changshuo, he established the You Mei Painting and Calligraphy Society (China-Art Society) in Hangzhou, and compiled and published A Record of Today's Painting in Yuyu, introducing more than 40 modern Japanese painters and their creations to Japanese readers.
His major works include History of Sculpture Art in China, A Brief History of Painting in China and History of the Development of Tantric Buddhism (five volumes), and he won the Royal Academy Award.
Fan Jianming was born in Wuxi, Jiangsu. 1982 graduated from Chinese Department of Soochow University. From 65438 to 0988, he traveled to Japan and obtained master's (education) and doctor's (literature) degrees from Tokyo University of the Arts and Japan University.
Now he is a professor at the University of Electric Communication. The main translated works are Poetic Style in Edo Period-On Three Poetic Theories of Ming and Qing Dynasties and Their Influence, Literati's Literature and Art and Their World in the Middle Tang Dynasty, Textual Research on China's Famous Things, Travel Notes of Northern China in Qing Dynasty, etc.
The Content of China Sculpture History
The first edition of Sculpture History of China (original title: Art History of China-Sculpture) was published in 19 15, which is the representative work of Westinghouse Omura on China's art research. The author Westinghouse Omura compiled this book. With extraordinary enthusiasm and amazing perseverance, he collected the historical materials of China sculpture in great detail, and made detailed analysis, classification and sharp comments.
The book takes time as the classics and works as the latitudes, starting from ancient books and ending in the Five Dynasties. By the time the book was written, there were more than 200 kinds of records, more than 2,600 kinds of stone inscriptions and 978 precious pictures in the appendix, which were interwoven vertically and horizontally and illustrated with pictures and texts, making the development track of China's sculpture history for thousands of years well documented and vivid.
China scholar Luo Zhenyu, famous Japanese writer Mori Yoshiro, architectural historian Itochu, Guan, etc. And personally prefaced the book.
The History of China Sculpture had a great influence on the academic circles at that time and later. Liang Sicheng participated in the compilation of China Sculpture History when he was teaching it at Northeastern University 1929 to 1930.