Nobuko Senoo, 2025–26

Nobuko Senoo received her MA in Comparative Studies of Culture from the Graduate School of Comparative Culture at Kyoritsu Women’s University (Japan) in 2001. Her master’s thesis is entitled Kohei keishiki no Chuugoku ryuunyuu to sono hensen: Houryouji kennou houmotsu Ryuushu suibyou no keifu (The transmission into China and evolution of Persian-styled ewers: The genealogy of the dragon-headed water pot that the Houryouji Monastery presented to the emperor as a treasure). Her bachelor’s thesis at Keio University (1998) is entitled Chugoku Shutsudo no Higashi Ro-ma Kinka (The gold coins of Eastern Rome excavated in China). She also studied at Luoyang University and Peking University in China in 1991–93 and has good proficiency in Chinese. She worked as a museum staff member at Okayama Orient Museum from 2002–05 and 2010–11. She was appointed by Asahi Shimbunsha Newspaper Office, Tokyo, as a researcher of the Annual Dunhuang Research Fellows Dispatch System to conduct onsite researches on Dunhuang frescos in China in 2001. She also participated in many onsite archaeological excavations and field work in China from 1995–2001.

Selected Publications

• Senoo, Nobuko. “Hawai de mitsuketa risoukyou ‘Shanguri ra’” ハワイで見つけた理想郷 シャングリ・ラ [The Utopia found in Hawaii: The Shangri La]. Lapis (Bulletin of the Okayama Orient Museum Friendship Association), no. 44 (March 2024): 14–17.
• Senoo, Nobuko. “Hekiga ni egakareta kibutsu no kikei no hensen” 壁画に描かれた器物の器形 の変遷 [The Evolution of the Form of Utensils Depicted in Frescos]. Asahi Tonkou kenkyuuin haken seido kinenshi 朝日敦煌研究員派遣制度記念誌 [Commemorative Record of the Dunhuang Research Fellows Dispatch System of Asahi Shimbunsha]. Asahi Shimbunsha, 2008.
• Senoo, Nobuko, ed. Touki ga kataru raise no risoukyou: Chuugoku kodai no kurashi to yume-kennchiku, hito, doubutsu 陶器が語る来世の理想郷：中国古代の暮らしと夢：建築・人・動物 [Dream of Ideal Life in Ancient China: Ceramic Miniatures of Architectures, Household Goods, People and Animals]. Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum and Machida City Museum, 2005.
• Senoo, Nobuko. “Chuugoku Neika shutsudo gin kohei no ishou to keitou” 中国寧夏出土銀胡瓶の意匠と系統 [The Artistic Conception and System of the Silver non-Chinese Pot Excavated in Ningxia, China]. Paper presented at the 49th annual meeting of the Association of Ethnic Arts in Tokyo, Japan, December 11, 2004.
• Senoo, Nobuko. “Kohei keishiki no Chuugoku ryuunyuu to sono hensen: Houryouji kennou houmotsu Ryuushu suibyou no keifu” 胡瓶型式の中国流入とその変遷：法隆寺献納宝物竜首水瓶の系譜 [The Transmission into China and Evolution of Persian-styled Ewers: The Genealogy of the Dragon-headed Water Pot that the Houryouji Monastery Presented to the Emperor as a Treasure]. Tokyo: Kyoritsu Women’s University, 2001.