Melinda Takeuchi is an academic, an author, a Japanologist and a Professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and the Department of Art History at Stanford University

Stanford University

The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...

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Early life

Takeuchi grew up in what was then rural-Malibu in Southern California. In 1966, she earned a B.A. in Asian Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara

University of California, Santa Barbara

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 (UCSB). She continued her studies at UCSB, earning a M.A. with Honors in the History of Art in 1972. In Japan in 1975-1976, she was a Research Fellow at Waseda University

Waseda University

, abbreviated as , is one of the most prestigious private universities in Japan and Asia. Its main campuses are located in the northern part of Shinjuku, Tokyo. Founded in 1882 as Tokyo Senmon Gakko, the institution was renamed "Waseda University" in 1902. It is known for its liberal climate...

 in Tokyo.

Takeuchi was awarded her Ph.D. in the History of Art in 1979 at the University of Michigan

University of Michigan

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Career

Takeuchi invested thirty years climbing the tenure-track ladder at Stanford.
In recent years, Takeuchi's life in academia has been balanced by the activities associated with breeding Friesian horse

Friesian horse

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s on a small ranch in Northern California.

Selected works

In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Melinda Takeuchi, OCLC

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encompasses roughly 10+ works in 20+ publications in 2 languages and 1,000+ library holdings.

• Poem paintings: [catalog of] an Exhibition 29th November-13th December 1977 (1977)
• Visions of a Wanderer: the True View Paintings of Ike Taiga (1723-1776) (1979)
• Ike Taiga, a Biographical Study (1983)
• Taiga's True Views: the Language of Landscape Painting in Eighteenth-Century Japan (1992)
• Origins of Modern Society: Legacies and Visions of East Asian Cultures. Tape 13, From Modelbook to Sketchbook: Sinophiles, Europhiles, and the Explosion of Visual Thinking in Eighteenth-Century Japanese Art (1992)
• Worlds Seen and Imagined: Japanese Screens from the Idemitsu Museum of Arts: [the Asia Society Galleries, New York], October 18 - December 31, 1995 (1995)
• The Artist as Professional in Japan (2004)
• Revisiting Modern Japanese Prints: Selected Works from the Richard F. Grott Family Collection: Northern Illinois University Art Museum, January 15-March 7, 2008 (2007)