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Romi Hida is a Professor at Waseda University's Faculty of Letters, Arts and Sciences, School of Humanities and Social Sciences. She also serves as Director of Waseda University Aizu Museum since 2019 and as a Research Fellow at China Academy of Art's China Institute for Visual Studies since 2021. With a PhD in Literature from Waseda University, Professor Hida has established herself as a leading scholar in East Asian art history with particular focus on Buddhist art.
Professor Hida earned her graduate degrees from Waseda University, completing her Graduate School studies in the Division of Letters from 1978 to 1987. Her academic journey includes positions at numerous prestigious institutions including Seisen University, Tohoku University of Art and Design, Rikkyo University, and Nihon Bunka University before her long-standing appointment at Waseda University.
Professor Hida's research primarily focuses on Art History and Buddhist Art, with special emphasis on Chinese Buddhist sculpture, particularly from the Sui-Tang period and the Sichuan region. Her work examines the transmission of Buddhist art from India through Central Asia to China and Japan, analyzing iconography, stylistic developments, and the relationship between religious texts and visual representations. She has conducted extensive field research on cliff sculptures in Sichuan province, employing advanced 3D measurement techniques to document and analyze these historical artifacts. Her scholarship bridges art history, religious studies, and archaeology, with particular interest in how political power and religious institutions interacted in the creation and veneration of Buddhist images.
Professor Hida's extensive publication record demonstrates her expertise in East Asian Buddhist art history, with particular focus on Chinese sculpture from the Sui-Tang period. Her research reveals consistent patterns in the transmission of Buddhist iconography from India through Central Asia to China, with special attention to regional variations in Sichuan province. She has made significant contributions to understanding the relationship between textual sources like Daoxuan's "Collection of the Three Treasures of China" and actual sculptural representations. Her work often examines how political authority intersected with religious practice in the commissioning and veneration of Buddhist images, particularly through analysis of inscriptions and contextual evidence from cliff sculpture sites.
- Guohua Award (2012.10) for "Research on Buddhist Art in the Early Tang Dynasty"
Professor Hida has supervised numerous graduate students at Waseda University and has collaborated extensively with Chinese institutions on joint research projects. She has received multiple competitive research grants from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, including projects on "Construction and Implementation of a Deep Learning System for Estimating the Production Date and Region of Buddhist Statues" and "Stylistic analysis of Buddhist sculptures by using Artificial Intelligence and 3D measurement data." Her international collaborations include joint fieldwork with Sichuan University and Chengdu City Research Institute of Archaeology on cliff sculptures in western Sichuan province.
As Director of Waseda University Aizu Museum, Professor Hida oversees significant collections related to Japanese art history. Her research has also involved establishing digital archives of Chinese cliff sculptures, creating valuable preservation records of these vulnerable cultural heritage sites. She has been instrumental in developing methodologies for non-contact 3D documentation of Buddhist sculptures, contributing to both scholarly research and conservation efforts.
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