Graduate Program in Life Sciences and Culture
Graduate School of Life Sciences
Graduate Program in Life Sciences and Culture
(Master's program) 1 year/2 year course
(Master's program) 1 year/2 year course
Graduate Program in Life Sciences and Culture
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Features of the Department of Life Culture Studies
The feature of this major is that, in order to elucidate the history and culture of Japan and the world, we examine the arts and sciences, including history (Japan, East and West), folklore, archaeology, art history, entertainment history, cultural property studies, and archival studies. We offer a wide range of cross-disciplinary academic fields.For this reason, the historical materials we handle are diverse, including literature, vessels, excavated materials, paintings, sculptures, kagura, and steel cultural properties.The aim of research is to write a master's thesis through academic methods such as understanding previous research and collecting, analyzing, and examining historical materials.After completing their studies, they may proceed to a doctoral course to further deepen their research, or find employment in related jobs such as curators or teachers involved in history and culture.It is also possible to obtain a specialized license (society, geography, history) as a teaching license.
In addition to the two-year course, this major also offers a one-year course in which working adults and current teachers can earn a master's degree in one year.Furthermore, starting in April 2, we have established a program to train archivists, who are specialized in public record management.In this program, you can acquire the "knowledge and skills" required for the National Archives' "Archivist" certification.
In addition to the two-year course, this major also offers a one-year course in which working adults and current teachers can earn a master's degree in one year.Furthermore, starting in April 2, we have established a program to train archivists, who are specialized in public record management.In this program, you can acquire the "knowledge and skills" required for the National Archives' "Archivist" certification.
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Established a one-year course for working adults
This is a step-up course for those with practical experience who have obtained curatorial qualifications and those who aspire to become archivists.We have an easy-to-take system that incorporates online classes.As a non-degree student, you will complete a one-year regular course after receiving prior guidance from your academic advisor.We are only recruiting for the entrance exam for working adults.
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Launch of a program to train “archivists”
In April 2022, we launched a program (one-year and two-year courses/coeducational) to train "archivists" who are responsible for selecting, managing, and preserving records, such as professional staff working in archives such as public archives.This is a program to train archivists certified by the National Archives of Japan.In addition to obtaining a master's degree and completing the courses and credits required for archivist examination at designated graduate schools, those who complete the program will be issued a Showa Women's University accredited qualification, ``Certificate of Completion of the Archivist Training Program.''
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Graduate school activities
Edo Shogunate Diary Publication Society
This is a project to reprint "Edo Shogunate Diary" (Kageinbon, Yumani Shobo) and publish it from the same company.Many students participate because they can gain knowledge about the Edo period, including learning how to read Kuzushiji.
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Flexible acceptance system according to the needs of working students
We aim to provide a place for working adults to acquire more advanced specialized knowledge and research and educational abilities, and to develop talented individuals who can actively work in a variety of fields.
Qualifications that can be acquired
Qualifications available for both 2-year and 1-year programs
(Credits are included in the completion requirements) |
Qualifications that can be obtained with a 2-year course
(Credits are not included in completion requirements) | ||
| Showa Women's University Certified Archivist (1st grade) | Specialized teaching license (Prerequisite) Obtain a Type 1 license in the same school type and subject. | Archaeological Surveyor 1st grade (prerequisite) Archaeological surveyor 2nd grade | Curator (Prerequisite) Women with a bachelor's degree can take daytime classes (to take courses offered by the faculty) |
Academic Advisors and Full-time Faculty Members
| Akemi Tsuruoka
教授 | - Clarify the details of the painting activities of the late Edo period painter Buncho Tani and his family, and explore the relationship with the literati culture of the same period.
・ Research on yellow cover illustrations.A study of the influence of the characters' gestures and the depiction of the interior on the expression of a single picture. |
| Borjigin husel 教授 | 1. Research on the history and culture of various ethnic groups in Northeast Asia
2. Research on the history of international relations between Mongolia, China, Japan, and Russia 3. Research on Silk Road and Tea Road |
| Shinobu Matsuda
教授 | 1.1920. Japanese politics and society from the 1950s to the XNUMXs 2.Development of the atomic bomb survivor movement in postwar Japan |
| Tomotaka Noguchi Associate professor |
1. Researching the Edo shogunate and domains from the perspective of "family."
2. I would like to clarify the reality of samurai society by conducting research on the family during the Edo period, including the main family and branch families, relatives, head and wife, legitimate children and illegitimate children, and women. |
| Yukinori Mino Associate professor |
1. Research on the Meiji Restoration and the dissolution and reorganization of samurai society
2. Archival research on samurai migration to Hokkaido 3.Research on the compilation of regional history and the existence of MLA in the Tama region |
| Eisuke Mouri Associate professor | 1.10. Research on the history of international relations in "East Asia" from the 13th to XNUMXth centuries
2. Research on the history of the Liao and Jin dynasties |
| Ryo Yugami
Associate professor | 1. Research on information management in early modern and modern Europe
2. Research on the development of archives and the archivist system 3. Research on privately held materials and their protection in Japan, the United States, and Europe |
| Yuko Nagai
specialized teacher | - Research into Italian Renaissance art in general, particularly into sculptors active in Rome and Umbria, based on the stylistic characteristics of their works and historical documents.
-Research on Pinturicchio, a painter active around the Papacy in the late 15th century, and his patron, the Vatican. |
Courses offered (2025)
| Archeology research IA | Interpretation and analysis of Kofun period materials | Cultural Properties Research (Culture) IA | |
| Archaeological research IB | Cultural property research (culture) IB | Ethnic cultural assets and local communities | |
| Archaeological research ⅠC | Cultural property research (culture) ⅠC | ||
| Archeology research ⅠD | Environmental Archaeology | Cultural property research (culture)ⅠⅮ | |
| Buried Cultural Property Administration Special Lecture A | Issues surrounding buried cultural property administration | Cultural property research (culture) IE |
Research on conservation and restoration of cultural properties |
| Buried Cultural Property Administration Special Lecture B | Buried cultural property investigation report preparation method | Life and Culture Core Research IA (1 year course) |
Lifestyle culture research
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| Buried cultural property investigation method | Excavation research training (summer intensive) | Lifestyle Culture Special Research IB (1 year) |
Lifestyle culture research
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| Regional Culture Studies IA |
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Archeology Exercise IA |
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| Regional culture research IB | History, society, and culture of Manchuria | Archeology Exercise IB | |
| Regional Culture Research IC | Folk performing arts research | Archeology Exercise ⅠC | |
| Regional Culture Research ID | Nomadic culture and language | Regional culture seminar IB |
Modern society and culture in Northeast Asia |
| Art research IA | Western modern art research | Regional culture seminar ⅠC |
Problems of folk culture |
| Art research IB | Japanese early modern art research | Art Seminar IA |
Problems of Western art
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| Art research ⅠC | Western art history research
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Art Seminar IB |
Various problems in Edo period paintings
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| Historical and Cultural Studies IA | Archival studies | History and Culture Seminar IA |
Problems of Western history |
| History and Culture Research IB | Early modern Japanese history research | History and Culture Seminar IB |
Issues in archival studies
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| History and Culture Research IC | Japanese modern history research | History and Culture Seminar ⅠC |
Issues in modern Japanese history |
| History and Culture Research ID | Study of temple documents | History and Culture Seminar ID |
Politics and thought in early modern Japan |
| History and Culture Research IE | Issues related to Oriental history | History and Culture Seminar IE |
archives exercise |
| Historical and Cultural Studies ⅠF | Archives material theory | History and Culture Seminar IF |
Current Issues in Oriental History |
| History and Culture Research IG | Archives history
| Cultural Properties Seminar IA | |
| Historical and Cultural Studies IH | archives theory |
Life and Culture Core Seminar I (1 year course) |
Problems of lifestyle culture |
| Historical and cultural research ⅠI |
Archives information theory |
Overseas Training IA |
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| Historical and Cultural Studies IJ |
Archives training |
Overseas Training IB |
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| Historical and Cultural Studies IK |
Archives management theory |
Lifestyle Culture Special Study I
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Master's thesis/deliverable creation guidance
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| Historical and Cultural Studies ⅠL |
Western history research |
master's thesis theme
master's thesis theme
- About bottom-pierced, upside-down buried pottery in the Jomon period - especially from cases in the Kanto and Chubu regions -
- The role of ``Oku'' and women's society in early modern daimyo families - A case study of the Hotta family of the Katata domain -
- Diplomats in Korea in the period just before the Sino-Japanese War: Case studies of restrictions on travel to Korea and the issue of neutralization in Incheon
- Renoir's Moulin de la Galette and his works up to 1885 - Focusing on the placement of figures and spatial composition -
- Archival research on modern and contemporary private documents - Research on information organization of materials related to Chikuro Hiroike -