Yukio Yashiro

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Yukio Yashiro (矢代 幸雄) was a Japanese academic, art historian, Botticelli scholar and Director of the Institute for Art Research in Tokyo.

Biography

In 1960, he became the founding director of the Museum of Japanese Art (Yamato Bunkakan) in Nara, Nara. This museum of Asian art was established to preserve and display the private collection of the Kintetsu Corporation (Kinki Nippon Railway Co., Ltd.).

Honors

Selected works

In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Yukio Yashiro, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 100+ works in 100+ publications in 7 languages and in 1,000+ library holdings. The most widely held works by Yashiro include:

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