Wordless picture books such as Gabriel Vincent's ``Enjour'' and Shaun Tan's ``Arrival'' (Wordless Picturebooks) I am researching picture book expressions, focusing on narrative expressions.Pictures are a medium that can convey a variety of information in a way different from text, and I am focusing on expression and thinking about what kind of ideas can be used to convey a story using pictures alone.I am mainly interested in the image expression of printed materials for the general public, including manga and illustrations.
Miki Yamamoto
YAMAMOTO Miki
Affiliation / Job title:Art/Associate Professor
Areas of study:Visual Communication Design
Bachelor of Science:PhD (Design Studies)
Field of Study
Research on picture book expression, especially narrative expression in picture books without text
Creation of manga and illustrations related to story expression
Resesarch topics
Story expression mechanism without text
History, development, and transition of narrative expression without text
Main works
Main books/papers
“Effectiveness of pages without text in stories” “Ehon Gaku”21issue, Picture book society, pp.13-24 , 2019
"Mitsumasa Yasuno's wordless picture book" "Eureka"2021Years7Monthly special issue, pp.353-360, 2021
“Thinking about the new coronavirus through picture books” "Picture books about hygiene and initiatives seen around the picture books" "Picture booksBOOKEND 2021"18issue, pp.77-82, 2021-07
Awards
2013 First17Osamu Tezuka Cultural Award New Life Award
2021 First4Japan Picture Book Research Award Encouragement Award
2021 First24Japan Media Arts Festival Manga Division Excellence Award
Biography
2021 Associate Professor, Faculty of Art, University of Tsukuba
2016 University of Tsukuba Art Department Assistant Professor
