Research fields:
Japanese Ancient Literature (seventh to tenth centuries A.D.)
Research themes:
Study on ŌTOMO no Yakamochi, compilation of the Man’yoshū, history of literature from the Man’yoshū to the period of the Kokinshū, generation of the concept of genre in Japanese literature
[Keywords] Ancient Japanese literature, Man’yoshū, poems
Main books and papers:
◆“Urakanashiki Kei–Otomo no Yakamochi no Shunshuka no Hyogen wo Megutte [Melancholic Landscape–concerning the Expressions of ŌTOMO no Yakamochi in the Poems on Spring Melancholy]. ” Kokugo to kokubungaku, Volume 94, No. 4 (2017) pp.3-17
◆“Baikauta Sanjū-ni Shu Saidoku [Re-reading the Thirty-Two Poems on Plum Blossoms.]” Man’yoshū Kenkyu, No. 36 (2016) pp.53-82
◆“Sengaku-bon ni okeru ‘Yomi’ no Tenkai [Deployment of “Reading” in Sengaku-bon].” Manyo, No. 221 (2016) pp.24-43
◆“Ōtomo no Yakamochi ni okeru Taigendome no Uta [Poems Using Taigendome Composed by ŌTOMO no Yakamochi].” Ronshū Jōdai Bungaku, Volume 36 (2014) pp.111-126
◆Ōtomo no Yakamochi no Kagun to Hensan [Group of Poems by ŌTOMO no Yakamochi and the Compilation]. Hanawa Shobō, 2010