Research fields:
Ancient Japanese literature and Japanese folk culture
Research themes:
Study of ancient Japanese literature and folk culture
Academic degrees:
D.Ph. (literature)
Main books and papers:
◆Uta no gensho e: Miyakojima Karimata no kamiuta to shinwa [In Search of the Origins of Poetry: The Sacred Poems and Legends of Karimata, Miyako-jima] (sole author; Ohfu, 2014)
◆Koten ni miru Nihonjin no sei to shi [The Life and Death of Japanese as Seen in Classical Literature] (co-author; Kasama Shoin, 2013)
◆Nihon shoki “ka” zenchū̄shaku [A Complete Commentary on the Poems in The Chronicles of Japan] (co-editor; Kasama Shoin, 2008)
◆Tōhoku bungei no fōkuroa [Tohoku Literary Folklore] (sole author; Michinoku Shobo, 2006)
Kodai no uta to joji bungeishi [A History of Ancient Poetry and Chronicles”) (sole author; Kasama Shoin, 2003)
◆Shinwa to gendai [Myths and Modernity] (co-author; Kazama Shobo, 1997)