Research fields:
History (Japanese early modern and modern popular history, social and cultural history; history of intercultural communication)
Research themes:
Social culture and popular ideas in the formative period of the nation-state; social history of violence; history of Japanese-Korean intercultural exchange
[Keywords]
Social and cultural history, popular history, popular culture as media, social history of violence
Main books and papers:
◆“Bakumatsusyakai” (Society in the last days of the Tokugawa Shogunate), Iwanami Shoten, Publishers, 2022
◆“Sanyutei Encho to Minsyusyakai” (Sanyutei Encho and Popular World), Yushisha, 2017
◆“Yoshida Shoin no Jidai” (The Period of Yoshida Shoin), Iwanami Shoten, Publishers, 2017
◆“Sanyutei Encho to Edo rakugo” (Sanyutei Encho and Edo rakugo) Yoshikawa-Kobunkan, 2015
◆“Gendai wo ikiru nihonshi” (Living Japanese history) (Joint authorship), Iwanami Shoten, 2014
◆“Hikakushiteki ni mita kinsei Nippon” (Early-modern Japan from a comparative history perspective) editor, Tokyodo, 2011
◆“Itsudatsu suru hyakusho” (Peasants breaking free) editor, Tokyodo, 2010
◆“Bakumatsu no yonaoshi” (Social reforms at the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate), Yoshikawa-Kobunkan, 2010
◆“Ikon no hokai made” (Through the breakdown of the icons), Aoki Shoten, 2008
◆“Boryoku no chihei wo koete” (Beyond the horizons of violence), Aoki Shoten, 2004
◆“‘Akuto’ no 19-seiki” (The 19th century of ‘scoundrels’), Aoki Shoten, 2002