My research is concerned with the relationships between modern Japanese literature and cinematic expression.
Concentrating particularly on the collaboration between Abe Kobo and the director Teshigahara Hiroshi, I am engaged in a correlative reading of original novels, film scripts, and movies.
By focusing on the cinematic statements of writers, I am developing research which reads the literary history of Japan from new angles and at the same time reconsiders the history of film theory in Japan.
I am also involved in research into novels set in Okinawa, particularly those of Medoruma Shun, research into materials typically used in school Japanese classes, and digitizing film projects.
Born in 1979 in Nara Prefecture.
Ph.D (Literature) from Ritsumeikan University Graduate Faculty of Letters in 2008.
Scholar of Japanese modern literature and cinema.
Works include Sengo zen'ei eiga to bungaku--Abe Kobo x Teshigahara Hiroshi (Postwar avant-garde film and literature: Abe Kobo x Teshigahara Hiroshi) (2012) *Recipient of the Japan Comparative Literature Association Award
Editorial Committee, Encyclopedia of Modern Kyoto Literature, Japan Modern Literature Association Kansai Branch (Part:Joint Work, People: Itami Juzo, Uchida Tomu, Sekimoto Ikuo, Teshigahara Hiroshi, Nakae Yuji, Nakajima Sadao, Hirabayashi Hatsunosuke)
Editorial Committee, Encyclopedia of Modern Hyogo Literature, Japan Modern Literature Association Kansai Branch (Part:Joint Work, People: Urayama Kirio, Kato Tai, Chung Uishin, Hara Kenzaburo, Funahara Chosei)
Encyclopedia of Modern Kyoto Literature Japan Modern Literature Association Kansai Branch, Editorial Committee of the Encyclopedia of Modern Kyoto Literature -pp.38,62,190,238,250,253,298 May 2013 [Invited]
Winner of Mainichi Film Competition, Student Film Reviews, 2006 Grand Prize "Student Film Review Grand Prize" (Mainichi Shinbun-sponsored, 2006). Review of Yokohama Mary, dir. Nakamura Takahiro.
Sample lecture for Shinshu University Faculty of Education open campus:
"On the problems of the sky and war: The children's war literature of Aman Kimiko and Nosaka Akiyuki"
May 2013
Association for Modern Japanese Literary Studies, Spring Conference: Young Researchers' Workshop Advisor
Apr 2009
Uji Literature Circle Lecturer (through August 2012)
