Professor
Current Research
Education:
- 1973
- B.A., Kyoto University
- 1975
- M.A., Kyoto University
- 1994
- D., Litt., Kyoto University
Professional Experience:
- 1996 - present
- Professor, International Research Center for Japanese Studies
- 1989 - 1996
- Associate Professor, International Research Center for Japanese Studies
- 1978 - 1989
- Research Associate, Kokuritu ShiryÌkan (Department of Historical Documents, National Institute of Japanese Literature), Government Official in Charge of Education
Served as a Visiting Professor in succession at Tubingen University and Berlin University, Germany; Beijing Foreign Language School in China, The Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium and INALCO, Universite de Paris, France
Specialized Fields:
Historical science (Japanese early modern history, a sociological study of the Samurai family)
Current Research Themes:
The national system and imperial system in the Tokugawa period: Ideology and Behavioral Patterns in Japanese Chivalry
Keywords for Research:
Edo Period, Battle of Sekigahara, Toyotomi regime, Tokugawa regime, shogun (warlord), shogunate, daimyo (feudal lord), han (domain), samurai warrior, samurai family, Emperor, imperial court, Japanese Chivalry, loyalty, remonstrance, detention, self- discipline, political structure, authority, national system
Major publications:
Books
- 2005
- Bushido to Nihon gata nōryoku shugi (Bushido and the Japanese-style meritocracy), Shinchosha
- 2002
- Dodonaeus in Japan: Translation and the Scientific Mind in the Tokugawa Period (co-author and ed.), (Proceeding of International Symposium in Europe. Leuven, Belgium), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
- 2000
- The Origin and Development of Japanese: Style Organization (Western Language Monographs 2), International Research Center for Japanese Studies.
- Sekigahara kassen to kinsei no kokusei (Battle of Sekigahara and National System in the Early Modern Period), Shibunkaku Shuppan.
- 1993
- Kinsei buke shakai no seiji kōzō (The political structure of Bushi society in the Tokugawa Period), Yoshikawa Kobunkan.
Articles
- 2001
- “Bakuhu kanryōsei kikō niokeru si to sireino bunshorui gata” (Classification of Documents in Asking for Instructions and Giving Instructions Shogunate Bureaucratic System), Nihon kinseishiryōgaku kenkyū, Hokkaido University Press.
Awards
- 1988
- Suntory Prize for Social Sciences and Humanities (Structure of "Detention of Lords")
Service and Activities
- Secretary-general, Kansai Gakugeki Festival Association
Academic Society Membership
- The Society of Historical Research
- Japan Paleography Society
- Association of Comparative Studies in History
