| e-mail: | kokubungaku(at)l.u-tokyo.ac.jp *Replace (at) with @. |
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| Tel: | 03-5841-3818 |
| Fax: | 03-5841-8963 |
The Department of Japanese Literature focuses on the education and research on Japanese literature from ancient times to the modern era. The department is divided by period: Ancient, Heian, medieval, early modern, and modern and contemporary literature. In each period is found a diverse range of literature and arts, including verse forms such as waka poetry, and haikai, prose such as stories, diaries, novels, and drama such as Noh plays and Kabuki plays. In all of these areas, the basic approach is to first carefully analyze each work, and then to reconsider the work and its context from a more macroscopic, literary-historical perspective.
Teaching staff
Shinya ABE (Assistant Professor) Japanese Literature, Modern and Contemporary Literature
| Research fields: | Modern and contemporary Japanese literature, especially detective novels. Juran HISAO (For more information, https://www.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/eng/teacher/database/14915.html) |
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Hanako KINOSHITA (Associate Professor) Japanese Literature, Medieval Literature
| Research fields: | Japanese medieval literature, waka literature, essays, travelogues, and narrative literature. |
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| Courses taught: | Her seminar focuses on close readings of medieval literature. Her lectures discuss medieval Japanese works and authors and consider worlds created by language and consciousness of expression across genres. (For more information, https://www.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/eng/teacher/database/7346.html) |
Tatsuya KONO (Associate Professor) Japanese Literature, Modern and Contemporary Literature
| Research fields: | Japanese modern and contemporary literature, exchanges between art and literature, travelogues to Asia by modern writers. |
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| Courses taught: | His seminars mainly focus on short stories by various authors from the modern literary canon, to acquire methods for the theory of works. His lectures consider literary themes in modern times in a diachronic manner, reading individual texts. (For more information, https://www.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/eng/teacher/database/14217.html) |
Yukiko SATO (Professor) Japanese Literature, Early Modern Literature
| Research fields: | Drama, storytelling, and so on. |
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| Courses taught: | Seminar with close readings of literature of the early modern period. Her lectures discuss individual works of early modern literature and examine issues surrounding literature. (For more information, https://www.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/eng/teacher/database/6902.html) |
Kazuko TAKAGI (Professor) Japanese literature, Heian literature
| Research fields: | Japanese Heian literature, mainly “The Tale of Genji” and other stories, diaries, and waka poems. |
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| Courses taught: | Her seminars focus on close readings of Heian literature. Her lectures discuss various literary-historical, cross-genre issues, focusing on the language and expression of ancient texts, waka and prose, and narrative structure. (For more information, https://www.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/eng/teacher/database/229.html) |
Masahiro TETSUNO (Professor) Japanese Literature, Early Japanese Literature
| Research fields: | Early Japanese literature, waka literature with a focus on “Manyoshu,” and poetry. |
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| Courses taught: | His seminars examine in detail how individual poems can be read in terms of textual differences. His lectures discuss how poems are organically connected to form texts and intersect with historical contexts. (For more information, https://www.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/eng/teacher/database/231.html) |
