Assistant Professor

Department of Integrated Humanities
(Comparative Studies of Culture)

E-mail: [at]hiroshima-u.ac.jp

I am attempting to approach children's literature from not only a textual perspective but also a visual perspective. I am conducting comparative studies between Japanese and Chinese children's magazines from various perspectives, including both literature and art. I am also interested in the relationship between the expressive medium of picture books and art.

Children's Literature；Children's Culture；Iconography

My specialty is children's literature. In lectures and seminars, students learn basic research methods for each of the following literary works: fairy tales, picture books, magazines, and animation; They analyze specific works to deepen their knowledge and understanding of children's literature and culture. In terms of research, the functions of children's publishing art in Japanese and Chinese children's magazines have been examined from various perspectives in the first half of the 20th century. In particular, I focus on cover pictures, frontispieces, and illustrations in magazines. I studied their representations, characteristics, and relationship to the times, their functions for readers, and the editors' intentions.

• The Role of Illustrations for Translations of Fairy Tales in Akai Tori and Ertong Shijie: A Case Study on the Comparison of The Little Match Girl between Japan and China, Studies in Comparative Culture, 133, pp.63-74, 2018.
• Paintings in Akai Tori and Ertong Shijie: Focusing on the paintings by Yoshio Shimizu and Dungu Xu, Hokkengakkan, 14, pp.32-40, 2018.
• Comparative Study of Akai Tori and Ertong Shijie: Focusing on Cover Pictures, Comparative Studies of Japanese Culture, 10, pp.86-113, 2017.
• Significance of the Ways How the Characters are Called in Sorekara: A Case Study Based on Handwritten Manuscript by Sōseki, TSUKUBA STUDIES IN LITERATURE, 33, pp.1-12, 2015.
• Natsume Sōseki's Perception of the Newspaper Reporter: Through an Analysis of the Image of Hiraoka in Sorekara, DAXUE WAIYU YANJIU WENJI, 16, pp.193-200, 2015.