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Masato Fukuda

ふくだ まひと

Fukuda Masato

Pen Names: Yukisako SakomiRegistered name in the Japan Writers' Association

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
Kyoto
Nationality
Japan
Languages
Japanese

Career

Occupations
medical historian, comparative cultural researcher
Affiliations
Nagoya University, Nagoya University of Foreign Studies
Memberships
Japanese Writers' Association
Influenced By
Toru Haga, Junhito Sawai, Gojin Nishimura, Shunsuke Kamei
Influenced
Mari Yoshihara

Education

Graduate School of Engineering and Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto University
Faculty of Engineering / Department of Resource Engineering
Country: Japan
Influenced by poet Junhito Sawai and others, published literary magazines during enrollment
Graduate School of Humanities and Human Sciences, University of Tokyo
Graduate School of Humanities and Human Sciences / Master's Program in Comparative Literature and Culture
Country: Japan
Studied under Toru Haga
Graduate School of Humanities and Human Sciences, University of Tokyo
Graduate School of Humanities and Human Sciences / Doctoral Program
Degree: 博士(学術)
Year of Graduation: 1994
Country: Japan
Awarded Doctor of Philosophy (Academic)

Awards

Mainichi Publishing Culture Award
1995
Work: The Cultural History of Tuberculosis
Organization: Mainichi Newspapers
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Public Health and the Modern State

1994 Scholarly work

The Cultural History of Tuberculosis: The Image of Disease in Modern Japan

1995 Scholarly work
tuberculosiscultural history

Tuberculosis as Culture: A Comparative Cultural History of Disease

2001 Scholarly work
tuberculosiscomparative cultural history

Shibasaburo Kitasato: If There Is Heat and Sincerity

2008 Biography
biographyhistory of medicine

Water and Cleanliness: A Comparative Cultural History of Baths, Toilets, and Waterworks

2024 Scholarly work
watercleanlinesscomparative cultural history

Bibliography

  • Public Health and the Modern State
  • The Cultural History of Tuberculosis: The Image of Disease in Modern Japan
  • Tuberculosis as Culture: A Comparative Cultural History of Disease
  • Shibasaburo Kitasato: If There Is Heat and Sincerity
  • Water and Cleanliness: A Comparative Cultural History of Baths, Toilets, and Waterworks
  • A Study of the History of Syphilis in Japan: Medicine, Society, and the State
  • Hospitals and Disease
  • Japan and Victorian Britain: Forms of Exchange
  • Health Transitions and the Double Disease Burden in Asia and the Pacific
  • George B. Newton, RN, and the First Syphilis Hospital in Yokohama
  • History of Medicine (Supervised Translation)
  • Literary History of Tuberculosis Introduction: Comparative Cultural Study of Disease

Translations by Author

  • History of Medicine

Style & Themes

Literary Style
academiccomparative cultural
Recurring Motifs
diseasebodyculture

Legacy

Contributed to Japanese medical history through cultural history research of tuberculosis

Academic Societies

  • Japanese Writers' Association

Trivia

  • His father was painter Fukuda Gansho and his mother was haiku poet Mashako Fukuda