"Yushi anzuru itoma mo kokoro awatadashikereba: The Koto-Music Environment of the Author of The Tale of Genji" is an article that examines the musical culture surrounding the author of The Tale of Genji through the text and historical background of court music.

It rereads The Tale of Genji through the cultural environment of koto music.

"On Sugawara no Michizane's Gift Poems" examines forms of poetic exchange in Michizane's Chinese-style poetry. Through the relation between gifts and poems, it reads the social dimension of Heian kanshi.

It reads Michizane's kanshi through the exchange between gifts and poems.

"A Genealogy of Wandering Officials: Qu Yuan, Ariwara no Narihira, and Ki no Tsurayuki" traces the figure of the displaced official across Chinese and Japanese literary traditions, linking kanshi, waka, and narrative expression.

It traces the literary figure of the wandering official from Qu Yuan to Narihira and Tsurayuki.

"The Arrangement of Shūishū and Screen Poems" examines the relationship between the ordering of poems in Shūi Wakashū and screen-poem practice. It reads pictorial expansion within sequence and reconsiders the anthology's structure.

It reads the sequence of poems as opening out like a painted screen.

"Manyō Poems in Fujiwara no Teika's Genji Commentary" examines how poems from Man'yōshū are used in Teika's commentary on The Tale of Genji. It treats the intersection of Genji interpretation and Manyō reception.

It reads the reception of Manyō poems through Teika's Genji commentary.