A critical essay that considers what place children's literature can occupy in a contemporary media environment. Referring to periodizations of postwar society, it reads changes in children's literature after the war.

A critical essay that rethinks the place of children's literature through changing media environments.

A critical essay on children's books depicting school refusal, focusing on the meaning of the road to school as a maze. It reads children's distance from the school system through narrative structure and emotional movement.

A rereading of the road to school in children's literature about school refusal.

A critical essay on Kaho Nashiki's Karakuri Karakusa, focusing on overlapping worlds and emerging images. It uses the metaphor of holography to grasp the multilayered world of dolls, textiles, shared living, and memory.

A reading of Karakuri Karakusa's layered fictional world through the metaphor of holography.