"Konjaku Monogatari-shu: Tenjiku Section" is Kazuaki Komine's study of the Tenjiku, or Indian, section of Konjaku Monogatari-shu. It examines the sources, arrangement, and narrative structure of the Indian Buddhist tales and points toward issues that would shape later scholarship on the collection.

A study asking how the Tenjiku tales were gathered, arranged, and made into a narrative world.

Masako Mitamura's work on The Pillow Book focuses on laughter and narration in Sei Shonagon's writing, reading courtly relationships, the shared world of Teishi's salon, and the author's self-expression through those motifs.

A study of The Pillow Book that reads the expressive structure of court society through laughter and narration.