A study of kibyoshi, the illustrated popular fiction of late Edo Japan, examining its literary worlds, publishing culture, and depictions of manners and society. Through humor, parody, and social satire, it considers the reading culture of Edo.

A study that reads kibyoshi as literature where Edo entertainment and critical wit intersect.

A study of engi materials connected with Hachiman worship, examining the overlap of shrine-temple legends, setsuwa narratives, and religious culture. It focuses on how narrative sustained belief and regional memory.

The work reads the bond between medieval religious culture and literature through narratives of Hachiman worship.