A Study of Shinobu Orikuchi is a work of literary criticism by Hisaki Matsuura. Reading Orikuchi's works and language through themes including marebito, the imperial system, eros, and death, it explores the expressive space distinctive to those texts. It received the 9th Mishima Yukio Prize.

A critical study that stays close to Orikuchi's language and develops its terms from within the works.