A scholarly article examining early modern book-collecting history and the intellectual environment of a Takamatsu domain senior retainer’s household through a fragmentary catalog of Kimura Mokuro’s collection.

It reads the arrangement of early modern knowledge from a surviving book catalog.

A scholarly study of Hayashi Gitan’s supernatural fiction, examining Chinese and Japanese source texts and methods of composition. It reconsiders Gitan’s position as a writer of strange tales.

Through source study, it rereads Hayashi Gitan as a writer of supernatural fiction.