A scholarly monograph on the work of the kokugaku scholar Kamo Mabuchi and his study of waka. It examines Mabuchi's method in the context of early modern classical commentary and Man'yoshu studies, tracing the formation of knowledge that led into later kokugaku research.

It reads Kamo Mabuchi's classical studies as a method within early modern kokugaku.

A scholarly monograph on the intellectual foundations and discourse formation of Muromachi literature, centered on the kana text of The Tale of the Soga. It rereads Muromachi literary culture as a meeting point of classical learning in waka and kanshi, war tales, otogizoshi, and the reception of foreign thought.

Through the kana Tale of the Soga, it illuminates the breadth of Muromachi knowledge.