A study of Heian-period hentaikanbun that analyzes vocabulary, orthography, and stylistic comparison to place it within Japanese language history.

It reconsiders hentaikanbun, sitting between vernacular Japanese and classical Chinese, within Japanese language history.

A study of how the reception of vernacular Chinese fiction reshaped early modern Japanese fiction and helped reconstruct eighteenth-century literary history.

Starting from Ezososhi, it reconsiders the reception of vernacular Chinese fiction beyond a narrow history of yomihon.