Areas of Expertise
Japanese Aesthetics, Japanese Modernity, Japanese Music, Japanese Theatre, Pre-modern early modern Japanese Literature, Humour Studies.
Teaching Interests
Japanese Aesthetics, Japanese Humour, Japanese music (pre-modern, J-pop), Japanese Theatre, Japanese Literature, Classical Japanese
Research
Japanese musical modernity, Japanese aesthetics, sōkyoku-jiuta.
Representative Publications
2022
“Aesthetic Ruptures and Sociabilities: Tateyama Noboru (1876–1926), quotidian noise, and sōkyoku-jiuta” Asian Sound Cultures: Voice, Noise, Sound, Technology (Routledge Contemporary Asia Series) New Tab, 2022, pp. 81-100.
2017
“Anthems, Marches, and National Myth: Music for the Koto and Pre-War Nationalism in Japan” East Asian Review, vol. 17, Osaka University of Economics and Law, December, 2017, pp. 175-188.
2016
“Ura and Omote: the Two Faces of Chaondo”, Osaka Keizai Hōkadaigaku Ronshū (forthcoming).
2015
“Mono-zukushi: Oral Literature and Music”, Kokusai Ikebana Gakkai, vol. 2, pp. 31-46
2014
“Yakiniku Dragon: A Portrait of the Zainichi Experience – Introduction and Translation”, Asian Theatre Journal, vol. 31-1, pp. 17-102.
2013
“Singing Yokoo Tadanori: Ichiyanagi Toshi, the City and the Aesthetics of Listening”, Performativity and Event in 1960s Japan: City, Body, Memory Chapter 3, Palgrave Press, pp. 61-80.
“Tateyama Noboru: Osaka, Modernity and Bourgeois Musical Realism for the Koto,” Music, Modernity and Locality in Prewar Japan: Osaka and Beyond, edited Hugh de Ferranti and Alison Tokita, Ashgate Press, pp. 135-155.
2012
“Colonial Japan and Modern Music for the Koto”, The World of Music, special issue vol. 1-2012, pp. 105-142.
2010
“Meiji shinkyoku: The Beginnings of Modern Music for the Koto,” Japan Review, number 22, pp. 103-124.
2008
"Sōkyoku-jiuta," in Ashgate Companion to Japanese Music, edited by David W. Hughes and Alison Tokita, Ashgate Press, pp. 169-195.
Education
BA, University of the Pacific: International Relations, Japanese
MA, University of California at Berkeley, Music
PhD, University of California at Berkeley, Music
Master of Music: Seiha Conservatory of Music
Previous Appointments
Kyoto City of Arts: Visiting Scholar
University of California at Berkeley: Visiting Scholar.
Monash University: Visiting Scholar, Adjunct Lecturer
University of Melbourne: Adjunct Lecturer, Research Assistant
Osaka University of Economics and Law: Associate Professor
Kansai Gaikokugo Daigaku: Associate Professor
Professional Associations
Association of Asian Studies
International Council for Traditional Music
Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM)
Society for Research in Asiatic Music (Tōyō Ongaku Gakkai)