“Manga as ‘popular culture’?” — Two (slightly different) essays (2022–23)

(a) 「マンガは「大衆文化」なのか?海外での日本研究におけるマンガの位置づけをめぐって」In: Die Aufgabe der Japanologie: Beiträge zur kritischen Japanforschung, ed. Dorothea Mladenova, Felix Jawinski, und Katrin Gengenbach, Leipzig: Leipziger University Press 2022, 303–320.

Book:『国際マンガ研究』/Global Manga Studies, vol.4 (2014)

ed., Nihon manga to “Nihon”: Kaigai no sho komikkusu bunka o shitajiki ni (Kokusai manga kenkyū 4) [Japanese manga and “Japan,” seen from the perspective of the respective comics cultures abroad] [Global Manga Studies, 4]. Introduction [individually authored], Kyoto: International Manga Research Center, 2014. Print & Web. http://imrc.jp/lecture/2012/06/4.html
(Proceedings of International Conference coorganized by Kobe University and Kyoto Seika University, June 2012)

Book:『国際マンガ研究』/Global Manga Studies, vol.3 (2013)

co-ed., Nikkan manga kenkyū (Kokusai manga kenkyū 3) [Studies in Japanese manga and Korean manhwa, Global Manga Studies, vol. 3], co-ed. with Yamanaka Chie and Leem Hye Jeong, Kyoto: International Manga Research Center, 2013. Introduction [individually authored], pp. 1–9. Print & Web. http://imrc.jp/lecture/2011/10/3.html

Special Issue『美術フォーラム21』特集「漫画とマンガ、そして芸術」(2011)

guest-ed., special issue “Manga to manga, soshite geijutsu” [Manga, comics, and art], Bijutsu Forum 21, no. 24 (November), pp. 20–136.
Introduction and individual article “»Muimi« no »kaidoku«—Gendai manga kara mita Murakami Takashi no kaiga” [‘Deciphering’ the ‘nonsense’—Murakami Takashi’s paintings seen from the perspective of contemporary manga], 132–136.

“Lebensorte und Vorstellungsräume: Ein Blick auf Comics aus der Sicht von Tokyo und Berlin” (2006)

in Berlin-Tokyo, Tokyo-Berlin: Die Kunst zweier Städte (Ausst.katalog Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin), hg. Angela Schneider et.al., Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, S. 70-74
[English trans., ibid.: “Sites of Life and Spaces of Imagination: Comics in Tokyo and Berlin”]
[Jp. trans. by Kigawa Hiromi, in Jp. edition, Mori Art Museum, 2006, pp. 55–58].

Book: 『マン美研』 (2002)

Man-bi-ken: Manga no bi/gakuteki jigen e no sekkin [Towards an Aesthetics of Comics], Kyoto: Daigo shobō.
Introduction, pp. i–xv, and individual chapter “Tenji sareru manga: bijutsukan ni okeru manga no «bigaku»” [Exhibiting manga: The ‘Aesthetics’ of comics in the art museum], pp. 159–191.