March 2023 - present
Guest Researcher, Gotha Research Centre of the University of Erfurt

April 2022 - present
Postdoctoral Fellow, The University of Tokyo (Japan)

April 2018 - March 2022
Ph.D. in Literature, Nagoya University

Dissertation: The Shaping and Modernization Culture of Travel in Early Modern Germany. Travel guide and travel writing 1650 - 1820. Supervisors: Prof. Tomoyuki Nishikawa, Prof. Isamu Miyahara.

2016 - 2018
MA in Literature, Nagoya University.

2011 - 2016
BA in Literature, Nagoya University (Japan)

Scholarships

April 2022 - present
Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science, PD, The University of Tokyo (Japan) JSPS-KAKENHI Grant Number 22J01539

April 2020 - March 2022
Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science, DC2, Nagoya University (Japan) JSPS-KAKENHI Grant Number 20J015526

Detailed information

• History of Knowledge
• Travelogues and travel culture of the 18th century
• Cameral Sciences

In my current research project from 2022 to 2025, I am examining German discourses of the cameral sciences of the long 18th century in relation to literary anthropology, natural philosophy, and the economic Enlightenment. Research on the cameral sciences has so far been dominated by a fixed but controversial assumption that the cameral sciences should be regarded as precursors of the welfare state or of national economics.

Here, I attempt to discuss the cameral sciences in terms of the broader early modern context. On the one hand, they will be considered under the institutional and praxeological aspects, including, for example, the pietist movement, secret societies, universities, and economic associations. On the other hand, under the aspects of intellectual history, what is to be analyzed are natural law theory, house father literature, scholar culture, travel writing, literature, anthropology, and natural philosophy.

I have already engaged in several papers analyzing the multifaceted concepts of economy and happiness in the context of natural law theory, house father literature, cameral sciences, natural history, metaphysics, and literature, among others, based on the works of Pufendorf, Thomasius, Wolff, Coler, Becher, Seckendorff, Rohr, Marperger, Justi, Beckmann, Kant, Schelling, Hamann, Herder, Zöllner, as well as the Anacreontics, the Storm and Stress, the Weimar Classicism, the Romanticism, and so on.

In Gotha, I will deal especially with the institutional and praxeological aspects and try to integrate these aspects into other aspects on which I’ve concentrated until now.

Methodology and theoretical studies

So far, I am additionally engaged in an epistemological analysis in connection with the above-mentioned historical analyses. For example, a consequential question arises from the epistemological consideration of how testimony and practice generated historical knowledge as normative credible information and, conversely, how the latter is oriented towards the former. In other words, I focus on the theoretical and historical aspects of how empirical knowledge could be warranted or activated and communicated through texts or institutional academic activities.

Thus, the planned research of intellectual history aims at both a historical explanation and a meta-analysis related to the historiography of knowledge transfer or network.

Book Chapter

• Georg Heyms Berliner Landschaft – die Technologisierung der Illusion der monistischen Welt]. Yasuko Nakamura (ed.) Hizai no ba wo hiraku [Eröffnung des Feldes vom Nicht-Sein], Shumpusha publishing, February 2019 (in Japanese).

Journal Articles

• Die Glückseligkeit als Prinzip der Herrschaft: Die Diskurse und Praktiken der Kameralwissenschaften in den deutschsprachigen Ländern des 18. Jahrhunderts, Neue Beiträge zur Germanistik 20(2), 2022, pp. 9-25 (in Japanese).
•  „Das Erinnern der Natur“: Der Ökonomie-Begriff im anthropologischen Diskurs des 18. Jahrhunderts, Nagoya Philosophical Journal Festschrift (2021), April 2021, pp. 45-85 (in Japanese).
• Prediction, Emergence, and Regulation: A Philosophical Essay on EPIC-Model, Emotion Studies 5(1), March 2020, pp. 95-102 (in Japanese).
• Reflektierende Urteilskraft und Qasikausalität: Über die Naturschönheit und den Organismus in Kants Kritik der Urteilskraft, Annals of the Chubu Society of Philosophy 50, July 2019, pp. 115-130 (in Japanese)
• Allure and Intuition in the Observation of Nature. Goethe, Boehme and Harman. (in Japanese)
• Aufklärer und Geisterseher, oder Sichtbarmachung des Unsichtbaren: Eine Interpretation und Verörtung der Gothes Komödie Groß-Cophta, Studien zur deutschen Literatur und Sprache (49), 2017, pp. 57-72 (in Japanese).

Book Review

• Ursula Klein: Humboldts Preußen. Wissenschaft und Technik im Aufbruch, Neue Beiträge zur Germanistik 19(2), 2021, pp. 229-234.
• Silvy Chakkalakal, Die Welt in Bildern Erfahrung und Evidenz in Friedrich J. Bertuchs »Bilderbuch für Kinder«, Annual Bulletin of the Japanese Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (35), 2020, pp. 123-124.

On the Relationship Between Knowledge Transmission and Practice in Early Modern German Discourse: From the perspective of social epistemology of trust, The 2022 Congress of the Chubu Society of Philosophy, Aichi Gakuin University (Meijo Campus), 24. September 2022 (in Japanese).

A Pre-History of Evo-Devo: On the conflicts between politics, science, and natural philosophy in 19th-Century German Biology, Symposium: The Past and Future of Evo-Devo organized by Ryota Morimoto and commented by Daichi G. Suzuki, The 15th Conference for Philosophy of Biology, online, 27. August 2022 (in Japanese).

Ontological and Epistemological Interpretations of Functionalism: Focused on the Historicity of Biological Function, In Comparison with the Teleology of Natural Philosophy in 19th-Century Germany, The 14th Conference for Philosophy, online, 26. August 2021 (in Japanese).

Epistemisches Hindernis und Träume: die „Physik der Seele“ in den deutschen anthropologischen Diskursen des 18. Jahrhunderts, The 43rd Congress of the Japanese Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, online, 26. June 2021 (in Japanese).

Die Entwicklung von dem Begriff der Vollkommenheit: von der Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes bis zur Weimarer Klassik: JGG-Herbsttagung 2019, Seijo Univeristy, 19. October 2019 (in Japanese).

Wiederholbarkeit, Zeitlichkeit und Wahrheit: Über den Begriff der Welt bzw. des Unbedingten bei Kant und Schelling. The 2019 Congress of Chubu Society of Philosophy, Shizuoka University (Hamamatsu Campus), 28. September 2019 (in Japanese).

Reiseberichte in deutschsprachigen Ländern des 18. Jahrhunderts: Über die Funktion eines Mediums der Aufklärung, The 41st Congress of the Japanese Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Chubu University, 8. June 2019 (in Japnese).

Die Verteidigerin der vergangenen Kultur der Empfindsamkeit: Über den Kontext des Tagebuchs einer Reise durch die Schweiz von Sophie von la Roche, Symposium: Kanjo. Hyougen to sousa [Ausdrücke und Handlung des Gefühls], JGG-Herbsttagung 2018, Nagoya University (Higashiyama Campus), 29. September 2018 (in Japanese).

Die Darstellung des Arkadiens und die Politisierung der Sympathie um 1800: In Zusammenhang mit den Reisebeschreibungen, dem Begriff der Nation sowie der Poesie von Schiller, The 40th Congress of the Japanese Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Kyoto University, 23. June 2018 (in Japanese).