Division of Kyoto Studies, Correspondence Education
Faculty Members

Faculty supervisors are marked with an asterisk (*).

(Alphabetical order / Incumbent, 2025)

Kyoto Studies

Position	Name	Area and Subject	Research Theme(s)
*	Mares Emmanuel	Garden and Landscape Research	Historical and Comparative Studies of Japanese Gardens / Interaction between Human and Nature
*	Toshio Ishikawa	Cultural Properties	Kyoto's cultural properties, Kyoto's temples and shrines.
*	Kazuhiko Kobayashi	Japanese literature (Research Profile)	Japanese classical literature, waka and medieval literature.
*	Azusa Kumooka	Japanese literature	Study of Japanese classical literature（Early modern literature・Women's writing）
*	Tadayoshi Murakami	Japanese folklore/cultural assets	Kyoto's folk culture and rituals.
*	Masahisa Nadamoto	Japanese History	Human rights and contemporary society, modern and contemporary history of Kyoto.
	Chieko Narita	Traditional Crafts	Kyoto's Traditional Crafts
*	Pellecchia Diego	Traditional Performing Arts	Nō theatre, Japanese traditional performing arts.
*	Masatoshi Sasabe	Japanese History	Study of political history during the Meiji Restoration，Study of regional history in early modern Japan and modern Japan
	Sakiko Takahashi	Art history	Study of Buddhist art history; especially Japanese sculpture and esoteric Buddhist art in the Heian period.
*	Masakazu Yamamoto	archeology	Archaeological Studies of the Heian-Kyo Capital and Kyoto City
*	Shuji Yoshino	Japanese History	Heian-kyō, documentology
*	Masashi Wakamatsu	Japanese History	Early modern Kyoto, history of Japanese foreign relations in the early modern period.