Education

• 1960-64 Blundell's School
  Blundell's School
  Blundell's School is a co-educational day and boarding independent school located in the town of Tiverton in the county of Devon, England. The school was founded in 1604 by the will of Peter Blundell, one of the richest men in England at the time, and relocated to its present location on the...
  
  
• 1968 BA Oriental Studies, University of Cambridge (Japanese, 1st class)
• 1973 PhD Oriental Studies, University of Cambridge (Japanese)
• 1973-75 Leverhulme
  Leverhulme Trust
  The Leverhulme Trust was established in 1925 under the will of the First Viscount Leverhulme, William Hesketh Lever, with the instruction that its resources should be used to support "scholarships for the purposes of research and education."...
  
   Studentship
• 1975-76 Japan Foundation Fellowship, Tōkyō University
  University of Tokyo
  , abbreviated as , is a major research university located in Tokyo, Japan. The University has 10 faculties with a total of around 30,000 students, 2,100 of whom are foreign. Its five campuses are in Hongō, Komaba, Kashiwa, Shirokane and Nakano. It is considered to be the most prestigious university...
  
  
• 1980-81 Japan Foundation Professional Fellowship, Kyōto University
  Kyoto University
  , or is a national university located in Kyoto, Japan. It is the second oldest Japanese university, and formerly one of Japan's Imperial Universities.- History :...
  
  
• 1985 Professor of Japanese Studies, University of Cambridge
• 1987 Japan Foundation Professional Fellowship, Keiō University
  Keio University
  ,abbreviated as Keio or Keidai , is a Japanese university located in Minato, Tokyo. It is known as the oldest institute of higher education in Japan. Founder Fukuzawa Yukichi originally established it as a school for Western studies in 1858 in Edo . It has eleven campuses in Tokyo and Kanagawa...
  
  
• 1995-97 British Academy
  British Academy
  The British Academy is the United Kingdom's national body for the humanities and the social sciences. Its purpose is to inspire, recognise and support excellence in the humanities and social sciences, throughout the UK and internationally, and to champion their role and value.It receives an annual...
  
   Research Readership
• 1997 Litt.D, University of Cambridge
• 2000 Master, Selwyn College, Cambridge
• 2000 Honorary Fellow, Downing College, Cambridge

Research interests

• Classical Japanese Language
  Japanese language
  is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...
  
   and Literature
  Japanese literature
  Early works of Japanese literature were heavily influenced by cultural contact with China and Chinese literature, often written in Classical Chinese. Indian literature also had an influence through the diffusion of Buddhism in Japan...
  
  
• Japanese Grammar
  Japanese grammar
  The Japanese language has a regular agglutinative verb morphology, with both productive and fixed elements. In language typology, it has many features divergent from most European languages. Its phrases are exclusively head-final and compound sentences are exclusively left-branching. There are many...
  
  
• Japanese Religion and Thought: Buddhism
  Buddhism
  Buddhism is a religion and philosophy encompassing a variety of traditions, beliefs and practices, largely based on teachings attributed to Siddhartha Gautama, commonly known as the Buddha . The Buddha lived and taught in the northeastern Indian subcontinent some time between the 6th and 4th...
  
  , Shinto
  Shinto
  or Shintoism, also kami-no-michi, is the indigenous spirituality of Japan and the Japanese people. It is a set of practices, to be carried out diligently, to establish a connection between present day Japan and its ancient past. Shinto practices were first recorded and codified in the written...
  
  , Neo-Confucianism
  Neo-Confucianism
  Neo-Confucianism is an ethical and metaphysical Chinese philosophy influenced by Confucianism, that was primarily developed during the Song Dynasty and Ming Dynasty, but which can be traced back to Han Yu and Li Ao in the Tang Dynasty....
  
  , Kokugaku
  Kokugaku
  Kokugaku was a National revival, or, school of Japanese philology and philosophy originating during the Tokugawa period...
  
  

Publications

• 2005 The Religious Traditions of Japan 500–1600 (Cambridge University Press
  Cambridge University Press
  Cambridge University Press is the publishing business of the University of Cambridge. Granted letters patent by Henry VIII in 1534, it is the world's oldest publishing house, and the second largest university press in the world...
  
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• 2002 (with H. Laurie) Cambridge Intermediate Japanese (Cambridge East Asia Institute)
• 1998 ed. Fifty years of Japanese at Cambridge 1948–98 (Privately published)
• 1996 The Diary of Lady Murasaki (Penguin Classics) [substantial revision of 1982 book]
• 1993 (with P. Kornicki) The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Japan (Cambridge University Press)
• 1992 (with H. Laurie) An Introduction to Modern Japanese, 2 vols (Cambridge University Press, reprinted 1993, 1994, 1995, 2002, paperback 2004)
• 1988 Murasaki Shikibu
  Murasaki Shikibu
  Murasaki Shikibu was a Japanese novelist, poet and lady-in-waiting at the Imperial court during the Heian period. She is best known as the author of The Tale of Genji, written in Japanese between about 1000 and 1012...
  
  : The Tale of Genji, Landmarks of World Literature series (Cambridge University Press, reprinted 1991, second rev. ed. 2004)
• 1982 Murasaki Shikibu: Her Diary and Poetic Memoirs (Princeton University Press, reprinted 1985, paperback 1985, Italian trans. 1985)
• 1979 Mori Ōgai
  Mori Ogai
  was a Japanese physician, translator, novelist and poet. is considered his major work.- Early life :Mori was born as Mori Rintarō in Tsuwano, Iwami province . His family were hereditary physicians to the daimyō of the Tsuwano Domain...
  
   and the Modernization of Japanese Culture (Cambridge University Press)

• 2006 ‘Fujiwara Seika
  Fujiwara Seika
  was a Japanese philosopher, a leading neo-Confucian of the early Tokugawa Period and a teacher of Tokugawa Ieyasu.Like his student, Hayashi Razan , he had studied in Zen monasteries. But in 1598, at Fushimi Castle, he met Gang Hang , a Korean neo-Confucian scholar who was taken prisoner to Japan...
  
   and the Great Learning’, Monumenta Nipponica 61.4: 437–57
• 1998 ‘Preparing for the Pure Land in Late Tenth-Century Japan’, Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 25.3-4: 221–57
• 1995 ‘Kyōto as cultural crucible: women, poetry and nature in the tenth century’, in Kyōto: A Celebration of 1,200 years of History (SOAS, Japan Research Centre and Japan Soc. of London), pp. 7–17
• 1993 ‘Buddhist translations in the Northern Sung’, Asia Major, 3rd series, vol. 5.2 (1992): 79–93.
• 1992 ‘The Ise monogatari: a short cultural history’, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 52.2: 401–80
• 1991 ‘An amused guest in all: Basil Hall Chamberlain (1850–1935)’, in H. Cortazzi and G. Daniels, eds. Britain and Japan 1859–1991: Themes and Personalities (Routledge), pp. 128–36 (Japanese tr. 1998)
• 1988 Articles on ‘Genroku culture’ and ‘Nō’, and short entries on ‘Futabatei Shimei’, ‘Lafcadio Hearn’, ‘Ihara Saikaku’, ‘Mishima Yukio’, ‘Mori Ōgai’, ‘Murasaki Shikibu’, ‘Nagai Kafū’, ‘Natsume Sōseki’, ‘Shiga Naoya’, ‘Taiheiki’, ‘Takizawa Bakin’, and ‘Tanizaki Jun’ichirō’, Ainslee T. Embree, ed., Encyclopedia of Asian History (NY: Charles Scribner’s Sons)
• 1985 ‘Japanese from the outside, reading in’, The Cambridge Review 106: 68–70
• 1984 ‘The female hand in Heian Japan: a first reading’, New York Literary Forum 12.13: 55–62 (reprinted in The Female Autograph, Chicago U. P., 1987)
• 1981 ‘Japanese diaries and the nature of literature’, Comparative Literature Studies 18.2: 167–74
• 1978 ‘Ōgai ni okeru genjitsu to geijutsu’, in K. Takeda, ed., Mori Ōgai: rekishi to bungaku (Meiji Shoin), pp. 73–88
• 1975 ‘The background to “Maihime”’, Monumenta Nipponica 30.2: 167–76
• 1974 ‘Louis L. Seaman to Mori Gun’ikan’, Hikaku bungaku kenkyū 26
• 1974 ‘Hon’yaku no gendai ni tsuite’, Ōgai zenshū geppō 27

• 2004 Mori Ōgai, ‘Nakajikiri’, in T. Rimer, ed., Not a Song Like any Other (University of Hawai’i Press), pp. 42–45
• 1994 Mori Ōgai, ‘Kinka’ and ‘Mōsō’, in T. Rimer, ed., Youth and Other Stories (University of Hawai’i Press), pp. 167–81, 259–73
• 1984 Watanabe Minoru, ‘Style and point of view in the Kagerō nikki’, Journal of Japanese Studies 10.2: 365–84
• 1977 Mori Ōgai, ‘Okitsu Yagoemon no isho’, in D. Dilworth and T. Rimer, eds, The Historical Works of Mori Ōgai, vol 1 (University of Hawai’i Press), pp. 17–22
• 1975 Mori Ōgai, ‘Maihime’, Monumenta Nipponica 30.2: 151–66 (reprinted in 1994)
• 1974 Mori Ōgai, ‘Utakata no ki’, in Monumenta Nipponica 29.3: 247–61

Sources

• University of Cambridge, Website of the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Extracted 3 June 2009