Research keywords (4):
Japanese religions
, Edo period religious traditions
, Shugendō studies
, Theory and method
Research theme for competitive and other funds (4):
2023 - 2026 Research on the forged histories of mountain worship in medieval Japan
2022 - 2024 The Religious Practices and Mummified Bodies of the Mount Yudono Ascetics
2014 - 2015 Shinchō Graduate Fellowship for Study in Japan
2006 - 2008 Scholarship by the Japanese Ministry of Education (Monbushō).
Papers (15):
The Hanging Scrolls of Yudono: Materiality, Landscape, Aesthetics, and Bodies. Cahiers d’Extrême-Asie. 2024. 32. 155-186
Amabiko: The Oceanic Ape and Its Rhizomatic Body. Journal of Religion in Japan. 2023
Please, download, he full article here, https, rill.com/view, journals/jrj, rticle, ml. Reframing the Human-Fish in the Edo and Meiji Periods: Eroticism, Taxidermy, Oracles, and Modernity. Journal of Religion in Japan. 2023. 12. 33-71
Bernard R. Faure, Andrea Castiglioni. Aspects of Medieval Japanese Religion. Religions. 2022. 13. 10. 1-23
Andrea Castiglioni. Būchū kanjō: Secret Dharma-Transmission in the Shugendō Mountain-Entry Ritual. 2021
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Japanese Religions
2021
Defining Shugendō: Critical Studies on Japanese Mountain Religion
Bloomsbury 2020
Lectures and oral presentations (14):
Transposing the Mountains: The Sanzan Paradigm from the Kii Peninsula to the Tōhoku Region
(European Association for Japanese Studies_2021 International Conference 2021)
Shugendō’s Legitimacy, Transmission, and Secrecy in Japanese Religions
(Workshop on Japanese Religion. Nagoya City University 2021)
Invisibility and Secrecy in the Cult of Mt. Yudono
(The Japanese and the Realm of the Unseen. Kokugakuin University 2020)
Human Bodies and Materiality in the Cult of Mount Yudono
(Worship and Knowledge in Japan during the Medieval, Early-modern, and Modern Periods. École française d'Extrême-Orient 2020)
Keywords in Yudono Studies
(Nanzan Salon. Nanzan University 2020)