Researcher and Faculty Information

Masaaki Yamaguchi Masateru Yamaguchi

Masateru YAMAGUCHI

Faculty: Faculty of Intercultural Japanese Studies Graduate School of Graduate School of Comparative Culture

Research Topics: Study of the Dunhuang manuscripts Research on the Institutional History of Medieval China

comment: One is to use the Dunhuang manuscripts to reconstruct the "real life" of ordinary people who lived in Dunhuang over 1,000 years ago, and to study the circumstances surrounding the loss of the Dunhuang manuscripts around the world in the early 20th century. The other is to study the institutional history of medieval China, with the goal of shedding light on various aspects of "division and unification," particularly in the military systems of the Wei, Jin, and Northern and Southern Dynasties periods.

Main publications and papers: "On the Wu Anjun Family Contract: A Case Study on Family Property Inheritance" (Annual Report of Dunhuang Manuscript Research, No. 6, 2012)

“One Hundred Years of Dunhuang Studies” (Tang Dynasty History Research No. 14, 2011)

Main classes taught: "Introduction to Oriental History", "Introduction to Oriental History", "Study of Oriental History", "Lectures on Ancient and Medieval Oriental History"