Lecture & Seminars on Japanese prints & books: Prof. Takahiro Sasaki 佐々木孝浩

Prof.Takahiro Sasaki is a a highly-acclaimed Japanese scholar who has specialized in early Japanese printing, books, and bibliography at the Institute of Oriental Classics (Shidō Bunko 斯道文庫) at Keio University, Tokyo, Japan from 2010. He will lecture on methods to study early prints and books from a morphological standpoint, which reveals the physical book in relation to its text. He will also discuss book history and the composition of various materials in Japan.

Prof. Takahiro Sasaki has numerous publications on Waka (Japanese classical poems), history and development of Japanese prints & books, early Japanese prints, bibliography, etc. The followings are his selected publications:

• Chapter contribution: Shuppan bunkashi no tozai : Gensho o yomu tanoshimi (出版文化史の東西－原書を読む楽しみ) (Tokyo: Keio University Press, 2015)
• Chapter contribution. Sekai o yomitoku issatsu no hon (世界を読み解く一冊の本) (Tokyo: Keio University Press, 2014)
• Chapter contribution. Jisho jiten no sekai (辞書・事典の世界) 
• Chapter contribution: Nihon no sho to kami : kohitsu tekagami "Katabamicho" no sekai (日本の書と紙 : 古筆手鑑かたばみ帖の世界)　(Tokyo : Miyai Shoten, 2012)
• Chapter contribution. Heian bungaku o ikani yominaosu ka (平安文学をいかに読み直すか) (Tokyo: Kasama Shoin 2012)
• Chapter contribution: Zusetsu Shoshigaku: Kotenseki o manabu (図説書誌学 : 古典籍を学ぶ) (Tokyo : Bensei Syuppan, 2010)
• Chapter contribution: Oshima-bon Genji monogatari no saikento (大島本源氏物語の再検討) (Osaka:Izumi Shoin, 2009)
• Edited. Gijuku Toshokan o yomu : Wa, Kan, Yō no kichōsho kara : dai 20-kai Keiō Gijuku Toshokan kichōsho tenjikai (義塾図書館を読む : 和・漢・洋の貴重書から : 第 20回慶應義塾図書館貴重書展示会) (Tokyo: Keio Gijuku Toshokan 2007) 
• "'Oshimabon Genji Monogatari' ni kansuru shoshigakuteki kosatsu 「大島本源氏物語」に関する書誌学的考察" in Bulletin of the Shido Bunko Institute, 2006.
• Karon Kagaku Shusei (歌論歌学集成）(Tokyo: Miyai Shoten 1999)