Research: Grapholinguistic Analysis of Rubi Usage Between the Late Edo Period and the Early Modern Period (Provisional)
East Asia Curriculum
ABSTRACT:
This project, provisionally titled “Grapholinguistic Analysis of Rubi Usage Between the Late Edo Period and the Early Modern Period,” is situated primarily within the fields of grapholinguistics and premodern Japanese philology. Its aim is to address significant gaps in existing scholarship on interlinear “Rubi” glosses within the Japanese writing system. To this end, the study undertakes a systematic analysis of Rubi usage in works of popular literature produced between the late Edo and early Meiji periods, applying an integrated methodological framework that draws on grapholinguistics, semiotics, and paleography.
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Grapholinguistics; Japanese Paleography; Japanese Cultural History; Semiotics; General Linguistics
CURRICULUM VITAE:
20/10/2025: Participation as a speaker at the annual edition of the Asiatic Society of Japan – Young Scholars’ Programme
03/08/2025–16/08/2025: Participation in the twelfth edition of the “Mitsubishi Corporation Summer School in Early Modern Japanese Palaeography” at Cambridge University
11/2024 – Present: PhD candidate in Asian and African Civilizations at the Italian Institute of Oriental Studies (ISO) – Sapienza University of Rome.
Project title: Grapholinguistic analysis of furigana/ruby glosses within the written registers of Japanese writing between the late Edo period and the beginning of the modern period
10/2021–01/2024: Master’s Degree in Oriental Languages and Civilizations, Italian Institute of Oriental Studies (ISO) – Sapienza University of Rome.
Thesis title: Kunten, Furigana, Ruby: Diachronic and Synchronic Study of the Role of Glosses in the Written Registers of the Japanese Language.
Supervisor: Luca Milasi. Co-supervisor: Matilde Mastrangelo
10/2017–01/2021: Bachelor’s Degree in Oriental Languages and Civilizations, Italian Institute of Oriental Studies (ISO) – Sapienza University of Rome.
Thesis title: Chinese Literary Adaptations in Late Edo: The Case of Bakin.
Supervisor: Luca Milasi
10/2019–01/2022: Master’s Degree in Oriental Languages and Civilizations, Sapienza University of Rome.