Rate My Professor Takeshi Moriyama

Moriyama's research focuses on Japanese history and culture, with particular emphasis on late Tokugawa society, rural elites, correspondence networks, and student life in Edo. Key publications include his monograph 'Crossing Boundaries in Tokugawa Society: Suzuki Bokushi, a Rural Elite Commoner' (Brill's Japanese Studies Library, 2013), which details the life of an elite villager in Echigo province; 'The Correspondence Network of Suzuki Bokushi (1770-1842)' in Japanese Studies (2009); 'Quasi-postmodernity in Edo Literature: Kōshoku Ichidai Otoko and Its Interpretive Potential Beyond Modernism' in Japanese Studies (1997); 'Study in Edo: Shibata Shūzō (1820-59) and Student Life in Late Tokugawa Japan' in East Asian History 40 (2016); and 'Mapping the World in Bakumatsu Japan: Shibata Shūzō (1823-1912)' (2020). Additional works encompass '雪国を江戸で読む' (2020) and conference proceedings such as '島から世界へ：幕末地理学者柴田収蔵の知のあゆみ' (2018). Through these contributions, Moriyama enriched understandings of social dynamics and intellectual pursuits in pre-modern Japan, while his teaching and leadership advanced Japanese studies at Murdoch University.