The Ritsumeikan Bungaku

Serial Number 696

A Special Issue
in Honour of
PROF. MASAAKI KIDACHI
on the Occasion of
His Retirement

TREATISES
Kenichi Yano: The Excavations of Takashima-kurotsuchi Site in Okayama Prefecture and
the Mith of the Eastern Expedition of Emperor Jinmu
Yutaka Nakamura: A Study on the Origins of Agriculture: Focusing on the Chugoku and
Shikoku Regions, Western Japan
Tomoko NAGATOMO, Junko FURIHATA, Takehiro ASAI, Haruhiko KATO, Keigo KIYOHARA:
Interactions during the Transition Phase between the Yayoi and Kofun Periods in the Southern Yamashiro Region:Focusing on Pottery Analysis from the Tsukamoto Higashi Site in Joyo City
Masayuki Nakai: Another Fuwa “Seki” — On the Kozeki
Teruhiko Takahashi: Green Glazed Pottery Production at the Rakusai Kiln Group near the
Japanese Capital in the 9th-10th Centuries
KO JUNGYONG: A Study of the Goryeo-Style Roof-tiles on the Okinawa:
Focusing on the Restoration and Interpretation of Beating Patterns on New- Type Roof Tiles
Tamiki Kunishita: Background to the Establishment of Mozume- Castle
Ryo Okadera: Current Status and Analysis of the Research Project on Medieval and
Early Modern Castles　―As Basic Work for the Next-Generation Castle Research and Studies
Masahiko Otani: Commemoration of the Southern Court in Modern Japan: Honouring
Hashimoto Masataka and the Tsuchimaru–Ameyama Castles
Eiji Hatanaka: Modern Ruins from a Public Perspective
Akihiko Fukai: Archaeology of Ceramic Tiles in Modern and Contemporary Times:
Through the Chronology and Distribution of Dantosha’s Products
Kunikazu Yamada: A Comparative Study of Ancient Cities in the World
Masashi Kobayashi: Spatial Variations in the Composition of Eating Vessels in South Asia
and Southeast Asian Ethnographies
Hitoshi Shimogaki: Female Archaeologists in Fiction
Tetsuya Tani: The Political Situation after Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s Death and the Movements of the
“Go-Bugyō”

January 2026

Edited by
The Literary Association of Ritsumeikan University Kyoto, Japan