Works (English)

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Thesis:

B.A. thesis: “Kusa-Jātaka” [in Japanese], Kyoto University 1973.

M.A. thesis: “A Study of Pāli-Jātaka” [in Japanese], Kyoto University 1976.

Doctoral thesis: “Les stances en mātrāchandas dans le Jātaka pāli”, Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle 1982. [→Download]

 

Book:

Thought of Circulation of Vital Energy ― Research into the Origin of the Doctrine of “Karman and Saṃsāra (Transmigration) [in Japanese]. Series of Traditional Thoughts no.24, The Center for the Study of Contemporary India, Ryukoku University. Kyoto, 2015. [→Download]

 

Selected articles:

1.       “Das Udayajātaka”. Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde Südasiens, Bd. 28, 1984, p.45-66. [→Download]

 

2.       “Das Verbaladjektiv von dhmā im Mittelindischen”. Münchener Studien zur Sprach­wissen­schaft Bd.44, Fs. Karl Hoffmann 1, 1985, p.171-189.  [→Download]

 

3.       “Die mittelindische Lautentwicklung von v in Konsonantengruppen mit Verschlußlaut bzw. Zischlaut”. Indo-Iranian Journal, vol. 31, 1988, p.87-109.  [→Download]

 

4.       “u vor dem Wurzelanlaut h im Pāli”. Indologica Taurinensia XIV, Fs. C. Caillat, 1987-1988, p.353-382.  [→Download]

 

5.       “drṣ et paś”. Dialectes dans les litteratures indo-aryennes, Actes du Colloque Inter­national … sous les auspices du C.N.R.S./Collège de France/l’Université de Paris III … (Publication de l'Institut de Civilisation Indienne), Paris 1989, p.393-411.  [→Download]

 

6.       “Mittelindische Absolutivbildung auf -tvā/*-tvāna(ṃ) und verwandte Probleme der Laut­ent­wicklung”., Middle Indo-Aryan and Jaina Studies, Panels of the VIIth World Sanskrit Con­fe­rence Leiden 1987 vol. 6, Leiden 1991, p.10-19.  [→Download]

 

7.       “Zu mittelindischen Verben aus medialen Kausativa”. Jaina Studies in Honour of Jozef Deleu, Tokyo 1993, p.261-314.  [→Download]

 

8.       “The Prototype of the Story ʻBrahman’s Requestʼ” [in Japanese]. Journal of Indian and Buddhist Studies vol.41 n.1, 1992, p.469-474. [→Download]

 

9.       “On the Metre and Language in Larger Sukhāvatīvyūha” [in Japanese]. Journal of Indian and Buddhist Studies vol.42 n.2, 1994, p.930-935. [→Download]

 

10.   “Hair and Beard” [in Japanese]. The Sacred and the Profane in Buddhism (= The Journal of the Nippon Buddhist Research Association vol.59), p.77-90. [→Download]

 

11.   “Das Jenseits und iṣṭā-pūrtá- “Die Wirkung des Geopferten-und-Geschenkten” in der vedi­schen Religion”. Indoarisch, Iranisch und die Indogermanistik, Arbeitstagung der Indo­germa­nischen Gesellschaft vom 2. bis 5. Oktober 1977 in Erlangen, 2000, p.475-490. [→Download]

 

12.   “katháṃ-katham agnihotráṃ juhutha ― Janakas Trickfrage in ŚB XI 6,2,1 ―”. Anusantatyai,

Fs. J. Narten, Münchener Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft, Beiheft, 2000, p.231-252.  [→Download]

 

13.   “Zur Entstehung der Fünf-Feuer-Lehre des Königs Janaka”. Norm und Abweichung, Akten des 27. Deutschen Orientalitentages Bonn 1998, 2001, p.157-167. [→Download]

 

14.   “Sāmaññaphalasutta and Vedic Ritual” [in Japanese]. Journal of Indian and Buddhist Studies vol.49 n.2, 2001, p.953- [→Download]

 

15.   “The Agnihotra and the Rājanya” [in Japanese]. Journal of Indian and Buddhist Studies vol.55 n.2, 2005, p.941-947. Its English version was read in the 14th World Sanskrit Conference, Kyoto 2009. [→Download]

 

16.   “Pāli thīna-middha-，Amg. thīṇagiddhi-/thīṇaddhi- und Ved. mardh/mr̥dh”. Indogermanica, Fs. G. Klingenschmitt, Taimering 2005, p.167-192. [→Download]

 

17.   “Zum präteritalen Optativ im Alt- und Mittelindoarischen”. Zarathustra entre l’Inde et l’Iran. Études indo-iraniennes, Fs. J. Kellens, Wiesbaden 2009, p.255-273. [→Download]

 

18.   “The Vedic Calendar and the Rituals (1)”. Journal of Indian and Buddhist Studies, vol.58 n.3, 2010, p.1117-1125. [→Download]

 

19.   “The Naksatra System in the Vedic Calendar”. Journal of Indian and Buddhist Studies, vol. 59-3, 2011, p.1075-1083. [→Download]

 

20.   “A Dialog between Yājñavalkya and King Janaka on the ultimate Agnihotra ― ŚB-M XI 3,1, ŚB-K III 1,4, JB I 19f., VādhAnv II 13 ―” [in Japanese]. Ronshū: Studies in Religions East and West, no.43, 2007, p.427－484. （Its English version was read in the 5th International Vedic Workshop, Bucharest, Romania 2011.） [→Download]

 

21.   “Pravrajyā and Removal of Hair and Beard ― Comparison between Buddhism and Jainism ―” [in Japanese]. Indian and Buddhist Studies in honor of Shouou (Kiyoaki) Okuda, 2014, p.334―349. [→Download]

 

22.   “On the Prototype of the New Moon Sacrifice ― mainly based on R̥gveda X 85 and Atharvaveda VIII 10 ―” [in Japanese]. Ronshū: Studies in Religions East and West, no.43, 2016, p.259-286. [→Download]

 

23.   “Libation of the Truth into the Belief: From the ancient Indian ritual to the invocation to Amitabha” [in Japanese]. Bulletin of the Institut of Shin Buddhist Culture (Kyoto Koka Women’s University) vol.26, 2017, p.1－56. [→Download]

 

24.  “On the Prototype of the New Moon Sacrifice (and the ancestral worship) ― mainly based on R̥gveda X 85 and Atharvaveda VIII 10―” [in Japanese]. Ronshū: Studies in Religions East and West, 2016, p.286 (37)－260 (64). [→Download]

 

25.   “Upavasatha in Vedic Rituals and Uposatha in Buddhism: An Outline of Their Historical Relation”, Journal of Indian and Buddhist Studies vol.66 n.2, 2018, p.968-974]  [→Download]

 

26.  “Syllable and Mātrā: basic concepts of Indian metres observed in indigenous metrics, phonology and grammar” [in Japanese]. Ronshū: Studies in Regions East and West, 2018, p.1-55. [→Download]

 

27. ʻThe Agnihotra, the Agnyupasthāna and the Rājanyaʼ: „Denken Sie einfach!“ Gedenkschrift für Karl Hoffmann（Münchener Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft Beiheft 30, Neue Folge, 2020）p.183-234.  [→Download]

 

28. ‘On the prototype of the new moon sacrifice mainly based on R̥gveda 10,85, and its

 

development in the RV, AV and YVʼ „Medhótá śrávaḥ I“ Felicitation Volume in Honour of Mislav Ježić on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday，2023, p.127-195. [→Download]

 

（“Symbolik von Haar und Bart im Brahmanismus, Buddhismus und Jinismus ― Zu den Lebensweisen der altindischen Religiosen ―”. Forthcoming.）

 

（“Symbolism of Hair and Beard and Ritual Structure in Early Vedic Literature”. Revised and enlarged version of the paper read in the The 6th International Vedic Workshop, Kozhikode, India 2014. Forthcoming.）