List of Reviewers.

List of Reviewers.

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Notes About the Authors

Watanabe Hideo

Graduate of the Faculty of Education, Waseda University, Tokyo. In 1977 he obtained his PhD in Japanese literature from the Faculty of Japanese Studies, Waseda University. Currently he is holding the post of dean of the Faculty of Literature and Arts at Shinshū University, Matsumoto. His specialties are classical Japanese literature, Japanese culture and Chinese literature. He is the author of numer-ous academic publications that include among others: Kokinshūjo no bungakushi, wakachokusen to reigaku (Introduction to Kokinwakashū in the history of litera-ture – imperial anthologies and the Book of Rites, Kazama Shobō 2004), Heian jidai no shidai ni kansuru kisoteki kenkyū (Basic research in poetry of the Heian period, Shikahan 2003), Shika no mori, Nihongo no imēji (The forest of words, the imagery of the Japanese language, Taishūkan Shoten 1995), Heianchō bungaku to kanbunsekai (Heian period court literature and the world of Chinese literature, Benseisha, 1991).

Małgorzata Karolina Citko

Graduated summa cum laude from Japanese Studies at Warsaw University and International Relations at Collegium Civitas, Poland. Currently a Ph.D. candidate in Japanese literature in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, United States of America. Her academic interests range from medieval Japanese poetry, reception and appropriation of the Man’yōshū (Collection of Ten Thousand Leaves, or, for Ten Thousand Generations, ca. 759–785) in the medieval era through Japanese foreign policy and Japanese social movements. She has been a grantee of among others Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), Polish-U.S. Fulbright Foundation, Japan Foundation and Center for Japanese Studies at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.