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Hidenori Jinno

Professor at School of Culture, Media and Society at Waseda University

Areas of expertise

  • - Japanese Classical Literature
  • - Literature of the Heian Period
  • - The Monogatari (“tale”) Literary Form
  • - Japanese Aesthetics

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About me

Hidenori Jinno was born in Fukushima. He earned his undergraduate degree in European Philosophy at Waseda University in Tokyo, then went on to graduate study of Japanese Classical Literature, also at Waseda, specializing in The Tale of Genji and other texts from the Heian Period. He completed his PhD in Literature at Waseda in 2001. He is currently a professor at Waseda on the Faculty of Letters, Arts and Sciences.