Ikuko Sagiyama
Professor
Department of Languages, Literature and Intercultural Studie
University of Firenze
Italy
Biography
He is a native speaker of Japanese native from 1981 to 1987 at the Istituto Universitario Orientale di Napoli and then at the University of La Sapienza in Rome. Since November 1987 she is an associate professor of Japanese Language and Literature at the University of Florence and then, since 2005, an ordinary professor at the same University. In the meantime he held courses in Japanese Language and Literature at the Istituto Universitario Orientale di Napoli (1988/89) and the University of Venice (1922/93). Secretary General of the Italian Association of Japanese Language Teaching (AIDLG) from 1992 to 1997. From 2001 to 2007 he was one of the advisors of the Italian Association for Japanese Studies (AISTUGIA).
Research Interest
His research and publications are mainly based on the Japanese classical letterage and Japanese poetry, both ancient and modern.
Publications
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Sagiyama, Ikuko (2016). WakanrÅeishu Collection of Japanese and Chinese poems to be intoned. Milan: Ariele, ISBN: 88-97476-28-3
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Sagiyama, Ikuko (2016). Izutsu: a drama between sources and invention. In: Giorgio Amitrano, Noemi Lanna (edited by). New hermeneutic horizons of Orientalism. Studies in honor of Franco Mazzei, pp. 327-352, Naples: University of Naples "L'Orientale", Department of Asia, Africa and the Mediterranean, ISBN: 9788867191246.
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Sagiyama, Ikuko (2017). The Symbolic Value of the Colors in Heian Literature. In: Christopher Craig, Enrico Fongaro, Akihiro Ozaki (ed.). How to learn? Nippon / Japan as Object, Nippon / Japan as Method, pp. 297-303, Milan: Mimesis International, ISBN: 9788869770524.
