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Kazuyuki Kobayashi

Kazuyuki Kobayashi

[Affiliation]

Department of Human Sciences and Cultural Studies Faculty of Human Sciences and Cultural Studies

[job title]
Professor (Special Appointment)

[degree]
Master's degree (Education)

profile	Born in Yamanashi Prefecture. Graduated from Waseda University, School of Letters, Arts and Sciences, majoring in Japanese Literature. Completed the Graduate School of Education, Yamanashi University, majoring in Subject Education (Japanese Language Education). Master's Degree in Education. After working at the Yamanashi Prefectural Literature Museum and high school, he is currently in his current position.
Affiliated academic societies, associations, committees, etc.	First Year Education Society
Specialization	Japanese Expression Education modern Japanese literature Yamanashi studies/representational culture theory
Research content and themes of interest	In the field of Japanese expression education, I develop methods and materials to cultivate the thinking and expressive abilities of university and high school students, and put them into practice in classes and high school-high school collaborative courses. In the field of modern literature, I mainly study dreams and unconscious motifs that appear in the novels of Ryunosuke Akutagawa. Regarding Yamanashi culture, I consider literature, music (such as Masahiko Shimura's lyrics), and films related to the region.
What makes the research interesting?	Let's think of the dreams we have at night as a novel. Its author is our unconscious. Everyday experiences are stored as a kind of symbol, which are superimposed and transformed in the unconscious world to create dreams. Ryunosuke Akutagawa also depicted dreams in this way. In his later novel Gears, in addition to expressing dreams, he also attempted to reveal his own unconscious through a chain of words such as "irritating-tantalizing-Tantalus-Inferno...". Exploring the relationship between literary works and dreams and the unconscious through the analysis of language offers new possibilities for thought and brings joy.
Main subjects	・Japanese Language Skills 1 & 2 ・Yamanashi Studies I and II ・Japanese Literature Readings II
Achievements in social contribution and community cooperation	・Judge (Judge/Commentary) for the Literature Section of the 2022 Yamanashi Prefectural High School Arts and Culture Festival (Essays/Literary Criticism) ・Film festival lecture: "The Two of Us Walked Through Spring and Autumn - Kinoshita Keisuke and Postwar Yamanashi" (February 2023, Kusakabe Community Center, Yamanashi City) ・"Reading and writing through structuring of thinking: An analysis of the Japanese language essay questions in the FY2018 trial survey" (Educare special issue, April 2019, Daigakusha Publishing) ・Organizer of the "Rock Poet Masahiko Shimura Exhibition" (July 2014, Yamanashi Prefectural Library)

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