PROFILE

Hirohito TSUJI
辻󠄀 博仁

Hirohito Tsuji is a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of East Anglia, and an amateur Enka singer.
In 1994, he was born in Hokkaido, Japan. He has obtained his degrees of Master of Arts from the University of East Anglia, Master of History from Kokugakuin University, and Bachelor of Arts from Kogakkan University. He is a research assistant of Art Research Center, Ritsumeikan University (working as a Research Assistant of the Lisa Sainsbury Library, Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures/an Archivist of the Centre for Japanese Studies, University of East Anglia), a visiting fellow at the Research Institute of the History and the Culture, and a contributor for Japanese studies, The Digital Orientalist, and private Japanese language tutor. He used to work as a research assistant of Art Research Center, Ritsumeikan University, an assistant curator of the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, and a temporary curator of the Prince Chichibu Memorial Sport Museum and Library, Japan Sport Council. He is also an independent Shinto priest. His majors are Japanese studies and history. He is specialising in the Imperial Family of Japan.
Currently, he is writing his academic articles for Ishi no Rekishi Bunka Jiten [Encyclopaedia of Stone History and Culture] (Tōkyō: Asakura Publishing Co.).
As an amateur Enka singer, he is active in performing at international cultural exchange events, and visits social welfare facilities or hospitals. He has a wide repertoire ranging from Japanese popular songs before World War II to the latest contemporary new Enka songs, and also does songwriting. Any enquiries and requests are available from here.

PUBLICATIONS
・<In Press>【Entry】Ishi no Rekishi Bunka Jiten [Encyclopaedia of Stone History and Culture](tentative). Tōkyō: Asakura Publishing Co. (Allotment Writing)
・<In Press> “Komonjo Camera: The AI App for Reading Japanese Cursive Characters” The Digital Orientalist.
・’Japan’s Imperial Household Agency: The Archives and Mausolea Department Catalog and Image Disclosure System’ The Digital Orientalist (2024): https://digitalorientalist.com/2024/03/26/japans-imperial-household-agency-the-archives-and-mausolea-department-catalog-and-image-disclosure-system/
・’Japan Knowledge: Tennō Kōzoku Jitsuroku, Records of the Emperor and the Imperial Family’ The Digital Orientalist (2023): https://digitalorientalist.com/2023/12/26/japan-knowledge-tenno-kozoku-jitsuroku-records-of-the-emperor-and-the-imperial-family/
・【Japanese translation from English】 Simon Kaner, ‘History of Research and Current State of Stone Circle Research in Britain’ The Archaeological Journal, 789 (2023): 22-26.
・【Japanese translation from English】 Simon Kaner, ‘Recent Developments in English Archaeology’ The Archaeological Journal, 786 (2023): 26-29.
・’Report on the talk “Transformation Act: Early Eighth-Century Relic Devotion and the Emerging ‘Prince Shōtoku Cult’ at Hōryūji”‘ SISJAC Monthly e-bulletin, 7.2021 (2021): https://www.sainsbury-institute.org/e-bulletin/july-2021/report-on-the-talk-transformation-act-early-eighth-century-relic-devotion-and-the-emerging-prince-shtoku-cult-at-hryji/
・’Kokura kara Ōsaka madeno Hachiōji Sennin Dōshin no Dōkō [The Movements of Hachiōji Sennin Dōshin from Kokura to Ōsaka]’, In Bakumatsuki no Hachiōji Sennin Dōshin to Chōshū Seitō [Hachiōji Sennin Dōshin and the Chōshū Conquest in the End of Edo Period]. eds. Kiyomi Iwahashi, Takashi Yoshioka. (Tōkyō: Iwata-Shoin, Inc, 2019): 175-191.
・’Kokura kara Ōsaka madeno Hachiōji Sennin Dōshin no Dōkō [The Movements of Hachiōji Sennin Dōshin from Kokura to Ōsaka]’, Kantō Kinseishi Kenkyū [Early Modern Historical Research in Kantō], 83 (2019): 111-112.
・’Consideration of Museum’s Library and Reading Room’, The Bulletin of Museology, Kokugakuin University, 43 (2019): 127-138.
・【Entry】Laboratory of Museology in Kokugakuin University, ed., Encyclopedia of Open Air Museums in Japan. (Tōkyō: The Laboratory of Museology in Kokugakuin University, 2019)
・【Entry】Laboratory of Museology in Kokugakuin University, ed., Encyclopedia of the Brewing and Distillation Museums in Japan. (Tōkyō: The Laboratory of Museology in Kokugakuin University, 2018)
・【Entry】Kōgakkan Daigaku Heisei Nijyūhachinendo Hakubutsukan Gakugeiin Katei Sotsugyō Tenji Dainihan [Museum Curators Programme Graduation Exhibition 2016, Kogakkan University], ed., Fushime no Iwai [Celebration Rituals for Rite of Passage in Japan]. (Ise: The Museum of Shinto and Japanese Culture, Kogakkan University, 2016)
・’Kōshitsutenpan no Kaisei ni Kansuru Kisoteki Kenkyū [A Basic Study on Revision of the Imperial House Law]’, Kadai Kenkyū Hōkoku Ronsyū [The Collection of Essays of Research Questions], 10 (2013): 17-32.

ACADEMIC MEMBERSHIPS
・Development of Digital Human Resources
・Chinese Military History Society
・European Association for Japanese Studies
・Operational Research Society
・International Society of Genetic Genealogy
・European Association of Japanese Resource Specialists
・Data Scientist Society
・Association for Asian Studies
・British Association for Japanese Studies
・UEA Japan Society
・Database Society of Japan
・Association of Japanese Language and Japanese Language Teaching
・Society of Japanese Historical Research
・Society of Japanese History
・Humanities Research Institute of Kogakkan University
・Historical Society of Kogakkan University

MAIN QUALIFICATIONS and LICENCES
・Curator (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan)
・Librarian (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan)
・Shinto Priest (Association of Shinto Shrines)
・Museums Administrator (Kokugakuin University)
・Microsoft Office Specialist (Microsoft Corporation)
・First-class Driver’s License for Medium Size Vehicles (Hokkaido Prefectural Public Safety Commission)

LANGUAGES
・Japanese (native)
・Classical Japanese
・Mandarin Chinese
・Traditional Chinese
・Classical Chinese
・English

MAIN AWARDS
・NHK Amateur Singing Contest (and others!)