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処女研究著作（単著・仏語）『日本中世および近代における邪教のレトリック—文觀房弘真(1278〜1357)とその受容』の書評が出されました：
【日本語】ディディエ・ダバン（国文学研究資料館准教授）執筆、『日本仏教綜合研究』（17号、2019年）p. 183-187 掲載。
http://todaibussei.or.jp/bussou/magazine.html
【仏語】François LACHAUD (フランス極東学院教授）執筆、東京日仏会館定期刊行物 "Ebisu-Etudes Japonaises”（55号、2018年）p. 242-248 掲載。
https://journals.openedition.org/ebisu/3186
【英語】Michael PYE（マールブルク大学名誉教授）執筆、大谷大学発行 "The Eastern Buddhist"（Vol. 48, No. 1, 2017年) p. 179-182 掲載。

Research Interests

• Ngram analysis
• Digital Humanities
• Intellectual history of Japan
• History of Modern Japan
• Religious Studies
• 図像学
• 写本学
• 神道
• 密教学
• 日本中世史

Research Areas

• Humanities & social sciences / History - General / 文化財学、写本学
• Humanities & social sciences / Philosophy - Chinese, Indian, Buddhist
• Humanities & social sciences / Religious studies
• Humanities & social sciences / History of thought / 日本思想史
• Humanities & social sciences / History - Japan / History of Japanese Religions (Medieval, Early Modern)

Degree

• 博士, ジュネーヴ大学

Association Memberships

• Japanese Association for Digital Humanities
• The narrative literary society
• Societe Franco-Japonaise des Etudes Orientals
• 日本仏教綜合研究学会
• International Association of Buddhist Studies

Published Papers

• Religion as Practice and Experience in Late Medieval and Early Modern Japan
  Martin NOGUEIRA RAMOS; Gaétan RAPPO; SUZUKI Kenkō
  Cahiers d'Extreme Asie, 32 15 - 31, 2023, Scientific journal
• “Deviant Teachings”: The Tachikawa Lineage as a Moving Concept in Japanese Buddhism
  Gaétan Rappo
  Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, Nanzan University, 47(1) 103 - 133, 15 Dec. 2020, Scientific journal
  

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• Essentialisme et comparaison. Marcel Detienne au prisme du Japon
  ASDIWAL- Revue genevoise d’anthropologie et d’histoire des religions, 14 53 - 63, 2019, Scientific journal
  

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• Kūkai sous les traits d’un enfant rouge ? Diffusion et réinterprétation des innovations iconographiques issues des rituels esotériques du Moyen Âge
  Rappo Gaetan
  Japon pluriel, 12 193 - 204, Dec. 2018, Scientific journal
  

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• Heresy and Heresiology in Shingon Buddhism : Reading the Catalogues of Perverse texts,"
  Rappo Gaetan
  Cahiers d'Extrême-Asie, 26 (2017) 137 - 152, 2018, Scientific journal
  

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• Data Mining in the Works of the Shingon Monk Monkan (1278–1357): Using Digital Methods to Assess the Contested Authorship of Three Religious Texts from Medieval Japan
  Rappo Gaetan
  Journal of the Japanese Association for Digital Humanities, 3 114 - 149, 2018
  

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• A reexamination of a series of so-called Aka-dōji hanging scrolls (Nikkō Rinnōji, British Museum, Ōsaka City Museum of Fine Arts) ; an example of the iconography of Monkan's Sanzon gōgyōhō ritual
  Rappo Gaetan
  Bukkyō Geijutsu (Ars Buddhica), 毎日新聞出版, 350(350) 9 - 32, 2017, Scientific journal
  

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• The Dragon and the Ritual Master : Seiryō Gongen during the Times of the Daigoji Monk Manzei (1378-1435)
  Rappo Gaetan
  Japanese Religions, 41(1/2) 39 - 67, 2017, Scientific journal
  

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• Writing about the “heresy” of the Tachikawa Sect in prewar Japan – The origins of Inoue Kichijirō’s book “Monkan shōnin” and the influences of Mizuhara Gyōei
  Rappo Gaetan
  Waseda RILAS Journal , 2016, pp. 325-342, 早稲田大学総合人文科学研究センター, 4 325 - 342, 2016, Scientific journal
  

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• An example of the utilisation of the Koshakyo database (old japanese manuscripts of Buddhist scriptures) in research »
  Rappo Gaetan
  Itokura, 7 12 - 12, 2011, Research institution
  

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• Aspects of the esoteric rites from the Namboku-chō period, as seen in the Shido-kegyō of the monk Hōren
  Rappo Gaetan
  The Global Stature of Japanese Religious Texts: Aspects of Textuality and Syntactic Methodology, Nagoya University, 89 - 100, 2008, International conference proceedings
  

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• Le rituel aux Dakinis, "Dakini-hô", dans le Japon médiéval ; de la magie noire ?
  Rappo Gaetan
  ASDIWAL, Revue genevoise d’anthropologie et d’histoire des religions, 2 83 - 109, 2007, Scientific journal
  

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MISC

• Book review Anna Andreeva, Assembling Shinto: Buddhist Approaches to Kami Worship in Medieval Japan, Oxford: Harvard Univ. Press, 2017
  Rappo Gaetan
  日本仏教綜合研究, 18 141 - 148, Sep. 2020, Book review
• Book review - Steven Trenson, Kiu - Hōshu - Ryū: Chūsei Shingon mikkyō no shinsō 祈雨・宝珠・龍 中世真言密教の深層 (Rainmaking, Jewels and Dragons: The Essence of Medieval Shingon Esoteric Buddhism)
  Rappo Gaetan
  Japanese Religions, 41(1-2) 110 - 116, 2016
  

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Books etc

• Medieval Shinto, an Introduction
  伊藤, 聡; 門屋, 温
  勉誠出版, Apr. 2022, Joint work, Monkan; Western Research on Medieval Japan
• ことば・ほとけ・図像の交響 : 法会・儀礼とアーカイヴ
  近本, 謙介
  勉誠出版 (発売), Mar. 2022, 文観房弘真の織りなしたテクストの地平 — 『御遺告七箇大事』と「三尊合行法」
• 中世禅の知
  末木, 文美士; 榎本, 渉; 亀山, 隆彦; 米田, 真理子
  臨川書店, Jul. 2021, Joint work, 中世密教の教えの中の「以心伝心」— 文観と禅密
• Education beyond Europe Models and Traditions before Modernities Series: History of Early Modern Educational Thought, Volume: 2
  Rappo Gaetan
  Brill, Feb. 2021, Joint work, Chapter 1 “Universities” in Japan? Education and Places of Learning in the Early Modern Period
• Cécile Capot, Marges et marginalia, du Moyen Âge à aujourd’hui
  Gaétan Rappo
  Ecole Nationale des Chartes, Dec. 2020, Joint work, Les « écrits au verso » dans les manuscrits bouddhiques du Japon médiéval : Forme et fonction des "marges" dans l’œuvre du moine Monkan (1278-1357)
• 真福寺善本叢刊 〈第三期〉神道篇 第四巻 中世神道資料集
  ラポー ガエタン
  臨川書店, Oct. 2020, Joint work, 『太神宮本地』翻刻・解題
• Michael Pye (ed), Exploring Shinto
  Rappo Gaetan
  Sheffield: Equinox Publications, 2020, Joint work, Essentialism in Early Shinto Studies
• 日本仏教と論義
  楠淳證; 野呂靖; 亀山隆彦
  法藏館, 2020, Joint work, 江戸時代初期の御前論義の諸相
• 中世禅籍叢刊 全12巻・別巻１巻 中世禅への新視角 『中世禅籍叢刊』が開く世界
  ラポー ガエタン
  臨川書店, Oct. 2019, Joint work, 「以心伝心」と密教灌頂―宝蓮筆『瑜伽伝心鈔』にみられるレトリックを中心に, Scholarly book
• Brill's Encyclopedia of Buddhism, Volume 2, Lives
  Rappo Gaetan
  Monkan (文觀; 1278–1357) was a Japanese Buddhist monk of the Shingon school (眞言宗), originally from Saidaiji (西大寺) temple. The name (azana [字]) Monkan is a combination of the “Mon” of Monju (文殊, Mañjuśrī) and the “Kan” of Kannon (觀音). He is also known as Shuon (殊音) and Kōshin (弘眞) (Quinter, 2015, 184). Until recently, Monkan has been mainly known, both in monas- tic sources and academic scholarship, as a power- hungry, extravagant character (especially in the medieval epic, Taiheiki [太平記]). He was even presented as a prominent figure of the so-called Tachikawa lineage (Tachikawa-ryū [立川流]), a sub- branch of Shingon known for its alleged dark and sexually charged rituals, a reputation that stems mainly from the Hōkyōshō (寶鏡鈔, Compendium of the precious mirror, 1374; T. 2454; trans., Vanden Broucke, 1992) by the Kōyasan monk Yūkai (宥快; 1345–1416). Recent discoveries have, however, forced a reassessment of both his role and his thought within the context of medieval Japan. It is probable that his dubious reputation was essentially a result of his closeness to the emperor Go-Daigo (後醍 醐; 1288–1339), who ended up the loser in the con- flict between the Northern and Southern imperial courts. Therefore, the relatively recent research on which the following account is based presents a pic- ture in sharp contrast to the image of Monkan given by Amino Yoshihiko (1986), in which he is depicted as a power-hungry monk who used a combination of his Saidaiji links with outcastes and his mastery of sexual rituals to gain the trust of Go-Daigo., Brill, Jun. 2019, Joint work, Monkan, Dictionary or encycropedia
• Kingship of Middle Ages Japan - Under the Influence of Chan Buddhism and Confucianism
  Rappo Gaetan
  In medieval Japan, subjugations rituals (chōbuku-hō), a traditional ritual category of tantric Buddhism, were frequently performed. Such practices called upon a large host of warlike deities to submit or suppress one's ennemies. This article examines one of these rituals, found in a previously little studied manual called the “Procedure of the homa ritual to suppress rebels” (“Gyakuto Taiji Goma-shidai). This text was written by the Shingon monk Monkan in 1337, in Yoshino, the then capital of the Southern court. The first part of this article locates Monkan's rite in the history of subjugations rituals in Japan, showing the doctrinal arguments they were based on, as well as the main precedents to Monkan's rite. Then, through a thorough analysis of this text, I demonstrate how this monk, a close ally of emperor Go Daigo, justified this practice by inserting it in a particular vision of imperial power, which was expressed through his ritual system., 汲古書院, 2018, Joint work, Subjugation Rituals and Royal Authority during the Nanbokucho Period: The Secret Ritual described in Monkan's “Gyakuto taiji goma’shidai”, Scholarly book
• Rhétoriques de l'hérésie dans le Japon médiéval et moderne : Le moine Monkan (1278-1357) et sa réputation posthume
  Rappo Gaetan
  This book tells the story of Monkan, a monk of the Shingon School of esoteric Buddhism. Active in the first half of the 14th century, Monkan became an important figure in his times. He was a close advisor to Emperor Go Daigo and the sovereigns of the Southern Court, and he also left an extensive collection of various texts, going from doctrinal treatises to ritual manuals. However, after his death, Monkan was harshly criticized and he became mainly known as a presumed member of the sinister Tachikawa lineage, a branch of the Shingon school famous for its dark, sexual rituals. The recent discovery of a series of work by Monkan himself allows us to reassess the validity of such discourses. In doing so, this book not only sheds new light on the life and work of this important figure of medieval Japanese Buddhism. It also shows how his reputation as a “heretic” was a historical fact that largely influenced the conceptual categories of Japanese religions, and even had a lasting impact on the way history was written, especially in pre-war Japan., L'Harmattan, Paris, Nov. 2017, Single work, Scholarly book

Presentations

• Instances méta-humaines, Japon, Grèce ancienne, Europe
  Gaetan Rappo
  01 Mar. 2023, Invited oral presentation
• TEI Edition and NGRAM Analysis of Japanese Buddhist Manuscripts
  Rappo Gaetan
  2021 Pre-modern Japanese Religion Workshop (PJRW) Roundtable: Present and Future in Digital Data-sharing of Buddhist Materials, 02 May 2021, Nominated symposium
• Ngram Analysis of Japanese Buddhist Texts : Identifying Authors and Assessing the Transmission of Ideas
  Rappo Gaetan
  第125回 人文科学とコンピュータ研究会発表会 企画セッション「文化解析を取り巻く最近の状況」, 14 Feb. 2021, Nominated symposium
• The Iconography of Kōbō Daishi as seen in the Sanzon gōgyō-hō Ritual
  Rappo Gaetan
  日本仏教綜合研究学会 第19回学術大会, 13 Dec. 2020, Public symposium
• Digital Editing of Japanese Buddhist Texts : From the Manuscript to TEI and Database Building
  Rappo Gaetan
  10th Conference of the Japanese Association of Digital Humanities, JADH2020 “A New Decade in Digital Scholarship: Microcosms and Hubs”, 22 Nov. 2020, Public symposium
• Esoteric Buddhism of the Muromachi period and secular benefits (genze riyaku): reflection on the Dakiniten mandalas
  Rappo Gaetan
  Kitashirakawa EFEO Salon, 25 Sep. 2020, Invited oral presentation
• “Reading the ‘ritual proceduresʼ (Shidai): Rite, text and practice in Medieval Shingon Buddhism”
  Rappo Gaetan
  Savoirs pratiques des religieux du Japon médiéval et prémoderne : textes, images et techniques; Journée d'étude du CRCAO, Paris Diderot, 24 Oct. 2019, Invited oral presentation,
  

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• The Root of All Heresies? The Tachikawa Lineage in the Isshū gyōgi shō『一宗行儀抄』, an Apocryphon Attributed to Shinran
  Rappo Gaetan
  European Association of Japanese Studies, Tsukuba Conference, Panel “Rampant Heresy or Empty Slander? Reassessing the Tachikawa Lineage as a Conceptual Label in Japanese Buddhism", 14 Sep. 2019, Public symposium
• Organisation du colloque international : "Altérité et dissidence religieuse. Pour une approche comparatiste de l'histoire des religions"
  Rappo Gaetan
  Toyo bunko, 09 Mar. 2019, Others,
  

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• Des rhétoriques de l'hérésie ? Une réflexion sur la déviance dans l'histoire des religions
  Rappo Gaetan
  Altérité et déviance religieuse. Pour une approche comparatiste de l'hérésie en histoire des religions, 07 Mar. 2019, Invited oral presentation,
  

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• ［主催・同時通訳］国際研究集会「国際研究集会 異端とその宗教的言説——日本と西欧の比較史学の試み」 ヌーシャテル大学歴史学研究所、名古屋大学高等研究院 人文学研究科附属人類文化遺産テクスト学研究センター
  ラポー ガエタン
  ２０１９年 ３月4〜5日 於：名古屋大学文系綜合館７階カンファレンスホール, 04 Mar. 2019, Others,
  

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• Les divinités de Tenkawa et le panthéon du Japon médiéval : Représentations et réinterprétations des déités mineures dans les rituels du bouddhisme ésotérique
  Rappo Gaetan
  La fabrique des dieux dans le Japon médiéval. Dieux mineurs, divinités secondaires et moines surnuméraires, Journées d’études IrAsia, Université d'Aix-Marseille, 24 Nov. 2018, Invited oral presentation
• The notion "Direction transmission through the mind" and Esoteric Consecration Rituals : the "Yugadenshinshō by the monk Hōren
  Rappo Gaetan
  中世禅への新視角Ｐａｒｔ２『中世禅籍叢刊』が開 く世界、名古屋大学, 08 Oct. 2018, Invited oral presentation
• Heresy and Heresiology in Shingon Buddhism Reading the Catalogues of “Perverse Texts”
  Rappo Gaetan
  Kyoto Lectures, Ecole Française d'Extrême Orient, Kyoto, 14 Sep. 2018, Invited oral presentation,
  

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• Hérésie et pouvoir : un regard croisé Est-Ouest
  Rappo Gaetan
  Hérésie et pouvoir dans l’Occident et le Japon médiéval - Rencontre exploratoire, 28 Aug. 2018, Invited oral presentation
• Kūkai as a Red Child: Re-interpreting Ritual Images of Forgotten Medieval Shingon Rites
  Rappo Gaetan
  Special Lecture, Harvard University, Department of Art History and Architecture, 26 Mar. 2018, Public discourse
• Présentation de Gaétan Rappo, Rhétoriques de l’hérésie dans le Japon médiéval et moderne : le moine Monkan (1278-1357) et sa réputation posthume (Paris, L’Harmattan, 2017)
  Rappo Gaetan
  La lignée de Tachikawa et Monkan : Repenser l’hérésie dans le japon médiéval - Symposium organisé pour la publication de Gaétan Rappo, Rhétoriques de l’hérésie dans le Japon médiéval et moderne : le moine Monkan (1278-1357) et sa réputation posthume (Pari, 19 Jan. 2018, Keynote oral presentation,
  

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• The Shingon School in the Modern Age : The Koyasan Monk Mizuhara Gyōei and his Research on the Tachikawa Lineage
  Rappo Gaetan
  Nanzan Seminar for the Study of Religion and Culture, 09 Jan. 2018, Public discourse
• Les rongi du Tendai au début de l’époque d’Edo : le moine Tenkai et les shôgun Tokugawa
  Rappo Gaetan
  Deuxième colloque Hôbôgirin: Les disputations bouddhiques au Japon (rongi) au Japon, Paris, Collège de France, 10 Oct. 2017, Invited oral presentation
• « Ideological and methodological issues in the study of the “Tachikawa” heresy -- reassessing the legacy of Mizuhara Gyōei and Moriyama Shōshin »
  Rappo Gaetan
  15th International Conference of the European Association for Japanese Studies (EAJS), CHAM, Lisbon, 02 Sep. 2017, Public symposium
• 「文観房弘真が織りなしたテクストの地平——智積院智山書庫所蔵『御 遺告七箇大事』と『御遺告大事』の検討を中心に
  ラポー ガエタン
  名古屋大学 人類文化遺産テクスト学研究 センター オープンセミナー, 31 May 2017, Public discourse
• Dating Mining into the Works of Monkan (1278-1357), a Monk of the Shingon School: Using Digital Humanities to Assess the Contested Authorship of Three Religious Texts
  Rappo Gaetan
  6th Conference of the Japanese Association for Digital Humanities, Tokyo University, 14 Sep. 2016, Public symposium
• Les "écrits au verso" dans le Japon médiéval : forme et fonctions des "marges" dans l’oeuvre du moine Monkan (1278-1357)
  Rappo Gaetan
  Conférence Marges et marginalia, École Nationale des Chartes, 16 Jun. 2016, Public symposium
• The Shingon Master Kūkai as an Object of Worship: The Aka-dōji Hanging Scroll in the British Museum and Monkan’s Sanzon Gōgyōhō Ritual”
  Rappo Gaetan
  60th International Conference of Eastern Studies (Tôhô gakkai), Asian Art History Section, Tôkyô, 15 May 2015, Public symposium
• 三尊合行法の実践 ――如意輪寺蔵『逆徒退治護摩次第』とその周辺
  ラポー ガエタン
  研究首魁「文観弘真研究の現在――その宗教テクストの世界を探る」、名古屋大学, 16 Jul. 2011, Invited oral presentation
• Esoteric Rituals and Imperial Power: the Sanzon-gōgyōhō
  Rappo Gaetan
  Buddhist Dynamics in East Asian Religions: A Columbia Graduate Student Conference, （Italian School of East-Asian Studies, Kyōto, 18 Jun. 2011, Public symposium
• Ritual Warfare in Medieval Japan: A Study of Monkan's Gyakuto-taiji Goma-shidai
  Rappo Gaetan
  Words, Deities, Icons, Exploring : Ritual Performance in Premodern Japan（Centre for the Study of Japanese Religions, School of Oriental and African Studies, SOAS, London), 12 May 2011, Public symposium
• 「宝蓮の『四度加行』に見える南北朝期密教儀礼
  ラポー ガエタン
  国際研究集会「日本における宗教テクストの諸位相と統辞法」名古屋大学, 20 Jul. 2008, Public symposium

Research Projects

• Advanced Postdoctoral Fellowship (18 months)
  Rappo Gaetan
  スイス学術振興会（ＳＮＳＦ）, 2016/10 -2018/03, Principal investigator, Competitive research funding
• Postdoctoral Fellowship (18 months)
  Rappo Gaetan
  Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), 2014/07 -2016/01, Principal investigator, Competitive research funding
• 古写経利用助成金プロジェクト （研究助成金）
  ラポー ガエタン
  国際仏教学大学院大学, 2011/06, Principal investigator, Competitive research funding
• Doctoral Fellowship
  Rappo Gaetan
  Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), 2009/10 -2010/09, Principal investigator, Competitive research funding

Teaching Experience

• 歴史文化情報概説
• 歴史文化情報入門
• 中世日本宗教史概説
  名古屋大学
• アーカイヴス・テクスト学発展演習
  名古屋大学