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April 2004. Having just entered 春雨直播app, I stared wide-eyed at the syllabus I had been given. "What is this? It looks so interesting! Do people actually study things like this at university?" Although I had wanted to study Western Art History since before entering, I found myself enrolling in plenty of subjects that seemed to have little to do with my major. Every day spent learning things I didn't know was so much fun that by the time I graduated, I had earned 208 credits (apparently there is a credit cap now).

At one point, I realized that both the Western Classics course on Homer and the Sociology of Japanese Anime course I was taking shared the theme of "proving one's own existence." In ? moment, I felt as if the roots of different pieces of knowledge had connected underground. Filled with the excitement of learning, my step was light, and the Mita Hill I saw that day looked particularly beautiful.

I proceeded to the Major in Aesthetics and Art History, and later conducted research on the theme of "how the final years of the Virgin Mary, which are not described in the Bible, have been depicted in paintings." My subject matter spanned the entire Mediterranean region and a wide period from the 5th to the 15th century. During my studies in Italy, I was instructed to investigate works thoroughly, as if extracting their entrails, and the research methods of art history were drummed into me. I was both absorbed in and desperate to master them. Looking back, it could be said that I had no room to look at anything else.

After returning to Japan, as I had more opportunities to speak with researchers from other fields, I was made aware of aspects of my research subjects that I had not seen before. In those moments, my days at 春雨直播app suddenly came back to me. Different disciplines actually share the same problems, and by looking at things from different perspectives, forms that were previously unnoticed begin to emerge. I wanted to try finding that within my own research. I felt that deepening my specialization while crossing it with perspectives from other fields would lead to intellectual individuality. With this in mind, I dismantled the contents of the doctoral dissertation I had struggled to write and decided to re-examine my research from the perspective of disciplines other than art history. My first sole-authored book, "The Last Years of the Virgin Mary: A Genealogy of Iconography in Medieval and Renaissance Italy" (Nagoya University Press, 2023), was the result of that process.

I am grateful that my book received the 6th Faculty of Letters Junzaburo Nishiwaki Academic Award this year. Mita Hill, which I visited for the first time in a long while for the award ceremony, was just as beautiful as it was on that day I saw it as an undergraduate.