Gramlich-Oka Bettina

(BETTINA GRAMLICH-OKA)

Profile Information

Affiliation: Professor, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Department of Liberal Arts, Sophia University

Degree: Doktor der Philosophie (PhD)(May, 2006, Tübingen University, Germany)
MA (Magister)(Sep, 1993, Tübingen University, Germany; Sophia University, Japan)

Other name(s) (e.g. nickname): グラムリヒｰオカ・ベティーナ
Researcher number: 60573417
J-GLOBAL ID: 201101019660754546
researchmap Member ID: 6000029206

External link: http://www.japanese-history.org/

Grants and Research Projects:

2005–2008: University of Tübingen, Japanologie, DFG research project: "Money and Monetary Policies of the Shogunate and Domains in Late Tokugawa Japan: Discourses and Practices."　
2008–2009: Heyman Center for the Humanities, Columbia University, New York (NY, USA), Postdoctoral Fellow: "Tadano Makuzu."
2009.5–2009.9: University of Tübingen, Japanologie, DFG research project: "Cholera: Health and Hygiene in Nineteenth Century Japan."
2010– : Network Studies in Japanese History, ICC project, Sophia University
2016–2022: Digitial History, JSPS Research Grants (Kaken C)
2018– 2021: Digital Humanities in the classroom, Educational Innovation Project, Sophia University

2024–2026 「日本の人名データベース」(JBDB)に関する研究の国際的展開(国文学研究資料館)

2023–2025 JSPS Research Grant (基盤研究C): 18世紀後半における儒学受容の研究――〈家〉を中心に (課題番号 23K00099) (分担者）

2022–2024 JSPS Research Grant (基盤研究C): 近世後期の好古・証研究の源流と展にする学際的国際共同研究 (課題番号：22K00863)（分担者）

2022–2025 Collaborator in 京坂文化サロンとネットワーク1780年～1880年 “Creative Collaborations: Salons and Networks in Kyoto and Osaka 1780-1880,” funded by UKRI (UK Research and Innovation) and JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science)

2021–2023 国際共同研究: 歴史的典籍NW事業 (国文学研究資料館) https://www.nijl.ac.jp/pages/cijproject/

2019–2021 JSPS Research Grant (基盤研究C): 18世紀後半における「儒者」の総合的研究―頼春水とその周辺（分担者）

See the Japan Biographical Database: http.jbdb.jp

Research Interests

Research Areas

Research History

Jun, 2025 - Present

(Visiting Scholar), The Toyo Bunko
Sep, 2022 - Mar, 2023

Visiting Scholar, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University
Jan, 2023 - Feb, 2023

Visiting Scholar, Faculté Sociétés et Humanités, Université Paris Cité
Sep, 2015 - Aug, 2016

Visiting Scholar, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University
Oct, 2015 - Mar, 2016

Visiting Scholar, Historiographical Institute, Tokyo University

Committee Memberships

Aug, 2025 - Present

President, Asian Studies Conference Japan
May, 2014 - Present

編集委員, 日本経済思想史研究会
Jul, 2012 - Present

Executive committee member, Asian Studies Conference in Japan
Sep, 2010 - Present

Founding member of consortium, Barnard College: Reacting to the Past Pedagogy Consortium
Sep, 2016 - Mar, 2023

Chief Editor, Monumenta Nipponica

Papers

Review of “In the Shelter of the Pine; A Memoir of Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu and Tokugawa Japan,” by Ōgimachi Machiko; trans. G. G. Rowley

Bettina Gramlich-Oka

Japan Review, 37 185-186, Dec, 2022 InvitedLead author
「只野真葛（1763-1825）：近世の学者ネットワークとジェンダー」

ベティーナ・グラムリヒ=オカ

2019年度国際研究フォーラム国学院大学研究開発推進機構日本文化研究, 57-70, Feb, 2021 Invited
Introduction

Bettina Gramlich-Oka

Women and Networks in Nineteenth Century Japan, 1-18, Oct, 2020 Peer-reviewedLead author
Rai Shizu’s Multiple Networks

Bettina Gramlich-Oka

Women and Networks in Nineteenth Century Japan, 42-66, Oct, 2020 Peer-reviewed
大学資料を使用する教育の可能性ーデジタル・ヒューマニティーズを活用して

ベティーナ・グラムリヒ=オカ

アルケイア－記録・情報・歴史－, 14 1-13, 2019 Invited

Misc.

Book Review: Mabiki: Infanticide and Population Growth in Eastern Japan, 1660-1950

GRAMLICH-OKA BETTINA

Journal of Family History, 40(2) 250-252, Feb, 2015
Selling Women: Prostitution, Markets, and the Household in Early Modern Japan by Amy Stanley (review)

GRAMLICH-OKA BETTINA

The Journal of Japanese Studies, 40(2) 387-390, 2014
Traditionen idealisierter Weiblichkeit: Die "Kostbare Sammlung von Vorbildern weiblicher Weisheit" (Joyō chie kagami takaraori) als Paradebeispiel edo-zeitlicher Frauenbildung (review)

GRAMLICH-OKA BETTINA

Monumenta Nipponica, 65(1) 217-221, 2010
The Intra-Asian Trade in Japanese Copper by the Dutch East India Company during the Eighteenth Century (review)

GRAMLICH-OKA BETTINA

Monumenta Nipponica, 62(4) 490-492, 2007

Books and Other Publications

Protofeminism: Negotiating the Gender Order of Tokugawa Japan

Japan Documents, 2025 (ISBN: 9784909286123)
New Cambridge History of Japan: Vol. 2. Early modern Japan in Asia and the world, c. 1580-1877

Komuro Masamichi, Bettina Gramlich-Oka (Role: Joint author, author)

Cambridge University Press, 2024 (ISBN: 9781108417938) Refereed

The Tokugawa economy: of rulers, producers and consumers
Women and Networks in Nineteenth Century Japan.

Bettina Gramlich-Oka, Anne Walthall, Miyazawa Fumiko, , Sugano Noriko (Role: Joint author, Main editor)

University of Michigan Press, Oct, 2020 (ISBN: 9780472074693)
Monumenta Nipponica : eighty years and counting

Gramlich-Oka, Bettina, Sanders, Esther, 田中, アユ子 (Role: Editor, Main author)

Sophia University, 2020 (ISBN: 9784991130809)
Religion, culture, and the public sphere in China and Japan

Welter, Albert, Newmark, Jeffrey (Role: Contributor, ‘Knowing the [Confucian] Way’ and the Political Sphere)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2017 (ISBN: 9789811024368)

Presentations

102

Household Records by Wives of Prominent Tokugawa Men

Bettina Gramlich-Oka

AAS-in-Asia (Kathmandu), Jun 2, 2025
Spatial and Social Mobilities and Limitations in a Scholar’s Household

Bettina Gramlich-Oka

AAS in ASIA (Kathmandu), Jun 2, 2025
Data Mobilization in Research on Premodern Japan: Front-line Case Studies and Challenges

Bettina Gramlich-Oka

AAS (Columbus, Ohio), Mar 13, 2025
Crossways of Knowledge in the Collection of a High-Ranking Woman in Nineteenth Century Japan

Bettina Gramlich-Oka

Unexplored Crossways of Antiquarianism in Japan’s Long Nineteenth Century, Jan 18, 2025
Creative Tools for Social Network Analysis and Prosopography

Bettina Gramlich-Oka

Informasia #12, Dec 16, 2024 Invited

Professional Memberships

Research Projects

Multidimensional Development of Antiquarianism in the Tokugawa Period: Interdisciplinary and International Perspectives

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2025 - Mar, 2028
「日本の人名データベース」（JBDB）に関する研究の国際的展開

National Institute of Japanese Literature, Jun, 2024 - Mar, 2027

Bettina Gramlich-Oka
18世紀後半における儒学受容の研究――〈家〉を中心に

科学研究費助成事業, 日本学術振興会, Apr, 2023 - Mar, 2026

清水則夫
International Joint Research on the Origin and Development of Antiquarianism in the Late Tokugawa Period

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2022 - Mar, 2025

Nakai Maki, Kobayashi Fumiko, Gramlich-Oka Bettina
Creative Collaborations: Salons and Networks in Kyoto and Osaka 1780-1880

UKRI (United Kingdom Research and Innovation) and JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science), Feb, 2022 - Jan, 2025

Yano Akiko, Akama Ryo, Rosina Buckland, Alfred Haft, Timothy Clark, Andrew Gerstle, Nakatani Nobuo, Hirai Yoshinobu, Akeo Keizō, Ida Taro, Iwasa Shin’ichi, John Carpenter, Michael Kinski, Bettina Gramlich-Oka, Scott John, Sugimoto Yoshihisa, Tsukuda Ikki, Ellis Tinios, Paul Berry, Anna Beerens, Matsuba Ryōko, Yamamoto Yukari, Yamamoto Yoshitaka, Yokoya Ken’ichiro

Academic Activities

EAJS Publication Workshop

Panel moderator, Session chair, etc., Review, evaluation

EAJS Publication Workshop, Oct 6, 2022 - Oct 8, 2022
Early Modern Kyūshū: Regional Crossroads of Knowledge, Trade, and Production

Panel moderator, Session chair, etc.

Universite Paris Cite, Sep 9, 2022 - Sep 10, 2022
Confucian Scholars in the Late Tokugawa Period

Planning, Management, etc., Panel moderator, Session chair, etc., Supervision (editorial)

Sophia University, Dec 21, 2021
Confucian Scholars in the Late Tokugawa Period

Planning, Management, etc., Panel moderator, Session chair, etc.

Institute of Comparative Culture, Sophia University, Dec 19, 2021
Exhibit: Monumenta Nipponica: 80th Anniversary

Planning, Management, etc.

Sophia University, Oct 1, 2018 - Oct 19, 2018
Monumenta Nipponica: 80th Anniversary Symposium

Planning, Management, etc., Panel moderator, Session chair, etc., Supervision (editorial)

Sophia University, Oct 6, 2018
Publishing in Asia

Planning, Management, etc., Panel moderator, Session chair, etc., Supervision (editorial)

ＡＳＣＪ, Jun 30, 2018 - Jun 30, 2018
Symposium: Digital Humanities and Databases

Planning, Management, etc., Panel moderator, Session chair, etc., Supervision (editorial)

Symposium: Digital Humanities and Databases, Mar 16, 2018
Dissecting and Reconstructing Early Modern Japan. Kaiho Seiryo (1755–1817) as a Key to the Context of his Times

Panel moderator, Session chair, etc., Review, evaluation

Osaka University, Sep 11, 2017
Publishing in Peer Reviewed Journals

Panel moderator, Session chair, etc.

EAJS, Sep 2, 2017
Women Networks in Nineteenth Century Japan

Planning, Management, etc., Panel moderator, Session chair, etc.

EAJS, Aug 31, 2017
Bridging Time & Space: Navigating Social Networks in Premodern East Asia

Panel moderator, Session chair, etc.

AAS, Mar 19, 2017

Social Activities

Editorial Board of Nihon Keizaishisōshi kenkyūkai (Keio University, Tokyo, Japan)

Others

2018 - Present
Monumenta Nipponica

Chief editor

2015 - Present
Executive Committee of Asian Studies Conference in Japan (Tokyo, Japan)

Others

2012 - Present
Council of Conferences Representative at the Association of Asian Studies of the Asian Studies Conference in Japan

Others

2016 - 2018
Executive Board and Editorial Board of Nihon Keizaishisōshi kenkyūkai (Keio University, Tokyo, Japan)

Others

2014 - 2018

Media Coverage

Confucian Scholars in the Late Tokugawa Period

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbCq4I6UGt8, Dec, 2022 Internet
Women and Networks in Nineteenth Century Japan

Podcast, https://newbooksnetwork.com/women-and-networks-in-nineteenth-century-japan, Apr 12, 2021 Others
Women and Networks in Nineteenth Century Japan

Dec, 2020 Internet

podcast

Other

Chief Editor of Monumenta Nipponica

Oct, 2014 - Present

Chief Editor of Monumenta Nipponica

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