Gramlich-Oka Bettina

(BETTINA GRAMLICH-OKA)

Profile Information

Affiliation: Professor, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Department of Liberal Arts, Sophia University
Visiting Research Fellow, The Toyo Bunko

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, President of 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 of “Koume’s World: The Life and Work of a Samurai Woman before and after the Meiji Restoration, by Simon Partner.”

GRAMLICH-OKA BETTINA

Journal of Japanese Studies, 52(1) 215-218, 2026 InvitedLead author
Book Review of "Mabiki: Infanticide and Population Growth in Eastern Japan, 1660-1950" by Fabian Drixler

GRAMLICH-OKA BETTINA

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

GRAMLICH-OKA BETTINA

Journal of Japanese Studies, 40(2) 387-390, 2014
Book Review of "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 Lead author
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)
日本経済思想史 : 江戸から昭和

川口, 浩, 石井, 寿美世, Gramlich-Oka, Bettina, 劉, 群芸 (Role: Joint author)

勁草書房, Sep, 2015 (ISBN: 9784326504138)
只野真葛論 : 男のように考える女

Jun, 2013 (ISBN: 9784872948080)
日米欧からみた近世日本の経済思想

川口, 浩, Gramlich-Oka, Bettina, 田中, アユ子, 安野, 正士 (Role: Joint editor)

岩田書院, Feb, 2013 (ISBN: 9784872947854)
Economic Thought in Early Modern Japan

Gramlich-Oka, Bettina, Smits, Gregory (Role: Joint editor, Joint author)

Brill, 2010 (ISBN: 9789004183834)
New Horizons in Japanese Literary Studies

Haruo Shirane (Role: Joint author, From Education to Cultivation: Rai Shizuko and Her Father Inooka Gisai)

Bensei Shuppaan, 2009
越境する日本文学研究

ハルオ・シラネ (Role: Joint author, 教育から教養へ：頼静子と父、飯岡義斎)

勉誠出版, 2009
Occasional Papers of Monies, Markets, and Finance in China and East Asa: 1600-1900, vol. 2

Bier’sche Verlagsanstalt, 2008
Occasional Papers of Monies, Markets, and Finance in China and East Asia: 1600-1900, vol. 1

Bier’sche Verlagsanstalt, 2008
Metals, Monies, and Markets in Early Modern Societies: East Asian and Global Perspectives

Thomas Hirzel, Nanny Kim (Role: Joint author, Shogunal Administration of Copper in the Mid-Tokugawa Period (1670–1720))

LIT, 2008
Räume des Selbst: Transkulturelle Perspektiven der Selbstzeugnisforschung / Spacing the Self. Transcultural Perspectives in Research on Self-Narratives

Andreas Bähr (Role: Joint author, Early Modern Japanese Women and Spacing the Self)

Böhlau Verlag, 2007
Thinking like a Man : Tadano Makuzu (1763-1825)

Gramlich-Oka, Bettina

Brill, 2006 (ISBN: 9004152083)
Kulturwissenschaften und Frauenstudien

Viktoria Eschbach-Szabo, Heidi Buck-Albulet, Annemarie Eifler, Ute Horack (Role: Joint author)

Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, 2005

Presentations

107

Curiosity Didn’t Kill the Cat: Naitō Shigeko and Intellectual Curiosity

GRAMLICH-OKA BETTINA

AAS (VANCOUVER), Mar 15, 2026
JAPAN BIOGRAPHICAL DATABASE

GRAMLICH-OKA BETTINA

Feb 23, 2026 Invited
LIGHTENING TALK: JAPAN BIOGRAPHICAL DATABASE: CURRENT STATUS AND FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS

GRAMLICH-OKA BETTINA

Dec 11, 2025
JAPAN BIOGRAPHICAL DATABASE: CURRENT STATUS AND FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS

GRAMLICH-OKA BETTINA

Dec 11, 2025
JAPAN BIOGRAPHICAL DATABASE

GRAMLICH-OKA BETTINA

100-nin Ronbun during Sophia Research Week, 2025

Professional Memberships

Research Projects

頼家の文芸と人的交流の再検討：イェール大学蔵『十旬花月帖』の学際的研究を通じて

科学研究費助成事業, 日本学術振興会, Apr, 2026 - Mar, 2029

島村幸忠, 加藤弓枝, グラムリヒ・オカベティーナ, 藤原幹大
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
Historical Networks through Structural Analysis and Visualization of Personal Name Data

Jun, 2026 - Mar, 2028

GRAMLICH-OKA BETTINA
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
「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, 2026

Bettina Gramlich-Oka

Academic Activities

Asian Studies Conference Japan 2026

Planning, Management, etc.

GRAMLICH-OKA BETTINA, Jul 4, 2026 - Jul 5, 2026
Unexplored Crossways of Antiquarianism

Planning, Management, etc., Planning/Implementing academic research

Maki Nakai, Bettina Gramlich-Oka, Jan 18, 2025
Showcasing the Japan Biographical Database

Planning, Management, etc.

GRAMLICH-OKA BETTINA, Nov 9, 2024
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

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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