Man-bi-ken: Manga no bi/gakuteki jigen e no sekkin [Towards an Aesthetics of Comics], Kyoto: Daigo shobō.
Introduction, pp. i–xv, and individual chapter “Tenji sareru manga: bijutsukan ni okeru manga no «bigaku»” [Exhibiting manga: The ‘Aesthetics’ of comics in the art museum], pp. 159–191.
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Book: Phänomen Manga (1995, German)
Phänomen Manga: Comic-Kultur in Japan, Berlin: edition q 1995
[Spanish trans. El Fenomeno Manga, Barcelona: Ediciones Martinez Roca 1996].
Book: マンガの国 ニッポン (1994)
Manga no kuni nippon: Nihon no taishū bunka, shikaku bunka no kanōsei [Japan, the country of manga: On popular culture, visual culture and comics in Japan], transl. by Satō Kazuo and Mizuno Kazuhiko, Tokyo: Kadensha, 1994/2007.