Depicting Madness, Poeticising Love – Takamura Kōtarō’s Chieko shō

an assistant professor at the Department of Japanology and Sinology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow. She pursued her studies in Japanese language and literature in Krakow (Jagiellonian University), Kanazawa (Kanazawa University) and Tokyo (Ochanomizu University); she has published a number of articles and monographs on the narrative strategies in early-modern and modern Japanese literature, and translated into Polish works of Ihara Saikaku, Higuchi Ichiyō, Kunikida Doppo, Natsume Sōseki, Mori Ōgai, Nagai Kafū and Akutagawa Ryūnosuke.