His research deals with the history and sociology of Japanese beliefs and knowledges, with a focus on early modern books on divination and magic, their contents, authors and reception. As a Visiting Research Scholar at Nichibunken, he is currently working on late-17th-early-18th century encyclopedias and essays. He has co-edited with Annick Horiuchi Listen, Copy, Read: Popular Learning in Early Modern Japan (2014), and his recent publications include "The Eight Trigrams and Their Changes: Divination in Early Modern Japan", in Daoism in Japan, edited par Jeffrey D. Richey (Routledge-Curzon, 2015), and “Urayasan: chūsei makki no uranai no shosō”, in Mō hitotsu no Nihonbugakushi: Muromachi, seiai, jikan, edited by National Institute of Japanese Literature (2016).