Bio note

Terushi Morimoto is a PhD student in Communication and Inter-culturality at the Universitat de València. He graduated with a Master’s degree in Japanese Intellectual History from the Tohoku University in 2016. During his doctoral studies at Tohoku University, he studied as an international student at the University of Salamanca (2019-2020) and taught one of the Japanese language classes. His main area of interest is the thout of Yokoi Shōnan (a Confusian scholar in the period of Bakumatsu), the Ethos of noble military classes especially in the Edo era, Intercultural understanding from the Edo to Meiji eras, and “Japan” in the Meiji era as seen by the Spanish.