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Around the time when he entered elementary school, Kanehiro became fascinated by the stars he saw in a picture book on heavenly bodies and put all his energy into memorizing the names of the constellations. Before long, however, this insatiable passion faded and was abandoned, only to be accidentally revived later in a different form. He encountered the field of Indo-European comparative linguistics when he was an undergraduate student and started studying Classical languages ? Greek and Latin ? whose speakers played an important role in modeling the configuration of the stars. As a linguist, his primary aim is to clarify the phonological and morphological history of Latin and other languages of Ancient Italy. At the same time, as a reader of documents from the Ancient World, he always feels a sense of passion and reverence with regard to the cultural background of these texts, and tries to be conscious of the human emotions which lie between their lines and even between their letters.