Jean-Jacques Origas (1937–2003) was a French academic with expertise in Japanese literature and art.
[2] He became a visiting professor at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies in Kyoto, where he lectured on Haiku in contemporary French poetry (1992).
[3] His work on Meiji literature was the subject of a Nichibunken Mokuyo Seminar (1996).
[4] Origas was famed for his expertise in the pedagogy of Japanese language education.
As a teacher, his intention was to impart not only the ability to write grammatically correct Japanese, but also to use the language in a way which is stylistically pleasing.