In this new critical edition of Harima Fudoki, Edwina Palmer presents a fresh translation and interpretation of the stories of gods, people and places contained in this important eighth-century Japane
This volume examines the mutual images formed between Japan and Germany from the mid-nineteenth to early twenty-first centuries. Exploring previously untapped historical sources, the contributions by
The first monograph published in English on Ihara Saikaku’s fiction, Gundry’s lucid, compelling study examines works by Edo-period Japan’s leading writer of ‘floating world’ literature both in their l
Mediated by Gifts is a collection of essays by top scholars on gifts, giving and the social and political forces that shaped these practices in medieval and early modern Japan.
Shincho-Ko ki is the most important source for the career of Oda Nobunaga (1534-82), the first of the Three Heroes who unified Japan after a hundred years of fragmentation and internecine warfare. Ota
Exploring Japanese theater as an integrated whole rather than a group of essentially separate performing art forms, Parker (Japanese, U. of Edinburgh) takes account of the blend of artistic skills tha
In Japanese Pan-Asianism and the Philippines from the Late 19th Century to the End of World War II Sven Matthiessen offers an account of the development of Japanese Pan-Asianism and the perception of
Jonsson guides readers through six complete haikai poems written in the late 18th century in two ways. First he investigates and analyzes all earlier commentaries on three of the poems to demonstrate
The period between the end of WWI in 1918 and the war launched against China in 1937 has been called a "pluralizing moment" for Japan of great intellectual diversity compared with the preceding Meiji
Significant study of Kabuki playwriting of the Edo Period (1603-1867), based around an examination and translation of the only extant treatise fully devoted to the subject, the 1801 Kezairoku, Sakusha
In this commemorative volume, 11 former graduate students and current faculty in Japanese Studies at Leiden U. in the Netherlands, who are now academics and researchers in Japan and Europe, offer as m
Crowley (Japanese literature, Emory U.) examines the work of poet and painter Buson (1716-83) as a window into the artistic practices in Japan during a period of economic, technological, and social ch
A selection of reports on the Japanese army fighting the Chinese during World War II. The reports were commissioned by the general staff of the Royal Netherlands Indies Army out of Dutch concern that
Laurel Rasplica Rodd's complete translation of the early thirteenth century Japanese court poetry anthologyShinkokinshu allows readers to appreciate both the depth of poetic sentiment conveyed in the
Through close reading of photography-inspired texts by Tanizaki, Abe, Horie and Kanai,The Rhetoric of Photography in Modern Japanese Literature by Atsuko Sakaki examines the Japanese literary engageme
Exley examines fiction and essays that writer and artist Haruo (1892-1964) wrote during Japan's prewar years, and links his literary experiments to relevant cultural, political, and social discourses
Selinger (Asian studies, Bowdoin College) argues that the mythicalization of warrior power in 12th-century Japan can be seen most clearly in the last and longest variant of the Heike monogatari, the l
Japan’s Sexual Gods is an exciting original work about the deities represented by phalluses and female sexual objects in Japanese shrines. Their roles in procreation and protection, their rituals and
Fourteen contributions from Japanese, Swiss, and German scholars look at the phenomenon of juvenile delinquency in Japan from a variety of academic disciplinary perspectives. Each paper presents resea
Listen, Copy, Read: Popular Learning in Early Modern Japan endeavors to elucidate the mechanisms by which a growing number of men and women of all social strata became involved in the acquisition of k
