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26. Cover image for 'The Wild Goose'
Mori Ogai; Translated with an Introduction by Burton Watson
A recreation of Tokyo in the 1880s by one of Japan’s most influential novelists
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27. Cover image for 'Women and Public Life in Early Meiji Japan'
The Development of the Feminist Movement
Mara Patessio
Offers a fresh perspective on Meiji Japan with a spotlight on women’s activities in the new public spaces of the era
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28. Cover image for 'Imagination without Borders'
Feminist Artist Tomiyama Taeko and Social Responsibility
Laura Hein and Rebecca Jennison, Editors
Opens up the transformational work of a contemporary feminist artist on the difficult terrain of Japanese and global history
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29. Cover image for 'The Linguistic Turn in Contemporary Japanese Literary Studies'
Politics, Language, Textuality
Edited and with an Introduction by Michael K. Bourdaghs
Traces the transformation of the study of postwar Japanese literature from positivism to radically different methods informed by linguistics
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30. Cover image for 'Musashino in Tuscany'
Japanese Overseas Travel Literature, 1860–1912
Susanna Fessler
Examines poetic imagery and allusion in the Japanese tradition of travel writing
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31. Cover image for 'Transformations of Sensibility'
The Phenomenology of Meiji Literature
Kamei Hideo; Translated, edited, and with an introduction by Michael Bourdaghs
The first English translation of a monumental literary history of Japan
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32. Cover image for 'Writing and Renunciation in Medieval Japan'
The Works of the Poet-Priest Kamo no Chomei
Rajyashree Pandey
Challenges the rigid distinction between the religious and literary in medieval Japan
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34. Cover image for 'Lords of the Sea'
Pirates, Violence, and Commerce in Late Medieval Japan
Volume: 76
Peter D. Shapinsky
Revises our understanding of the epic political, economic, and cultural transformations of Japan's late medieval period (ca. 1300–1600) by shifting the conventional land-based analytical framework to one centered on the perspectives of seafarers 
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Ebook 2020 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Lords of the Sea"
35. Cover image for 'Coeds Ruining the Nation'
Women, Education, and Social Change in Postwar Japanese Media
Volume: 87
Julia C. Bullock
A unique glimpse into the hopes and fears of the Japanese people as coeducation was first introduced in the Occupation period.
 
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Ebook 2019 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Coeds Ruining the Nation"
36. Cover image for 'Gendered Power'
Educated Women of the Meiji Empress’ Court
Volume: 86
Mamiko C. Suzuki
Examines the contributions of three powerful Meiji women and how their own education and ideas about Japanese women’s potential shaped how females were to participate in modern society
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Ebook 2019 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Gendered Power"
37. Cover image for 'Beyond the Gender Gap in Japan'
Volume: 85
Gill Steel, Editor
Gives critical attention to the issue of Japan’s low level of gender equality and the conflicting information from surveys of women reporting a high sense of well-being
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Ebook 2019 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Beyond the Gender Gap in Japan"
38. Cover image for 'Remembering Tanizaki Jun’ichiro and Matsuko'
Diary Entries, Interview Notes, and Letters, 1954-1989
Volume: 82
Anthony H. Chambers
An essential companion for Tanizaki scholars and aficionados alike, providing a glimpse of the man from those closest to him
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Ebook 2017 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Remembering Tanizaki Jun’ichiro and Matsuko"
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A Memoir
Volume: 83
Tanizaki Jun'ichiro; Translated by Paul McCarthy
Set against the modernization of Japan, this memoir offers a moving look at famed novelist Tanizaki Jun’ichiro¯’s early years
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Ebook 2017 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Childhood Years"
40. Cover image for 'The Gourmet Club'
A Sextet
Volume: 81
Tanizaki Jun'ichiro; Translated by Anthony H. Chambers and Paul McCarthy
Six short stories by Tanizaki Jun’ichiro¯ (1886–1965), capturing the breadth of his literary oeuvre
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Ebook 2017 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "The Gourmet Club"
41. Cover image for 'My Life as a Filmmaker'
Volume: 80
Yamamoto Satsuo; Translated, Annotated, and with an Introduction by Chia-ning Chang
A riveting autobiography of Yamamoto Satsuo (1910–83), one of the most important and critically acclaimed postwar Japanese film directors
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Ebook 2017 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "My Life as a Filmmaker"
42. Cover image for 'Red Roofs and Other Stories'
Volume: 79
Tanizaki Jun'ichiro; Translated by Anthony H. Chambers and Paul McCarthy
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Ebook 2016 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Red Roofs and Other Stories"
43. Cover image for '<em>A</em> <em>Page of Madness</em>'
Cinema and Modernity in 1920s Japan
Volume: 64
Aaron Gerow
Offers provocative insight into a masterpiece of silent cinema using a newly released original script and notes
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Ebook 2009 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "A Page of Madness"
44. Cover image for 'The Female as Subject'
Reading and Writing in Early Modern Japan
Volume: 70
P. F. Kornicki, Mara Patessio, and G. G. Rowley, Editors
Reveals the rich and lively world of literate women in Japan from 1600 through the early 20th century
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Ebook 2016 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "The Female as Subject"
45. Cover image for 'Nowaki'
Volume: 72
Natsume Soseki; Translated and with an Afterword and Chronology by William N. Ridgeway
The lives and minds of three men come together in ways that are both commonplace and surprising
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Ebook 2011 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Nowaki"
46. Cover image for 'Research Guide to Japanese Film Studies'
Volume: 65
Abé Mark Nornes and Aaron Gerow
Provides a snapshot of all the archival and bibliographic resources available to students and scholars of Japanese cinema
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Ebook 2009 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Research Guide to Japanese Film Studies"
47. Cover image for 'Television, Japan, and Globalization'
Volume: 67
Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto, Eva Tsai, and JungBong Choi, Editors
Shines new theoretical light on Japanese television in global perspective
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Ebook 2010 Available View Purchasing Options for Ebook, "Television, Japan, and Globalization"
48. Cover image for 'The Buddhist Poetry of the Great Kamo Priestess'
Daisaiin Senshi and Hosshin Wakashu
Volume: 5
Edward Kamens
Provides new translations and sensitive readings of the devotional Buddhist poems of Senshi, the Great Kamo Priestess of the Heian period
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Web Open Access Available Read Online
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