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Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies
26. 
open access
Volume: 63
Explores the daily life of the citizens of the lost periods of ancient Japan
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26.
open access
Volume: 63
Explores the daily life of the citizens of the lost periods of ancient Japan
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26.
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Explores the daily life of the citizens of the lost periods of ancient Japan
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27. 
Cinema and Modernity in 1920s Japan
Volume: 64
Offers provocative insight into a masterpiece of silent cinema using a newly released original script and notes
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27.
Cinema and Modernity in 1920s Japan
Volume: 64
Offers provocative insight into a masterpiece of silent cinema using a newly released original script and notes
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27.
Cinema and Modernity in 1920s Japan
Volume: 64
Offers provocative insight into a masterpiece of silent cinema using a newly released original script and notes
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28. 
Izumi Shikibu and the Buddhist Literature of Medieval Japan
Volume: 62
Explores how preacher-entertainers in late-Heian and medieval Japan used apocryphal tales of women in competitive, sectarian, passionate rhetorical performances
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28.
Izumi Shikibu and the Buddhist Literature of Medieval Japan
Volume: 62
Explores how preacher-entertainers in late-Heian and medieval Japan used apocryphal tales of women in competitive, sectarian, passionate rhetorical performances
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29. 
Volume: 61
A meditative exploration of aging and approaching death by one of Japan’s finest novelists
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30. 
The Black Lizard and Other Plays
Volume: 59
Presents nine remarkable plays by Mishima to English readers for the first time
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30.
The Black Lizard and Other Plays
Volume: 59
Presents nine remarkable plays by Mishima to English readers for the first time
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31. 
New Woman Essays and Fiction from Seito, 1911–16
Volume: 60
Introduces English-language readers to a formative chapter in the history of Japanese feminism by presenting for the first time in English translation a collection of writings from Seito (Bluestockings), the famed New Women’s journal of the 1910s
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31.
New Woman Essays and Fiction from Seito, 1911–16
Volume: 60
Introduces English-language readers to a formative chapter in the history of Japanese feminism by presenting for the first time in English translation a collection of writings from Seito (Bluestockings), the famed New Women’s journal of the 1910s
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32. 
Essays on the Structure of Japanese Folk Religion
Volume: 32
The first comprehensive English translation of a foundational work on Japanese asceticism and folk religion
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33. 
Muso Soseki in His Gardens
Volume: 56
A sustained exploration of the garden designs of a medieval Japanese Zen Buddhist monk
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33.
Muso Soseki in His Gardens
Volume: 56
A sustained exploration of the garden designs of a medieval Japanese Zen Buddhist monk
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34. 
Volume: 58
With true-to-life characters, situations that vividly evoke their times, and even a happy ending, Shishi Bunroku brings a new dimension to Japanese literature in English
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35. 
Volume: 57
Explores Japan’s early literature to trace the development of social mandates for women’s use of language
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36. 
The Noh Plays of Komparu Zenchiku
Volume: 55
The first comprehensive study of the noh plays of a 15th-century actor, playwright, and theoretician
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37. 
Memoirs by Women of Heian Japan
Volume: 54
Analyzes the four main tenth- and eleventh-century Heian memoirs by women for their individual characteristics and what they suggest of Heian literature more broadly.
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38. 
History and Culture in Japan’s Animal Life
Volume: 52
Brings the cultural ubiquity of animals into sharp focus over questions of economy, nation, empire, and modernity
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38.
History and Culture in Japan’s Animal Life
Volume: 52
Brings the cultural ubiquity of animals into sharp focus over questions of economy, nation, empire, and modernity
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39. 
Tanizaki Jun’ichiro on Cinema and “Oriental” Aesthetics
Volume: 53
Reevaluates representations of race, sex, nation, and modernity in the work of a celebrated early 20th-century Japanese filmmaker and critic
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39.
Tanizaki Jun’ichiro on Cinema and “Oriental” Aesthetics
Volume: 53
Reevaluates representations of race, sex, nation, and modernity in the work of a celebrated early 20th-century Japanese filmmaker and critic
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40. 
open access
Japanese Overseas Travel Literature, 1860–1912
Examines poetic imagery and allusion in the Japanese tradition of travel writing
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40.
open access
Japanese Overseas Travel Literature, 1860–1912
Volume: 50
Examines poetic imagery and allusion in the Japanese tradition of travel writing
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40.
open access
Japanese Overseas Travel Literature, 1860–1912
Examines poetic imagery and allusion in the Japanese tradition of travel writing
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41. 
Okakura Tenshin and His Circle
Volume: 45
Addresses the art and philosophy of a group of Meiji painters regarded by many as seminal figures in the development of modern Japanese painting
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42. 
Volume: 51
A rich and subtle portrait of postwar Japanese family and social life
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43. 
A Bunjin Bohemian in Early Modern Japan
Volume: 36
A multi-faceted look at the life and milieu of a mid-eighteenth-century aesthete
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44. 
Spaces of Nationhood in Early Meiji Narrative, 1870–88
Volume: 48
Interrogates the transformation of literary narrative into national discourse in early Meiji Japan
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45. 
Volume: 49
A luminous exploration of one filmmaker’s work by another, an artist’s personal journey, a manifesto
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45.
Volume: 49
A luminous exploration of one filmmaker’s work by another, an artist’s personal journey, a manifesto
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46. 
The Violent Order of Fourteenth-Century Japan
Volume: 46
A path-breaking study of the transformative power of war and its profound influence on 14th-century Japan
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46.
The Violent Order of Fourteenth-Century Japan
Volume: 46
A path-breaking study of the transformative power of war and its profound influence on 14th-century Japan
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47. 
Volume: 44
Proposes a new approach to understanding modal verbs in Japanese
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48. 
Volume: 47
A multi-layered novel about a changing postwar Japan
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48.
Volume: 47
A multi-layered novel about a changing postwar Japan
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49. 
Women and Buddhism in Premodern Japan
Volume: 43
A monumental and pioneering study on women and Buddhism.
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50. 
Postwar Japan and France
Volume: 42
Explores the relationship between Japan and France and the development of postwar national and individual identities
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