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51. Cover image for 'Objects of Discourse'
Objects of Discourse
Memoirs by Women of Heian Japan
Volume: 54
John R. Wallace
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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52. Cover image for 'JAPANimals'
JAPANimals
History and Culture in Japan’s Animal Life
Volume: 52
Gregory M. Pflugfelder and Brett L. Walker, Editors
Brings the cultural ubiquity of animals into sharp focus over questions of economy, nation, empire, and modernity
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JAPANimals
History and Culture in Japan’s Animal Life
Volume: 52
Gregory M. Pflugfelder and Brett L. Walker, Editors
Brings the cultural ubiquity of animals into sharp focus over questions of economy, nation, empire, and modernity
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53. Cover image for 'Shadows on the Screen'
Shadows on the Screen
Tanizaki Jun’ichiro on Cinema and “Oriental” Aesthetics
Volume: 53
Thomas LaMarre
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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53. Cover image for 'Shadows on the Screen'
Shadows on the Screen
Tanizaki Jun’ichiro on Cinema and “Oriental” Aesthetics
Volume: 53
Thomas LaMarre
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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54. Cover image for 'Japanese Painting and National Identity'
Japanese Painting and National Identity
Okakura Tenshin and His Circle
Volume: 45
Victoria Weston
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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55. Cover image for 'A Wife in Musashino'
A Wife in Musashino
Volume: 51
Ooka Shohei; Translated with a Postscript by Dennis Washburn
A rich and subtle portrait of postwar Japanese family and social life
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56. Cover image for 'Takebe Ayatari'
Takebe Ayatari
A Bunjin Bohemian in Early Modern Japan
Volume: 36
Lawrence E. Marceau
A multi-faceted look at the life and milieu of a mid-eighteenth-century aesthete
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57. Cover image for 'Novel Japan'
Novel Japan
Spaces of Nationhood in Early Meiji Narrative, 1870–88
Volume: 48
John Pierre Mertz
Interrogates the transformation of literary narrative into national discourse in early Meiji Japan
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58. Cover image for 'Ozu’s Anti-Cinema'
Ozu’s Anti-Cinema
Volume: 49
Yoshida Kiju; Translated by Daisuke Miyao & Kyoko Hirano
A luminous exploration of one filmmaker’s work by another, an artist’s personal journey, a manifesto
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Ozu’s Anti-Cinema
Volume: 49
Yoshida Kiju; Translated by Daisuke Miyao & Kyoko Hirano
A luminous exploration of one filmmaker’s work by another, an artist’s personal journey, a manifesto
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State of War
The Violent Order of Fourteenth-Century Japan
Volume: 46
Thomas Donald Conlan
A path-breaking study of the transformative power of war and its profound influence on 14th-century Japan
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State of War
The Violent Order of Fourteenth-Century Japan
Volume: 46
Thomas Donald Conlan
A path-breaking study of the transformative power of war and its profound influence on 14th-century Japan
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60. Cover image for 'Modality and the Japanese Language'
Modality and the Japanese Language
Volume: 44
Yuki Johnson
Proposes a new approach to understanding modal verbs in Japanese
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Song of Sadness
Volume: 47
Endo Shusaku; Translated by Teruyo Shimizu
A multi-layered novel about a changing postwar Japan
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Song of Sadness
Volume: 47
Endo Shusaku; Translated by Teruyo Shimizu
A multi-layered novel about a changing postwar Japan
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62. Cover image for 'Engendering Faith'
Engendering Faith
Women and Buddhism in Premodern Japan
Volume: 43
Barbara Ruch, Editor
A monumental and pioneering study on women and Buddhism.
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Confluences
Postwar Japan and France
Volume: 42
Doug Slaymaker, Editor
Explores the relationship between Japan and France and the development of postwar national and individual identities
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Religion and Society in Nineteenth-Century Japan
A Study of the Southern Kanto Region, Using Late Edo and Early Meiji Gazetteers
Volume: 41
Helen Hardacre
A detailed analysis of the structure of nineteenth-century Japanese religious institutions
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Figures of Desire
Wordplay, Spirit Possession, Fantasy, Madness, and Mourning in Japanese Noh Plays
Volume: 38
Etsuko Terasaki
An analysis of the narrative and tropological structure of classical Japanese Noh plays
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66. Cover image for 'Treatise on Epistolary Style'
Treatise on Epistolary Style
João Rodriguez on the Noble Art of Writing Japanese Letters
Volume: 39
Jeroen Pieter Lamers
A treasure trove of diplomatics and epistolary stylistics from late 16th- and early 17th-century Japan
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67. Cover image for 'Individual Dignity in Modern Japanese Thought'
Individual Dignity in Modern Japanese Thought
The Evolution of the Concept of Jinkaku in Moral and Educational Discourse
Volume: 35
Kyoko Inoue
Traces the development of jinkaku (moral character) in modern Japanese discourse
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68. Cover image for 'Spirits of Another Sort'
Spirits of Another Sort
The Plays of Izumi Kyoka
Volume: 29
M. Cody Poulton
The first work in any language to focus on the plays of Izumi Kyoka, a major literary figure in modern Japan
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69. Cover image for '“Dark Pictures” and Other Stories'
“Dark Pictures” and Other Stories
Volume: 30
Noma Hiroshi; Translated and with an Afterword by James Raeside
Dark and haunting stories of young men whose universal desires and anxieties are overshadowed by memories of the brutality of war
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69. Cover image for '“Dark Pictures” and Other Stories'
“Dark Pictures” and Other Stories
Volume: 30
Noma Hiroshi; Translated and with an Afterword by James Raeside
Dark and haunting stories of young men whose universal desires and anxieties are overshadowed by memories of the brutality of war
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Local Voices, National Issues
The Impact of Local Initiative in Japanese Policy-Making
Volume: 31
Sheila A. Smith, Editor
Studies in local initiative and center-local relations in Japan
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71. Cover image for 'Tanizaki in Western Languages'
Tanizaki in Western Languages
A Bibliography of Translations and Studies
Adriana Boscaro
An important research tool for those interested in one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century.
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72. Cover image for 'The Evolution of the Japanese Past and Perfective Suffixes'
The Evolution of the Japanese Past and Perfective Suffixes
Volume: 26
Karen E. Sandness
Explains the evolution of Japanese suffixes and provides an aid to scholars reading classical Japanese
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Hardcover 1999 $32.95 Available Add Hardcover for "The Evolution of the Japanese Past and Perfective Suffixes" to Cart
73. Cover image for 'Long, Long Autumn Nights'
Long, Long Autumn Nights
Selected Poems of Oguma Hideo, 1901–1940
Volume: 3
Oguma Hideo; Translated and with an Introduction by David G. Goodman
The first English sampling of the work of a Japanese avant-garde poet who stood for cultural tolerance in a repressive, imperialistic age
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73. Cover image for 'Long, Long Autumn Nights'
Long, Long Autumn Nights
Selected Poems of Oguma Hideo, 1901–1940
Volume: 3
Oguma Hideo; Translated and with an Introduction by David G. Goodman
The first English sampling of the work of a Japanese avant-garde poet who stood for cultural tolerance in a repressive, imperialistic age
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Paper 1989 $8.95 Available Add Paper for "Long, Long Autumn Nights" to Cart
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Kagerō Diary
A Woman’s Autobiographical Text from Tenth-Century Japan
Volume: 19
Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Sonja Arntzen
A new translation with discussion and annotations of a foundational work of Japanese classical literature
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Paper 1997 $19.95 Available Add Paper for "The Kagero Diary" to Cart
Hardcover 1997 $56.95 Available Add Hardcover for "The Kagero Diary" to Cart
Web Open Access Available Read Online
74. Cover image for 'The Kagero Diary'
Kagerō Diary
A Woman’s Autobiographical Text from Tenth-Century Japan
Volume: 19
Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Sonja Arntzen
A new translation with discussion and annotations of a foundational work of Japanese classical literature
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Paper 1997 $19.95 Available Add Paper for "The Kagero Diary" to Cart
Hardcover 1997 $56.95 Available Add Hardcover for "The Kagero Diary" to Cart
Web Open Access Available Read Online
74. Cover image for 'The Kagero Diary'
Kagerō Diary
A Woman’s Autobiographical Text from Tenth-Century Japan
Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Sonja Arntzen
A new translation with discussion and annotations of a foundational work of Japanese classical literature
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Paper 1997 $19.95 Available Add Paper for "The Kagero Diary" to Cart
Hardcover 1997 $56.95 Available Add Hardcover for "The Kagero Diary" to Cart
Web Open Access Available Read Online
75. Cover image for 'Righteous Cause or Tragic Folly'
Righteous Cause or Tragic Folly
Changing Views of War in Modern Japanese Poetry
Volume: 17
Steve Rabson
Translations and readings of some of the most important modern Japanese poems written for and against war
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Hardcover 1998 $36.95 Available Add Hardcover for "Righteous Cause or Tragic Folly" to Cart
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