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Contents of the Current Issue

Vol. 64, No. 2 (Autumn 2009)

Articles

Before the First Buddha: Medieval Japanese Cosmogony and the Quest for the Primeval Kami.
Fabio Rambelli.

Predators, Protectors, and Purveyors: Pirates and Commerce in Late Medieval Japan.
Peter D. Shapinsky.

Research Note

Fragments of Friendship: Matsuo Taseko and the Hirata Family.
Anne Walthall.

Review Articles

Demographic Estimates and the Issue of Staple Food in Early Japan.
Charlotte von Verschuer.

The Latter Days of the Genji.
Rebekah Clements and Peter Kornicki.

Book Reviews

The Four Great Temples: Buddhist Archaeology, Architecture, and Icons of Seventh-Century Japan. By Donald F. McCallum.
and
Nagaoka: Japan's Forgotten Capital. By Ellen Van Goethem.
Walter Edwards

Across the Perilous Sea: Japanese Trade with China and Korea from the Seventh to the Sixteenth Centuries. By Charlotte von Verschuer. Translated by Kristen Lee Hunter.
Bruce L. Batten

A Handbook to Classical Japanese. By John Timothy Wixted.
Aldo Tollini

Preachers, Poets, Women, and the Way: Izumi Shikibu and the Buddhist Literature of Medieval Japan. By R. Keller Kimbrough.
Margaret H. Childs

Eccentric Spaces, Hidden Histories: Narrative, Ritual, and Royal Authority from The Chronicles of Japan to The Tale of the Heike. By David T. Bialock.
Michael Watson

Ambiguous Bodies: Reading the Grotesque in Japanese Setsuwa Tales. By Michelle Osterfeld Li.
Rajyashree Pandey

Zeami: Performance Notes. Translated by Tom Hare.
Eric C. Rath

Visioning Eternity: Aesthetics, Politics, and History in the Early Modern Noh Theater. By Thomas D. Looser.
Noel John Pinnington

Tour of Duty: Samurai, Military Service in Edo, and the Culture of Early Modern Japan. By Constantine Nomikos Vaporis.
Anna Beerens

Moderne japanische Literatur in deutscher Übersetzung: Eine Bibliographie der Jahre 1868–2008. Edited By Jürgen Stalph, Christoph Petermann, and Matthias Wittig.

Japanische Literatur im Spiegel deutscher Rezensionen. Edited by Junko Ando, Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit, and Matthias Hoop.
Hilaria Gössmann

Pandemonium and Parade: Japanese Monsters and the Culture of Yôkai. By Michael Dylan Foster.
Satoko Shimazaki

Crossing Empire's Edge: Foreign Ministry Police and Japanese Expansionism in Northeast Asia. By Erik Esselstrom.
Seluck Esenbel

When Our Eyes No Longer See: Realism, Science, and Ecology in Japanese Literary Modernism. By Gregory Golley.
Mark Williams

Reading Food in Modern Japanese Literature. By Tomoko Aoyama.
Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit

Murder Most Modern: Detective Fiction and Japanese Culture. By Sari Kawana. and
Purloined Letters: Cultural Borrowing and Japanese Crime Literature, 1868–1937. By Mark Silver.
Evelyn Schulz

Overcoming Modernity: Cultural Identity in Wartime Japan. Edited and translated by Richard F. Calichman.
Christian Uhl

Uchida Hyakken: A Critique of Modernity and Militarism in Prewar Japan. By Rachel DiNitto.
Alisa Freedman

Managing Women: Disciplining Labor in Modern Japan. By Elyssa Faison.
Sally Hastings

Japanese Fiction of the Allied Occupation: Vision, Embodiment, Identity. By Sharalyn Orbaugh.
Eve Zimmerman

Ausgekochtes Wunderland: Japanische Literatur lesen. By Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit.
Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt

Writing Okinawa: Narrative Acts of Identity and Resistance. By Davinder L. Bhowmik.
Michael Molasky

War Memory, Nationalism and Education in Postwar Japan: The Japanese History Textbook Controversy and Ienaga Saburo's Court Challenges. By Yoshiko Nozaki.
Kristine Dennehy

Japanese Visual Culture: Explorations in the World of Manga and Anime. Edited by Mark W. MacWilliams.
Lynne K. Miyake

Editorial Notes

Index to Volume 64

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