Monumenta Nipponica Index of Book Reviews
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The following index of book reviews lists by issue the book reviews that have appeared in MN since Vol. 54 No. 4 (Winter 1999).
Vol. 54 No. 4
The Four Great Temples: Buddhist Archaeology, Architecture, and Icons of Seventh-Century Japan. By Donald F. McCallum.
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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.
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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
Traces in the Way: Michi and the Writings of Komparu Zenchiku.
By Noel J. Pinnington.
Susan Blakeley Klein
Faith and Power in Japanese Buddhist Art, 1600–2005. By Patricia J. Graham. Samuel Morse
Sacred Mathematics: Japanese Temple Geometry. By Fukagawa Hidetoshi
and Tony Rothman.
Noel J. Pinnington
The Patriarch of Dutch Learning Shizuki Tadao (1760–1806).
Volume 9 of Journal of the Japan-Netherlands Institute. Edited by W. J.
Boot.
Ann Jannetta
When Tengu Talk: Hirata Atsutane’s Ethnography of the Other
World. By Wilburn Hansen.
Anne Walthall
The Vaccinators: Smallpox, Medical Knowledge, and the ‘Opening’
of Japan. By Ann Jannetta.
Susan L. Burns
The Last Samurai: The Life and Battles of Saigô Takamori.
By Mark Ravina.
Constantine Vaporis
Concealment of Politics, Politics of Concealment: The Production
of “Literature” in Meiji Japan. By Atsuko Ueda.
Indra Levy
An Age of Melodrama: Family, Gender, and Social Hierarchy in the
Turn-of-the-Century Japanese Novel. By Ken K. Ito.
Michael K. Bourdaghs
The Bluestockings of Japan: New Woman Essays and Fiction from Seitô,
1911–16. By Jan Bardsley.
Reiko Abe Auestad
Hermann Roesler: Dokumente zu seinem Leben und Werk. Edited
and with an introduction by Anna Bartels-Ishikawa.
Sven Saaler
A Life Adrift: Soeda Azembô, Popular Song, and Modern Mass
Culture in Japan. By Michael Lewis.
Gerald Groemer
Prophet Motive: Deguchi Onisaburô, Oomoto, and the Rise of
New Religions in Imperial Japan. By Nancy K. Stalker.
Birgit Staemmler
Japan and the League of Nations: Empire and World Order, 1914–1938.
By Thomas W. Burkman.
Susan Townsend
Certain Victory: Images of World War II in the Japanese Media.
By David C. Earhart.
Barak Kushner
The Tokyo War Crimes Trial: The Pursuit of Justice in the Wake of
World War II. By Yuma Totani.
Franziska Seraphim
The Cinema of Naruse Mikio: Women and Japanese Modernity. By
Catherine Russell.
Rachael Hutchinson
The Japanization of Modernity: Murakami Haruki between Japan and
the United States. By Rebecca Suter.
Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit
Alles nur Theater? Gender und Ethnizität bei der japankoreanischen
Autorin Yû Miri. By Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt.
Matthew Königsberg
Uneasy Warriors: Gender, Memory, and Popular Culture in the Japanese
Army. By Sabine Frühstück.
Sharalyn Orbaugh
State Formation in Japan: Emergence of a 4th-century Ruling Elite. By Gina Barnes.
Walter Edwards
La cour et l'administration du japon a l'époque de Heian. By Francine Hérail.
Charlotte von Verschuer
Heian Japan, Centers and Peripheries. Edited by Mikael Adolphson, Edward Kamens, and Stacie Matsumoto.
Thomas Kierstead
The Teeth and Claws of the Buddha: Monastic Warriors and Sôhei in Japanese History. By Mikael S. Adolphson.
D. Max Moerman
Buddhist Materiality: A Cultural History of Objects in Japanese Buddhism. By Fabio Rambelli.
Hank Glassman
Householders: The Reizei Family in Japanese History. By Steven D. Carter.
Roselee Bundy
Revealed Identity: The Noh Plays of Komparu Zenchiku. By Paul S. Atkins.
Richard A. Gardner
Emplacing a Pilgrimage: The Ôyama Cult and Regional Religion in Early Modern Japan. By Barbara Ambros.
Laura Nenzi
Utamaro and the Spectacle of Beauty. By Julie Nelson Davis.
Allen Hockley
The Age of Visions and Arguments: Parliamentarianism and the National Public Sphere in Early Meiji Japan. By Kyu Hyun Kim.
Neil L. Waters
Technology and the Culture of Progress in Meiji Japan. By David G. Wittner.
Steven Ericson
Yamaji Aizan and His Time: Nationalism and Debating Japanese History. By Yushi Ito.
Graham Squires
Petitessen, Pretiosen: Die Prosaminiatur in Japan um 1910. By Agnes Fink-von Hoff.
Janet Walker
From Foot Solder to Finance Minister: Takahashi Korekiyo, Japan's Keynes. By Richard J. Smethurst.
James Baxter
Erotic, Grotesque, Nonsense: The Mass Culture of Japanese Modern Times. By Miriam Silverberg.
Jeffrey Angles
Kingdom of Beauty: Mingei and the Politics of Folk Art in Imperial Japan. By Kim Brandt.
Joshua S. Mostow
Yasukuni, the War Dead and the Struggle for Japan's Past. Edited by John Breen.
Anno Tadashi
Out of the Alleyway: Nakagami Kenji and the Poetics of Outcaste Fiction. By Eve Zimmerman.
Michael K. Bourdaghs
Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams: Japanese Science Fiction from Origins to Anime. Edited by Christopher Bolton, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr., and Takayuki Tatsumi.
Gerald Figal
Rulers, Peasants and the Use of the Written Word in Medieval Japan. By Judith Fröhlich.
Thomas Conlan
Fertility and Pleasure: Ritual and Sexual Values in Tokugawa Japan. By William R. Lindsey.
Amy Stanley
Japan's Imperial Forest, Goryôrin, 1889-1946: With a Supporting Study of the Kan/Min Division of Woodland in Early Meiji Japan, 1871-76. By Conrad Totman.
David Howell
Modern Passings: Death Rites, Politics, and Social Change in Imperial Japan. By Andrew Bernstein.
John Breen
Neubeginn unter US-amerikanischer Besatzung? Hochschulreform in Japan zwischen Kontinuität und Diskontinuität 1919-1952. By Hans Martin Krämer.
Harald Fuess
Japanese Temple Buddhism: Worldliness in a Religion of Renunciation. By Stephen G. Covell.
Mark Blum
Buddhismus, Geschlechterverhältnis und Diskriminierung: Die gegenwärtige Diskussion im Shin-Buddhismus Japans. By Simone Heidegger.
Joseph S. O'Leary
Traditional Japanese Literature. Edited by Haruo Shirane.
Robert N. Huey
Secrecy in Japanese Arts: "Secret Transmission" as a Mode of Knowledge. By Maki Morinaga.
Susan Blakeley Klein
Bashô and the Dao: The Zhuangzi and the Transformation of Haikai. By Peipei Qiu.
Lawrence E. Marceau
Haikai Poet Yosa Buson and the Bashô Revival. By Cheryl A. Crowley.
Roger K. Thomas
The Modern Murasaki: Writing by Women of Meiji Japan. Edited by Rebecca Copeland and Melek Ortabasi.
Reiko Abe Auestad
Daitokuji: The Visual Cultures of a Zen Monastery. By Gregory P. A. Levine.
Yukio Lippit
Radicals and Realists in the Japanese Nonverbal Arts: The Avant-Garde Rejection of Modernism. By Thomas R. H. Havens.
William O. Gardner
The Aesthetics of Quietude: Ôta Shôgo and the Theatre of Divestiture. By Mari Boyd.
Brian Powell
Modern Japanese Cuisine: Food, Power and National Identity. By Katarzyna J. Cwiertka.
James Farrer
Gateway to Japan: Hakata in War and Peace, 500-1300. By Bruce L. Batten.
Charlotte von Verschuer
War and Faith: Ikkô Ikki in Late Muromachi Japan. By Carol Richmond Tsang.
J. P. Lamers
Popular Literacy in Early Modern Japan. By Richard Rubinger.
Luke Roberts
The Intra-Asian Trade in Japanese Copper by the Dutch East India Company during the Eighteenth Century. By Ryuto Shimada.
Bettina Gramlich-Oka
Images des Occidentaux dans le Japon de l'ère Meiji. By Hartmut O. Rotermund.
Shion Kono
Nationalisms in Japan. By Naoko Shimazu.
Koichi Nakano
A History of Nationalism in Modern Japan: Placing the People. By Kevin M. Doak.
Yoshihisa Tak Matsusaka
From Mahan to Pearl Harbor: The Imperial Japanese Navy and the United States. By Sadao Asada.
Kathryn Ragsdale
From Marco Polo Bridge to Pearl Harbor: Who Was Responsible? By Doris G. Bargen. Edited by James E. Auer.
J. Victor Koschmann
Objects of Discourse: Memoirs by Women of Heian Japan. By John R. Wallace.
Robert O. Khan
Love After The Tale of Genji: Rewriting the World of the Shining Prince. By Charo B. D'Etcheverry.
Aileen Gatten
Sirens of the Western Shore: The Westernesque Femme Fatale, Translation, and Vernacular Style in Modern Japanese Literature.
By Indra Levy.
Nanette Gottlieb
Asura's Harp: Engagement with Language as Buddhist Path.
By Dennis Hirota.
George Tanabe
Rennyo and the Roots of Modern Japanese Buddhism.Edited by Mark L. Blum and Shin'ya Yasutomi.
Carol Richmond Tsang
Zen Sanctuary of Purple Robes: Japan's Tôkeiji Convent Since 1285. By Sachiko Kaneko Morrell and Robert E. Morrell.
Dennis Hirota.
Selling Songs and Smiles: The Sex Trade in Heian and Kamakura Japan.
By Janet R. Goodwin.
R. Keller Kimbrough
Thinking Like a Man: Tadano Makuzu (1763-1825). By Bettina Gramlich-Oka.
Marcia Yonemoto
Japan's Modern Prophet: Uchimura Kanzô, 1861-1930. By John F.
Howes.
James L. Huffman
In the Beginning, Woman Was the Sun: The Autobiography of a Japanese
Feminist. By Hiratsuka Raichô. Translated, with an introduction and
notes, by Teruko Craig.
G. G. Rowley
Bad Youth: Juvenile Delinquency and the Politics of Everyday Life
in Modern Japan. By David R. Ambaras.
Simon Partner
A Poetics of Courtly Male Friendship in Heian Japan. By Paul
Gordon Schalow.
Margaret H. Childs
The Poetics of Motoori Norinaga: A Hermeneutical Journey. Translated
and edited by Michael F. Marra.
W. J. Boot
The Uses of Memory: The Critique of Modernity in the Fiction of Higuchi
Ichiyô. By Timothy J. Van Compernolle.
Elaine Gerbert
Suicidal Honor: General Nogi and the Writings of Mori Ôgai and Natsume
Sôseki. By Doris G. Bargen.
Stephen Dodd
Spirit Matters: The Transcendent in Modern Japanese Literature.
By Philip Gabriel.
Thomas Schnellbächer
Discourse and Ideology in Medieval Japanese Buddhism. Edited by Richard K. Payne and Taigen Dan Leighton.
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Did Dôgen Go to China?: What He Wrote and When He Wrote It.
By Steven Heine.
Joseph S. O'Leary
Iron Eyes: The Life and Teachings of Ôbaku Zen Master Tetsugen Dôkô.
By Helen J. Baroni.
Richard Bowring
Musikalische Impressionen aus Japan 1941-1957. By Eta Harich-Schneider,
edited with an introduction and commentaries by Ingrid Fritsch.
Margaret Mehl
Friends, Acquaintances, Pupils, and Patrons–Japanese Intellectual
Life in the Late Eighteenth Century: A Prosopographical Approach.
By Anna Beerens.
Gregory Smits
Punishment and Power in the Making of Modern Japan. By
Daniel V. Botsman.
Susan L. Burns
Earthquake Nation: The Cultural Politics of Japanese Seismicity,
1868–1930. By Gregory Clancey.
J. Charles Schencking
Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan. By Tsuyoshi Hasegawa.
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The End of the Pacific War: Reappraisals. Edited by Tsuyoshi
Hasegawa.
Tadashi Anno
War Memory and Social Politics in Japan, 1945–2005. By
Franziska Seraphim.
Sebastian Conrad
Manga from the Floating World: Comicbook Culture and the Kibyshi
of Edo Japan. By Adam L. Kern.
Stephan Kôhn
In the Company of Men: Representations of Male-Male Sexuality in
Meiji Literature. By Jim Reichert.
Paul Gordon Schalow
Abe Kôbô, Literary Strategist: The Evolution of His Agenda
and Rhetoric in the Context of Postwar Japanese Avant-garde and Communist
Artists Movements. By Thomas Schnellbächer.
James Dorsey
The Fox’s Craft in Japanese Religion and Folklore: Shapeshifters,
Transformations, and Duplicities. By Michael Bathgate.
Janet Goff
Explaining Pictures: Buddhist Propaganda and Etoki Storytelling in
Japan. By Ikumi Kaminishi.
Caroline Hirasawa
Handmade Culture: Raku Potters, Patrons, and Tea Practitioners in
Japan. By Morgan Pitelka.
Richard L. Wilson
Understanding Humor in Japan. Edited by Jessica Milner Davis.
Richard Gardner
Millennial Monsters. By Anne Allison.
James Farrer
Vicarious Language: Gender and Linguistic Modernity in Japan. By Miyako Inoue.
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A Cultural History of Women’s Language. By Endô Orie.
Nanette Gottlieb
Japan's Medieval Population: Famine, Fertility, and Warfare in a
Transformative Age. By William Wayne Farris.
Bruce L. Batten
The Dog Shogun: The Personality and Policies of Tokugawa Tsunayoshi.
By Beatrice M. Bodart-Bailey.
Anne Walthall
A Reader in Edo Period Travel. By Herbert Plutschow.
Laura Nenzi
JAPANimals: History and Culture in Japan's Animal Life. Edited
by Gregory M. Pflugfelder and Brett L. Walker.
Hans Martin Krämer
Gendering Modern Japanese History. Edited by Barbara Moloney
and Kathleen Uno.
Anne E. Imamura
Kamikaze Diaries: Reflections of Japanese Student Soldiers.
By Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney.
Barak Kushner
Localizing Paradise: Kumano Pilgrimage and the Religious Landscape
of Premodern Japan. By D. Max Moerman.
Nobumi Iyanaga
Woman Critiqued: Translated Essays on Japanese Women's Writing. Edited by Rebecca Copeland. Judit Árokay
Representing the Other in Modern Japanese Literature: A Critical
Approach. Edited by Rachael Hutchinson and Mark Williams.
Joseph S. O'Leary
Women in Medieval Japan: Motherhood, Household Management and Sexuality. By Wakita Haruko. Translated By Alison Tokita.
Janet R. Goodwin.
Die "böse Alte" in der japanischen Populärkultur der Edo-Zeit: Die Feindvalenz und ihr soziales Umfeld. By Susanne Formanek.
Martina Schönbein.
Practical Pursuits: Takano Chôei, Takahashi Keisaku, and Western Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Japan. By Ellen Gardner Nakamura.
Ann Jannetta
Lever of Empire: The International Gold Standard and the Crisis of Liberalism in Prewar Japan. By Mark Metzler.
Simon James Bytheway
Divisions of Labor: Globality, Ideology, and War in the Shaping of the Japanese Labor Movement. By Lonny E. Carlile.
Tom Gill
The Religious Traditions of Japan 500–1600. By Richard Bowring.
James L. Ford
Classical Japanese: A Grammar. By Haruo Shirane.
Stephen D. Miller
Swords, Oaths, and Prophetic Visions: Authoring Warrior Rule in Medieval Japan. By Elizabeth Oyler.
Richard A. Gardner
Advertising Tower: Japanese Modernism and Modernity in the 1920s. By William Gardner.
Alisa Freedman
Le riz dans la culture de Heian, mythe et réalité. By Charlotte von Verschuer. Robert Borgen
Capital and Countryside in Japan, 300–1180: Japanese Historians
Interpreted in English. Edited By Joan R. Piggott.
William Wayne Farris
The Japanese Mission to Europe, 1582–1590: The Journey of Four Samurai Boys Through Portugal, Spain and Italy. By Michael Cooper.
Adriana Boscaro
The Development of the Japanese Nursing Profession: Adopting and Adapting Western Influences. By Aya Takahashi.
Sally A. Hastings
Isami's House: Three Centuries of a Japanese Family. By Gail Lee
Bernstein.
Brian W. Platt
Reasonable Men, Powerful Words: Political Culture and Expertise in Twentieth-Century
Japan. By Laura Hein.
Susan Townsend
Appraising Genji: Literary Criticism and Cultural Anxiety in the Age
of the Last Samurai. By Patrick W. Caddeau.
Thomas Harper
Kannani and Document of Flames: Two Japanese Colonial Novels. By Katsuei
Yuasa. Translated and with an introduction By Mark Driscoll.
Nobuko Miyama Ochner
Unspeakable Acts: The Avant-Garde Theatre of Terayama Shûji and
Postwar Japan. By Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei.
David G. Goodman
Ambassadors from the Islands of Immortals: China-Japan Relations in the Han-Tang Period. By Zhenping Wang.
Charlotte von Verschuer
Negotiating with Imperialism: The Unequal Treaties and the Culture of Japanese Diplomacy. By Michael R. Auslin.
M. William Steele
Rural Economic Development in Japan: From the Nineteenth Century to the Pacific War. By Penelope Francks.
Kerry Smith
Geisha, Harlot, Strangler, Star: A Woman, Sex, and Morality in Modern Japan. By William Johnston.
Valerie L. Durham
The Thought War: Japanese Imperial Propaganda. By Barak Kushner.
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Letters from an Autumn of Emergencies: Selections from the Wartime Diaries of Ordinary Japanese. By Samuel Hideo Yamashita.
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In the Faraway Mountains and Rivers: More Voices From a Lost Generation of Japanese Students. Translated By Joseph L. Quinn, S.J., and Midori Yamanouchi.
Ben-Ami Shillony
Takeuchi Yoshimi: Displacing the West. By Richard F. Calichman.
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What is Modernity? Writings of Takeuchi Yoshimi. Edited, translated, and with an introduction By Richard F. Calichman.
Sebastian Conrad
Sacred Rites in Moonlight: Ben no Naishi Nikki. By S. Yumiko Hulvey.
Christina Laffin
Murôji: Rearranging Art and History at a Japanese Buddhist Temple. By Sherry Fowler.
Samuel C. Morse
Law in Everyday Japan: Sex, Sumo, Suicide, and Statutes. By Mark D. West. Robin M. Le Blanc
Enigma of the Emperors: Sacred Subservience in Japanese History.
By Ben-Ami Shillony.
Stephen S. Large
Written Texts–Visual Texts: Woodblock-Printed Media in Early Modern
Japan. Edited By Susanne Formanek and Sepp Linhart.
Marcia Yonemoto
Geographies of Identity in Nineteenth-Century Japan. By David L.
Howell.
Bruce L. Batten
Burning and Building: Schooling and State Formation in Japan, 1750–1890.
By Brian Platt.
David R. Ambaras
Musashino in Tuscany: Japanese Overseas Travel Literature, 1860–1912.
By Susanna Fessler.
Martin Collcutt
Rearranging the Landscape of the Gods: The Politics of a Pilgrimage Site
in Japan, 1573–1912. By Sarah Thal.
Nathalie Kouamé
Making Pilgrimages: Meaning and Practice in Shikoku. By Ian Reader.
Mark MacWilliams
Language and Society in Japan. By Nanette Gottlieb.
Patricia Wetzel
Ancient Jomon of Japan. By Junko Habu.
Gina L. Barnes
Dismissed as Elegant Fossils: Konoe Nobutada and the Role of Aristocrats
in Early Modern Japan. By Lee Bruschke-Johnson.
Lee Butler
Cultural Commerce and Dutch Commercial Culture: The Influence of European
Material Culture on Japan, 1700-1850. By Martha Chaiklin.
Bruce L. Batten
Community and State in the Japanese Farm Village: Farm Tenancy Conciliation,
1924-1938. By Dimitri Vanoverbeke.
Simon Partner
Figures poétiques japonaises: La genèse de la poésie en chaîne.
By Sumie Terada.
Aileen Gatten
Developing Zeami: The Noh Actor's Attunement in Practice. By Shelley Fenno Quinn.
Eric C. Rath
Discourses of Seduction: History, Evil, Desire, and Modern Japanese Literature.
By Hosea Hirata.
Angela Yiu
Letters of the Nun Eshinni: Images of Pure Land Buddhism in Medieval
Japan. By James C. Dobbins.
Dennis Hirota
The Other Side of Zen: A Social History of Sôtô Zen Buddhism in Tokugawa
Japan. By Duncan Ryûken Williams.
David E. Riggs
Japan's Colonization of Korea: Discourse and Power. By Alexis Dudden.
James Baxter
Making Waves: Politics, Propaganda, and the Emergence of the Imperial
Japanese Navy, 1868-1922. By J. Charles Schencking.
Michael Lewis
La Modernité à l'Horizon: La culture populaire dans le Japon des années
vingt. Edited By Jean-Jacques Tschudin and Claude Hamon.
Susan Napier
Telling Lives: Women's Self-Writing in Modern Japan. Edited and
translated By Ronald P. Loftus.
G. G. Rowley
Femmes galantes, femmes artistes dans le Japon ancien, XIe-XIIIe siècle.
By Jacqueline Pigeot.
Ivo Smits
Politics, Memory and Public Opinion: The History Textbook Controversy
and Japanese Society. By Sven Saaler.
Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi
Kabuki Plays On Stage. Edited
By James R. Brandon and Samuel L. Leiter.
Janet Goff
The Japanese Self in Cultural Logic. By Takie Sugiyama Lebra.
Harumi Befu
The Tôkaidô Road: Traveling and Representation in Edo and Meiji Japan.
By Jilly Traganou.
Lawrence E. Marceau
Interracial Intimacy in Japan: Western Men and Japanese Women, 1543-1900.
By Gary P. Leupp.
Susan L. Burns
Japan's Early Experience of Contract Management in the Treaty Ports.
By Yuki Allyson Honjo.
Junko Ando
Hiratsuka Raichô and Early Japanese Feminism. By Hiroko Tomida.
Andrea Germer
Historische Frauenforschung in Japan: Die Rekonstruktion der Vergangenheit
in Takamure Itsues "Geschichte der Frau" (Josei no Rekishi). By
Andrea Germer.
Ulrike Wöhr
At the House of Gathered Leaves: Short Biographical and Autobiographical
Narratives from Japanese Court Literature. By Joshua S. Mostow.
Lynne K. Miyake
Writing Home: Representations of the Native Place in Modern Japanese
Literature. By Stephen Dodd.
Dennis Washburn
The Body in Postwar Japanese Fiction. By Douglas N. Slaymaker.
Joseph O'Leary
Keigo in Modern Japan: Polite Language from Meiji to the Present. By
Patricia J. Wetzel.
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Rhetoric in Modern Japan: Western Influences on the Development of Narrative
and Oratorical Style. By Massimiliano Tomasi.
Nanette Gottlieb
Tsukiji: The Fish Market at the Center of the World. By Theodore
Bestor.
Anne Allison
Identity and Ritual in a Japanese Diving Village: The Making and Becoming
of Person and Place. By D. P. Martinez.
Birgit Staemmler
The Koto: A Traditional Instrument in Contemporary Japan. By Henry
Johnson.
David Waterhouse
House and Home in Modern Japan: Reforming Everyday Life, 1880-1930.
By Jordan Sand.
Ann Waswo
Frauenerziehung und Frauenbild im Umbruch. Ideale von Mädchenerziehung,
Frauenrolle und weiblichen Lebensentwürfen in der frühen Jogaku
zasshi (1885-1889). By Nadja Kischka-Wellhäusser.
Margaret Mehl
Women and the Labour Market in Japan's Industrialising Economy: The Textile
Industry before the Pacific War. By Janet Hunter.
Barbara Molony
Colonizing Sex: Sexology and Social Control in Modern Japan. By
Sabine Frühstück.
Sally A. Hastings
Toshié: A Story of Village Life in Twentieth-Century Japan.
By Simon Partner.
Mariko Asano Tamanoi
Practicing the Afterlife: Perspectives from Japan. Edited By Susanne Formanek and William LaFleur.
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Bereavement and Consolation: Testimonies from Tokugawa Japan. By
Harold Bolitho.
Fabio Rambelli
Practical Pursuits: Religion, Politics, and Personal Cultivation in Nineteenth-Century
Japan. By Janine Tasca Sawada.
Barbara Ambros
Gender and National Literature: Heian Texts in the Constructions of Japanese Modernity. By Tomiko Yoda.
Joshua S. Mostow
The Ethos of Noh: Actors and Their Art. By Eric C. Rath.
Gerald Groemer
Text and the City: Essays on Japanese Modernity. By Maeda Ai. Edited and with an introduction By James Fujii.
Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit
The Artist as Professional in Japan. Edited By Melinda Takeuchi.
Quitman E. Phillips
Critical Perspectives on Classicism in Japanese Painting, 1600-1700.
Edited By Elizabeth Lillehoj.
Frank Chance
The Moneylenders of Late Medieval Kyoto. By Suzanne Gay.
Andrew Goble
Pre-Industrial Korea and Japan in Environmental Perspective. By
Conrad Totman.
Bruce L. Batten
Frontier Contact between Choson Korea and Tokugawa Japan. By James
B. Lewis.
David L. Howell
Japans Karneval der Krise: Ejanaika und die Meiji-Renovation. By
Reinhard Zöllner.
Klaus Antoni
Divorce in Japan: Family, Gender, and the State, 1600-2000. By Harald Fuess.
Gail Lee Bernstein
A Vision of Empire: Kita Ikki and the Making of Modern Japan. By
Brij Tankha.
Ben-Ami Shillony
Novel Japan: Spaces of Nationhood in Early Meiji Narrative, 1870-88.
By John Pierre Mertz.
Richard Torrance
The Dawn That Never Comes: Shimazaki Tôson and Japanese Nationalism.
By Michael K. Bourdaghs.
Chia-ning Chang
Under an Imperial Sun: Japanese Colonial Literature of Taiwan and the
South. By Faye Yuan Kleeman.
Michael Molasky
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Treatise on Epistolary Style: João Rodriguez on the Noble Art of Writing Japanese Letters. By Jeroen Pieter Lamers.
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Identity and Resistance in Okinawa. By Matthew Allen.
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Perfectly Japanese: Making Families in an Era of Upheaval. By Merry Isaacs White.
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João Rodrigues's Account of Sixteenth-Century Japan. By João Rodrigues, S.J. Translated and edited By Michael Cooper.
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Individual Dignity in Modern Japanese Thought: The Evolution of the Concept of Jinkaku in Moral and Educational Discourse. By Kyoko Inoue.
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Abortion before Birth Control: The Politics of Reproduction in Postwar Japan. By Tiana Norgren.
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The Chrysanthemum and the Fish: Japanese Humor Since the Age of the Shoguns. By Howard Hibbett.
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A History of Japanese Religion. Edited By Kazuo Kasahara. Translated By Paul McCarthy and Gaynor Sekimori.
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Mavo: Japanese Artists and the Avant-Garde, 1905-1931. By Gennifer Weisenfeld.
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Myth and Masculinity in the Japanese Cinema: Towards a Political Reading of the "Tragic Hero." By Isolde Standish.
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The History and Culture of Japanese Food. By Naomichi Ishige.
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Prisoners from Nambu: Reality and Make-Believe in 17th-Century Japanese Diplomacy. By Reinier H. Hesselink.
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Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852-1912. By Donald Keene.
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Reconfiguring Modernity: Concepts of Nature in Japanese Political Ideology. By Julia Adeney Thomas.
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Translating the West: Language and Political Reason in Nineteenth-Century Japan. By Douglas R. Howland.
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Bodies of Memory: Narratives of War in Postwar Japanese Culture. By Yoshikuni Igarashi.
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Adaptations of Western Literature in Meiji Japan. By J. Scott Miller.
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Fiktion versus Wirklichkeit: Die moderne historische Erzählung in Japan. Modell einer Genretheorie und-typologie zur rekishi shôsetsu. By Harald Meyer.
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Requiem on the Great Meridian and Selected Essays. By Kinoshita Junji. Translated By Brian Powell and Jason Daniel.
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Eine gewisse Farbe der Fremdheit: Aspekte des Übersetzens Japanisch-Deutsch-Japanisch. By Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit.
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Art in the Encounter of Nations: Japanese and American Artists in the Early Postwar Years. By Bert Winther-Tamaki.
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Japanese Education Reform: Nakasone's Legacy. By Christopher P. Hood.
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The Price of Death: The Funeral Industry in Contemporary Japan. By Hikaru Suzuki.
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Women on the Verge: Japanese Women, Western Dreams. By Karen Kelsky.
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The Conquest of Ainu Lands: Ecology and Culture in Japanese Expansion, 1590-1800. By Brett L. Walker.
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Yukichi Fukuzawa 1835-1901: The Spirit of Enterprise in Modern Japan. By Norio Tamaki.
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The Making of Japanese Manchuria, 1904-1932. By Yoshihisa Tak Matsusaka.
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The Autobiography of Ozaki Yukio: The Struggle for Constitutional Government in Japan. Translated By Fujiko Hara with a foreword By Marius B. Jansen.
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The People's Emperor: Democracy and the Japanese Monarchy, 1945-1995. By Kenneth J. Ruoff.
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Japanese Prehistory: The Material and Spiritual Culture of the Jômon Period. By Nelly Naumann.
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Dieux et Bouddhas au Japon. By Bernard Frank.
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Chikamatsu: Five Late Plays. Translated and annotated By C. Andrew Gerstle.
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Spirits of Another Sort: The Plays of Izumi Kyôka. By M. Cody Poulton.
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The Lucky Seventh: Early Hôryû-ji and Its Time. By J. Edward Kidder, Jr.
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The Practices of Painting in Japan, 1474-1500.
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Kurosawa: Film Studies and Japanese Cinema. By Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto.
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Blue Nippon: Authenticating Jazz in Japan. By E. Taylor Atkins.
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Encyclopedia of Contemporary Japanese Culture. Edited By Sandra Buckley.
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Women and Class in Japanese History. Edited By Hitomi Tonomura, Anne Walthall, and Wakita Haruko.
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Language Planning and Language Change in Japan.
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Men of Uncertainty: The Social Organization of Day Laborers in Contemporary Japan. By Tom Gill.
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Yanaihara Tadao and Japanese Colonial Policy. By Susan C. Townsend.
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Fault Lines: Cultural Memory and Japanese Surrealism. By Miryam Sas.
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Amour, colère, couleur: Essais sur le bouddhisme au Japon. By Bernard Frank.
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Der Eine und Einzige Weg der Götter: Yoshida Kanetomo und die Erfindung des Shinto. By Bernhard Scheid.
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Word and Image in Japanese Cinema. Edited By Dennis Washburn and Carole Cavanaugh.
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Japonius Tyrannus: The Japanese Warlord Oda Nobunaga Reconsidered. By Jeroen Lamers.
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The Satsuma Students in Britain: Japan's Early Search for the "Essence of the West." By Andrew Cobbing.
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History's Disquiet: Modernity, Cultural Practice, and the Question of Everyday Life. By Harry Harootunian.
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Overcome By Modernity: History, Culture, and Community in Interwar Japan. . By Harry Harootunian.
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Lost Leaves: Women Writers of Meiji Japan. By Rebecca L. Copeland.
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Women Writers of Meiji and Taishô Japan: Their Lives, Works, and Critical Reception, 1868-1926. By Yukiko Tanaka.
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Japanese Thought in the Tokugawa Era: A Bibliography of Western-Language Materials. Compiled and edited By Klaus Kracht.
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The Japan-British Exhibition of 1910: Gateway to the Island Empire of the East. By Ayako Hotta-Lister.
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Civilization and Monsters: Spirits of Modernity in Meiji Japan. By Gerald Figal.
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Japan's Imperial Diplomacy: Consuls, Treaty Ports, and War in China 1895-1938. By Barbara J. Brooks.
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The Nanjing Massacre in History and Historiography.
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Fictions of Desire: Narrative Form in the Novels of Nagai Kafû.
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Shinto in History: Ways of the Kami. Edited By John Breen and Mark Teeuwen.
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Lives of Young Koreans in Japan. By Yasunori Fukuoka. Trans. By Tom Gill.
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Great Mirrors Shattered: Homosexuality, Orientalism, and Japan. By John Whittier Treat.
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Catalogue of the Early Japanese Books in the Russian State Library. Compiled By Peter F. Kornicki.
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Word-Processing Technology in Japan: Kanji and the Keyboard. By Nanette Gottlieb.
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A History of Japan.
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Renegade Monk: Hônen and Japanese Pure Land Buddhism. By Soho Machida. Translated and edited By Ioannis Mentzas.
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Unbefangenheit: Keichûs Beitrag zur Wissenschaftstheorie im frühneuzeitlichen Japan. By Markus Rüttermann.
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Lives in Motion: Composing Circles of Self and Community in Japan.Edited By Susan Orpett Long.
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Japan Comes of Age: Mutsu Munemitsu and the Revision of the Unequal Treaties. By Louis G. Perez.
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Assembled in Japan: Electrical Goods and the Making of the Japanese Consumer. By Simon Partner.
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Censoring History: Citizenship and Memory in Japan, Germany, and the United States. Edited By Laura Hein and Mark Selden.
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Yosano Akiko: Poète de la passion et figure de proue du féminisme japonais. By Claire Dodane.
G. G. Rowley
Yosano Akiko and The Tale of Genji. By G. G. Rowley.
Laurel Rasplica Rodd
Endô Shûsaku: A Literature of Reconciliation. By Mark B. Williams.
Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit
A Sheep's Song: A Writer's Reminiscences of Japan and the World. By Katô Shûichi. Translated and annotated By Chia-ning Chang
Richard Torrance
The American Occupation of Japan and Okinawa: Literature and Memory. By Michael S. Molasky.
James Dorsey
Harukor: An Ainu Woman's Tale. By Honda Katsuichi. Translated By Kyoko Selden.
Brett L. Walker
Extraordinary Persons: Works By Eccentric, Nonconformist Japanese Artists of the Early Modern Era (1580-1868) in the Collection of Kimiko and John Powers. By John M. Rosenfield, in collaboration with Fumiko E. Cranston.
John T. Carpenter
Japanese Consumer Behavior: From Worker Bees to Wary Shoppers. By John McCreery.
Millie Creighton
Le monde à l'envers: La dynamique de la société médiévale.
By Pierre F. Souyri.
Reinhard Zöllner
Cartographies of Desire: Male-Male Sexuality in Japanese Discourse,
1600-1950. By Gregory M. Pflugfelder.
Margaret H. Childs
Alexander von Siebold: Die Tagebücher. Edited By Vera
Schmidt.
Ernest Lokowandt
La nation en marche: Études sur le Japon impérial de Meiji.
Edited By Jean-Jacques Tschudin and Claude Hamon.
Dimitri Vanoverbeke
Thomas William Kinder and the Japanese Imperial Mint, 1868-1875.
By Roy S. Hanashiro.
James C. Baxter
Total War and 'Modernization'. Edited By Yasushi Yamanouchi,
J. Victor Koschmann, and Ryûichi Narita.
Andrew Barshay
Trans-Pacific Racism and the U.S. Occupation of Japan. By Yukiko
Koshiro.
Yoshikuni Igarashi
Fictions of Femininity: Literary Invention of Gender in Japanese
Court Women's Relationships. By Edith Sarra.
Joshua S. Mostow
Dangerous Women, Deadly Words: Phallic Fantasy and Modernity in Three
Japanese Writers. By Nina Cornyetz.
Nicola Liscutin
The Weaving of Mantra: Kûkai and the Construction of Esoteric
Buddhist Discourse. By Ryûichi Abé.
Hendrik van der Veere
The Rousing Drum: Ritual Practice in a Japanese Community. By
Scott Schnell.
Edmund T. Gilday
Max Weber in Japan: Eine Untersuchung zur Wirkungsgeschichte 1905-1995.
By Wolfgang Schwentker.
Mitoma Toshiyuki
Learning in Likely Places: Varieties of Apprenticeship in Japan.
By John Singleton.
Eyal Ben-Ari
Managing Decline: Japan's Coal Industry Restructuring and Community
Response. By Suzanne Culter.
Matthew Allen
From Book to Screen: Modern Japanese Literature in Film. By
Keiko I. McDonald.
David Desser
Ruins of Identity: Ethnogenesis in the Japanese Islands. By
Mark J. Hudson.
Bruce Batten
Heian Japan. Volume 2 of The Cambridge History of Japan.
Edited By Donald H. Shively and William H. McCullough.
Wayne Farris
Even the Gods Rebel: The Peasants of Takaino and the 1871 Nakano
Uprising in Japan. By Selçuk Esenbel.
Patricia Sippel
War and National Reinvention: Japan in the Great War, 1914-1919.
By Frederick R. Dickinson.
James L. Huffman
Passages to Modernity: Motherhood, Childhood, and Social Reform
in Early Twentieth-Century Japan. By Kathleen S. Uno.
David R. Ambaras
Modern Girls, Shining Stars, The Skies of Tokyo: Five Japanese
Women. By Phyllis Birnbaum.
Richmod Bollinger
Soundings in Time: The Fictive Art of Yasunari Kawabata. By
Roy Starrs.
Giorgio Amitrano
The Legend of Gold and Other Stories. By Ishikawa Jun. Translated
By William J. Tyler.
Angela Yiu
Mirror: The Fiction and Essays of Kôda Aya. By Ann Sherif.
Maryellen T. Mori
Ôe and Beyond: Fiction in Contemporary Japan. Edited By
Stephen Snyder and Philip Gabriel.
Seiji Lippit
Buddhistische Zeremoniale [Kôshiki] und ihre Bedeutung für
die Literature des japanischen Mittelalters. By Niels Gülberg.
Hartmut O. Rotermund
The Fox and the Jewel: Shared and Private Meanings in Contemporary
Japanese Inari Worship. By Karen A. Smyers.
Klaus Antoni
The Spirit of Tsugaru: Blind Musicians, Tsugaru-jamisen, and the
Folk Music of Northern Japan. With the Autobiography of Takahashi Chikuzan.
By Gerald Groemer.
Ingrid Fritsch
Riding the Black Ship: Japan and Tokyo Disneyland. By Aviad
E. Raz.
Anne Allison
Wörterbücher und Glossare. Eine teilannotierte Bibliographie
japanisch-deutscher und deutsch-japanischer Nachschlagewerke. Wa-Doku
Doku-Wa jisho, yôgoshû kaidai. Edited By Jürgen Stalph
and Harald Suppanschitsch
Hartmut Walravens
Osaka: The Merchants' Capital of Early Modern Japan.Edited
By James L. McClain and Wakita Osamu.
Anne Walthall
The Japanese Discovery of Victorian Britain: Early Travel Encounters in the Far West. By Andrew Cobbing.
and
The Iwakura Mission in America and Europe: A New Assessment.Edited
By Ian Nish.
M. William Steele
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II. By John
W. Dower.
Simon Partner
Entstehung and Morphologie des klassischen Kyogen im 17. Jahrhundert:
Vom mittelalterlichen Theater der Aussenseiter zum Kammerspiel des Shogunats.
By Stanca Scholz-Cionca.
Gunter Zobel
Wandering Heart: The Work and Method of Hayashi Fumiko. By
Susanna Fessler.
Eve Zimmerman
Gender Is Fair Game: (Re)Thinking the (Fe)Male in the Works of
Oba Minako. By Michiko Niikuni Wilson.
Eileen B. Mikals-Adachi
Wasser-Spuren: Festschrift fur Wolfram Naumann zum 65. Geburtstag.
Edited By Stanca Scholz-Cionca.
Johann Nawrocki
Honen's Senchakushu: Passages on the Selection of the Nembutsu in
the Original Vow (Senchaku hongan nembutsu shu). Translated and edited
By Senchakushu English Translation Project.
Dennis Hirota
Japans Blinde Sanger im Schutz der Gottheit Myoon-Benzaiten. By
Ingrid Fritsch.
Silvain Guignard
Practically Religious: Worldly Benefits and the Common Religion
of Japan. By Ian Reader and George J. Tanabe, Jr.
Karen A. Smyers
Interkulturelle Philosophie und Phanomenologie in Japan. Edited
By Tadashi Ogawa, Michael Lazarin, and Guido Rappe.
Joseph S. O'Leary
Hiroshima Traces: Time, Space, and the Dialectics of Memory.
By Lisa Yoneyama.
Gerald Figal
Zen Buddhist Landscape Arts in Early Muromachi Japan (1336-1573).
By Joseph D. Parker.
Sonja Arntzen
Hiraizumi: Buddhist Art and Regional Politics in Twelfth-Century
Japan. By Mimi Hall Yiengpruksawan.
Samuel Morse
Pachinko monogatari: Soziokulturelle Exploration der japanischen Glucksspiel-industrie.
By Wolfram Manzenreiter.
Stanca Scholz-Cionca
Visions of Ryukyu: Identity and Ideology in Early-Modern Thought
and Politics. By Gregory Smits.
Luke S. Roberts
The Spirit of Japanese Law. By John Owen Haley.
and
Der deutsche Anteil an der Gestaltung des modernen japanischen Rechts-
und Verfassungswesens: Deutsche Rechtsberater im Japan der Meiji-Zeit.
By Paul-Christian Schenck.
F. B. Verwayen
Manufacturing Ideology: Scientific Management in Twentieth-Century
Japan. By William M. Tsutsui.
Matthias Koch
The Japanese Empire in East Asia and Its Postwar Legacy. Edited
By Harald Fuess.
Douglas R. Reynolds
Japanische Religionspolitik in der Mongolei 1932-1945: Reformbestrebungen
und Dialog zwischen japanischem und mongolischem Buddhismus. By Li
Narangoa.
Peter Kleinen
The Nanjing Massacre: A Japanese Journalist Confronts Japan's National
Shame. By Honda Katsuichi. Edited By Frank Gibney. Translated By
Karen Sandness.
Joshua A. Fogel
The Wages of Affluence: Labor and Management in Postwar Japan. By
Andrew Gordon.
William M. Tsutsui
Chaos and Order in the Works of Natsume Soseki. By Angela Yiu.
and
Rereading Soseki: Three Early Twentieth-Century Japanese Novels.
By Reiko Abe Auestad.
Stephen Dodd
Shredding the Tapestry of Meaning: The Poetry and Poetics of Kitasono
Katue (1902-1978). By John Solt.
Miryam Sas
Kata-imi et Kata-tagae: Etude sur les interdits de direction epoque
Heian. By Bernard Frank.
Charlotte von Verschuer
The Red Thread: Buddhist Approaches to Sexuality. By Bernard
Faure.
William R. LaFleur
Charisma and Community Formation in Medieval Japan: The Case of the
Yugyo-ha (1300-1700). By S. A. Thornton.
Janet Goodwin
Nakatomi Harae Kunge: Purification and Enlightenment in Late-Heian Japan. By Mark J. Teeuwen and Hendrik van der Veere.
and
Traite sur l'inepuisable Lampe du Zen: Torei (1721-1792) et sa vision
de l'eveil. By Michel Mohr.
Thierry-Jean Robouam
Religions of Japan in Practice. Edited By George J. Tanabe.
Mark Mullins
Japanese Mandalas: Representations of Sacred Geography. By Elizabeth
ten Grotenhuis.
Mimi Hall Yiengpruksawan
The Last Tosa: Iwasa Katsumochi Matabei, Bridge to Ukiyo-e.
By Sandy Kita.
Laura W. Allen
Takarazuka: Sexual Politics and Popular Culture in Modern Japan.
By Jennifer Robertson.
Sabine Fruehstueck
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