ARCHIVED Contents of Vol. 57 (2002)

Contents of Vol. 57, No. 4 Winter 2002

Articles

Japan's Foreign Relations 1200 to 1392 A.D.:
A Translation from Zenrin Kokuhôki
Charlotte von Verschuer

Journeys, Pilgrimages, Excursions:
Religious Travels in the Early Modern Period
Shinno Toshikazu/Laura Nenzi

Koganei Kimiko: A Meiji-Born Woman Writer
Angela Yiu

Review Article

Digitalizing Japanese Art
Henry D. Smith II and Matthew P. McKelway

Book Reviews

L'Office des études supérieures au Japon du VIIe au XIIe siècle et les dissertations des fin d'études. By Atsuko Ceugniet.
Robert Borgen

L'Enseignement de la lecture au Japon:
Politique et éducation. By Christian Galan.
Dimitri Vanoverbeke

Song in an Age of Discord: The Journal of Sôchô and Poetic Life in Late Medieval Japan. By H. Mack Horton.

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The Journal of Sôchô. Translated and annotated by H. Mack Horton.
Roselee Bundy

The Chrysanthemum and the Fish: Japanese Humor Since the Age of the Shoguns. By Howard Hibbett.
Richard A. Gardner

A History of Japanese Religion. Edited by Kazuo Kasahara. Translated by Paul McCarthy and Gaynor Sekimori.
Barbara Ambros

The Origins and Development of Pure Land Buddhism: A Study and Translation of Gyônen's Jôdo Hômon Genrushô. By Mark L. Blum.
James L. Ford

Zen and Philosophy: An Intellectual Biography of Nishida Kitarô. By Michiko Yusa.
James W. Heisig

Mavo: Japanese Artists and the Avant-Garde, 1905-1931. By Gennifer Weisenfeld.
Bert Winther-Tamaki

Myth and Masculinity in the Japanese Cinema: Towards a Political Reading of the "Tragic Hero." By Isolde Standish.
Sharalyn Orbaugh

The History and Culture of Japanese Food. By Naomichi Ishige.
Mark Hudson

Articles

Secret Buddhas: The Limits of Buddhist Representation
Fabio Rambelli

The Unfinished Cartography: Murakami Haruki and the Postmodern Cognitive Map
Kawakami Chiyoko

Research Note

A Revisited
Richard A. Gardner

Review Articles

The Ambiguous Legacy of Modern Japanese Philosophy
John C. Maraldo

The Polymorphous Canon: Identity and Invention
Paul Schalow

Book Reviews

Prisoners from Nambu: Reality and Make-Believe in 17th-Century Japanese Diplomacy. By Reinier H. Hesselink.
W. G. J. Remmelink

Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852-1912. By Donald Keene.
Stephen Large

Nakae Tôju (1608-1648) et Kumazawa Banzan (1619-1691): Deux penseurs de l'epoque d'Edo. By Jean-François Soum.
Jacques Joly

Reconfiguring Modernity: Concepts of Nature in Japanese Political Ideology. By Julia Adeney Thomas.
Brett L. Walker

Translating the West: Language and Political Reason in Nineteenth-Century Japan. By Douglas R. Howland.
Matsuda Kôichirô

Travels in Manchuria and Mongolia: A Feminist Poet from Japan Encounters Prewar China. By Yosano Akiko. Translated by Joshua Fogel.
G. G. Rowley

Bodies of Memory: Narratives of War in Postwar Japanese Culture. By Yoshikuni Igarashi.
Julian Dierkes

Adaptations of Western Literature in Meiji Japan. By J. Scott Miller.
Peter Kornicki

Fiktion versus Wirklichkeit: Die moderne historische Erzählung in Japan. Modell einer Genretheorie und-typologie zur rekishi shôsetsu. By Harald Meyer.
Margaret Mehl

Requiem on the Great Meridian and Selected Essays. By Kinoshita Junji. Translated by Brian Powell and Jason Daniel.
Mari Boyd

Eine gewisse Farbe der Fremdheit: Aspekte des Übersetzens Japanisch-Deutsch-Japanisch. By Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit.
Asa-Bettina Wuthenow

Art in the Encounter of Nations: Japanese and American Artists in the Early Postwar Years. By Bert Winther-Tamaki.
Allen Hockley

Japanese Education Reform: Nakasone's Legacy. By Christopher P. Hood.
Peter Cave

The Price of Death: The Funeral Industry in Contemporary Japan.By Hikaru Suzuki.
Eyal Ben-Ari

Women on the Verge: Japanese Women, Western Dreams. By Karen Kelsky.
James Farrer

Articles

Apocryphal Texts and Literary Identity: Sei Shônagon and The Matsushima Diary
R. Keller Kimbrough

Interview with a Bakumatsu Official: A Translation from Kyûji Shimonroku (2)
Anna Beerens

Review Article

Shugendô: The State of the Field
Gaynor Sekimori

Book Reviews

The Conquest of Ainu Lands: Ecology and Culture in Japanese Expansion, 1590-1800. By Brett L. Walker.
Bruce L. Batten

Yukichi Fukuzawa 1835-1901: The Spirit of Enterprise in Modern Japan. By Norio Tamaki.
Douglas Howland

The Making of Japanese Manchuria, 1904-1932. By Yoshihisa Tak Matsusaka.
Louise Young

The Autobiography of Ozaki Yukio: The Struggle for Constitutional Government in Japan. Translated by Fujiko Hara with a foreword by Marius B. Jansen.
Dick Stegewerns

The People's Emperor: Democracy and the Japanese Monarchy, 1945-1995. By Kenneth J. Ruoff.
Stephen S. Large

Japanese Prehistory: The Material and Spiritual Culture of the Jômon Period.By Nelly Naumann.
Marie Maurin

Dieux et Bouddhas au Japon. By Bernard Frank.
Allan Grapard

Chikamatsu: Five Late Plays. Translated and annotated by C. Andrew Gerstle.
Anne Walthall

Spirits of Another Sort: The Plays of Izumi Kyôka. By M. Cody Poulton.
Atsuko Sakaki

The Lucky Seventh: Early Hôryû-ji and Its Time. By J. Edward Kidder, Jr.
Donald McCallum

The Practices of Painting in Japan, 1474-1500. By Quitman E. Phillips.
Matthew McKelway

Kurosawa: Film Studies and Japanese Cinema. By Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto.
Akira Mizuta Lippit

Anime from Akira to Princess Mononoke: Experiencing Contemporary Japanese Animation. By Susan J. Napier.
Lynne Miyake

Blue Nippon: Authenticating Jazz in Japan. By E. Taylor Atkins.
Hosokawa Shûhei

Japanese Sports: A History. By Allen Guttmann and Lee Thompson.
William W. Kelly

Encyclopedia of Contemporary Japanese Culture. Edited by Sandra Buckley.
Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit

Articles

Reexamining Tea: Yuisho, Suki, Yatsushi, and Furumai
Kumakura Isao / Peter McMillan

Oratory in Meiji and Taishô Japan: Public Speaking and the Formation of a New Written Language
Massimiliano Tomasi

The Love Suicides at Shinagawa: A Sort of Love Story
David Pollack

Book Reviews

Women and Class in Japanese History. Edited by Hitomi Tonomura, Anne Walthall, and Wakita Haruko.
Gregory M. Pflugfelder

The Historical Demography of Pre-modern Japan. By Akira Hayami.
Philip C. Brown

Informationssystem und kulturelles Leben in den Städten der Edo-Zeit. By Shiro Kohsaka and Johannes Laube.
Peter Kornicki

Gesetzgebung im vormodernen Japan: Rechtsgebote und die Ideen der Konfuzianisten in der Edo-Zeit (1603-1868). By Carolin Reimers.
Die Entstehung der Meiji-Verfassung: Zur Rolle des deutschen Konstitutionalismus im modernen japanischen Staatswesen. By Junko Ando.
F. B. Verwayen

Democracy in Pre-War Japan, Concepts of Government, 1871-1937: Collected Essays. By Junji Banno. Translated by Andrew Fraser.
M. William Steele

The Victim as Hero: Ideologies of Peace and National Identity in Postwar Japan. James J. Orr.
Perilous Memories: The Asia-Pacific War(s). Edited by T. Fujitani, Geoffrey M. White, and Lisa Yoneyama.
Sebastian Conrad

Obaku Zen: The Emergence of the Third Sect of Zen in Tokugawa Japan. By Helen J. Baroni.
Martin Collcutt

Writing Margins: The Textual Construction of Gender in Heian and Kamakura Japan. By Terry Kawashima.
Rajyashree Pandey

Mad Wives and Island Dreams: Shimao Toshio and the Margins of Japanese Literature. By Philip Gabriel.
Davinder L. Bhowmik

Artistic Detachment in Japan and the West: Psychic Distance in Comparative Aesthetics. By Steve Odin.
Joseph S. O'Leary

Language Planning and Language Change in Japan. By Tessa Carroll.
Nanette Gottlieb

Tezuka Osamu: Figuren, Themen und Erzählstrukturen im Manga-Gesamtwerk. By Susanne Phillipps.
Megumi Maderdonner

The Changing Face of Japanese Retail: Working in a Chainstore. By Louella Matsunaga.
Aviad Raz

Men of Uncertainty: The Social Organization of Day Laborers in Contemporary Japan. By Tom Gill.
Matthew Marr

Closing the Shop: Information Cartels and Japan's Mass Media. Laurie Anne Freeman.
Verena Blechinger