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ARCHIVED Contents of Vol. 61

Vol. 61, No. 4 (Winter 2006)

Articles

Fujiwara Seika and the Great Learning.
Richard Bowring.

Singing Tales of the Gishi: Naniwabushi and the Forty-seven Rônin in Late Meiji Japan.
Hyôdô Hiromi and Henry D. Smith II.

Parting in the Snow at Nanbuzaka, by Tôchûken Kumoemon.
Henry D. Smith II.

The Prewar Roots of “Equality of Opportunity”:
Japanese Educational Ideals in the Twentieth Century.
Hans Martin Krämer.

Review Articles

More “Word-Gems Radiant with Light.”
Roselee Bundy

New Additions to the Sorai Library.
W. J. Boot

Book Reviews

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 Chöei, 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

Editorial Notes

Index to Volume 61

Contents of Vol. 61, No. 3 (Autumn 2006)

Articles

Coercive Sex in the Medieval Japanese Court: Lady Nijô's Memoirs.
Hitomi Tonomura.

The Hôryûji Treasures and Early Meiji Cultural Policy.
Hiroko T. McDermott.

Review Article

The War Over the Kyoto School.
John C. Maraldo.

Book Reviews

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

Editorial Notes

Contents of Vol. 61, No. 2 (Summer 2006)

Articles

Solo Poetry Contest as Poetic Self-Portrait: The One-Hundred-Round Contest of Lord Teika’s Own Poems (2).
Roselee Bundy.

The God of Wealth in Western Garb: Kawanabe Kyôsai’s Portrait of Edoardo Chiossone as Daikokuten.
Donatella Fialla.

Review Articles

The Profane Wars of the Heavenly Warriors: Reassessing Medieval Warfare.
Reinhard Zöllner.

Kokugaku vs. Nativism.
Mark Teeuwen.

Wildlife Management and Upland Modernity in Japan.
Mark Hudson.

Book Reviews

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

Editorial Notes

Contents of Vol. 61, No. 1 (Spring 2006)

Articles

Solo Poetry Contest as Poetic Self-Portrait: The One-Hundred-Round Contest of Lord Teika's Own Poems (1).
Roselee Bundy.

Enchi Fumiko's Stormy Days: Arashi and the Drama of Childbirth.
Ayako Kano.

Review Article

Networking for Pleasure and Profit.
Anne Walthall.

Book Reviews

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

Editorial Notes

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