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ARCHIVED Contents of Vol. 62 (2007)

Contents of Vol. 62, No. 4 (Winter 2007)

Articles

Pieces in a Puzzle: Changing Approaches to the Shôsôin Documents.
W. Wayne Farris.

Creating Bodhisattvas: Eison, Hinin, and the "Living Mañjusrî."
David Quinter.

and "Votive Text for the Construction of the Hannyaji Mañjusrî Bodhisattva Statue," by Eison.
David Quinter.

Book Reviews

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? 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.

Addendum

Vol. 62-2.
Joshua Mostow, "Female Readers and Early Heian Romances: The Hakubyô Tales of Ise Illustrated Scroll Fragments."

Editorial Notes

Index to Volume 62

 

Vol. 62, No. 3 (Autumn 2007)

 

Articles

Ashikaga Yoshimitsu's Foreign Policy 1398 to 1408 A.D.: A Translation from Zenrin Kokuhôki, the Cambridge Manuscript.
Charlotte von Verschuer.

Shaka no honji: Preaching, Intertextuality, and Popular Hagiography.
Hank Glassman.

Positioning the Observer: Interrogations of Alterity in Nagai Kafû's Amerika monogatari.
Rachael Hutchinson.

Review Article

Möbius Strip: Instances of Cultural Translation between China, Japan, and the "West."
Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit.

Book Reviews

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.

&

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

Erratum

Editorial Notes

Vol. 62, No. 2 (Summer 2007)

Articles

Female Readers and Early Heian Romances: The Hakubyô Tales of Ise Illustrated Scroll Fragments.
Joshua S. Mostow.

Peasants into Citizens? The Meiji Village in the Russo-Japanese War.
Simon Partner.

Review Article

Perspectives on "Scenes of the Capital."
Satô Yasuhiro.

Book Reviews

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.

&

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.

&

A Cultural History of Women’s Language. By Endô Orie.
Nanette Gottlieb

Erratum

Editorial Notes

Vol. 62, No. 1 (Spring 2007)

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

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