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Contents of Vol. 63, No. 1 (Spring 2008)

Articles

The Inflatable, Collapsible Kingdom of Retribution: A Primer on Japanese Hell Imagery and Imagination.
Caroline Hirasawa.

Whose Fuji?: Religion, Region, and State in the Fight for a National Symbol.
Andrew Bernstein.

Seeking the Strange: Ryôki and the Navigation of Normality in Interwar Japan.
Jeffrey Angles.

Review Article

Reading a Heian Blog: A New Translation of Makura no Sôshi.
Machiko Midorikawa.

Book Reviews

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

Editorial Notes

Contents of Vol. 63, No. 2 (Autumn 2008)

Articles

Reflections on the Meaning of Our Country: Kamo no Mabuchi's Kokuikô.
Peter Flueckiger.

Interview with Two Ladies of the Ôoku: A Translation from Kyûji Shimonroku.
Anna Beerens.

Literature as Life-form: Media and Modernism in the Literary Theory of Ôkuma Nobuyuki.
William O. Gardner.

Graphically Speaking: Manga Versions of The Tale of Genji.
Lynne K. Miyake.

Book Reviews

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 Keirstead

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

Editorial Notes

Index to Volume 63

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