Oliver White is Specially Appointed Assistant Professor at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken) in Kyoto, Japan.Mai Kataoka is Associate Professor at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken) in Kyoto, Japan.Timon Screech is Professor at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken) in Kyoto, Japan.

• List of ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Power & Influence1.1 ‘Koreans’ in Satsuma Domain1.2 Tokugawa Ieyasu and Seventeenth-Century Globalism1.3 Chiang Kai-Shek and Japan: An Epitome of Modern Sino-Japanese History1.4 Tokugawa Yoshimune’s Investigations of the Qing Dynasty and their Implications for Japan1.5 Modern Japan from the Colonial Perspective: Issues in the Study of ‘Imperial History’1.6 Translating Blackness: Framing ‘Black Literature’ in Japan1.7 Negotiating Asymmetry: Natsume Sōseki’s Reading of Hōjōki and Projecting Japanese Culture1.8 Embassies from the Ryūkyū Kingdom: Tokugawa Japan and Diplomatic East Asia2. Border & Movement2.1 Ainu and the Borders of Japan2.2 Conservative Movements and Immigration Politics in Japan2.3 Reconsidering ‘Vicarious Consumer Travel’: A Comparison of Travelogues by Murakami Haruki and Furuichi Noritoshi2.4 The Social Impact of the ‘Healing’ Drama Oshin in 1980s Iran2.5 The Weaving of Translocal Networks: Gender, Dékasegi, and Livelihood within and beyond the Japanese Archipelago2.6 The Fezzes in Japan: Japanese Media Reflections on the Ertuğrul Frigate's Visit2.7 The Usual Exercise of Fine Arts: Baroque Humanism in the Pre-Modern Non-West and Japan3. Body & Sense3.1 Defying the Nation: Nuclear Disasters and Japan3.2 Questions on the Oversea Deployment of ‘Martial Arts’: The Case of Aikidō in the West in the Post-War Period3.3 No Cloud-Boat as a Guide: On Navigating the Affective Proximity of ‘China’ in Genji Monogatari’s Construction of Grief3.4 The Curious Case of Ms. Tommy Japan: Non-Colonial Intimacy and Oceanic Affect among Hyakushō, 18953.5 Japan as Portrayed in 19th century Western Music3.6 The Significance of Excrement in the Buddhist Narratives of Medieval Japan3.7 Il tamburo di panno: An Italian Adaptation of the Nō Aya no tsuzumi3.8 Flowing Between the Bogwood Boulders: A Shinsaku Ai-Kyōgen Case Study3.9 Proust in Japan and Japan in Proust: Notes on Yoshida Jō and the École japonaise of Proust Studies4. Ecology & Technology4.1 From Vishwakarma to Lu Ban to Shōtoku Taishi: Indian and Chinese Deities in Japanese Carpentry Mythology4.2 The Role of Travel in the Formation of Japanese Modernism in Interwar Visual Art and Architecture4.3 Hiruko: Myth’s Identity in Tawada Yoko4.4 Isolating the Global in the Prehistory of the Ryūkyū Islands4.5 Moveable Type in Japan and the World4.6 Soil, Symbol, and Synecdoche: The Albert Kahn Garden as a Reflection of Global Japanese Culture4.7 Seaweed, Science, and Sushi: Cross-cultural Knowledge Transmission between Japan and the UK4.8 Fermentation, Hospitality & Planetary Dwelling in Contemporary Japanese Comics5. Ritual & Belief5.1 The Blossoming of Buddhist Art During Nara Period5.2 De-Isolating Ise in Early Meiji Japan5.3 Imperial Sacrifice to an Uncrowned King5.4 Buddhism in Japan from a Global Historical Perspective in the Early 12th Century Fusō ryakki5.5 Monuments of Hindu-Buddhist Kingship in Medieval Japan5.6 ‘After The Manner of This Land’: The Dutch East India Company’s Envoys Pay Homage to the Emperor of Japan6. Beauty & Pleasure6.1 Chikushiji, a Lyrical Lingua Franca of the Late-Edo Period6.2 The Mingei Movement and World Crafts: A Perennial Attraction6.3 Kuroiwa Ruikō’s Suteobune: The Japanese Adaptation Bridging Western and Chinese Literature6.4 Tea in the History of Japan’s Global Interfaces6.5 Hybrid Origins of Japanese Animation and Manga6.6 Making Modernism: American Audiences and Post-war Japanese Prints6.7 Chinoiserie in Early Modern JapanIndex

Oliver White is Specially Appointed Assistant Professor at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken) in Kyoto, Japan.Mai Kataoka is Associate Professor at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken) in Kyoto, Japan.Timon Screech is Professor at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken) in Kyoto, Japan.

• List of ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Power & Influence1.1 ‘Koreans’ in Satsuma Domain1.2 Tokugawa Ieyasu and Seventeenth-Century Globalism1.3 Chiang Kai-Shek and Japan: An Epitome of Modern Sino-Japanese History1.4 Tokugawa Yoshimune’s Investigations of the Qing Dynasty and their Implications for Japan1.5 Modern Japan from the Colonial Perspective: Issues in the Study of ‘Imperial History’1.6 Translating Blackness: Framing ‘Black Literature’ in Japan1.7 Negotiating Asymmetry: Natsume Sōseki’s Reading of Hōjōki and Projecting Japanese Culture1.8 Embassies from the Ryūkyū Kingdom: Tokugawa Japan and Diplomatic East Asia2. Border & Movement2.1 Ainu and the Borders of Japan2.2 Conservative Movements and Immigration Politics in Japan2.3 Reconsidering ‘Vicarious Consumer Travel’: A Comparison of Travelogues by Murakami Haruki and Furuichi Noritoshi2.4 The Social Impact of the ‘Healing’ Drama Oshin in 1980s Iran2.5 The Weaving of Translocal Networks: Gender, Dékasegi, and Livelihood within and beyond the Japanese Archipelago2.6 The Fezzes in Japan: Japanese Media Reflections on the Ertuğrul Frigate's Visit2.7 The Usual Exercise of Fine Arts: Baroque Humanism in the Pre-Modern Non-West and Japan3. Body & Sense3.1 Defying the Nation: Nuclear Disasters and Japan3.2 Questions on the Oversea Deployment of ‘Martial Arts’: The Case of Aikidō in the West in the Post-War Period3.3 No Cloud-Boat as a Guide: On Navigating the Affective Proximity of ‘China’ in Genji Monogatari’s Construction of Grief3.4 The Curious Case of Ms. Tommy Japan: Non-Colonial Intimacy and Oceanic Affect among Hyakushō, 18953.5 Japan as Portrayed in 19th century Western Music3.6 The Significance of Excrement in the Buddhist Narratives of Medieval Japan3.7 Il tamburo di panno: An Italian Adaptation of the Nō Aya no tsuzumi3.8 Flowing Between the Bogwood Boulders: A Shinsaku Ai-Kyōgen Case Study3.9 Proust in Japan and Japan in Proust: Notes on Yoshida Jō and the École japonaise of Proust Studies4. Ecology & Technology4.1 From Vishwakarma to Lu Ban to Shōtoku Taishi: Indian and Chinese Deities in Japanese Carpentry Mythology4.2 The Role of Travel in the Formation of Japanese Modernism in Interwar Visual Art and Architecture4.3 Hiruko: Myth’s Identity in Tawada Yoko4.4 Isolating the Global in the Prehistory of the Ryūkyū Islands4.5 Moveable Type in Japan and the World4.6 Soil, Symbol, and Synecdoche: The Albert Kahn Garden as a Reflection of Global Japanese Culture4.7 Seaweed, Science, and Sushi: Cross-cultural Knowledge Transmission between Japan and the UK4.8 Fermentation, Hospitality & Planetary Dwelling in Contemporary Japanese Comics5. Ritual & Belief5.1 The Blossoming of Buddhist Art During Nara Period5.2 De-Isolating Ise in Early Meiji Japan5.3 Imperial Sacrifice to an Uncrowned King5.4 Buddhism in Japan from a Global Historical Perspective in the Early 12th Century Fusō ryakki5.5 Monuments of Hindu-Buddhist Kingship in Medieval Japan5.6 ‘After The Manner of This Land’: The Dutch East India Company’s Envoys Pay Homage to the Emperor of Japan6. Beauty & Pleasure6.1 Chikushiji, a Lyrical Lingua Franca of the Late-Edo Period6.2 The Mingei Movement and World Crafts: A Perennial Attraction6.3 Kuroiwa Ruikō’s Suteobune: The Japanese Adaptation Bridging Western and Chinese Literature6.4 Tea in the History of Japan’s Global Interfaces6.5 Hybrid Origins of Japanese Animation and Manga6.6 Making Modernism: American Audiences and Post-war Japanese Prints6.7 Chinoiserie in Early Modern JapanIndex

Oliver White is Specially Appointed Assistant Professor at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken) in Kyoto, Japan.Mai Kataoka is Associate Professor at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken) in Kyoto, Japan.Timon Screech is Professor at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken) in Kyoto, Japan.

• List of ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Power & Influence1.1 ‘Koreans’ in Satsuma Domain1.2 Tokugawa Ieyasu and Seventeenth-Century Globalism1.3 Chiang Kai-Shek and Japan: An Epitome of Modern Sino-Japanese History1.4 Tokugawa Yoshimune’s Investigations of the Qing Dynasty and their Implications for Japan1.5 Modern Japan from the Colonial Perspective: Issues in the Study of ‘Imperial History’1.6 Translating Blackness: Framing ‘Black Literature’ in Japan1.7 Negotiating Asymmetry: Natsume Sōseki’s Reading of Hōjōki and Projecting Japanese Culture1.8 Embassies from the Ryūkyū Kingdom: Tokugawa Japan and Diplomatic East Asia2. Border & Movement2.1 Ainu and the Borders of Japan2.2 Conservative Movements and Immigration Politics in Japan2.3 Reconsidering ‘Vicarious Consumer Travel’: A Comparison of Travelogues by Murakami Haruki and Furuichi Noritoshi2.4 The Social Impact of the ‘Healing’ Drama Oshin in 1980s Iran2.5 The Weaving of Translocal Networks: Gender, Dékasegi, and Livelihood within and beyond the Japanese Archipelago2.6 The Fezzes in Japan: Japanese Media Reflections on the Ertuğrul Frigate's Visit2.7 The Usual Exercise of Fine Arts: Baroque Humanism in the Pre-Modern Non-West and Japan3. Body & Sense3.1 Defying the Nation: Nuclear Disasters and Japan3.2 Questions on the Oversea Deployment of ‘Martial Arts’: The Case of Aikidō in the West in the Post-War Period3.3 No Cloud-Boat as a Guide: On Navigating the Affective Proximity of ‘China’ in Genji Monogatari’s Construction of Grief3.4 The Curious Case of Ms. Tommy Japan: Non-Colonial Intimacy and Oceanic Affect among Hyakushō, 18953.5 Japan as Portrayed in 19th century Western Music3.6 The Significance of Excrement in the Buddhist Narratives of Medieval Japan3.7 Il tamburo di panno: An Italian Adaptation of the Nō Aya no tsuzumi3.8 Flowing Between the Bogwood Boulders: A Shinsaku Ai-Kyōgen Case Study3.9 Proust in Japan and Japan in Proust: Notes on Yoshida Jō and the École japonaise of Proust Studies4. Ecology & Technology4.1 From Vishwakarma to Lu Ban to Shōtoku Taishi: Indian and Chinese Deities in Japanese Carpentry Mythology4.2 The Role of Travel in the Formation of Japanese Modernism in Interwar Visual Art and Architecture4.3 Hiruko: Myth’s Identity in Tawada Yoko4.4 Isolating the Global in the Prehistory of the Ryūkyū Islands4.5 Moveable Type in Japan and the World4.6 Soil, Symbol, and Synecdoche: The Albert Kahn Garden as a Reflection of Global Japanese Culture4.7 Seaweed, Science, and Sushi: Cross-cultural Knowledge Transmission between Japan and the UK4.8 Fermentation, Hospitality & Planetary Dwelling in Contemporary Japanese Comics5. Ritual & Belief5.1 The Blossoming of Buddhist Art During Nara Period5.2 De-Isolating Ise in Early Meiji Japan5.3 Imperial Sacrifice to an Uncrowned King5.4 Buddhism in Japan from a Global Historical Perspective in the Early 12th Century Fusō ryakki5.5 Monuments of Hindu-Buddhist Kingship in Medieval Japan5.6 ‘After The Manner of This Land’: The Dutch East India Company’s Envoys Pay Homage to the Emperor of Japan6. Beauty & Pleasure6.1 Chikushiji, a Lyrical Lingua Franca of the Late-Edo Period6.2 The Mingei Movement and World Crafts: A Perennial Attraction6.3 Kuroiwa Ruikō’s Suteobune: The Japanese Adaptation Bridging Western and Chinese Literature6.4 Tea in the History of Japan’s Global Interfaces6.5 Hybrid Origins of Japanese Animation and Manga6.6 Making Modernism: American Audiences and Post-war Japanese Prints6.7 Chinoiserie in Early Modern JapanIndex