Reception of Blake in the Orient

Steve Clark is Visiting Professor at the University of Tokyo. Masashi Suzuki is Professor in the Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University and is ex-President of the Japan Association of English Romanticism

Feature on William Blake and the interest in the academic circles of Japan. 'Blake has, for whatever reasons, been thoroughly taken up by what one of the contributors charitably calls 'the long and distinguished Japanese tradition of reception.' 'The poet's bright Japan has proved to be one of his major resting places.' Japan Times - May 2006

• List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction, Steve Clark (University of Tokyo) and Masashi Suzuki (Kyoto University) Part I: The Orient in Blake: The Global Eighteenth Century 2 Thel in Africa: William Blake and the Post-colonial, Post-Swedenborgian Female Subject, David Worrall (Nottingham Trent University) 3 'Typhon, the lower nature': Blake and Egypt as the Orient, Kazuya Okada (Okayama University) 4 Rebekah Bliss: Collector of William Blake and Oriental Books, Keri Davies (The Blake Society) 5 Blake and the Chinamen, Mei-Ying Sung (Nottingham Trent University)6 Colour Printing in the West and East: William Blake and Ukiyo-e, Minne Tanaka 7 Representing Race: The Meaning of Colour and Line in William Blake's 1790s Bodies, Sibylle Erle (Bishop Grosseteste University)8 Africa and Utopia: Refusing a 'local habitation', Susan Matthews (University of Roehampton)9 An Empire of Exotic Nature: Blake's Botanical and Zoomorphic Imagery, Ashton Nichols (Dickinson College)10 Blake, Hayley and India: On Designs to a Series of Ballads (1802), Hikari Sato (Tokyo University)11 The Authority of the Ancients: Blake and Wilkins' translation of the Bhagvat-Gita, Tristanne J. Connolly (St. Jerome's University, Waterloo)Part II: Blake in the Orient: Early-Twentieth-Century Japanese Reception 12 Blake's Oriental Heterodoxy: Yanagi's Perception of Blake, Ayako Wada (Tottori University)13 Self-Annihilation in Milton, Hatsuko Niimi (Japan Women's University)14 An Ideological Map of (Mis)reading: William Blake and Yanagi Muneyoshi in Early Twentieth-century Japan, Kazuyoshi Oishi (University of the Air)15 The Female Voice in Blake Studies in Japan, 1910s-1930s, Yoko Ima-Izumi (University of Tsukuba)16 Blake as Inspiration toYanagi and Jugaku, Shinsuke Tsurumi 17 Individuality and Expression: The Shirakaba Group and the Early Reception of Blake's Visual Art Works in Japan, Yumiko Goto (Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art)Part III: Blake in the Orient: Later Responses 18 Blake's Night: Tanizaki's Shadows, Jeremy Tambling 19 Oe Kenzaburo's Reading of Blake: An Anglophone Perspective, Barnard Turner (National University of Singapore)20 Nebuchadnezzar's Sublime Torments: William Blake, Arthur Boyd and the East, Peter Otto (University of Melbourne)21 William Blake in Taiwan, Ching-erh Chang (National Taiwan University)22 'Walking thro' Eternity': Blake's Psychogeography and other Pedestrian Practices, Jason Whittaker (University College Falmouth)23 Blake's Question (from the Orient), John Phillips (National University of Singapore)Bibliography Index