Cultural Imprints

Elizabeth Oyler is Associate Professor of Japanese at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the author of Swords, Oaths, and Prophetic Visions.Katherine Saltzman-Li is Associate Professor of Japanese Literature and Theatre at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Creating Kabuki Plays.

• Introduction: Remembering the Samurai in Medieval and Early Modern Japan, by Elizabeth A. Oyler and Katherine Saltzman-Li1. Memento Mori: Mōri Warriors, Manase Physicians, and the New Medico-Cultural Nexus of the Late Sixteenth Century, by Andrew Edmund Goble2. Hideyoshi and Okuni's Kabuki: Memories Preserved in a Screen Painting, by Marimi Tateno3. Finding Origins and Meaning in the Warring States, by Luke S. Roberts4. Plotting War during the Great Peace: The Uses of Warfare in Late Edo Tales of the Strange, by William D. Fleming5. Ghosts along the Road: War Memory and Landscape in Medieval Narratives, by Elizabeth A. Oyler6. Narrated and Danced Memory of Warand Resignation: The Role of Musical Delivery, by Alison Tokita7. Performing Trauma and Lament: Gendered Scenes of Samurai Anguish on the Eighteenth-Century Kabuki Stage, by Katherine Saltzman-Li8. In Memorandum: Dragonflies and Drums, by Monica Bethe9. Representing Memory in the Warrior Plays, by Thomas Hare