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Japanese Theatre and the International Stage
Av Stanca Scholz-Cionca, Samuel Leiter
Inbunden, 2000
3014 kr
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This well-illustrated work is the first attempt to bridge the gap between several specialized discourses concerning Japanese theatre. Central are problems of scholarly and practical reception of Japanese theatre forms in the West. The essays by a careful selection of internationally well-reputed …
Creating Kabuki Plays
Context for Kezairoku, "Valuable Notes on Playwriting"
Inbunden, 2010
2415 kr
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This volume makes available for the first time a complete translation in English of a key text for our understanding of Kabuki, viz. Kezairoku, Sakusha Shikihô (Valuable Notes on Playwriting, A Playwrights’ Methodology, written 1801), being the only extant treatise fully devoted to the subject of …
Capital Punishment in Japan
Av Schmidt
Inbunden, 2001
1318 kr
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Capital punishment has been carried out in Japan since ancient times. Although ancient Japan uniquely suspended executions for several centuries towards the end of the first millennium, today the death penalty is firmly established in Japan.This volume explores the current state of capital …
Japanese Fiction of the Allied Occupation
Vision, Embodiment, Identity
Inbunden, 2006
4095 kr
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The reconstruction of identity in post World War II Japan after the trauma of war, defeat and occupation forms the subject of this latest volume in Brill's monograph series Japanese Studies Library.Closely examining the role of fiction produced during the Allied Occupation, Sharalyn Orbaugh begins …
Koguryo: The Language of Japan’s Continental Relatives
An Introduction to the Historical-Comparative Study of the Japanese-Koguryoic Languages, with a Preliminary Description of Archaic Northeastern Middle Chinese. Second Edition
Inbunden, 2007
2660 kr
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This is the first in-depth study of the extinct Koguryo language, which was once spoken in Manchuria and northern Korea. It covers the ethnolinguistic history of the Koguryo nation, philological treatment of the sources for the language, Koguryo phonology, and a complete glossary of all Archaic …
Christ in Japanese Culture
Theological Themes in Shusaku Endo's Literary Works
Inbunden, 2008
2048 kr
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This ground-breaking study on the Roman Catholic, Japanese novelist Endo Shusaku (1923-1996) uniquely combines western and Japanese religious, theological and philosophical thought. The author interprets Endo’s central works such as Silence (1966), The Samurai (1980), and Deep River (1996), from a …
Crisis of Identity in Contemporary Japanese Film
Personal, Cultural, National
Av Timothy Iles
Inbunden, 2008
2700 kr
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This study, from a variety of analytical approaches, examines ways in which contemporary Japanese film presents a critical engagement with Japan's project of modernity to demonstrate the 'crisis' in conceptions of identity. The work discusses gender, the family, travel, the 'everyday' as horror, …
Hitomaro: Poet as God
Av Anne Commons
Inbunden, 2009
2309 kr
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Kakinomoto no Hitomaro (fl. ca. 690) is generally regarded as one of the pre-eminent poets of premodern Japan. While most existing scholarship on Hitomaro is concerned with his poetry, this study foregrounds the process of his reception and canonization as a deity of Japanese poetry. Building on …
Miki Kiyoshi 1897-1945
Japan's Itinerant Philosopher
Inbunden, 2009
2700 kr
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This book takes us on a fascinating journey through the world of thought of Miki Kiyoshi, one of Japan’s pre-eminent philosophers before the Pacific War, and thus makes us discover the man behind the philosopher. His collaboration with government think-tanks in the late 1930s has made him highly …
Subversive Activities Prevention Law of Japan
Its Creation, 1951-52
Inbunden, 2009
3420 kr
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The Subversive Activities Prevention Law (SAPL) was the last major controversial law to be drafted at the end of the Allied Occupation of Japan (1945-1952) which was managed and controlled by General Headquarters (GHQ) under U.S. General MacArthur and was enacted into law after Japan had regained …
Imag(in)ing the War in Japan
Representing and Responding to Trauma in Postwar Literature and Film
Inbunden, 2010
3371 kr
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This study of a series of artistic representations of the Asia Pacific War experience in a variety of Japanese media is premised on Walter Davis' assertion that traumatic events and experiences must be 'constituted' before they can be assimilated, integrated and understood. Arguing that the …
Essays on Japan
Between Aesthetics and Literature
Inbunden, 2010
3639 kr
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Essays on Japan is a compilation of Professor Michael F. Marra’s essays written in the past ten years on the topics of Japanese literature, Japanese aesthetics, and the space between the two subjects. Marra is one of the leading scholars in the field of Japanese aesthetics and hermeneutics and has …
Chronicle of Lord Nobunaga
Av Gyūichi Ōta
Inbunden, 2011
3425 kr
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Shinchō-Kō ki, the work translated here into English under the title “The Chronicle of Lord Nobunaga,” is the most important source on the career of one of the best known figures in all of Japanese history—Oda Nobunaga (1534-1582), the first of the “Three Heroes” who unified Japan after a century …
Uncharted Waters: Intellectual Life in the Edo Period
Essays in Honour of W.J. Boot
Inbunden, 2012
2512 kr
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In the Edo period, Japan had its first experience of what one might call “intellectual life” in a pregnant sense of the word: a scene that combined serious intellectual pursuits, from poetry writing to the interpretation of the Confucian classics, with intense social interaction. Edo-period Japan …
Fantasies of Cross-dressing: Japanese Women Write Male-Male Erotica
Inbunden, 2012
2401 kr
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Male homosexual narratives in various genres and media—from “high-brow” literature by distinguished female authors to “pornographic” comic books produced and distributed by amateurs—have attracted the attention of a number of cultural critics in Japan and abroad. This book represents the first …
Optical Allusions
Screens, Paintings, and Poetry in Classical Japan (ca. 800-1200)
Inbunden, 2012
2829 kr
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In Optical Allusions: Screens, Paintings, and Poetry in Classical Japan (ca. 800-1200), Joseph T. Sorensen illustrates how, on both the theoretical and the practical level, painted screens and other visual art objects helped define some of the essential characteristics of Japanese court poetry. In …
Public Opinion – Propaganda – Ideology
Theories on the Press and its Social Function in Interwar Japan, 1918-1937
Inbunden, 2012
2244 kr
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As early as prewar Japan, thinkers of various intellectual proveniences had begun discussing the most important topics of contemporary media and communication studies, such as ways to define the social function of the press, journalism and the formation of public opinion. In Public Opinion – …
Crossing Boundaries in Tokugawa Society
Suzuki Bokushi, a Rural Elite Commoner
Inbunden, 2013
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2686 kr
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Suzuki Bokushi (1770-1842) was an elite villager in Echigo, a snowy province of Japan. Crossing Boundaries in Tokugawa Society presents a vivid picture of the life and world of this rural commoner, focusing on his interaction with the changing social and cultural environment of the late Tokugawa …
Japanese Historiography and the Gold Seal of 57 C.E.
Relic, Text, Object, Fake
Inbunden, 2013
3246 kr
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In the year 57 C.E., the court of Later Han dynasty presented a gold seal to an emissary from somewhere in what is now Japan. The seal soon vanished from history, only to be unearthed in 1784 in Japan. In the subsequent two-plus centuries, nearly 400 books and articles (mostly by Japanese) have …
Authorizing the Shogunate
Ritual and Material Symbolism in the Literary Construction of Warrior Order
Inbunden, 2013
2265 kr
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The Genpei War of 1180-1185 signaled a crucial shift in Japanese history because it gave birth to the shogunate, or government run by warriors. How was the emergence of this new polity following a contentious civil war explained in literary texts? This book argues that political authority is made …
Sacred Space in the Modern City
The Fractured Pasts of Meiji Shrine, 1912-1958
Inbunden, 2013
2752 kr
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Sacred Space in the Modern City offers strikingly new and original perspectives on a number of controversial issues and important questions concerning Japanese pre- and post-war ideology and identity. Meiji shrine is not just ‘a’ shrine; it is ‘the’ shrine of twentieth-century Japan. This book is …
Man’yōshū and the Imperial Imagination in Early Japan
Inbunden, 2014
1139 kr
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In Man’yōshū and the Imperial Imagination in Early Japan, Torquil Duthie examines the literary representation of the late seventh-century Yamato court as a realm of "all under heaven.” Through close readings of the early volumes of the poetic anthology Man’yōshū (c. eighth century) and the last …
Harima Fudoki
A Record of Ancient Japan Reinterpreted, Translated, Annotated, and with Commentary
Inbunden, 2015
2315 kr
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Harima Fudoki, dated to 714CE, is one of Japan’s earliest extant written records. It is a rich account of the people, places, natural resources and stories in the Harima region of western Japan. Produced by the government as a tool for Japan’s early state formation, Harima Fudoki includes important …
Japan on the Silk Road
Encounters and Perspectives of Politics and Culture in Eurasia
Inbunden, 2017
2088 kr
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Japan on the Silk Road provides for the first time the historical background indispensable for understanding Japan's current perspectives and policies in the vast area of Eurasia across the Middle East and Central Asia. Japanese diplomats, military officers, archaeologists, and linguists traversed …
Listen, Copy, Read
Popular Learning in Early Modern Japan
Inbunden, 2014
2808 kr
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Listen, Copy, Read: Popular Learning in Early Modern Japan endeavors to elucidate the mechanisms by which a growing number of men and women of all social strata became involved in acquiring knowledge and skills during the Tokugawa period. It offers an overview of the communication media and tools …
Japan’s Sexual Gods
Shrines, Roles and Rituals of Procreation and Protection
Inbunden, 2015
2726 kr
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Japan’s Sexual Gods is an authoritative and original work that describes the unique deities represented by sexual objects in certain Japanese shrines and temples. Hundreds of sexual shrines still exist in spite of previous repression and range from the Tagata Shrine with its well-known giant …
From Outcasts to Emperors: Shingon Ritsu and the Mañjuśrī Cult in Medieval Japan
Inbunden, 2015
2647 kr
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In From Outcasts to Emperors, David Quinter illuminates the Shingon Ritsu movement founded by the charismatic monk Eison (1201–90) at Saidaiji in Nara, Japan. The book’s focus on Eison and his disciples’ involvement in the cult of Mañjuśrī Bodhisattva reveals their innovative synthesis of Shingon …
Values, Identity, and Equality in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Japan
Inbunden, 2015
2464 kr
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The chapters in this volume variously challenge a number of long-standing assumptions regarding eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Japanese society, and especially that society’s values, structure and hierarchy; the practical limits of state authority; and the emergence of individual and collective …
Japanese Pan-Asianism and the Philippines from the Late Nineteenth Century to the End of World War II
Going to the Philippines Is Like Coming Home?
Inbunden, 2015
2163 kr
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In Japanese Pan-Asianism and the Philippines from the Late 19th Century to the End of World War II – Going to the Philippines Is Like Coming Home? Sven Matthiessen examines the development of Japanese Pan-Asianism and the perception of the Philippines within this ideology. Due to the archipelago’s …
Rhetoric of Photography in Modern Japanese Literature
Materiality in the Visual Register as Narrated by Tanizaki Jun’ichirō, Abe Kōbō, Horie Toshiyuki and Kanai Mieko
Inbunden, 2015
2377 kr
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In The Rhetoric of Photography in Modern Japanese Literature, Atsuko Sakaki closely examines photography-inspired texts by four Japanese novelists: Tanizaki Jun’ichirō (1886-1965), Abe Kōbō (1924-93), Horie Toshiyuki (b. 1964) and Kanai Mieko (b. 1947). As connoisseurs, practitioners or critics of …
