Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies – serie
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Buddhist Poetry of the Great Kamo Priestess
Daisaiin Senshi and Hosshin Wakashu
Häftad, 2021
233 kr
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Senshi was born in 964 and died in 1035, in the Heian period of Japanese history (794–1185). Most of the poems discussed here are what may loosely be called Buddhist poems, since they deal with Buddhist scriptures, practices, and ideas. For this reason, most of them have been treated as examples of …
Black Eggs
Poems by Kurihara Sadako
Häftad, 2021
302 kr
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Kurihara Sadako was born in Hiroshima in 1913, and she was there on August 6, 1945. Already a poet before she experienced the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, she used her poetic talents to describe the blast and its aftermath. In 1946, despite the censorship of the American Occupation, she published …
Wild Goose
Häftad, 1995
233 kr
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Mori Ōgai (1862–1922), one of the giants of modern Japanese literature, wrote The Wild Goose at the turn of the century. Set in the early 1880s, it was, for contemporary readers, a nostalgic return to a time when the nation was embarking on an era of dramatic change. Ōgai’s narrator is a …
Poems of the Five Mountains
An Introduction to the Literature of the Zen Monasteries
Av Marian Ury
Häftad, 2021
159 kr
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This second, revised edition of a pioneering volume, long out of print, presents translations of Japanese Zen poems on sorrow, old age, homesickness, the seasons, the ravages of time, solitude, the scenic beauty of the landscape of Japan, and monastic life. Composed by Japanese Zen monks who lived …
Shugendo
Essays on the Structure of Japanese Folk Religion
Häftad, 2007
323 kr
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This volume of essays is the first comprehensive publication in English of the work of Miyake Hitoshi, a distinguished scholar of Shugendō (mountain asceticism) and one of the foremost researchers on Japanese folk religion. Miyake defines folk religion as “religion that merges from the necessities …
Beyond the Gender Gap in Japan
Av Gill Steel, Gill Steel
Häftad, 2020
323 kr
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Why do Japanese women enjoy a high sense of well-being in a context of high inequality? Beyond the Gender Gap in Japan brings together researchers from across the social sciences to investigate this question. The authors analyze women’s values and the lived experiences at home, in the family, at …
Transformations of Sensibility
The Phenomenology of Meiji Literature
Av Hideo Kamei, Michael K. Bourdaghs
Häftad, 2021
263 kr
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First published in Japan in 1983, this book is now a classic in modern Japanese literary studies. Covering an astonishing range of texts from the Meiji period (1868–1912), it presents sophisticated analyses of the ways that experiments in literary language produced multiple new—and sometimes …
Conversations with Shotetsu
Av Robert Brower, Steven Carter
Häftad, 2021
208 kr
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Shōtetsu monogatari was written by a disciple of Shōtetsu (1381–1459), whom many scholars regard as the last great poet of the courtly tradition. The work provides information about the practice of poetry during the 14th and 15th centuries, including anecdotes about famous poets, advice on how to …
Tale of Matsura
Fujiwara Teika’s Experiment in Fiction
Häftad, 2021
233 kr
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Fujiwara Teika is known as the premier poet and literary scholar of the early 13th century. It is not so widely known that he also tried his hand at fiction: Mumyōzōshi (Untitled Leaves; ca. 1201) refers to “several works” by Teika and then names Matsura no miya monogatari (The Tale of Matsura; ca. …
Writing and Renunciation in Medieval Japan
The Works of the Poet-Priest Kamo no Chomei
Häftad, 2021
202 kr
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This is the first monograph-length study in English of Kamo no Chōmei, one of the most important literary figures of medieval Japan. Drawing upon a wide range of writings in a variety of genres from the Heian and Kamakura periods, Pandey focuses on the terms kyōgen kigo (wild words and fancy …
Essays on the Modern Japanese Church
Christianity in Meiji Japan
Av Aizan Yamaji
Häftad, 2021
202 kr
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Essays on the Modern Japanese Church (Gendai Nihon kyokai shiron), published in 1906, was the first Japanese-language history of Christianity in Meiji Japan. Yamaji Aizan’s firsthand account describes the reintroduction of Christianity to Japan—its development, rapid expansion, and decline—and its …
Musashino in Tuscany
Japanese Overseas Travel Literature, 1860–1912
Häftad, 2021
302 kr
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By the late Meiji period Japanese were venturing abroad in great numbers, and some of those who traveled kept diaries and wrote formal travelogues. These travelogues reflected a changing view of the West and changing artistic sensibilities in the long-standing Japanese literary tradition of travel …
Yosano Akiko and The Tale of Genji
Av G. Rowley, Gaye Rowley
Häftad, 2021
233 kr
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Yosano Akiko (1878–1942) has long been recognized as one of the most important literary figures of prewar Japan. Her renown derives principally from the passion of her early poetry and from her contributions to 20th-century debates about women. This emphasis obscures a major part of her career, …
Dances with Sheep
The Quest for Identity in the Fiction of Murakami Haruki
Häftad, 2021
233 kr
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As a spokesman for disaffected youth of the post-1960s, Murakami Haruki has become one of the most important voices in contemporary Japanese literature, and he has gained a following in the United States through translations of his works. In Dances with Sheep, Matthew Strecher examines Murakami’s …
Tanizaki Feast
The International Symposium in Venice
Av Adriana Boscaro, Anthony Chambers m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
202 kr
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This volume presents 18 eighteen essays, written by scholars from six countries, on Tanizaki Jun’ichiro (1886–1965), one of the great writers of the 20th century. The essays were originally prepared for a landmark international symposium in Venice in 1995, at which 22 speakers addressed an audience …
Regimes of Desire
Young Gay Men, Media, and Masculinity in Tokyo
Häftad, 2021
395 kr
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Shinjuku Ni-chōme is a nightlife district in central Tokyo filled with bars and clubs targeting the city’s gay male community. Typically understood as a “safe space” where same-sex attracted men and women from across Japan’s largest city can gather to find support from a relentlessly …
Yosano Akiko and The Tale of Genji
Av Gaye Rowley
Häftad, 2022
233 kr
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Yosano Akiko (1878–1942) has long been recognized as one of the most important literary figures of prewar Japan. Her renown derives principally from the passion of her early poetry and from her contributions to 20th-century debates about women. This emphasis obscures a major part of her career, …
Red Roofs and Other Stories
Häftad, 2016
302 kr
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Tanizaki Jun'ichiro (1886–1965), the author of Naomi; A Cat, a Man, and Two Women; and The Makioka Sisters, was one of the great writers of the twentieth century. The four stories in this volume date from the first and second decades of Tanizaki’s long career and reflect themes that appear …
My Life as a Filmmaker
Häftad, 2017
407 kr
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In his posthumous autobiography, Watakushi no eiga jinsei (1984), Yamamoto reflects on his career and legacy: beginning in the prewar days as an assistant director in a well-established film company under the master Naruse Mikio, to his wide-ranging experiences as a filmmaker, including his …
Gourmet Club
A Sextet
Häftad, 2017
302 kr
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The decadent tales in this collection span 45 years in the extraordinary career of Japan’s master storyteller, Tanizaki Jun’ichiro¯ (1886–1965), the author of Naomi, A Cat, a Man, and Two Women, and The Makioka Sisters. Made accessible in English by the expertise of translators Anthony H. Chambers …
Remembering Tanizaki Jun’ichiro and Matsuko
Diary Entries, Interview Notes, and Letters, 1954-1989
Häftad, 2017
279 kr
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Remembering Tanizaki Jun’ichirō and Matsuko provides previously unpublished memories, anecdotes, and insights into the lives, opinions, personalities, and writings of the great novelist Tanizaki Jun’ichirō (1886–1965) and his wife Matsuko (1903–1991), gleaned from the diaries of Edward …
Childhood Years
A Memoir
Häftad, 2017
343 kr
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In Childhood Years, originally published serially in a literary magazine between 1955 and 1956, Tanizaki Jun’ichirō (1886–1965) takes a meandering look back on his early life in Tokyo. He reflects on his upbringing, family, and the capital city with a conversational—and not necessarily honest—eye, …
Gendered Power
Educated Women of the Meiji Empress' Court
Häftad, 2019
270 kr
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Gendered Power sheds light on the sources of power for three prominent women of the Meiji period: Meiji Empress Haruko; public speaker, poet, and diarist Nakajima Shoen; and educator and prolific author Shimoda Utako. By focusing on the role Chinese classics (kanbun) played in the language employed …
Coeds Ruining the Nation
Women, Education, and Social Change in Postwar Japanese Media
Häftad, 2019
333 kr
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In the late 1800s, Japan introduced a new, sex-segregated educational system. Boys would be prepared to enter a rapidly modernizing public sphere, while girls trained to become “good wives and wise mothers” who would contribute to the nation by supporting their husbands and nurturing the next …
Playing in the Shadows
Fictions of Race and Blackness in Postwar Japanese Literature
Häftad, 2020
441 kr
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Playing in the Shadows considers the literature engendered by postwar Japanese authors’ robust cultural exchanges with African Americans and African American literature. The Allied Occupation brought an influx of African American soldiers and culture to Japan, which catalyzed the writing of black …
Era of Great Disasters
Japan and Its Three Major Earthquakes
Häftad, 2020
395 kr
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The Era of Great Disasters examines modern disaster response in Japan, from the changing earthquake preparations and regulations, to immediate emergency procedures from the national, prefectural, and city levels, and finally the evolving efforts of rebuilding and preparing for the next great …
Women and Networks in Nineteenth-Century Japan
Av Bettina Gramlich-Oka, Anne Walthall m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
395 kr
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Although scholars have emphasized the importance of women’s networks for civil society in twentieth-century Japan, Women and Networks in Nineteenth-Century Japan is the first book to tackle the subject for the contentious and consequential nineteenth century. The essays traverse the divide when …
Courteous Power
Japan and Southeast Asia in the Indo-Pacific Era
Av John D. Ciorciari, Kiyoteru Tsutsui
Häftad, 2021
444 kr
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The Courteous Power seeks to provide a nuanced view of the current relationship between Japan and Southeast Asia. Much of the current scholarship on East–Southeast Asian engagement has focused on the multidimensional chess game playing out between China and Japan, as the dominant post-imperialist …
Touching the Unreachable
Writing, Skinship, Modern Japan
Häftad, 2021
371 kr
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Finalist: 2025 British Comparative Literature Association First Book Prize | July 22, 2025Fusako Innami offers the first comprehensive study of touch and skinship—relationality with the other through the skin—in modern Japanese writing. The concept of the unreachable—that is, the lack of …
Tokyo Boogie-woogie and D.T. Suzuki
Av Shoji Yamada
Häftad, 2022
323 kr
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Tokyo Boogie-woogie and D.T. Suzuki seeks to understand the tensions between competing cultures, generations, and beliefs in Japan during the years following World War II, through the lens of one of its best-known figures and one of its most forgotten. Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki (D.T. Suzuki) was a …
