Front Matter, including an Introduction by Michael Bourdaghs, Hoyt Long, and Reginald Jackson

Michael Bourdaghs, Hoyt Long, Reginald Jackson

The Kirishitan expulsion as ritual performance in early-modern Japanese texts

Jan Leuchtenberger

Performative writing: Kōtoku Shūsui and revolutionary community

Robert Tierney

Emanations of power: preachers and the performance of homiletic tales in early medieval Japan

Ethan Bushelle

Performing texts: the blind musician Ogino Chiichi and the tradition of Heikyoku in mid-to late Tokugawa Japan

Wei Yu Wayne Tan

Jinruikan (The Human Pavilion) and performing Okinawa: constructed knowledge, linguistic difference, & war memory

Kyle Ikeda

Noh, Shakespeare, and pedagogy in Kurosawa’s Kumonosujō (Throne of Blood)

Susan Blakeley Klein

Reading The Tale of Genji through word clouds: a digital approach to literary criticism and pedagogy

Catherine Ryu

Performing a reading of Konjiki yasha

Ken K. Ito

Performing the sexuality of the flaneur in Nagai Kafū’s translations of Baudelaire

Marianne Tarcov

Envisioning difference: social typology and exhaustive listing in Fujiwara no Akihira’s An Account of the New Monkey Music

Ashton Lazarus

And the angel spake unto Harunobu: a Japanese Christian miracle story of 1591

Patrick Schwemmer

How to do things with poems: a reassessment of the wondrous powers of waka

Ariel Stilerman

The gold standard: performing genius in the early fiction of Tanizaki Jun’ichirō

Pau Pitarch Fernandez

Re-inventing the audience: towards an aesthetics of the spectator in Meiji Japan

Andreas Regelsberger

Performance as text: the legacy of post-1960s Japanese theatre

Cody Poulton

Cities in the clouds: theatrical perspectives on tension between rebirth and return in the post-3/11 utopic imaginary

Justine Wiesinger

Symbiotic cycles and the parodic performance of mother-daughter in Ōhara Mariko’s Hybrid Child

Kazue Harada

Celebrity, media, and shame: A Linked Heart Comedy, Life of an Artist (Or, an Operetta, Life and Heart of an Artist) by Murayama Tomoyoshi (1923)

Diane Wei Lewis

Pan pan girls and transvestite patriarchies: performing and recovering masculinity in post-1945 literature and film

Andrea Mendoza

From deconstructing Genji to deep ecology: remembering Richard Okada

James Fujii

In lieu of eulogies: post-mortem on the Hideki Richard Okada critical pedagogies panel

Reginald Jackson