Front Matter, Including an Editor’s Foreword

Matthew Mewhinney

Aerial Archives: American-Occupied Japan

Etsuko Taketani

Inheriting Books: Overseas Bookstores, Distributors, and Their Networks

Yoshitaka Hibi

Skies of Desire: Honkadori Allusion and Atmospheric Images in Shinkokinshū-era Waka

Bonnie McClure

Identification with or Distance from Chinese Poetry? “Chinese-Style” Haikai by Bashō’s Circle

Kai Xie

Trouble All Around: Ichijō Kaneyoshi and Women’s Authority

Linda H. Chance

Transmitting Myth and Magic: Early Modern Adaptations of the Dōjōji Legend in Jōruri Puppet Plays

Shiho Takai

Encoding and Transmitting Gender: The Star Persona of Hara Setsuko

Kelly Hansen

Performative Citation and Allusion in Matsuura Rieko’s Oyayubi P no shugyō jidai: Interrogating Matsuura’s Inheritances

Joanne Quimby

Fate, Transmission and the Boy Named Crow in Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore

Michele Eduarda Brasil de Sá

The Intersection of Advertising, Poetry, and Media: Amano Yūkichi’s Critical Analysis of Japan’s 1980s

Yoshihiro Yasuhara

Material Form, Genre, and Reception: The Case of Setouchi Harumi’s “Kashin”

Luciana Sanga

Adaptation of the Tokyo Trial: Reading Kinoshita Junji’s Between God and Man

Younglong Kim

Evidence in Heian Buddhist Kundokugo Narration

John Bundschuh

Evincing Experience: Lyric in Natsume Sōseki’s Recollecting and Such

Matthew Mewhinney

Sectarian Buddhist Canons as Modern Scripture

Mark Blum

Back Matter