Contributors

Jonathan Abel

PAJLS05 Archiving the forbidden: tracing exteriors to graphs of banned books

PAJLS18 Front Matter, including a preface by Charlotte Eubanks, with Jonathan E. Abel, Reiko Tachibana, and Ran Zwigenberg

Nobuko Adachi

PAJLS01 Shiki ariki Nōhon-shugi: reconsiderations of the haiku canon by Japanese-Brazilian farm poets

Doyin Aguoru

PAJLS14 Japanese earthquakes, tsunamis, and storms as archetypal symbols: an explication of Kamo no Chōmei’s The Earthquake, The Tale of Heike, Rai Sanyō’s Hearing of the Earthquake in Kyoto and the Great East Japan Earthquake

Giorgio Amitrano

PAJLS02 The gender of solitude: changing sexual identities in recent Japanese fiction

Mark Anderson

PAJLS09 The specter of empire in Matthew Arnold, Natsume Sōseki, and Kōtoku Shūsui

Kyoko Ando

PAJLS06 Folktales and Spiritualism in the Landscapes of Miyazawa Kenji

PAJLS09 Cultural translation in modern Japanese children’s literature: Uno Kōji’s rewriting of ‘Fuki no shita no kamisama’

Jeffrey Angles

PMAJLS5 Penisism and the eternal hole: Takahashi Mutsuo’s Homeuta

PAJLS01 Discovering and textualizing memory: the tsuioku shōsetsu of Naka Kansuke and Takahashi Mutsuo

PAJLS04 The heritage of symbolism: the ‘aesthetic’ style of Kitahara Hakushū and Murayama Kaita

PAJLS08 On the limits of liberation: Takahashi Mutsuo’s critique of queer America

PAJLS09 Haunted by the sexy samurai: Ranpo’s mobilization of the queer past in ‘Shudō mokuzuzuka’

Tomoko Aoyama 青山友子

PAJLS08 久生十蘭の旅する少女たち Girls on the Road in Hisao Jūran’s Fiction

PAJLS10 Writing along with and against the smugness of writing: Kanai Mieko’s A Study of the Comfortable Life

PAJLS13 The aging Ame no Uzume: gender and humor in Sano Yōko’s writing

Takashi Lep Ariga

PAJLS08 「オデシコ:強制の宴がトシを改める」 Forcing a Feast: Cruel Hospitality and the Energy of Renewal

Quillon Arkenstone

PAJLS19 Mystery and Melodrama in Kim Nae-Sŏng’s “The Oval Mirror”

Sonja Arntzen

PAJLS02 The Wakan rōeishū: cannibalization or singing in harmony?

Paul S. Atkins

PAJLS01 Fabricating Teika: the usagi forgeries and their authentic influence

PAJLS06 Front Matter, with an Editors’ Foreword by Paul S. Atkins, Davinder L. Bhowmik, and Edward Mack

Bruce Baird

PAJLS05 Memoirs and the metaphorical miscegenation: the literary activities of Hijikata Tatsumi

Pana Barova-Ozcan

PAJLS17 Color images in the Sarashina nikki and their function in the narrative discourse

Alex Bates

PAJLS06 Viewing the Ruins: Devastated Cityscapes and the Urban Observer after the Great Kantō Earthquake

PAJLS09 ‘Nothing more than useless luxury’: literary theory after disaster

Shalmit Bejarano

PAJLS10 On parody, appropriation, and ideology in Harunobu’s images of sericulture

Davinder L. Bhowmik

PAJLS04 Plain water with a twist of lime(stone): magical realism in Medoruma Shun

PAJLS06 Front Matter, with an Editors’ Foreword by Paul S. Atkins, Davinder L. Bhowmik, and Edward Mack

David T. Bialock

PAJLS01 The Tale of the Heike: its modern critics and the medieval past

Mark Blum

PAJLS20 Sectarian Buddhist Canons as Modern Scripture

Marilyn Bolles

PAJLS08 Singular women: Hirabayashi and Enchi in 1958 America

Michael Bourdaghs

PAJLS03 Mystery plane: Sakamoto Kyū and the translations of Rockabilly

PAJLS09 Owning up to Sōseki: the theory of literature vs. the theory of copyright

PAJLS15 Front Matter, including an Introduction by Michael Bourdaghs, Hoyt Long, and Reginald Jackson

Heather Bowen-Struyk

PMAJLS4 Postwar Anthologies Remember the Prewar: Censorship and the Textual Condition of ‘The Family of Koiwai’

PMAJLS5 Laborers of Love in Snow Country: the Fantasy of Capitalism

PAJLS01 Proletarian literature reconsidered

PAJLS19 Colonial Violence in Proletarian Literature: Chang Hyŏk-Chu’s “Hell of The Starving”

Noriko Brandl

PAJLS10 Parody in the Dōke jōruri-zukushi series by Kuniyoshi

Michele Eduarda Brasil de Sá

PAJLS18 Brief history of the kōtakusei: Japanese immigrants in the state of Amazonas, Brazil

PAJLS20 Fate, Transmission and the Boy Named Crow in Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore

Dean Brink

PAJLS04 The formation of allusive resilience in waka and its relevance to Meiji shintaishi

Steven T. Brown

PMAJLS2 Theatricalities of Power: New Historicist Readings of Japanese Noh Drama

PMAJLS4 Staging Female Suicide on Otokoyama: New Historicist Readings of Power and Gender in the Noh Theater

Michael C. Brownstein

PMAJLS5 Ren’ai: The Politics of Eros in the Writing of Kitamura Tōkoku

PAJLS13 Weak old men, strong old women in Chikamatsu’s domestic plays

Julia C. Bullock

PAJLS05 Women who ‘hate’ women and other feminist problems in the literature of Takahashi Takako

PAJLS08 We’ll always have Iowa: gender and national identity in Kurahashi Yumiko’s ‘Virginia’

PAJLS09 Eroticizing the other woman: what queer theory can(not) tell us about Japanese women’s writing

John Bundschuh

PAJLS20 Evidence in Heian Buddhist Kundokugo Narration

Stefania Burk

PAJLS01 Political license and the poetic canon of the imperial waka anthologies

PAJLS05 Compilation as commentary: the two imperial anthologies of Nijō Tameyo

Ethan Bushelle

PAJLS15 Emanations of power: preachers and the performance of homiletic tales in early medieval Japan

Kirsten Cather

PAJLS01 Dilution or diversification--Okinawan works and the Akutagawa Prize

Carole Cavanaugh

PMAJLS3 Junbungaku Goes to the Movies: Akutagawa Ryūnosuke and katsudō shashin

Matteo Cestari

PAJLS05 The problem of aesthetics in Nishida Kitarō

Linda H. Chance

PAJLS02 Both ways now: Dazai Osamu and Tanizaki Jun’ichirō writing the female in postwar Japan

PAJLS05 Accessorizing the text: the role of commentary in the creation of readers

PAJLS10 Does vulgarity make parody? The case of Zoku Tsurezuregusa

PAJLS20 Trouble All Around: Ichijō Kaneyoshi and Women’s Authority

Margaret H. Childs

PMAJLS4 Genji, at Least, Was not a Rapist: The Nature of Love and the Parameters of Sexual Coercion in the Literature of the Heian Court

Noriko Chino

PAJLS14 Miyabe Miyuki’s descriptions of Shitamachi Tokyo

Young-ah Chung

PAJLS09 Narrating Hokkaidō: Kunikida Doppo and a new vision of literature

Yasuko Claremont

PAJLS14 Labor and literature of contemporary Japan: the prescience of Hannah Arendt

Anne Commons

PAJLS06 The Construction of Akashi as Sacred Space

Francesco Comotti

PAJLS11 Performative reproductions and myth-making in Ōba Minako’s Funakuimushi

Rebecca Copeland

PMAJLS3 Broken Rings and Broken Brushes: The Broken Dreams of a Modern Murasaki

PMAJLS5 Sex and the Lady Translator in Meiji Japan or Translation as a Transsexual Act

PAJLS02 Front Matter, including a Foreword by Rebecca Copeland, Marvin Marcus, and Elizabeth Oyler

PAJLS05 Pillaging theory: feminist readings of Japanese texts

Nina Cornyetz

PMAJLS4 Izumi Kyōka’s Jouissance: Dangerous Women and Deadly Words

PAJLS09 Chasing the tails of tales: Nakagami Kenji and the end of folklore

PAJLS11 Between men in Izumi Kyōka’s Yōken kibun

Emanuela Costa

PAJLS11 A nomadic sensibility: wandering, belonging, and identity in Ōba Minako’s The Junk Museum

Sarah Cox

PAJLS02 Translation in the age of mechanical reproduction: writing in(to) Japanese

Michael P. Cronin

PAJLS11 Treasonous masculinity: the Osaka man in trans-war fiction

PAJLS13 Senescence and the city: decline and regeneration in Yamasaki Toyoko’s Noren

Cheryl Crowley

PAJLS04 Yosa Buson and humor: Shin hanatsumi (New ‘Flower Gathering’) and kokkei

PAJLS06 Yosa Buson’s Imagined Landscapes

PAJLS18 Traversing a world of moonlight and blossoms: Tagami Kikusha’s Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō Haiga (haikai paintings)

Diego Cucinelli

PAJLS16 Ghosts from the Past: The Fortune of Hyaku Monogatari in Post-Meiji Japan

Annika A. Culver

PAJLS04 Colonial Manchuria in the surrealist imagination: the poetry and prose of Kitagawa Fuyuhiko as modernist history

PAJLS09 Manchukuo and the creation of a new national literature: Kawabata Yasunari and ‘Manchurian’ culture, 1941–1942

PAJLS14 Japanese women and rural settlement in Manchukuo: gendered reflections of labor and productivity in Manshū gurafu

Brett de Bary

PAJLS09 Discussant’s comments on ‘Rethinking Sōseki’s Bungakuron: a centennial celebration’

Stephanie Deboer

PMAJLS4 Festival and Form in Ichikawa’s Yukinojō henge

Robert Del Greco

PAJLS14 A failure of de-colonization: reading the postcolonial subject as double agent

Charo B. D’Etcheverry

PAJLS05 Lifting the curse: Genji tributes as fictional criticism

PAJLS01 Cannibalizing memory: Teika, Sanetaka, and Fujioka’s Sagoromo

Lewis A. Dibble

PAJLS08 On not crossing over into the past: Bashō and Benjamin at the barriers

Rachel DiNitto

PAJLS01 In search of insignificance? Modern literary anthologies, premodern genres, and the failed canonization of Uchida Hyakken

PAJLS11 Cultural politics of the ‘Girl’ in postbubble Japan

Monika Dix

PAJLS08 Ascending Hibariyama: textual, physical, and spiritual journeys in Chūjōhime and Chūjōhime no honji

PAJLS10 Parody and Tokugawa realism: subverting religious and cultural (con)texts in Ejima Kiseki’s Keisei kintanki

PAJLS11 Good mother, bad mother: reading the Jōjin azari no haha no shū through the lens of gender

PAJLS18 Textuality and its material display in the Taima-dera jikkai-zu byōbu

PAJLS19 Compassionate Violence? The Aestheticization of Violence in the Taima-dera jikkai-zu byōbu

Hiromi Tsuchiya Dollase ドラージ土屋浩美

PAJLS05 Shōjo and Yamanba: Mori Mari’s literature

PAJLS08 風景としての少女:吉屋信子と川端康成の少女小説 Shōjo as Landscape: Girls’ Stories by Yoshiya Nobuko and Kawabata Yasunari

PAJLS13 Tanabe Seiko’s ‘Ubazakari’ series: old women enjoy their lives

PAJLS16 Mothers With Demon Masks in Yamagishi Ryōko’s Shōjo Manga

PAJLS19 A Daughter’s Search For “Mother” in Ai o kou hito (A Person Begging for Love)

James Dorsey

PMAJLS4 Escaping the Impasse in the Discourse on National Identity: Hagiwara Sakutarō, Sakaguchi Ango, and Nishitani Keiji

PAJLS07 Front Matter, including a Foreword by James Dorsey and Dennis Washburn

Mark Driscoll

PMAJLS5 Imperial Textuality, Imperial Sexuality

Raechel Dumas

PAJLS14 Playing house: suburbia and self in Miyabe Miyuki’s R.P.G.

David C. Earhart

PAJLS10 The subversive potential of parody in Danchōtei nichijō, Nagai Kafū's World War II diary

Eguro Kiyomi 江黒清美

PAJLS05 The hermeneutics of transgression and gender: a female modernist in chaos (gendered place)

PAJLS08 TOKYO ― 少女の彷徨と旅-林芙美子『放浪記』・倉橋由美子『聖少女』」TOKYO—Wanderings and Travels of a Girl, Fumiko Hayashi’s Hōrōki (Wanderings)

Mika Endo

PAJLS19 Shattering the Innocence Narrative: Depictions of Violence in Proletarian Children’s Literature

Charlotte Eubanks シャーロット・ユーバンクス

PMAJLS5 A Mother’s Love: Kishimo and the Re-writing of Myth

PAJLS18 Front Matter, including a preface by Charlotte Eubanks, with Jonathan E. Abel, Reiko Tachibana, and Ran Zwigenberg

PAJLS19 不屈の芸術:東京裁判での丸木俊 The Art of Persistence: Maruki Toshi and the Tokyo War Crime Trials

Norma Field

PAJLS19 Toward Comradely “Personhood”: Matsuda Tokiko’s “Another Battlefront”: Defying Environmental and Sexual Harms, Poverty, and War in The Workplace (1932)

Stephen Filler

PAJLS14 Hirabayashi Taiko’s proletarian fiction of the worksite

Linda Flores

PAJLS05 Reading the maternal body in the works of Hirabayashi Taiko

Peter Flueckiger

PAJLS01 The discourse of ‘makoto’ and the canonization of Tokugawa waka

Susanne Formanek

PAJLS10 Spirals of parody: ‘polemical imitation’ in Shusse sugoroku, ningen dōchūzu and other Edo-period woodblock-printed publications on the human life-course

Stephen M. Forrest

PAJLS01 Strangers within: Nōin shū and the canonical status of private poetry collections

Michael Dylan Foster

PAJLS06 Walking in the City with Natsume Sōseki: The Metaphorical Landscape in “Koto no sorane”

PAJLS08 Observing ritual: Namahage Toshidon, and the tourist gaze

Matthew Fraleigh

PAJLS07 Wang Zhaojun’s new portrait: photography in nineteenth century Kanshibun

PAJLS10 The fire guard and the hired bard: Narushima Ryūhoku’s parodic journalism

PAJLS14 Gion in early Meiji: Narushima Ryūhoku’s A Glimpse of the Capital’s Cats

Sarah Frederick

PMAJLS5 Sisters and Lovers: Women Magazine Readers and Sexuality in Yoshiya Nobuko’s Romance Fiction

PAJLS02 ‘Novels you can watch / movies you can read’: visual narrative in 1930s women’s magazines

PAJLS07 Aposiopesis and completion: Yoshiya Nobuko’s typographic melodrama

James Fujii

PAJLS15 From deconstructing Genji to deep ecology: remembering Richard Okada

Fujita Masakatsu 藤田正勝

PAJLS05 西田幾多郎の哲学と日本語 Nishida Kitarō’s Philosophy and Japanese Language

Naomi Fukumori

PMAJLS3 Sei Shōnagon the Essay / ese-ist: Delineating Differences in Makura no sōshi

PAJLS02 Chinese learning as performative power in Makura no sōshi and Murasaki Shikibu nikki

PAJLS03 Rhetoric of taxonomy: the Pillow Books of Sei Shōnagon, Peter Greenaway, and Ruth L. Ozeki

PAJLS19 Kenreimon’in Ukyō no Daibu shū: The Experience of the Genpei War and the Work’s Reception During WWII

Daniel Gallimore

PAJLS02 ‘Dreams come true’: Fukuda Tsuneari and the Shakespearean sub-text

William O. Gardner

PAJLS02 Anzai Fuyue’s empire of signs: Japanese poetry in Manchuria

Lisette Gebhardt

PAJLS16 Ghosts, Spirituality and Healing in Post-Fukushima Literature: Yoshimoto Banana’s Bibliotherapy for National Recovery

Elaine Gerbert

PMAJLS1 Festival Performance: What Light can it Shed on Literary Performance?

PMAJLS3 The Play of the Ear in the Novels of Uno Kōji

Chiara Ghidini

PAJLS13 The ageless voice of a doting body: Taima kataribe no uba in Orikuchi Shinobu’s Book of the Dead

Gregory Golley

PAJLS05 Miyazawa Kenji and the ethics of scientific realism

Camila Gutierrez

PAJLS18 Manga visuals in Latin America: gender diversity beyond the panel

Andre Haag

PAJLS17 Through anxious or confident eyes? Visualizing the Korean subversive in Taishō detective narratives

Thomas Hackner

PAJLS06 Shiga Shigetaka’s Nihon fūkei ron and Meiji Literature

Koichi Haga

PAJLS08 Yume no shima / Island of Dreams: hypertextuality in literature

Takao Hagiwara

PMAJLS4 Superposition, Montage, and Dialectics in Haiku, Pound, Eisenstein, and Benjamin

PMAJLS5 Love and Eros in the Christianity of Shūsaku Endō

Atsuko Handa

PMAJLS4 The Depiction of Non-Japanese in Sōseki’s Novels

Kelly Hansen

PAJLS07 The expanding role of the carnivalesque and the early Meiji fiction of Kanagaki Robun

PAJLS20 Encoding and Transmitting Gender: The Star Persona of Hara Setsuko

Kazue Harada

PAJLS15 Symbiotic cycles and the parodic performance of mother-daughter in Ōhara Mariko’s Hybrid Child

Sayumi Takahashi Harb

PAJLS05 Beyond our grasp? Materiality, meta-genre and meaning in the po(e)ttery of Rengetsu-ni

PAJLS13 The nuclear post-exotic and mutations of gendered aging in Ōhara Mariko’s Haiburiddo chairudo

Barbara Hartley

PMAJLS5 The Mother, the Daughter, and the Sexed Body, in Enchi Fumiko’s ‘Fuyu momiji’

PAJLS06 The Violated Body as Landscape: Rupture and Mutilation in the Narratives of Kim Sa-ryang and Yi Yang-ji

PAJLS13 Under surveillance: the blighted body of the aging woman

Sally A. Hastings

PMAJLS3 Women Politicians Authoring Their own Lives

Irena Hayter

PAJLS04 Wagahai wa neko dearu satsujin jiken as a postmodern sequel

Kathryn Hemmann

PAJLS14 Mythical landscapes and imaginary creatures: Pokémon and Japanese regionalism

PAJLS18 A legend of regret: fallen kingdoms and postcolonial ghosts in Twilight Princess

Yoshitaka Hibi

PAJLS20 Inheriting Books: Overseas Bookstores, Distributors, and Their Networks

Higuchi Yoshizumi

PAJLS19 The Body and War: Violence in the Work of Playwright and Novelist Kara Jurō

Christopher L. Hill

PAJLS09 The naturalist novel and the boundaries of Japanese literature

Raquel Hill

PAJLS08 ‘Third space’ in Ōba Minako’s Garakuta hakubutsukan

Hosea Hirata

PMAJLS4 A Historiography of the Blind: The Location of History and Masochistic Ecstasy in ‘The Day He Himself Shall Wipe My Tears Away’

PAJLS03 Front Matter, including a Foreword by Hosea Hirata

Evelyn Huang

PAJLS13 Obasuteyama: care or abandonment

Yumiko Hulvey

PMAJLS5 Man-eaters: women writers and the appropriation of the Yamauba motif

Ibi Takashi 揖斐高

PMAJLS3 雅俗と虚構-蕪村の場合における覚書- Ga/Zoku and Fiction: Notes on the Case of Buson

Ihara Miyoshi 伊原美好

PAJLS11 川上弘美の「蛇を踏む」「センセイの鞄」から: ポスト・ジェンダー社会の中で「他者」との共存をさぐる Kawakami Hiromi’s Treading on Snakes and The Teacher’s Briefcase: Coexistence with the “Other” in Postgendered Society

PAJLS16 「闇市」のマリア佐多稲子「風になじんだ歌」に見る戦後の焼け跡からの出発― “Yamiichi” no Maria: Sata Ineko “Kaze ni najinda uta” ni miru sengo no yakeato kara no shuppatsu

Iida Yuko

PAJLS09 読者としての漱石 Sōseki as Reader

Kyle Ikeda

PAJLS15 Jinruikan (The Human Pavilion) and performing Okinawa: constructed knowledge, linguistic difference, & war memory

Timothy Iles

PAJLS08 Are we there yet? Traveling toward the self in contemporary Japanese cinema

Inaga Shigemi

PMAJLS5 Confession and exposure: Nagasawa Mitsuo’s Adult Video Actresses and Japan’s male intellectual consciousness

Charles Shirō Inouye

PMAJLS2 Modern Japanese Literature on Its Own Terms

PAJLS08 Jippensha Ikku’s Shank’s Mare (Tōkaidōchū hizakurige): travel, locale, and the development of modern consciousness

伊藤比呂美 Itō Hiromi

PAJLS03 無題 Mudai

Ken K. Ito

PAJLS01 From the margins of the canon: Kikuchi Yūhō and the katei shōsetsu

PAJLS15 Performing a reading of Konjiki yasha

Itō Moriyuki 伊藤守幸

PMAJLS4 物語の方法と日記文学―『更級日記』を中心に Sarashina nikki

Mikiko Iwaya

PAJLS04 Shifting discourses: a comparative study of Nakagami Kenji’s style to those of Tanizaki Jun’ichirō, Murasaki Shikibu, and William Faulkner

Reginald Jackson

PAJLS15 In lieu of eulogies: post-mortem on the Hideki Richard Okada critical pedagogies panel

PAJLS15 Front Matter, including an Introduction by Michael Bourdaghs, Hoyt Long, and Reginald Jackson

Seth Jacobowitz

PAJLS07 Photography and automatic writing as idée fixe in Ozaki Kōyō’s The Gold Demon

PAJLS10 The discourse of noses in Natsume Sōseki’s I am a Cat

Jeffrey Johnson

PMAJLS2 Literary Theory and Classical Japanese Literature: Ihara Saikaku’s Prose and a Comparative Approach to Comedy

Sumie Jones

PMAJLS1 Report on Round table discussion: The teaching of Japanese theater and film

PAJLS08 Lying about flying: the invention of science fiction and the fictions of colonialism in modern Japan

PAJLS13 Tsutsui Yasutaka’s Teki (The Enemy) or Faust for the twenty-first century

Karatani Kōjin

PMAJLS4 A geopolitics of literation: toward a psychoanalysis of Japan

Mai Kataoka

PAJLS18 The art of crafting an image of modern Japanese literature: the use of visual images to promote Knopf’s translation program

Motoi Katsumata

PAJLS16 Monks as Advocates of Filial Piety: the History of Buddhist Kōshiden in the Early Edo Period

Sari Kawana

PAJLS05 Pleasures of permutation: detective fiction and cultural globalization

Kawazoe Fusae 河添房江

PMAJLS4 『源氏物語』のなかの交易史、権力、ジエンダー Trade History in Genji monogatari

Adam Kern

PMAJLS1 Santō Kyōden’s The Merchandise You All Know as Merchandise: Self-reflexive promotion across two media

Margaret Key

PMAJLS3 Shōjo minds in the gutter: reading the Genji manga

Robert Omar Khan

PAJLS01 The strange fate of monogatari after the Genji: the genealogy of the term ‘giko,’ from style to subgenre

PAJLS11 Male mother and female father, or both in one: problematizing gendered parenthood in Ariake no wakare

Kigoshi Osamu 木越治

PMAJLS3 雅と俗-物語史・小説史の視点から Ga and zoku viewed in the Historical Context of Shōsetsu and Monogatari

Younglong Kim

PAJLS20 Adaptation of the Tokyo Trial: Reading Kinoshita Junji’s Between God and Man

R. Keller Kimbrough

PAJLS04 Nomori no kagami and the perils of poetic heresy

PAJLS05 Little Atsumori and the Tale of the Heike: fiction as commentary, and the significance of a name

PAJLS08 Travel writing from hell? Minamoto no Yoriie and the politics of Fuji no hitoana sōshi

Saeko Kimura

PMAJLS4 Meshūdo and the system of sexuality in The Tale of Genji and other Heian texts

PMAJLS5 Love and sexuality in Heian text: ‘productive’ and ‘non-productive’ sex

PAJLS08 Traveling through the narratives: imagination of women’s salvation

PAJLS13 Placating the dead: folk rituals and recurring life

Masaaki Kinugasa

PAJLS01 Aesthetic politics and literary history: Shinkokinshū and Kazamaki Keijirō

Faye Yuan Kleeman

PAJLS01 The boundaries of the Japaneseness between ‘Nihon bungaku’ and ‘Nihongo bungaku’

PAJLS02 Colonial ethnography and the writing of the exotic: Nishikawa Mitsuru in Taiwan

PAJLS03 The poetics of colonial nostalgia: a case for Taiwan Manyōshū

PAJLS19 Consumption, Violence, and Bodily Expression in Contemporary Japanese Art

Susan Blakeley Klein

PAJLS04 Down the primrose path: Ariwara no Narihira as love god in medieval poetic commentaries and noh theater

PAJLS15 Noh, Shakespeare, and pedagogy in Kurosawa’s Kumonosujō (Throne of Blood)

Mary A. Knighton

PMAJLS5 Tracing the body of the question mark: Kanai Mieko’s Ai Aru Kagiri

PAJLS08 Gender politics and Kurahashi Yumiko’s Amanonkoku ōkanki

PAJLS11 Perversely reading manga

Komori Yōichi 小森陽一

PMAJLS4 歴史としての文学・文学としての歴史:戦後文学と歴史修正主義 Literature as History / History as Literature

Kensuke Kōno

PAJLS07 Reading Tokuda Shūsei in the provinces: regional newspapers and writers of the imperial capital

Kimberly Kono

PAJLS19 Violence, Assimilation and Otherness in Colonial Manchuria

Shion Kono 河野至恩

PAJLS08 『東京朝日新聞』の「世界一周」旅行記——明治末期の新聞メディアと異国体験—— A travelogue of a ‘round-the-world trip’ on Tokyo Asahi Shimbun: Newspaper media at the Late Meiji Period and the Experience Abroad

PAJLS09 ‘Two irreconcilable, but also inseparable, nevertheless incomparable greatnesses’: Mori Ōgai’s parallax reading (and writing) of literary theory

Kubota Jun 久保田淳

PAJLS01 泉鏡花の作品の日本的特性について Izumi Kyōka no sakuhin no Nihonteki tokusei nitsuite

Michelle Kuhn

PAJLS18 Aspirational elegance: character interpretation in the ‘Genji Hinagata’

Kurata Yōko 倉田容子

PAJLS13 層状の身体、死と快楽のエクリチュール――円地 文子の小説技法

Teresa Ciapparoni La Rocca

PAJLS09 The European border of Japanese literature

Christina Laffin

PAJLS08 The road well traveled: poetry and politics in Diary of the Sixteenth Night Moon

William R. LaFleur

PAJLS05 Good karma, bad karma, words and deeds

Sara Langer

PMAJLS3 The commodification of sentiment: a veneer of ga, but zoku at heart

Phyllis Larson

PMAJLS2 Re-Reading Tamura Toshiko: A Failed “New Woman”?

Ashton Lazarus

PAJLS15 Envisioning difference: social typology and exhaustive listing in Fujiwara no Akihira’s An Account of the New Monkey Music

Juhee Lee

PAJLS17 On the tip of his tongue: Hail Kim’s Braille experiences as described in his texts

Nicolette Lee

PAJLS16 Million Dollar Question: Does the Woman’s Body Matter? An Examination into Female Salvation as Represented in the Tale of the Heike

Jan Leuchtenberger

PAJLS15 The Kirishitan expulsion as ritual performance in early-modern Japanese texts

Indra Levy

PAJLS02 The anxiety of translation: interlingual seduction and betrayal in Futabatei Shimei’s Ukigumo

Diane Wei Lewis

PAJLS15 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)

Elizabeth Lillehoj

PMAJLS3 Highbrow / lowbrow: the aristocratic and the common in early Edo arts

Sepp Linhart

PAJLS10 Parodying the parody: the example of ken songs

Akira Mizuta Lippit

PMAJLS1 Liquid Cinema: Topologies of Emulsion in Two Japanese films

Miya Mizuta Lippit

PAJLS05 The historical horizon of true art: Kafū and Okakura at the 1904 St.Louis world’s fair

Hoyt J. Long

PAJLS06 Historicizing the Marginal Case: Late-Taishō Literary Production and the Provincializing Landscape of Iihatov

PAJLS15 Front Matter, including an Introduction by Michael Bourdaghs, Hoyt Long, and Reginald Jackson

Tom Looser

PAJLS03 Globality, and Japan’s somewhere else

Craig Luchsinger

PMAJLS5 The ideology of rebellion and ‘anti-social sex’ in Ōe and Ōshima

Victoria Oana Lupascu

PAJLS18 281_Anti Nuke’s graffiti and Japanese political subjectivity

Phyllis I. Lyons

PMAJLS1 Report on Round table discussion: The teaching of Japanese theater and film

PMAJLS2 Theory vs. Practice / East vs. West: A Commentary II by Discussant

PMAJLS5 The years of living dangerously: life and love in Tanizaki’s fiction of 1928-30

PAJLS10 Tanizaki fights the Watakushi shōsetsu: Kokubyaku as bundan parody

Ted Mack

PAJLS06 Front Matter, with an Editors’ Foreword by Paul S. Atkins, Davinder L. Bhowmik, and Edward Mack

PAJLS07 Seattle’s Little Tokyo: bundan fiction and the Japanese diaspora

Aiko Okamoto MacPhail

PMAJLS3 The dynamics of metaphor in Suzuki Harunobu

PAJLS04 From the pages of classics to the fantastic tales: Kyokutei Bakin and seven rules of fiction

PAJLS05 In search of the absolute origin: hermeneutics of language in Ogyū Sorai

Maeri Megumi

PAJLS16 The “Pure Novel” of the Lost Home: Yokomitsu Riichi’s A Traveler’s Sadness

Fabio Mangolini

PMAJLS1 Commedia dell’arte and Kyōgen: two popular theatres on opposite sides of the Silk Road

Mano Takako 真野孝子

PAJLS11 大庭みな子の詩における「山姥」というジェンダーを超越したメタファーについて The Metaphorical Yamamba (Mountain Witch) Who Transcends Gender: Reading Ōba Minako’s Poetry

PAJLS13 現代詩にみる「山姥」の表象:吉原幸子とその他の女性詩人 The Yamamba Image in Contemporary Poetry: Yoshihara Sachiko and Others

Lawrence E. Marceau

PMAJLS3 The emperor’s old clothes: classical narratives in early modern Japan

PAJLS02 Gender, geography, and writing in Mabuchi’s nativist poetics: from Masurao-buri to Taoyame-buri

Marvin Marcus

PMAJLS1 Report on Round table discussion: The teaching of Japanese theater and film

PAJLS02 Front Matter, including a Foreword by Rebecca Copeland, Marvin Marcus, and Elizabeth Oyler

Michael F. Marra (Michele Marra)

PMAJLS4 The new as violence and the hermeneutics of slimness

PAJLS04 Poetry and poetics in tension: Kuki Shūzo’s French and German connections

PAJLS05 Front Matter, including Introduction: the hermeneutical challenge

PAJLS08 Place of poetry, place in poetry: on rulers, poets, and gods

PAJLS09 Frameworks of meaning: old aesthetic categories and the present

Christine L. Marran

PAJLS06 The Scape of Empire in Numa Shōzō’s Science Fiction Novel: Kachikujin Yapū (1957–1959)

William Matheson

PMAJLS1 Report on Round table discussion: The teaching of Japanese theater and film

Miho Matsugu

PMAJLS5 The fusing of labor and love in Snow Country

Matsumura Yūji 松村雄二

PAJLS05 本歌取りの位地-剽窃とオリジナリティの間 The Position of Allusive Variation: Between Plagiarism and Originality

Yoshiko Matsuura 松浦芳子

PAJLS02 Ethnic identities and various approaches toward the Japanese language: an analysis of Ri Kaisei, Kin Kakuei, and Tachihara Masaaki

PAJLS05 Issues of postcolonial theories in Zainichi literature: hybridity and mimicry in Tachihara Masaaki’s Tsurugigasaki and Tsumugi no Sato

PAJLS08 「植民者二世の初恋――湯淺克衞「カンナニ」再考――A Second-Generation Colonizer’s First Love: A Rereading of Yuasa Katsue’s Kannani

PAJLS16 Unaccomplished Desire for Japanese Aesthetics in Tachihara Masaaki’s Novels

Caterina Mazza

PAJLS10 Fiction critique parodies and multilayered pastiches: the ‘Relation parodique’ in the works of Ogino Anna and Shimizu Yoshinori

Bonnie McClure

PAJLS16 Buddhist Verses in Classical Renga and the Performance of Impermanence

PAJLS20 Skies of Desire: Honkadori Allusion and Atmospheric Images in Shinkokinshū-era Waka

Dylan McGee

PAJLS09 The chrysanthemum and the gourd: theorizing the formation of literary identities in early modern Japan in the context of signets, seal marks, and pseudonyms

PAJLS11 Enjirō’s revenge: parodic constructions of masculinity in early modern kibyōshi

PAJLS13 Ripping apart the mat at sixty: fantasies of gerontic sexuality in Ukiyozōshi

PAJLS14 A moveable tea house: sharebon in early nineteenth century Nagoya

PAJLS16 Two Views of Saikaku in the Underworld

PAJLS18 Nagoya gesaku and the Daisō lending library

Mark Meli

PAJLS08 Traveling the former Japanese empire: reconciliation or revision

Andrea Mendoza

PAJLS15 Pan pan girls and transvestite patriarchies: performing and recovering masculinity in post-1945 literature and film

John P. Mertz

PMAJLS2 Situating Westernism in Meiji Literary Development

Matthew Mewhinney

PAJLS20 Front Matter, Including an Editor’s Foreword

PAJLS20 Evincing Experience: Lyric in Natsume Sōseki’s Recollecting and Such

Eileen Mikals-Adachi

PMAJLS3 Recreating the legend of Ono no Komachi: Enchi Fumiko’s Komachi Hensō

PAJLS11 Dial ‘L’ for love: the romantic cell phone tones of Ren’ai Shōsetsu

J. Scott Miller

PAJLS13 Young writers anticipate death: Shiga and Kajii in convalescence

Stephen D. Miller

PMAJLS3 Religious boundaries in aesthetic domains: the formation of a Buddhist category (shakkyō-ka) in the imperial poetry anthologies

PAJLS01 Front Matter, including a Foreword by Stephen D. Miller

PAJLS09 Cognitive theories of embodiment and metaphor in Japanese Buddhist poetry (shakkyō-ka): an exploratory essay

PAJLS17 The Buddhist Negotiation with the Senses in Jakuzen’s Hōmon hyakushu

Earl Miner

PMAJLS2 Visions, Re-Visions, and Revisions in Our Japanese Literary Studies

Lynne K. Miyake

PMAJLS4 Challenging the field of classical Japanese literature cultural production: Iwasa Miyoko’s ‘Through the Eyes of a Court Lady’ (Nyōbō no me)

PAJLS01 ‘Siting translation’: translation and classical Japanese literary canon formation in the United States

Yuki Miyamoto

PAJLS19 The Presence of Absence Toward an Ethics of Exile as Resistance to Violence After Fukushima

Miyasaka Satoru 宮坂覚

PAJLS16 近代日本文学における宗教及びスピリチュアリティ――近代日本文学における<神>と<神々>と――

Miyazaki Saeko 宮崎紗英子

PAJLS08 尾崎翠『映画漫想』における幻想空間への「浮遊」The Floating Into the Fantasy in Osaki Midori’s Eiga mansō

PAJLS11 尾崎翠と多和田葉子にみる「分身」 “Doubles” in the Works of Osaki Midori and Tawada Yōko

Matthew Mizenko

PAJLS02 In a ‘borrowed tongue’: the representation of Japan in the English language by Nitobe, Okakura, and Uchimura

PAJLS05 What if God never existed? Some thoughts on Kawabata, texts and criticism

Mizumura Minae

PMAJLS4 Authoring Shishōsetsu from left to right

PAJLS09 The fate of the Japanese language in the age of English

Mizuta Noriko

PAJLS04 Beyond home and city: poems by Ishigaki Rin and Shiraishi Kazuko

PAJLS08 Front Matter, including a Foreword by Mizuta Noriko

PAJLS11 Keynote address: the transformation of Ōba Minako’s world of monogatari

Livia Monnet

PMAJLS3 Televisual retrofutures and the body of insomnia: visuality and virtual realities in the short fiction of Murakami Haruki

Kyoko Mori

PAJLS03 Time and place: ‘Japan from somewhere else’

Maryellen Mori

PAJLS13 New whines in old skins: the recluse in contemporary Japanese literature

PAJLS16 Kamikakushi 神隠し: An Artist’s Salvation?

Daniela Moro

PAJLS11 The fatal charm of the ‘real onnagata’ in Enchi’s works: an analysis of Onnagata Ichidai from a gender perspective

Leith Morton

PMAJLS5 Love as literary construct: erotic tropes in the poetry of Akiko, Tekkan, and Tomiko

PAJLS01 The canonicity of Yosano Akiko’s Midaregami

PAJLS14 Yamato as cultural memory: Maekawa Samio’s poetry on Nara

Joshua S. Mostow

PMAJLS3 Ga/zoku as riddle: the Ogura Nazorae Hyakunin Isshu

PAJLS01 Canonization and commodification: illustrations to the Tales of Ise in the modern era

PAJLS10 Front Matter, Including an Editors’ Preface by Sharalyn Orbaugh and Joshua S. Mostow

Hisashi Muroi

PAJLS05 Problems on interpretation in the age of databases

Nadezhda Murray

PAJLS08 Hirabayashi Taiko’s symbolic reality

Kazumi Nagaike

PAJLS05 Japanese female writers watch a boy being beaten by his father: female fantasies of male homosexuality, psychoanalysis, and sexuality

PAJLS10 Doubly parodied gender roles in yaoi narratives: male characters become homosexuals who then become ‘women’

Mari Nagase

PAJLS11 In pursuit of success: Kanshi poet Hara Saihin’s masquerade of masculinity

Mariko Naito

PAJLS08 Poetic imagination and place names: women travelers and the creation of the Utamakura ‘Shiga Mountain Pass’

PAJLS09 Potentiality of literary experience: the role of the past in medieval poetic theories

Masako Nakagawa

PAJLS14 Kiritsubo and Yang Kuei-fei: a Sino-Japanese dimension

Shigemi Nakagawa

PMAJLS5 What’s happening to sexuality?: corporeal sensations in Matsuura Rieko’s Oyayubi P no shugyōjidai

PAJLS13 Ageism in sexuality: women’s gender struggle in literature and film

Nakahodo Masanori 仲程昌徳

PAJLS06 沖縄の風景を読む想像された風景・回顧された風景 Okinawa no fūkei o yomu: sōzō sareta fūkei, kaiko sareta fūkei

Miri Nakamura

PAJLS10 Mad scientists as translators: Japan’s first adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

Rika Nakamura

PAJLS11 ‘Allied masculinities’ and the absent presences of the other: recuperation of Japanese soldiers in the age of American wars in Iraq and Afghanistan: an analysis of Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima

Keiko Nakano

PAJLS03 Where is my home: language and identity

Susan Napier

PAJLS11 Keynote address: the garden and the sky: gender and space in the films of Miyazaki Hayao

PAJLS13 Front Matter including a foreword by Susan Napier

Carolina Negri

PAJLS08 Travel in memoirs by Heian women’s writers: the Sarashina nikki

Takeyoshi Nishiuchi

PMAJLS1 Zeami’s Riken and Gadamer’s Spiel: A Comparative Analysis of the Bodily-Performative Subjectivity

Nosaka Akio 野坂昭雄

PAJLS10 心霊学というメディアと近代詩 The Media of Occultism and Modern Poetry

能登原由美 Yumi Notohara

PAJLS19 「ヒロシマ」を語る音楽 Music as Another Storyteller of Hiroshima

Yuko Ogawa

PAJLS16 Spiritual Recovery in Yoshimoto Banana’s Amrita

James O’Brien

PMAJLS1 Report on Round table discussion: The teaching of Japanese theater and film

PMAJLS2 Front Matter Including a Foreword by James O’Brien

Yoon Jeong Oh

PAJLS18 Translingual melancholy in Yi Sang’s visual poetry

Ohsawa Yoshihiro

PAJLS02 Beyond the genbun itchi movement: Natsume Sōseki’s writing in Kokoro

Richard Okada

PAJLS09 Front Matter, including an Editors’ Preface by Atsuko Ueda and Richard Okada

岡村幸宣 Okamura Yukinori

PAJLS19 静かな春と「原爆の図」 A Quiet Spring: the Hiroshima Panels in 2020

Kyoko Omori

PAJLS03 ‘’Merican-Jap’ and modernity: Tani Jōji’s popular negotiation of the foreign

PAJLS05 Shinseinen, the contract, and vernacular modernism in Japan

Daniel O’Neill

PAJLS02 Reading San’yūtei Enchō’s Shinkei kasane ga fuchi (The true view at the Kasane Marsh)

Ōno Ryōji 大野亮司

PAJLS01 志賀直哉の文学性文学の解釈コード “Shiga Naoya no bungakusei: bungaku no kaishaku kōdo”

Sharalyn Orbaugh

PAJLS10 Front Matter, Including an Editors’ Preface by Sharalyn Orbaugh and Joshua S. Mostow

PAJLS19 Destroy the Family, Save the Empire: The Bizarre Rhetoric of Mobilization Propaganda, 1937–45

Melek Ortabasi

PAJLS04 Sketching out the critical tradition: Yanagita Kunio and the reappraisal of realism

Tess M. Orth

PAJLS06 Majestic Landscape, Marginal Space: Mountains in Late Meiji Japanese Literature

Hannah L.E. Osborne

PAJLS18 Structuring the void: Kanai Mieko’s ‘inflated man’ and pictorial allusion

Takeshi Oshino 押野武志

PAJLS05 The fiction and criticism of Sakaguchi Ango: the rhetoric of ambivalence

PAJLS10 パロディとしての現代ミステリ Contemporary Mystery as Parody

Ryoko Otomo

PMAJLS5 A dark princess from Thailand in Yukio Mishima’s The Temple of Dawn: the white male Japanese body and its abject other

Sayuri Oyama

PAJLS01 Shimazaki Tōson’s Hakai: (re)writing and (re)reading the canon

Elizabeth Oyler

PAJLS02 Front Matter, including a Foreword by Rebecca Copeland, Marvin Marcus, and Elizabeth Oyler

PAJLS06 Journeys of Exile in the Heike monogatari: Shigehira and Munemori in Captivity

PAJLS17 Front Matter, including a preface by Robert Tierney and Elizabeth Oyler

Gian Piero Persiani

PAJLS05 Whether birds or monkeys: indefinite reference and pragmatic presupposition in reading waka

Joannah Peterson

PAJLS17 Emperor on exhibition: representation of kingship in Yoru no Nezame and the Nezame Scrolls

Pau Pitarch Fernandez

PAJLS15 The gold standard: performing genius in the early fiction of Tanizaki Jun’ichirō

PAJLS16 “A Superfool Constantly Dreaming of the Future:” Christ as Poet in Akutagawa Ryūnosuke’s “Saihō no hito” (1927)

Herbert Plutschow

PAJLS08 Some characteristics of premodern Japanese travel literature

M. Cody Poulton

PAJLS09 The vicissitudes of drama as a literary genre in Meiji-Taishō debates

PAJLS15 Performance as text: the legacy of post-1960s Japanese theatre

Tamae Prindle

PMAJLS5 A game of sexuality: Kinugasa Teinosuke’s film, Gate of Hell (1953)

Joanne Quimby

PAJLS20 Performative Citation and Allusion in Matsuura Rieko’s Oyayubi P no shugyō jidai: Interrogating Matsuura’s Inheritances

Aragorn Quinn

PAJLS17 The sound of liveness: the Zenshinza’s Shinsengumi: a Talkie Rensa-geki

Charles Quinn

PMAJLS1 High Metabolism: Manga circa Shōwa 50

Shelley Fenno Quinn

PMAJLS1 Critical perspectives on the Noh play Izutsu

Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen

PMAJLS2 Theory vs. Practice / East vs. West: A Commentary I by Discussant

PMAJLS4 Introduction to PMAJLS 4

Christian Ratcliff

PAJLS06 The Traveling Poet as Witness: Established Poets Face New Realities in the Kamakura Period

PAJLS07 Willful copyists and the transmission of suspect narratives of literary production

Rein Raud

PMAJLS5 The lover’s subject: its construction and relativization in the waka poetry of the Heian period

PAJLS04 Narrative and poetic progression: the logic of associativity

Andreas Regelsberger

PAJLS15 Re-inventing the audience: towards an aesthetics of the spectator in Meiji Japan

James Reichert

PMAJLS4 Cultural ambivalence and sexuality in Tsubouchi Shōyō’s Tōsei shosei katagi

PAJLS01 ‘Samurai’ fantasies in late-nineteenth-century Japan

PAJLS03 Godzilla, the monster made in Japan

PAJLS06 Henge buyō in the Asakeno Episode of Kyokutei Bakin’s Hakkenden

Donald Richie

PMAJLS1 Japan: the Presentational Urge

Christopher Robins

PAJLS02 Wrestling national language from the state: Inoue Hisashi’s attempt to overcome the modern

Jeremy Robinson

PAJLS10 ‘Seeing as’: mitate and parody in haikai linked verse

Thomas H. Rohlich

PMAJLS2 Historicism and Culture: A Commentary by Discussant

David Rosenfeld

PMAJLS4 Counter-Orientalism and textual play in Akutagawa’s ‘The Ball’ (Butōkai)

Catherine Ryu

PMAJLS5 A golden needle, a rabbit’s tail, and the density of female body fat: an analysis of Murō Saisei’s metaphors for Enchi Fumiko’s writing libido

PAJLS03 ‘Reading’ the female reader in Liza Dalby and her Tale of Murasaki

PAJLS05 Zainichi literature through a Lacanian gaze: the case of Yi Yang-Ji’s Yuhi

PAJLS09 Theorizing the house of Unwelcome: re-reading Yū Miri’s Furu Hausu and Jacques Derrida’s De L’Hospitalité

PAJLS11 Spatially conceived: gender, desire, and identity in Yi Yang-Ji’s Yuhi

PAJLS15 Reading The Tale of Genji through word clouds: a digital approach to literary criticism and pedagogy

PAJLS17 The language of red in Kim Chʼang-saeng’s ‘Akai mi’

Saeki Junko

PMAJLS5 Reconsidering Tanizaki Jun’ichirō’s ‘Love and Eroticism’: Iro tradition and modern ren’ai in Japanese literary history

Satoru Saito

PAJLS09 Detecting the unconscious: Edogawa Ranpo and narratives of modern experience

Sakaguchi Shū 坂口周

PAJLS08 横光利一の四次元旅行 Yokomitsu Riichi’s Four Dimensional Travel in Shanghai

Atsuko Sakaki

PMAJLS2 Japanese Literary Studies in Depth and in Context: From Twofold Marginality toward Complementary Integrity

PMAJLS3 Another travel of a genre: Kajin no kigū as an intersection of the political novel of the West and the tradition of kanshibun

PMAJLS4 Good bye shōsetsu, hello again, monogatari? The validity of restoring contextuality in prose

PAJLS02 Archetypes unbound: domestication of the five Chinese imperial consorts

PAJLS04 With traces: the iterability of memory and narration in Kanai Mieko’s Yawarakai tsuchi o funde

PAJLS05 Materializing narratology: Kanai Mieko’s corporeal narrative

PAJLS07 Is the pen mightier than the mouse? Phenomenology of Japanese word processing

PAJLS08 Tales of traveling tongues: Paris as capital of the age of diaspora in Horie Toshiyuki’s ‘Oparaban’

PAJLS09 Stumbling past the threshold of languages: Natsume Kinnosuke’s contiguous space of language, literature, and theory

PAJLS10 Breezes through rooms with light: Kanai Mieko by Roland Barthes by Kanai Mieko

Richie Sakakibara

PMAJLS4 A wife’s discourse: Dazai’s Viyon no tsuma and the revision of civil law

Kiyo Sakamoto

PMAJLS1 Tōno monogatari as Performance: Literary Representation of Tōno Legends by Yanagita Kunio

Yoshiko Yokochi Samuel

PMAJLS3 Ga / zoku: magical realism in Ōe Kenzaburō’s Moeagaru midori no ki (The Flaming Green Tree)

Jordan Sand

PAJLS07 From everyday life to print: on the production of two genres of text in modern Japan

Luciana Sanga

PAJLS17 A woman’s gaze

PAJLS20 Material Form, Genre, and Reception: The Case of Setouchi Harumi’s “Kashin”

Edith Sarra

PMAJLS3 Front Matter Including a Foreword by Edith Sarra

PAJLS01 Women, readerly response, and the problem of imitation: Mumyōzōshi and the vexed beginnings of the monogatari canon

PAJLS11 Yoru no nezame and the fictional limits of late-Heian aristocratic motherhood

Kōji Satō 佐藤耕治

PAJLS05 Shinjuku as ‘ikai:’ Levy Hideo’s Seijōki no kikoenai heya

PAJLS08 「中上健次『讃歌』におけるセクシュアリティ――路地から「新宿」へ」 Sexuality in Nakagami Kenji’s Sanka: Traveling from Roji to ‘Shinjuku’

Kumiko Sato

PAJLS04 Poeticity of feminine subjectivity: contemporary women’s poetics from Tomioka Taeko to shōjo manga

Paul Gordon Schalow

PAJLS08 Exile from Heian: journeying as a pretext for male friendship in the Tale of Ise and the Tale of Genji

PAJLS11 Front Matter, Including an Editors’ Preface by Paul Gordon Schalow and Janet A. Walker

Patrick Schwemmer

PAJLS15 And the angel spake unto Harunobu: a Japanese Christian miracle story of 1591

Christopher D. Scott

PAJLS09 Queer / nation: from ‘Nihon bungaku’ to ‘Nihongo bungaku’

Jennifer Scott

PAJLS08 Furui Yoshikichi: travel and liminality

PAJLS16 Furui Yoshikichi’s Hijiri: Spiritual Traditions Engulfed by Modernity

Paola Scrolavezza

PAJLS11 Recreating woman’s identity in a trans-cultural in-between space: Ōba Minako’s Oregon yume jūya

PAJLS13 Kirino Natsuo, the grotesque double life of a business woman

PAJLS19 Translating Family Violence in Contemporary Japanese Literature: Dynamics of (Cruel) Affectivity in Zangyakuki by Kirino Natsuo

Amanda Seaman

PAJLS13 Middle-aged mama: Uchida Shungiku faces fifty

Eiji Sekine 関根英二

PMAJLS1 Foreword to PMAJLS 1

PMAJLS2 Gender Differences in a Genealogy of Modern Love Stories

PMAJLS5 Foreword to PMAJLS 5

PAJLS02 Writing the limits of sexuality: Tomioka Taeko’s ‘Straw Dogs’ and Nakagami Kenji’s ‘The Immortal’

PAJLS04 Front Matter, with a foreword by Eiji Sekine

PAJLS08 「旅先の恋とその変容」Romantic Encounters on the Road: Modern and Post-Modern Japanese Love Stories

PAJLS13 Wisdom of aging: modernity and animism in Yasuoka Shōtarō’s later works

PAJLS16 Yasuoka Shōtarō and His M/Other

Lili Selden

PMAJLS5 Manufacturing desire: love in the ‘Tamakazura’ chapters

Vyjayanthi Ratnam Selinger

PAJLS06 The Idiom of Landscape: Bandō in the Narrative Topography of the Genpei War Tales

Ann Sherif

PMAJLS4 The politics of loss: on Etō Jun

PAJLS02 Mass culture, the literary establishment, and Season of the Sun: Ishihara Shintarō’s debut

PAJLS03 And there, before me, Japan: Mizumura Minae and the orthodox novel

PAJLS07 Surviving the Red Purge: activist literature and publishers in the Cold War

PAJLS19 Front matter, including a Foreword by Ann Sherif

Yukiko Shigeto

PAJLS09 Politics of writing: Nakano Shigeharu and Tenkō literature

Yoshiaki Shimizu

PAJLS08 A journey’s tale and a tale’s journey

Haruo Shirane

PAJLS01 Poetic essence (hon’i) as Japanese literary canon

PAJLS06 Gendering the Seasons in the Kokinshū

Nathan Shockey

PAJLS19 On Proletarian Literatures, Past and Future

Doug Slaymaker

PMAJLS5 The body of postwar literature: Tamura Taijirō’s Nikutai bungaku

PAJLS07 Reading the visual text: Tawada Yōko’s Tabi wo suru hadaka no me

PAJLS14 Two views from Paris: Mori Arimasa and Katō Shūichi on Japanese culture in 1955

PAJLS17 What the horses do not know: Furukawa Hideo’s Umatachiyo, sore demo hikari wa muku de

PAJLS18 When words fail

Ivo Smits

PAJLS05 Pictured landscapes: Kawara no in, Heian gardens and poetic imagination

Yumi Soeshima

PAJLS14 Against the storm: the postwar Japanese culture through the real voices of working women, 1946-1950

Anne Sokolsky

PAJLS05 Writing the political not just the personal in Tamura’s Shōwa period fiction

Joshua Solomon

PAJLS17 Smelling music: the ‘unheard’ sounds of Takahashi Chikuzan

John Solt

PAJLS13 Goodbye!

Joseph T. Sorensen

PAJLS06 Poetic Landscapes and Landscape Poetry in Heian Japan

James Stanlaw

PMAJLS2 “Tangled Hair” on a “Bad Hair Day”: Feminist Tresses, Marxist Practices and ethnopoetics in Yosano Akiko and Tawara Machi

PAJLS01 ‘Chocolate translations,’ ‘bittersweet revolutions,’ and ‘tanka and photo’: Tawara Machi’s new renditions of Midaregami and questions of canonicity in modern Japanese classical poetry

Brian Steininger

PAJLS11 Kinshi’s letters: writing about women’s writing, 938 C.E.

Ariel Stilerman

PAJLS15 How to do things with poems: a reassessment of the wondrous powers of waka

Lindsey Stirek

PAJLS18 古典文学は過去の遺物かー漫画を通した再生― Classical Japanese Literature, A Relic of the Past? – Revitalization through Manga --

Kendra Strand

PAJLS19 When Elegance Becomes Inconvenient: Violence in Word and Deed in Nijō Yoshimoto’s Ojima no kuchizusami (Solace of Words at Ojima)

Sarah M. Strong

PMAJLS3 Komachi at the crossroads: elements of popular female performance in two nō plays

PMAJLS4 Reading the ‘court’ in courtesan: the historicization of the role of yūjo in some Muromachi tales

PAJLS04 Whoever said springtime was for blossoms? Kokinshū poetics, Ainu orality, and Chiri Yukie’s preface to the Ainu Shin’yōshū

Naoko Sugiyama

PAJLS13 Looking old, feeling young: representations of old women in shōjo manga

Shih-Wei Sun

PAJLS19 Violence against Monks in Shabby Stoles: Justice and Punishment in Nihon ryōiki

Bruce Suttmeier

PAJLS07 Screening the letter: technology and spectatorship in Ōe Kenzaburō

Michiko Suzuki

PAJLS07 Consumption and leisure: an intratextual reading of Hisao Jūran’s Kyarako san

PAJLS19 Speaking Violence in a Repatriation Novel: Miyao Tomiko’s Shuka

Suzuki Sadami 鈴木貞美

PAJLS01 From canon formation to evaluational reformation: Man’yō, Genji, Bashō

PAJLS14 Kyōdoshoku to ichininshō narateibu—jojō no 1900 nendai kara 1920 nendai 郷土色と一人称ナラティヴ――抒情の1900年代から1920年代

Shige (CJ) Suzuki

PAJLS18 Manga and / as art avant gardism: Japanese comics within 1960s Japanese visual culture

Tomi Suzuki

PAJLS02 Gender and cultural topography: the figure of woman in Tanizaki Jun’ichirō’s reflections on Japanese language

Dalia Švambaryté

PAJLS08 The role of shipwrecked Japanese in narrating the world outside Tokugawa Japan

Zdeňka Švarcová

PAJLS02 Semiotic aspects of the refined expression in classical Japanese: language and literature

Reiko Tachibana

PAJLS02 Nomadic writers of Japan: Tawada Yōko and Mizumura Minae

PAJLS03 Beyond East and West: Tawada Yōko and Levy Hideo

PAJLS18 Front Matter, including a preface by Charlotte Eubanks, with Jonathan E. Abel, Reiko Tachibana, and Ran Zwigenberg

Tajima Miho 但馬みほ

PAJLS17 視覚からの逃避と視覚への逃避:水村美苗『私小説 FROM LEFT TO RIGHT』における美苗の主体性構築 ESCAPING TO AND FROM VISIBILITY: MINAE’S CONSTRUCTION OF AGENCY IN MIZUMURA MINAE’S SHISHŌSETSU FROM LEFT TO RIGHT

Takahashi Mutsuo 高橋睦郎

PAJLS01 歌の運命 Uta no unmei

Takahashi Tōru

PMAJLS2 Space / Time of Monogatari and Psycho-Perspective

Shiho Takai

PAJLS20 Transmitting Myth and Magic: Early Modern Adaptations of the Dōjōji Legend in Jōruri Puppet Plays

Etsuko Taketani

PAJLS20 Aerial Archives: American-Occupied Japan

Akiko Takeuchi

PAJLS05 Dramatizing figures: the revitalization and expansion of metaphors in nō

PAJLS06 Taema: Intersections between Seasonal and Ritual Landscape in Noh

Wei Yu Wayne Tan

PAJLS15 Performing texts: the blind musician Ogino Chiichi and the tradition of Heikyoku in mid-to late Tokugawa Japan

Mitsuko Tanaka

PAJLS04 Unsealing Yamakawa Tomiko’s tanka: construction of Tomiko’s gendered image in contrast to Akiko’s

Marianne Tarcov

PAJLS15 Performing the sexuality of the flaneur in Nagai Kafū’s translations of Baudelaire

Tawada Yōko 多和田葉子

PAJLS03 ふたごたちの旅 Futagotachi no tabi

Roger K. Thomas

PMAJLS1 Kawatake Mokuami as lyricist

PMAJLS3 Ōkuma Kotomichi and the re-visioning of Kokinshū elegance

PAJLS01 In his footsteps: Shokyū-ni and the canonization of Bashō

PAJLS04 Poetry fit to sing: Tachibana Moribe and the chōka revival

Karen Thornber

PAJLS07 Japanese literature in early twentieth-century East Asia: the enpon boom, the Uchiyama shoten, and the growth of trans-Asian literary networks

PAJLS08 Roaming clouds, memories, and texts: confrontational intertextuality and Hayashi Fumiko’s Ukigumo

PAJLS09 Translating, intertextualizing, and the ‘borders’ of ‘Japanese literature’

PAJLS11 Degendering ecodegradation and rethinking ecofeminisms in the writing of Kurihara Sadako, Sakaki Nanao, and Ishimure Michiko

Barbara E. Thornbury

PAJLS11 Re-imagining Ozu: Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s Café Lumière and the contemporary Tokyo woman

Robert Tierney

PAJLS08 Folklore, propaganda, and parody: the adventures of Momotarō in the South Seas

PAJLS09 Mimicry in Japanese colonial fiction

PAJLS15 Performative writing: Kōtoku Shūsui and revolutionary community

PAJLS17 Front Matter, including a preface by Robert Tierney and Elizabeth Oyler

PAJLS19 Bodies and Violence in the Musha Incident

Robin Tierney

PAJLS05 How housewives shatter a narrative: Tawada Yōko’s The Bridegroom Was a Dog

PAJLS11 A literary assault on neo-liberalism: Shōno Yoriko’s ‘Don Quixote’s debate’

Ellen Tilton-Cantrell

PAJLS13 Autonomy and eldercare in recent works by Itō Hiromi

Fumiko T. Togasaki

PMAJLS3 Ga-zoku and verbal-visual dynamics in the picture contest chapter of The Tale of Genji

Massimiliano Tomasi

PAJLS02 Rhetoric as metalanguage and the metalanguage of rhetoric: how language defines and is defined in the scholarship of rhetoric of the Meiji and Taishō periods

PAJLS09 The literary theory of Shimamura Hōgetsu and the construction of Japanese naturalism

PAJLS14 Diaries of conversion: God, self, and the dilemma of faith in modern Japanese literature

PAJLS16 Front Matter, including a Preface by Massimiliano Tomasi

PAJLS16 Christianity and the Question of Faith in Kunikido Doppo’s Thought

Pier Carlo Tommasi

PAJLS19 The Bunbu Paradigm Reconsidered: Warrior Literacy and Symbolic Violence in Late Medieval Japan

Richard Torrance

PMAJLS2 What Exactly Is Being Revised?

PAJLS14 Front Matter, including an Editor’s Foreword by Richard Torrance

PAJLS19 Mythic Representations of the Violent Vanquishing of Izumo

Jean Yamasaki Toyama

PMAJLS5 Triangulating the voyeur or desire and the look

Andrew Tsubaki

PMAJLS1 Japanese Classical Drama as Viable English playscript

Tsurusaki Hiroo 鶴崎裕雄

PMAJLS4 連歌興行に見る一揆精神の変遷 Ikki Spirit in Renga

Harue Tsutsumi

PMAJLS1 Signs of performance: Benten Kozō by Kawatake Mokuami

PAJLS08 Kabuki encounters the West: Iwakura Embassy and Hyōryū kitan Seiyō kabuki

Atsuko Ueda

PMAJLS4 Tsubouchi Shōyō’s negotiations in The Essence of the Novel (Shōsetsu shinzui)

PAJLS01 De-politicization of literature: social Darwinism and interiority

PAJLS06 “Ideological Landscape”: Asianism (kōa) in 1880s Japan

PAJLS09 Front Matter, including an Editors’ Preface by Atsuko Ueda and Richard Okada

Ueno Chizuko

PMAJLS3 Vernacularism and the construction of gender in modern Japanese language

Holly Uyemoto

PAJLS03 Year of the dogs and what Japan meant to me

Timothy J. Van Compernolle

PAJLS05 The author, the reader, and Japanese literary texts: returning poststructuralist intertextuality to its dialogic roots

PAJLS09 The language of mourning: Miyake Kaho’s elegy for Higuchi Ichiyō and the end of classical literature

J. Keith Vincent

PAJLS09 The novel and the end of homosocial literature

PAJLS10 Playing and parodying the detective in Sōseki’s Higan-sugi made

PAJLS11 Imitation and desire in Sedgwick and Sōseki

Benedikt Vogel

PAJLS17 Scenting as performance: aesthetics of aroma and sensory imagination in the incense ceremony

Artem Vorobiev

PAJLS14 Images of Kanazawa in Izumi Kyōka’s Yuna no tamashii

Atsuhiko Wada

PAJLS07 The histories of Japanese book collections in the United States: an interim report and some thoughts about the research

Judy Wakabayashi

PAJLS04 Out of the shadows: applying a feminist framework to translation in Meiji and modern-day Japan

Gavin Walker

PAJLS09 On the ‘end’: Mishima Yukio and the double dislocation of literature

Janet A. Walker

PAJLS11 Front Matter, Including an Editors’ Preface by Paul Gordon Schalow and Janet A. Walker

John R. Wallace

PMAJLS2 Feminism and Sexuality: A Commentary by Discussant

Glynne Walley

PAJLS11 A woman named ‘Otoko’: moral certainty and gender indeterminancy in Kyokutei Bakin’s Eight Dogs

Wang Sook Young 王淑英

PAJLS01 「連歌師宗祇の古典研究-『古今集』伝授と注釈-」The Kokinshū Commentaries and the Classical Studies of Renga Master Sōgi

PAJLS08 宗祇と旅-歌枕・名所探訪を超えて Journey of Sōgi: Beyond Visits to Scenic Spots

Dennis Washburn

PAJLS07 Front Matter, including a Foreword by James Dorsey and Dennis Washburn

PAJLS09 Performance anxieties, or hitting on theory

PAJLS13 The transfiguration of loss: grief and aging in the Maboroshi (spirit summoner) chapter of the Tale of Genji

Watanabe Kenji 渡辺憲司

PMAJLS3 江戸時代の文芸家と禄高 Salaries of Men of Letters in Edo Period

Michael Watson

PAJLS06 Yoritomo’s Shrine by the Sea: The Narrative Function of Place Names in the Bangai Noh Tsurugaoka

PAJLS08 Spirits of the drowned: sea journeys in Bangai Noh from the Genpei War

Jason Webb

PAJLS05 Beyond wa-kan: narrating kanshi, reception, and sociolects of poetry

Helen Weetman

PAJLS08 ‘Tours of the womb, tours of hell’: circular journeys in late twentieth-century literature

Patricia Welch

PAJLS01 Developing a rakugo canon and the parodic use of canonical texts in rakugo

Melissa Wender

PMAJLS5 Broken pasts, uncomfortable presents: tales of Yū Miri and ‘comfort women’

PAJLS01 Between anxiety and celebration: resident Korean writers and the Japanese literary canon

Justine Wiesinger

PAJLS15 Cities in the clouds: theatrical perspectives on tension between rebirth and return in the post-3/11 utopic imaginary

Junko Ikezu Williams

PAJLS01 From modernist outsiders to the new canon writers: Japanese modernist writers in contemporary Japanese literary canonization

Michiko Niikuni Wilson

PMAJLS2 Re-Visioning Japanese Literary Studies through a Feminist Perspective

John Timothy Wixted

PMAJLS4 Kambun, histories of Japanese literature, and Japanologists

Kai Xie

PAJLS20 Identification with or Distance from Chinese Poetry? “Chinese-Style” Haikai by Bashō’s Circle

Yamashita Noriko 山下則子

PAJLS10 「江戸時代の見立(みたて)とパロディ――地口絵本を中心にEdo-Period Mitate and Parody: Focusing on Joke Picture-Books

Yoshihiro Yasuhara

PAJLS16 Mystical Experience as Literary Locus in Ishikawa Jun’s Fugen (The Bodhisattva or Samantabhadra)

PAJLS20 The Intersection of Advertising, Poetry, and Media: Amano Yūkichi’s Critical Analysis of Japan’s 1980s

Christina Yi

PAJLS17 Decadence, double agents, and a drunken boat: colonial legacies in Tanaka Hidemitsu’s Yoidorebune

Yongfei Yi

PAJLS14 Struggling between nostalgia and reality: the Association of Chinese Literature Studies and Takeda Taijun’s Fūbaika

PAJLS16 Local Festivals and Exotic Customs: Nishikawa Mitsuru and Gaichi Bungaku in Taiwan

Takayuki Yokota-Murakami

PMAJLS5 Female gender and father’s abuse: on the construction of femininity in contemporary Japanese women’s writings

Mako Yoshikawa

PAJLS03 Japan through a foreigner’s eyes: a family visit

Yoshimasu Gōzō

PAJLS04 Rewalking along the way of poetry

Joshua Young

PAJLS02 Making the scene with Shikitei Sanba

Guohe Zheng

PAJLS14 The dialect complex of Dazai Osamu as seen in Regretful Parting

PAJLS17 Dazai Osamu’s sense and sensibility

Eve Zimmerman

PMAJLS5 ‘Curling up tight’ Tsushima Yūko finds the Shōjo

PAJLS01 Hell at home: Nakagami Kenji and the discovery of Arthur Rimbaud

PAJLS10 Parody at work: Heathcliff’s double in Mizumura Minae’s Honkakuteki shōsetsu

Ran Zwigenberg

PAJLS18 Front Matter, including a preface by Charlotte Eubanks, with Jonathan E. Abel, Reiko Tachibana, and Ran Zwigenberg