Front Matter with a Foreword

Eiji Sekine

Watakushikatari and Monogatari: Women’s Self-Expression and the Tradition of Monogatari in Modern Japanese Literature

Mizuta Noriko

A Poetics of the Gaze in Makura no sōshi

Edith Sarra

The Desire for Monogatari in Sarashina nikki

Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen

Pre-Modem Japanese Autobiography as Therapeutic Writing

Maggie Childs

The Other Side of the Hakone: Ghosts, Demons, and Desire for Narrative in Edo Literature

Sumie Jones

The Figure of the Author in Gennai

Aiko Okamoto-Macphail

Money, Family, and Narrative: Chikamatsu’s Onna koroshi abura no jigoku and Ozu’s Tokyo monogatari

Eiji Sekine

Salvation from a Barren Paternity: The Concept of Masculinity and Kōda Rohan’s Writing

Ann Sherif

The Narrative Structure of Sanshirō

Chigusa Kimura-Steven

Into the Interiority of Language: The Seduction of Literature in Kawabata’s House of the Sleeping Beauties

Hosea Hirata

Nakagami Kenji’s Monogatari: The Roji of Kumano Shingū

Yoshiko Yokochi Samuel

Murakami Ryū’s Ai to gensō no fashizumu— A Postmodernist Narrative? 

Yoshio Iwamoto