Front Matter, including a Foreword by Stephen D. Miller

Stephen D. Miller

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

Kubota Jun 久保田淳

歌の運命 Uta no unmei

Takahashi Mutsuo 高橋睦郎

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

Suzuki Sadami

Dilution or diversification--Okinawan works and the Akutagawa Prize

Kirsten Cather

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

Sayuri Oyama

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

Melissa Wender

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

Joshua S. Mostow

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

Robert Omar Khan

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

David T. Bialock

Poetic essence (hon’i) as Japanese literary canon

Haruo Shirane

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

Peter Flueckiger

Aesthetic politics and literary history: Shinkokinshū and Kazamaki Keijirō

Masaaki Kinugasa

De-politicization of literature: social Darwinism and interiority

Atsuko Ueda

‘Samurai’ fantasies in late-nineteenth-century Japan

James Reichert

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

Ōno Ryōji 大野亮司

Proletarian literature reconsidered

Heather Bowen-Struyk

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

Eve Zimmerman

Fabricating Teika: the usagi forgeries and their authentic influence

Paul S. Atkins

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

Charo B. D’Etcheverry

Political license and the poetic canon of the imperial waka anthologies

Stefania Burk

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

Roger K. Thomas

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

Nobuko Adachi

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

James Stanlaw

The canonicity of Yosano Akiko’s Midaregami

Leith Morton

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

Faye Yuan Kleeman

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

Jeffrey Angles

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

Ken K. Ito

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

Rachel DiNitto

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

Stephen M. Forrest

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

Edith Sarra

「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

Wang Sook Young

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

Lynne K. Miyake

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

Patricia Welch

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

Junko Ikezu Williams