Front Matter including a foreword by Susan Napier

Susan Napier

Goodbye!

John Solt

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

Dennis Washburn

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

Chiara Ghidini

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

Dylan McGee

Placating the dead: folk rituals and recurring life

Saeko Kimura

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

Mano Takako

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

倉田容子 Kurata Yōko

Obasuteyama: care or abandonment

Evelyn Huang

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

Michael C. Brownstein

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

Naoko Sugiyama

Middle-aged mama: Uchida Shungiku faces fifty

Amanda Seaman

Autonomy and eldercare in recent works by Itō Hiromi

Ellen Tilton-Cantrell

Kirino Natsuo, the grotesque double life of a business woman

Paola Scrolavezza

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

Sayumi Takahashi Harb

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

Hiromi Tsuchiya Dollase

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

Tomoko Aoyama

Under surveillance: the blighted body of the aging woman

Barbara Hartley

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

Shigemi Nakagawa

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

Maryellen Mori

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

Michael P. Cronin

Young writers anticipate death: Shiga and Kajii in convalescence

J. Scott Miller

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

Eiji Sekine

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

Sumie Jones