Front Matter, including a Preface by Massimiliano Tomasi

Massimiliano Tomasi

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――

宮坂覚 Miyasaka Satoru

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

Nicolette Lee

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

Motoi Katsumata

Two Views of Saikaku in the Underworld

Dylan McGee

Buddhist Verses in Classical Renga and the Performance of Impermanence

Bonnie McClure

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

Massimiliano Tomasi

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

Pau Pitarch Fernandez

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

Maeri Megumi

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

Diego Cucinelli

Kamikakushi 神隠し: An Artist’s Salvation?

Maryellen Mori

Furui Yoshikichi’s Hijiri: Spiritual Traditions Engulfed by Modernity

Jennifer Scott

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

Yongfei Yi

「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

Ihara Miyoshi 伊原美好

Mothers With Demon Masks in Yamagishi Ryōko’s Shōjo Manga

Hiromi Tsuchiya Dollase

Unaccomplished Desire for Japanese Aesthetics in Tachihara Masaaki’s Novels

Yoshiko Matsuura

Spiritual Recovery in Yoshimoto Banana’s Amrita

Yuko Ogawa

Yasuoka Shōtarō and His M/Other

Eiji Sekine

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

Yoshihiro Yasuhara

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

Lisette Gebhardt

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