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

Robert Tierney, Elizabeth Oyler

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

Pana Barova-Ozcan

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

Andre Haag

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

Juhee Lee

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

Stephen D. Miller

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

Joannah Peterson

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

Aragorn Quinn

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

Catherine Ryu

A woman’s gaze

Luciana Sanga

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

Doug Slaymaker

Smelling music: the ‘unheard’ sounds of Takahashi Chikuzan

Joshua Solomon

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

Tajima Miho 但馬みほ

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

Benedikt Vogel

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

Christina Yi

Dazai Osamu’s sense and sensibility

Guohe Zheng