Front Matter, including a Foreword by Rebecca Copeland, Marvin Marcus, and Elizabeth Oyler

Rebecca Copeland, Marvin Marcus, and Elizabeth Oyler

Semiotic aspects of the refined expression in classical Japanese: language and literature

Zdeňka Švarcová

Beyond the genbun itchi movement: Natsume Sōseki’s writing in Kokoro

Ohsawa Yoshihiro

Reading San’yūtei Enchō’s Shinkei kasane ga fuchi (The true view at the Kasane Marsh)

Daniel O’Neill

The anxiety of translation: interlingual seduction and betrayal in Futabatei Shimei’s Ukigumo

Indra Levy

Gender and cultural topography: the figure of woman in Tanizaki Jun’ichirō’s reflections on Japanese language

Tomi Suzuki

Archetypes unbound: domestication of the five Chinese imperial consorts

Atsuko Sakaki

Chinese learning as performative power in Makura no sōshi and Murasaki Shikibu nikki

Naomi Fukumori

In a ‘borrowed tongue’: the representation of Japan in the English language by Nitobe, Okakura, and Uchimura

Matthew Mizenko

‘Dreams come true’: Fukuda Tsuneari and the Shakespearean sub-text

Daniel Gallimore

The Wakan rōeishū: cannibalization or singing in harmony?

Sonja Arntzen

Gender, geography, and writing in Mabuchi’s nativist poetics: from Masurao-buri to Taoyame-buri

Lawrence E. Marceau

Anzai Fuyue’s empire of signs: Japanese poetry in Manchuria

William O. Gardner

Making the scene with Shikitei Sanba

Joshua Young

Rhetoric as metalanguage and the metalanguage of rhetoric: how language defines and is defined in the scholarship of rhetoric of the Meiji and Taishō periods

Massimiliano Tomasi

Translation in the age of mechanical reproduction: writing in(to) Japanese

Sarah Cox

‘Novels you can watch / movies you can read’: visual narrative in 1930s women’s magazines

Sarah Frederick

Mass culture, the literary establishment, and Season of the Sun: Ishihara Shintarō’s debut

Ann Sherif

Both ways now: Dazai Osamu and Tanizaki Jun’ichirō writing the female in postwar Japan

Linda H. Chance

Wrestling national language from the state: Inoue Hisashi’s attempt to overcome the modern

Christopher Robins

The gender of solitude: changing sexual identities in recent Japanese fiction

Giorgio Amitrano

Writing the limits of sexuality: Tomioka Taeko’s ‘Straw Dogs’ and Nakagami Kenji’s ‘The Immortal’

Eiji Sekine

Colonial ethnography and the writing of the exotic: Nishikawa Mitsuru in Taiwan

Faye Yuan Kleeman

Ethnic identities and various approaches toward the Japanese language: an analysis of Ri Kaisei, Kin Kakuei, and Tachihara Masaaki

Yoshiko Matsuura

Nomadic writers of Japan: Tawada Yōko and Mizumura Minae

Reiko Tachibana

Back Matter

Rebecca Copeland, Marvin Marcus, and Elizabeth Oyler