Front Matter, including a Foreword by James Dorsey and Dennis Washburn

James Dorsey and Dennis Washburn

Reading Tokuda Shūsei in the provinces: regional newspapers and writers of the imperial capital

Kensuke Kōno

Seattle’s Little Tokyo: bundan fiction and the Japanese diaspora

Ted Mack

Japanese literature in early twentieth-century East Asia: the enpon boom, the Uchiyama shoten, and the growth of trans-Asian literary networks

Karen Thornber

The histories of Japanese book collections in the United States: an interim report and some thoughts about the research

Atsuhiko Wada

Surviving the Red Purge: activist literature and publishers in the Cold War

Ann Sherif

Willful copyists and the transmission of suspect narratives of literary production

Christian Ratcliff

The expanding role of the carnivalesque and the early Meiji fiction of Kanagaki Robun

Kelly Hansen

Aposiopesis and completion: Yoshiya Nobuko’s typographic melodrama

Sarah Frederick

Consumption and leisure: an intratextual reading of Hisao Jūran’s Kyarako san

Michiko Suzuki

Is the pen mightier than the mouse? Phenomenology of Japanese word processing

Atsuko Sakaki

Wang Zhaojun’s new portrait: photography in nineteenth century Kanshibun

Matthew Fraleigh

Photography and automatic writing as idée fixe in Ozaki Kōyō’s The Gold Demon

Seth Jacobowitz

Screening the letter: technology and spectatorship in Ōe Kenzaburō

Bruce Suttmeier

Reading the visual text: Tawada Yōko’s Tabi wo suru hadaka no me

Doug Slaymaker

From everyday life to print: on the production of two genres of text in modern Japan

Jordan Sand

Back Matter

James Dorsey and Dennis Washburn