Front Matter, including a Foreword by Mizuta Noriko

Mizuta Noriko

A journey’s tale and a tale’s journey

Yoshiaki Shimizu

Some characteristics of premodern Japanese travel literature

Herbert Plutschow

Place of poetry, place in poetry: on rulers, poets, and gods

Michael F. Marra

宗祇と旅－歌枕・名所探訪を超えて Journey of Sōgi: Beyond Visits to Scenic Spots

王淑英 Wang, Sook Young

On not crossing over into the past: Bashō and Benjamin at the barriers

Lewis A. Dibble

Exile from Heian: journeying as a pretext for male friendship in the Tale of Ise and the Tale of Genji

Paul Gordon Schalow

Travel in memoirs by Heian women’s writers: the Sarashina nikki

Carolina Negri

Poetic imagination and place names: women travelers and the creation of the Utamakura ‘Shiga Mountain Pass’

Mariko Naito

The road well traveled: poetry and politics in Diary of the Sixteenth Night Moon

Christina Laffin

Traveling through the narratives: imagination of women’s salvation

Saeko Kimura

Travel writing from hell? Minamoto no Yoriie and the politics of Fuji no hitoana sōshi

R. Keller Kimbrough

Ascending Hibariyama: textual, physical, and spiritual journeys in Chūjōhime and Chūjōhime no honji

Monika Dix

Spirits of the drowned: sea journeys in Bangai Noh from the Genpei War

Michael Watson

Lying about flying: the invention of science fiction and the fictions of colonialism in modern Japan

Sumie Jones

Jippensha Ikku’s Shank’s Mare (Tōkaidōchū hizakurige): travel, locale, and the development of modern consciousness

Charles Shirō Inouye

The role of shipwrecked Japanese in narrating the world outside Tokugawa Japan

Dalia Švambaryté

『東京朝日新聞』の「世界一周」旅行記——明治末期の新聞メディアと異国体験—— A travelogue of a ‘round-the-world trip’ on Tokyo Asahi Shimbun: Newspaper media at the Late Meiji Period and the Experience Abroad

河野至恩Shion Kono

Kabuki encounters the West: Iwakura Embassy and Hyōryū kitan Seiyō kabuki

Harue Tsutsumi

Tales of traveling tongues: Paris as capital of the age of diaspora in Horie Toshiyuki’s ‘Oparaban’

Atsuko Sakaki

On the limits of liberation: Takahashi Mutsuo’s critique of queer America

Jeffrey Angles

Traveling the former Japanese empire: reconciliation or revision

Mark Meli

横光利一の四次元旅行 Yokomitsu Riichi’s Four Dimensional Travel in Shanghai

坂口周 Sakaguchi Shū

‘Third space’ in Ōba Minako’s Garakuta hakubutsukan

Raquel Hill

‘Tours of the womb, tours of hell’: circular journeys in late twentieth-century literature

Helen Weetman

Gender politics and Kurahashi Yumiko’s Amanonkoku ōkanki

Mary A. Knighton

Singular women: Hirabayashi and Enchi in 1958 America

Marilyn Bolles

We’ll always have Iowa: gender and national identity in Kurahashi Yumiko’s ‘Virginia’

Julia C. Bullock

風景としての少女：吉屋信子と川端康成の少女小説 Shōjo as Landscape: Girls’ Stories by Yoshiya Nobuko and Kawabata Yasunari

ドラージ土屋浩美 Hiromi Tsuchiya Dollase

久生十蘭の旅する少女たち Girls on the Road in Hisao Jūran’s Fiction

青山友子 Tomoko Aoyama

「TOKYO ― 少女の彷徨と旅－林芙美子『放浪記』・倉橋由美子『聖少女』」TOKYO—Wanderings and Travels of a Girl, Fumiko Hayashi’s Hōrōki (Wanderings)

江黒清美 Eguro Kiyomi

「旅先の恋とその変容」Romantic Encounters on the Road: Modern and Post-Modern Japanese Love Stories

関根英二 Eiji Sekine

「植民者二世の初恋――湯淺克衞「カンナニ」再考――」A Second-Generation Colonizer’s First Love: A Rereading of Yuasa Katsue’s Kannani

松浦芳子 Matsuura Yoshiko

Yume no shima / Island of Dreams: hypertextuality in literature

Koichi Haga

Hirabayashi Taiko’s symbolic reality

Nadezhda Murray

Roaming clouds, memories, and texts: confrontational intertextuality and Hayashi Fumiko’s Ukigumo

Karen Thornber

Furui Yoshikichi: travel and liminality

Jennifer Scott

「中上健次『讃歌』におけるセクシュアリティ――路地から「新宿」へ」 Sexuality in Nakagami Kenji’s Sanka: Traveling from Roji to ‘Shinjuku’

佐藤耕治 Satō Kōji

尾崎翠『映画漫想』における幻想空間への「浮遊」The Floating Into the Fantasy in Osaki Midori’s Eiga mansō

宮崎紗英子 Miyazaki Saeko

Are we there yet? Traveling toward the self in contemporary Japanese cinema

Timothy Iles

「オデシコ：強制の宴がトシを改める」 Forcing a Feast: Cruel Hospitality and the Energy of Renewal

Takashi Lep Ariga

Observing ritual: Namahage Toshidon, and the tourist gaze

Michael Dylan Foster

Folklore, propaganda, and parody: the adventures of Momotarō in the South Seas

Robert Tierney

Back Matter

Eiji Sekine