Front Matter Including a Foreword by Edith Sarra

Edith Sarra

Vernacularism and the construction of gender in modern Japanese language

Chizuko Ueno

江戸時代の文芸家と禄高 Salaries of Men of Letters in Edo Period

渡辺憲司 Watanabe Kenji

雅俗と虚構－蕪村の場合における覚書－ Ga/Zoku and Fiction: Notes on the Case of Buson

揖斐高 Ibi Takashi

雅と俗－物語史・小説史の視点から Ga and zoku viewed in the Historical Context of Shōsetsu and Monogatari

木越治 Kigoshi Osamu

Sei Shōnagon the essay / ese-ist: delineating differences in Makura no sōshi

Naomi Fukumori

Ga-zoku and verbal-visual dynamics in the picture contest chapter of The Tale of Genji

Fumiko T. Togasaki

Religious boundaries in aesthetic domains: the formation of a Buddhist category (shakkyō-ka) in the imperial poetry anthologies

Stephen D. Miller

Komachi at the crossroads: elements of popular female performance in two nō plays

Sarah M. Strong

Recreating the legend of Ono no Komachi: Enchi Fumiko’s Komachi Hensō

Eileen B. Mikals-Adachi

Ōkuma Kotomichi and the re-visioning of Kokinshū elegance

Roger K. Thomas

The emperor’s old clothes: classical narratives in early modern Japan

Lawrence E. Marceau

Highbrow / lowbrow: the aristocratic and the common in early Edo arts

Elizabeth Lillehoj

Ga/zoku as riddle: the Ogura Nazorae Hyakunin Isshu

Joshua S. Mostow

Broken rings and broken brushes: the broken dreams of a modern Murasaki

Rebecca L. Copeland

Women politicians authoring their own lives

Sally A. Hastings

The play of the ear in the novels of Uno Kōji

Elaine Gerbert

Junbungaku goes to the movies: Akutagawa Ryūnosuke and katsudō shashin

Carole Cavanaugh

Another travel of a genre: Kajin no kigū as an intersection of the political novel of the West and the tradition of kanshibun

Atsuko Sakaki

Televisual retrofutures and the body of insomnia: visuality and virtual realities in the short fiction of Murakami Haruki

Livia Monnet

Ga / zoku: magical realism in Ōe Kenzaburō’s Moeagaru midori no ki (The Flaming Green Tree)

Yoshiko Yokochi Samuel

Shōjo minds in the gutter: reading the Genji manga

Margaret Key

The commodification of sentiment: a veneer of ga, but zoku at heart

Sara Langer

The dynamics of metaphor in Suzuki Harunobu

Aiko Okamoto-MacPhail

Back matter for PMAJLS 3: Ga/Zoku Dynamics in Japanese Literature

Eiji Sekine