Foreword

Eiji Sekine

Reconsidering Tanizaki Jun’ichirō’s ‘Love and Eroticism’: Iro tradition and modern ren’ai in Japanese literary history

Saeki Junko

Confession and exposure: Nagasawa Mitsuo’s Adult Video Actresses and Japan’s male intellectual consciousness

Inaga Shigemi

Love and sexuality in Heian text: ‘productive’ and ‘non-productive’ sex

Saeko Kimura

Manufacturing desire: love in the ‘Tamakazura’ chapters

Lili Selden

The lover’s subject: its construction and relativization in the waka poetry of the Heian period

Rein Raud

Ren’ai: the politics of eros in the writing of Kitamura Tōkoku

Michael Brownstein

Sex and the lady translator in Meiji Japan or translation as a transsexual act

Rebecca Copeland

Love as literary construct: erotic tropes in the poetry of Akiko, Tekkan, and Tomiko

Leith Morton

Triangulating the voyeur or desire and the look

Jean Yamasaki Toyama

The years of living dangerously: life and love in Tanizaki’s fiction of 1928-30

Phyllis Lyons

The fusing of labor and love in Snow Country

Miho Matsugu

Laborers of love in Snow Country: the fantasy of capitalism

Heather Bowen-Struyk

Imperial textuality, imperial sexuality

Mark Driscoll

A dark princess from Thailand in Yukio Mishima’s The Temple of Dawn: the white male Japanese body and its abject other

Ryoko Otomo

The ideology of rebellion and ‘anti-social sex’ in Ōe and Ōshima

Craig Luchsinger

The body of postwar literature: Tamura Taijirō’s Nikutai bungaku

Doug Slaymaker

Penisism and the eternal hole: Takahashi Mutsuo’s Homeuta

Jeffrey Angles

Love and eros in the Christianity of Shūsaku Endō

Takao Hagiwara

A mother’s love: Kishimo and the re-writing of myth

Charlotte Eubanks

Man-eaters: women writers and the appropriation of the Yamauba motif

Yumiko Hulvey

The mother, the daughter, and the sexed body, in Enchi Fumiko’s ‘Fuyu momiji’

Barbara Hartley

A golden needle, a rabbit’s tail, and the density of female body fat: an analysis of Murō Saisei’s metaphors for Enchi Fumiko’s writing libido

Catherine Ryu

A game of sexuality: Kinugasa Teinosuke’s film, Gate of Hell (1953)

Tamae Prindle

Tracing the body of the question mark: Kanai Mieko’s Ai Aru Kagiri

Mary Knighton

‘Curling up tight’: Tsushima Yūko finds the Shōjo

Eve Zimmerman

Sisters and lovers: women magazine readers and sexuality in Yoshiya Nobuko’s romance fiction

Sarah Frederick

Broken pasts, uncomfortable presents: tales of Yū Miri and ‘comfort women’

Melissa Wender

Female gender and father’s abuse: on the construction of femininity in contemporary Japanese women’s writings

Takayuki Yokota-Murakami

What’s happening to sexuality?: corporeal sensations in Matsuura Rieko’s Oyayubi P no shugyōjidai

Shigemi Nakagawa