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Japan

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Samurai with Telephones

Anachronism in Japanese Literature

By Christopher Smith
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Literary Studies, Asian Literature
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

What anachronisms reveal about historical narratives through Early Modern and Modern Japanese cultural products

How Dark Is My Flower

Yosano Akiko and the Invention of Romantic Love

By Leith Morton
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Literary Studies, Modern Literature, Asian Literature
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Explores romantic love in modern Japanese literature through the work of the leading poet in the Myōjō circle

The Three Treasures

A Revised and Illustrated Study and Translation of Minamoto no Tamenori's Sanboe

By Edward Kamens & Ethan Bushelle
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Literary Studies, Asian Literature
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

An updated, augmented, and illustrated study and translation of this landmark collection of Buddhist tales

Yosano Akiko and The Tale of Genji

Revised Edition

By Gaye Rowley
Subjects: Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, Biography, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

A major contribution to the study of an important Japanese woman writer and a masterwork of reader reception studies

Queer Subjects in Modern Japanese Literature

Male Love, Intimacy, and Erotics, 1886–2014

Edited by Stephen D. Miller
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Gender Studies, Gay and Lesbian Studies, Literary Studies, Asian Literature
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Touching the Unreachable

Writing, Skinship, Modern Japan

By Fusako Innami
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Literary Studies, Cultural Studies
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

How can one construct relationality with the other through the skin, when touch is inevitably mediated by memories of previous contact, accumulated sensations, and interstitial space?

The Buddhist Poetry of the Great Kamo Priestess

Daisaiin Senshi and Hosshin Wakashu

By Edward Kamens
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, Religion
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Provides new translations and sensitive readings of the devotional Buddhist poems of Senshi, the Great Kamo Priestess of the Heian period

Black Eggs

Poems by Kurihara Sadako

By Sadako Kurihara
Translated by Richard Minear
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

The poetic voice of one of Japan’s greatest 20th-century poets

The Wild Goose

By Ogai Mori & Ogai Mori
Translated by Burton Watson
Subjects: Fiction, Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

A recreation of Tokyo in the 1880s by one of Japan’s most influential novelists

Tales of Times Now Past

Sixty-Two Stories from a Medieval Japanese Collection

By Marian Ury
Subjects: Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Fiction, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Classics in Japanese Studies

Sukeroku’s Double Identity

The Dramatic Structure of Edo Kabuki

Edited by Barbara Thornbury
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature
Series: Michigan Papers in Japanese Studies

A study of traditional Edo kabuki through the play Sukeroku.

Playing in the Shadows

Fictions of Race and Blackness in Postwar Japanese Literature

By William H. Bridges
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, African American Studies, Literary Studies
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

How do encounters with black literature, music, culture, and thinking invite postwar Japanese authors to re-envision the relationship between race and literature in the wake of world war?

Gendered Power

Educated Women of the Meiji Empress' Court

By Mamiko Suzuki
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Literary Studies, Asian Literature
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Examines the contributions of three powerful Meiji women and how their own education and ideas about Japanese women’s potential shaped how females were to participate in modern society

Beyond the Gender Gap in Japan

By Gill Steel
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Political Science, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, Asian Literature
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Gives critical attention to the issue of Japan’s low level of gender equality and the conflicting information from surveys of women reporting a high sense of well-being

Textures of Mourning

Calligraphy, Mortality, and The Tale of Genji Scrolls

By Reginald Jackson
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Cultural Studies, Theater and Performance, Gender Studies
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Unfolds the intimate relationship between mourning, writing, reading, painting, and viewing, through The Tale of Genji and its legacy

On the Bullet Train with Emily Brontë

Wuthering Heights in Japan

By Judith Pascoe
Subjects: Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures, Asian Literature, Asian Studies, Japan

Reveals how and why Brontë’s novel won a huge following in Japan and has been reimagined by writers and manga artists

 

Remembering Tanizaki Jun’ichiro and Matsuko

Diary Entries, Interview Notes, and Letters, 1954-1989

By Anthony Chambers
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Biography, Memoir
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

An essential companion for Tanizaki scholars and aficionados alike, providing a glimpse of the man from those closest to him

Childhood Years

A Memoir

By Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Memoir
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Set against the modernization of Japan, this memoir offers a moving look at famed novelist Tanizaki' Jun'ichirō’s early years

 

The Gourmet Club

A Sextet

By Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
Translated by Anthony Chambers & Paul McCarthy
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, 20th Century Literature
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Six short stories by Tanizaki Jun'ichiro (1886–1965), capturing the breadth of his literary oeuvre

Red Roofs and Other Stories

By Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
Translated by Paul McCarthy & Anthony Chambers
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, 20th Century Literature
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Four short stories by master storyteller, Tanizaki Jun'ichiro, newly translated into English

Conquering Demons

The “Kirishitan,” Japan, and the World in Early Modern Japanese Literature

By Jan C. Leuchtenberger
Subjects: Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Examines the origins and influence of three popular anti-Kirishitan (anti-Christian) works from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

The Female as Subject

Reading and Writing in Early Modern Japan

Edited by P.F. Kornicki, Mara Patessio, G. Rowley, and Gaye Rowley
Subjects: Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Reveals the rich and lively world of literate women in Japan from 1600 through the early 20th century

Takebe Ayatari

A Bunjin Bohemian in Early Modern Japan

By Lawrence Marceau
Subjects: Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, Art, Photography, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

A multi-faceted look at the life and milieu of a mid-eighteenth-century aesthete

Confluences

Postwar Japan and France

Edited by Doug Slaymaker
Subjects: Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Explores the relationship between Japan and France and the development of postwar national and individual identities

Transformations of Sensibility

The Phenomenology of Meiji Literature

By Hideo Kamei
Edited by Michael K. Bourdaghs
Subjects: Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

The first English translation of a monumental literary history of Japan

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