Table Of ContentMONUMENTA
NIPPONICA
STUDIES IN JAPANESE CULTURE
2007
INDEX
PUBLISHED BY
SOPHIA UNIVERSITY, TOKYO
A History of Domy6ji to 1572 (or Maybe 1575):
An Attempted Reconstruction ROBERT BORGEN
A Plan for Tasks at Hand:
Aizawa Seishisai’s Jimusaku DONALD KEENE
Sendai Kuji Hongi:
Authentic Myths or Forged History? MARK TEEUWEN
New Books for Old P. F. KORNICKI
Female Readers and Early Heian Romances:
The Hakubyo Tales of Ise Illustrated
Scroll Fragments JOSHUA S. Mostow
Peasants into Citizens?
The Meiji Village in the Russo-Japanese War SIMON PARTNER
Perspectives on “Scenes of the Capital” SATO Y ASUHIRO
Ashikaga Yoshimitsu’s Foreign Policy 1398 to 1408 A.D.:
A Translation from Zenrin Kokuhoki, the Cambridge
Manuscript CHARLOTTE VON VERSCHUER
Shaka no Honiji: Preaching, Intertextuality, and
Popular Hagiography HANK GLASSMAN
Positioning the Observer: Interrogations of Alterity in
Nagai Kafii’s Amerika Monogatari RACHAEL HUTCHINSON
Mobius Strip: Instances of Cultural Translation between
China, Japan, and the “West” IRMELA HiJIYA-KIRSCHNEREIT
Pieces in a Puzzle: Changing Approaches to the Shdsdin
Documents W. WAYNE FARRIS
Creating Bodhisattvas: Eison, Hinin, and
the “Living Manjusri” DAVID QUINTER
“Account of the Origin of the Hannyaji Mafjusri”
and “Votive Text for the Construction of the
Hannyaji ManjuSri Bodhisattva Statue,” by Eison DAVID QUINTER
ADDENDUM TO VOL. 62:2
Joshua S. Mostow, “Female Readers and Early Heian Romances:
The Hakubyo Tales of Ise Illustrated Scroll Fragments”
BOOK REVIEWS
Japan’s Medieval Population: Famine, Fertility, and
Warfare in a Transformative Age.
By William Wayne Farris. BRUCE L. BATTEN
The Dog Shogun: The Personality and Policies of
Tokugawa Tsunayoshi.
By Beatrice M. Bodart-Bailey. ANNE WALTHALL
A Reader in Edo Period Travel.
By Herbert Plutschow. LAURA NENZI
JAPANimals: History and Culture in Japan’s Animal
Life. Edited by Gregory M. Pflugfelder and
Brett L. Walker. HANS MARTIN KRAMER
Gendering Modern Japanese History. Edited by
Barbara Moloney and Kathleen Uno. ANNE E. IMAMURA
Kamikaze Diaries: Reflections of Japanese Student
Soldiers. By Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney. BARAK KUSHNER
Localizing Paradise: Kumano Pilgrimage and
the Religious Landscape of Premodern Japan.
By D. Max Moerman. IyYANAGA NOBUMI
Woman Critiqued: Translated Essays on Japanese :
Women’s Writing. Edited by Rebecca Copeland. JubDIT AROKAY
Representing the Other in Modern Japanese Literature:
A Critical Approach. Edited by Rachael Hutchinson
and Mark Williams. JOSEPH S. O’LEARY
Friends, Acquaintances, Pupils, and Patrons—Japanese
Intellectual Life in the Late Eighteenth Century:
A Prosopographical Approach. By Anna Beerens. GREGORY SMITS
Punishment and Power in the Making of Modern Japan.
By Daniel V. Botsman. SUSAN L. BURNS
Earthquake Nation: The Cultural Politics of Japanese
Seismicity, 1868-1930.
By Gregory Clancey. J. CHARLES SCHENCKING
Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of
Japan. By Tsuyoshi Hasegawa.
The End of the Pacific War: Reappraisals.
Edited by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa. ANNO TADASHI
War Memory and Social Politics in Japan, 1945-2005.
By Franziska Seraphim. SEBASTIAN CONRAD
Manga from the Floating World: Comicbook Culture
and the Kibyéshi of Edo Japan.
By Adam L. Kern. STEPHAN KOHN
In the Company of Men: Representations of Male-Male
Sexuality in Meiji Literature.
By Jim Reichert. PAUL GORDON SCHALOW
Abe Kobo, Literary Strategist: The Evolution of His
Agenda and Rhetoric in the Context of Postwar
Japanese Avant-garde and Communist Artists’
Movements. By Thomas Schnellbacher. JAMES DORSEY
The Fox’s Craft in Japanese Religion and Folklore:
Shapeshifters, Transformations, and Duplicities.
By Michael Bathgate. JANET GOFF
Explaining Pictures: Buddhist Propaganda and Etoki
Storytelling in Japan. By kumi Kaminishi. |C AROLINE HIRASAWA
Handmade Culture: Raku Potters, Patrons, and Tea
Practitioners in Japan. By Morgan Pitelka. RICHARD L. WILSON
Understanding Humor in Japan.
Edited by Jessica Milner Davis. RICHARD GARDNER
Millennial Monsters. By Anne Allison. JAMES FARRER
Vicarious Language: Gender and Linguistic Modernity
in Japan. By Miyako Inoue.
A Cultural History of Women’s Language.
By Endo Orie. NANETTE GOTTLIEB
Selling Songs and Smiles: The Sex Trade in Heian and
Kamakura Japan. By Janet R. Goodwin. | R. KELLER KIMBROUGH
Thinking Like a Man: Tadano Makuzu (1763-1825).
By Bettina Gramlich-Oka. MARCIA YONEMOTO
Japan’s Modern Prophet: Uchimura Kanzo, 1861-1930.
By John F. Howes. JAMES L. HUFFMAN
In the Beginning, Woman Was the Sun:
The Autobiography of a Japanese Feminist.
By Hiratsuka Raicho. Translated, with an
introduction and notes, by Teruko Craig. G. G. ROWLEY
Bad Youth: Juvenile Delinquency and the Politics of
Everyday Life in Modern Japan.
By David R. Ambaras. SIMON PARTNER
A Poetics of Courtly Male Friendship in Heian Japan.
By Paul Gordon Schalow. MARGARET H. CHILDS
The Poetics of Motoori Norinaga: A Hermeneutical Journey.
Translated and edited by Michael F. Marra. W.J. Boot
The Uses of Memory: The Critique of Modernity in the
Fiction of Higuchi Ichiy6.
By Timothy J. Van Compernolle. ELAINE GERBERT
Suicidal Honor: General Nogi and the Writings of Mori
Ogai and Natsume Séseki. By Doris G. Bargen. STEPHEN DoDD
Spirit Matters: The Transcendent in Modern Japanese
Literature. By Philip Gabriel. THOMAS SCHNELLBACHER
Discourse and Ideology in Medieval Japanese Buddhism.
Edited by Richard K. Payne and Taigen Dan Leighton.
Did Dégen Go to China?: What He Wrote and When He
Wrote It. By Steven Heine. JOSEPH S. O’LEARY
Iron Eyes: The Life and Teachings of Obaku Zen Master
Tetsugen Doko. By Helen J. Baroni. RICHARD BOWRING
Musikalische Impressionen aus Japan 1941-1957.
By Eta Harich-Schneider. Edited, with an introduction and
commentaries, by Ingrid Fritsch. MARGARET MEHL
Gateway to Japan: Hakata in War and Peace,
500-1300. By Bruce L. Batten. CHARLOTTE VON VERSCHUER
War and Faith: Ikk6 Ikki in Late Muromachi Japan.
By Carol Richmond Tsang. J. P. LAMERS
Popular Literacy in Early Modern Japan.
By Richard Rubinger. LUKE ROBERTS
The Intra-Asian Trade in Japanese Copper by the Dutch
East India Company during the Eighteenth Century.
By Ryuto Shimada. BETTINA GRAMLICH-OKA
Images des Occidentaux dans le Japon de |’ ére Meiji.
By Hartmut O. Rotermund. SHION KONO
Nationalisms in Japan. By Naoko Shimazu. KOICHI NAKANO
A History of Nationalism in Modern Japan: Placing
the People. By Kevin M. Doak. Y OSHIHISA TAK MATSUSAKA
From Mahan to Pearl Harbor: The Imperial Japanese
Navy and the United States.
By Sadao Asada. KATHRYN RAGSDALE
From Marco Polo Bridge to Pearl Harbor: Who Was
Responsible? Edited by James E. Auer. J. VICTOR KOSCHMANN
Objects of Discourse: Memoirs by Women of Heian
Japan. By John R. Wallace. ROBERT O. KHAN
Love After The Tale of Genji: Rewriting the World of the
Shining Prince. By Charo B. D’Etcheverry. AILEEN GATTEN
Sirens of the Western Shore: The Westernesque Femme
Fatale, Translation, and Vernacular Style in Modern
Japanese Literature. By Indra Levy. NANETTE GOTTLIEB
Asura’s Harp: Engagement with Language as Buddhist
Path. By Dennis Hirota. GEORGE TANABE
Rennyo and the Roots of Modern Japanese Buddhism.
Edited by Mark L. Blum and
Shin’y a Yasutomi. CAROL RICHMOND TSANG 517
Zen Sanctuary of Purple Robes: Japan’s Tokeiji Convent
Since 1285. By Sachiko Kaneko Morrell and
Robert E. Morrell. DENNIS HirRoTA 519