Book Reviews
Enigma of the Emperors: Sacred Subservience in Japanese History. By Ben-Ami Shillony. Stephen S. Large 105 [End Page 594]
Written Texts-Visual Texts: Woodblock-Printed Media in Early Modern Japan. Edited by Susanne Formanek and Sepp Linhart. Marcia Yonemoto 107
Geographies of Identity in Nineteenth-Century Japan. By David L. Howell. Bruce L. Batten 112
Burning and Building: Schooling and State Formation in Japan, 1750-1890. By Brian Platt. David R. Ambaras 115
Musashino in Tuscany: Japanese Overseas Travel Literature, 1860-1912. By Susanna Fessler. Martin Collcutt 117
Rearranging the Landscape of the Gods: The Politics of a Pilgrimage Site in Japan, 1573-1912. By Sarah Thal. Nathalie Kouamé 120
Making Pilgrimages: Meaning and Practice in Shikoku. By Ian Reader. Mark Macwilliams 123
Language and Society in Japan. By Nanette Gottlieb. Patricia Wetzel 126
Ambassadors from the Islands of Immortals: China Japan Relations in the Han-Tang Period. By Zhenping Wang. Charlotte Von Verschuer 251
Negotiating with Imperialism: The Unequal Treaties and the Culture of Japanese Diplomacy. By Michael R. Auslin. M. William Steele 254
Rural Economic Development in Japan: From the Nineteenth Century to the Pacific War. By Penelope Francks. Kerry Smith 257
Geisha, Harlot, Strangler, Star: A Woman, Sex, and Morality in Modern Japan. By William Johnston. Valerie L. Durham 260
The Thought War: Japanese Imperial Propaganda. By Barak Kushner.
Letters from an Autumn of Emergencies: Selections from the Wartime Diaries of Ordinary Japanese. By Samuel Hideo Yamashita.
In the Faraway Mountains and Rivers: More Voices From a Lost Generation of Japanese Students. Translated by Joseph L. Quinn, S.J., and Midori Yamanouchi. Ben-Ami Shillony 264 [End Page 595]
Takeuchi Yoshimi: Displacing the West. By Richard F. Calichman.
What is Modernity? Writings of Takeuchi Yoshimi. Edited, translated, and with an introduction by Richard F. Calichman. Sebastian Conrad 269
Sacred Rites in Moonlight: Ben no Naishi Nikki. By S. Yumiko Hulvey. Christina Laffin 272
Murōji: Rearranging Art and History at a Japanese Buddhist Temple. By Sherry Fowler. Samuel C. Morse 275
Law in Everyday Japan: Sex, Sumo, Suicide, and Statutes. By Mark D. West. Robin M. Le Blanc 278
Le riz dans la culture de Heian, mythe et réalité. By Charlotte von Verschuer. Robert Borgen 407
Capital and Countryside in Japan, 300-1180: Japanese Historians Interpreted in English. Edited by Joan R. Piggott. William Wayne Farris 409
The Japanese Mission to Europe, 1582-1590: The Journey of Four Samurai Boys Through Portugal, Spain and Italy. By Michael Cooper. Adriana Boscaro 412
The Development of the Japanese Nursing Profession: Adopting and Adapting Western Influences. By Aya Takahashi. Sally A. Hastings 416
Isami's House: Three Centuries of a Japanese Family. By Gail Lee Bernstein. Brian W. Platt 418
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