Index to Volume 63

The Inflatable, Collapsible Kingdom of Retribution: A Primer on Japanese Hell Imagery and Imagination CAROLINE HIRASAWA 1 Whose Fuji? Religion, Region, and State in the Fight for a National Symbol ANDREW BERNSTEIN 51 Seeking the Strange: Ryôki and the Navigation of Normality in Interwar Japan JEFFREY ANGLES 101 Reading a Heian Blog: A New Translation of Makura no Sôshi MACHIKO MIDORIKAWA 143 SEVENTIETH ANNIVERSARY MESSAGE Reflections on the Meaning of Our Country: Kamo no Mabuchi’s Kokuikô PETER FLUECKIGER 211 Interview with Two Ladies of the Ôoku: A Translation from Kyûji Shimonroku ANNA BEERENS 265 Literature as Life-Form: Media and Modernism in the Literary Theory of Ôkuma Nobuyuki WILLIAM O. GARDNER 325 Graphically Speaking: Manga Versions of The Tale of Genji LYNNE K. MIYAKE 359 BOOK REVIEWS Rulers, Peasants and the Use of the Written Word in Medieval Japan: Ategawa no shô 1004–1304. By Judith Fröhlich. THOMAS CONLAN 161 Fertility and Pleasure: Ritual and Sexual Values in Tokugawa Japan. By William R. Lindsey. AMY STANLEY 164 Japan’s Imperial Forest, Goryôrin, 1889–1946: With a Supporting Study of the Kan/Min Division of Woodland in Early Meiji Japan, 1871–76. By Conrad Totman. DAVID HOWELL 167 Modern Passings: Death Rites, Politics, and Social Change in Imperial Japan. By Andrew Bernstein. JOHN BREEN 169 Neubeginn unter US-amerikanischer Besatzung? Hochschulreform in Japan zwischen Kontinuität und Diskontinuität 1919–1952. By Hans Martin Krämer. HARALD FUESS 172 Japanese Temple Buddhism: Worldliness in a Religion of Renunciation. By Stephen G. Covell. MARK BLUM 174 Buddhismus, Geschlechterverhältnis und Diskriminierung: Die gegenwärtige Diskussion im Shin-Buddhismus Japans. By Simone Heidegger. JOSEPH S. O’LEARY 178 Traditional Japanese Literature. Edited by Haruo Shirane. ROBERT N. HUEY 181 Secrecy in Japanese Arts: “Secret Transmission” as a Mode of Knowledge. By Maki Morinaga. SUSAN BLAKELEY KLEIN 184 Bashô and the Dao: The Zhuangzi and the Transformation of Haikai. By Peipei Qiu. LAWRENCE E. MARCEAU 190 Haikai Poet Yosa Buson and the Bashô Revival. By Cheryl A. Crowley. ROGER K. THOMAS 193 The Modern Murasaki: Writing by Women of Meiji Japan. Edited by Rebecca Copeland and Melek Ortabasi. REIKO ABE AUESTAD 196 Daitokuji: The Visual Cultures of a Zen Monastery. By Gregory P. A. Levine. YUKIO LIPPIT 198 Radicals and Realists in the Japanese Nonverbal Arts: The Avant-Garde Rejection of Modernism. By Thomas R. H. Havens. WILLIAM O. GARDNER 203 The Aesthetics of Quietude: Ôta Shôgo and the Theatre of Divestiture. By Mari Boyd. BRIAN POWELL 206 Modern Japanese Cuisine: Food, Power and National Identity. By Katarzyna J. Cwiertka. JAMES FARRER 208 State Formation in Japan: Emergence of a 4th-century Ruling Elite. By Gina Barnes. WALTER EDWARDS 393 La cour et l’administration du Japon à l’époque de Heian. By Francine Hérail. CHARLOTTE VON VERSCHUER 396 Heian Japan, Centers and Peripheries. Edited by Mikael Adolphson, Edward Kamens, and Stacie Matsumoto. THOMAS KEIRSTEAD 400 The Teeth and Claws of the Buddha: Monastic Warriors and Sôhei in Japanese History. By Mikael S. Adolphson. D. MAX MOERMAN 402 Buddhist Materiality: A Cultural History of Objects in Japanese Buddhism. By Fabio Rambelli. HANK GLASSMAN 405 Householders: The Reizei Family in Japanese History. By Steven D. Carter. ROSELEE BUNDY 408 Revealed Identity: The Noh Plays of Komparu Zenchiku. By Paul S. Atkins. RICHARD A. GARDNER 411 Emplacing a Pilgrimage: The Ôyama Cult and Regional Religion in Early Modern Japan. By Barbara Ambros. LAURA NENZI 414 Utamaro and the Spectacle of Beauty. By Julie Nelson Davis. ALLEN HOCKLEY 417 The Age of Visions and Arguments: Parliamentarianism and the National Public Sphere in Early Meiji Japan. By Kyu Hyun Kim. NEIL L. WATERS 419 Technology and the Culture of Progress in Meiji Japan. By David G. Wittner. STEVEN ERICSON 423 Yamaji Aizan and His Time: Nationalism and Debating Japanese History. By Yushi Ito. GRAHAM SQUIRES 425 Petitessen, Pretiosen: Die Prosaminiatur in Japan um 1910. By Agnes Fink-von Hoff. JANET A. WALKER 428 From Foot Soldier to Finance Minister: Takahashi Korekiyo, Japan’s Keynes. By Richard J. Smethurst. JAMES BAXTER 431 Erotic, Grotesque, Nonsense: The Mass Culture of Japanese Modern Times. By Miriam Silverberg. JEFFREY ANGLES 434 Kingdom...