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  • Monumenta Nipponica Studies in Japanese Culture:Volume 66 Numbers 1-2
    2011
    Index

Published by Sophia University, Tokyo

Zaō Gongen: From Mountain Icon to National Treasure HEATHER BLAIR 1
Oguri: An Early Edo Tale of Suffering, Resurrection, Revenge, and Deification SUSAN MATISOFF 49
King Willem II's 1844 Letter to the Shogun: "Recommendation to Open the Country" MATSUKATA FUYUKO 99
The End of the "World": Tsuruya Nanboku IV's Female Ghosts and Late-Tokugawa Kabuki SATOKO SHIMAZAKI 209
The Last Word? Akutagawa Ryunosuke's "The Man from the West" KEVIN M. DOAK 247
"The Man from the West" and "The Man from the West: The Sequel" KEVIN M. DOAK AND J. SCOTT MATTHEWS 257
Japan's "Nationality Clause" and the Changing Dynamics of Center-Local Politics KATE DUNLOP 281

Review Articles

"State Shinto" in Recent Japanese Scholarship KUYAMA MICHIAKI 123
Fascist Moments: New Research on Twentieth-Century Japanese Aesthetics and Ideology IRMELA HIJIYA-KIRSCHNEREIT 319

Book Reviews

With a Single Glance: Buddhist Icon and Early Mikkyō Vision. By Cynthea J. Bogel. RICHARD BOWRING 147
Hokkeji and the Reemergence of Female Monastic Orders in Premodern Japan. By Lori Meeks. MIRIAM LEVERING 150
War and State Building in Medieval Japan. Edited by John A. Ferejohn and Frances McCall Rosenbluth. BRUCE L. BATTEN 154
Imagining Harmony: Poetry, Empathy, and Community in Mid-Tokugawa Confucianism and Nativism. By Peter Flueckiger. PETER NOSCO 156
Japan's Frames of Meaning: A Hermeneutics Reader. By Michael F. Marra. JOSEPH S. O'LEARY 159
Visual Genesis of Japanese National Identity:Hokusai's Hyakunin Isshu. By Ewa Machotka. JOHN CARPENTER 161 [End Page 2]
American Missionaries, Christian Oyatoi, and Japan 1859-73. By Hamish Ion. M. WILLIAM STEELE 165
Articulating the Sinosphere: Sino-Japanese Relations in Space and Time. By Joshua A. Fogel.
China and Japan in the Late Meiji Period: China Policy and the Japanese Discourse on National Identity, 1895-1904. By Urs Matthias Zachmann. ROBERT ESKILDSEN 168
Absolute Erotic, Absolute Grotesque: The Living, Dead, and Undead in Japan's Imperialism, 1895-1945. By Mark Driscoll. ALEXIS DUDDEN 173
Imperial Japan at Its Zenith: The Wartime Celebration of the Empire's 2,600th Anniversary. By Kenneth J. Ruoff. ROGER H. BROWN 176
Japanese Society at War: Death, Memory and the Russo-Japanese War. By Naoko Shimazu. SVEN SAALER 180
Visions of Japanese Modernity: Articulations of Cinema, Nation, and Spectatorship, 1895-1925. By Aaron Gerow. HARALD SALOMON 184
Screening Enlightenment: Hollywood and the Cultural Reconstruction of Defeated Japan. By Hiroshi Kitamura. DEBORAH SHAMOON 188
The Ideology of Kokugo: Nationalizing Language in Modern Japan. By Lee Yeounsuk. ATSUKO UEDA 191
Postwar History Education in Japan and the Germanys: Guilty Lessons. By Julian Dierkes. PHILIP SEATON 195
Making Japanese Citizens: Civil Society and the Mythology of the Shimin in Postwar Japan. By Simon Andrew Avenell. GABRIELE VOGT 198
The Other Women's Lib: Gender and Body in Japanese Women's Fiction. By Julia C. Bullock. JOAN E. ERICSON 201
The Anime Machine: A Media Theory of Animation. By Thomas Lamarre. Shion Kono 205
Japanese Mythology: Hermeneutics on Scripture. By Jun'ichi Isomae. Translated by Mukund Subramanian. TORQUIL DUTHIE 335 [End Page 3]
Legend and Legitimation: The Formation of Tendai Esoteric Buddhism in Japan. By Jinhua Chen. JAMES L. FORD 338
Kūkai on the Philosophy of Language. By Shingen Takagi and Thomas Eijō Dreitlein. ERIC H. SWANSON 341
Christianity and Cultures: Japan & China in Comparison, 1543-1644. Edited by M. Antoni J. Üçerler, S.J. HARUKO NAWATA WARD 344
Economic Thought in Early Modern Japan. Edited by Bettina Gramlich-Oka and Gregory Smits. JEFFREY NEWMARK 349
Women and Public Life in Early Meiji Japan:The Development of the Feminist Movement. By Mara Patessio. EMILY ANDERSON 352
Reforming Japan: The Women's Christian Temperance Union in the Meiji Period. By Elizabeth Dorn Lublin. YOSUKE...

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