Index

Not Just Words: Shogunal Politics and the Daijōsai in Mori Ōgai's "Saigo no ikku" DORIS G. BARGEN 1

Literary Accounts of the Decline of Senba RICHARD TORRANCE 29

Holy Waifs! Sages Adrift in Mori Makiko's Yellow Harlot Collection MARYELLEN TOMAN MORI 75

Cultural Nationalism in Japanese Neo-New Religions: A Comparative Study of Mahikari and Kōfuku no Kagaku TSUKADA HOTAKA 133

Gendering the Court Woman Poet: Pedigree and Portrayal in Fukuro zōshi ROSELEE BUNDY 201

Conflating Monastic and Imperial Lineage: The Retired Emperors' Period Reformulated MIKAEL BAUER 239

The Dōshu: Clerics at Work in Early Medieval Japanese Monasteries MIKAEL S. ADOLPHSON 263

(The Other) Yoshida Shigeru and the Expansion of Bureaucratic Power in Prewar Japan ROGER H. BROWN 283

Book Reviews

A New History of Shinto. By John Breen and Mark Teeuwen.

Rethinking Medieval Shintō. Special issue of Cahiers d'Extrême-Asie (16). Edited by Bernard Faure, Michael Como, and Iyanaga Nobumi. KATE WILDMAN NAKAI 159

Performing/Painting in Tokugawa Japan: Artistic Practice and Socio-Economic Functions of Sekiga (Paintings on the Spot). By Alexander Hofmann. BRENDA G. JORDAN 164

The Female as Subject: Reading and Writing in Early Modern Japan. Edited by P. F. Kornicki, Mara Patessio, and G. G. Rowley. JANET R. GOODWIN 168

Cultivating Commons: Joint Ownership of Arable Land in Early Modern Japan. By Philip C. Brown. ANNE WALTHALL 170

Food and Fantasy in Early Modern Japan. By Eric C. Rath.

Japanese Foodways: Past and Present. Edited by Eric C. Rath and Stephanie Assmann. CONSTANTINE NOMIKOS VAPORIS 173

A Malleable Map: Geographies of Restoration in Central Japan, 1600-1912. By Kären Wigen. MARCIA YONEMOTO 178

Ordinary Economies in Japan: A Historical Perspective, 1750-1950. By Tetsuo Najita. MARK METZLER 182

Under Eagle Eyes: Lithographs, Drawings and Photographs from the Prussian Expedition to Japan, 1860-61. Edited by Sebastian Dobson and Sven Saaler. DEREK MASSARELLA 184

Embodying Difference: The Making of Burakumin in Modern Japan. By Timothy D. Amos. IAN NEARY 187

Negotiating Identity: Nakagami Kenji's Kiseki and the Power of the Tale. By Anne Helene Thelle.

Nakagami, Japan: Buraku and the Writing of Ethnicity. By Anne McKnight. RACHAEL HUTCHINSON 189

Japan im Pazifischen Krieg: Herrschaftssystem, politische Willensbildung und Friedenssuche. By Gerhard Krebs. PETER PANTZER 193

Xavier's Legacies: Catholicism in Modern Japanese Culture. Edited by Kevin M. Doak. HELEN J. BALLHATCHET 196

Tosa Mitsunobu and the Small Scroll in Medieval Japan. By Melissa McCormick. MASAHIKO AIZAWA 329

Confluences of Medicine in Medieval Japan: Buddhist Healing, Chinese Knowledge, Islamic Formulas, and Wounds of War. By Andrew Edmund Goble. FREDERIK CRYNS 334

The Observable Mundane: Vernacular Chinese and the Emergence of a Literary Discourse on Popular Narrative in Edo Japan. By Emanuel Pastreich. PETER FLUECKIGER 338

Defining Engagement: Japan and Global Contexts, 1640-1868. By Robert I. Hellyer. RYŪTŌ SHIMADA 341

Pan-Asianism: A Documentary History, Volume 1 (1850-1920) and Volume 2 (1920-Present). Edited by Sven Saaler and Christopher W. A. Szpilman. DICK STEGEWERNS 343

Planning for Empire: Reform Bureaucrats and the Japanese Wartime State. By Janis Mimura. CHRISTOPHER W. A. SZPILMAN 348

Celebrity Gods: New Religions, Media, and Authority in Occupied Japan. By Benjamin Dorman. INKEN PROHL 352

Bonds of the Dead: Temples, Burial, and the Transformation of Contemporary Japanese Buddhism. By Mark Michael Rowe. IKEGAMI YOSHIMASA 355

Bringing Zen Home: The Healing Heart of Japanese Women's Rituals. By Paula Arai. GINA COGAN 361

Japanese Philosophy: A Sourcebook. Edited by James W. Heisig, Thomas P. Kasulis, and John C. Maraldo. UEHARA MAYUKO 364

Since Meiji: Perspectives on the Japanese Visual Arts, 1868-2000. Edited by J. Thomas Rimer. TOBY SLADE 366

Experimental Arts in Postwar Japan: Moments of Encounter, Engagement, and Imagined Return. By Miryam Sas. BRUCE BAIRD 369

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