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. [End Page 2] 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 [End Page 3]
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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