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  • Index to volume 68

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Rewriting Murasaki: Vernacular Translation and the Reception of Genji Monogatari during the Tokugawa Period Rebekah Clements 1
Masamune Hakuchō Reads Genji: A Translation of “Genji Monogatari: Hon’yaku to Gensaku” Michael Emmerich 37
The Early History of the Noh Play: Literacy, Authorship, and Scriptedness Noel J. Pinnington 163
Commemorating Failure: The Four Hundredth Anniversary of England’s Trading Outpost in Japan Adam Clulow 207
Kanokogi Kazunobu: Pioneer of Platonic Fascism and Imperial Pan-Asianism Christopher W. A. Szpilman 233

Review Articles

Translating the Corpus of Ancient Japanese Law Herman Ooms 69
Of Allochthons and Alibis: Otherworldly Ideologies in Seventh- and Eighth-Century Japan David B. Lurie 79

Book Reviews

Realms of Literacy: Early Japan and the History of Writing. By David B. Lurie. John Timothy Wixted 89
Optical Allusions: Screens, Paintings, and Poetry in Classical Japan (ca. 800–1200).
By Joseph T. Sorensen.
Roselee Bundy 94
How Ajātaśatru Was Reformed: The Domestication of “Ajase” and Stories in Buddhist History.
By Michael Radich.
Thierry Jean Roboüam, S.J. 99
From Sovereign to Symbol: An Age of Ritual Determinism in Fourteenth-Century Japan.
By Thomas Donald Conlan.
Mikael S. Adolphson 101
Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons: Nature, Literature, and the Arts.
By Haruo Shirane.
Elizabeth Oyler 107
Mount Fuji: Icon of Japan.
By H. Byron Earhart.
Gaynor Sekimori 110
Im Wettstreit mit dem Westen: Japans Zeitalter der Ausstellungen 1854–1941.
By Daniel Hedinger.
Michael Facius 114
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Ainu Spirits Singing: The Living World of Chiri Yukie’s “Ainu Shin’yōshū.”
By Sarah M. Strong.
Gary L. Ebersole 119
Sex in Japan’s Globalization, 1870–1930: Prostitutes, Emigration and Nation-Building.
By Bill Mihalopoulos.
Barbara Molony 121
The People’s Post Office: The History and Politics of the Japanese Postal System, 1871–2010.
By Patricia L. Maclachlan.
Eiji Kawabata 125
Passionate Friendship: The Aesthetics of Girls’ Culture in Japan. By Deborah Shamoon. Noriko J. Horiguchi 128
Writing the Love of Boys: Origins of Bishōnen Culture in Modernist Japanese Literature.
By Jeffrey Angles.
Michele M. Mason 132
Women Adrift: The Literature of Japan’s Imperial Body.
By Noriko J. Horiguchi.
Rebecca Copeland 136
Maximum Embodiment: Yōga, The Western Painting of Japan, 1912–1955.
By Bert Winther-Tamaki.
Mikiko Hirayama 140
The Okinawan Diaspora in Japan: Crossing the Borders Within.
By Steve Rabson.
Christopher T. Nelson 144
Beyond the Mushroom Cloud: Commemoration, Religion, and Responsibility after Hiroshima.
By Yuki Miyamoto.
Joseph S. O’Leary 147
Occupying Power: Sex Workers and Servicemen in Postwar Japan. By Sara Kovner. Hamish Ion 150
The Other Face of the Moon.
By Claude Lévi-Strauss.
Anthropology Confronts the Problems of the Modern World.
By Claude Lévi-Strauss.
Scott Davis 154
Drawing on Tradition: Manga, Anime, and Religion in Contemporary Japan.
By Jolyon Baraka Thomas.
Mark MacWilliams 156
Traversing the Frontier: The Man’yōshū Account of a Japanese Mission to Silla in 736–737.
By H. Mack Horton.
Torquil Duthie 281
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The Face of Jizō: Image and Cult in Medieval Japanese Buddhism.
By Hank Glassman.
Susanne Formanek 284
Japoniæ Insvlæ: The Mapping of Japan; Historical Introduction and Cartobibliography of European Printed Maps of Japan to 1800.
By Jason C. Hubbard.
Bruce L. Batten 289
The Premise of Fidelity: Science, Visuality, and Representing the Real in Nineteenth-Century Japan.
By Maki Fukuoka.
Karen M. Fraser 293
Kokugaku in Meiji-period Japan: The Modern Transformation of ‘National Learning’ and the Formation of Scholarly Societies. By Michael Wachutka. Helen Hardacre 296
The Invention of Religion in Japan.
By Jason Ānanda Josephson.
A Discipline on Foot: Inventing Japanese Native Ethnography 1910–1945. By Alan Christy. Ian Reader 301
Reading Colonial Japan: Text, Context, and Critique.
Edited by Michele M. Mason and Helen J...

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