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· vii · Acknowledgments This book could not have been signed, sealed, and delivered without the kind dispatches of many friends and colleagues. Most of this research was conducted under a Japan Foundation grant and further study under Komori Yōichi’s direction at Komaba, Tokyo University . Very little of the infrastructure of the project could have been done without the inroads through scholarship and bureaucracy and the camaraderie that Professor Komori made possible. I thank Brian Bergstrom, Trane Devore, Jonathan Hall, Sharon Hayashi, Chika Kinoshita, Wakako Miyakuni, and Yumna Siddiqi for care, feeding , collaboration, and materials as the manuscript grew into its shape. For feedback at key junctures, I am grateful to William H. Bridges IV, Sunyoung Park, and Christophe Thouny. Two reviewers for the Journal of Japanese Studies gave astute and useful suggestions. Kitahara Megumi filled in many contexts between library and life when I lived in Tokyo. Ono Masatsugu enlivened Nakagami’s works with his tutorials and kept them in tune with current fiction from all over. Jonathan Sterne, Carolina González, and Ramzi Rouighi provided sources and concepts that would have never occurred to me but were exactly right. Nakagawa Shigemi and his community of students facilitated a year of research at Ritsumeikan, under the auspices of a postdoctoral fellowship from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. At McGill, my colleagues made it possible to think generatively and on all cylinders. Since coming to the University of Southern California, David Bialock and Akira Lippit have been unflappably supportive colleagues in word and deed. Alan Tansman has been a model advisor, even after the official fact; he, along with David Roman and Katō Yūji, provided venues for circulating these ideas. Nate Heneghan and Rika Hiro helped make the prose and translations far more hospitable . John Tallmadge deserves many thanks for guidance with the editorial viii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS architecture of it all. Rositsa Mutafchieva generously shared her own work and introductions. Finally, I thank my mother, Lola, and brother Gregory for their support and sustenance, both literal and figural, for all this time. ...

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