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  1. Shifting Perspectives on the Shogunate’s Last Years: Gountei Sadahide’s Bird’s-Eye View Landscape Prints
  2. Sugimoto Fumiko, Michael Burtscher
  3. pp. 1-30
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2017.0000
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  1. A Parody in the Ruins: A Translation of Irisawa Yasuo’s Waga Izumo, Waga Chinkon (Part 1)
  2. Scott Mehl
  3. pp. 31-70
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2017.0001
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  1. My Izumo, My Requiem (Part 1)
  2. Irisawa Yasuo, Scott Mehl
  3. pp. 51-70
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2017.0021
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Book Reviews

  1. Rice, Agriculture, and the Food Supply in Premodern Japan by Charlotte von Verschuer (review)
  2. Philip C. Brown
  3. pp. 71-73
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2017.0002
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  1. Reading “The Tale of Genji”: Sources from the First Millennium ed. by Thomas Harper and Haruo Shirane (review)
  2. Lawrence Marceau
  3. pp. 74-76
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2017.0003
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  1. The Dream of Christian Nagasaki: World Trade and the Clash of Cultures, 1560–1640 by Reinier H. Hesselink (review)
  2. Lane R. Earns
  3. pp. 76-83
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2017.0004
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  1. Spectacular Accumulation: Material Culture, Tokugawa Ieyasu, and Samurai Sociability by Morgan Pitelka (review)
  2. Timon Screech
  3. pp. 84-87
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2017.0005
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  1. The Problem of Women in Early Modern Japan by Marcia Yonemoto (review)
  2. Anne Walthall
  3. pp. 87-91
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2017.0006
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  1. The Ryukyu Kingdom: Cornerstone of East Asia by Mamoru Akamine (review)
  2. Gregory Smits
  3. pp. 92-95
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2017.0007
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  1. Street Performers and Society in Urban Japan, 1600–1900: The Beggar’s Gift by Gerald Groemer (review)
  2. Laura Nenzi
  3. pp. 95-99
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2017.0008
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  1. Edo Kabuki in Transition: From the Worlds of the Samurai to the Vengeful Female Ghost by Satoko Shimazaki, and: Onnagata: A Labyrinth of Gendering in Kabuki Theater by Maki Isaka (review)
  2. C. Andrew Gerstle
  3. pp. 100-104
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2017.0009
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  1. Values, Identity and Equality in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Japan ed. by Peter Nosco, James E. Ketelaar, and Yasunori Kojima (review)
  2. Annick Horiuchi
  3. pp. 105-109
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2017.0010
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  1. Network of Knowledge: Western Science and the Tokugawa Information Revolution by Terrence Jackson (review)
  2. Niels van Steenpaal
  3. pp. 110-113
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2017.0011
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  1. Like No Other: Exceptionalism and Nativism in Early Modern Japan by Mark Thomas McNally (review)
  2. Kiri Paramore
  3. pp. 114-118
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2017.0012
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  1. Cartographic Japan: A History in Maps ed. by Kären Wigen, Sugimoto Fumiko, and Cary Karacas (review)
  2. Todd Stradford
  3. pp. 119-123
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2017.0013
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  1. Japanese Prostitutes in the North American West, 1887–1920 by Kazuhiro Oharazeki (review)
  2. Bill Mihalopoulos
  3. pp. 123-125
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2017.0014
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  1. The Youth of Things: Life and Death in the Age of Kajii Motojirō by Stephen Dodd (review)
  2. Eve Zimmerman
  3. pp. 126-128
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2017.0015
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  1. The Rhetoric of Photography in Modern Japanese Literature: Materiality in the Visual Register as Narrated by Tanizaki Jun’ichirō, Abe Kōbō, Horie Toshiyuki, and Kanai Mieko by Atsuko Sakaki (review)
  2. Mark Silver
  3. pp. 128-133
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2017.0016
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  1. Men to Devils, Devils to Men: Japanese War Crimes and Chinese Justice by Barak Kushner (review)
  2. Torsten Weber
  3. pp. 134-138
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2017.0017
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  1. Drahtseilakte: Der junge Kenzaburō Ōe by Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit and Christoph Held (review)
  2. Asa-Bettina Wuthenow
  3. pp. 138-141
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2017.0018
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  1. The China Problem in Postwar Japan: Japanese National Identity and Sino-Japanese Relations by Robert Hoppens (review)
  2. Karl Gustafsson
  3. pp. 142-145
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2017.0019
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  1. The Strange Child: Education and the Psychology of Patriotism in Recessionary Japan by Andrea Gevurtz Arai (review)
  2. Edward Vickers
  3. pp. 146-152
  4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2017.0020
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