Publications of Note

Remembering Tanizaki Jun'ichirō and Matsuko: Diary Entries, Interview Notes, and Letters, 1954–1989. By Anthony H. Chambers. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 2017. 105 pages. $65.00, cloth; $19.95, paper; $19.95, E-book. This collection of previously unpublished memories and anecdotes reveals the lives, opinions, and writings of the novelist Tanizaki Jun'ichirō and his wife Matsuko. It draws from the diaries of Edward Seidensticker along with Anthony Chambers's journals and a few letters. The accounts will "give readers a sense of the personalities of these two remarkable people" (p. 6).

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Kotan Chronicles: Selected Poems 1928–1943. By Genzō Sarashina; translated by Nadine Willems. Isobar Press, London, 2017. 105 pages. $20.00, cloth; $15.00, paper. Genzō Sarashina was a second-generation settler in Hokkaido during the 1920s and 1930s. His poetry documents his encounters with the Ainu, interaction between the Ainu and the Japanese, and the economic hardships of Hokkaido in the 1930s. Nadine Willems provides 20 pages of introduction to describe Sarashina, his poetry, and his legacy.

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An Anthology of Kokugaku Scholars 1690–1868. By John R. Bentley. Cornell University East Asia Program, Ithaca NY, 2017. x, 596 pages. $65.00, cloth. "This anthology contains works from thirteen influential Kokugakusha, locating their works within one (or more) of four main themes: Views on Poetry, Views on Literature, Views on Scholarship, and Views on Japan/Religion" (p. 7). In his introduction, John Bentley surveys the various definitions of kokugaku and provides a brief biographical synopsis of each of the kokugaku scholars considered.