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  • Index to Volume 74

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Unearthing Lost Memories: A Reexamination of the Role of Naniwa in Early Japan Joshua Frydman 1
War without Blood? The Literary Uses of a Taboo Fluid in Heike Monogatari Vyjayanthi Selinger 33
The Poetics of Nativism: Motoori Norinaga and the Sacralization of Japanese Literature Emi Foulk Bushelle 59
How to Establish a Poetic School in Early Medieval Japan: Fujiwara no Shunzei's Man'yōshū Jidaikō Malgorzata Karolina Citko 173
Casting Spells: Combat Charms and Secret Scrolls in the Warrior Fiction of Late Medieval Japan R. Keller Kimbrough 211

Book Reviews

Women, Rites, and Ritual Objects in Premodern Japan. Edited by Karen M. Gerhart. Yui Suzuki 85
Parody, Irony and Ideology in the Fiction of Ihara Saikaku. By David J. Gundry. J. Scott Miller 90
Making Time: Astronomical Time Measurement in Tokugawa Japan. By Yulia Frumer. Stefan Tanaka 93
Bringing Whales Ashore: Oceans and the Environment of Early Modern Japan. By Jakobina K. Arch. William M. Tsutsui 97
Good Dogs: Edification, Entertainment, and Kyokutei Bakin's "Nansō Satomi hakkenden." By Glynne Walley. Yoshitaka Yamamoto 101
Yokohama and the Silk Trade: How Eastern Japan Became the Primary Economic Region of Japan, 1843–1893. By Yasuhiro Makimura. Harald Fuess 106
The Origin of Modern Shinto in Japan: The Vanquished Gods of Izumo. By Yijiang Zhong. Bernhard Scheid 109
To Stand with the Nations of the World: Japan's Meiji Restoration in World History. By Mark Ravina. Alistair Swale 115
The Merchant's Tale: Yokohama and the Transformation of Japan. By Simon Partner. M. William Steele 119
Embracing "Asia" in China and Japan: Asianism Discourse and the Contest for Hegemony, 1912–1933. By Torsten Weber. Christopher W. A. Szpilman 122
Others in Japanese Agriculture: Koreans, Evacuees and Migrants 1920–1950. By Yasuoka Ken'ichi. Translated by Teresa Castelvetere. Tessa Morris-Suzuki 127
Making Icons: Repetition and the Female Image in Japanese Cinema, 1945–1964. By Jennifer Coates. Diane Wei Lewis 131
Japan's Quest for Stability in Southeast Asia: Navigating the Turning Points in Postwar Asia. By Miyagi Taizō. Translated by Hanabusa Midori. Anno Tadashi 136
Japan in Asia: Post-Cold-War Diplomacy. By Tanaka Akihiko. Translated by Jean Connell Hoff. James D. J. Brown 140
Circles of Compensation: Economic Growth and the Globalization of Japan. By Kent E. Calder. Frances McCall Rosenbluth 146
Denying the Comfort Women: The Japanese State's Assault on Historical Truth. Edited by Nishino Rumiko, Kim Puja, and Onozawa Akane. Jeff Kingston 150
The Abe Administration and the Rise of the Prime Ministerial Executive. By Aurelia George Mulgan. Alisa Gaunder 157
Intimacy and Reproduction in Contemporary Japan. By Genaro Castro-Vázquez. Aya Homei 161
Interpreting Anime. By Christopher Bolton.
The Anime Ecology: A Genealogy of Television, Animation, and Game Media. By Thomas Lamarre. Deborah Shamoon 165
Contents Tourism in Japan: Pilgrimages to "Sacred Sites" of Popular Culture. By Philip Seaton, Takayoshi Yamamura, Akiko Sugawa-Shimada, and Kyungjae Jang. Tom Havens 170
Buddhist Pilgrim-Monks as Agents of Cultural and Artistic Transmission: The International Buddhist Art Style in East Asia, ca. 645–770. By Dorothy C. Wong. Akiko Walley 249
Land, Power, and the Sacred: The Estate System in Medieval Japan. Edited by Janet R. Goodwin and Joan R. Piggott. Pierre François Souyri 253
Tracing the Itinerant Path: Jishū Nuns of Medieval Japan. By Caitilin J. Griffiths. Christina Laffin 257
A Maritime History of East Asia. Edited by Masashi Haneda and Mihoko Oka. Adam Clulow 261
The Portuguese Slave Trade in Early Modern Japan: Merchants, Jesuits and Japanese, Chinese, and Korean Slaves. By Lúcio de Sousa. Geoffrey C. Gunn 264
Engaging the Other: 'Japan' and Its Alter Egos, 1550–1850. By Ronald P. Toby. Kären Wigen 272
Give and Take: Poverty and the Status Order in Early...

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