In this Issue

Table of Contents

Articles

The Inflatable, Collapsible Kingdom of Retribution: A Primer on Japanese Hell Imagery and Imagination

Caroline Hirasawa
pp. 1-50
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.0.0018
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Whose Fuji?: Religion, Region, and State in the Fight for a National Symbol

Andrew Bernstein
pp. 51-99
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.0.0001
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Seeking the Strange: Ryōki and the Navigation of Normality in Interwar Japan

Jeffrey Angles
pp. 101-141
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.0.0004
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Review Article

Reading a Heian Blog: A New Translation of Makura no Sōshi

Machiko Midorikawa
pp. 143-160
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.0.0020
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Book Reviews

Rulers, Peasants and the Use of the Written Word in Medieval Japan: Ategawa no shō 1004–1304 (review)

Thomas Conlan
pp. 161-163
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.0.0003
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Fertility and Pleasure: Ritual and Sexual Values in Tokugawa Japan (review)

Amy Stanley
pp. 164-166
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.0.0006
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Japan's Imperial Forest, Goryōrin, 1889-1946: With a Supporting Study of the Kan/Min Division of Woodland in Early Meiji Japan, 1871-76 (review)

David Howell
pp. 167-169
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.0.0008
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Modern Passings: Death Rites, Politics, and Social Change in Imperial Japan (review)

John Breen
pp. 169-172
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.0.0011
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Neubeginn unter US-amerikanischer Besatzung? Hochschulreform in Japan zwischen Kontinuität und Diskontinuität 1919–1952 (review)

Harald Fuess
pp. 172-174
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.0.0014
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Japanese Temple Buddhism: Worldliness in a Religion of Renunciation (review)

Mark Blum
pp. 174-178
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.0.0017
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Buddhismus, Geschlechterverhältnis und Diskriminierung: Die gegenwärtige Diskussion im Shin-Buddhismus Japans (review)

Joseph S. O'Leary
pp. 178-181
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.0.0000
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Traditional Japanese Literature (review)

Robert N. Huey
pp. 181-184
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.0.0010
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Secrecy in Japanese Arts: "Secret Transmission" as a Mode of Knowledge (review)

Susan Blakeley Klein
pp. 184-190
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.0.0005
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Bashō and the Dao: The Zhuangzi and the Transformation of Haikai (review)

Lawrence E. Marceau
pp. 190-193
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.0.0007
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Haikai Poet Yosa Buson and the Bashō Revival (review)

Roger K. Thomas
pp. 193-195
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.0.0009
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The Modern Murasaki: Writing by Women of Meiji Japan (review)

Reiko Abe Auestad
pp. 196-198
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.0.0013
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Daitokuji: The Visual Cultures of a Zen Monastery (review)

Yukio Lippit
pp. 198-203
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.0.0012
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Radicals and Realists in the Japanese Nonverbal Arts: The Avant-Garde Rejection of Modernism (review)

William O. Gardner
pp. 203-205
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.0.0015
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The Aesthetics of Quietude: Ōta Shōgo and the Theatre of Divestiture (review)

Brian Powell
pp. 206-208
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.0.0019
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Modern Japanese Cuisine: Food, Power and National Identity (review)

James Farrer
pp. 208-210
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.0.0002
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Editorial Notes

Editorial Notes

pp. 211-212
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.0.0016
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