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A Medieval Warrior in Early Modern Japan: A Translation of the Otogizōshi Hōgan Miyako Banashi

Mathew W. Thompson
pp. 1-54
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2014.0010
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Hōgan Miyako Banashi: The Tale of Yoshitsune in the Capital

Mathew W. Thompson
pp. 15-54
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2014.0014
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Benevolence, Charity, and Duty: Urban Relief and Domain Society during the Tenmei Famine

Maren Ehlers
pp. 55-101
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2014.0013
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Japanese Historiography and the Gold Seal of 57 C.E.: Relic, Text, Object, Fake by Joshua A. Fogel (review)

Gina L. Barnes
pp. 103-109
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2014.0001
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Knowing the Amorous Man: A History of Scholarship on Tales of Ise by Jamie L. Newhard (review)

Robert N. Huey
pp. 109-113
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2014.0003
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Schreib-Riten (shorei 書礼): Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der japanischen Briefetikette by Markus Rüttermann (review)

W. J. Boot
pp. 113-116
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2014.0005
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Another Stage: Kanze Nobumitsu and the Late Muromachi Noh Theater by Lim Beng Choo (review)

Shelley Fenno Quinn
pp. 117-121
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2014.0007
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The Chronicle of Lord Nobunaga by Ōta Gyūichi (review)

Morten Oxenboell
pp. 121-123
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2014.0009
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An Imperial Concubine’s Tale: Scandal, Shipwreck, and Salvation in Seventeenth-Century Japan by G. G. Rowley (review)

C. Miki Wheeler
pp. 124-129
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2014.0012
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Publishing the Stage: Print and Performance in Early Modern Japan Edited by Keller Kimbrough and Satoko Shimazaki (review)

Michael Watson
pp. 130-132
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2014.0000
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Shunga: Sex and Pleasure in Japanese Art Edited by Timothy Clark et al., and: Shunga: Sex and Humor in Japanese Art and Literature Edited by C. Andrew Gerstle and Timothy Clark, and: Shunga: Erotic Art in Japan by Rosina Buckland (review)

Allen Hockley
pp. 132-136
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2014.0002
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Obtaining Images: Art, Production and Display in Edo Japan by Timon Screech (review)

Elizabeth Lillehoj
pp. 137-141
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2014.0004
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Beriberi in Modern Japan: The Making of a National Disease by Alexander R. Bay (review)

Susan L. Burns
pp. 142-145
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2014.0006
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Troubled Natures: Waste, Environment, Japan by Peter Wynn Kirby (review)

Tom Gill
pp. 148-152
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2014.0011
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The Kyoto School: An Introduction by Robert E. Carter (review)

Erin McCarthy
pp. 145-148
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2014.0008
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