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Disaster in the Making: Taira no Kiyomori’s Move of the Capital to Fukuhara

Haruko Wakabayashi
pp. 1-38
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2015.0012
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Warrior/Monk, Demon/Saint: Humor and Parody in the Late Medieval Tale of Benkei

Roberta Strippoli
pp. 39-81
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2015.0002
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Shipwrecks and Flotsam: The Foreign World in Edo-Period Tosa

Luke S. Roberts
pp. 83-122
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2015.0005
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Man’yōshū and the Imperial Imagination in Early Japan by Torquil Duthie (review)

H. Mack Horton
pp. 123-127
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2015.0008
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Ise, poétesse et dame de cour by Renée Garde (review)

Michel Vieillard-Baron
pp. 127-132
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2015.0011
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The Company and the Shogun: The Dutch Encounter with Tokugawa Japan by Adam Clulow (review)

Bruce L. Batten
pp. 132-135
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2015.0014
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Government by Mourning: Death and Political Integration in Japan, 1603–1912 by Atsuko Hirai (review)

Mark Teeuwen
pp. 135-141
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2015.0016
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Mabiki: Infanticide and Population Growth in Eastern Japan, 1660–1950 by Fabian Drixler (review)

William Johnston
pp. 141-145
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2015.0001
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The Bunraku Puppet Theatre of Japan: Honor, Vengeance, and Love in Four Plays of the 18th and 19th Centuries by Stanleigh H. Jones, and: Wondrous Brutal Fictions: Eight Buddhist Tales from the Early Japanese Puppet Theater by R. Keller Kimbrough (review)

Katherine Saltzman-Li
pp. 146-151
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2015.0004
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Hell-bent for Heaven in Tateyama Mandara: Painting and Religious Practice at a Japanese Mountain by Caroline Hirasawa (review)

Elizabeth ten Grotenhuis
pp. 151-155
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2015.0007
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Lust, Commerce, and Corruption: An Account of What I Have Seen and Heard, by an Edo Samurai by Mark Teeuwen et al. (review)

Laura Nenzi
pp. 155-158
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2015.0010
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Crossing Boundaries in Tokugawa Society: Suzuki Bokushi, A Rural Elite Commoner by Takeshi Moriyama (review)

Niels van Steenpaal
pp. 159-163
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2015.0013
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The Tale of Genji: Translation, Canonization, and World Literature by Michael Emmerich (review)

Dennis Washburn
pp. 163-169
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2015.0015
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Anarchist Modernity: Cooperatism and Japanese-Russian Intellectual Relations in Modern Japan by Sho Konishi (review)

Curtis Anderson Gayle
pp. 170-173
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2015.0000
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Refining Nature in Modern Japanese Literature: The Life and Art of Shiga Naoya by Nanyan Guo (review)

Joseph S. O’Leary
pp. 173-175
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2015.0003
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Public Opinion, Propaganda, Ideology: Theories on the Press and Its Social Function in Interwar Japan, 1918–1937 by Fabian Schäfer (review)

Simone Müller
pp. 175-183
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2015.0006
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Money, Trains, and Guillotines: Art and Revolution in 1960s Japan by William Marotti (review)

Miki Kaneda
pp. 183-187
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2015.0009
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