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Table of Contents

Readings from the Bamboo Grove: A Translation of Sōgi’s Oi no Susami (Part 1)

Steven D. Carter
pp. 1-42
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2016.0000
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A Solace in Old Age (Part 1)

Sōgi, Steven D. Carter
pp. 29-42
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2016.0035
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Sedge-Hat Madness: A Translation of Chikamatsu Monzaemon’s Onatsu Seijūrō Gojūnenki Uta Nenbutsu

Michael Brownstein
pp. 43-82
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2016.0001
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Onatsu and Seijūrō: Prayers on the Fiftieth Anniversary

Chikamatsu Monzaemon, Michael Brownstein
pp. 55-82
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2016.0034
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Orthodox Finance and “The Dictates of Practical Expediency”: Influences on Matsukata Masayoshi and the Financial Reform of 1881–1885

Steven J. Ericson
pp. 83-117
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2016.0002
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Ancient Ryukyu: An Archaeological Study of Island Communities by Richard Pearson (review)

David J. Welch
pp. 119-122
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2016.0003
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Imagining Exile in Heian Japan: Banishment in Law, Literature, and Cult by Jonathan Stockdale (review)

Elizabeth Oyler
pp. 122-127
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2016.0004
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Shinkokinshū: New Collection of Poems Ancient and Modern trans. by Laurel Rasplica Rodd (review)

Roselee Bundy
pp. 127-134
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2016.0005
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Japanese Singers of Tales: Ten Centuries of Performed Narrative by Alison McQueen Tokita (review)

Margaret H. Childs
pp. 134-140
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2016.0008
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From White to Yellow: The Japanese in European Racial Thought, 1300–1735 by Rotem Kowner (review)

Adam Clulow
pp. 140-143
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2016.0010
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The Knowledge of Nature and the Nature of Knowledge in Early Modern Japan by Federico Marcon (review)

Yulia Frumer
pp. 143-148
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2016.0006
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Leaving for the Rising Sun: Chinese Zen Master Yinyuan and the Authenticity Crisis in Early Modern East Asia by Jiang Wu (review)

Steven Heine
pp. 148-152
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2016.0011
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A Cultural History of Translation in Early Modern Japan by Rebekah Clements (review)

Federico Marcon
pp. 152-158
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2016.0012
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Performing the Great Peace: Political Space and Open Secrets in Tokugawa Japan by Luke S. Roberts (review)

Mark Ravina
pp. 158-161
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2016.0007
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Partners in Print: Artistic Collaboration and the Ukiyo-e Market by Julie Nelson Davis (review)

Daan Kok
pp. 161-166
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2016.0009
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The Chaos and Cosmos of Kurosawa Tokiko: One Woman’s Transit from Tokugawa to Meiji Japan by Laura Nenzi (review)

Michael Wert
pp. 166-169
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2016.0018
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Doctors of Empire: Medical and Cultural Encounters between Imperial Germany and Meiji Japan by Hoi-Eun Kim (review)

Ellen Nakamura
pp. 169-173
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2016.0013
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Investing Japan: Foreign Capital, Monetary Standards, and Economic Development, 1859–2011 by Simon James Bytheway (review)

Penelope Francks
pp. 173-177
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2016.0015
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Meiji Restoration Losers: Memory and Tokugawa Supporters in Modern Japan by Michael Wert (review)

Selçuk Esenbel
pp. 177-181
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2016.0014
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Gender and Nation in Meiji Japan: Modernity, Loss, and the Doing of History by Jason G. Karlin (review)

Marnie S. Anderson
pp. 181-186
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2016.0017
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Religious Discourse in Modern Japan: Religion, State, and Shintō by Isomae Jun’ichi (review)

Jolyon Baraka Thomas
pp. 186-191
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2016.0019
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Heritage Management in Korea and Japan: The Politics of Antiquity and Identity by Hyung Il Pai (review)

Takashi Yoshida
pp. 191-195
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2016.0020
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Bad Water: Nature, Pollution, and Politics in Japan, 1870–1950 by Robert Stolz (review)

Takehiro Watanabe
pp. 195-200
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2016.0016
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Gender and Law in the Japanese Imperium eds. by Susan L. Burns and Barbara J. Brooks (review)

Marie Seong-Hak Kim
pp. 200-206
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2016.0021
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Christianity and Imperialism in Modern Japan: Empire for God by Emily Anderson (review)

Hamish Ion
pp. 206-211
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2016.0022
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Rise of a Japanese Chinatown: Yokohama, 1894–1972 by Eric C. Han (review)

Robert Eskildsen
pp. 211-216
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2016.0025
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Building a Heaven on Earth: Religion, Activism, and Protest in Japanese Occupied Korea by Albert L. Park, and: Populist Collaborators: The Ilchinhoe and the Japanese Colonization of Korea, 1896–1910 by Yumi Moon (review)

Don Baker
pp. 217-222
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2016.0024
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Assimilating Seoul: Japanese Rule and the Politics of Public Space in Colonial Korea, 1910–1945 by Todd A. Henry (review)

Vladimir Tikhonov
pp. 222-227
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2016.0029
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Making Personas: Transnational Film Stardom in Modern Japan by Hideaki Fujiki (review)

Ryan Cook
pp. 227-233
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2016.0030
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Holy Ghosts: The Christian Century in Modern Japanese Fiction by Rebecca Suter (review)

Stephen Roddy
pp. 233-237
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2016.0028
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Recasting Red Culture in Proletarian Japan: Childhood, Korea, and the Historical Avant-garde by Samuel Perry (review)

Sunyoung Park
pp. 237-240
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2016.0027
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Beyond the Metropolis: Second Cities and Modern Life in Interwar Japan by Louise Young (review)

Miriam Kingsberg
pp. 241-244
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2016.0023
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Capital as Will and Imagination: Schumpeter’s Guide to the Postwar Japanese Miracle by Mark Metzler (review)

Simon James Bytheway
pp. 244-247
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2016.0031
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Women and Democracy in Cold War Japan by Jan Bardsley (review)

Ulrike Wöhr
pp. 247-253
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2016.0026
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Kōmeitō: Politics and Religion in Japan eds. by George Ehrhardt et al. (review)

Helen Hardacre
pp. 253-258
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2016.0032
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From Cultures of War to Cultures of Peace: War and Peace Museums in Japan, China, and South Korea by Takashi Yoshida (review)

Philip Seaton
pp. 258-261
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2016.0033
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