In this Issue

Table of Contents

Mothers of the Buddhas: The Sutra on Transforming Women into Buddhas (Bussetsu Tennyo Jōbutsu Kyō)

Heather Blair
pp. 263-293
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2016.0036
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A Translation of Sōgi’s Oi no Susami (Part 2): A Solace in Old Age

Steven D. Carter
pp. 295-369
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2016.0037
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Constructing the Dharma King: The Hōryūji Shaka Triad and the Birth of the Prince Shōtoku Cult by Akiko Walley (review)

Chari Pradel
pp. 371-377
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2016.0038
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Classical World Literatures: Sino-Japanese and Greco-Roman Comparisons by Wiebke Denecke (review)

Gunilla Lindberg-Wada
pp. 377-381
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2016.0039
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The Halo of Golden Light: Imperial Authority and Buddhist Ritual in Heian Japan by Asuka Sango (review)

Mikael Bauer
pp. 381-385
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2016.0040
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Real and Imagined: The Peak of Gold in Heian Japan by Heather Blair (review)

Halle O’Neal
pp. 385-390
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2016.0041
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Mapping Courtship and Kinship in Classical Japan: The Tale of Genji and Its Predecessors by Doris G. Bargen (review)

Terry Kawashima
pp. 390-393
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2016.0042
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Kyoto: An Urban History of Japan’ s Premodern Capital by Matthew Stavros (review)

Ellen Van Goethem
pp. 394-399
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2016.0043
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From Outcasts to Emperors: Shingon Ritsu and the Mañjuśrī Cult in Medieval Japan by David Quinter (review)

Paul B. Watt
pp. 400-403
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2016.0044
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Spain, China, and Japan in Manila, 1571–1644: Local Comparisons and Global Connections by Birgit Tremml-Werner (review)

George Bryan Souza
pp. 403-405
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2016.0045
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Shimaji Mokurai and the Reconception of Religion and the Secular in Modern Japan by Hans Martin Krämer (review)

Hwansoo Kim
pp. 405-408
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2016.0046
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Empires on the Waterfront: Japan’s Ports and Power, 1858–1899 by Catherine L. Phipps (review)

Pär Cassel
pp. 409-411
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2016.0047
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Writing Technology in Meiji Japan: A Media History of Modern Japanese Literature and Visual Culture by Seth Jacobowitz (review)

Atsuko Sakaki
pp. 411-417
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2016.0048
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Buddhism, Unitarianism, and the Meiji Competition for Universality by Michel Mohr (review)

Micah Auerback
pp. 418-421
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2016.0049
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Monster of the Twentieth Century: Kōtoku Shūsui and Japan’s First Anti-Imperialist Movement by Robert Thomas Tierney (review)

Stephen Filler
pp. 421-425
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2016.0050
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Monstrous Bodies: The Rise of the Uncanny in Modern Japan by Miri Nakamura (review)

Kirsten Cather
pp. 426-429
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2016.0051
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Painting Circles: Tsuchida Bakusen and Nihonga Collectives in Early 20th-Century Japan by John D. Szostak (review)

Chelsea Foxwell
pp. 430-433
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2016.0052
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Photography for Everyone: The Cultural Lives of Camera and Consumers in Early Twentieth-Century Japan by Kerry Ross (review)

Maki Fukuoka
pp. 434-438
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2016.0053
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Sacred Space in the Modern City: The Fractured Pasts of Meiji Shrine, 1912–1958 by Yoshiko Imaizumi (review)

Aike P. Rots
pp. 438-442
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2016.0054
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Treacherous Translation: Culture, Nationalism, and Colonialism in Korea and Japan from the 1910s to the 1960s by Serk-Bae Suh (review)

Sharalyn Orbaugh
pp. 443-450
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2016.0055
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Propaganda Performed: Kamishibai in Japan’s Fifteen-Year War by Sharalyn Orbaugh (review)

Maki Kaneko
pp. 450-454
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2016.0056
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The Fascist Effect: Japan and Italy, 1915–1952 by Reto Hofmann, and: Casualties of History: Wounded Japanese Servicemen and the Second World War by Lee K. Pennington, and: Grassroots Fascism: The War Experience of the Japanese People by Yoshimi Yoshiaki (review)

Andrew Gordon
pp. 455-464
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2016.0057
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The International Minimum: Creativity and Contradiction in Japan’s Global Engagement, 1933–1964 by Jessamyn R. Abel (review)

Michael A. Schneider
pp. 464-468
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2016.0058
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The Long Defeat: Cultural Trauma, Memory, and Identity in Japan by Akiko Hashimoto, and: Yasukuni Shrine: History, Memory, and Japan’s Unending Postwar by Akiko Takenaka (review)

Franziska Seraphim
pp. 469-472
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2016.0059
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Hokusai’s Great Wave: Biography of a Global Icon by Christine M. E. Guth (review)

Noriko Murai
pp. 473-477
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2016.0060
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From Dog Bridegroom to Wolf Girl: Contemporary Japanese Fairy-Tale Adaptations in Conversation with the West by Mayako Murai, and: Japanese Animal-Wife Tales: Narrating Gender Reality in Japanese Folktale Tradition by Fumihiko Kobayashi (review)

Melek Ortabasi
pp. 477-483
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2016.0061
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Allegories of Time and Space: Japanese Identity in Photography and Architecture by Jonathan M. Reynolds (review)

Yoshiaki Kai
pp. 483-487
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2016.0062
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Marathon Japan: Distance Racing and Civic Culture by Thomas R. H. Havens (review)

Stefan Hübner
pp. 487-491
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2016.0063
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Contemporary Sino-Japanese Relations on Screen: A History, 1989–2005 by Griseldis Kirsch (review)

Robert Hoppens
pp. 491-494
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2016.0064
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Index

pp. i-vii
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2016.0065
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