In this Issue

Table of Contents

Folk Performance as Transgression: The Great Dengaku of 1096

Ashton Lazarus
pp. 1-23
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2018.0000
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The Double Movement of the Landlord Class in Prewar Japan

Mark Cohen
pp. 25-54
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2018.0001
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The Senses of Modernity in Tayama Katai’s “Shōjobyō” (1907)

Pierantonio Zanotti
pp. 55-87
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2018.0002
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The Hegemony of Tokyo Imperial University and the Paradox of Meritocracy in Modern Japan

Jamyung Choi
pp. 89-116
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2018.0003
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Imitation and Creativity in Japanese Arts: From Kishida Ryūsei to Miyazaki Hayao by Michael Lucken (review)

Meghen Jones
pp. 117-121
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2018.0004
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Ambient Media: Japanese Atmospheres of Self by Paul Roquet (review)

Fabian Schäfer
pp. 121-125
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2018.0005
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Writing Technology in Meiji Japan: A Media History of Modern Japanese Literature and Visual Culture by Seth Jacobowitz (review)

Robert J. Tuck
pp. 125-129
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2018.0006
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Bachelor Japanists: Japanese Aesthetics and Western Masculinities by Christopher Reed (review)

John Whittier Treat
pp. 130-133
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2018.0007
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Debating Otaku in Contemporary Japan: Historical Perspectives and New Horizons ed. by Patrick W. Galbraith, Thiam Huat Kam, Björn-Ole Kamm (review)

Ben Whaley
pp. 133-138
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2018.0008
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Rashomon Effects: Kurosawa, Rashomon and Their Legacies ed. by Blair Davis, Robert Anderson, Jan Walls (review)

Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto
pp. 138-142
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2018.0009
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Street Performers and Society in Urban Japan, 1600–1900: The Beggar’s Gift by Gerald Groemer (review)

Adam L. Kern
pp. 142-147
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2018.0010
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Goze: Women, Musical Performance, and Visual Disability in Traditional Japan by Gerald Groemer (review)

Shawn Bender
pp. 147-151
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2018.0011
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The Akita Ranga School and the Cultural Context in Edo Japan by Imahashi Riko (review)

Elizabeth Lillehoj
pp. 151-156
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2018.0012
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Perfumed Sleeves and Tangled Hair: Body, Woman, and Desire in Medieval Japanese Narratives by Rajyashree Pandey (review)

Janet R. Goodwin
pp. 156-160
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2018.0013
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Women in Japanese Religions by Barbara R. Ambros (review)

Levi McLaughlin
pp. 160-165
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2018.0014
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Tracing the Itinerant Path: Jishū Nuns of Medieval Japan by Caitilin J. Griffiths (review)

Sybil Thornton
pp. 165-168
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2018.0015
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Buddhism and the Transformation of Old Age in Medieval Japan by Edward R. Drott (review)

David Quinter
pp. 168-173
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2018.0016
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Gods of Medieval Japan: Vol. 1, The Fluid Pantheon; Vol. 2, Protectors and Predators by Bernard Faure (review)

Steven Trenson
pp. 173-181
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2018.0017
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Daoism in Japan: Chinese Traditions and Their Influence on Japanese Religious Culture ed. by Jeffrey L. Richey (review)

Gaynor Sekimori
pp. 181-186
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2018.0018
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Japanese Confucianism: A Cultural History by Kiri Paramore (review)

Samuel Hideo Yamashita
pp. 186-190
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2018.0019
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A Christian Samurai: The Trials of Baba Bunkō by William J. Farge (review)

Peter Nosco
pp. 191-195
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2018.0020
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Government by Mourning: Death and Political Integration in Japan, 1603– 1912 by Atsuko Hirai (review)

Michael Laver
pp. 195-199
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2018.0021
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Science, Technology, and Medicine in the Modern Japanese Empire ed. by David G. Wittner, Philip C. Brown (review)

Daqing Yang
pp. 199-203
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2018.0022
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The Culture of the Quake: The Great Kanto Earthquake and Taishō Japan by Alex Bates (review)

Roy Starrs
pp. 203-207
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2018.0023
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The Bonin Islanders, 1830 to the Present: Narrating Japanese Nationality by David Chapman (review)

Wendy Matsumura
pp. 207-210
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2018.0024
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The Fascist Effect: Japan and Italy, 1915–1952 by Reto Hofmann (review)

Aaron William Moore
pp. 210-215
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2018.0025
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Divergent Memories: Opinion Leaders and the Asia-Pacific War by Gi-Wook Shin, Daniel Sneider (review)

Philip Seaton
pp. 215-219
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2018.0026
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The Affect of Difference: Representations of Race in East Asian Empire ed. by Christopher P. Hanscom, Dennis Washburn (review)

Michele M. Mason
pp. 219-224
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2018.0027
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Cold War Ruins: Transpacific Critique of American Justice and Japanese War Crimes by Lisa Yoneyama (review)

Dean Aszkielowicz
pp. 225-229
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2018.0028
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Women and Democracy in Cold War Japan by Jan Bardsley (review)

Phoebe Stella Holdgrün
pp. 229-233
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2018.0029
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The Life We Longed For: Danchi Housing and the Middle Class Dream in Postwar Japan by Laura Neitzel (review)

Robin M. LeBlanc
pp. 234-237
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2018.0030
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Too Few Women at the Top: The Persistence of Inequality in Japan by Kumiko Nemoto (review)

Kaye Broadbent
pp. 237-240
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2018.0031
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Second-Best Justice: The Virtues of Japanese Private Law by J. Mark Ramseyer (review)

Meryll Dean
pp. 241-244
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2018.0032
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Schooling Selves: Autonomy, Interdependence, and Reform in Japanese Junior High Education by Peter Cave (review)

Yuki Imoto
pp. 245-249
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2018.0033
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Opinion and Comment

pp. 251-252
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2018.0034
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Reply to Review by Simon Partner

Samuel Hideo Yamashita
pp. 251-252
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2018.0036
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Reply to Samuel Hideo Yamashita

Simon Partner
p. 252
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2018.0037
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Publications of Note

pp. 253-255
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2018.0035
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