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Table of Contents

"Washing Off the Dust": Baths and Bathing in Late Medieval Japan

Lee A. Butler
pp. 1-41
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2005.0003
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Competing with Amida: A Study and Translation of Jōkei's Miroku Kōshiki

James L. Ford
pp. 43-79
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2005.0005
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Local Officials and the Meiji Conscription Campaign

Rokuhara Hiroko
pp. 81-110
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2005.0008
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House and Home in Modern Japan: Reforming Everyday Life, 1880-1930 (review)

Ann Waswo
pp. 111-112
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2005.0015
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Frauenerziehung und Frauenbild im Umbruch. Ideale von Mädchenerziehung, Frauenrolle und weiblichen Lebensentwürfen in der frühen Jogaku zasshi (1885-1889) (review)

Margaret Mehl
pp. 112-115
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2005.0009
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Women and the Labour Market in Japan's Industrialising Economy: The Textile Industry before the Pacific War (review)

Barbara Molony
pp. 115-118
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2005.0010
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Colonizing Sex: Sexology and Social Control in Modern Japan (review)

Sally A. Hastings
pp. 118-121
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2005.0006
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Toshié: A Story of Village Life in Twentieth-Century Japan (review)

Mariko Asano Tamanoi
pp. 121-123
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2005.0014
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Practicing the Afterlife: Perspectives from Japan, and: Bereavement and Consolation: Testimonies from Tokugawa Japan (review)

Fabio Rambelli
pp. 123-128
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2005.0013
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Practical Pursuits: Religion, Politics, and Personal Cultivation in Nineteenth-Century Japan

Barbara Ambros
pp. 128-131
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2005.0002
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Gender and National Literature: Heian Texts in the Constructions of Japanese Modernity (review)

Joshua S. Mostow
pp. 131-134
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2005.0011
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The Ethos of Noh: Actors and Their Art (review)

Gerald Groemer
pp. 134-137
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2005.0001
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Text and the City: Essays on Japanese Modernity (review)

Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit
pp. 137-140
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2005.0007
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The Artist as Professional in Japan (review)

Quitman E. Phillips
pp. 140-143
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2005.0012
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Critical Perspectives on Classicism in Japanese Painting, 1600-1700 (review)

Frank Lewis Chance
pp. 143-145
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2005.0004
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