Gramlich-Oka (Japanese studies, U. of Tubingen) presents a biography of the Japanese woman philosopher Makuzu, but also opens a window into the intellectual debates of a group of people that have othe
This publication provides important new information detailing the orthography, phonology, morphology, and lexicon of a previously poorly studied and understood stage of the Japanese language, Early Ol
This well-illustrated work is the first attempt to bridge the gap between several specialized discourses concerning Japanese theatre. Central are problems of scholarly and practical reception of Japan
Fourteen contributions from Japanese, Swiss, and German scholars look at the phenomenon of juvenile delinquency in Japan from a variety of academic disciplinary perspectives. Each paper presents resea
"Japan on the Silk Road provides the historical background indispensable for understanding today's Japan perspectives and policies in the vast area of Eurasia. For the first time it brings a detailed
Exploring Japanese theater as an integrated whole rather than a group of essentially separate performing art forms, Parker (Japanese, U. of Edinburgh) takes account of the blend of artistic skills tha
Beckwith (Uralic and Altaic studies, Indiana University) studies the extinct Koguryo language, which was once spoken in Manchuria and northern Korea. He traces the ethnolinguistic history of the Kogur
In Man’yoshu and the Imperial Imagination in Early Japan, Torquil Duthie examines the literary representation of the late seventh-century Yamato court as a realm of "all under heaven."
Sorensen (Japanese, U. of California-Davis) offers a way of interpreting screen poetry, an art form that combines poetic composition, a painted image, and calligraphy. He covers thinking with pictures
Significant study of Kabuki playwriting of the Edo Period (1603-1867), based around an examination and translation of the only extant treatise fully devoted to the subject, the 1801 Kezairoku, Sakusha
Jonsson guides readers through six complete haikai poems written in the late 18th century in two ways. First he investigates and analyzes all earlier commentaries on three of the poems to demonstrate
A selection of reports on the Japanese army fighting the Chinese during World War II. The reports were commissioned by the general staff of the Royal Netherlands Indies Army out of Dutch concern that
Dancer, Nun, Ghost, Goddess explores the Tale of the Heike episode of the dancers Gio and Hotoke, which first appeared in the fourteenth century and went on to inspire, in often unpredictable ways, co
Listen, Copy, Read: Popular Learning in Early Modern Japan endeavors to elucidate the mechanisms by which a growing number of men and women of all social strata became involved in the acquisition of k
"Crossing Boundaries in Tokugawa Society" presents a vivid picure of the life of Suzuki Bokushi (1770-1842), an elite villager in a snowy province of Japan, focusing on his interaction with the changi
In Engaging the Other Ronald P. Toby examines new discourses of cultural and ethnic identity and difference in early modern Japan (1550-1850), their articulation in literature, art, performance, law a
In "Japanese Historiography and the Gold Seal of 57 C.E.," Joshua Fogel examines the waves of historiographical analysis that this first item to pass officially from China to Japan has undergone in th
The period between the end of WWI in 1918 and the war launched against China in 1937 has been called a "pluralizing moment" for Japan of great intellectual diversity compared with the preceding Meiji
