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Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies (Series)

This series provides a venue for important works of scholarship in all fields of Japanese studies, most notably works in Japanese history and literary studies. Quality in scholarly content and production are of paramount concern.

Series Editor:

Markus Nornes, Director of Undergraduate Studies and Professor of Asian Cinema at The University of Michigan

Center for Japanese Studies

The Publications Program of the Center for Japanese Studies at the University of Michigan publishes research on Japan by scholars around the world. Works currently appear in print in three series (Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies, Michigan Papers in Japanese Studies, and Michigan Classics in Japanese Studies) and as nonseries publications. Center books have been reviewed in The New York Times, The Times Literary Supplement, Publishers Weekly, and World Literature Today, as well as in all the major journals on Japanese and Asian studies. Over one hundred universities and colleges have adopted Center titles as textbooks for classes on Japanese language, literature, and culture. The Center also publishes materials of special interest to industry, government, and the general public. The Center published its first book in 1950.

 

Other CJS series with UMP include:
Michigan Papers in Japanese Studies
Michigan Classics in Japanese Studies

Submissions

For information on submitting a proposal or manuscript, please visit our guidelines here: https://ii.umich.edu/cjs/publications/submit-a-manuscript.html

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The Time of Laughter

Comedy and the Media Cultures of Japan

How laughter shapes contemporary Japanese media

Textures of Mourning

Calligraphy, Mortality, and The Tale of Genji Scrolls

Unfolds the intimate relationship between mourning, writing, reading, painting, and viewing, through The Tale of Genji and its legacy

Figures of Desire

Wordplay, Spirit Possession, Fantasy, Madness, and Mourning in Japanese Noh Plays

An analysis of the narrative and tropological structure of classical Japanese Noh plays

Spirits of Another Sort

The Plays of Izumi Kyoka

The first work in any language to focus on the plays of Izumi Kyoka, a major literary figure in modern Japan

Theater as Music

The Bunraku Play “Mt. Imo and Mt. Se

Examines Bunraku in performance and brings together musical, dramatic, and historical analyses into one study