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Daisaiin Senshi and Hosshin Wakashu
Provides new translations and sensitive readings of the devotional Buddhist poems of Senshi, the Great Kamo Priestess of the Heian period
Poems by Kurihara Sadako
The poetic voice of one of Japan’s greatest 20th-century poets
Social Movements and the Law in Contemporary Japan
Examines the relationship between social movements and the law in bringing about social change in Japan
A recreation of Tokyo in the 1880s by one of Japan’s most influential novelists
The lives and minds of three men come together in ways that are both commonplace and surprising
The Great Kanto Earthquake and Taisho Japan
An exploration of Taishō-era narrative fiction
Pirates, Violence, and Commerce in Late Medieval Japan
Reframes medieval Japan through the perspective of seafarers, a novel supplement to conventional land-based analyses
The “Kirishitan,” Japan, and the World in Early Modern Japanese Literature
Examines the origins and influence of three popular anti-Kirishitan (anti-Christian) works from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
A call to reconsider Japanese history from the perspective of the deep past
The Development of the Feminist Movement
Offers a fresh perspective on Meiji Japan with a spotlight on women’s activities in the new public spaces of the era
Depicts Japan’s grisly postwar years through the eyes of two children travelling by train
Feminist Artist Tomiyama Taeko and Social Responsibility
Opens up the transformational work of a contemporary feminist artist on the difficult terrain of Japanese and global history
Reading and Writing in Early Modern Japan
Reveals the rich and lively world of literate women in Japan from 1600 through the early 20th century
Shines new theoretical light on Japanese television in global perspective
Politics, Language, Textuality
Traces the transformation of the study of postwar Japanese literature from positivism to radically different methods informed by linguistics
Provides a snapshot of all the archival and bibliographic resources available to students and scholars of Japanese cinema
A collection of translations of nagauta texts used for concerts
Explores the daily life of the citizens of the lost periods of ancient Japan
Cinema and Modernity in 1920s Japan
Offers provocative insight into a masterpiece of silent cinema using a newly released original script and notes
Izumi Shikibu and the Buddhist Literature of Medieval Japan
Explores how preacher-entertainers in late-Heian and medieval Japan used apocryphal tales of women in competitive, sectarian, passionate rhetorical performances
A meditative exploration of aging and approaching death by one of Japan’s finest novelists
<em>The Black Lizard</em> and Other Plays
Presents nine remarkable plays by Mishima to English readers for the first time
Essays on the Structure of Japanese Folk Religion
The first comprehensive English translation of a foundational work on Japanese asceticism and folk religion
New Woman Essays and Fiction from Seito, 1911–16
Introduces English-language readers to a formative chapter in the history of Japanese feminism by presenting for the first time in English translation a collection of writings from Seitō (Bluestockings), the famed New Women’s journal of the 1910s
Muso Soseki in His Gardens
A sustained exploration of the garden designs of a medieval Japanese Zen Buddhist monk
