Established in 1974, the Journal of Japanese Studies features original, analytically rigorous articles from across the humanities and social sciences, including comparative and transnational scholarship in which Japan plays a major part

Volume 44, Number 1

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Volume 44, Number 1
Winter 2018

ARTICLES

Folk Performance as Transgression: The Great Dengaku of 1096
ASHTON LAZARUS {abstract}

The Double Movement of the Landlord Class in Prewar Japan
MARK COHEN {abstract}

The Senses of Modernity in Tayama Katai’s “Shōjobyō” (1907)
PIERANTONIO ZANOTTI {abstract}

The Hegemony of Tokyo Imperial University and the Paradox of Meritocracy in Modern Japan {abstract}
JAMYUNG CHOI

REVIEWS

Lucken (Simkin, trans.), Imitation and Creativity in Japanese Arts: From Kishida Ryūsei to Miyazaki Hayao
MEGHEN JONES

Roquet, Ambient Media: Japanese Atmospheres of Self
FABIAN SCHÄFER

Jacobowitz, Writing Technology in Meiji Japan: A Media History of Modern Japanese Literature and Visual Culture
ROBERT J. TUCK

Reed, Bachelor Japanists: Japanese Aesthetics and Western Masculinities
JOHN WHITTIER TREAT

Galbraith, Kam, and Kamm, eds., Debating Otaku in Contemporary Japan: Historical Perspectives and New Horizons
BEN WHALEY

Davis, Anderson, and Walls, eds., Rashomon Effects: Kurosawa, Rashomon, and Their Legacies
MITSUHIRO YOSHIMOTO

Groemer, Street Performers and Society in Urban Japan, 1600–1900: The Beggar’s Gift
ADAM L. KERN

Groemer, Goze: Women, Musical Performance, and Visual Disability in Traditional Japan
SHAWN BENDER

Imahashi (McCreery, trans.), The Akita Ranga School and the Cultural Context in Edo Japan
ELIZABETH LILLEHOJ

Pandey, Perfumed Sleeves and Tangled Hair: Body, Woman, and Desire in Medieval Japanese Narratives
JANET R. GOODWIN

Ambros, Women in Japanese Religions
LEVI MCLAUGHLIN

Griffiths, Tracing the Itinerant Path: Jishū Nuns of Medieval Japan
SYBIL THORNTON

Drott, Buddhism and the Transformation of Old Age in Medieval Japan
DAVID QUINTER

Faure, Gods of Medieval Japan: Vol. 1, The Fluid Pantheon; Vol. 2, Protectors and Predators
STEVEN TRENSON

Richey, ed., Daoism in Japan: Chinese Traditions and Their Influence on Japanese Religious Culture
GAYNOR SEKIMORI

Paramore, Japanese Confucianism: A Cultural History
SAMUEL HIDEO YAMASHITA

Farge, A Christian Samurai: The Trials of Baba Bunkō
PETER NOSCO

Hirai, Government by Mourning: Death and Political Integration in Japan, 1603–1912
MICHAEL LAVER

Wittner and Brown, eds., Science, Technology, and Medicine in the Modern Japanese Empire
DAQING YANG

Bates, The Culture of the Quake: The Great Kanto Earthquake and Taishō Japan
ROY STARRS

Chapman, The Bonin Islanders, 1830 to the Present: Narrating Japanese Nationality
WENDY MATSUMURA

Hofmann, The Fascist Effect: Japan and Italy, 1915–1952
AARON WILLIAM MOORE

Shin and Sneider, Divergent Memories: Opinion Leaders and the Asia-Pacific War
PHILIP SEATON

Hanscom and Washburn, eds., The Affect of Difference: Representations of Race in East Asian Empire
MICHELE M. MASON

Yoneyama, Cold War Ruins: Transpacific Critique of American Justice and Japanese War Crimes
DEAN ASZKIELOWICZ

Bardsley, Women and Democracy in Cold War Japan
PHOEBE STELLA HOLDGRÜN

Neitzel, The Life We Longed For: Danchi Housing and the Middle Class Dream in Postwar Japan
ROBIN M. LE BLANC

Nemoto, Too Few Women at the Top: The Persistence of Inequality in Japan
KAYE BROADBENT

Ramseyer, Second-Best Justice: The Virtues of Japanese Private Law
MERYLL DEAN

Cave, Schooling Selves: Autonomy, Interdependence, and Reform in Japanese Junior High Education
YUKI IMOTO

OPINION AND COMMENT

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