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 43, Number 2

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Volume 43, Number 2
Summer 2017

ARTICLES

The Emperor’s Sovereign Status and the Legal Construction of Gender in Early Meiji Japan
HIROMI SASAMOTO-COLLINS {abstract}

Between Patriotism and Terrorism: The Policing of Nationalist Movements in 1930s Japan
JOHN D. PERSON {abstract}

Channeling the Undercurrents: Fūsetsudome, Information Access, and National Political Awareness in Nineteenth-Century Japan
GIDEON FUJIWARA {abstract}

Hierarchy, Hubris, and Parody in Ihara Saikaku’s Kōshoku ichidai otoko
DAVID J. GUNDRY {abstract}

REVIEWS

Wigen, Sugimoto, and Karacas, eds., Cartographic Japan: A History in Maps
MORGAN PITELKA

Harper and Shirane, eds., Reading The Tale of Genji: Sources from the First Millennium
MICHEL VIEILLARD-BARON

Rodd, trans., Shinkokinshū: New Collection of Poems Ancient and Modern
T. E. MCAULEY

Grapard, Mountain Mandalas: Shugendō in Kyushu
HEATHER BLAIR

Quinter, From Outcasts to Emperors: Shingon Ritsu and the Mañjuśrī Cult in Medieval Japan
JAMES L. FORD

Rosenfield, Preserving the Dharma: Hōzan Tankai and Japanese Buddhist Art of the Early Modern Era
PATRICIA J. GRAHAM

Mostow and Ikeda, A Third Gender: Beautiful Youths in Japanese Edo-Period Prints and Paintings (1600–1868)
NAMIKO KUNIMOTO

Davis, Partners in Print: Artistic Collaboration and the Ukiyo-e Market
ROSINA BUCKLAND

Isaka, Onnagata: A Labyrinth of Gendering in Kabuki Theater
SAMUEL L. LEITER

Orbaugh, Propaganda Performed: Kamishibai in Japan’s Fifteen-Year War
JONATHAN ZWICKER

Andrade and Hang, eds., Sea Rovers, Silver, and Samurai: Maritime East Asia in Global History, 1550–1700
CATHERINE L. PHIPPS

McNally, Like No Other: Exceptionalism and Nativism in Early Modern Japan
ANNE WALTHALL

Seaton, ed., Local History and War Memories in Hokkaido
TAKASHI YOSHIDA

Benesch, Inventing the Way of the Samurai: Nationalism, Internationalism, and Bushidō in Modern Japan
JAMES MARK SHIELDS

Calichman, Beyond Nation: Time, Writing, and Community in the Work of Abe Kōbō
STEVEN C. RIDGELY

Suter, Holy Ghosts: The Christian Century in Modern Japanese Fiction
NANYAN GUO

Scruggs, Translingual Narration: Colonial and Postcolonial Taiwanese Fiction and Film
FAYE YUAN KLEEMAN

Kirsch, Contemporary Sino-Japanese Relations on Screen: A History, 1989–2005
MORRIS LOW

McLelland, Nagaike, Suganuma, and Welker, eds., Boys Love Manga and Beyond: History, Culture, and Community in Japan                                                         DEBORAH SHAMOON

Bowen-Struyk and Field, eds., For Dignity, Justice, and Revolution: An Anthology of Japanese Proletarian Literature
MATS KARLSSON

Manabe, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Protest Music after Fukushima
HENRY JOHNSON

Hasegawa (Sato, trans.), Beyond Fukushima: Toward a Post-Nuclear Society
DANIEL P. ALDRICH

Baldwin and Allison, eds., Japan: The Precarious Future
DAVID LEHENY

Arrington, Accidental Activists: Victim Movements and Government Accountability in Japan and South Korea
LUKE NOTTAGE

Wolff, Nottage, and Anderson, eds., Who Rules Japan? Popular Participation in the Japanese Legal Process
DIMITRI VANOVERBEKE

Arai, The Strange Child: Education and the Psychology of Patriotism in Recessionary Japan                                                                                                  CHRISTINE R. YANO

Okano, ed., Nonformal Education and Civil Society in Japan
PETER CAVE

Hayashi and Tobin, Teaching Embodied: Cultural Practice in Japanese Preschools
SUSAN D. HOLLOWAY

Ogawa, Lifelong Learning in Neoliberal Japan: Risk, Community, and Knowledge ROBERT ASPINALL

Ishikawa, ed., International Migrants in Japan: Contributions in an Era of Population Decline                                                                                                   GABRIELE VOGT

Mykal, The EU-Japan Security Dialogue: Invisible but Comprehensive
AXEL BERKOFSKY

Takagi, Conquering the Fear of Freedom: Japanese Exchange Rate Policy since 1945
MICHAEL SCHILTZ

Bytheway, Investing Japan: Foreign Capital, Monetary Standards, and Economic Development, 1859–2011
ANDREA REVELANT

Walker, The Sublime Perversion of Capital: Marxist Theory and the Politics of History in Modern Japan
CURTIS ANDERSON GAYLE

Dreyer, Middle Kingdom and Empire of the Rising Sun: Sino-Japanese Relations, Past and Present
Wan, Understanding Japan-China Relations: Theories and Issues
ROBERT HOPPENS