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