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 47, Number 1

Table of Contents
Volume 47, Number 1
Winter 2021

ARTICLES

Ekuni Kaori’s Tears in the Night: The Brilliance of Queer Readings for Japanese Literary Studies
GRACE EN-YI TING {abstract}

Who Cooked for Townsend Harris? Chinese and the Introduction of Western Foodways to Bakumatsu and Meiji Japan
TIMOTHY YUN HUI TSU {abstract}

Imperial Loyalism and Political Fissures in Early Modern Japan
ILSOO CHO {abstract}

Making Meaning: Lexical Glosses as Interpretive Interventions in the Kakaishō
ERIN L. BRIGHTWELL {abstract}

REVIEWS

O’Neal, Word Embodied: The Jeweled Pagoda Mandalas in Japanese Buddhist Art
ANNA ANDREEVA

Vallor, Not Seeing Snow: Musō Soseki and Medieval Japanese Zen
YUKIO LIPPIT

Jaffe, Seeking Śākyamuni: South Asia in the Formation of Modern Japanese Buddhism
JUDITH SNODGRASS

Starling, Guardians of the Buddha’s Home: Domestic Religion in Contemporary Jōdo Shinshū
EISHO NASU

Steel, ed., Beyond the Gender Gap in Japan
ANNE STEFANIE ARONSSON

Smith, Dynasties and Democracy: The Inherited Incumbency Advantage in Japan
ARTHUR STOCKWIN

Mogaki, Understanding Governance in Contemporary Japan: Transformation and the Regulatory State
STEVEN K. VOGEL

Park, Katada, Chiozza, and Kojo, Taming Japan’s Deflation: The Debate over Unconventional Monetary Policy
JENNY CORBETT

Steinberg, The Platform Economy: How Japan Transformed the Consumer Internet
TAKAHIRO NISHIYAMA

Siniawer, Waste: Consuming Postwar Japan
PETER WYNN KIRBY

Benesch and Zwigenberg, Japan’s Castles: Citadels of Modernity in War and Peace
ALICE Y. TSENG

Ching, Anti-Japan: The Politics of Sentiment in Postcolonial East Asia
TAKASHI YOSHIDA

Esselstrom, That Distant Country Next Door: Popular Japanese Perceptions of Mao’s China
SHOGO SUZUKI

Hedberg, The Japanese Discovery of Chinese Fiction: The Water Margin and the Making of a National Canon
ERIK ESSELSTROM

McMullen, ed., Murasaki Shikibu’s The Tale of Genji: Philosophical Perspectives
SONJA ARNTZEN

Smits, Maritime Ryukyu, 1050–1650
PETER D. SHAPINSKY

de Sousa, The Portuguese Slave Trade in Early Modern Japan: Merchants, Jesuits and Japanese, Chinese, and Korean Slaves
JAN LEUCHTENBERGER

Toby, Engaging the Other: “Japan” and Its Alter Egos, 1550–1850
ADAM CLULOW

Burns, Kingdom of the Sick: A History of Leprosy and Japan
ALEXANDER R. BAY

Kadia, Into the Field: Human Scientists of Transwar Japan
YULIA FRUMER

Osaki, Nothingness in the Heart of Empire: The Moral and Political Philosophy of the Kyoto School in Imperial Japan
MICHIKO YUSA

Yellen, The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere: When Total Empire Met Total War
BARAK KUSHNER

Law, Transnational Nazism: Ideology and Culture in German-Japanese Relations, 1919–1936
KEN ISHIDA

Azuma, In Search of Our Frontier: Japanese America and Settler Colonialism in the Construction of Japan’s Borderless Empire
DAVID R. AMBARAS

Kishida, Kenkoku University and the Experience of Pan-Asianism: Education in the Japanese Empire
CEMIL AYDIN

Adal, Beauty in the Age of Empire: Japan, Egypt, and the Global History of Aesthetic Education
ERIKO TOMIZAWA-KAY

Uchiyama, Japan’s Carnival War: Mass Culture on the Home Front, 1937–1945
ETHAN MARK

Shockey, The Typographic Imagination: Reading and Writing in Japan’s Age of Modern Print Media
PETER KORNICKI

Marshall, Magazines and the Making of Mass Culture in Japan
KERIM YASAR

Dollase, Age of Shōjo: The Emergence, Evolution, and Power of Japanese Girls’ Magazine Fiction
SARAH FREDERICK

Berndt, Nagaike, and Ogi, eds., Shōjo Across Media: Exploring “Girl” Practices in Contemporary Japan
DEBORAH SHAMOON

DiNitto, Fukushima Fiction: The Literary Landscape of Japan’s Triple Disaster
Haga, The Earth Writes: The Great Earthquake and the Novel in Post–3/11 Japan
KAREN THORNBER

Nathan, Sōseki: Modern Japan’s Greatest Novelist
JONATHAN ZWICKER

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