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The Female as Subject
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 291

The Female as Subject

Reveals the rich and lively world of literate women in Japan from 1600 through the early 20th century

Occasional papers
  • Language: en

Occasional papers

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1952
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Protohistoric Yamato
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 510

Protohistoric Yamato

Michigan Papers in Japanese Studies No. 17

Imagination without Borders
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 175

Imagination without Borders

Tomiyama Taeko, a Japanese visual artist born in 1921, is changing the way World War II is remembered in Japan, Asia, and the world. Her work deals with complicated moral and emotional issues of empire and war responsibility that cannot be summed up in simple slogans, which makes it compelling for more than just its considerable beauty. Japanese today are still grappling with the effects of World War II, and, largely because of the inconsistent and ambivalent actions of the government, they are widely seen as resistant to accepting responsibility for their nation’s violent actions against others during the decades of colonialism and war. Yet some individuals, such as Tomiyama, have produced nuanced and reflective commentaries on those experiences, and on the difficulty of disentangling herself from the priorities of the nation despite her lifelong political dissent. Tomiyama’s sophisticated visual commentary on Japan’s history—and on the global history in which Asia is embedded—provides a compelling guide through the difficult terrain of modern historical remembrance, in a distinctively Japanese voice.

Transformations of Sensibility
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 375

Transformations of Sensibility

First published in Japan in 1983, this book is now a classic in modern Japanese literary studies. Covering an astonishing range of texts from the Meiji period (1868–1912), it presents sophisticated analyses of the ways that experiments in literary language produced multiple new—and sometimes revolutionary—forms of sensibility and subjectivity. Along the way, Kamei Hideo carries on an extended debate with Western theorists such as Saussure, Bakhtin, and Lotman, as well as with such contemporary Japanese critics as Karatani Kōjin and Noguchi Takehiko. Transformations of Sensibility deliberately challenges conventional wisdom about the rise of modern literature in Japan and offers highly...

Tales of Times Now Past
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 224

Tales of Times Now Past

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Writing and Renunciation in Medieval Japan
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 213

Writing and Renunciation in Medieval Japan

This is the first monograph-length study in English of Kamo no Chōmei, one of the most important literary figures of medieval Japan. Drawing upon a wide range of writings in a variety of genres from the Heian and Kamakura periods, Pandey focuses on the terms kyōgen kigo (wild words and fancy phrases), shoji soku nehan (samsara is nirvana), hōben (expedient means), and suki (single-minded devotion to an art). She shows how these terms deployed by writers in an attempt to reconcile literary and artistic activities with a commitment to Buddhism. By locating Chōmei within this broad context, the book offers an original reading of his texts, while at the same time casting a light upon intelle...

Bibliographical Series
  • Language: en

Bibliographical Series

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1950
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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School of Freedom
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 272

School of Freedom

Freedom is a great thing, but it comes at a cost: this contemporary theme is explored in this novel set in 1950s Tokyo. The story unfolds among the lives of ordinary people, from the former aristocrat to the humble hobo, in the era between defeat under the militarist regime and reconstruction under an Occupation-controlled "democratic" order. A keen observer of both sexes, Shishi's characterizations go beyond their cultural milieu, evoking universal human nature and impulses. This novel is both refreshing and revealing in its dismissal of gender stereotyping, and in its depiction of the people of Tokyo pulling themselves out of the chaos of war.

Ozu's Anti-cinema
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 208

Ozu's Anti-cinema

A luminous exploration of one filmmaker's work by another, an artist's personal journey, a manifesto