Japan

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In the Presence of Gods and Spirits

Hirata Astutane and His Collaborators

By Anne Walthall
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Religion, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

The legacy of Hirata Atsutane’s study of the Way of the Gods

The Community of Nuchi Du Takara ("Life Is the Ultimate Treasure") in Postwar Okinawa

Local Subjectivity within and against Empire

By Masamichi (Marro) Inoue
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Political Science, International Relations

Explores the conflict between Okinawans and the post-WWII US-Japan military alliance through the concept of nuchi du takara

Listening to the Voices of the Dead

The 3-11 Tohoku Disaster Speaks

By Jun'ichi Isomae
Translated by Lynne E. Riggs & Manabu Takechi
Subjects: History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Cultural Studies, Religion, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

An incisive observation of the traumas of loss and marginalization brought to the surface by the 2011 Tōhoku Disaster

Fantasies of Ito Michio

By Tara Rodman
Subjects: Dance, Asian Studies, Japan, Theater and Performance, Biography
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

Chronicles Ito Michio’s career and explores how fantasy sustains a life disrupted by war, racialization, and imperialism

Samurai with Telephones

Anachronism in Japanese Literature

By Christopher Smith
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Literary Studies, Asian Literature
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

What anachronisms reveal about historical narratives through Early Modern and Modern Japanese cultural products

Realisms in East Asian Performance

Edited by Jessica Nakamura & Katherine Saltzman-Li
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Asian Studies, China, Japan, Korea

Essays by leading scholars expand understandings of theatrical realism through East Asian performances across premodern, modern, and contemporary periods

The Time of Laughter

Comedy and the Media Cultures of Japan

By David Humphrey
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Media Studies, T.V. & Radio, Theater and Performance
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

How laughter shapes contemporary Japanese media

Toward a Gameic World

New Rules of Engagement from Japanese Video Games

By Ben Whaley
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Media Studies, New Media
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Examines the ways in which Japanese video games engage with social issues and national traumas

Negative, Nonsensical, and Non-Conformist

The Films of Suzuki Seijun

By Peter A. Yacavone
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Media Studies, Cinema Studies
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

The definitive study of the pathbreaking and controversial Japanese film director who expanded the form, rhetoric, and philosophy of popular genre movies

How Dark Is My Flower

Yosano Akiko and the Invention of Romantic Love

By Leith Morton
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Literary Studies, Modern Literature, Asian Literature
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Explores romantic love in modern Japanese literature through the work of the leading poet in the Myōjō circle

The Three Treasures

A Revised and Illustrated Study and Translation of Minamoto no Tamenori's Sanboe

By Edward Kamens & Ethan Bushelle
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Literary Studies, Asian Literature
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

An updated, augmented, and illustrated study and translation of this landmark collection of Buddhist tales

Ghosts in the Neighborhood

Why Japan Is Haunted by Its Past and Germany Is Not

By Walter Hatch
Subjects: Political Science, International Relations, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Emerging Democracies

Uneasy neighbors

Yosano Akiko and The Tale of Genji

Revised Edition

By Gaye Rowley
Subjects: Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, Biography, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

A major contribution to the study of an important Japanese woman writer and a masterwork of reader reception studies

Queer Subjects in Modern Japanese Literature

Male Love, Intimacy, and Erotics, 1886–2014

Edited by Stephen D. Miller
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Gender Studies, Gay and Lesbian Studies, Literary Studies, Asian Literature
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Tokyo Boogie-woogie and D.T. Suzuki

By Shoji Yamada
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

A rare exploration into the unknown life of Alan Suzuki, the son of Daisetsu and the writer of "Tokyo Boogie Woogie"

Sojiji

Discipline, Compassion, and Enlightenment at a Japanese Zen Temple

By Joshua A. Irizarry
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Religion, Anthropology
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

An intimate and insightful look into the life of a head Sōtō Zen temple in 21st century Japan

Pride, Not Prejudice

National Identity as a Pacifying Force in East Asia

By Eunbin Chung
Subjects: Political Science, Conflict Resolution & Peace Studies, Asian Studies, China, Japan, Korea, International Relations

Nationalism as a path to international peace

Regimes of Desire

Young Gay Men, Media, and Masculinity in Tokyo

By Thomas Baudinette
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Sexuality Studies, Media Studies
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Explores the limitations of sexual expression in Tokyo’s “safe” nightlife district and in Japanese media

Touching the Unreachable

Writing, Skinship, Modern Japan

By Fusako Innami
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Literary Studies, Cultural Studies
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

How can one construct relationality with the other through the skin, when touch is inevitably mediated by memories of previous contact, accumulated sensations, and interstitial space?

Black Eggs

Poems by Kurihara Sadako

By Sadako Kurihara
Translated by Richard Minear
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

The poetic voice of one of Japan’s greatest 20th-century poets

The Buddhist Poetry of the Great Kamo Priestess

Daisaiin Senshi and Hosshin Wakashu

By Edward Kamens
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature, Religion
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Provides new translations and sensitive readings of the devotional Buddhist poems of Senshi, the Great Kamo Priestess of the Heian period

Women and Networks in Nineteenth-Century Japan

By Bettina Gramlich-Oka, Anne Walthall, Fumiko Miyazaki, and Noriko SUGANO
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Women's Studies
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Writing women back into Japan’s nineteenth-century history, enriching our understanding of the period

The Era of Great Disasters

Japan and Its Three Major Earthquakes

By Makoto Iokibe
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Nature/Environment, Cultural Studies
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Uncovering the humanity and wisdom within the tragedy of Japan’s disaster responses to three major earthquakes

Going to Court to Change Japan

Social Movements and the Law in Contemporary Japan

Edited by Patricia G. Steinhoff
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Examines the relationship between social movements and the law in bringing about social change in Japan

The Grand Old Man and the Great Tradition

Essays on Tanizaki Jun’ichiro in Honor of Adriana Boscaro

Edited by Luisa Bienati & Bonaventura Ruperti
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan

Collects nine assessments of Tanizaki’s relationship with the classical literary tradition, in honor of the contributions of one of the great modernist’s most tireless scholars

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