Publication

Japan Review

Japan Review No.23

No. 23

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Patricia FISTER
Sanmi no Tsubone: Ashikaga Wife, Imperial Consort, Buddhist Devotee and Patron
Naoko Frances HIOKI
Visual Bilingualism and Mission Art:
A Reconsideration of “Early Western-Style Painting” in Japan
Bernard FAURE
From Bodhidharma to Daruma: The Hidden Life of a Zen Patriarch
TANIMURA Reiko
Practical Frivolities:
The Study of Shamisen among Girls of the Late Edo Townsman Class
Gerald GROEMER
The “Masters of Sacred Dance” in Eastern Japan during the Edo Period
KOKAZE Hidemasa
The Political Space of Meiji 22 (1889):
The Promulgation of the Constitution and the Birth of the Nation
IMAIZUMI Yoshiko
The Making of a Mnemonic Space: Meiji Shrine Memorial Art Gallery 1912-1936
Roman ROSENBAUM
Towards a Graphical Representation of Japanese Society in the Taishō Period:
Jiji Manga in Shinseinen
KAWANA Sari
Romancing the Role Model:
Florence Nightingale, Shōjo Manga, and the Literature of Self-Improvement
James Mark SHIELDS
Smashing the Mirror of Yamato:
Sakaguchi Ango, Decadence and a (Post-metaphysical) Buddhist Critique of Culture
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