PMJS Publication Announcement: December 2024
Abigail MacBain
Dear colleagues,
I'm sorry, everyone! I neglected to send out the November publications announcement. So, this is going to be a combination of all submissions from October and November.
All details below were submitted by PMJS members through the PMJS Publication Announcements online form.
Publication type: Article
Title: Medicine Time: a New Socio-Temporal Element in the Cities of Ōsaka and Kyoto in Late Sixteenth Century Japan
Author: Andrew Goble
Affiliation:University of Oregon, Professor of History
Citation:Goble, Andrew Edmund. “Medicine Time: A New Socio-Temporal Element in the Cities of Ōsaka and Kyoto in Late Sixteenth Century Japan.” KronoScope 24, no. 1 (August 13, 2024): 4–36.
Summary: The essay explores new understandings of time in daily life coincident with the
onset of urbanization and availability of medical treatment in urban areas in late six-
teenth century Japan, focusing on the cities of Ōsaka and Kyoto. The primary source
is a contemporary diary (Tokitsune kyōki) that provides a near-daily record
of activity over a period of twenty years.
Topics explored includ: reporting of medical symptoms, keeping track
of the progress of ailments, the keeping by patients of longer-term records of medi-
cines and their use; times reported for physician – patient interactions, which shed
light on activity time in daily life; references to, and speculation on the need to note,
time of arrival and departure for trips or attendance at events; and the apparent new
rhythms of time consciousness associated with regular medicinal ingestion as part of
a long-term health maintenance regimen.
Release Date: August 2024
Website:https://brill-com.ezproxy.uzh.ch/view/journals/kron/24/1/article-p4_2.xml
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1163/15685241-bja10015
Publication type: Book
Title: The Book of Yōkai Expanded Second Edition: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese
Author: Michael Dylan Foster
Affiliation: University of California Davis, Professor
Summary: This is a significantly expanded and revised edition of The Book of Yōkai, originally published in 2015. Monsters, spirits, fantastic beings, and supernatural creatures haunt the folklore and popular culture of Japan. Broadly labeled yōkai, they appear in many forms, from tengu and kappa, to shape-shifting kitsune and long-tongued ceiling-lickers. Popular today in anime, manga, film, and games, many yōkai originated in local legends, folktales, and regional ghost stories. The Book of Yōkai explores how people create, transmit, and collect folklore, and make sense of the mysteries in the world around them. Revised and expanded, this second edition features fifty new illustrations, including a yōkai gallery of color images tracing the visual history of yōkai across centuries. Written in clear and accessible language, the book unpacks the cultural and historical contexts of yōkai, interpreting their meanings and introducing people who have pursued them through the ages.
Release Date: October 22, 2024
Website:https://www.ucpress.edu/books/the-book-of-yokai-expanded-second-edition/paper
Contact: Michael Dylan Foster mdfo...@ucdavis.edu
Additional information: currently there is a discount code, though I am not sure how long it will work: UCPSAVE30
also, there will be an audio version of the book available soon: https://rbmediaglobal.com/audiobook/9798855585063/
Publication type: Book
Title: The Historical Writing of the Mongol Invasions in Japan
Author: Judith Vitale
Affiliation:Bern University of Teacher Education, lecturer
Summary: The myth that divine winds protected Japan against the Mongol invasions of 1274 and 1281 is linked to a belief in absolute victory in the Pacific War. But what was the representation of a historical past in Japan before the rise of hyper-nationalism? The book is about the names for Japan and the Mongols, the commemoration of battle sites and ancestors, and the antiquarian exchanges within confined circles in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In the Tokugawa culture of appearances, historical writing and related genres affirmed status identity. In the first two-thirds of the nineteenth century, the exploits of thirteenth-century warriors served as a model for propagating revolutionary change in Japanese cities, whereas in the 1880s and 1890s, conservative associations appropriated the defense against the Mongol invasions as a symbol of patriotism.
Release Date: April 2024
Website:https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674295841
Contact:jud...@swissonline.ch
Publication type: Encyclopedia
Title: 日本石造文化事典 Nihon sekizō bunka jiten
Author: Hiroaki Hamada, Tsukasa Ayuha, Naoyuki Ogawa, Masaru Saiki, Yutaka Daikuhara, Yasuhiro Taniguchi
Affiliation:Obirin University, Rissho University, Kokugakuin University, Natural History Museum and Institute Chiba, Kokugakuin University Tochigi Junior College, Kokugakuin University
Summary: 時代区分を軸に地理的分布や文化的意味を重視しつつ日本の石の文化と歴史を総観〔内容〕総説編：道具／住まい／土木／権力表象／墓制／神仏・精霊／各論編：先史時代の石造文化／古代／中・近世／中世の宗教・信仰関連の石造物／近世／近現代の社会と石造物／特論編：琉球・沖縄の石造物／石材と石工／近代土木・建築遺産の石造物他
Release Date: 6 October 2024
Contact:Hirohito TSUJI
Additional Information: Official translated title in English: Encyclopedia of Stone Culture and History in Japan
Publication type: Article
Title: Visions of the Eastland: Reading the Azuma uta of Man’yōshū
Author: Marjorie Burge
Affiliation:University of Colorado Boulder, Assistant Professor
Citation: Japanese Language and Literature 58.2 (2024): 79-113
Summary: Book XIV of the early Japanese poetry anthology Man’yōshū (c.780s) features poems attributed to the people of Azuma [‘the Eastland’]. The “songs of Azuma” (azuma uta) in Book XIV have long been understood as “folk songs," but not only are the azuma a diverse group of poems which preclude such an overarching characterization, they are anthologized in a manner that suggests an editorial hand that belonged to a learned individual from the capital. Through comparing the poetry of travelers from the capital to the Eastland with the poetry of Book XIV, this article centers several preconceptions about Azuma and its people that characterize its depiction in poems by both “Western” and “Eastern” poets, arguing that Book XIV is curated to present a pastoral vision of the Eastland to a courtly audience by centering the capacity of Eastland folk to express “strong feelings” in surprisingly sophisticated voices.
Release Date: October 2024
Website: https://jll.pitt.edu/ojs/JLL/article/view/351
DOI: 10.5195/jll.2024.351
Contact:Marjorie Burge, margi...@gmail.com
To recommend a title for the January announcement, please fill out the online form no later than December 30. Submissions can be submitted by authors themselves or by PMJS members who are eager to share other scholars’ recent publications.
For any questions or comments on the submission format, please contact Abigail MacBain (abigail...@ed.ac.uk).