PMJS Publication Announcement: July 2022
Tariq Sheikh
Dear colleagues,
Below please find our monthly bulletin compiling information on publications by and recommendations from PMJS members. All details below were submitted through the PMJS Publication Announcements online form.
Publication type: Article
Title: 運命と偶然の彼方？道元の「有時」の思想 Unmei to gūzen no kanata? Dōgen no 'uji' no shisō
Author: Raji Steineck
Affiliation: University of Zurich, Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies (Professor)
Summary: In this contribution to a symposium of the Japanese Society of Comparative Philosophy on "Fate and Contingency", I argue that "Uji", Dōgen's famous tract on time, may be read as responding to questions about the prospects of salvation for individuals in the "Final Dharma Age." The concept of uji (“what is=time”) is connected to three main propositions: 1) everything that exists is temporal, that is, there is no existence outside of time. 2) Temporal existence is realized by way of transition through phases (kyōryaku), which connects the present with its past and its future. 3) These phases are all-encompassing configurations of the world, and in this sense, every instance is a “whole now” (nikon) that comprises the totality of time. Within this framework, Dōgen reassures his disciples that their practice is a phase belonging to the realization of enlightenment, and, as such, occurs in synchrony with all enlightened beings.
Release Date: April 2022
Journal: Hikaku shisō kenkyū
Website: https://www.jacp.org/journal-j/ko-nyu-2/
Contact: Raji Steineck, raji.s...@aoi.uzh.ch
Publication type: Book
Title: Reading Medieval Ruins: Urban Life and Destruction in Sixteenth-Century Japan
Author: Morgan Pitelka
Affiliation: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Summary: The Japanese provincial city of Ichijōdani was destroyed in the civil wars of the late sixteenth century but never rebuilt. Archaeological excavations have since uncovered the most detailed late medieval urban site in the country. Drawing on analysis of specific excavated objects and decades of archaeological evidence to study daily life in Ichijōdani, Reading Medieval Ruins in Sixteenth-Century Japan illuminates the city's layout, the possessions and houses of its residents, its politics and experience of war, and religious and cultural networks.
Release Date: 2022
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Contact: Morgan Pitelka, mpit...@unc.edu
Publication type: Book
Title: Letters from Japan’s Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries: The Correspondence of Warlords, Tea Masters, Zen Priests, and Aristocrats
Author: Morgan Pitelka, Reiko Tanimura, and Takashi Masuda
Summary: Historians Morgan Pitelka and Reiko Tanimura teamed up with one of the premier experts in calligraphy in Japan, Takashi Masuda, to translate, analyze, and explain twenty-three letters from one of the most fascinating periods in Japanese history: the transition from medieval to early modern.
Release Date: 2021
Publisher: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Contact: Morgan Pitelka, mpit...@unc.edu
Publication type: Book
Title: Kokin waka shû, Recueil de poèmes japonais d'hier et d'aujourd'hui
Language of publication: French
Translator: Michel Vieillard-Baron
Affiliation: Inalco, Paris (Professor)
Summary: This book is the first complete translation of Kokin waka shū in French. It includes the translation of the two prefaces (in Japanese and Chinese) and the 1111 poems. The translator's preface recounts the historical context of the compilation of the anthology and gives the necessary information for a good understanding of the poems. The book includes an index with the first line of the poems in the original Japanese and an index of the authors and their brief biographies.
Release Date: June 2022
Publisher: BELLES LETTRES
Website: https://www.lesbelleslettres.com/livre/9782251453088/kokin-waka-shu
Publication type: Book
Title: Sino-Japanese Reflections: Literary and Cultural Interactions between China and Japan in Early Modernity
Author: Joshua Fogel and Matthew Fraleigh
Affiliation: York University and Brandeis University (Professors)
Summary: Sino-Japanese Reflections offers ten richly detailed case studies that examine various forms of cultural and literary interaction between Japanese and Chinese intellectuals from the late Ming to the early twentieth century. The authors consider efforts by early modern scholars on each side of the Yellow Sea to understand the language and culture of the other, to draw upon received texts and forms, and to contribute to shared literary practices. Whereas literary and cultural flow within the Sinosphere is sometimes imagined to be an entirely unidirectional process of textual dissemination from China to the periphery, the contributions to this volume reveal a more complex picture: highlighting how literary and cultural engagement was always an opportunity for creative adaptation and negotiation. Examining materials such as Chinese translations of Japanese vernacular poetry, Japanese engagements with Chinese supernatural stories, adaptations of Japanese historical tales into vernacular Chinese, Sinitic poetry composed in Japan, and Japanese Sinology, the volume brings together recent work by literary scholars and intellectual historians of multiple generations, all of whom have a strong comparative interest in Sino-Japanese studies.
Release Date: May 23, 2022
Publisher: De Gruyter
Website: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110776928/html
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110776928
To recommend a title for the August announcement, please fill out the online form no later than July 20. 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 (aim...@columbia.edu) and/or Tariq Sheikh (tariq...@outlook.in).