MN 76:1 now available on Project MUSE
Bettina Oka
Monumenta Nipponica 76:1
★Articles
✦The Tragedy of Quabacondono: An Elizabethan Account of the Last Days of Toyotomi Hidetsugi. By Liam Matthew Brockey and Jurgis Saulius Algirdas Elisonas.
✦Nihon Gaishi Goes Global: A Translation History of a Nineteenth-Century Blockbuster. By Robert Tuck.
★Review Article
✦ A Pernicious Gang: Ōshio Chūsai and the Prosecution of Heretics in Late Tokugawa Japan. By James McMullen.
★Book Reviews
✦ Land of Plants in Motion: Japanese Botany and the World. By Thomas R. H. Havens. Reviewed by Jon L. Pitt.
✦ Akutō and Rural Conflict in Medieval Japan. By Morten Oxenboell. Reviewed by Ethan Segal.
✦ The Dutch East India Company in Early Modern Japan: Gift Giving and Diplomacy. By Michael Laver. Reviewed by Martha Chaiklin.
✦ What Is a Family? Answers from Early Modern Japan. Edited by Mary Elizabeth Berry and Marcia Yonemoto. Reviewed by Annick Horiuchi.
✦ Japan Supernatural: Ghosts, Goblins and Monsters, 1700 to Now. Edited by Melanie Eastburn. Reviewed by Adam L. Kern.
✦ Stranger in the Shogun’s City: A Japanese Woman and Her World. By Amy Stanley. Reviewed by Rebecca Corbett.
✦ Plucking Chrysanthemums: Narushima Ryūhoku and Sinitic Literary Traditions in Modern Japan. By Matthew Fraleigh. Reviewed by Jonathan Zwicker.
✦ Men in Metal: A Topography of Public Bronze Statuary in Modern Japan. By Sven Saaler. Reviewed by Rumi Sakamoto.
✦ Gathering for Tea in Modern Japan: Class, Culture and Consumption in the Meiji Period. By Taka Oshikiri. Reviewed by Meghen Jones.
✦ Financial Stabilization in Meiji Japan: The Impact of the Matsukata Reform. By Steven J. Ericson. Reviewed by Penelope Francks.
✦ American Evangelists and Tuberculosis in Modern Japan. By Elisheva A. Perelman. Reviewed by Susan L. Burns.
✦ Yumeji Modern: Designing the Everyday in Twentieth-Century Japan. By Nozomi Naoi. Reviewed by Kendall H. Brown.
✦ Age of “Shōjo”: The Emergence, Evolution, and Power of Japanese Girls’ Magazine Fiction. By Hiromi Tsuchiya Dollase. Reviewed by Michiko Suzuki.
✦ Magazines and the Making of Mass Culture in Japan. By Amy Bliss Marshall. Reviewed by Jan Bardsley.
✦ Earthquake Children: Building Resilience from the Ruins of Tokyo. By Janet Borland. Reviewed by Gregory Smits.
✦ Resurrecting Nagasaki: Reconstruction and the Formation of Atomic Narratives. By Chad R. Diehl. Reviewed by Yamaguchi Hibiki.
✦ The Metabolist Imagination: Visions of the City in Postwar Japanese Architecture and Science Fiction. By William O. Gardner. Reviewed by Michael P. Cronin.
✦ Help (Not) Wanted: Immigration Politics in Japan. By Michael Strausz. Reviewed by Gabriele Vogt.
✦ Japanese Culture through Videogames. By Rachael Hutchinson. Reviewed by Douglas Schules.
✦ Urban Migrants in Rural Japan: Between Agency and Anomie in a Post-growth Society. By Susanne Klien. Reviewed by Anthony Rausch.
★Information for Readers and Contributors
Bettina Gramlich-Oka
Chief Editor, Monumenta Nipponica
Professor, Japanese History
Faculty of Liberal Arts & Graduate School of Global Studies
Sophia University
7-1 Kioi-cho, Chiyoda-ku
Tokyo 102-8554
Tel: 81-3-3238-3543; -3544; Fax: 81-3-3238-3835
email: gramli...@sophia.ac.jp
http://dept.sophia.ac.jp/monumenta
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Bettina Oka
Articles
Nihongi Banquet Poetry: Rewriting Japanese Myth in Verse. By Matthieu Felt.
Edo Castle as a Consumer: Procuring Fish for the Shogun’s Table. By Ōguchi Yūjirō.
The Small Vehicle: The Construction of Hinayana and Japan’s Modern Buddhism. By Stephan Kigensan Licha.
Book Reviews
Akira Goto. Cultural Astronomy of the Japanese Archipelago: Exploring the Japanese Skyscape. By Jeffrey Kotyk.
Erin L. Brightwell. Reflecting the Past: Place, Language, and Principle in Japan’s Medieval “Mirror” Genre. By David Spafford.
Mihoko Oka. The Namban Trade: Merchants and Missionaries in 16th and 17th Century Japan. By Adam Clulow.
Laura Moretti. Pleasure in Profit: Popular Prose in Seventeenth-Century Japan. By R. Keller Kimbrough.
Mareshi Saitō. “Kanbunmyaku”: The Literary Sinitic Context and the Birth of Modern Japanese Language and Literature. By Peter Kornicki.
Gideon Fujiwara. From Country to Nation: Ethnographic Studies, “Kokugaku,” and Spirits in Nineteenth-Century Japan. By Mark Teeuwen.
Robert Hellyer and Harald Fuess, eds. The Meiji Restoration: Japan as a Global Nation. By Daniel Botsman.
Peer Vries. Averting a Great Divergence: State and Economy in Japan, 1868–1937. By Mark Metzler.
Miya Elise Mizuta Lippit. Aesthetic Life: Beauty and Art in Modern Japan. By Noriko Murai.
Robert Hellyer. Green with Milk and Sugar: When Japan Filled America’s Tea Cups. By William Wayne Farris.
Hiroko Matsuda. Liminality of the Japanese Empire: Border Crossings from Okinawa to Colonial Taiwan. By Kirsten L. Ziomek.
Sarah Kovner. Prisoners of the Empire: Inside Japanese POW Camps. By Mahon Murphy.
Benjamin Uchiyama. Japan’s Carnival War: Mass Culture on the Home Front, 1937–1945. By Janis Mimura.
Peter Kornicki. Eavesdropping on the Emperor: Interrogators and Codebreakers in Britain’s War with Japan. By Joshua Fogel.
Jolyon Baraka Thomas. Faking Liberties: Religious Freedom in American-Occupied Japan. By Trent Maxey.
Barak Kushner and Sherzod Muminov, eds. Overcoming Empire in Post-Imperial East Asia: Repatriation, Redress and Rebuilding;
Barak Kushner and Andrew Levidis, eds. In the Ruins of the Japanese Empire: Imperial Violence, State Destruction, and the Reordering of Modern East Asia. By Philip Seaton.
Woojeong Joo. The Cinema of Ozu Yasujiro: Histories of the Everyday. By Michael Raine.
Mayumi Itoh. The Japanese Culture of Mourning Whales: Whale Graves and Memorial Monuments in Japan. By Jay Alabaster.
Saori N. Katada. Japan’s New Regional Reality: Geoeconomic Strategy in the Asia-Pacific. By Kristi Govella.
Gracia Liu-Farrer. Immigrant Japan: Mobility and Belonging in an Ethno-nationalist Society. By Michael Strausz.