Japan Review 41 (Global Samurai I) is now available!
Edward Boyle
Hello All,
I'm delighted to announce that the first of our Japan Review special issues on Global Samurai is now available.
This beautiful volume has been guest-edited by Oleg Benesch (University of York) and Rosina Buckland (British Museum), with amazing cover art courtesy of Noguchi Tetsuya.
Like all our content, the volume is available fully Open Access, and now through our brand-new Japan Review website: https://japanreview.jp/issues/41/
The new journal homepage has just launched, so do please look around the rest of the site and tell us how we are doing. The articles are also available through the Nichibunken Repository, and on J-Stage and JSTOR, so you've no excuse not to take a peek!
I’ll put the full TOC and individual links to each of the articles below.
Enjoy, everyone!
Japan Review 41 - Global Samurai I
Oleg Benesch and Rosina Buckland, “Global Samurai: Japan’s Warriors across Time and Space.”
Rebekah Clements. “Hunting and Samurai Authority in Korea during the Imjin War of 1592–1598.”
Morgan Pitelka. “Deifying Warlords: Mythologizing Samurai Leaders in Early Modern and Modern Japan.”
Birgit
Tremml-Werner. “Samurai in Southeast Asia: The Lives
and Afterlives of Takayama Ukon and Yamada Nagamasa.”
Sven Saaler. “‘The Supreme Command of Our forces is in Our hands’: Restoring Imperial Authority and the Vilification of the Samurai.”
Hiromu Nagahara. “Engineering Elites: The First Japanese MIT Students as Samurai.”
Sarah Thal. “Steadfast Resolve: Stoicism, the Way of the Samurai, and the Struggle over Japan’s National Character.”
Chika Tonooka. “What Time are the Samurai? Visions of Modernity in Twentieth-Century Britain.”
Maria Framke. “Discussing Caste, Independence, and the Nation: Avatars and Omissions of the Samurai in Colonial South Asia.”
Sarah Panzer. “Honor and Loyalty: Staging Chūshingura in Nazi Germany.”
Michele Monserrati. “The Transnational Samurai: Nation-Building and Community for the Italian Far-Right.”