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MONUMENTA NIPPONICA STUDIES IN JAPANESE CULTURE 20006 INDEX SOPHIA UNIVERSITY, TOKYO Solo Poetry Contest as Poetic Self-Portrait: The One-Hundred-Round Contest of Lord Teika’s Own Poems (1) ROSELEE BUNDY Enchi Fumiko’s Stormy Days: Arashi and the Drama of Childbirth AYAKO KANO Networking for Pleasure and Profit ANNE WALTHALL Solo Poetry Contest as Poetic Self-Portrait: The One-Hundred-Round Contest of Lord Teika’s Own Poems (2) ROSELEE BUNDY The God of Wealth in Western Garb: Kawanabe Ky6sai’s Portrait of Edoardo Chiossone as Daikokuten DONATELLA FAILLA The Profane Wars of the Heavenly Warriors: Reassessing Medieval Warfare REINHARD ZOLLNER Kokugaku vs. Nativism MARK TEEUWEN Wildlife Management and Upland Modernity in Japan MARK J. HUDSON Coercive Sex in the Medieval Japanese Court: Lady NijO’s Memoirs HITOM!I TONOMURA The Horydji Treasures and Early Meiji Cultural Policy HIROKO T. MCDERMOTT The War Over the Kyoto School JOHN C. MARALDO Fujiwara Seika and the Great Learning RICHARD BOWRING Singing Tales of the Gishi: Naniwabushi and the Forty-seven ROnin in Late Meiji Japan HyOpo HIROMI AND HENRY D. SMITH II Parting in the Snow at Nanbuzaka, by Tochiken Kumoemon HENRY D. SMITH II The Prewar Roots of “Equality of Opportunity”: Japanese Educational Ideals in the Twentieth Century HANS MARTIN KRAMER More “Word-Gems Radiant with Light” ROSELEE BUNDY New Additions to the Sorai Library W.J. Boot BOOK REVIEWS Enigma of the Emperors: Sacred Subservience in Japanese History. By Ben-Ami Shillony. STEPHEN S. LARGE Written Texts—Visual Texts: Woodblock-Printed Media in Early Modern Japan. Edited by Susanne Formanek and Sepp Linhart. MARCIA YONEMOTO Geographies of Identity in Nineteenth-Century Japan. By David L. Howell. BRUCE L. BATTEN Burning and Building: Schooling and State Formation in Japan, 1750-1890. By Brian Platt. DAviID R. AMBARAS Musashino in Tuscany: Japanese Overseas Travel Literature, 1860-1912. By Susanna Fessler. MARTIN COLLCUTT Rearranging the Landscape of the Gods: The Politics of a Pilgrimage Site in Japan, 1573-1912. By Sarah Thal. NATHALIE KOUAME Making Pilgrimages: Meaning and Practice in Shikoku. By lan Reader. MARK MACWILLIAMS Language and Society in Japan. By Nanette Gottlieb. PATRICIA WETZEL Ambassadors from the Islands of Immortals: China- Japan Relations in the Han-Tang Period. By Zhenping Wang. CHARLOTTE VON VERSCHUER Negotiating with Imperialism: The Unequal Treaties and the Culture of Japanese Diplomacy. By Michael R. Auslin. M. WILLIAM STEELE Rural Economic Development in Japan: From the Nineteenth Century to the Pacific War. By Penelope Francks. KERRY SMITH Geisha, Harlot, Strangler, Star: A Woman, Sex, and Morality in Modern Japan. By William Johnston. VALERIE L. DURHAM The Thought War: Japanese Imperial Propaganda. By Barak Kushner. Letters from an Autumn of Emergencies: Selections from the Wartime Diaries of Ordinary Japanese. By Samuel Hideo Yamashita. In the Faraway Mountains and Rivers: More Voices From a Lost Generation of Japanese Students. Translated by Joseph L. Quinn, S.J., and Midori Yamanouchi. BEN-AMI SHILLONY Takeuchi Yoshimi: Displacing the West. By Richard F. Calichman. What is Modernity? Writings of Takeuchi Yoshimi. Edited, translated, and with an introduction by Richard F. Calichman. SEBASTIAN CONRAD Sacred Rites in Moonlight: Ben no Naishi Nikki. By S. Yumiko Hulvey. CHRISTINA LAFFIN Murdji: Rearranging Art and History at a Japanese Buddhist Temple. By Sherry Fowler. SAMUEL C. MORSE Law in Everyday Japan: Sex, Sumo, Suicide, and Statutes. By Mark D. West. ROBIN M. LE BLANC Le riz dans la culture de Heian, mythe et réalité. By Charlotte von Verschuer. ROBERT BORGEN Capital and Countryside in Japan, 300-1180: Japanese Historians Interpreted in English. Edited by Joan R. Piggott. WILLIAM WAYNE FARRIS The Japanese Mission to Europe, 1582-1590: The Journey of Four Samurai Boys Through Portugal, Spain and Italy. By Michael Cooper. ADRIANA BOSCARO The Development of the Japanese Nursing Profession: Adopting and Adapting Western Influences. By Aya Takahashi. SALLY A. HASTINGS Isami’s House: Three Centuries of aJ apanese Family. By Gail Lee Bernstein. BRIAN W. PLATT Reasonable Men, Powerful Words: Political Culture and Expertise in Twentieth-Century Japan. By Laura Hein. SUSAN TOWNSEND Appraising Genji: Literary Criticism and Cultural Anxiety in the Age of the Last Samurai. By Patrick W. Caddeau. THOMAS HARPER Kannani and Document of Flames: Two Japanese Colonial Novels. By Katsuei Yuasa. Translated and with an introduction by Mark Driscoll. NOBUKO MIYAMA OCHNER Unspeakable Acts: The Avant-Garde Theatre of Terayama Shiji and Postwar Japan. By Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei. DAvib G. GOODMAN Women in Medieval Japan: Motherhood, Household Management and Sexuality. By Wakita Haruko. Translated by Alison Tokita. JANET R. GOODWIN Die “bése Alte” in der japanischen Populdrkultur der Edo-Zeit: Die Feindvalenz und ihr soziales Umfeld. By Susanne Formanek. MARTINA SCHONBEIN Practical Pursuits: Takano Chéei, Takahashi Keisaku, and Western Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Japan. By Ellen Gardner Nakamura. ANN JANNETTA Lever of Empire: The International Gold Standard and the Crisis of Liberalism in Prewar Japan. By Mark Metzler. SIMON JAMES BYTHEWAY Divisions of Labor: Globality, Ideology, and War in the Shaping of the Japanese Labor Movement. By Lonny E. Carlile. TOM GILL The Religious Traditions of Japan 500-1600. By Richard Bowring. JAMES L. ForD Classical Japanese: A Grammar. By Haruo Shirane. STEPHEN MILLER Swords, Oaths, and Prophetic Visions: Authoring Warrior Rule in Medieval Japan. By Elizabeth Oyler. RICHARD A. GARDNER Advertising Tower: Japanese Modernism and Modernity in the 1920s. By William Gardner. ALISA FREEDMAN