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MONUMENTA NIPPONICA STUDIES IN JAPANESE CULTURE 2007 INDEX PUBLISHED BY SOPHIA UNIVERSITY, TOKYO A History of Domy6ji to 1572 (or Maybe 1575): An Attempted Reconstruction ROBERT BORGEN A Plan for Tasks at Hand: Aizawa Seishisai’s Jimusaku DONALD KEENE Sendai Kuji Hongi: Authentic Myths or Forged History? MARK TEEUWEN New Books for Old P. F. KORNICKI Female Readers and Early Heian Romances: The Hakubyo Tales of Ise Illustrated Scroll Fragments JOSHUA S. Mostow Peasants into Citizens? The Meiji Village in the Russo-Japanese War SIMON PARTNER Perspectives on “Scenes of the Capital” SATO Y ASUHIRO Ashikaga Yoshimitsu’s Foreign Policy 1398 to 1408 A.D.: A Translation from Zenrin Kokuhoki, the Cambridge Manuscript CHARLOTTE VON VERSCHUER Shaka no Honiji: Preaching, Intertextuality, and Popular Hagiography HANK GLASSMAN Positioning the Observer: Interrogations of Alterity in Nagai Kafii’s Amerika Monogatari RACHAEL HUTCHINSON Mobius Strip: Instances of Cultural Translation between China, Japan, and the “West” IRMELA HiJIYA-KIRSCHNEREIT Pieces in a Puzzle: Changing Approaches to the Shdsdin Documents W. WAYNE FARRIS Creating Bodhisattvas: Eison, Hinin, and the “Living Manjusri” DAVID QUINTER “Account of the Origin of the Hannyaji Mafjusri” and “Votive Text for the Construction of the Hannyaji ManjuSri Bodhisattva Statue,” by Eison DAVID QUINTER ADDENDUM TO VOL. 62:2 Joshua S. Mostow, “Female Readers and Early Heian Romances: The Hakubyo Tales of Ise Illustrated Scroll Fragments” BOOK REVIEWS Japan’s Medieval Population: Famine, Fertility, and Warfare in a Transformative Age. By William Wayne Farris. BRUCE L. BATTEN The Dog Shogun: The Personality and Policies of Tokugawa Tsunayoshi. By Beatrice M. Bodart-Bailey. ANNE WALTHALL A Reader in Edo Period Travel. By Herbert Plutschow. LAURA NENZI JAPANimals: History and Culture in Japan’s Animal Life. Edited by Gregory M. Pflugfelder and Brett L. Walker. HANS MARTIN KRAMER Gendering Modern Japanese History. Edited by Barbara Moloney and Kathleen Uno. ANNE E. IMAMURA Kamikaze Diaries: Reflections of Japanese Student Soldiers. By Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney. BARAK KUSHNER Localizing Paradise: Kumano Pilgrimage and the Religious Landscape of Premodern Japan. By D. Max Moerman. IyYANAGA NOBUMI Woman Critiqued: Translated Essays on Japanese : Women’s Writing. Edited by Rebecca Copeland. JubDIT AROKAY Representing the Other in Modern Japanese Literature: A Critical Approach. Edited by Rachael Hutchinson and Mark Williams. JOSEPH S. O’LEARY Friends, Acquaintances, Pupils, and Patrons—Japanese Intellectual Life in the Late Eighteenth Century: A Prosopographical Approach. By Anna Beerens. GREGORY SMITS Punishment and Power in the Making of Modern Japan. By Daniel V. Botsman. SUSAN L. BURNS Earthquake Nation: The Cultural Politics of Japanese Seismicity, 1868-1930. By Gregory Clancey. J. CHARLES SCHENCKING Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan. By Tsuyoshi Hasegawa. The End of the Pacific War: Reappraisals. Edited by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa. ANNO TADASHI War Memory and Social Politics in Japan, 1945-2005. By Franziska Seraphim. SEBASTIAN CONRAD Manga from the Floating World: Comicbook Culture and the Kibyéshi of Edo Japan. By Adam L. Kern. STEPHAN KOHN In the Company of Men: Representations of Male-Male Sexuality in Meiji Literature. By Jim Reichert. PAUL GORDON SCHALOW Abe Kobo, Literary Strategist: The Evolution of His Agenda and Rhetoric in the Context of Postwar Japanese Avant-garde and Communist Artists’ Movements. By Thomas Schnellbacher. JAMES DORSEY The Fox’s Craft in Japanese Religion and Folklore: Shapeshifters, Transformations, and Duplicities. By Michael Bathgate. JANET GOFF Explaining Pictures: Buddhist Propaganda and Etoki Storytelling in Japan. By kumi Kaminishi. |C AROLINE HIRASAWA Handmade Culture: Raku Potters, Patrons, and Tea Practitioners in Japan. By Morgan Pitelka. RICHARD L. WILSON Understanding Humor in Japan. Edited by Jessica Milner Davis. RICHARD GARDNER Millennial Monsters. By Anne Allison. JAMES FARRER Vicarious Language: Gender and Linguistic Modernity in Japan. By Miyako Inoue. A Cultural History of Women’s Language. By Endo Orie. NANETTE GOTTLIEB Selling Songs and Smiles: The Sex Trade in Heian and Kamakura Japan. By Janet R. Goodwin. | R. KELLER KIMBROUGH Thinking Like a Man: Tadano Makuzu (1763-1825). By Bettina Gramlich-Oka. MARCIA YONEMOTO Japan’s Modern Prophet: Uchimura Kanzo, 1861-1930. By John F. Howes. JAMES L. HUFFMAN In the Beginning, Woman Was the Sun: The Autobiography of a Japanese Feminist. By Hiratsuka Raicho. Translated, with an introduction and notes, by Teruko Craig. G. G. ROWLEY Bad Youth: Juvenile Delinquency and the Politics of Everyday Life in Modern Japan. By David R. Ambaras. SIMON PARTNER A Poetics of Courtly Male Friendship in Heian Japan. By Paul Gordon Schalow. MARGARET H. CHILDS The Poetics of Motoori Norinaga: A Hermeneutical Journey. Translated and edited by Michael F. Marra. W.J. Boot The Uses of Memory: The Critique of Modernity in the Fiction of Higuchi Ichiy6. By Timothy J. Van Compernolle. ELAINE GERBERT Suicidal Honor: General Nogi and the Writings of Mori Ogai and Natsume Séseki. By Doris G. Bargen. STEPHEN DoDD Spirit Matters: The Transcendent in Modern Japanese Literature. By Philip Gabriel. THOMAS SCHNELLBACHER Discourse and Ideology in Medieval Japanese Buddhism. Edited by Richard K. Payne and Taigen Dan Leighton. Did Dégen Go to China?: What He Wrote and When He Wrote It. By Steven Heine. JOSEPH S. O’LEARY Iron Eyes: The Life and Teachings of Obaku Zen Master Tetsugen Doko. By Helen J. Baroni. RICHARD BOWRING Musikalische Impressionen aus Japan 1941-1957. By Eta Harich-Schneider. Edited, with an introduction and commentaries, by Ingrid Fritsch. MARGARET MEHL Gateway to Japan: Hakata in War and Peace, 500-1300. By Bruce L. Batten. CHARLOTTE VON VERSCHUER War and Faith: Ikk6 Ikki in Late Muromachi Japan. By Carol Richmond Tsang. J. P. LAMERS Popular Literacy in Early Modern Japan. By Richard Rubinger. LUKE ROBERTS The Intra-Asian Trade in Japanese Copper by the Dutch East India Company during the Eighteenth Century. By Ryuto Shimada. BETTINA GRAMLICH-OKA Images des Occidentaux dans le Japon de |’ ére Meiji. By Hartmut O. Rotermund. SHION KONO Nationalisms in Japan. By Naoko Shimazu. KOICHI NAKANO A History of Nationalism in Modern Japan: Placing the People. By Kevin M. Doak. Y OSHIHISA TAK MATSUSAKA From Mahan to Pearl Harbor: The Imperial Japanese Navy and the United States. By Sadao Asada. KATHRYN RAGSDALE From Marco Polo Bridge to Pearl Harbor: Who Was Responsible? Edited by James E. Auer. J. VICTOR KOSCHMANN Objects of Discourse: Memoirs by Women of Heian Japan. By John R. Wallace. ROBERT O. KHAN Love After The Tale of Genji: Rewriting the World of the Shining Prince. By Charo B. D’Etcheverry. AILEEN GATTEN Sirens of the Western Shore: The Westernesque Femme Fatale, Translation, and Vernacular Style in Modern Japanese Literature. By Indra Levy. NANETTE GOTTLIEB Asura’s Harp: Engagement with Language as Buddhist Path. By Dennis Hirota. GEORGE TANABE Rennyo and the Roots of Modern Japanese Buddhism. Edited by Mark L. Blum and Shin’y a Yasutomi. CAROL RICHMOND TSANG 517 Zen Sanctuary of Purple Robes: Japan’s Tokeiji Convent Since 1285. By Sachiko Kaneko Morrell and Robert E. Morrell. DENNIS HirRoTA 519