Pub Date : 2024-01-04DOI: 10.1353/mni.2023.a916027
Philip Seaton
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Pub Date : 2024-01-04DOI: 10.1353/mni.2023.a916012
Erin L. Brightwell
Abstract:War tales, historical narratives, and setsuwa collections—both Buddhist and, to a lesser degree, those concerned with court life—are today the most famous prose genres from the Kamakura period (1185–1333). Common to many of these works is a preoccupation with decline, be it the corruption of Buddhist teachings or the loss of court culture. Fujiwara no Nobuzane's court-oriented setsuwa collection Ima monogatari (Today's Tales), however, takes a different tack. Rather than fetishize the past or bemoan the current state of affairs, it recounts a world in which the present is inevitably different from the past, but without presenting that as cause for sorrow or alarm. As a collection that displays its author's literacy, social connections, and sense of humor, Today's Tales thus offers a fresh perspective on the social and cultural changes of the mid-thirteenth century.
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Pub Date : 2024-01-04DOI: 10.1353/mni.2023.a916021
Adrian Pinnington
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Pub Date : 2024-01-04DOI: 10.1353/mni.2023.a916016
Reinhard Zöllner
{"title":"Agents of World Renewal: The Rise of \"Yonaoshi\" Gods in Japan by Takashi Miura (review)","authors":"Reinhard Zöllner","doi":"10.1353/mni.2023.a916016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2023.a916016","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54069,"journal":{"name":"MONUMENTA NIPPONICA","volume":"36 8","pages":"106 - 109"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139450803","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"More Than Medals: A History of the Paralympics and Disability Sports in Postwar Japan by Dennis J. Frost (review)","authors":"W. Manzenreiter","doi":"10.1353/mni.2022.0065","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2022.0065","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54069,"journal":{"name":"MONUMENTA NIPPONICA","volume":"77 1","pages":"378 - 383"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47805868","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dancing the Dharma: Religious and Political Allegory in Japanese Noh Theater by Susan Blakeley Klein (review)","authors":"P. Atkins","doi":"10.1353/mni.2022.0051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2022.0051","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54069,"journal":{"name":"MONUMENTA NIPPONICA","volume":"77 1","pages":"319 - 322"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42606340","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
As I put down Horton’s work, I could not help but wonder if the structure of this study and its self-imposed limitations, replicating studies first produced by his predecessors at Berkeley, might not constitute an academic form of mourning and homage to deceased masters? Horton’s dedication of the book to his teachers—John Rosenfield, William H. and Helen Craig McCullough, and Kaneko Kinjirō—suggests as much, as does his fidelity to their form of scholarship in his own scholarly practices. Moreover, is not the dust jacket’s presentation of this work to readers as “a model of what an annotated translation should be” itself part of the process of legitimating succession in the academy? Yet, as history shows, succession need not entail simple reproduction. The Rhetoric of Death and Discipleship in Premodern Japan is, indeed, a model of a certain kind of annotated translation. It is not, I hope, a model for emulation by the next generation of scholars.
{"title":"Craft Culture in Early Modern Japan: Materials, Makers, and Mastery by Christine M. E. Guth (review)","authors":"Liliana Morais","doi":"10.1353/mni.2022.0053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2022.0053","url":null,"abstract":"As I put down Horton’s work, I could not help but wonder if the structure of this study and its self-imposed limitations, replicating studies first produced by his predecessors at Berkeley, might not constitute an academic form of mourning and homage to deceased masters? Horton’s dedication of the book to his teachers—John Rosenfield, William H. and Helen Craig McCullough, and Kaneko Kinjirō—suggests as much, as does his fidelity to their form of scholarship in his own scholarly practices. Moreover, is not the dust jacket’s presentation of this work to readers as “a model of what an annotated translation should be” itself part of the process of legitimating succession in the academy? Yet, as history shows, succession need not entail simple reproduction. The Rhetoric of Death and Discipleship in Premodern Japan is, indeed, a model of a certain kind of annotated translation. It is not, I hope, a model for emulation by the next generation of scholars.","PeriodicalId":54069,"journal":{"name":"MONUMENTA NIPPONICA","volume":"77 1","pages":"325 - 330"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44300182","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
and, on the other hand, the economic rise that led to the bubble era. Although a work of history, Igarashi’s project speaks to a much broader audience including but not limited to scholars interested in cultural studies, mass media, gender issues, and sociological change. It adroitly illuminates the dramatic transformation of people’s sensibilities, daily lives, and understanding of their nation and their place in it. As a cultural studies scholar interested in the ongoing (re)construction of gender, I wished there had been some more sustained engagement in the book with the notions and contextualization of “masculinity” (versus men) specific to Japan during this time and in the specific texts. Igarashi’s unspooling of how the entrenchment of consumer culture precipitated a variety of insecurities that were captured, confronted, and reimagined in popular media is strong and sound. Still, a few well-placed interrogations of the negotiation of masculine identity within entrenched and transforming patriarchal norms—specifically, of how those norms were inextricably linked to imagined, assumed, and socially sanctioned power—would have brought the study more explicitly in line with its title. That said, Igarashi clearly presumes the constructedness of gender and demonstrates both that men dominated the spaces of cultural production and that “the defense of male identity was a central concern of the critical imagination” as they found their former roles and expectations changing faster than they could accommodate (p. 6). In this volume, Igarashi brings together, in carefully articulated and thoughtful readings, things that might on the face of the matter seem unrelated. He highlights cultural production and lived history, both mundane (domesticity and danchi) and monstrous (torture and murder). It is hard to do justice to all the details of the book in this brief review. I urge the reader to read and reread Igarashi’s thought-provoking chapters, which parse and clarify the effects of mass consumerism and new visual modes, media, and experiences. Japan, 1972 goes a long way toward explaining the tropes and national imagery that have shaped Japan into the powerful global economic and cultural force it is today.
{"title":"Japan's Living Politics: Grassroots Action and the Crises of Democracy by Tessa Morris-Suzuki (review)","authors":"M. Haddad","doi":"10.1353/mni.2022.0064","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2022.0064","url":null,"abstract":"and, on the other hand, the economic rise that led to the bubble era. Although a work of history, Igarashi’s project speaks to a much broader audience including but not limited to scholars interested in cultural studies, mass media, gender issues, and sociological change. It adroitly illuminates the dramatic transformation of people’s sensibilities, daily lives, and understanding of their nation and their place in it. As a cultural studies scholar interested in the ongoing (re)construction of gender, I wished there had been some more sustained engagement in the book with the notions and contextualization of “masculinity” (versus men) specific to Japan during this time and in the specific texts. Igarashi’s unspooling of how the entrenchment of consumer culture precipitated a variety of insecurities that were captured, confronted, and reimagined in popular media is strong and sound. Still, a few well-placed interrogations of the negotiation of masculine identity within entrenched and transforming patriarchal norms—specifically, of how those norms were inextricably linked to imagined, assumed, and socially sanctioned power—would have brought the study more explicitly in line with its title. That said, Igarashi clearly presumes the constructedness of gender and demonstrates both that men dominated the spaces of cultural production and that “the defense of male identity was a central concern of the critical imagination” as they found their former roles and expectations changing faster than they could accommodate (p. 6). In this volume, Igarashi brings together, in carefully articulated and thoughtful readings, things that might on the face of the matter seem unrelated. He highlights cultural production and lived history, both mundane (domesticity and danchi) and monstrous (torture and murder). It is hard to do justice to all the details of the book in this brief review. I urge the reader to read and reread Igarashi’s thought-provoking chapters, which parse and clarify the effects of mass consumerism and new visual modes, media, and experiences. Japan, 1972 goes a long way toward explaining the tropes and national imagery that have shaped Japan into the powerful global economic and cultural force it is today.","PeriodicalId":54069,"journal":{"name":"MONUMENTA NIPPONICA","volume":"77 1","pages":"374 - 378"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45969431","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
to the neophyte, and whose chapters will surely find their way into many a syllabus for years to come. Seasoned scholars will appreciate the volume’s success in taking the pulse of the field of Tokugawa studies: where it is, what it is moving away from, and where it is headed. As for those new to the Tokugawa world, wondering why they should perhaps venture in—other than because it is awesome—one compelling reason echoes through the chapters: its resonance with the world in which we currently live. Countless contributors—among whom I will list Gregory Smits on earthquakes, Alison Tokita on musical traditions, Lee Thompson and Nitta Ichirō on sumo, Glynne Walley on manga, Kern on global haiku, Mark McNally on Kokugaku and exceptionalism, and Kojima on the enduring legacy of the Mito school—highlight meaningful connections and continuities between “then” and “now,” between “there” and “here.” In short, the Tokugawa world matters, and this volume provides plenty of opportunities to appreciate its relevance and, yes, its awesomeness.
{"title":"Blind in Early Modern Japan: Disability, Medicine, and Identity by Wei Yu Wayne Tan (review)","authors":"G. Groemer","doi":"10.1353/mni.2022.0055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2022.0055","url":null,"abstract":"to the neophyte, and whose chapters will surely find their way into many a syllabus for years to come. Seasoned scholars will appreciate the volume’s success in taking the pulse of the field of Tokugawa studies: where it is, what it is moving away from, and where it is headed. As for those new to the Tokugawa world, wondering why they should perhaps venture in—other than because it is awesome—one compelling reason echoes through the chapters: its resonance with the world in which we currently live. Countless contributors—among whom I will list Gregory Smits on earthquakes, Alison Tokita on musical traditions, Lee Thompson and Nitta Ichirō on sumo, Glynne Walley on manga, Kern on global haiku, Mark McNally on Kokugaku and exceptionalism, and Kojima on the enduring legacy of the Mito school—highlight meaningful connections and continuities between “then” and “now,” between “there” and “here.” In short, the Tokugawa world matters, and this volume provides plenty of opportunities to appreciate its relevance and, yes, its awesomeness.","PeriodicalId":54069,"journal":{"name":"MONUMENTA NIPPONICA","volume":"77 1","pages":"334 - 340"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41674945","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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