with curiosity and praise reserved exclusively for the former” (p. 194). Goree notes that we can see this imperial preference in several scenes, including an unimpressive daimyo procession traveling to Edo, which appears “modest compared with the elaborate parades associated with the imperial court or religious festivals featured elsewhere” (p. 195). Goree also makes a convincing case that the work displays sectarian religious favoritism as well, demonstrating a consistent “privileging of sites and figures related to Jōdo Shinshū Buddhism” (p. 244). In sum, Printing Landmarks is an outstanding new contribution to the study of early modern Japanese literature, art history, cartography, publishing, and book history. As Goree observes, “Meisho zue have long been regarded as a distinct print form, but their features have been considered self-evident or undeserving of historical theorization” (p. 258). Many scholars have drawn on the images and textual passages in meisho zue as apparently objective and historically reliable documentary sources, but as Goree so expertly shows, their accuracy is illusory: “We must be on guard against this beguiling power of meisho zue, lest we conclude that life in the Tokugawa era was rosier than it was, especially when using zu and mondan as evidence for making historical claims about specific places” (p. 14). These are indeed words to the wise. Printing Landmarks is a terrific work of scholarship, and it should change how we read, cite, and understand meisho zue for many years to come.
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approaching people in disaster areas, and great strides have been made in disaster response by mental health professionals. Lastly, Ozawa-de Silva repeatedly emphasizes the importance of looking into the subjectivity of those under study. I found it somewhat surprising to see how constantly she tries to justify herself in this regard: to me, such an approach seems to be not only self-evident but also crucial when studying any human behavior in depth in either a clinical or nonclinical setting, at least in the beginning. Granted, I am a sociologist and clinician rather than an anthropologist, but I had been under the impression that the approach was fundamental in anthropology as well. If such emphasis is indeed now required, here too Anatomy of Loneliness makes a significant contribution to the field.
接近灾区人民，心理健康专业人员在救灾方面取得了长足进步。最后，Ozawa de Silva反复强调了研究被研究者主体性的重要性。看到她如此不断地试图在这方面为自己辩护，我感到有些惊讶：对我来说，这种方法似乎不仅不言自明，而且在临床或非临床环境中深入研究任何人类行为时至关重要，至少在一开始是这样。诚然，我是一名社会学家和临床医生，而不是人类学家，但我一直认为这种方法也是人类学的基础。如果现在确实需要这样的强调，那么《孤独解剖》也对这一领域做出了重大贡献。
{"title":"Family-Run Universities in Japan: Sources of Inbuilt Resilience in the Face of Demographic Pressure, 1992–2030 by Jeremy Breaden and Roger Goodman (review)","authors":"R. Yamada","doi":"10.1353/mni.2022.0069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2022.0069","url":null,"abstract":"approaching people in disaster areas, and great strides have been made in disaster response by mental health professionals. Lastly, Ozawa-de Silva repeatedly emphasizes the importance of looking into the subjectivity of those under study. I found it somewhat surprising to see how constantly she tries to justify herself in this regard: to me, such an approach seems to be not only self-evident but also crucial when studying any human behavior in depth in either a clinical or nonclinical setting, at least in the beginning. Granted, I am a sociologist and clinician rather than an anthropologist, but I had been under the impression that the approach was fundamental in anthropology as well. If such emphasis is indeed now required, here too Anatomy of Loneliness makes a significant contribution to the field.","PeriodicalId":54069,"journal":{"name":"MONUMENTA NIPPONICA","volume":"77 1","pages":"400 - 402"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42121924","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}
The nature of the relationship between the early states on the Korean peninsula and the Japanese archipelago has been an ongoing academic debate for more than a cen - tury. Archaeology and History of Toraijin: Human, Technological, and Cultural Flow from the Korean Peninsula to the Japanese Archipelago c. 800 BC–AD 600 draws upon a vast scholarship, chiefly in Japanese and Korean, to demonstrate convincingly that the dominant stimulus directing technological and cultural development on the Japanese islands was a “push-pull” (p. 7) relationship with peoples of the peninsula. This dynamic existed from the middle Mumun period (ca. 900–400 BCE) to the mid-to late Kofun period (ca. 350–600 CE) of Japanese history. This book by senior scholars and emeritus professors Song-nai Rhee, C. Melvin Aikens, and Gina L. Barnes is a veritable treasure trove, connecting scholars of early Korea and early Japan to the most important and influential scholarship on the competing theories dealing with the cultural development of early Japan. The book consists of a short introduction, five detailed chapters, a short section titled “Collaboration Not Conquest,” and a brief conclusion. In addition, the authors have provided 47 figures and 11 maps to support their argument. The bibliogra - phy comprises 30 pages of entries listed by institutional author (using abbrevia - tions) and by author last name. The introduction focuses on the concept or subject of the toraijin (“people who have crossed over”), the importance of the importa - tion of iron culture, and the kinds of sources used for research—archaeological data and historical materials (pp. 1–11
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the general assumption of a reactive Japan only gradually adopting an active diplomacy and policy approach to regional strategic and security issues even as security challenges increased from the second half of the 1990s. Midford argues that RSM also helped Japan achieve secondary goals. One was to “develop new security utilities not adequately provided by the US-Japan alliance . . . especially in nontraditional security areas such as counterpiracy, counterterrorism, and Humanitarian and Disaster Relief” (p. 4). This is correct, and I found Midford’s framing of these activities helpful. I would have appreciated greater discussion of the strategic significance for Japan, however. Furthermore, Midford identifies the East Asia Maritime Forum under the Democratic Party of Japan as another RSM mechanism and ascribes it importance in the final chapter (p. 163), but discussion of its practical achievements is missing. Midford states that another secondary goal for Tokyo was “to ameliorate new concerns about US abandonment that emerged after the Cold War, as well as its longerterm fear of entrapment by its superpower ally” (p. 4). He argues that it did so by enhancing incentives for engagement, mitigating American “unilateralist tendencies” (p. 22), and providing an avenue for reducing conflict in the face of allied abandonment. The book provides insufficient evidence for RSM having this effect, however, and does not convincingly demonstrate that Tokyo found self-assurance through RSM as opposed to other strategic regional initiatives pursued over the preceding three decades. Nevertheless, in Overcoming Isolationism, Midford provides a valuable service in situating RSM as a crucial vehicle for initiating and facilitating Japan’s engagement with the wider region over this period. Most Japan experts recognize that Tokyo has been a more proactive regional security actor in the new millennium, but Midford essentially argues that Japan began enhancing its ability to drive security cooperation and shape regional outcomes prior to the new millennium through RSM.
{"title":"Invisibility by Design: Women and Labor in Japan's Digital Economy by Gabriella Lukács (review)","authors":"N. Gagné","doi":"10.1353/mni.2022.0067","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2022.0067","url":null,"abstract":"the general assumption of a reactive Japan only gradually adopting an active diplomacy and policy approach to regional strategic and security issues even as security challenges increased from the second half of the 1990s. Midford argues that RSM also helped Japan achieve secondary goals. One was to “develop new security utilities not adequately provided by the US-Japan alliance . . . especially in nontraditional security areas such as counterpiracy, counterterrorism, and Humanitarian and Disaster Relief” (p. 4). This is correct, and I found Midford’s framing of these activities helpful. I would have appreciated greater discussion of the strategic significance for Japan, however. Furthermore, Midford identifies the East Asia Maritime Forum under the Democratic Party of Japan as another RSM mechanism and ascribes it importance in the final chapter (p. 163), but discussion of its practical achievements is missing. Midford states that another secondary goal for Tokyo was “to ameliorate new concerns about US abandonment that emerged after the Cold War, as well as its longerterm fear of entrapment by its superpower ally” (p. 4). He argues that it did so by enhancing incentives for engagement, mitigating American “unilateralist tendencies” (p. 22), and providing an avenue for reducing conflict in the face of allied abandonment. The book provides insufficient evidence for RSM having this effect, however, and does not convincingly demonstrate that Tokyo found self-assurance through RSM as opposed to other strategic regional initiatives pursued over the preceding three decades. Nevertheless, in Overcoming Isolationism, Midford provides a valuable service in situating RSM as a crucial vehicle for initiating and facilitating Japan’s engagement with the wider region over this period. Most Japan experts recognize that Tokyo has been a more proactive regional security actor in the new millennium, but Midford essentially argues that Japan began enhancing its ability to drive security cooperation and shape regional outcomes prior to the new millennium through RSM.","PeriodicalId":54069,"journal":{"name":"MONUMENTA NIPPONICA","volume":"77 1","pages":"388 - 394"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45711530","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":"The Tokugawa World ed. by Gary P. Leupp and De-min Tao (review)","authors":"L. Nenzi","doi":"10.1353/mni.2022.0054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2022.0054","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54069,"journal":{"name":"MONUMENTA NIPPONICA","volume":"77 1","pages":"330 - 334"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44584997","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":"Printing Landmarks: Popular Geography and \"Meisho Zue\" in Late Tokugawa Japan by Robert Goree (review)","authors":"R. K. Kimbrough","doi":"10.1353/mni.2022.0056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2022.0056","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54069,"journal":{"name":"MONUMENTA NIPPONICA","volume":"77 1","pages":"341 - 344"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46251663","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}
constellation of authorial, commercial, and readerly concerns—even if it means readjusting, or even scrapping altogether, our conceptions of what the terms “novel” and “fiction” signify in this context. In the end, evaluating a translation like this entails an irreducibly subjective and even emotional dimension. During the six weeks I was reading An Ill-Considered Jest, I looked forward to coming home at night and finding it on my bedside, and it served as a stalwart and dependable comrade on my first postpandemic excursions to conferences and lectures where, for the first time in over two years, I gathered with colleagues in person with a renewed sense of appreciation for the pleasures of our profession. If this sounds sentimental, I make no apologies. As Bakin knew well, literary careers are inaugurated via sentimental encounters with individual texts, and if this translation engenders a similar reaction among my students, it will have done our field a deep service by introducing a new generation to the challenges and joys of early modern Japanese narrative. Not only that, it will have done so in a way that presents Hakkenden on its own narratological terms, rather than attempting to squeeze it into a nineteenth-century European realist mold. I eagerly await the second installment and wish its translator well: the road to Awa is long and hard, and the going will not be easy.
{"title":"Disruptions of Daily Life: Japanese Literary Modernism in the World by Arthur M. Mitchell (review)","authors":"William O. Gardner","doi":"10.1353/mni.2022.0058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2022.0058","url":null,"abstract":"constellation of authorial, commercial, and readerly concerns—even if it means readjusting, or even scrapping altogether, our conceptions of what the terms “novel” and “fiction” signify in this context. In the end, evaluating a translation like this entails an irreducibly subjective and even emotional dimension. During the six weeks I was reading An Ill-Considered Jest, I looked forward to coming home at night and finding it on my bedside, and it served as a stalwart and dependable comrade on my first postpandemic excursions to conferences and lectures where, for the first time in over two years, I gathered with colleagues in person with a renewed sense of appreciation for the pleasures of our profession. If this sounds sentimental, I make no apologies. As Bakin knew well, literary careers are inaugurated via sentimental encounters with individual texts, and if this translation engenders a similar reaction among my students, it will have done our field a deep service by introducing a new generation to the challenges and joys of early modern Japanese narrative. Not only that, it will have done so in a way that presents Hakkenden on its own narratological terms, rather than attempting to squeeze it into a nineteenth-century European realist mold. I eagerly await the second installment and wish its translator well: the road to Awa is long and hard, and the going will not be easy.","PeriodicalId":54069,"journal":{"name":"MONUMENTA NIPPONICA","volume":"77 1","pages":"349 - 352"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44299439","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}
discourses, and social dynamics, and the cases Lukács presents reveal the amateurish, faddish, and exploitative characteristics of Japan’s cultural industries, even though they can also be meaningful to consumers and those performers. While this phenomenon may not be unique to Japan, Lukács’s close-up on these dynamics and her critical analysis strongly contribute to the scholarship on gender, class, and work, and they add nuance to the discussion of the digital economy and cultural industries while highlighting the urgent need for media literacy in Japan’s ever-expanding digitally mediated economy.
{"title":"The Anatomy of Loneliness: Suicide, Social Connection, and the Search for Relational Meaning in Contemporary Japan by Chikako Ozawa-de Silva (review)","authors":"Y. Kawanishi","doi":"10.1353/mni.2022.0068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2022.0068","url":null,"abstract":"discourses, and social dynamics, and the cases Lukács presents reveal the amateurish, faddish, and exploitative characteristics of Japan’s cultural industries, even though they can also be meaningful to consumers and those performers. While this phenomenon may not be unique to Japan, Lukács’s close-up on these dynamics and her critical analysis strongly contribute to the scholarship on gender, class, and work, and they add nuance to the discussion of the digital economy and cultural industries while highlighting the urgent need for media literacy in Japan’s ever-expanding digitally mediated economy.","PeriodicalId":54069,"journal":{"name":"MONUMENTA NIPPONICA","volume":"77 1","pages":"394 - 400"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66485000","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}
Mediation between cultures and societies is based on knowledge of the respective languages. Nothing, in other words, is more fundamental than the ability to communicate linguistically with one's counterpart, and dictionaries are arguably the most important practical tools in opening up the other language.
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of the body and disability and second, to demonstrate that Japan’s encounters with the world through international sports events must be understood as a response to the manifold entanglements of sports promotion, welfare politics, and rehabilitation campaigns at both domestic and international levels. The analytical frameworks Frost utilizes stem from studies on inspirational discourse and/or the Paralympian paradox. But above all, his approach relies on a critical adaptation of the leveraging framework that has been widely used in research on sports mega-events to assess the larger significance of a one-time event and its lasting ramifications. In the context of disability advocacy, his slightly modified framework succinctly demonstrates how organizers and special interest groups were able to encourage host municipalities, local audiences, and ultimately the Japanese state to embrace positive change, make legal concessions, and conduct infrastructure improvements in areas well beyond the limited scope of sports. Still, some questions remain unanswered. Given Japan’s leading role in the promotion of disability sports, why is it that the country hardly receives the international acknowledgment it deserves? And while there is no doubt that Paralympic sports have come a long way in Japan since the early years in the 1960s, why do disability scholars continue to lament the poor state of disability rights in one of the wealthiest nations of the world? Notwithstanding the many merits that Frost’s pioneering and well-researched monograph has to offer to scholars and students of sports history, disability studies, and contemporary Japanese history, these loose ends point to the need for further research based on a tighter analytical framework or a shift in focus toward grassroots sports.
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