{"title":"The Meiji Restoration: Japan as a Global Nation ed. by Robert Hellyer and Harald Fuess (review)","authors":"D. Botsman","doi":"10.1353/mni.2022.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2022.0009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54069,"journal":{"name":"MONUMENTA NIPPONICA","volume":"76 1","pages":"385 - 390"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46837325","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":"\"Kanbunmyaku\": The Literary Sinitic Context and the Birth of Modern Japanese Language and Literature by Mareshi Saitō (review)","authors":"P. Kornicki","doi":"10.1353/mni.2022.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2022.0007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54069,"journal":{"name":"MONUMENTA NIPPONICA","volume":"76 1","pages":"378 - 382"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41462958","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":"Immigrant Japan: Mobility and Belonging in an Ethno-nationalist Society by Gracia Liu-Farrer (review)","authors":"Michael Strausz","doi":"10.1353/mni.2022.0022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2022.0022","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54069,"journal":{"name":"MONUMENTA NIPPONICA","volume":"76 1","pages":"444 - 445"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43554147","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}
Abstract:This article demonstrates how the strategic misrepresentation of Buddhism in South and Southeast Asia by Japanese Buddhist intellectuals during the Meiji period was integral to the emergence of modern Japanese Buddhism. This strategy, which painted the Buddhism of that region as Hinayanist (and therefore inferior), hinged on three factors: First, the encounter between East Asian scholasticism and Western scholarship; second, the encounter of Japanese Buddhists with Sri Lanka's form of Buddhism; and, finally, the nationalist and colonial context within which these encounters took place. This history, I argue, demonstrates that translocal exchanges between Asian Buddhist actors were crucial in the construction of Buddhism as a world religion in general and modern Japanese Buddhism in particular.
{"title":"The Small Vehicle: The Construction of Hinayana and Japan's Modern Buddhism","authors":"S. Licha","doi":"10.1353/mni.2022.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2022.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article demonstrates how the strategic misrepresentation of Buddhism in South and Southeast Asia by Japanese Buddhist intellectuals during the Meiji period was integral to the emergence of modern Japanese Buddhism. This strategy, which painted the Buddhism of that region as Hinayanist (and therefore inferior), hinged on three factors: First, the encounter between East Asian scholasticism and Western scholarship; second, the encounter of Japanese Buddhists with Sri Lanka's form of Buddhism; and, finally, the nationalist and colonial context within which these encounters took place. This history, I argue, demonstrates that translocal exchanges between Asian Buddhist actors were crucial in the construction of Buddhism as a world religion in general and modern Japanese Buddhism in particular.","PeriodicalId":54069,"journal":{"name":"MONUMENTA NIPPONICA","volume":"76 1","pages":"329 - 361"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44917241","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 Japanese Culture of Mourning Whales: Whale Graves and Memorial Monuments in Japan by Mayumi Itoh (review)","authors":"Jay Alabaster","doi":"10.1353/mni.2022.0020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2022.0020","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54069,"journal":{"name":"MONUMENTA NIPPONICA","volume":"76 1","pages":"437 - 439"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45789303","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":"Japan's Carnival War: Mass Culture on the Home Front, 1937–1945 by Benjamin Uchiyama (review)","authors":"Janis Mimura","doi":"10.1353/mni.2022.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2022.0015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54069,"journal":{"name":"MONUMENTA NIPPONICA","volume":"76 1","pages":"414 - 417"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47586327","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":"Averting a Great Divergence: State and Economy in Japan, 1868–1937 by Peer Vries (review)","authors":"M. Metzler","doi":"10.1353/mni.2022.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2022.0010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54069,"journal":{"name":"MONUMENTA NIPPONICA","volume":"76 1","pages":"390 - 395"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42299979","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":"Eavesdropping on the Emperor: Interrogators and Codebreakers in Britain's War with Japan by Peter Kornicki (review)","authors":"J. Fogel","doi":"10.1353/mni.2022.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2022.0016","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54069,"journal":{"name":"MONUMENTA NIPPONICA","volume":"76 1","pages":"417 - 419"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48262027","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 Cinema of Ozu Yasujiro: Histories of the Everyday by Woojeong Joo (review)","authors":"Michael Raine","doi":"10.1353/mni.2022.0019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2022.0019","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54069,"journal":{"name":"MONUMENTA NIPPONICA","volume":"76 1","pages":"430 - 437"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46907978","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":"Cultural Astronomy of the Japanese Archipelago: Exploring the Japanese Skyscape by Akira Goto (review)","authors":"J. Kotyk","doi":"10.1353/mni.2022.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2022.0003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54069,"journal":{"name":"MONUMENTA NIPPONICA","volume":"76 1","pages":"363 - 366"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44094726","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}