Abstract:This article presents the narrative space of Kawabata Yasunari's The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa (Asakusa kurenaidan) as the territory of the dispossessed girl—that is, the territory of young women and girl children who must largely live by selling either their labor or their bodies. Without diminishing the importance of the novel's innovatively modernist elements and depictions of Tokyo modernization, I redirect reader attention to the many girls and young women who pass through the pages of the narrative. I note how the narrator of The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa can be chillingly impervious to the struggles of the girls depicted. This detachment paradoxically creates a strikingly graphic account of how the Asakusa narratorial space operates as an imminent threat to the many girls who gather there.
{"title":"Kawabata Yasunari's The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa as the Territory of the Dispossessed Girl = 追い立てられた少女の領域としての『浅草紅団』","authors":"B. Hartley","doi":"10.1353/jwj.2022.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jwj.2022.0009","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article presents the narrative space of Kawabata Yasunari's The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa (Asakusa kurenaidan) as the territory of the dispossessed girl—that is, the territory of young women and girl children who must largely live by selling either their labor or their bodies. Without diminishing the importance of the novel's innovatively modernist elements and depictions of Tokyo modernization, I redirect reader attention to the many girls and young women who pass through the pages of the narrative. I note how the narrator of The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa can be chillingly impervious to the struggles of the girls depicted. This detachment paradoxically creates a strikingly graphic account of how the Asakusa narratorial space operates as an imminent threat to the many girls who gather there.","PeriodicalId":88338,"journal":{"name":"U.S.-Japan women's journal. English supplement = Nichi-Bei josei janaru. English supplement","volume":"53 1","pages":"59 - 84"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75458255","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This article analyzes depictions of gender and play in Tanizaki Jun'ichirō's short story "The Children" (Shōnen, 1911) to show how Tanizaki, known mostly for fiction about adults, was influenced by the literary genre of shōnen-mono (stories about childhood). On the one hand, Tanizaki used tropes of shōnen-mono to capture a world that was disappearing from the literary and cultural landscape of the late Meiji period (1868–1912). On the other hand, he depicted characters that countered prevalent discourses about how children should behave as young model Japanese citizens that were being advocated through the modern educational system and the development of children's literature. He did so not to advocate for political or social change but to have a titillating effect on readers. Tanizaki's child characters can be read as prototypes for his later sadomasochistic adult characters, but they also move beyond them. I closely read "The Children," discuss critical responses to the story, and show the legacy of Tanizaki's shōnen-mono.
{"title":"Children's Play and Gender Performance: Motifs of Transformation in Tanizaki Jun'ichirō's \"The Children\" = 子どもの遊びとジェンダー・パフォーマンス: 谷崎潤一郎「少年」:におけ る変身のモチーフ","authors":"Wakako Suzuki","doi":"10.1353/jwj.2022.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jwj.2022.0008","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article analyzes depictions of gender and play in Tanizaki Jun'ichirō's short story \"The Children\" (Shōnen, 1911) to show how Tanizaki, known mostly for fiction about adults, was influenced by the literary genre of shōnen-mono (stories about childhood). On the one hand, Tanizaki used tropes of shōnen-mono to capture a world that was disappearing from the literary and cultural landscape of the late Meiji period (1868–1912). On the other hand, he depicted characters that countered prevalent discourses about how children should behave as young model Japanese citizens that were being advocated through the modern educational system and the development of children's literature. He did so not to advocate for political or social change but to have a titillating effect on readers. Tanizaki's child characters can be read as prototypes for his later sadomasochistic adult characters, but they also move beyond them. I closely read \"The Children,\" discuss critical responses to the story, and show the legacy of Tanizaki's shōnen-mono.","PeriodicalId":88338,"journal":{"name":"U.S.-Japan women's journal. English supplement = Nichi-Bei josei janaru. English supplement","volume":"21 1","pages":"38 - 58"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83563191","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:In Japan, shōjo shōsetsu, or girls' novels, have been a fixture in the field of popular literature for at least the past century. In recent decades, the principal publisher of this narrative form has been Shūeisha's Cobalt Library (Kobaruto bunko). However, with material no longer published in print form and with Shūeisha establishing a new Orange Library (Orenji bunko) series of "light novels" (raito noberu, easy to read stories for young adult readers), to which many previous Cobalt writers have migrated, it appears that the shōjo shōsetsu genre may well disappear. This article positions the historic and more recent production of girls' novels within the socio-historic parameters of Japanese society to investigate the apparent demise of works of this nature. In doing so, connections are made between the shōjo shōsetsu and the gender norms that have marginalized Japanese women in the past and that arguably continue to do so today.
{"title":"Countdown to the Demise of Girls' Novels = 少女小説のカウントダウンの開始","authors":"Kume Yoriko, Barbara Hartley","doi":"10.1353/jwj.2022.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jwj.2022.0012","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In Japan, shōjo shōsetsu, or girls' novels, have been a fixture in the field of popular literature for at least the past century. In recent decades, the principal publisher of this narrative form has been Shūeisha's Cobalt Library (Kobaruto bunko). However, with material no longer published in print form and with Shūeisha establishing a new Orange Library (Orenji bunko) series of \"light novels\" (raito noberu, easy to read stories for young adult readers), to which many previous Cobalt writers have migrated, it appears that the shōjo shōsetsu genre may well disappear. This article positions the historic and more recent production of girls' novels within the socio-historic parameters of Japanese society to investigate the apparent demise of works of this nature. In doing so, connections are made between the shōjo shōsetsu and the gender norms that have marginalized Japanese women in the past and that arguably continue to do so today.","PeriodicalId":88338,"journal":{"name":"U.S.-Japan women's journal. English supplement = Nichi-Bei josei janaru. English supplement","volume":"47 1","pages":"133 - 149"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83156726","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:The 1960s and 1970s saw an inundation of novels called "junior fiction" (junia shōsetsu) that dealt with teenage romance. Novelist Tomishima Takeo (1931–98) was a pioneer, driving force, and quintessential author of the genre. He unabashedly depicted the sexual desires of both boys and girls. In so doing, he broke the taboo of girls' magazine stories, which had not touched upon heterosexual love prior to the end of World War II. For him, depicting sexuality was a powerful means of challenging conservativism and educational control of youth. Tomishima introduced sexual love to junior fiction and appeared to have released girl readers from the necessity of conforming to ideals of being proper shōjo (girls) who should not read and talk about sex. However, Tomishima did not advocate changing patriarchal gender norms or advocate for gender equality. This article analyzes how this contradiction influenced his junior fiction.
{"title":"Love and Sexuality in Postwar Girls' Culture: Examining Tomishima Takeo's Junior Fiction = 戦後少女文化における恋愛と性愛： 富島健夫のジュニア小説をめぐって","authors":"Hiromi Tsuchiya Dollase","doi":"10.1353/jwj.2022.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jwj.2022.0010","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The 1960s and 1970s saw an inundation of novels called \"junior fiction\" (junia shōsetsu) that dealt with teenage romance. Novelist Tomishima Takeo (1931–98) was a pioneer, driving force, and quintessential author of the genre. He unabashedly depicted the sexual desires of both boys and girls. In so doing, he broke the taboo of girls' magazine stories, which had not touched upon heterosexual love prior to the end of World War II. For him, depicting sexuality was a powerful means of challenging conservativism and educational control of youth. Tomishima introduced sexual love to junior fiction and appeared to have released girl readers from the necessity of conforming to ideals of being proper shōjo (girls) who should not read and talk about sex. However, Tomishima did not advocate changing patriarchal gender norms or advocate for gender equality. This article analyzes how this contradiction influenced his junior fiction.","PeriodicalId":88338,"journal":{"name":"U.S.-Japan women's journal. English supplement = Nichi-Bei josei janaru. English supplement","volume":"245 1","pages":"111 - 85"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73296392","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:The literary genre shōjo shōsetsu emerged in conjunction with the rise of girls' educationinthe Meiji period. Early stories were meant to educate readers to become "good wives and wise mothers." Accordingly, shōjo shōsetsu endured restrictions on the narratives they could tell, limiting the breadth of their authors' artistic and literary possibilities. Shōjo shōsetsu evolved and diversified in the postwar era and, especially starting in the 1980s, became a means for young female authors to empower themselves. Shōjo shōsetsu have declined in popularity recently as readers consume stories more broadly across media and genres. The goal of this special issue is to contemplate the function, meanings, and problems of shōjo shōsetsu. Instead of merely confining ourselves to a rigid, unified notion of shōjo shōsetsu, we consider shōjo characters from the wider literary world, investigating their roles, functions, and cultural implications.
{"title":"Introduction: Girls and Literature = イントロダクション： 少女と文学","authors":"Hiromi Tsuchiya Dollase, Wakako Suzuki","doi":"10.1353/jwj.2022.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jwj.2022.0005","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The literary genre shōjo shōsetsu emerged in conjunction with the rise of girls' educationinthe Meiji period. Early stories were meant to educate readers to become \"good wives and wise mothers.\" Accordingly, shōjo shōsetsu endured restrictions on the narratives they could tell, limiting the breadth of their authors' artistic and literary possibilities. Shōjo shōsetsu evolved and diversified in the postwar era and, especially starting in the 1980s, became a means for young female authors to empower themselves. Shōjo shōsetsu have declined in popularity recently as readers consume stories more broadly across media and genres. The goal of this special issue is to contemplate the function, meanings, and problems of shōjo shōsetsu. Instead of merely confining ourselves to a rigid, unified notion of shōjo shōsetsu, we consider shōjo characters from the wider literary world, investigating their roles, functions, and cultural implications.","PeriodicalId":88338,"journal":{"name":"U.S.-Japan women's journal. English supplement = Nichi-Bei josei janaru. English supplement","volume":"112 1","pages":"1 - 8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87813327","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Despite its marginal status in literary history, the genre of girls' novels has played a significant role in the development of Japanese popular literature. In this article, I demonstrate the thematic continuity between Cobalt girls' novels and popular literature for adults by examining representations of female homosociality in two novels by Yuikawa Kei: her girls' novel Sayonara, Insecurity (Sayonara, konpurekkusu, 1987) and her love novel Sweetheart Nearby (Katagoshi no koibito, 1999). I argue that both novels employ a model of female homosociality based on the exclusion of men and rejection of heterosexual love. In Sweetheart Nearby, Yuikawa expands this model to include a cluster of plot elements I call "lesbian panic defused," which signals the protagonists' heterosexual identity and serves as a foundation to the homosocial plot. I argue that the homoerotic tension between the female protagonists in Sweetheart Nearby links this novel to the tradition of passionate friendship in girls' novels and also queers the genre of love novels. Thus, Sweetheart Nearby expands the boundaries of the love novel genre (ren'ai shōsetsu) to include homosocial bonds.
摘要:少女小说虽然在文学史上处于边缘地位，但在日本通俗文学的发展中却发挥了重要作用。在这篇文章中，我通过研究Yuikawa Kei的两部小说中女性同性恋的表现来证明钴族少女小说和成人通俗文学之间的主题连续性:她的少女小说Sayonara，不安全感(Sayonara, konpurekkusu, 1987)和她的爱情小说甜心附近(Katagoshi no koibito, 1999)。我认为这两部小说都采用了一种女性同性恋的模式，这种模式基于对男性的排斥和对异性恋的拒绝。在《附近的甜心》中，Yuikawa扩展了这一模式，加入了一系列我称之为“消除女同性恋恐慌”的情节元素，这标志着主角的异性恋身份，并作为同性恋社会情节的基础。我认为，《甜心》中女主人公之间的同性恋紧张关系将这部小说与女孩小说中充满激情的友谊传统联系起来，也使爱情小说的类型变得奇怪。因此，《身边的甜心》扩大了爱情小说类型的界限(仁爱shōsetsu)，将同性社会关系纳入其中。
{"title":"From Girls' Novels to Love Novels: Female Friendship in Yuikawa Kei's Sayonara, Insecurity and Sweetheart Nearby = 少女小説から恋愛小説へ: 唯川恵の小説における女同士の友情","authors":"Luciana Sanga","doi":"10.1353/jwj.2022.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jwj.2022.0011","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Despite its marginal status in literary history, the genre of girls' novels has played a significant role in the development of Japanese popular literature. In this article, I demonstrate the thematic continuity between Cobalt girls' novels and popular literature for adults by examining representations of female homosociality in two novels by Yuikawa Kei: her girls' novel Sayonara, Insecurity (Sayonara, konpurekkusu, 1987) and her love novel Sweetheart Nearby (Katagoshi no koibito, 1999). I argue that both novels employ a model of female homosociality based on the exclusion of men and rejection of heterosexual love. In Sweetheart Nearby, Yuikawa expands this model to include a cluster of plot elements I call \"lesbian panic defused,\" which signals the protagonists' heterosexual identity and serves as a foundation to the homosocial plot. I argue that the homoerotic tension between the female protagonists in Sweetheart Nearby links this novel to the tradition of passionate friendship in girls' novels and also queers the genre of love novels. Thus, Sweetheart Nearby expands the boundaries of the love novel genre (ren'ai shōsetsu) to include homosocial bonds.","PeriodicalId":88338,"journal":{"name":"U.S.-Japan women's journal. English supplement = Nichi-Bei josei janaru. English supplement","volume":"50 1","pages":"112 - 132"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90499216","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Shōjo manga (comics for girls) have been written primarily by and for women since the 1970s and have provided a space for women to express their subjectivity, innermost thoughts, and personal experiences. Shōjo manga does so through distinctive aesthetic and narrative styles and themes important to young female readers. One dominant theme has been mother-daughter relationships. This article explores what happens when manga creators use this theme in warthemed shōjo manga to complicate the idea that women were merely victims of war and to show the complexity of experiences and emotions women may have felt. The lack of women's perspectives in Japanese postwar fictional narratives about the war leads to an androcentric discourse in the narration of the past; however, we show that war-themed shōjo manga take a different approach. In order to investigate how war-themed shōjo manga potentially destabilize the androcentric narrative of war fiction and function as an expressive tool for women's own experiences, this article uses theories of shōjo manga expression (shōjo manga hyōgen-ron), Hélène Cixous' notion of écriture feminine, and Susan Sontag's writings about photography to analyze three shōjo manga works that portray wartime Japan during the 1930s and 1940s and are premised on different kinds of mother-daughter relationships: Takemiya Keiko's The Odor of Crimson (Kurenai nihofu, 1993–95), Matsuo Shiyori's Between the Sky and the Sea (Sora to umi no aida, 1998–2000), and Satonaka Machiko's The Memory of My Love (Waga ai no kiroku, 1984). Our investigation shows that in these manga, war is presented in a way in which female protagonists can achieve psychological maturity and establish a sense of female subjectivity.
摘要:Shōjo自20世纪70年代以来，少女漫画主要由女性创作，并为女性提供了一个表达她们主体性、内心深处的想法和个人经历的空间。Shōjo漫画通过独特的审美和叙事风格以及对年轻女性读者很重要的主题来做到这一点。一个主要的主题是母女关系。本文探讨了当漫画创作者在以战争为主题的shōjo漫画中使用这一主题时所发生的事情，将女性仅仅是战争受害者的想法复杂化，并展示女性可能感受到的经历和情感的复杂性。日本战后小说叙事中女性视角的缺失导致了过去叙事中的男性中心主义话语;然而，我们展示了以战争为主题的shōjo漫画采取了不同的方法。为了研究以战争为主题的shōjo漫画如何潜在地破坏以男性为中心的战争小说叙事，并作为女性自身经历的表达工具，本文使用了shōjo漫画表达理论(shōjo manga hyōgen-ron)， hsamuane Cixous的“女性化”概念，以及苏珊·桑塔格(Susan Sontag)关于摄影的著作，以分析三部shōjo漫画作品，这三部漫画描绘了20世纪30年代和40年代的战时日本，并以不同类型的母女关系为背景:竹宫景子的《深红的气味》(Kurenai nihofu, 1993-95)，松尾Shiyori的《天空和大海之间》(苍井空，1998-2000)，以及佐藤中真子的《我爱的记忆》(和和爱，1984)。我们的调查表明，在这些漫画中，战争是以一种女性主人公心理成熟，建立女性主体性意识的方式呈现的。
{"title":"War-Themed Shōjo Manga as a Site for Female Subjectivity: An Aesthetic Analysis of Mothers and Daughters Narrating War = 女性の主体性構築の場としての戦争少女マンガ： 少女マンガ表現論による母娘の戦争の語りの分析","authors":"Kaori Yoshida, Kazumi Nagaike","doi":"10.1353/jwj.2022.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jwj.2022.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Shōjo manga (comics for girls) have been written primarily by and for women since the 1970s and have provided a space for women to express their subjectivity, innermost thoughts, and personal experiences. Shōjo manga does so through distinctive aesthetic and narrative styles and themes important to young female readers. One dominant theme has been mother-daughter relationships. This article explores what happens when manga creators use this theme in warthemed shōjo manga to complicate the idea that women were merely victims of war and to show the complexity of experiences and emotions women may have felt. The lack of women's perspectives in Japanese postwar fictional narratives about the war leads to an androcentric discourse in the narration of the past; however, we show that war-themed shōjo manga take a different approach. In order to investigate how war-themed shōjo manga potentially destabilize the androcentric narrative of war fiction and function as an expressive tool for women's own experiences, this article uses theories of shōjo manga expression (shōjo manga hyōgen-ron), Hélène Cixous' notion of écriture feminine, and Susan Sontag's writings about photography to analyze three shōjo manga works that portray wartime Japan during the 1930s and 1940s and are premised on different kinds of mother-daughter relationships: Takemiya Keiko's The Odor of Crimson (Kurenai nihofu, 1993–95), Matsuo Shiyori's Between the Sky and the Sea (Sora to umi no aida, 1998–2000), and Satonaka Machiko's The Memory of My Love (Waga ai no kiroku, 1984). Our investigation shows that in these manga, war is presented in a way in which female protagonists can achieve psychological maturity and establish a sense of female subjectivity.","PeriodicalId":88338,"journal":{"name":"U.S.-Japan women's journal. English supplement = Nichi-Bei josei janaru. English supplement","volume":"67 12","pages":"76 - 97"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72375399","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This article provides an overview of Kanō Mikiyo's life and contributions as a historian and longstanding feminist critic of Japanese imperialism. Kanō was arguably one of Japan's most influential scholars of gender, militarism, the emperor system (tennōsei), and nuclearism. As a childhood survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, until the end of her life, Kanō wrote about the relationship between Hiroshima and Fukushima. Her lifework exemplifies a legacy of Japanese feminist criticism that has cautioned against essentializing women as victims and mothers as peaceloving and instead illuminates women's conflicted, contradictory, and heterogeneous responses to state power. Kanō spent her life carefully examining women's participation in Japanese empire and the gendered dynamics of Japanese imperial ideology. This introductory article contextualizes how this translation of Kanō's essay, "The 'Emperor's Heart' and the 'Mother's Heart': What Gave Rise to the 'Mothers of Yasukuni'," is representative of her salient contributions to feminist thought that illuminate the relationship between the Japanese emperor and the maternal. This translated essay remains relevant to understanding the entangled intimacies of motherhood and militarism and how a seemingly natural desire for mother's love was incorporated into a gendered imperial statecraft that Kanō critiqued as maternal (bosei) fascism.
{"title":"Historian and Feminist Kanō Mikiyo: A Lifetime of Writing Against Japanese Imperialism = 加納実紀代の人生と著作： 歴史家とフェミニスト","authors":"Setsu Shigematsu","doi":"10.1353/jwj.2022.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jwj.2022.0001","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article provides an overview of Kanō Mikiyo's life and contributions as a historian and longstanding feminist critic of Japanese imperialism. Kanō was arguably one of Japan's most influential scholars of gender, militarism, the emperor system (tennōsei), and nuclearism. As a childhood survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, until the end of her life, Kanō wrote about the relationship between Hiroshima and Fukushima. Her lifework exemplifies a legacy of Japanese feminist criticism that has cautioned against essentializing women as victims and mothers as peaceloving and instead illuminates women's conflicted, contradictory, and heterogeneous responses to state power. Kanō spent her life carefully examining women's participation in Japanese empire and the gendered dynamics of Japanese imperial ideology. This introductory article contextualizes how this translation of Kanō's essay, \"The 'Emperor's Heart' and the 'Mother's Heart': What Gave Rise to the 'Mothers of Yasukuni',\" is representative of her salient contributions to feminist thought that illuminate the relationship between the Japanese emperor and the maternal. This translated essay remains relevant to understanding the entangled intimacies of motherhood and militarism and how a seemingly natural desire for mother's love was incorporated into a gendered imperial statecraft that Kanō critiqued as maternal (bosei) fascism.","PeriodicalId":88338,"journal":{"name":"U.S.-Japan women's journal. English supplement = Nichi-Bei josei janaru. English supplement","volume":"23 1","pages":"34 - 51"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76161537","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Kanō Mikiyo's essay, "The 'Emperor's Heart' and the 'Mother's Heart': What Gave Rise to the 'Mothers of Yasukuni'," is representative of her salient contributions to feminist thought that illuminate the relationship between the Japanese emperor and the maternal. This translated essay remains relevant to understanding the entangled intimacies of motherhood and militarism and how a seemingly natural desire for mother's love was incorporated into a gendered imperial statecraft that Kanō critiqued as maternal (bosei) fascism.
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Abstract:Nagasaki was the locus of foreign trade in early modern Japan. One direct outgrowth of this trade was the development of a red-light district called Maruyama. This district had distinct differences from other such quarters in Japan because of the nature of its interactions. This article explores the reasons for the uniqueness of Nagasaki and the impact that this institution had and provides some agency to the women involved by emphasizing the contributions they made to Japanese culture. It also examines the meanings and impacts of the sex trade with non-Japanese traders on early modern Japan, as well as the specific nature of the brothels in Nagasaki.
{"title":"\"Unseasonal Winds of Love\": A History of Prostitution and the Foreign Community in Early Modern Nagasaki = 何時を知らぬ恋風： 近世長崎における売春と外国人","authors":"Martha Chaiklin","doi":"10.1353/jwj.2022.0000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jwj.2022.0000","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Nagasaki was the locus of foreign trade in early modern Japan. One direct outgrowth of this trade was the development of a red-light district called Maruyama. This district had distinct differences from other such quarters in Japan because of the nature of its interactions. This article explores the reasons for the uniqueness of Nagasaki and the impact that this institution had and provides some agency to the women involved by emphasizing the contributions they made to Japanese culture. It also examines the meanings and impacts of the sex trade with non-Japanese traders on early modern Japan, as well as the specific nature of the brothels in Nagasaki.","PeriodicalId":88338,"journal":{"name":"U.S.-Japan women's journal. English supplement = Nichi-Bei josei janaru. English supplement","volume":"9 1","pages":"1 - 33"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74621613","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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