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Article type: Cover
2008 Volume 57 Issue 4 Pages Cover1-
Published: April 10, 2008
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2008 Volume 57 Issue 4 Pages Cover2-
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Article type: Appendix
2008 Volume 57 Issue 4 Pages App1-
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Article type: Appendix
2008 Volume 57 Issue 4 Pages 1-
Published: April 10, 2008
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A Mystery Novel and Studies on Genji-monogatari: Reading Sennen-no-shijima(<Special Issue>The 62nd JLA Conference (2nd Day): Reincarnation of Literature)

Tomoyuki Matsuoka

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2008 Volume 57 Issue 4 Pages 2-11
Published: April 10, 2008
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The plot of Sennen-no-shijima, Akiko Moriya's mystery novel, is constructed on an old hypothesis which had been influential in the field of classical studies until the mid-twentieth century. The hypothesis is that originally in Genji-monogatari there was a volume called "Kakayakuhi-no-miya" that is now completely lost. The author first knew it through the work of Shin Ono, a scholar of classical literature. Later when she read the study of the lost volume Keijiro Kazamaki published in 1951, she was so much impressed with it that she used it for her story. Maybe Moriya found that Kazamaki's method of demonstration was much like that of reasoning in a detective story. Now the hypothesis is disregarded as unfounded, but it is its fictitious nature that inspired Moriya to write the novel. Moreover, I believe, it is imaginative enough to open out other possibilities of studies on classical literature.

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"Woman" in the Crisis of Literature : Female Writings and Male Fantasies(<Special Issue>The 62nd JLA Conference (2nd Day): Reincarnation of Literature)

Maiko Odaira

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2008 Volume 57 Issue 4 Pages 12-23
Published: April 10, 2008
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In "Joseito," a story roughly based on Shizu Ariake's diary, Osamu Dazai represented women in the two types; an innocent girl and an irrational woman. Needless to say, the former was an ideal type to him while the latter came from his image of actual women. When Yasunari Kawabata highly praised Dazai for the story, he was engaged in a sort of editorial work in Shin-joen and other women's magazines. In his editorial policy those magazines featured articles about women's role in wartime which more or less reflected Kawabata's sexism. Just like "women" represented by the male writers, women's writings themselves were called for, defined as marginal, and repressed to revitalize male-centered literature in the time of crisis.

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Re-coding a Decoded Girl : Female Body in Hirotaka Tobi's Rugged Girl(<Special Issue>The 62nd JLA Conference (2nd Day): Reincarnation of Literature)

Mari Kotani

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2008 Volume 57 Issue 4 Pages 24-34
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Rugged Girl is one of the "Angel in the Ruins" series by Hirotaka Tobi. The setting of the story is a junked virtual world, a sort of cyberspace that is made up from data on the real world imperfectly processed by artificial intelligence. Kei Yasukata, a main character called the rugged girl, has a special body which can accumulate and preserve data. Her body, itself a reservoir of experiences and memories, suggests problems concerning gender, sexuality, and social relations. Indeed, the story has much in common with James Tiptree, Jr.'s pioneering cyberpunk story "The Girl Who Was Plugged in" which is also filled with topics such as female body and sexuality, physical ugliness, violence, and lesbianism. Here I will reconsider those female problems while comparing the post-cyberpunk text with the early cyberpunk text.

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Article type: Appendix
2008 Volume 57 Issue 4 Pages 35-
Published: April 10, 2008
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Article type: Appendix
2008 Volume 57 Issue 4 Pages 35-
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Subcultural Pain(Notes on the Conference,The Meridian)

Takashi Okabe

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2008 Volume 57 Issue 4 Pages 36-37
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A Note on the 2nd Day Conference (the Division of Literature)(Notes on the Conference,The Meridian)

Akio Kaneko

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2008 Volume 57 Issue 4 Pages 38-39
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Facing Realities: A Note on the 2nd Day Conference(Notes on the Conference,The Meridian)

Yoichi Hijikata

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2008 Volume 57 Issue 4 Pages 40-41
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A Note on the 2nd Day Conference(Notes on the Conference,The Meridian)

Taku Miura

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2008 Volume 57 Issue 4 Pages 42-43
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To Be Liberated: Reincarnation of Literature(Notes on the Conference,The Meridian)

Yasuko Mishina

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2008 Volume 57 Issue 4 Pages 44-45
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Studying Classical Literature like a Dried Cod without the Backbone(<Special Issue>The 62nd JLA Conference (2nd Day): Reincarnation of Literature)

Takako Tanaka

Article type: Article
2008 Volume 57 Issue 4 Pages 46-53
Published: April 10, 2008
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The modern study of classical literature has been conducted within the framework of the nation-state. But now in the age of globalization, we students of classical literature must make every effort to free it from such political restraint. We must find a way to keep it alive without any ideological background like a dried cod without the backbone. One of our duties, for instance, is to make classical literature more familiar to lay readers. In this article I will think what we can do for a wider readership of classical works while taking into account difficulties in making a translation of them into modern Japanese.

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"Yugen" in Hachiman-usagu-gotakusen-shu : Its Philosophical Annotation on Oracles

Shinichi Murata

Article type: Article
2008 Volume 57 Issue 4 Pages 54-65
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The discourses of Hachiman-usagu-gotakusen-shu, an annotated collection of oracles received at the Hachiman-usagu Shrine, are constructed on faith in the "yugen" (esoteric profoundness) of Hachiman-daibosatsu, one of the greatest Buddhist saints. In the medieval time, as this instance shows, the concept of "yugen" was not restricted to art and literature but applied to religion. It also served as a religious philosophy to endorse the genuineness of oracles.

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Narration, Legend, and "No One Knows Where the Guy Is"(Reading)

Masami Tadenuma

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2008 Volume 57 Issue 4 Pages 66-69
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Madness Immune to Revolution : Kuniaki Mitani, The Method of Genji-monogatari: An Extremity of Amorous Confusion

Koichiro Sukegawa

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2008 Volume 57 Issue 4 Pages 70-73
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Shinsuke Matsumoto, The Legend of the Prince Shotoku and War Narratives

Nobukazu Watanabe

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2008 Volume 57 Issue 4 Pages 74-75
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Ayusu Hase, A Study of Saikaku-nagori-no-tomo: Ihara-Saikaku's Powerful Plot-Making

Kyoko Oki

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2008 Volume 57 Issue 4 Pages 76-77
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Fusako Kaneta, The Poetics of Matsuo-Basho and the Function of Prefaces

Moritaro Hama

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2008 Volume 57 Issue 4 Pages 78-79
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Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, A Study of Early Modern Literature

Hideki Fujiwara

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2008 Volume 57 Issue 4 Pages 80-81
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Satoshi Koguchi, Literature against History: Toward Restoration of Fiction

Teru Shimamura

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2008 Volume 57 Issue 4 Pages 82-83
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Masachi Osawa, The Origin of Nationalism

Syoji Shibata

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2008 Volume 57 Issue 4 Pages 84-85
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Article type: Bibliography
2008 Volume 57 Issue 4 Pages 86-87
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Article type: Appendix
2008 Volume 57 Issue 4 Pages 88-
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Article type: Bibliography
2008 Volume 57 Issue 4 Pages 90-89
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Article type: Index
2008 Volume 57 Issue 4 Pages 91-
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Article type: Index
2008 Volume 57 Issue 4 Pages 91-
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Article type: Appendix
2008 Volume 57 Issue 4 Pages 92-
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Article type: Appendix
2008 Volume 57 Issue 4 Pages 93-
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Article type: Appendix
2008 Volume 57 Issue 4 Pages 93-
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20620/nihonbungaku.57.4_93_2

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2008 Volume 57 Issue 4 Pages Cover3-
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20620/nihonbungaku.57.4_Cover3

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