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Volume 64, Issue 2

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The Politics of Clothing in the Historical Description of Eiga-monogatari

Kumiko Ōtani

2015 Volume 64 Issue 2 Pages 1-10
Published: February 10, 2015
Released on J-STAGE: February 29, 2020

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20620/nihonbungaku.64.2_1

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In Eiga-monogatari, the epic about the life of Fujiwara-no-Michinaga and his family, the dresses and ornaments of court ladies are described in detail because of their symbolic function to display his social power. Their conspicuous excess, however, also points to a gap between the actual administration and an ideal form of government the ruler seeks after. Thus the story subtly depicts Michinaga’s political aspiration through the double implication of its sartorial representation.

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The Role of Yoshida-Kenkō in Santō-Kyōden's Chūshin-suiko-den

Marie Iyoda

2015 Volume 64 Issue 2 Pages 11-21
Published: February 10, 2015
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20620/nihonbungaku.64.2_11

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Chūshin-suiko-den by Santō-Kyōden, as the title shows, is a pastiche of the three major works, that is, Chūshin-gra, Taihei-ki, and Suiko-den. So naturally most of the characters are modelled after those in the sourcebooks. In this sense the inclusion of Yoshida-Kenkō in the story seems to be rather out of place. Probably this apparently awkward casting is due to the writer-monk's biographical image, a virtuous man of letters. In other words, with this image in mind the author assigned Kenkō to assume the role of a reliable narrator who can exquisitely facilitate the development of narrative events from his omniscient viewpoint.

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A “Good Schoolmistress” in the Educational Magazines of the Taishō Period

Ryōsuke Deki

2015 Volume 64 Issue 2 Pages 22-32
Published: February 10, 2015
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20620/nihonbungaku.64.2_22

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In the early Taishō Period there were a lot of discourses over the definition of what a “good schoolmistress” should be. Interestingly enough, a lot of stories about female teachers in rural areas were published in the educational magazines of the same period. Such geographical marginalization of women in those literary discourses ideologically worked to maintain and strengthen the male-centered educational system in opposition to the women's social advancement of the democratic age.

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The Two Aspects of Postwar Japan in Keita Genji's Novels of White-Collar Workers

Kenta Saka

2015 Volume 64 Issue 2 Pages 33-43
Published: February 10, 2015
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20620/nihonbungaku.64.2_33

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Keita Genji is generally thought to be a writer whose stories about white-collar workers directly reflect the new regime after the end of the war. Certainly his well-known novel Santō-jūyaku conveys the liberating and optimistic atmosphere of postwar Japan, but there are some works in which the author explores the dark side of the transitional period. This article will examine the two aspects of his white-collar novels to show how “postwar optimism” came to be socially formed and represented in popular fiction.

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The 69th JLA Conference:

Steering Committee (1) (2)

Akiko Saitō, Jun Nonaka

2015 Volume 64 Issue 2 Pages 44-47
Published: February 10, 2015
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20620/nihonbungaku.64.2_44

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Editorial Board

Masayuki Maeda

2015 Volume 64 Issue 2 Pages 48-75
Published: February 10, 2015
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20620/nihonbungaku.64.2_48

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Forum

Wataru Nakazawa

2015 Volume 64 Issue 2 Pages 76-79
Published: February 10, 2015
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20620/nihonbungaku.64.2_76

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The Meridian:

To Thoroughly Overcome the Problem of “Class without Reading”

Tomoya Saitō

2015 Volume 64 Issue 2 Pages 80-82
Published: February 10, 2015
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20620/nihonbungaku.64.2_80

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Reading:

Tachibana-no-Norimitsu Eating Seaweed in Makura-no-sōshi

Senri Sonoyama

2015 Volume 64 Issue 2 Pages 83-87
Published: February 10, 2015
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20620/nihonbungaku.64.2_83

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Reviews:

Fumiko Kobayashi, Ōta-Nanbo: A Poet Who Caused a Fad for “Kyōka” Poems in Edo

Satoshi Makino

2015 Volume 64 Issue 2 Pages 88-89
Published: February 10, 2015
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20620/nihonbungaku.64.2_88

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Makiko Yamasaki, Haruki Murakami, Women, and Hokkaido

Reiko Ōta

2015 Volume 64 Issue 2 Pages 90-91
Published: February 10, 2015
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20620/nihonbungaku.64.2_90

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Hiroshi Nishitaya, The Ideology of Fantasy: A Study of Today's Japanese Animations

Masaru Inoue

2015 Volume 64 Issue 2 Pages 92-93
Published: February 10, 2015
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20620/nihonbungaku.64.2_92

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