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Volume 67, Issue 4

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Special Issue: The 72nd JLA Conference (2nd Day): Challenging the Assumptions of “Reading”

The Textuality and Intertextuality of Genji-monogatari

Masako Mitamura

2018 Volume 67 Issue 4 Pages 2-9
Published: April 10, 2018
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20620/nihonbungaku.67.4_2

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What traditional narrative elements did Murasaki-Shikibu deconstruct and reconstruct in writing Genji-monogatari? How did the author subvert her own work in her attempt to look for a new literary direction? The aim of this article is to analyze textual and intertextual experiments in Genji-monogatari with the application of Wolfgang Iser's theory of “horizons of expectation” mainly to “Wakana” and “Uji-jūjō.”

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Shōtetsu's Concept of “Yūgen”

Yasuaki Watanabe

2018 Volume 67 Issue 4 Pages 10-19
Published: April 10, 2018
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20620/nihonbungaku.67.4_10

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Shōtetsu, a monk poet of the Muromachi Period, frequently uses the word “yūgen” in his autobiographical and poetical essay Shōtetsu-monogatari. It is closely related to his aesthetic philosophy; a landscape is simple and beautiful, but the subject seeing it is complicated and ambiguous. The complexity of the subject metaphorically corresponds to that of writing poems. The concept of “yūgen” is a product of such a poetical outlook.

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The “Prison Station” as a Narrative Site: The Spatial Structure of Kafū Nagai's “Kangokusho-no-ura”

Kenji Soeda

2018 Volume 67 Issue 4 Pages 20-32
Published: April 10, 2018
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20620/nihonbungaku.67.4_20

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“Kangokusho-no-ura” (1909) is one of the short stories which Kafū Nagai wrote immediately after his return from France. “My house at the back of the prison station,” “the tenements down the bank where the prison station stands,” and “the prison station's noisy backyard.” The prison station thus works as a pivotal device which provides a coherent but multi-layered space for the story. In this enclosed narrative site the narrator quotes from Paul Verlaine's poem about his imprisonment to translate and transform it into his own literary discourse.

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Discussion

Nami Kitō, Satoshi Makino

2018 Volume 67 Issue 4 Pages 33-44
Published: April 10, 2018
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20620/nihonbungaku.67.4_33

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The Meridian (The 72nd JLA Conference):

A Note on the 2nd Day with Asides and Digressions

Mamoru Takada

2018 Volume 67 Issue 4 Pages 46-47
Published: April 10, 2018
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20620/nihonbungaku.67.4_46

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A Note on the 2nd Day: What Are the Assumptions of “Reading”?

Masayuki Maeda

2018 Volume 67 Issue 4 Pages 48-49
Published: April 10, 2018
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20620/nihonbungaku.67.4_48

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The Round Table

Satoshi Nomoto, Haruka Fukuo, Tetsuo Go, Keisuke Matsubara, Takafumi N ...

2018 Volume 67 Issue 4 Pages 50-56
Published: April 10, 2018
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20620/nihonbungaku.67.4_50

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What Is It Like to Be a Tiger?: A Note on Atsushi Nakajima's “Sangetsu-ki”

Kaname Ishii

2018 Volume 67 Issue 4 Pages 59-69
Published: April 10, 2018
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20620/nihonbungaku.67.4_59

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“Sangetsu-ki” has been often interpreted with reference to Atsushi Nakajima's profound knowledge of Chinese literature, but here I will shed light on its zoological discourse. Richō's pseudo-Darwinian explication about the beast's consciousness has the effect of making the reader believe that he has metamorphosed into a tiger, but it is too equivocal to decide whether his metamorphosis really happened or not. Such undecidability distinguishes it from its sourcebook “Jinko-den” and indicates the polyphonic nature of the author's literary imagination.

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A Note on the Fifth and the Sixth Phrases of the 109th Song in Kojiki in Relation to the Bai People's Songs in Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture of Yunnan Province in China

Susumu Iijima

2018 Volume 67 Issue 4 Pages 70-77
Published: April 10, 2018
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20620/nihonbungaku.67.4_70

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Adam Kabat, Monsters in the Edo Period: The Origin and Development of Representations of Creatures in “Kusazōshi” Illustrated Books

Aya Sekihara

2018 Volume 67 Issue 4 Pages 78-79
Published: April 10, 2018
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20620/nihonbungaku.67.4_78

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Osamu Kobayashi, Nanma-Uhō and the Men of Letters at the End of the Edo Period

Atsushi Satō

2018 Volume 67 Issue 4 Pages 80-81
Published: April 10, 2018
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20620/nihonbungaku.67.4_80

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Hiroshi Sekiya, Tōkoku Kitamura, Ichiyō Higuchi, and Rohan Kōda in the Second Decade of the Meiji Period: Political Issues in the Beginnings of Modern Japanese Literature

Atsuko Nishikawa

2018 Volume 67 Issue 4 Pages 82-83
Published: April 10, 2018
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20620/nihonbungaku.67.4_82

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Chimao Nakazawa, Yasujirō Ozu: His Career under the Shadow of Death

Wataru Nakazawa

2018 Volume 67 Issue 4 Pages 84-85
Published: April 10, 2018
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20620/nihonbungaku.67.4_84

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