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Article type: Cover
1995 Volume 44 Issue 5 Pages Cover1-
Published: May 10, 1995
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Article type: Appendix
1995 Volume 44 Issue 5 Pages App1-
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Article type: Appendix
1995 Volume 44 Issue 5 Pages App2-
Published: May 10, 1995
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"Hearing" Emperors : Divine Messages in Ancient Japan(<Special Issue>"Sounds" from the Ancient World)

Sukeyuki Miura

Article type: Article
1995 Volume 44 Issue 5 Pages 1-9
Published: May 10, 1995
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It is generally said that the Emperors of old times had the functional power to receive messages from gods in a trance and make political decisions according to them. If something happened, the Emperors depended upon shamans' voices or their own dreams, both of which were supposed to communicate the "Words of Gods". The fact that even their dreams, in so many cases, are not visual but auditory seems to endorse the important role of the Emperors' "hearing" power. In this essay, I will first examine the anecdote of Emperor Chuai, who was denied divine messages, and then the tales in Kojiki and Nihon-shoki about the voices of gods or oracles in a dream.

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"Sounds" and Representation in the Ancient World : An Essay on the Acoustic Tropes of Wakas(<Special Issue>"Sounds" from the Ancient World)

Nobuyoshi Kondo

Article type: Article
1995 Volume 44 Issue 5 Pages 10-18
Published: May 10, 1995
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The aim of this essay is to examine the acoustic aspect of figures of speech such as makurakotoba and jokotoba (both a set of phrases used as a prologue for waka, an Japanese old poem). In Manyoshu, we can see the gradual methodization of sounds in poetical expressions as well as the development of the text's musicality. It is through figures like makurakotoba and jokotoba that these poetical devices of sound were invented. In this essay I will follow the process in which acoustic devices were created in the ancient literature.

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Ancient Sound : The Corridor to the Other World(<Special Issue>"Sounds" from the Ancient World)

Naomi Yamada

Article type: Article
1995 Volume 44 Issue 5 Pages 19-28
Published: May 10, 1995
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In ancient Japan, "sound-voice" played a vital role in creating the old cosmology. It also worked as one of the most important factors in structuring and constructing the system of representation. It is through this "sound-voice" that the other world could be made manifest so that one might have a connection with it on this side of the world. It functioned, as it were, as a corridor to the other world. In this sense, I think, the "sound-voice" might provide us with new approaches in interpretation.

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Murasaki-Shikibu's Auditory Power : The Soundscape of Murasaki-Shikibu Nikki(<Special Issue>"Sounds" from the Ancient World)

Toru Ando

Article type: Article
1995 Volume 44 Issue 5 Pages 29-39
Published: May 10, 1995
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In Murasaki-Shikibu Nikki, there are various noises which make up a keynote sound; those of religious matters, nature, music, and people's voices. After staying in her "furusato" (a married woman's native place where she usually returns to give childbirth), where few worldly noises can be heard, Murasaki-Shikibu begins to hear sounds in her mind, above all the voices of people, as if they were hallucinatory. It is here that "rumor" starts to echo in the text as a kind of a sound signal. It would be justifiable to take what is called her epistolary style as a written rumor, which forms a textual soundscape the author herself listens to. I think that in this particular style there is a "auditory self-reflection" (in which the subject hears his/her own voice), which is mediated through "writing" and "seeing."

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Voices in Sagoromo-Monogatari : Its Viewpoint Concerning Royal Authority(<Special Issue>"Sounds" from the Ancient World)

Yasue Suzuki

Article type: Article
1995 Volume 44 Issue 5 Pages 40-48
Published: May 10, 1995
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In this essay I will seek to make explicit the configuration of vocal sounds in Sagoromo-Monogatari. The logic of Sagoromo-Monogatari is, like its foregoing text Gengi-Monogatari, to see voice as power. The former text, however, takes nearly an opposite attitude to the latter in treating the voice of royal authority. Hence I will interpret the meaning of this difference in order to decide the nature of the viewpoint taken in Sagoromo-Monogatari for royal authority. Through this interpretation, I hope, it will be clear that in the text there is a critical stance not only toward Gengi-Monogatari but also toward narrative in general.

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Floating Melody : Signification of Sounds in Konjaku-Monogatarishu(<Special Issue>"Sounds" from the Ancient World)

Yoichi Hijikata

Article type: Article
1995 Volume 44 Issue 5 Pages 49-56
Published: May 10, 1995
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In section 24-24 of Konjaku-Monogatarishu the plot is that Minamoto-no-Hiromasa, who is at Seiryoden of the imperial palace, moves to action when he hears an ogre playing biwa (an old Japanese instrument resembling a lute) at Rajomon. This fable appears to be essentially regalistic, because one might say that it metaphorically reinforces the royal order with its well-organized description of the spatial configuration of Heiankyo. This seemingly conservative text, however, harbors a subversive element in its narrative mode, in which the story of the ogre's biwa sound reaching everywhere in the capital is narrated from Hiromasa's viewpoint. In this essay, I would like to consider the relation between aristocratic ideology and "sound" in late ancient Japan, while arguing how this fable, the theme of which is strongly concerned with an instrumental sound, threatens the order of formal culture.

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Reading Osamu Dazai's Chiyojo : Boundary of Ecriture(Reading)

Kyoko Ando

Article type: Article
1995 Volume 44 Issue 5 Pages 58-62
Published: May 10, 1995
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Article type: Appendix
1995 Volume 44 Issue 5 Pages 63-
Published: May 10, 1995
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Article type: Appendix
1995 Volume 44 Issue 5 Pages 63-
Published: May 10, 1995
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Hiroaki Yamashita, Heike-Monogatari as a Narrative

Yoshikazu Kobayashi

Article type: Article
1995 Volume 44 Issue 5 Pages 64-65
Published: May 10, 1995
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Junko Miyauchi, Kanoko Okamoto: To the Cruel Sea

Hideaki Sato

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1995 Volume 44 Issue 5 Pages 66-67
Published: May 10, 1995
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Takeshi Seki, Imperialism and Japanese

Mitsuo Takano

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1995 Volume 44 Issue 5 Pages 68-69
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The System of "Culture and Nature"

Hiroyuki Chida

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1995 Volume 44 Issue 5 Pages 70-71
Published: May 10, 1995
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Article type: Bibliography
1995 Volume 44 Issue 5 Pages 72-73
Published: May 10, 1995
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Article type: Appendix
1995 Volume 44 Issue 5 Pages 74-
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1995 Volume 44 Issue 5 Pages 75-
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Article type: Appendix
1995 Volume 44 Issue 5 Pages 75-
Published: May 10, 1995
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Article type: Bibliography
1995 Volume 44 Issue 5 Pages 77-
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Article type: Bibliography
1995 Volume 44 Issue 5 Pages 79-78
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Article type: Appendix
1995 Volume 44 Issue 5 Pages 80-
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Article type: Appendix
1995 Volume 44 Issue 5 Pages 80-
Published: May 10, 1995
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Article type: Appendix
1995 Volume 44 Issue 5 Pages App3-
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Article type: Cover
1995 Volume 44 Issue 5 Pages Cover2-
Published: May 10, 1995
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