Japanese Literature

The Abduction of the Imperial Princess: The Form of Narrative Counterpoint in Utsuho-monogatari

Hiroyuki Hongu

2012 Volume 61 Issue 12 Pages 1-12
Published: December 10, 2012
Released on J-STAGE: January 25, 2018

DOIhttps://njjn-jsjc-gov-cn-s-1416.res.gxlib.org.cn:443/rwt/1416/https/MSYXTLUQPJUB/10.20620/nihonbungaku.61.12_1

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This article will examine the narrative structure of Utsuho-monogatari in the episode of Minamoto-no-Sukezumi's attempted abduction of Onna-Ninomiya. The well-constructed episode skillfully narrates how Sukezumi tries to commit such an extraordinary crime of kidnapping the imperial princess. By casting Fujiwara-no-Nakatada as a hero who saves the princess from the villain, the oldest full-length narrative showed a way of dramatically exploiting the pattern of narrative counterpoint that consists of good and evil or light and shadow.

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Quotations from Genji-monogatari in the Poems Exchanged between Murasaki-Shikibu and Ise-no-Taifu: A Memory of the Story Shared by the “Authors”

Satoko Nakanishi

2012 Volume 61 Issue 12 Pages 13-22
Published: December 10, 2012
Released on J-STAGE: January 25, 2018

DOIhttps://njjn-jsjc-gov-cn-s-1416.res.gxlib.org.cn:443/rwt/1416/https/MSYXTLUQPJUB/10.20620/nihonbungaku.61.12_13

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There exists a strong likelihood that Murasaki-Shikibu might have worked together with her fellow waiting women of Fujiwara-no-Shōko in the making of Genji-monogatari. Then to what extent were those “authors” concerned with the classical work? To answer the question, here I will analyze the earliest yet highly-complicated quotations from Genji-monogatari in the poems exchanged between Murasaki-Shikibu and Ise-no-Taifu. By sharing the memory of literary collaboration, those women including Shikibu could strengthen their solidarity in their devotion to the mistress.

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Arakida-Hisaoyu's Days in Kyoto and The Annotated Fourth Volume of Manyō-kō-tsuki-no-ochiba

Ryōta Takamatsu

2012 Volume 61 Issue 12 Pages 23-33
Published: December 10, 2012
Released on J-STAGE: January 25, 2018

DOIhttps://njjn-jsjc-gov-cn-s-1416.res.gxlib.org.cn:443/rwt/1416/https/MSYXTLUQPJUB/10.20620/nihonbungaku.61.12_23

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In the eleventh year of the Kansei Period Arakida-Hisaoyu, a scholar of Japanese classical literature, left his hometown Ise for Kyoto where he stayed for two years to lecture on Manyō-shū. The notes he made on the copy of Manyō-shū for his lecture would develop into one of his major works The Annotated Fourth Volume of Manyō-kō-tsuki-no-ochiba. Indeed, greatly inspired by Akinari-Ueda's study of Manyō-shū, he came to have a more comprehensive understanding of the classical work in Kyoto.

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The Critical Representation of a Rural District in Seishi Yokomizo's Akuma-no-temariuta

Yōko Kurata

2012 Volume 61 Issue 12 Pages 34-44
Published: December 10, 2012
Released on J-STAGE: January 25, 2018

DOIhttps://njjn-jsjc-gov-cn-s-1416.res.gxlib.org.cn:443/rwt/1416/https/MSYXTLUQPJUB/10.20620/nihonbungaku.61.12_34

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This article will analyze the narrative structure of Akuma-no-temariuta, a detective novel by Seishi Yokomizo, in terms of the representation of the rural community of the late 1950s. In the story the realistic description of the postwar rural landscape is strangely coupled with the Gothic plot of a superstitious legend about the cursed song of an old Japanese handball. By such ambiguous mixture of realism and romanticism in the representation of a rural district, the text avoids making a definite commitment either to the democratic enlightenment of postwar Japan or to reactionary nationalism symbolized by the feudalistic order of the old village.

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The Keynote Paper of the 64th Summer Forum of the JLA Kokugo Division: Transcendence and Postmodernism: Faced with the Problem of Narrative Falsehood

Takehiko Aizawa

2012 Volume 61 Issue 12 Pages 45-56
Published: December 10, 2012
Released on J-STAGE: January 25, 2018

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The Meridian:

Going in the Mainstream

Hitoshi Kamada

2012 Volume 61 Issue 12 Pages 58-59
Published: December 10, 2012
Released on J-STAGE: January 25, 2018

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Beginning with Children's Reading: How Can Literature Survive as a Subject?

Moeko Fukumura

2012 Volume 61 Issue 12 Pages 60-61
Published: December 10, 2012
Released on J-STAGE: January 25, 2018

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The “Erfahrung” of March 11 and Literature

Masahiro Sawa

2012 Volume 61 Issue 12 Pages 62-63
Published: December 10, 2012
Released on J-STAGE: January 25, 2018

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Reading:

Huisi's Reincarnation into Prince Shōtoku and Kinsei-shari-hōan-ki of the Maitreya Temple of Baekje

Shinobu Kuranaka

2012 Volume 61 Issue 12 Pages 64-67
Published: December 10, 2012
Released on J-STAGE: January 25, 2018

DOIhttps://njjn-jsjc-gov-cn-s-1416.res.gxlib.org.cn:443/rwt/1416/https/MSYXTLUQPJUB/10.20620/nihonbungaku.61.12_64

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Reviews:

Keihachi Sakashita, Manyō-shū in the History of Waka Poetry

Asao Mori

2012 Volume 61 Issue 12 Pages 68-69
Published: December 10, 2012
Released on J-STAGE: January 25, 2018

DOIhttps://njjn-jsjc-gov-cn-s-1416.res.gxlib.org.cn:443/rwt/1416/https/MSYXTLUQPJUB/10.20620/nihonbungaku.61.12_68

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Kazuyoshi Tsuji, Sovereignty in Genji-monogatari: Hikaru-Genji and His Fantasy

Kiyofumi Koyama

2012 Volume 61 Issue 12 Pages 70-71
Published: December 10, 2012
Released on J-STAGE: January 25, 2018

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Atsuko Hioki, The Taima Mandala and Princess Chūjō

Satoshi Itō

2012 Volume 61 Issue 12 Pages 72-73
Published: December 10, 2012
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Aya Nakamura, The Reception of Novels Written in Vernacular Chinese in Early Modern Japan

Osamu Kigoshi

2012 Volume 61 Issue 12 Pages 74-75
Published: December 10, 2012
Released on J-STAGE: January 25, 2018

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Minoru Tanaka and Senri Sugai, eds., What Literature Can Do for Education: The Secret of “Reading”

Manabu Satō

2012 Volume 61 Issue 12 Pages 76-77
Published: December 10, 2012
Released on J-STAGE: January 25, 2018

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