Japanese Literature

Special Issue: Literature and the Three Major Cities

Kyoto, Osaka, and “Ukiyozōshi” Stories: The Writing Method of Ihara-Saikaku and Ejima-Kiseki

Takahiro Saeki

2013 Volume 62 Issue 10 Pages 2-17
Published: October 10, 2013
Released on J-STAGE: October 25, 2018

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“Ukiyozōshi” stories may be strongly associated with Osaka because of the major writer from the city, Ihara-Saikaku. But in fact they are often set in Kyoto, and many publishers of this genre were located also in the same ancient city. Saikaku and Ejima-Kiseki, however, tried to avoid emphasizing local color in their works. Probably such anti-regionalism is one of the factors that made them popular all over the country.

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The “Genroku Style” of Haiku Poetry

Aiko Maki

2013 Volume 62 Issue 10 Pages 18-27
Published: October 10, 2013
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The “Genroku style” of haiku poetry refers not so much to the particular style of a poetical school as to the fashionable style of the times. As it was most often used in introductory textbooks or at haiku competitions, it should be understood in the context of the popular culture of the Genroku Period. Indeed the poets of Kamigata put stress on the popular aspect of haiku poetry in their “style” so that it could be widely received among lay poets and haiku lovers.

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A Sketch of the Life of Ashibe-no-Tazumaru

Hitoshi Hattori

2013 Volume 62 Issue 10 Pages 28-41
Published: October 10, 2013
Released on J-STAGE: October 25, 2018

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Ashibe-no-Tazumaru is a kyōka poet of the late Edo Period who was born in Nagoya. After he studied kyōka poetry under the tutelage of Karagoromo-Kisshū in Edo, he went back to his hometown where he frantically devoted himself to rendering poems even at the expense of his family. In the midst of such self-inflicted hardship he made a debut in the poetical circle of Kyoto and continued to make poems for the rest of his life. In his career as a kyōka poet Tazumaru not only moved between the three cultural centers Kyoto, Osaka, and Edo but also traveled around the country in search of poetical materials from Sendai and Matsushima to Nagasaki. His freewheeling itinerancy reveals that since the Bunsei Period at least in kyōka poetry there had almost disappeared literary sectionalism.

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The “Tokyo” Style of the Kamigata Kabuki Theater in the Early Meiji Period

Takayuki Hioki

2013 Volume 62 Issue 10 Pages 42-52
Published: October 10, 2013
Released on J-STAGE: October 25, 2018

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The kabuki theater of Kamigata in the Meiji Period is regarded as not worthy of consideration because it was neither modern nor innovative in contrast to the counterpart of Tokyo. Closely examined, however, it showed not a few interesting changes in response to the new era. Most dramas, for example, had a marked tendency to be fashioned after the new style of kabuki in Tokyo. Interestingly enough, far from being an inferior imitation, the “Tokyo” style of kabuki in Kamigata had impact on the dramaturgy of the very theatrical center. Such an interaction between Kamigata and Tokyo makes it necessary to evaluate the historical importance of the kabuki theater of Kamigata in the early Meiji Period.

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JLA & I

The New Series “JLA and I”

Masayuki Maeda

2013 Volume 62 Issue 10 Pages 53
Published: October 10, 2013
Released on J-STAGE: October 25, 2018

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JLA and I: About the Science Council of Japan

Toshio Hiraoka

2013 Volume 62 Issue 10 Pages 54-55
Published: October 10, 2013
Released on J-STAGE: October 25, 2018

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The Meridian:

Hikaru-Genji and Yūgiri

Kenichi Nakai

2013 Volume 62 Issue 10 Pages 56-57
Published: October 10, 2013
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Reading:

A Story of the Cutoff Left Arm: Reading “Omotemuki-ha-meoto-no-nakagaki,” the Second Episode of the Sixth Chapter of Buke-giri-monogatari

Shinichi Utsui

2013 Volume 62 Issue 10 Pages 58-62
Published: October 10, 2013
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Reviews:

Atsuko Ōta, Genji-monogatari: The World of Princesses

Yukari Hashimoto

2013 Volume 62 Issue 10 Pages 64-65
Published: October 10, 2013
Released on J-STAGE: October 25, 2018

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Yasunori Fukuda, A Study of Hiraga-Gennai, Part I (Osaka): Gennai and the Academic Circle of Kamigata

Moonkyong Kim

2013 Volume 62 Issue 10 Pages 66-67
Published: October 10, 2013
Released on J-STAGE: October 25, 2018

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Hiroaki Nakayama, The Shadow of World War I: The World War and Japanese Literature

Hirokazu Murata

2013 Volume 62 Issue 10 Pages 68-69
Published: October 10, 2013
Released on J-STAGE: October 25, 2018

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Reports from the JLA Divisions:

The Society of New Feminist Criticism

Teruyo Iwami

2013 Volume 62 Issue 10 Pages 70-71
Published: October 10, 2013
Released on J-STAGE: October 25, 2018

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