Japanese Literature

Opening the Closet Door: Murasaki-no-Ue's Diplomatic Negotiation at Rokujō-In

Masako Horie

2014 Volume 63 Issue 12 Pages 1-9
Published: December 10, 2014
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As soon as Onna-Sannomiya settles down in Rokujō-In as Hikaru-Genji's legitimate wife, Murasaki-no-Ue makes up her mind to pay a personal visit to her. Then she doesn't miss the opportunity to see the new mistress in her boudoir exactly at the moment when she invites her husband's daughter Akashi-no-Kimi there. In spite of her dissatisfaction with the situation, Murasaki-no-Ue diplomatically tries to bring order into the new regime through the arrangement of intimate three-party talks. By opening the closet door, she hopes to open everyone's heart at Rokujō-In.

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Storm, Madness, and Chekhov: How Katai Tayama Wrote “Futon”

Yōhei Kobori

2014 Volume 63 Issue 12 Pages 10-21
Published: December 10, 2014
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This paper will examine the making of Katai Tayama's “Futon” in the light of comparative literature. In 1907, while Katai was writing the story, he became much interested in Anton Pavlovich Chekhov's short story “The Black Monk” which he happened to know from a reader's letter to Bunshō-sekai, a magazine he worked for as an editor. Thus it is very likely that he wrote “Futon” under a certain influence of the Russian writer. Indeed his symbolic use of storm, which stands for madness, is strongly reminiscent of Chekhov's style. Here I will also compare the story with Doppo Kunikida and other contemporary writers' works to shed a new light on it by placing it in intertextual contexts.

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The Cinematic Possibility of Fiction in Junichirō Tanizaki's “Jinmenso”: The Unrealized Film Version of the Novel by Taishō Katsuei

Mioko Satō

2014 Volume 63 Issue 12 Pages 22-32
Published: December 10, 2014
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In 1920 a Japanese film studio Taishō Katsuei announced the project to make a film of “Jinmenso,” Junichirō Tanizaki's short story. The film company was very ambitious to produce photoplays excellent enough to compete with American and European ones. Indeed the story provided a good material for the studio's grand plan because of its cinematic elements such as a mysterious horror movie, the divided self of an actress, and the curse of a face-like tumor. The project was unrealized after all. But if the story had been actually filmed, there might have been a remarkable interaction between fiction and film that prefigures the media franchise of today.

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The Keynote Paper for the 66th Summer Forum of the Kokugo Division

Language and “I”

Satoshi Ōya

2014 Volume 63 Issue 12 Pages 33-44
Published: December 10, 2014
Released on J-STAGE: December 26, 2019

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The Meridian:

After the “Honeymoon” between Literature and Philosophy

Kōichirō Sukegawa

2014 Volume 63 Issue 12 Pages 46-47
Published: December 10, 2014
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Creating Fiction to Take Children beyond Reality

Kayoko Hirokawa

2014 Volume 63 Issue 12 Pages 48-49
Published: December 10, 2014
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JLA and I:

My Gratitude to the Reading Circle of Murasaki-Shikibu-nikki

Toshihiko Koyama

2014 Volume 63 Issue 12 Pages 50-51
Published: December 10, 2014
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The Meridian:

The Appearance of Self in Ancient Literature: A Note on the Sense of Humor in Genji-monogatari and Kojiki

Rei Kufukihara

2014 Volume 63 Issue 12 Pages 52-53
Published: December 10, 2014
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Reading:

A Mental Experiment on Lies: Reading Sanmi-ittai-no-shinwa by Kyojin Ōnishi

Tadayoshi Yamaguchi

2014 Volume 63 Issue 12 Pages 54-58
Published: December 10, 2014
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Reviews:

Tamotsu Matsuda, A Literary Study on Noh Music

Hiroyuki Tsuda

2014 Volume 63 Issue 12 Pages 60-61
Published: December 10, 2014
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Rintarō Gōyama, A Study on the Japanese Poems Written in Chinese of the Late Edo and the Meiji Period

Yōhei Kozai

2014 Volume 63 Issue 12 Pages 62-63
Published: December 10, 2014
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Seigo Mutō, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa's Stories for Children: The Mysterious Tales of Self-Vision

Mioko Shinozaki

2014 Volume 63 Issue 12 Pages 64-65
Published: December 10, 2014
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Makoto Takagi, Saeko Kimura, and Tōru Andō, eds., Critical and Theoretical Moments in Japanese Literature

Hiroyuki Hongū

2014 Volume 63 Issue 12 Pages 66-67
Published: December 10, 2014
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The Prospect:

Words, Expressions, and Spatial Reproductions

Akemi Shimizu

2014 Volume 63 Issue 12 Pages 68-71
Published: December 10, 2014
Released on J-STAGE: December 26, 2019

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