2003.01

pmjs logs for January 2003. Total number of messages: 51

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* Kyoto housing (Greg Levine, Matthew Stavros, Larry V. Shumway)

* Looking for Chu-ji-ruiki & Tamanin-nikki (Barbara Nostrand, Lawrence Marceau)

* conference/exhibition at Princeton

* summer Japanese language programs (Joan Piggott)

* Position at UMass Amherst (Stephen M. Forrest)

* Nominal forms in dialects (Janick Wrona, John Bentley)

* Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Haverford College

* New Publication Now Available (Bruce Edward Willoughby)

* member news (Michael Watson)

* New Publication Now Available (Bruce Edward Willoughby)

* Early Modern Japan vol 10, No 2 available (Philip C. Brown)

* financial disclosure (Philip C. Brown, David Pollack, Kate Wildman Nakai)

* haiku search (Ingo Schaefer)

* Harvard Graduate Student Conference for Japanese Studies (Glynne Walley)

* Summer Japanese Language Program (Philip Brown)

* Pregnant Spider (Bill Higginson, Richard Bowring, Janine Beichman, Robert E Morrell, David Pollack, Michael Watson, Robin Gill, Lewis Cook, Rein Raud)

* Limericks and Senryu (Pregnant Spider thread) (Bill Higginson, Paul Atkins, Anthony Bryant)

* ugokasu/Nukata poem (Torquil Duthie)

* ANNOUNCEMENT> ILLUMINE - call for papers (Monika Dix)

* EAJS Warsaw (Beatrice Bodart-Bailey, Susanne Schermann, Michael Watson, Mark Teeuwen)

* SISJAC Fellowships (Julie Nelson Davis)

* New Publication Now Available (Bruce Edward Willoughby, Brett de Bary)

* Cities and Memory project (Matthew Stavros)

* The Woman Lit by Fireflies (Denise O'Brien)

Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 15:07:06 -0800

From: gplev...@...ink.berkeley.edu

Subject: Kyoto Housing

Dear Colleagues,

I am searching for housing in Kyoto for the months of July and August, 2003 and would welcome any offers or advice regarding subletting, "weekly mansion," apartment rentals, realtors, etc.

Happy New Year to all.

Greg Levine
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Assistant Professor
Department of the History of Art
416 Doe Library, MC #6020
U.C. Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-6020 USA
Tel: (510) 643-4029
Fax: (510) 643-2185
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Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 20:49:15 -0500 (EST)

From: Barbara Nostrand <bnost...@...x.dac.neu.edu>

Subject: Looking for Chu-ji-ruiki & Tamanin-nikki

Does anyone know which collections contain the following:

Chu-ji-ruiki & Tamanin-nikki

Thank you very much.

Barbara Nostrand

Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 00:27:31 -0500 (EST)

From: mstav...@...nceton.EDU (Matthew G Stavros)

Subject: Re: Kyoto Housing

Dear Greg,

I'm not a renter myself but some of my friends speak well of the recently
highly publicized LeoPalace Weekly/Monthly Mansions. I know of one site in
Yamashina but there are likely several within Kyoto itself.

http://www.leopalace21.com/index.html

Nice due to no key money or guarantor requirements.

I hope we'll be able to meet up while you're in town. I'll look forward to
it. Let my now if you I can help within anything more specific before you
arrive.

Sincerely,
Matthew Stavros

Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2003 09:44:36 -0500

From: Lawrence Marceau <lmarc...@...l.Edu>

Subject: Re: Looking for Chu-ji-ruiki & Tamanin-nikki

Happy Year of the Ram (or sheep?) (or Goat, according to the Chinese).

If you're asking about the cuisine-related work, Chuuji-rui ki (ê~éñ
óÞãL), then it is in the old Gunsho ruijuu, vol. 19, or the newer
Shinkou gunsho ruijuu (êVçZåQèëóÞè]), vol. 15.

As for "Tamanin-nikki," I know of no work by that name (or Taman'in
nikki). However the large Tamon'in nikki (...@...) is found in
several places, including Kaitei Shiseki shuuran (â¸íËéjêèWóó) vol. 12,
Shintei zouho Shiseki shuuran (êVíëùï,) vol. 25, Zouho zoku-shiryou
taisei (ëùï,ë±éjóøëÂê¨) vols. 38-42, and in 1967 was published by
Kadokawa Shoten as Tamon'in nikki.

Best,

Lawrence Marceau

Barbara Nostrand wrote:

Does anyone know which collections contain the following:

Chu-ji-ruiki & Tamanin-nikki

Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2003 12:40:46 -0700

Subject: RE: [pmjs] Kyoto Housing

From: "Larry V. Shumway" <larry_shum...@....edu>

Try the Dwell Inn, a couple of blocks from the station on Kyuu-jou. They
rent by the week, month, or two months. The apartments are what used to be
called "efficiency" apts., complete with bed clothes, cooking utensils,
shower, TV, washer-dryer, etc. There is a supermarket around the corner and
a Lawsons nearly next door. Rent runs about $1,000 per month. Phone is
(075) 672-1100. Cheers, Larry Shumway

Greg Levine wrote:
I am searching for housing in Kyoto for the months of July and
August, 2003 and would welcome any offers or advice regarding
subletting, "weekly mansion," apartment rentals, realtors, etc.

Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2003 09:41:16 +0900

From: Michael Watson <...@....com>

Subject: conference/exhibition at Princeton

The Associate Director of the new center for Chinese and Japanese Art at Princeton University
has asked to post the following announcement:

YOU ARE INVITE TO ATTEND:

THE DEDICATION OF THE P. Y. AND KINMAY W. TANG CENTER
FOR CHINESE AND JAPANESE ART
AT PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15 AND SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2003

PROGRAM OF EVENTS
Saturday, February 15, 2003

INAUGURAL CONFERENCE
PERSISTENCE/TRANSFORMATION: TEXT AS IMAGE IN THE ART OF XU BING

Registration
1:30 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.
McCosh 10, Wood Auditorium

Welcoming Remarks
2:00 p.m.

Jerome Silbergeld
P. Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Professor of Chinese Art History
Director, Tang Center for Chinese and Japanese Art
Princeton University

Dora C. Y. Ching
Associate Director, Tang Center for Chinese and Japanese Art
Princeton University

Lectures

"Sound, Sense, and Scale in the History of Chinese Writing"
Robert E. Harrist, Jr. *89
Jane and Leopold Swergold Professor of the History of Chinese Art
Columbia University

"Whose Assumptions Does Xu Bing's Art Disturb, and How?""
Perry Link
Professor of East Asian Studies
Princeton University

"'Word Art' in Contemporary Japan"
Gennifer Weisenfeld *97
Assistant Professor of Japanese Art History
Duke University

Break 4:00-4:30 p.m.

"Xu Bing, A Western Perspective"
Hal Foster
Townsend Martin '17 Professor of Art and Archaeology
Princeton University

"An Artist's View"
Xu Bing
Artist, Xu Bing Studio, New York

Celebratory Reception
6:00 to 7:30 p.m.
Princeton University Art Museum
***Special Exhibition of A Book from the Sky***

Sunday, February 16, 2003

CHINESE CINEMA IN TRANSITION
2:00 p.m.
James Stewart Theatre, 185 Nassau Street

Introduction
Jerome Silbergeld
P. Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Professor of Chinese Art History
Director, Tang Center for Chinese and Japanese Art
Princeton University

Film
"A Confucian Confusion (Duli shidai)"
Directed by Edward Yang (Yang Dechang)
Taiwan, 1994, Color, 125 min
In Chinese with English Subtitles

The Conference and Film Viewing are organized and sponsored by the Tang Center
The Celebratory Reception is sponsored by the Princeton University Art Museum and the Tang Center

To register please visit our website at
http://www.princeton.edu/sites/TangCenter

Telephone inquiries: 609.258.3795

Dora C. Y. Ching
Associate Director, Tang Center for Chinese and Japanese Art
Princeton University

Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 12:30:06 -0700

From: Joan Piggott <j...@...nell.edu>

Subject: Re: summer Japanese language programs

Dear Colleagues,

I have a student who is searching for a good first-year Japanese program in
which to enroll this summer. I would be grateful for your suggestions as to
good programs. Does anyone know of a composite listing of such programs,
including information as to cost and offerings?

Best,
Joan Piggott

Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2003 12:07:15 -0500

From: "Stephen M. Forrest" <sforr...@...anlan.umass.edu>

Subject: Position at UMass Amherst

New Year's greetings to all. Please excuse the cross posting:

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN MODERN/CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE LITERATURE AND CULTURE

University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003-9312.

The Department of Asian Languages and Literatures invites applications for a tenure-track position in Modern/Contemporary Japanese Literature and Culture at the rank of Assistant Professor beginning September 1, 2003.

Preference will be given to candidates with expertise in interdisciplinary approaches to Japanese literature and culture, native or near-native command of Japanese, and the Ph.D. in hand. Responsibilities include teaching undergraduate and graduate level courses in Modern/Contemporary Japanese Literature and Culture, and Japanese language at the intermediate to advanced levels. Salary is commensurate with qualifications.

Please send a vita, 3 letters of recommendation, a statement of teaching and research interests, and any representative publications to:

Japanese Search Committee
Asian Languages and Literatures
440 Herter Hall
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003-9312

Review of applications will begin on January 22, 2003, and will continue until the position is filled. The University of Massachusetts is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. UMass/Amherst is a member of the Five College Consortium, along with Amherst, Smith, Hampshire and Mount Holyoke Colleges.
______________________________________________________________

Stephen M. FORREST <Undergraduate Advisor for Japanese Majors>
Department of Asian Languages & Literatures
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
office: Herter Hall (Rm 441) phone: (413) 545-4950
email: <sforr...@...anlan.umass.edu>

* Classical and Manuscript Japanese at UMass Amherst *
______________________________________________________________
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 10:47:24 +0000 (GMT)
From: Janick Wrona <janick.wr...@...tford.oxford.ac.uk>
Subject: Nominal forms in dialects

Dear all,

I'm looking at the Old Japanese Nominal form -(a)ku (as in ume2 no2 pana ime2 ni kataraku 'the plum blossoms told me in a dream' M 5.852) at the moment, and I was wondering if there are any dialects still preserving reflexes of this morpheme? I have looked in gendai nihongo hoogen daiziten and in hoogen bunpoo zenkoku tizu, but to no avail.

All the best
Janick
--
Janick Wrona
Hertford College
University of Oxford

Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 20:24:27 -0600

From: "John R. Bentley" <jbentl...@....edu>

Subject: Re: Nominal forms in dialects

Regarding reflexes of -aku in modern
dialects. I have done a search (that's why
it took me so long to reply), and I can't
find any. I thought if there were any you
would find them in Ryuukyuuan.

I have not been able to locate any, however.
That does not necessarily mean there are
none, as parts of Ryuukyuuan (especially
Sakishima) are rather poorly understood.

Sorry--I know that doesn't help any.

Best,

John Bentley

Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 07:09:42 +0900

From: Michael Watson <wat...@...eijigakuin.ac.jp>

Subject: Post-Doctoral Fellowship

The Humanities Center of Haverford College invites applications for a 2-year Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the Humanities to begin fall 2003 in the area of comparative literary and cultural studies, with a particular interest in aspects of translation, such as: the practice, history and theory of translation, contexts of translation, modes of intertextuality (imitation, parody, forgery), performance and film as translation, cultural difference and boundary crossin...@...ssible field of specialization might includ...@...terary and linguistic studies, cultural anthropology or history, religious studies, philosophy, film studies, performance studies, art history, music history.

The successful candidate will be expected to teach one course each semester and participate in a yearlong faculty seminar (topic for 2003-...@...ranslation and Other Transformations"; see http://www.haverford.edu/provost/hcenter/fac_seminars.htm#03-04...@...plicants are asked to submit two brief course proposals relating to their areas of interest, one for a broad-based introductory or intermediate-level course, the other for a specialized or advanced course.

Applicants must have received the Ph.D. in 1998 at the earliest or requirements for Ph.D. must be completed by the application deadline of February 28, 2003.

Please submit a letter of application, curriculum vitae, 2 course proposals, and a writing sample of not more than 25 pp., and arrange for three letters of recommendation to be sent to:
Carol Henry
Secretary, Mellon Post-Doctoral Search
Haverford College
Haverford, ...@...041
che...@...erford.edu
Fax: 610-896-4232

AA/EOE; to diversify its faculty and enrich its curriculum and life of the College, Haverford encourages women and minority candidates to appl...@...r information concerning Haverford College and the Humanities Center, please visit our web sites (http://www.haverford.edu; http://www.haverford.edu/provost/hcenter/humanities_center.htm).

Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 11:22:04 -0500 (EST)

From: Bruce Edward Willoughby <...@...ch.edu>

Subject: Re: New Publication Now Available

NEW PUBLICATION

Treatise on Epistolary Style:
Joao Rodriguez on the Noble Art of Writing Japanese Letters
By Jeroen P. Lamers

ISBN 0-1-929280-11-4 (cloth), x + 104 pp., $49.95
Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies, No. 39

The Great Grammar of the Japanese Language (Arte da lingoa de Japam) was
written by the Portuguese Jesuit missionary Joao Rodriguez (1561-1633)
and printed by the Jesuit mission press in Nagasaki between 1604 and 1608.
The grammar is a veritable treasure house of information about the
Japanese language in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries,
and particularly the language of polite society. Rodriguez spent
thirty-three years in Japan and was probably the European most proficient
at speaking and reading the Japanese of his day.

Japanese epistolary style, or sooroobun, is one of the topics dealt with
by Rodriguez. Rodriguez explains in his "Treatise on Epistolary Style"
what kind of letters there are and their names, the set phrases that are
used, how a letter is divided into its component parts, how to interpret
the physical layout of a letter, and how the level of politeness can be
determined. Rodriguez deals extensively with the courtesies for the
Buddhist clergy, and he proposes an adaptation of these forms so that they
can be used for and by Jesuit missionaries in Japan. Finally, Rodriguez
provides a large number of sample letters.

The "Treatise on Epistolary Style" has a twofold utility for modern
readers. First, it is an excellent instrument for dissecting Japanese
letters from the early-modern era into their component parts. Second, it
can help to make apparent the valuable historical and social clues that
are often hidden in what appear to be trivial epistolary details. Once
one understands the principles of the Japanese epistolary style, with its
subtle social nuances and minute gradations of courtesies, much more
information can be obtained from early-modern documents than their factual
contents alone.

To order: Contact the Center for Japanese Studies, The University of
Michigan, at the numbers below.

Shipping: $6.00 domestic, $7.50 foreign, for one copy.

Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 20:52:45 +0900

From: Michael Watson <wat...@...eijigakuin.ac.jp>

Subject: member news

We welcome eight new members to pmjs.

Chris Callahan <ccall...@...aii.edu>

I am a Ph.D. student in Japanese literature at the University of Hawaii-Manoa.

John Dougill <doug...@...x.kyoto-inet.or.jp>

Professor of British Studies at Ryukoku University in Kyoto with an interest in Kyoto culture and history. I have written occasionally on the subject, although it is not my main area of specialisation.

Jeroen Lamers <lam...@...net.net>

Netherlands Ministry of Economic Affairs, currently Industrial Counsellor to the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Seoul. My academic interests primarily lie with the Azuchi-Momoyama period, the Three Unifiers and especially Oda Nobunaga, and the early European sources regarding Japan, in particular the Jesuit studies of the Japanese language.
Published works include a political biography of Oda Nobunaga ("Japonius Tyrannus: The Japanese Warlord Oda Nobunaga Reconsidered"; Hotei Publishing, 2000), and a partial translation of Joao Rodriguez's Great Grammar ("Treatise on Epistolary Style: Joao Rodriguez on the Noble Art of Writing Japanese Letters"; Michigan University, Center for Japanese Studies, 2002).
Currently I am working with Jurgis Elisonas (the former George Elison) on a English translation of the Shinchoo-Koo ki ("Chronicle of Lord Nobunaga"), the first and most important Japanese-language biography of Oda Nobunaga.

Daniela Lieb MA <unri...@...mail.com>

working at the university of cologne, dept. of japanology, research-field: classical japanese literature, history

Mieko Okamoto <m...@...umbia.edu>

Graduate Student, Department of Sociology, The University of Tokyo.
My current research interests encompass the discourses on gender, the city, and the suburbs in the 1920s and 1930s.

Hiraku Shimoda <shim...@....harvard.edu>

I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University. As of Jan. 2003, I am reseaching for my dissertation as a visiting researcher at Shiryo hensanjo at U. Tokyo. For my dissertation I am trying to write a social history of nation-state formation and political consciousness in Aizu between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries.

Mark Teeuwen <mark.teeu...@...t.uio.no>

University of Oslo, Norway
I teach Japanese language, history and religion at the University of Oslo. My main research interest is the history of kami worship and shrines, especially in the classical and medieval periods.

Main publications:
Watarai Shinto, an intellectual history of the Outer Shrine in Ise, Leiden: CNWS Publications 1996.

John Breen and Mark Teeuwen, eds, Shinto in history: Ways of the kami, Curzon/Hawaii 2000.

Mark Teeuwen and Bernhard Scheid, eds, Tracing Shinto in the history of kami worship, special issue of the JJRS, 29/3-4, Fall 2002.

Mark Teeuwen and Fabio Rambelli, Buddhas and kami in Japan: Honji suijaku as a combinatory paradigm, Routledge Curzon 2003.

William Wetherall <b...@...herall.org>

Independent researcher and writer
I received a PhD in Asian Studies from UC Berkeley in 1982, with one foot in Oriental Languages (now East Asian Languages), into which I had transferred from Electrical Engineering, and the other in Anthropology. My dissertation, Following-in-Death in Early Japan, was a study of homicidal and suicidal funerary sacrifice in Japan, Korea, China, Central Asia, the Mediterranean, and Europe, through literature and archaeology. Since then, I've written on suicide, ethnicity, and prehistory in Japan, translated Japanese fiction, and published several original short stories. Wherever possible, I endeavor to link present-day social and other issues with the past, and consequently I make use of classical sources to illuminate human motivation and behavior today. I have used Ukifune in Genji to show that suicide as a complex interpersonal act has not really changed. Most recently, I have drawn on the Nihon shoki and other early texts to suggest the origins of population registers as an instrument of social control related to the determination of what is now called nationality. I am presently writing a novel involving some aspects of antiquity.

[profile updates]

Shannon Parker <rnt...@...mail.com>

MA candidate, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
My field is Japanese intellectual history focussing upon the development of warrior thought -- both ethical and strategic. I am currently a Monbukagakusho research scholar at Gakushuin University where I am finishing up my thesis -- a translation and analysis of the Uesugi Sadamasa-jo and continuing my research on other buke kakun. My other research interests include oraimono, and the transmission history of Chinese military thought in Japan.

Jeremy Robinson < jer...@....att.ne.jp>

I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan, currently conducting dissertation research at in Japan at Tokyo University. My dissertation concerns the selective adaptation of Chinese philosophy and literary norms in the poetry of the Man'yoshu poets Yamanoue Okura and Otomo Tabito.

****
Apologies for not keeping the online members database up to date. I won't be able to clear the backlog for a while yet...
Contact me if you need information on a member who is not yet listed.

Michael Watson

Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 10:35:33 -0500 (EST)

From: Bruce Edward Willoughby <...@...ch.edu>

Subject: Re: New Publication Now Available

NEW PUBLICATION

Religion and Society in Nineteenth-Century Japan:
A Study of the Southern Kanto Region, Using Late Edo and
Early Meiji Gazetters

Helen Hardacre

ISBN 1-929280-13-0 (cloth), xxi + 247 pp., illus., $60.00
Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies, No. 41

Religion and Society in Nineteenth-Century Japan offers extensive and
concrete detail for the complex institutional ways in which Buddhist
temples and Shinto shrines were interwoven and interpenetrated in the late
Edo period, and for the specific and equally complex ways in which this
whole system was transformed in the Meiji period. The book also details
the economic basis of institutional religions, the relative roles and
strengths of various Buddhist sects, and the ritualization of sericulture.

Using local geographies of the Kanto region as a basis for her study,
Helen Hardacre presents a statistical portrait of the religious
institutions existing in Kooza County of Sagami Province and the Western
Tama area of Musashi Province in the years from roughly 1830 to 1840. She
then interprets this data to provide the social setting for these
religious institutions by supplementing the statistical portrait derived
from the geographies, first with an examination of the legal framework
governing religious institutions during the Edo period, and then with case
studies of four significant religious sites in the survey area.. The
dynamics of the institutional organization of these four sites are
analyzed, with attention to the relations among temples and shrines and to
the development of the shrine priesthood. This analysis is further
supplemented with a discussion of popular religious life centering on the
temples and shrines of the survey area at the end of the Edo period.

To order: Contact the Center for Japanese Studies, The University of
Michigan, at the numbers below.

Shipping: $6.00 domestic, $7.50 foreign, for one copy.

Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 23:35:50 -0500

From: "Philip C. Brown" <brown....@....edu>

Subject: Early Modern Japan vol 10, No 2 available

The latest issue of Early Modern Japan: An Interdisciplinary Journal has just been
published, continuing our series of essays on the state of the field. Contents of this
issue (10:2) are printed below along with the first issue in this series (10:1). Subscriptions are:

$15.00 for two issues domestic
$18.00 for two issues international
$ 7.50 for two issues, students (must send photocopy of student ID)

Checks or international postal money orders made payable to the Association for Asian Studies (sorry,
but presently we are not equipped to handle credit cards) should be sent to:

Philip Brown
Early Modern Japan
Department of History
Ohio State University
230 West 17th Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210
USA

Early Modern Japan: An Interdisciplinary Journal 10:2

Articles

Early Modern Japanese Art History--An Overview of the State of the Field
Patricia Graham

Early Modern Literature
Haruo Shirane and Lawrence E. Marceau

Foreign Affairs And Frontiers in Early Modern Japan: A Historiographical Essay of the Field
Brett L. Walk...@...@

Book Reviews.

Timon Screech,Sex and the Floating World: Erotic Images in Japan 1700-1820
David Pollack

Cynthia Vialle & Leonard Blusse, eds., The Deshima Dagregisters, Volume XI, 1641-1650
Beatrice M. Bodart-Bailey

EMJ Annual Meeting Discussion

Literati and Society in Early Modern Japan: An EMJ Panel Discussion

Bibliographies

Early Modern Japanese Art History: A Bibliography of Publications, Primarily in English
Patricia J Graham

Bibliography of Literature in Early Modern Japan
Haruo Shirane with Lawrence Marceau

Foreign Affairs and Frontiers in Early Modern Japan: A Bibliography
Brett L. Walker

--------------------

Early Modern Japan: An Interdisciplinary Journal 10:1

Articles

Essays on the State of the Field: An Introduction
Philip Brown

Studies on Historical Demography and Family in Early Modern Japan
Satomi Kurosu

Tokugawa Intellectual History: State of the Field
James McMullin

Tokugawa Religious History: Studies in Western Languages
Janine Anderson Sawada

Book Reviews.

Nam-lin Hur,Prayer and Play in Late Tokugawa Japan: Asakusa Sensoji and Edo Society
Timon Screech

Bibliographies

Bibliography Historical Demography and Family in Early Modern Japan
Satomi Kurosu

Bibliography Religion and Thought in Early Modern Japan
Janine Sawada with James McMullen

** note from editor: Phil Brown intended to send the next message to David Pollack off list.

I normally omit such errors from the pmjs digest, but this one gave rise to an amusing exchange.

The subject line derives from one I gave to a list message in August... /Michael Watson

Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 07:57:20 -0500

From: Philip Brown <brown....@....edu>

Subject: Re: financial disclosure

David,
Two complimentary copies are off to you (all of v. 10). I hope you will renew for v. 11!
Phil

Philip Brown
Department of History
Ohio State University
TEL: +1 614 292 0904
FAX: +1 614 292 2282

Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 09:18:52 -0500

From: David Pollack <poll...@...l.rochester.edu>

Subject: Re: financial disclosure

don't contributors ordinarily get a complimentary copy of their own work? i have to keep
begging mn to stop sending 20 offprints along with the free journal.

anyhow for anyone out there eavesdropping, ahem: i'm renewing today!

Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 13:06:41 +0900

From: Kate Wildman Nakai <kw-na...@...hia.ac.jp>

Subject: Re: financial disclosure

I'm eavesdropping; just for the record, MN hopes contributors will
resubscribe (or subscribe), too. As Joshua Mostow once said (Joshua, if
you're listening, I hope it's all right to quote you on this; it's one of my
favorite statements on the matter), one should think of subscriptions to
academic journals as like paying alumni dues.

Kate Wildman Nakai

Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 21:58:06 +0100

From: Ingo Schaefer <schaefer.i...@...enet.de>

Subject: haiku search

Some weeks ago I've read a haiku about a pregnant spider sitting on a wall. Must be a famous one, but being a sinologist that I've forgotten the author. Can anybody trace it?
Ingo Schaefer

Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 09:25:04 -0500

From: Glynne Walley <wal...@....harvard.edu>

Subject: Harvard Graduate Student Conference for Japanese Studies

The Society for Japanese Studies at Harvard, in
conjunction with the Reischauer Institute, is now
soliciting paper proposals for the annual Harvard
Graduate Conference for Japanese Studies, to be held
on Saturday, April 12, 2003. Graduate students are
welcome to present their research at this
multi-disciplinary conference. At past conferences,
students from around the US and abroad have
presented papers on a wide variety of topics.

Those interested in participating should send in a
one-page abstract, and each talk should not exceed
fifteen to twenty minutes. Individual papers and
full-panel submissions are welcome. Please include
contact information and institutional affiliation.

The deadline for abstracts is Monday, February 24.
Send abstracts and inquiries to:

Harvard Graduate Student Conference for Japanese
Studies
Reischauer Institute
1737 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
FAX: (617) 496-8083 (ATTN: Graduate Student
Conference) E-Mail: Organizers Glynne Walley and Mark Woolsey can
be reached at hgsc...@...oo.com. Abstracts may be
submitted as attachments.

Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 11:26:22 -0700

From: Bill Higginson <wordfi...@....net>

Subject: Pregnant Spider

Dear Prof. Schaefer,

The poem you're looking for appears to be the following, by Masaoka Shiki:

furukabe no sumi ni ugokasu haramigumo

which R. H. Blyth translates, quite accurately, thus:

| In a corner of the old wall,
| Motionless,
| The pregnant spider.

(_Haiku_, vol. 3, Summer-Autumn, p. 243 in the original, hardcover edition.)

I have verified Blyth's original text in an edition of all Shiki's haiku in season-word order, published by the Shiki Museum in Matsuyama under the supervision of Shigeki Wada, Japan's premiere scholar of Shiki. (Blyth's work is prone to problems in areas of text, attribution, and translation, though not in this instance. And who of us doesn't need someone to check our work?)

Hope this satisfies . . .

Bill Higginson
____________________________________________________________________
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 17:16:16 +0000
From: Richard Bowring <rb...@...mes.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Pregnant Spider

I presume from Blyth's translation that the Japanese here should be either
'ugokazu' or 'ugokanu'.
R. Bowring
Cambridge

Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 14:45:56 -0500

From: Philip Brown <brown....@....edu>

Subject: Summer Japanese Language Program

2003 SPEAC

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Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 23:25:58 +0900

From: Janine Beichman <jani...@...l1.accsnet.ne.jp>

Subject: Re: Pregnant Spider

* Pregnant Spider (Bill Higginson, Richard Bowring)

I too was bemused by the 'ugokasu' but wondered if maybe Blyth's translation was wrong--if it really is
'ugokasu' then couldn't it mean the pregnant spider "starts to move"? Kind of nice to catch that moment of transition, rather than the static picture of simple motionlessness. Also, the use of 'ugokasu,' which is usually (though not here) transitive, seems to suggest that the spider is moving her bulky, pregnant body, with all those tiny little spiders still inside her. I wonder how soon she'll give birth. I feel as if Shiki must have observed pregnant women and is looking at the spider with a kind of sympathy born from those earlier experiences. (In his day, people lived closer to birth than we do now, partly because the birthrate was so much higher.) 'Harami-onna" is listed as a word in Kokugo Daijiten, but "haramigumo" is not. I wonder if Shiki made it up. Anyhow, this is a very nice poem. Like Issa in its focus on the small creatures of the world, but more clear-eyed. By the way, for other equally engaging poems by Shiki see the Shiki Calendar produced in Matsuyama, with translations by Lee Gurga and Tamura Nanae.

Janine Beichman
Dept of Japanese Literature, Daito Bunka University
Tokyo

Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 10:27:19 -0700

From: Bill Higginson <wordfi...@....net>

Subject: Pregnant spider

*Indeed, a low bow to Prof. Bowring for his sharp eye in catching my typo (it was not Blyth's). Romaji, corrected:

furukabe no sumi ni ugokazu haramigumo

with apologies,
Bill Higginson

Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 11:49:20 -0600

From: "Robert E Morrell" <rober...@...sci.wustl.edu>

Subject: Pregnant spider

Nothing about a Pregnant Spider, but if the general topic is arthropods, I can recommend a delightful limerick which mentions a Circumcised Spider, but current online proprieties prevent me from repeating it here. If interested, see Cuddon, _A Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory, Third Edition_ (1991), p. 493.

Robert E Morrell
Washington University in St Louis (Ret.)

Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 22:42:41 +0900

From: Janine Beichman <jani...@...l1.accsnet.ne.jp>

Subject: Re: Pregnant spider

Sorry all, I should have checked the poem before blabbing away, and
probably 'ugokasu' can't be used the way I was thinking of anyhow. But I
still like the poem I imagined. Guess the spider was too tired to move.
Janine

Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 09:59:08 -0500

From: David Pollack <poll...@...l.rochester.edu>

Subject: Re: Pregnant spider -su/-zu

The presence or lack of motivation in the gravid arachnoid seems to
recall a pmjs discussion some time ago over the question of whether or
not the customary omission of dakuten was understood in its own time, or
might be understood in ours, as a technique, used intentionally or
otherwise, for producing ambiguity. While one sort of scholarship finds
it neater to come down on one side or the other on the question of
whether the pregnant spider is moving or not, it may be possible, as I
think one person has already noted, to have it both ways.

David Pollack

Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 00:17:20 +0900

From: Michael Watson <wat...@...eijigakuin.ac.jp>

Subject: Re: Pregnant spider -su/-zu

David Pollack is referring to a discussion raised by Lewis Cook over examples such as
miede / miete in a celebrated poem by Komachi
http://www.meijigakuin.ac.jp/~pmjs/archive/2000/kakekotoba.html

Michael Watson

Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 11:23:22 -0500

From: "robin d gill" <robin...@...lsouth.net>

Subject: Pregnant Spiderz

I found the response to the "ugokasu" spider puzzling, for I presumed everyone would assume the same thing I did, namely, that the original did not bother to put the "nigori-ten" on the "su." Since Blyth gives the Japanese original as well as a romanization, it would be possible that the Japanese literally read "su," though it meant "zu." Since Bill confessed it was his typo, Blyth must have Romanized it as "z," but, how about the Japanese? Is it possible, Bill, that you read directly from the Japanese?

robin d. gill

<mailto:uncoolwa...@...mail.com>uncoolwa...@...mail.com

Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 11:32:22 -0700

From: Bill Higginson <wordfi...@....net>

Subject: Limericks and Senryu (Pregnant Spider thread)

Pardon the continuing discussion of early modern literature; one never knows where a thread will go.

Thanks, Janine, for the musings on misread texts (my romaji gaff).

Prof. Morrell's mention of the arachnoid limerick took me to his source, Cuddon, where I found the many examples of variations on limerick form and function instructive: It seems that the limerick in English has been treated very much like Japanese _zappai_ (the most prominent of which are now called senryu), with many variations on the "game", though the Japanese versions depend mainly on the style and formal locus of collaboration or call and response, rather than variations in overt form. The only source on this Japanese phenomenon that I know of in English that goes beyond the slightest mention is Howard S. Levy and Junko Ohsawa's small book, _One Hundred Senryu_ (cover title differs) in the Langstaff Publications series "Japanese Poetry Classics (ca. 1590-1760)", with its excellent introduction, particularly pp. 11-13. (The Kojien entry on "zappai" shows additional variations not mentioned by Levy and Ohsawa.) Are there other, perhaps fuller, descriptions in English of these verse games?

Perhaps there's a brief but useful comparative literature paper lurking here . . . going beyond the obvious comparison of senryu and limericks.

Best to all,
Bill Higginson

From: Paul Atkins <patk...@...ashington.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of pmjs <p...@...eijigakuin.ac.jp>
Subject: Re: Limericks and Senryu (Pregnant Spider thread)

For English materials on senryu, please also see:

Light Verse from the Floating World: An Anthology of Premodern Japanese Senryu
compiled, translated, and with an introduction by Makoto Ueda
Columbia UP, 1999.

"Maekuzuke" is discussed in the context of poetry as play on pp. 3-19.

Paul S. Atkins
Assistant Professor of Japanese
Department of Asian Languages & Literature
University of Washington, Seattle

Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 14:03:28 -0500

From: "Anthony J. Bryant" <ajbry...@...iana.edu>

Subject: Re: Limericks and Senryu (Pregnant Spider thread)

I've got a wonderful little book from Mangajin here called "Senryu: Haiku
Reflections of the Times" -- modern senryu.

Such gems :

"Sumi wo nuru shigoto mo tsukuru oyakunin"
"Working overtime
to blot out the evidence:
public officials."

and

"Kutabirete kita kenpou to heiwa-zou"
"They have grown tired:
The Constitution and
The Peace Memorial."

Tony

Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 18:13:51 -0500

From: "Lewis Cook" <lc...@...thlink.net>

Subject: Re: Pregnant spider -su/-zu

Don't mean to be querulous but I don't see how the verse could be parsed with "ugokasu" given the lack of an object for what is surely a transitive verb. Any grammarians on line?

Lewis Cook
c...@...edu

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Pollack" <poll...@...l.rochester.edu>

> The presence or lack of motivation in the gravid arachnoid seems to
> recall a pmjs discussion some time ago over the question of whether or
> not the customary omission of dakuten was understood in its own time, or
> might be understood in ours, as a technique, used intentionally or
> otherwise, for producing ambiguity. While one sort of scholarship finds
> it neater to come down on one side or the other on the question of
> whether the pregnant spider is moving or not, it may be possible, as I
> think one person has already noted, to have it both ways.

Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 22:40:56 -0500

From: David Pollack <poll...@...l.rochester.edu>

Subject: Re: Pregnant spider -su/-zu

apologies, that small factaroonie made it across my threshold of consciousness just after i hit the send button. this sort of thing is getting to be a specialty of mine.

david pollack

Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 08:44:57 +0200

From: "Rein Raud" <rein.r...@...l.ee>

Subject: Re: Pregnant spider -su/-zu

I think Janine is right in that "ugokasu" can theoretically be without an
object. From another time, Nukada hime writes (MYS 1606):
kimi matsu to/ waga koioreba/ waga yado no/ sudare ugokashi/ aki no kaze
fuku

Rein Raud

Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 05:10:46 -0500

From: "Lewis Cook" <lc...@...thlink.net>

Subject: Re: Pregnant spider -su/-zu

Thanks very much, Rein, for this suggestion.
I would certainly like to see examples from waka, haikai or elsewhere, of transitive verbs used without explicit objects but I don't think this is one of them. ("sudare" is surely the object of the verb "ugokashi" in MYS 1606, no?)

Lewis Cook

Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 13:37:00 +0200

From: "Rein Raud" <rein.r...@...l.ee>

Subject: ugokasu

This has always puzzled me. Surely the logical thing to expect would be the
rentaikei of ugokasu, if aki no kaze were its actant. The most plausible
reason for the renyôkei here would be the need to separate the sentence in
order to indicate a different actant (sudare) and quite many translators
have also followed this line, translating aki no kaze fuku as a separate
sentence.

Rein Raud

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Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 02:49:05 +0900
From: "Torquil Duthie" <torq...@....com>
Subject: ugokasu/Nukata poem

On the Nukata poem 488/1606, the source appears to be a Six Dynasties poem, for which the kakikudashibun is Ågkaze no mado wo fukite sudare ugoku, kore ureshiki hito no kitareru kaÅh Details are in the note to 488 in the shinzenshuu.

Torquil Duthie.
_____________________________________________________________________
Reminder: Rein Raud quoted MYS 1606:
kimi matsu to/ waga koioreba/ waga yado no/ sudare ugokashi/ aki no kaze fuku
in support of the idea that
"ugokasu" can theoretically be without an object
/watson
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Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 23:04:21 -0800
From: "Dix Monika" <monika...@...mail.com>
Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT> ILLUMINE - call for papers

This might be of interest to graduate students.

Monika Dix

CENTRE FOR STUDIES IN RELIGION AND SOCIETY

CALL FOR PAPERS

Illumine
The Journal of the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society
Graduate Student Association, University of Victoria
Vol. 2, No. 1 (2002-03)

Scope of Illumine

The Graduate Student Association of the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC would like to announce the upcoming publication of the second volume of Illumine, a peer reviewed, interdisciplinary, graduate journal. The objective of Illumine is to provide a discriminating and imaginative forum for written scholarship by graduate students at British Columbia educational institutions that explores any facet of the interdependency between religion and society.Towards this end, Illumine seeks to publish essay length works, and brief book and lecture reviews, which represent a breadth of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives, and theoretical standpoints; and which analyse a multiplicity of religious traditions and cultural or civilisational contexts. All contributions will be subject to a rigorous peer review process.

Invited Submissions

At this time, Illumine is inviting essaylength submissions for publication in its 2002-03 issue. Submissions should be between ten and twenty doublespaced, 8.5 by 11 pages, including footnotes, references and images (notes and references may be singlespaced). Illumine welcomes traditional, scholarly articles and review essays, as well as contributions that differ from these traditional formats, such as interviews and photo essays. Illumine also welcomes varied writing styles, provided that they are clear, engaging, grammatically and syntactically sound, and consistent with the conventions set forth in The Chicago Manual of Style, 14th ed. Please do not send submissions that have been previously published, or submissions that are under consideration for publication elsewhere.

Submission Instructions

The deadline for receipt of submissions is March 31, 2003.

All submissions should include at the beginning a summarising abstract of approximately 150 words, and should be prefaced by a separate cover note indicating the author, institutional affiliation and full contact information. Submission by either postal service or e-mail is acceptable. If using the former, please send two hard copies, and, as well, an MS Word file on a PC formatted high density disk; if using the latter, please send the submission as an attachment in MS Word. Any graphics should be submitted in a high quality digital format.

Please direct submissions or inquiries to:

Angela Andersen and Eve Millar, Managing Editors, Illumine
Centre for Studies in Religion and Society
University of Victoria
Sedgewick B102, PO Box 1700 Stn. CSC
Victoria, BC V8W 2Y2

e-mail: illuminejour...@...oo.ca

Find further information, including notes for contributors, at: http://web.uvic.ca/csrs/

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Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 19:48:29 +0900
From: "B.M. Bodart-Bailey" <bod...@...uma.ac.jp>
Subject: Re: EAJS Warsaw

Has anybody found out how to register for the EAJS at Warsaw this summer?
The fax number does not work (have tried continuously for 3 days), nor does
the email address (all messages returned). The on-line registration page is
still under construction ....

Beatrice M. Bodart-Bailey
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Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 20:24:09 +0900
From: "Susanne Schermann" <susa...@...c.meiji.ac.jp>
Subject: Re: EAJS Warsaw

Maybe this e-mail address works

e...@...nti.orient.uw.edu.pl

I remember that I got some apologies with a new fax number included...
Here you are
48-22-826-34-57

I hope this helps.
Susanne Schermann
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Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 20:39:20 +0900
From: Michael Watson <wat...@...eijigakuin.ac.jp>
Subject: Re: EAJS Warsaw

We managed to do our registration by fax, and received an email confirmation. Apparently the fax number printed in the EAJS newsletter was incorrect. As Susanne says, the correct one is
48-22-826-34-57 (with 48 being the country code for Poland).

Don't be surprised if someone answers this phone. After a few tries, the right button was pushed and the fax went through.

The Warsaw-EAJS site has the necessary forms (with correct fax number) in PDF and doc format.
See
http://eajs-warsaw.orient.uw.edu.pl/
http://eajs-warsaw.orient.uw.edu.pl/reg.html

As a conference webmaster myself, I must say that it is not easy to set up a secure site for registration with credit cards. Fax is best! I would however like to compliment the Warsaw office on their excellent (legible!) maps showing the location of the conference site and hotels.

Michael Watson
_____________________________________________________________________
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 12:44:46 +0100
From: Mark Teeuwen <m.j.teeu...@...t.uio.no>
Subject: Re: EAJS Warsaw

I managed to register online on this address:

http://eajs-warsaw.orient.uw.edu.pl

NB! The deadline for registration at a reduced rate is January 31st!!

Mark Teeuwen

******
note from Michael Watson (I'm sending this on because it didn't come from Mark's registered address)

-- Someone has just confirmed what I suspected: it is best to fax during Polish working hours--and not at the weekend. Someone needs to switch over to fax manually.
_____________________________________________________________________
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 20:59:10 +0900
From: "B.M. Bodart-Bailey" <bod...@...uma.ac.jp>
Subject: Re: EAJS Warsaw

Thanks, Susanne, that fax number works.

Beatrice.
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Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 10:26:54 +0000
From: Julie Nelson Davis <jnda...@....upenn.edu>
Subject: SISJAC Fellowships

Dear PMJS Colleagues:

The Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures has
asked me to post the following notice regarding their annual fellowships.
More information can be found at:
http://www.sainsbury-institute.org/fellowships.html

All best from snowy Norwich,

Julie Nelson Davis
Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Fellow
--------
2003-2004 SAINSBURY INSTITUTE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS

The Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures solicits
applications for its annual fellowships awards.

Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Research Fellowships (2 available)
For scholars who either hold a PhD from a North American university, or who
are currently affiliated with a North American academic institution or
museum.

Handa Research Fellowship (1 available)
For scholars whose principal language of scholarly output is Japanese.

The Sainsbury and Handa Fellowships are intended for younger scholars, and
applicants should normally have received their PhD or equivalent experience
within the past 5 years.
Any aspect of the study of Japanese arts and cultures is eligible.
Fellowships carry a value of Åí22,500 (about US $30,000).

The application deadline for both fellowships is 1 March 2003

For further details, visit www.sainsbury-institute.org
or contact us at sis...@...nsbury-institute.org or write to us in Norwich.

Norwich
64 The Close, Norwich, NR1 4DW, UK
Phone: 44 (0) 1603-624349 Fax: 44 (0) 1603-625011

London
School of Oriental and African Studies, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG, UK
_____________________________________________________________________
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 11:00:07 -0500 (EST)
From: Bruce Edward Willoughby <...@...ch.edu>
Subject: New Publication Now Available

NEW PUBLICATION

Transformations of Sensibility:
The Phenomenology of Meiji Literature

By Kamei Hideo
Translation Edited and with an Introduction by Michael Bourdaghs

ISBN 1-929280-12-2 (cloth), lxxii + 301 pp., $60.00
Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies, No. 40

Available in English translation for the first time, Transformations of
Sensibility is a monumental publication on the literary history of Japan,
one that deliberately challenges conventional wisdom about the rise of
modern Japanese literature. This book, first published in Japan in 1983 as
Kansei no henkaku and now a classic in modern Japanese literature studies,
covers an astonishing range of texts from the Meiji period (1868-1912) and
offers highly original close readings of works by such writers as
Futabatei Shimei, Tsubouchi Shooyoo, Higuchi Ichiyoo, and Izumi Kyooka, as
well as writers previously ignored by most scholars.
It also presents sophisticated analyses of the ways that
experiments in literary language produced multiple new--and sometimes
revolutionary--forms of sensibility and subjectivity. Along the way, Kamei
Hideo carries on an extended debate with Western theorists such as
Saussure, Bakhtin, and Lotman, as well as with such contemporary Japanese
critics as Karatani Koojin and Noguchi Takehiko. In doing so Kamei
provides a new critical theorization of the relationship between language
and sensibility, one that links the specificity of Meiji literature to
broader concerns that transcend the field of Japanese literary studies.
This English edition incorporates a new preface by the author and an
introduction by the translation editor that explain the theoretical and
historical contexts in which the work first appeared.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Bruce E. Willoughby, Executive Editor, Center for Japanese Studies,
University of Michigan, 202 S. Thayer St., Ann Arbor, MI 48104-1608
e-mail address: ...@...ch.edu | phone: 734/998-7265 | fax: 734/998-7982
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Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 12:29:24 +0900
From: Matthew Stavros <mstav...@...nceton.edu>
Subject: Cities and Memory project

Greetings,

I'm looking for information on the Cities and Memory project being organized by Dr Stephen Dodd, SOAS. Any direction as to where I might turn [presumably on the web] for any information will be much appreciated. Many thanks.

Matthew Stavros
Princeton / Kyoto
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Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 07:51:24 -0500
From: Brett de Bary <b...@...nell.edu>
Subject: Re: New Publication Now Available

Thanks for this great publicity, Bruce! Brett
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Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 20:15:41 -0500
From: "Denise O'Brien" <obri...@...ro.temple.edu>
Subject: The Woman Lit by Fireflies

Has anyone read this short story (novella) by Jim Harrison (1990)? When I came across the title I thought it must refer to the Hotaru chapter in Genji, especially since Harrison has published some supposedly Japan-inspired poems (e.g., 1996 After Ikkyu and Other Poems ). But, I have just read--albeit very hastily--the story and I see no relationship to the Genji chapter. In the Harrison story a woman decides to leave her husband and in the course of leaving, spends a night in the open (not exactly the wilds, but not a garden), creates a nest for herself in a thicket and wakes up at one point to find her nest illuminated by fireflies. Maybe what is being illuminated, as it were, is a difference in that Harrison's character is determining for herself to leave a marriage while the point of Genji's lighting up Tamakazura is to make her visible to a potential suitor---although it seems more of a joke for Genji while embarrassing for Tamakazura. But, while the title fits Harrison's story---if one considers only that story, I find it hard to believe he used it naively. I will try to ask him but in the meantime, any thoughts from the collective wisdom of PMJS?
Regards, Denise O'Brien

PS: info re Jim Harrison available via Google or try this link
http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/harrison_jim.html

Denise O'Brien, Ph.D.
Department of Anthropology
Temple University
Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA
FAX: 215-204-1410 E-Mail: obri...@...ple.edu