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Ryuichi
Abe
Edwin O. Reischauer Institute Professor of Japanese Religions
Department of East Asian Language and Civilizations, Harvard
University. [URL]
*Great
Fool – Zen Master Ryōkan: Poems, Letters, and Other
Writings. With Peter Haskel. University of Hawaii Press,
1996.
The
Weaving of Mantra: Kūkai and the Construction of Esoteric Buddhist
Discourse. Columbia UP 1999.
Mikael
Adolphson <adolph[at]fas.harvard.edu>
Associate Professor of Japanese History, Department of East Asian
Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University.
I am interested in a wide variety of
themes in pre-1550 Japan. I have
focused on the secular power of religious institutions from the late
Heian to the early Muromachi eras. My present project is an outgrowth
of this work, as I now attempt to address the often controversial issue
of armed monks and their supporters. Other projects currently in the
making include a conference on the early Heian period and an
Annales-type approach to Go-Shirakawa's age.
Publications: "Enryakuji: an Old Power in a New Era," in Jeffrey P.
Mass, ed., The
Origins of Japan's Medieval World: Courtiers, Clerics,
Warriors and Peasants in the Fourteenth Century. Stanford UP
1997; The
Gates of Power: Monks, Courtiers and
Warriors in Premodern Japan. University of Hawaii Press 2000.
www.fas.harvard.edu/~ealc/people/adolphs.html
Valerio
Luigi Alberizzi <v.alberizzi[at]unive.it>
PhD Candidate, Japanese Linguistics, Universita' Ca' Foscari di Venezia
(Venice, Italy).
My main interest is in the history of
Japanese language, especially the
evolution of the written styles (buntai). I am
currently working on the wakan konkōbun of the
Insei-Kamakura period through a study of Hōgen, Heiji
and Heike monogatari.
* Now teaching at University of Bologna (2006).
Alari Allik
<alari.allik[at]helsinki.fi>
Completed Thesis on Kamo no Chōmei and his multiple authorial
identities. Now studying at the University of Helsinki.
Tokugawa village history; Tokugawa status system
"Ambiguous Bodies: Writings on the Japanese Outcaste" PhD, The Australian National University, 2006.
Line Palle
Andersen
I am Danish and presently writing my MA-thesis at Gakushuin
University in Tokyo. My thesis is about 'Masculinity in
ink-paintings
from the Muromachi-period'.
Anna
Andreeva
I am continuing my studies as a third-year PhD student at
Cambridge
University, where I completed an MPhil degree. I work on Miwa Shintō
and initiations on the kami matters in the Miwa tradition. My interests
include Japanese religious practices of the medieval and early modern
periods, particularly the honji suijaku thought, the Shingon mikkyō, as
well as the various kami worship traditions and intellectual history of
the shrines and temples. Currently I am on leave to work at the
Kōgakkan University in Ise for three months. (2004/10)
Klaus Antoni
<antoni[at]japanologie.uni-tuebingen.de>
Professor for Japanese Studies, chair, Tübingen University,
Germany
Klaus Antoni, born in 1953, is a Japanologist with special interests in
the fields of culture anthropology and history of religious ideas in
pre modern and modern Japan. In 1981 he completed his doctorate at the
university of Freiburg (Germany) with a dissertation on problems
concerning comparative Japanese mythology. In the same year he moved to
the University of Munich, where in 1985 the habilitation (postdoctoral
thesis and teaching qualification) for the field of Japanese studies
took place. As habilitation thesis he presented a work on Miwa belief
in ancient Japan. After professorships at the universities of Hamburg
(1987) and Trier (1993) he took over the chair for Japanese Cultural
Studies at the Institute for Japanese Studies of Tübingen
University in 1998.
Antoni's main points of research lie in
the area of spiritual and
religious history of Japan. He particularly inquires into the question
of relationships between religion ("Shintō") and ideology in premodern
and modern Japan, e. g. presenting an extensive study on the idea of
kokutai (national polity) within the context of Shintō since Edo times,
in the year 1998 (Shintō
und die Konzeption des japanischen Nationalwesens (kokutai).
[Shintō and the Concept of Japanese National Polity (kokutai)].
(Handbook of Oriental Studies, vol. V/ 8). Leiden: Brill,
1998).
Furthermore, he is interested in theories concerning
Japanese culture (e.g. cultural stereotypes on Japan) as well as in the
historical and present relationship between Japan and Asia.
Hiroshi
Araki <hiroark[at]let.osaka-u.ac.jp>
Associate professor, Graduate School of Letters, Department of Japanese
Literature, Osaka University. My research is on medieval Japanese
literature: Tsurezuregusa and other zuihitsu, and
setsuwa or setsuwa bungaku,
for example Konjaku-monogatari-shū,
Ujishūi-monogatari, Shaseki-shū,
Kokonchomon-shū. Other interests include kyōgenkigo,
waka-dharaani, and Myōe Dream Diary.
Sonja
Arntzen <sonja.arntzen[at]utoronto.ca>
Professor, East Asian Studies, the University of Toronto
I have two main areas of research. The first one occupied the first
twenty years of my career. It was the kanshi poetry of Ikkyū Sōjun
一休宗純 which culminated in Ikkyū and the Crazy Cloud Anthology,
Tokyu U. Press, 1986. Then, I turned to Heian Women's literature,
specifically producing a new translation of the Kagerō Diary, U. of
Michigan Press, 1997. I am currently putting a tentative toe in Genji
studies by trying an experimental translation of the Wakamurasaki
chapter and preparing a conference paper on how the Kiritsubo chapter
transforms Po Chü-i's Chang hen ge 長
恨歌.
*The
Kagero Diary (1997); The Crazy Cloud
Anthology of Ikkyu Sojun (1986); Ikkyu Sojun: A Zen
Monk and His Poetry (1973).
Paul Atkins
I teach Japanese language and literature at the University of
Washington.
My dissertation (Stanford, 1999) was a study of the noh plays of
Komparu Zenchiku. Recent research has included the usagi
texts (treatises on waka falsely attributed to
Teika), the demon-quelling style (rakkitei) in
Japanese poetic and dramatic theory, and chigo monogatari.
http://depts.washington.edu/asianll/people/faculty/patkins.html
* Paul
S. Atkins. Revealed
identity: the noh plays of Komparu Zenchiku.
Michigan monograph series in Japanese studies ; no. 55. Ann Arbor, MI :
Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 2006. xiii, 292
p. ISBN 192928036X.
Oliver Aumann
I am about to finish my Phd. in Japanology at the Institute
for
East Asian Studies at Munich University, Germany. I work in Japanese
religion and my Phd. thesis is about the Problem of the "Self" in
Shinran's Amida-Buddhism and Dogen's Zen-Buddhism. From 1994-1997 I
studied at Kyushu University in Fukuoka, where I graduated as a Master
of Arts (shūshi) in the Faculty of Literature
(Ethics). Besides
Amida-Buddhism and Zen, I am studying the Hokke-kyō and am especially
interested in the Fuke-school of Zen.
http://www.oliver-aumann.de/
I am an amateur scholar in Virginia, interested mostly in Heian to Momoyama period history. I am extremely interested in historical reconstruction and re-enactment, espcially as pertains to clothing and armour. I also 'play' with the SCA, which is the only group I am familiar with that allows me to indulge myself in my Heian habits, but have long thought of trying to get a group together that would specifically focus on recreating Japanese history and giving educational demonstrations to the public.
Doris G.
Bargen
*University of Massachusetts at Amherst
*A
Woman's Weapon: Spirit Possession in The Tale of
Genji (1997)
Tom Barker
<tomwbarker[at]gmail.com>
I am a graduate
student at the University of Kansas. My main interest is international
trade of precious metals in the Late Medieval and Early Tokugawa period.
Tara Barnett
<tarabar[at]interchange.ubc.ca>
PhD candidate in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of
British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. General research area is the
society and culture of the Tokugawa period, and current research
interests involve the courtesan, the pleasure quarters, and the ways in
which each influences and is influenced by the larger society through
cultural attitudes toward art and leisure.
* Barnett, Tara Marlene. "Yugei: Idle Arts in Tokugawa Japan." M.A.
Thesis, University of Alberta, 2000.
Christopher
Baskind <wabishi[at]mac.com>
I'm part of a small circle of writers attempting to compose tanka in
English. We've been researching on our own for the better part of a
year, but lack strong connections to the academic community. Such ties
would deepen our understanding of the tradition we're attempting to
embrace. We run a pair of mailing lists. Our primary community is
called Mountain-Home,
and its archives are open. I would be very pleased if you'd have a
look, by way of introduction:
James
Baskind
Ph.D. Student in Japanese premodern literature at Yale. My
primary interest is in classical poetry, particularly the wakan
dialectic, as well as the poetry-Buddhism dialectic.
Michael Bathgate
Religious Studies Department, Saint Xavier University
My primary interest revolves around the meanings and uses of narrative
and imagery in religious discourse, especially folklore and tale
literature (setsuwa, ōjōden, etc). By extension, I have become
increasingly interested in the intersection of elite and popular
religious discourse, in their conflicts as well as their
complementarity. One area that I would particularly like to explore in
more detail is the early-modern movement to identify and eliminate
religious ideas and practices described as "superstition" (meishin).
A much-revised version of my dissertation (at the University of
Chicago) was published as The Fox's Craft in Japanese
Religion and Folklore: Shapeshifters, Transformations and Duplicities
(Routledge, 2004).
Mikael
Bauer
affiliation = EALC, Harvard University
Research interests: premodern Japanese Buddhism, Chinese Buddhism and
Sanskrit Studies.
Main interest: synthesis between esoteric and exoteric Buddhism in
Heian Japan.
James C.
Baxter <baxter[at]nichibun.ac.jp>
Professor, International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto.
My research is on nineteenth- and twentieth-century history. I am
interested in premodern studies because I occasionally teach about
pre-Meiji matters and also because one of my duties at Nichibunken is
to follow trends in current research in Japanese studies generally.
Earlier I wrote about the process of national integration in modern
Japan (The Meiji Unification through the Lens of Ishikawa
Prefecture,
Harvard University Council on East Asian Studies, 1994). Recently I
have been investigating the role of private-sector banks in allocating
resources in modern Japan. From a senior colleague who retired, I
inherited leadership of a three-year (2000-2002) team research project,
"Historiography and Japanese Consciousness of Values and Norms," and I
have been looking at Meiji-period textbooks for Japanese history in
connection with that. In April 2001, I became editor of Nichibunken's
annual English-language journal Japan Review.
Alex Bay <fugetsu[at]leland.Stanford.edu>
I am currently researching a dissertation on the rise of scientific
medicine in 19th century Japan at Kitasato Kenkyūjo Ishigaku kenkyūbu.
Clemente Beghi
<beghi.pc[at]gmail.com>
I am a PhD student at Cambridge University doing research on Japanese
Buddhist Art History
(especially that belonging to esoteric schools) and its relationship
with society. I am now focusing on the Myoo and their rites.
Maiko Behr
PhD candidate, University of British Columbia, Vancouver,
Canada
My M.A. thesis was a translation of the Taketori Monogatari
in the context of a late Edo period commentary. Current research
interests include: text/image relations in narrative albums and
handscrolls, reception of Heian literature in the Edo period and later,
gender and cultural production
Janine
Beichman
Professor, Faculty of Literature, Dept of Japanese
Literature,
Daito Bunka University, Tokyo/Saitama. Research interests: Japanese
poetry of all periods/genres, and Noh are the main ones. Am now
teaching renga, Noh, women in modern Japanese literature. Have also
taught, and may again, the Genji, Japanese theatre,
Man'yōshū, haikai.
*Embracing
the Firebird: Yosano Akiko and the Rebirth of the Female
Voice in Modern Japanese Poetry (Hawaii, 2002); Masaoka
Shiki: His Life and Works (Cheng & Tsui,
2002. Origin. pub. by Kodansha International in 1986); Beneath
the Sleepless Tossing of the Planets: Selected Poems 1972-1989
(Asian Poetry in Translation. Japan; 17) by Makoto Ooka, trans. Janine
Beichman.
Ross Bender
affiliation = University of Pennsylvania
I give occasional lectures on Shinto in Cameron Hurst's Pre-Modern
Japanese History course at Penn. Currently I am working on a study of
imperial pronouncements (senmyō,
choku, shō)
during the reign of Koken/Shotoku Tenno (749-769) and on a translation
of the Senmyō
with Peter Nosco.
Publications:
1978 "Metamorphosis of a Deity: The Image of Hachiman in 'Yumi
Yawata' ". MN 33(2)
1979 "The Hachiman Cult and the Dokyo Incident". MN 34(2)
1980 "The Political Meaning of the Hachiman Cult in Ancient and Early
Medieval Japan." Unpublished diss, Columbia University. (http://rossbender.org/dissertation.html)
1983 "Correspondence (with A.N. Meshcheryakov)". MN 38(1)
1989 "Hojo River" - unpublished translation of the Noh play
Hôjôgawa. (http://rossbender.org/HOJOTEXT1.html)
1989 "Jesus". Pinchpenny Press. translation of "Iesu" by Yorifumi
Yaguchi. (http://rossbender.org/jesus1.html)
John R.
Bentley <jbentley1[at]niu.edu>
Associate Professor of Japanese, Northern Illinois University
Ph.D. from University of Hawaii
Research interests: historical linguistics; Asuka-Nara era linguistics,
literature, history; kokugaku (Kamo no Mabuchi,
Motoori Norinaga). I am currently trying to finish a translation of Nihon
shoki that has taken me almost ten years.
Publications:
The
Authenticity of Sendai Kuji Hongi: A New Examination of
Texts, With a
Translation And Commentary (Brill's Japanese
Studies Library, 2006). //Historiographical
Trends in Early Japan (Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin
Mellen Press, 2002); A
Descriptive Grammar of Early Old Japanese Prose (Brill's
Japanese Studies Library, 2001); "A New
Look at Paekche and Korean: Data from Nihon shoki."
Language Research (36.2); "Toru
in Old Japanese." Journal of East Asian Linguistics
(8.2); "The Origin of Man:yoogana." BSOAS (vol.
64, pt 1, pp. 59-73).
http://www.forlangs.net/jbentley.php
Elliot Berlin
<abelard[at]tidalwave.net>
I am a Washington, DC-based filmmaker in development on a film about The
Tale of Genji. This film will take an
entertaining and informative approach to introducing Genji to Western
audiences. [full text sent to list]
Monica Bethe
Kyoto Center for Japanese Studies, Otani University.
Interests: Noh/Kyogen in particular (practice & academic study,
masks, costumes), Japanese theater, narrative, festivals in general. On
a different track, textiles: making and historical research.
*Nō
As Performance : An Analysis of the Kuse Scene of Yamamba
(co-authored with Karen Brazell,1978).
David Bialock
Assistant Professor of Japanese literature at the University
of
Southern California, Los Angeles. I work chiefly in the medieval
period. Interests include Buddhist influences in Japanese literature
and culture, comparative literature, poetry, translation. I am
currently working on a book which examines The Tale of the
Heike in relationship to Buddhist thought and problems of
space, ritual, music, and other aspects of medieval Japanese culture.
* "Peripheries of power: voice, history, and the construction of
imperial and sacred space in 'the Tale of the Heike' and
other medieval
and Heian historical texts" (PhD thesis, Columbia University, 1997);
"Heike Monogatari" in in Steven D. Carter, ed., Medieval
Japanese Writers, 1999, pp. 73-84.
Heather Blair
Ph.D. candidate, Harvard University.
My research interests focus on Japanese mountain religion during the
Heian period.
Lara C. W.
Blanchard
Henry Luce Assistant Professor of East Asian Art, Hobart and
William Smith
Colleges, Geneva, New York.
I am an art historian specializing in
Chinese painting of the Song
dynasty (960-1279), but I also teach classes on Japanese art. My
research interests include text-image relationships and the
construction of gender.
Beatrice
M. Bodart Bailey
Professor of Japanese History, Faculty of Comparative
Culture, Otsuma Women's University, Tama Campus, Tama-shi, Tokyo
206-8540.
Most recent monograph is a new
translation of Engelbert Kaempfer's
manuscript Heutiges Japan (generally known as The
History of Japan) published by Hawaii UP as Kaempfer's
Japan: Tokugawa Culture Observed. Others include
(with Derek Massarella, eds) The
Furthest Goal: Engelbert Kaempfer's Encounter with Tokugawa
Japan, and a Japanese translation of this volume: (Naka and
Kobayashi trans.) Harukanaru mokutekichi Kenperu to
Tokugawa Nihon no deai, Osaka UP, 1999; a volume which exists
only in Japanese: (Naka, trans.) Kenperu to Tokugawa
Tsunayoshi, Chuukou Shinsho no. 1168, etc.
Articles: a number in Monumenta
Nipponica,
many on the fifth Tokugawa shogun Tsunayoshi, his advisors (Yanagisawa
Yoshiyasu), his various policies, Confucianism, etc. A biography of the
fifth shogun is in preparation. [*Japanese
titles
here*]
William
Bodiford
East Asian Languages and Cultures, UCLA, Los Angeles CA
*Soto
Zen in Medieval Japan (1993).
*web resource: EAST
ASIAN BUDDHIST STUDIES: A REFERENCE GUIDE First
Compiled by Robert Buswell, Revised and Expanded by William Bodiford
http://www.isop.ucla.edu/eas/Bodiford.htm
Cynthea Bogel
<cjbogel[at]u.washington.edu>
Assistant Professor of Japanese art and architectural history at the
University of Washington (Seattle). I work chiefly on the history of
Japanese Buddhist icons and imagery, especially those made for
eighth-century temples and early Heian Shingon materials. See:
Forthcoming in October, 2003, "The
Objects of Transmission and the
Subjects of History: Catalogue of Imported Goods
(Shōrai mokuroku)," in a special issue of the Mt. Kōya, Bulletin
of the Research Institute of Esoteric Buddhist Culture;
"Canonizing Kannon: The Ninth-Century Esoteric Buddhist Altar at
Kanshinji." (March, 2002) Art Bulletin; "A
Matter of Definition: Japanese Esoteric Art and the Construction of a
Japanese Esoteric History," Waseda Journal of Asian Studies,
vol. 18, 1996.
* My primary interests are in site- and
ritual-specific meanings for
icons and the ways in which visual aspects of material culture affect
reception and function (visuality and visual authority). I am currently
working on a book that examines early ninth-century imported goods,
temples, and Buddhist icons associated with Kūkai.
* I've also published on ukiyo-e and contemporary textiles. See: Hiroshige:
Birds and Flowers, co-author with I. Goldman New York:
George Braziller, 1988 (German trans.) Hiroshige, Blumen und
Vogel. Munich: Prestel-Verlag, 1988
http://art.washington.edu/div_arthistory/bogel.html
Marjan
Boogert
I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of East Asian
Languages
and Civilizations at Harvard University. My research interest is
Tokugawa period history; my dissertation focuses on daimyō society in
Edo in the context of bakufu politics and the bakuhan system.
Christopher
Bolton <bolton[at]redcocoon.org>
Assistant Professor of Japanese, Williams College
My work centers on modern literature, particularly postwar fiction, Abe
Kōbō, science and literature in Japan, and Japanese animation. I am
coeditor of "Japanese Science Fiction," a special issue of
journal Science
Fiction Studies (Nov. 2002) and submissions editor
of Mechademia,
a new journal for writing about anime, manga, and related arts (U Minn
Press). A more detailed profile and list of my publications
are available at http://redcocoon.org.
Robert Borgen
<rborgen[at]ucdavis.edu>
I teach early Japanese history and literature--albeit pretty much all
in English--at University of California, Davis. My research focuses on
Heian history and literature, with a bit of religion on the side. I'm
currently working on many projects, but not necessarily finishing all
of them.
*The
Distant Isle : Studies and Translations of Japanese
Literature in Honor of Robert H. Brower (1996), ed. Borgen et
al.; Sugawara
no Michizane and the Early Heian Court (1986, pbk.
edition 1994).
Adriana
Boscaro <boscaro[at]unive.it>
Professor of Japanese Literature, University Ca' Foscari, Venice
(Italy).
My
two main areas of research are Japanese pre-modern and modern
literature and the cultural history of 16-18th centuries. Within the
former, closer attention is given to the work of Tanizaki Jun'ichirō
(some translations, the 1995 International Symposium in Venice, a
bibliography), while in the latter I have worked on the impact of
Christianity, on rangaku, on Hiraga Gennai and on the gesaku in general.
Since 1988 I have been the editor of a translation series of Japanese
Literature (Marsilio Publishers in Venice [www.marsilioeditori.it])
of which twenty-six volumes are out.
* Recent publications.
Translations: Katō Shūichi, Storia della letteratura
giapponese (Nihon bungakushi josetsu, 3 vols.); Tanizaki
Jun'ichiro, Yoshino (Yoshino kuzu) and several
short stories; Hiraga Gennai, La bella storia di Shidoken
(Furyū Shidōken den); Taketori monogatari.
* A
Tanizaki Feast: The International
Symposium in Venice, (eds. A. Boscaro and A. H. Chambers),
The University of Michigan, 1998; // Tanizaki Jun'ichiro
kokusai Symposium, Tokyo, Chuokoronsha, 1997; // Tanizaki
in Western Languages. A Bibliography of Translations and
Studies, Ann Arbor, Univ.of Michigan, 2000; // Narrativa
giapponese. Cent'anni di traduzioni, Venezia, Cafoscarina,
2000.
Antony
Boussemart
In charge of the periodicals and the Japanese collection for
the
library of the Ecole francaise d'Extreme-Orient (EFEO) in Paris,I am a
Ph.D. candidate working on Mt. Koya during the first years of Meiji,
the main topic being to work out how the whole complex of Koyasan dealt
with the anti-Buddhist movments (shinbutsu bunri and haibutsu kishaku).
* "Un temple bouddhiste au coeur de Paris," in F. Chappuis and F.
Macouin, eds., D'outremer et d'Orient mystique, les
itineraires d'Emile Guimet, Paris: Editions Findakly, 2001.
Richard
Bowring
Professor of Japanese Studies, University of Cambridge, UK
Have
worked mainly in Japanese literature to date but research interests
have recently shifted to religion. Am now in the process of writing a
history of Japanese religions, which will probably end up in two vols
since I am 100,000 words in and have reached the 13th century
*Recent publication: The Religious Traditions of
Japan 500–1600. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2005, 463 pages. [Info.
at CUP.]
Other books include: The
Diary of Lady Murasaki (Princeton UP 1982/ Penguin
Classics, 1996); The
Cambridge Encyclopedia of Japan (co-editor with
P.Kornicki, 1993); Murasaki Shikibu: The Tale of
Genji, Landmarks of World Literature series
(Cambridge U. P., 2nd edition, 2004).
http://www.eai.cam.ac.uk/biography/bio_bowring.html
Karen Brazell
I teach literature and theater at Cornell. Once translated Towazugatari
and am still interested but not active in aspects of women's literature
(another term [like "premodern"] I don't like much). Have been doing
noh for years. Now I am involved in various exciting web-based projects
on world theater and traditional Japanese theater. You will all be
hearing more about these as soon as they are a bit more presentable.
*Traditional
Japanese Theater: An Anthology of Plays (1998); Twelve
Plays of the Noh and Kyōgen Theaters (1988); Confessions
of Lady Nijō (1983).
Puck Brecher
I am a Ph.D. candidate at USC researching aesthetics and eccentrism as
they pertain to modernization in 18th -20th century Japan.
John Breen
Senior Lecturer in Japanese Studies, Department of East Asia,
SOAS,
London. Head, Japanese Section, Department of East Asia, SOAS
Recent publications
"Nativism restored," Monumenta Nipponica, 55, 3
(2000); Shinto in history: ways of the kami,
Curzon Press/Hawaii UP (edited with Mark Teeuwen), 2000; "Introduction:
Shinto past and present" (with Mark Teeuwen) in ibid;
"Ideologues, bureaucrats and priests: on shrines and temples in
early Meiji Japan" in ibid; "Heretics in
Nagasaki 1790-96" reprinted in S.Turnbull ed., Kakure
kirishitan, hidden Christians (2 vols.), Japan Library, 2000.
* see fuller list
of publications 1995-2000
Erin
Brightwell
I am an MA student in Chinese at the University of
Washington. My research interests include literature on the
supernatural written in kanbun.
Dean Brink
I teach Japanese poetry (all periods), film and language at
St.
Martin's College in Washington State (assistant professor). I'm ABD at
the University of Chicago, working with Norma Field and William Sibley.
My dissertation is on the uses of verse in the formation of the Meiji
nation and ideology. I look at the relationship of various Meiji texts
to premodern waka, senryū, rakusho and karon, and examine poetry from
the kanshi and waka of Yoshida Shouin through the shintaishi of
Kitamura Tōkoku.
Karen L. Brock
Associate Professor of Japanese Art History, Washington
University
in Saint Louis. Research interests: Japanese picture scrolls;
aristocratic Kyoto from the 13th-16th centuries; "Saint" Myōe and
Kōzanji (current project).
*see URL
for publications
Philip C.
Brown
Manager, Early
Modern Japan Net
Department of History, Ohio State University
Steven T.
Brown <stb[at]oregon.uoregon.edu>
Associate Professor of Japanese Literature, East Asian Languages and
Literatures, University of Oregon.
In addition to my work on noh, which attempts to position it as a site
of conflict framed by the mechanisms of patronage within which poetic,
religious, political, and economic discourses are brought together in
complex and innovative ways as an active, productive force in the
theater of the medieval cultural imaginary, I have been busy editing a
special issue of Women & Performance, a
leading journal of feminist performance and theory out of NYU. The
special issue of Women & Performance
(due out this spring), which I hope will be of interest to pmjs
members, attempts to reclaim a place for women in the history of
Japanese performance. The issue will include work by Lynne Miyake on
the performativity of Heian literary and poetic texts, Terry Kawashima
on asobi, Sarah Strong on anonymous female
performers and the
legend of Ono no Komachi, Keller Kimbrough on the dissemination of
Izumi Shikibu stories by bikuni from Seiganji and Kumano, Eric Rath on
the history of female noh, Susan Matisoff on the role of arukimiko
in the development of the sekkyōbushi narrative Oguri,
as well as essays on contemporary performers such as Rio Kishida, Dumb
Type, and others.
Publications
Theatricalities
of Power: The Cultural Politics of Noh (Stanford
UP, 2001). 209 pp; "Ominameshi and the Politics of Subjection," in The
Noh Ominameshi: A Flower Viewed from Many Directions,
ed. Mae Smethurst and Christina Laffin (Cornell Univ East Asia Program,
2003); "Staging Female Suicide on Otokoyama: New Historicist
Readings of Power and Gender in the Noh Theater," in The New
Historicism in Japanese Literary Studies, PMAJLS 4 (Summer
1998); "Theatricalities of Power: New Historicist Readings of
Japanese Noh Drama," in Revisionism in Japanese Literary
Studies, PMAJLS 2 (Summer 1996).
Todd Brown
<jtbrown[at]u.arizona.edu>
Assistant Professor of Japanese Religions, Department of East Asian
Studies, University of Arizona, Tucson.
Research interest: Premodern Japanese history and religion, with a
particular emphasis on the relationship between patronage and sectarian
development in medieval Buddhism. Other interests include pilgrimage;
practices associated with the belief in mappo; the medieval "status
system"; and pre-modern Buddhist didactic, hagiographic, and polemical
works and their use in proselytization. My dissertation is a study of
the evolution of the Jishū sect of Pure Land Buddhism from the late
thirteenth through the mid-fourteenth century.
Shelley Brunt
<shelley.brunt[at]student.adelaide.edu.au>
Ph.D. Ethnomusicology student, Elder School of Music, The University of
Adelaide, Australia. I'm a student of A. Kimi Coaldrake. My interests
primarily lie in Japanese Popular Music and my thesis is on NHK's
Kōhaku Uta Gassen. I would, however, like to brush up on my knowledge
of pre-modern Japan.
Anthony J.
Bryant <anthony_bryant[at]cox.net.>
My interests are pre-Tokugawa. In no particular order, my interests
are: sengoku Japan; the Mongol invasion; Bakin's Nansō Satomi
Hakkenden; the Kamakura/Muromachi power shift; the Onin War; gunki
mono; Japanese armour (design, construction,
decoration).
Website: www.sengokudaimyo.com
I've created some things specifically of interest in premodern Japanese
classrooms .
http://www.sengokudaimyo.com/shop.html
Kenneth J.
Bryson
A lifelong pursuit of interests in Japanese literature, art, and
history and a chance encounter at a dinner in Atlanta resulted in my
entering and receiving the grand prize in the English division of the
Shizuoka Fifth International Translation competition in 2003. Unlike
some of the previous grand prize recipients, I was unable to take
advantage of the year's scholarship to study in Japan that comes with
it; but the privilege of meeting the previous competition winners as
well as the distinguished judges - including Donald Keene and Janine
Beichman - and literary lights like Ogino Anna and Ooka Makoto has
proved an inspiration to me. Despite my lack of academic credentials, I
am looking forward to future challenges in the field of Japanese
translation as the appropriate opportunities arise.
Heidi
Buck-Albulet
<buck[at]japanologie.uni-tuebingen.de>
affiliation = University of Tuebingen
Selected publications:
Emotion
und Aesthetik. Das Ashiwake obune - eine Waka-Poetik des jungen Motoori
Norinaga im Kontext dichtungstheoretischer Diskurse des
frühneuzeitlichen Japan. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz,
2005. (Dissertation, Tübingen 2002.)
"Rhetorik, aussereuropäische;
B. IV. Japan.". In: Rhetorik.
Begriff-Geschichte-Internationalität. Hrsg. v.
Gert Ueding. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 2005. S. 278-283.
See also: bibliography
online
Kristina
Buhrman
Ph.D student in the Department of History, University of
Southern California, focusing on pre-modern Japan.
Rose Bundy
Associate Professor, Japanese Language and Literature. Kalamazoo
College, Kalamazoo MI.
Heian/Kamakura waka.
*Publications: "Fujiwara no Teika" in Steven D. Carter, ed., Medieval
Japanese Writers,
1999, pp. 42-57; "Poetic Apprenticeship: Fujiwara Teika's Shogaku
Hyakushu," MN 45: 2 (1990), 157-88; "Santai Waka: Six Poems in Three
Modes," MN 49: 2 (1994), 197-228, 49: 3, 261-86; "Solo Poetry Contest
as Poetic Self-Portrait: The One-Hundred-Round Contest of Lord Teika's
Own Poems," MN 61:1 (2006), 1-58, 61:2 (2006), 131-192.
Stefania Burk stefania.burk[at]ubc.ca>
Assistant Professor of Japanese, University of British Columbia
Interests include medieval waka and anthologization, women's
poetry/autobiography, and modern canonization of premodern texts and
traditions.
Current projects involve the late Kamakura imperial anthologies and a
book-length study of Eifukumon-in.
PhD dissertation: "Reading between the Lines:
Poetry and Politics in the Imperial Anthologies of the Late Kamakura
Period." (U.C. Berkeley, 2002). My master's thesis (1996) dealt with the
development of
Kyōgoku poetics in the 14th c. and the Kyōgoku poet, Eifukumon'in
(1271-1342). This study also included a translation of the 200 poems in
her "Eifukumon'in hyakuban onjikaawase."
* UMI 3082142 (citation).
Susan Burns
I received my Ph.D from the University of Chicago in 1994 and presently
teaching Japanese history at the University of Texas at Austin. My
current research focuses on issues of gender, the body, and medical
practice in the Edo period. Presently I am doing research in Japan and
am affiliated with Ritsumeikan in Kyoto.
Lee Butler
<lee_butle[at]byu.edu>
I am spending the 2002-03 school year teaching at Colby College. I've
also taught at the University of Alabama and Brigham Young University.
Research interests include late medieval and early modern society and
culture. I'm at work on a social history of Hineno no shoo during the
early 16th century (based in large part on the diary of Kujō Masamoto)
and a study of Tokugawa society and class (as understood through
material culture).
Recent publications:
Emperor
and Aristocracy in Japan, 1467-1680: Resilience and
Renewal (Harvard University Asia Center, 2002); "Language
Change and 'Proper' Transliterations in Premodern Japanese," Japanese
Language and Literature: Journal of the Association of Teachers of
Japanese (2002).
Patrick
Caddeau <caddeau[at]princeton.edu>
Director of Studies, Forbes College, Princeton University.
URL: www.princeton.edu/~caddeau
Appraising Genji: Literary
Criticism and Cultural Anxiety in the Age of the Last Samurai
(2006) [On the poet and nativist scholar
Hagiwara Hiromichi (1815-63), his magnum opus Genji
monogatari hyōshaku, and the impact of his work on
interpretive theories in early modern Japan.] [SUNY Press link
- first chapter]
Areas of interest and research include:
Genji commentary, criticism, and reception; early modern literature and
interpretation from yomihon to shousetsu; the role of cinema,
performance, and technology in the formation of cultural
identity.
Gary C.
Cadwallader
My own field is Chanoyu, Chado = Tea. My background: B.A. at
Trinity University in ancient medieval history then a Masters in
Japanese language and literature under Roy Teele at UT Austin in 1975,
received a Mombusho to U. of Osaka, just stayed in Kyoto and discovered
Chanoyu. I studied at the Urasenke Headquarters non-Japanese students
course, Midorikai everyday for 3 years ('79-82), then in the
Japanese
course, Urasenke Gakuen Chado Senmon Gakko for 2 more years
('82-84).
Since then have been teaching Chanoyu at Urasenke, working for the
Urasenke Foundation and since a recent restructuring, Tankokai, writing
and editing the English language Urasenke Newsletter
as well as
other minor publications, giving presentations around the world as well
as in Japan, and teaching at Urasenke, both lecture and o-keiko.
Chris
Callahan <ctc2101[at]columbia.edu>
I am a Ph.D student in religion at Columbia University. I am interested
primarily in Pure Land Buddhist hagiography.
David Cannell
Graduate student at University of California, Irvine.
Kevin Gray Carr
Graduate student in Japanese Art and Archaeology at
Princeton. My
main focus is medieval religious art, and I am currently in Japan
(affiliated with Kyushu University this year) working on my thesis,
which involves the art (particularly painting) related to the medieval
cult of personality around Shotoku.
Carole
Cavanaugh
Associate Professor of Japanese at Middlebury College. I work
on
projects involving Japanese film and have a life-long interest in
Genji. As disparate as the two areas seem, they continually replenish
each other in my research.
Christopher
Celinski
I am currently an undergraduate student at University of
Florida as
a Japanese Language and Literature major. I will be attending UCLA in
the fall for graduate school to continue to research The Tale
of the Heike, specifically its textual transmission.
Anthony H.
Chambers
I have been teaching Japanese literature and language
since1971,
and at Arizona State University since 1998. Since I've always taught in
small programs, I've had to cover the entire range of Japanese
literature in my courses. Most of my scholarly activity has
concentrated on literary translation, especially of Japanese prose, and
particularly the work of Tanizaki and Ueda Akinari. For what it's
worth, my favorite among my Tanizaki translations is "The Reed Cutter"
(Ashikari). I've also written a study of Tanizaki's fiction, The
Secret Window.
http://www.public.asu.edu/~achamber/
Margaret H.
Childs
*Associate Professor, Department of East Asian Languages,
University of Kansas
Rethinking
Sorrow: Revelatory Tales of Late Medieval Japan.
Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, The University of Michigan,
1991; "Genji, At Least, Was Not a Rapist: The Nature of Love and the
Parameters of Sexual Coercion in the Literature of the Heian Court," in
Proceedings of the Midwest Association for Japanese Literary
Studies,
vol. 4 (1998) 138-152; "The Value of Vulnerability: Sexual Coercion
and the Nature of Love in Japanese Court Literature," in The
Journal of Asian Studies, 54:4 (November 1999) 1059-1079.
Gail Chin
My position is Assistant Professor of Art History, Dept. of
Visual
Arts, University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.
* Present research concerns Pure Land Buddhist paintings and images of
the body in early medieval Japan. I am particularly interested in
raigozu and a handscroll painting called Yamai no sōshi.
* "On Being Joyful about Dying: The Painting of The Descent of Amida
and His Holy Multitude," Jacqueline Stone and Mariko Namba, eds. Death
and Death Rituals in Japan
(Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, in progress); "The Gender of
Buddhist Truth: The Female Corpse in a Group of Japanese Paintings," Japanese
Journal of Religious Studies (Fall 1998), 79-121; "The
Mukaekō of Taimadera: Salvation Re-enacted." Cahiers
d'Extreme Asie. 8 (1995), 325-334.
Jessey J.C. Choo
I am a Ph.D student in the East Asian Studies Department at
Princeton University. I received my MA in East Asian Studies from the
University of Toronto. I am interested in comparative political history
of Nara Japan and T'ang China, focusing on the following aspects: 1.
The marriage institution and the transference of (material or
non-material) property through daughters; 2. The pattern in which royal
women ascended to the throne and the reasons for the decline of female
rulership; 3. Women's participation in religious/Confuican rites,
espeicailly those held in the interest of the nation
Yuehtsen
Juliette Chung
Juliette Chung is currently teaching "Chinese East Asia" in the History
Department of MIT. She has taught a junior tutorial entitled,
"Local/Global: East Asian Experiences" in the Committee on Degrees in
Social Studies, Harvard University in Fall 2000. She received her Ph.D.
in History from the University of Chicago in 1999. Her dissertation,
"Struggle for National Survival: Eugenics in Sino-Japanese Contexts,
1896-1945," was published with Routledge in Spring, 2002. It is a
historical investigation of the relationship between science and
society through the comparative study of eugenics movements as they
developed in both Japan and China from the 1890s to the 1940s. Her
eugenics project embodies a specific case study against a greater
background of the global transmission of Western science. Her areas of
interest include social Darwinism and Nationalism in East Asia, gender
and science, women and social history, transnational history of
science, ethnography of science, and intellectual and cultural history
in East Asia. She holds an A.B. (1987) and an A.M. (1991) in History
from Taiwan National University. She is currently finishing a
manuscript entitled, Science and Social Nexus: Chinese Eugenics in a
Transnational Context. Her current projects are an ethnography of
Chinese eugenics, entitled "Better Life or Another Life?--Eugenics and
Bioethics in China" and "Transnational Science: the Japanese
establishment of Shanghai Natural Science Institute and the Knowledge
of Taxonomy in China, 1923-1945."
Young-ah Chung
My primary research interests pertain to medieval courtly
women's nikki. My current reseach is on Takemuki ga ki
by Hino Nako (fl. 1330-50). An annotated translation of Book One is a
part of my M.A. thesis (University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Feb.
2003). I am currently a research student at Kyoto University and also
being given much support by Doshisha Women's College of Liberal Arts,
Kyoto.
Shayne Clarke
Department of Religious Studies
McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Adam Clulow
<ajc2009[at]columbia.edu>
I am a Ph.D student in Japanese History at Columbia University. I am
currently working on the wako. I am also researching coastal and
oceanic shipping in the Muromachi period.
Gina Cogan
I'm a Ph.D. candidate in the Religion department at Columbia
University. I study Japanese Buddhist nuns in imperial convents of the
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
* "Precepts and power: Enshoji, Buddhism and the state in seventeenth century Japan." PhD diss, Columbia, 2004. 299 pp. UMI 3138338.
Doron B. Cohen
<dcohen[at]kyoto.zaq.ne.jp>
Doshisha University, School of Theology
I graduated from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and received an
M.Th. from Doshisha University. Taught at both universities.
Main interests: literature (including Japanese classical and modern
literature; poetry of all periods; modern fiction); religion (including
Japanese religions, mainly modern Christianity); translation (practical
and theoretical). Published some articles and book-reviews in those
subjects.
Translate from Japanese into Hebrew (Murakami Haruki's Norwegian
Wood; Tanizaki's The Key; poetry).
Current study: translations of the Hebrew Bible into Japanese.
Anne Commons
PhD (Columbia University) on the Man'yōshū poet Kakinomoto no
Hitomaro.
* now teaching in Department of East Asian Studies, University of
Alberta
James
Coleman <antennaloop[at]yahoo.com>
Independent scholar, musician, Cambridge, MA
I am a reader of premodern Japanese literature & essays
&
scholarship on Japanese aesthetics. I am currently engaged in
investigating how the aesthetics of Zuihitsu, Wabi, Sabi, &
Yūgen
could inform current practices in the composition of low volume, low
velocity experimental music & improvisation.
Ellen P. Conant
Independent scholar
Research interests: Japanese art, particularly painting, from about
1750-1950. Special interest in Meiji painting, Japanese participation
in national and international expositions, and foreign employees of the
Meiji government (oyatoi).
Tom Conlan
<tconlan[at]bowdoin.edu>
Assistant Professor of History, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME.
I am a faculty member of the Department of History and the Asian
Studies Program at Bowdoin college, specializing in pre-1600 Japanese
history. My current research includes an examination of the nature of
warfare in thirteenth and fourteenth century Japan and the judicial
role of violence. Currently I am working on a reinterpretation of the
Mongol invasions of Japan and a translation of Takezaki Suenaga's
Scrolls of the Mongol Invasions. I have also just had an article
published in the Journal of Japanese Studies concerning warfare in
fourteenth century Japan and am revising my dissertation on fourteenth
century warfare, which I expect to submit for publication in the near
future. Future topics include the political role of Esoteric Buddhism
in medieval Japan.
* "The Nature of Warfare in Fourteenth Century Japan: The Record of
Nomoto Tomoyuki," Journal of Japanese Studies 25.2
(Summer 1999) [abstract]
// In
Little Need of Divine Intervention: Takezaki Suenaga's
Scrolls of the Mongol Invasions of Japan. Ithaca, New York:
East Asia Program, Cornell University, 2001. [Online: pp. 254-76
of study.] [Amazon
link]// State
of War: The Violent Order of
Fourteenth-Century Japan. Michigan Monograph Series in
Japanese Studies, No. 46 (Michigan, 2003).
Lewis Cook <lcoqc[at]forbin.qc.edu>
Associate Professor, Queens College, City Univ. of New York
Field: classical and medieval literature (with a special interest in
poetics, literary pedagogy and commentary).
Current projects: preparation of a critical edition of Kokin
Wakashū Ryōdō Kikigaki (Kasama Shoin, forthcoming).
Dissertation abstract
on this site.
URL: Kokinshū
at Japanese Text Initiative.
Joao Paulo
Oliveira e Costa
Professor in the New University of Lisbon (Department of
History).
Main field of research - The Portuguese presence in Japan (16th and
17th centuries). I am the Editor of the Bulletin of
Portuguese Japanese Studies.
PhD dissertation "O episcopado de D.Luis Cerqueira e o Cristianismo no
Japao" ("Christianity in Japan and the bishopric of Luis Cerqueira"),
Lisbon, 1998. Main publications on Japan: "Portugal e o Japao: o seculo
namban", Lisbon, 1993; "A descoberta da civilizacao japonesa pelos
Portugueses", Macao, 1995; "O Cristianismo no Japao no seculo XVI.
Ensaios de Historia Luso-Niponica", Lisbon, 1999.
Ive Aaslid Covaci
I am a PhD candidate in Japanese Art History at Yale University,
currently writing my dissertation on the Ishiyamadera engi and the
representation of dreams and visions in premodern Japanese art.
John Creamer
PhD candidate at Yale University. My dissertation examines scribal
culture, scribal patronage and textual commerce as it is described in
Prince Sadafusa's "Kanmon nikki". I'm interested in textual commerce in
Medieval Japan, copying and calligraphic hands, calligraphic lineages,
and the place of imperial houses such as Fushimi no miya in the
capital's scribal network. Other interests include the participation of
performers such as biwa hōshi and sarugaku troupes in the
network. My focus throughout graduate school has been premodern
Japanese theater, particularly Noh. I wrote a MA thesis at the
University of Hawaii on Komparu Zenchiku's use of Genji yoriai, their
connection to Teika's "Okuiri" and Genji
hikiuta, and the possible transmission of Teika's "Shui
guso" to Zenchiku through Shōtetsu
Doris L.
Croissant
I am presently studying the visual semantics of Genji
illustrations, especially the representation of musical instruments in
relation to gender and erotics. I am therefore very much interested in
linguistic methods of evaluating metaphorical meaning in the Genji
and other narratives. I teach Japanese art at Heidelberg University.
Barbara Cross
I have just begun a PhD at SOAS (London) under the
supervision of Professor Gerstle on the relationship of gesaku
fiction (focusing on the writer Shikitei Sanba) and kabuki. I also
recently completed an MA in Edo literature at Kyushu University.
Cheryl
Crowley
Assistant Professor of Japanese Language and Literature at
Emory
University in Atlanta. My research interests include early modern
Japanese literature and art, classical Chinese poetry, and women's
studies. I am now working on a book on 18th century haikai poet and
painter Yosa Buson.
Claire Cuccio
Ph.D. Candidate, Japanese Literature, Stanford University
My interests include relationships between author-artist, text-image;
literary and visuals arts magazines; zuihitsu.
Alan
Cummings
I am currently a graduate student under Drew Gerstle at the School of
Oriental and African Studies in London, and have just finished the
first year of my PhD. My interests are in kabuki, especially bakumatsu
and early Meiji. I did my MA at Waseda, on Mokuami's bakumatsu
shiranamimono, and I am currently working on some of his Meiji plays at
SOAS.
* Lecturer in Japanese Literature, SOAS. [Webpage]
Charo
B. D'Etcheverry <cdetcheverry[at]facstaff.wisc.edu>
Assistant professor of Japanese (classical language and literature) in
Dept. of East Asian Languages and Literature, University of Wisconsin
at Madison. Dissertation dealt with the influences of Rear Court
literary production as manifested in three late Heian tales:
Sagoromo monogatari, Hamamatsu chunagon
monogatari, and Yoru (Yowa) no nezame.
Additional interests include translation (Sagoromo),
Muromachi tales, and the on-going transformations of the classical
canon.
[Webpage, cv]
Liza Dalby <lizadalby[at]gmail.com>
My academic training is in
cultural anthropology, specializing in Japan (PhD Stanford 1978). But I
have spent the last decade pursuing literary fieldwork in the Heian era
while researching material for a novel about Murasaki Shikibu. The
result, The Tale of Murasaki,
is now out from Nan A Talese books of Doubleday.I have also created a
website to go with the novel as an electronic addendum. Please visit taleofmurasaki.com
My earlier major books are:
Kimono-
Fashioning Culture. Yale UP, 1993.
Geisha.
University of California Press. Orig. 1983, reissued in paperback 1998.
Dennis
Darling <ddarl[at]hotmail.com>
Educated at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark (MA in Japanese
Studies and Ph.D. in Japan's late-medieval history; Ph.D. dissertation
entitled "Uesugi Kenshin: a study of the military career of a sixteenth
century warlord"). Have a general interest in Japan's political and
cultural history from Jomon to modern times and am concentrating my
research on the politico-military history of the Kanto and Hokuriku
regions during the Muromachi and Sengoku periods.
Julie Nelson
Davis
I am currently a fellow at the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of
Japanese Arts and Cultures, Norwich and London, England, where I am
completing my book on Kitagawa Utamaro. I teach East Asian art history,
from 1600 to the present, at the University of Pennsylvania.
Brett de Bary
Professor of Asian Studies and Comparative Literature. Department of
Asian Studies, Cornell University.
Articles on modern Japanese fiction,
Japanese feminism, Japanese film,
postmodern criticism, Karatani Kojin, tenko; translations of works by
Oe Kenzaburo, Miyamoto Yuriko, Karatani Kojin.
Books : Longtime Californ': A
Documentary Study of an
American Chinatown (with Victor Nee) (1973); Three
Works by Nakano Shigeharu (1979); Origins
of Modern Japanese Literature (1993); Nationality
no datsu kōzō (with Sakai Naoki and Iyotani Toshio) (1996); Deconstructing Nationality
by Naoki Sakai, Brett De Bary, and Toshio Iyotani (Cornell East Asia,
2005).
Areas of research: post-modern
criticism, Japanese film, translation of
Karatani Kojin, subjectivity in early postwar Japanese literature, the
construction of the body in Meiji poetry and naturalist fiction.
Hugh de
Ferranti <hbd[at]umich.edu>
University of Michigan (joint-appointment in Department of Asian
Languages and Cultures and Department of Musicology, since 1998)
Some interests: biwa traditions
(particularly moosoo/zatoobiwa and
Satsumabiwa; performative aspects of katarimono; blind musicians in
Japanese history; uses of traditional instruments and musical elements
in modern compositional contexts (including J-pop).
Some writings:
*"Composition and improvisation in Satsuma biwa." In: Musica
Asiatica 6 (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1991)
*"Relations between music and text in Higo biwa." In: Asian
Music, theme issue on music in oral narrative,
edited by Scott Marcus and Dwight Reynolds: v26/1,1995
*"Speaking of Yamashika: 'the last biwa hooshi' and his many
voices." In: Repercussions, 3/1: 1994.
*"Senzaiteki ni tekusuto ni motozuite iru ooraru conpojishon" In: Nihon
no Katarimono: Kootoosei, Koozoo, Igi , edited by Komoda
Haruko and Alison Tokita ( Kyoto: International Research Center for
Japanese Studies, 2000).
*Japanese
Musical Instruments (OUP 2000)
Pieter S. de
Ganon
PhD candidate in Japanese history, Princeton University.
Present research: social history of meat-eating in Japan.
Erika De
Poorter
University of Leiden, the Netherlands.
*Publications include:
As the twig is bent: essays in honour of Frits Vos,
edited by Erika de Poorter. Amsterdam: J.C. Gieben, 1990. 257 p; Zeami's
talks on sarugaku: an annotated translation of the Sarugaku
dangi :
with an introduction on Zeami Motokiyo. Amsterdam: J.G.
Gieben, 1986. 303 p. [Link is to reprint, Hotei Publishing, 2002] // De
kraanvogel en de schildpad : vijf
Nō en vier Kyōgen
[The Crane and the Tortoise: Five Noh and four Kyogen]. Translated and
introduced by Erika de Poorter. Amsterdam: Meulenhoff, 1978. 178 p.
Charles De
Wolf
Keio University, Tokyo.
Publications:
Mandarins: Stories by Ryunosuke
Akutagawa (Archipelago Books, 2006);
Tales Of Days Gone,
by Charles De Wolf with woodcuts By Naoko Matsubara (2004).
[Translations from Konjaku
monogatarishū.]; Many other translations from Konjaku monogatarishū
published inTransactions
of the Asiatic Society of Japan; "The Prince and
the Pussycat"; "Glimpses of Go in Japanese
Literature."
William E. Deal
Severance Associate Professor of the History of Religion. Director,
Asian Studies Program, Department of Religion, Case Western Reserve
University, Cleveland, Ohio
Areas of Research/Writing:
- Nara/Heian/Kamakura Buddhism
- Tendai Pure Land discourse and practice
- religion and literature in the Heian period
* Handbook
To Life In Medieval And Early Modern Japan (Facts
on File, 2005).
* Theory for Religious Studies,
by Timothy Beal and William E. Deal (Routledge, 2004)
Wiebke Denecke
<wd2118[at]columbia.edu>
Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern
Cultures at Barnard College, New York.
Research Interests:
Cultural history, thought, and
literature of premodern China and Japan
up to the 12th century, Japanese appropriations of Chinese culture, and
strategies of cross-cultural comparison.
Current Project: "Patterns of Literary
History in Double-Faced Cultures:
Versions from Early Japan and Ancient Rome." I examine how early
Japanese authors and how Latin authors conceived of their own
literature and literary history in the presence of the overwhelming
reference culture China, respectively Greece, and how they set out to
tell their own story through and against the power of the reference
culture’s models of literary history.
http://www.barnard.edu/amec/profiles/denecke.html
Monika Dix <mdix[at]interchange.ubc.ca>
Robert & Lisa Sainsbury Fellow Sainsbury Institute SOAS, London.
Ph.D, Department of Asian Studies, University of British
Columbia.
Research interests: text and image relationship in medieval emakimono,
especially representations of women in Buddhist narratives. My
dissertation, completed in 2006, examined the development of
Chūjōhime's legend and its importance in terms of reception history
from a gender perspective.
Lucia Dolce
Lecturer in Japanese
Religions, Centre for the Study of Japanese Religion, Department of the
Study of Religions, SOAS, University of London.
Research field:
Japanese Buddhism. Research to date has focused on medieval Buddhism,
in particular Nichiren, Tendai, esoteric Buddhism, shinbutsu shugo.
Nichiren
and the Lotus Sutra: Esoteric Patterns in a Japanese Medieval
Interpretation of the Lotus (Leiden: Brill,
2006).
Sharon Domier
<sdomier[at]library.umass.edu>
East Asian Studies Librarian, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
01003
http://www.library.umass.edu/subject/easian/
Proud to contribute to AskEASL (Ask an East Asian Studies Librarian)
http://askvrd.org/askeasl/
Maureen H.
Donovan
Associate Professor / Japanese Studies Librarian, Ohio State
University
Ohio State's Japanese Collection: http://pears.lib.ohio-state.edu/eaj/
East Asian Libraries Coop WWW homepage: http://pears.lib.ohio-state.edu
John Dougill
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.
James Dorsey
Assistant Professor,
Japanese, Dartmouth College. Research interests include modern Japanese
fiction and criticism, literature during the 1930s and 1940s, medieval
noh drama.
Chris Drake
Faculty of Literature,
Atomi College, Niiza, Saitama, Japan. I'm interested in analyzing and
translating renga, haikai, ukiyo-zōshi, especially Saikaku, gesaku,
kyōka and zappai, 'Omoro-sōshi' songs, and Okinawan shaman
songs. I'm
also interested in hermeneutics, poetics, and theory of translation.
*Copying Bird Calls by Nishiyama Soin; Haikai
on Love by Matsuki Tantan.
Translated with introduction by Chris Drake. Vols. 4 and 5 respectively
of "an episodic festschrift for Howard Hibbett" (Limited edition of
1000 copies. Order information: highmoonoon.com;
Annotated translations of ancient shaman songs in: Manoa:
A Pacific Journal of International Writing, Summer 1996
(Volume 8:1). [Excerpt]
Thomas
Dreitlein
Koyasan University. I am an ordained practitioner of Shingon
Buddhism at Mt. Kōya with some scholarly pretensions.
Jonathan
Dresner <dresner at hawaii.edu>
My research is on Meiji emigration and social history, but my interests
for both research and teaching go back much further. I'm now teaching
(asst. prof.) at University of Hawai'i at Hilo, responsible for all
Asian history and a few sections of World, of course. Dissertation
abstract: http://home.earthlink.net/~jdresner/abstract.html
Don Druick
<ddjb[at]golden.net>
I am an independent culture worker and a playwright; I live in a small
farm village, 100 km west of Toronto, Canada. A lifetime of independent
research into premodern Japanese culture has touched upon many
disparate topics; major threads in my work have included the
presentational dramaturgy of the kabuki playwrights Kawatake Mokuami
and Tsuruya Namboku IV; and the dramatic function of the nohkan ashirai
repertoire. I am currently considering a play about the great yose
performer, Sanyūtei Enchō.
Relevant publications:
THE GREAT KANTO EARTHQUAKE OF 1923, in The BC Monthly (1978) // MUSIC
FROM DUN-HUANG, in Descant (Fall 1990, volume 21 number 03) // WHERE IS
KABUKI?, Playwrights Canada Press (Toronto 1991) // MUENBOTOKE, in
Canadian Theatre Review (Winter 1995, number 85).
Mary
Dusenbury <mdusenbury[at]attica.net>
Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas
I am interested in cloth, color and costume, particularly their
function in ritual and statecraft. My current research expands
"Radiance and Darkness: Color at the Heian Court" (PhD dissertation,
University of Kansas 1999) to include ancient and early medieval Japan.
Some publications: Flowers,
Dragons and Pine Trees: Asian Textiles in the Spencer Museum
of Art (Hudson Hills Press: New York and Manchester, 2004);
"The Kusagusa no some yodo: A Tenth Century Manual
for Court Dyers in Japan." Bulletin du CIETA.
Bulletin #80. (Centre International d'Etude des Textiles Anciens.
Lyons, 2004); "The Art of Color" and "Kasuri" in William Jay Rathbun,
ed. Beyond
the Tanabata Bridge: Traditional Japanese Textiles
(Thames and Hudson with Seattle Art Museum, 1993); the "Textiles,
History of" articles in Kodansha's Japan: An Illustrated
Encyclopedia (1993) and Encyclopedia of Japan
(1983).
Torquil
Duthie <duthie[at]pitt.edu>
Assistant Professor, Dept. of East Asian Languages and Literatures,
University of Pittsburgh. Dissertation: Poetry and Kingship in Ancient
Japan (Columbia University, 2005).
Recent publications: Poesía
clásica japonesa: Kokinwakashū,
Madrid: Trotta, 2005; [link
1 | link
2] [A translation of one hundred poems and the kanajo.]
Oomikoutoka ni okeru sakuchuu; shutai no nimensei,” Joudai
bungaku, Nov. 2003.
Present research: Working on a book manuscript on poetry and kingship
in late seventh and early eighth century Japan.
Sarah A.
Dvorak
I am an MA
candidate in the East Asian Language and Civilizations Department at
the University of Colorado at Boulder, currently studying at the Japan
Foundation Center in Kansai, Japan for two months. My area of
concentration is classical Japanese Women's Literature, with particular
interest in tanka and private poetry collections. My thesis will be a
translation of Sei Shōnagon's private poetry collection.
Walter
Edwards <edwards[at]sta.tenri-u.ac.jp>
Institution: Tenri University, Department of Japanese Studies
Field of Research: Ancient Japan, Japanese archaeology
Publications include: "Event and Process in the Founding of Japan: The
Horserider Theory in Archeological Perspective." Journal of
Japanese Studies
9 (1983):265-295 // "Buried Discourse: The Toro Archaeological Site and
Japanese National Identity in the Early Postwar Period." Journal
of Japanese Studies 17 (1991):1-23 // "In Pursuit of Himiko:
Postwar Archaeology and the Location of Yamatai." Monumenta
Nipponica 51 (1996):53-79// "Mirrors on Ancient Yamato and
Its Relation to Yamatai: The Kurozuka Kofun Discovery." Monumenta
Nipponica 54 (1999):75-110 // "Contested Access: The Imperial
Tombs in the Postwar Period." Journal of Japanese Studies
26 (2000):371-392 // "Forging Tradition for a Holy War: The Hakkō ichiū
Tower in Miyazaki and Japanese Wartime Ideology." Journal of
Japanese Studies 29(2) (2003):289-324.
Home page
Thomas Ekholm
<thomas.ekholm[at]oriental.gu.se>
Ph.D. Student, Gothenburg University
I study the connection between cha-no-yu, the tea ceremony, and the
missionaries in 16th, 17th century Japan. I focus on the tea master and
general Oda Urakusai, a brother to Oda Nobunaga.
Richard
Emmert <emmert[at]gol.com>
Noh Research Archives, Musashino Women's University, Tokyo.
* I am an American who has studied, taught and performed noh drama in
Japan since 1973. I am a certified Kita school noh instructor, and have
studied all aspects of noh performance with a special concentration in
movement and music. I am a professor at Musashino Women's University in
Tokyo where I teach about Asian theatre and music. In Tokyo, I also
direct a semi-intensive, on-going Noh Training
Project for English speakers. For the past six summers, I
have lead an intensive three-week Noh Training Project
in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania sponsored by the Bloomsburg Theatre
Ensemble. Over the years I have led extended noh projects at several
universities in Australia, England, India, Hong Kong and the United
States, most of which have been with Kita Noh actor Matsui Akira. I
have also co-authored with Monica Bethe a series of noh performance
guides which have been published by the National Noh Theatre in Tokyo.
* National Noh Theatre Performance Guide Series by Monica Bethe and
Richard Emmert: series of 7, in-depth, guides to Noh plays : Matsukaze,
Fujito, Miidera, Tenko,
Atsumori, Ema, Aoinoue.
Jordi
Escurriola <jesans[at]hotmail.com>
I am from Barcelona, Spain. I have recently translated the Ogura
Hyakunin Isshu
into the Catalan language, and I am presently revising a former
translation of mine of some Classical Japanese Tales for children. A
few years ago I made an adapation of Sarashina no Nikki
for the stage, also into Catalan.
Charlotte
Eubanks <de13[at]psu.edu>
Charlotte Eubanks is an assistant professor of Comparative Literature
and Japanese at The Pennsylvania State University where she teaches
courses in world literature, Japanese language and literature, Buddhist
writings, and literary theory. Her research interests include Buddhist
sermon-related writings, premodern Japanese literature, contemporary
women's fiction, folklore, performance studies, and theories of
orality. She is currently working on a book length study of
setsuwa.
*"Rendering the Body Buddhist: Sermonizing in
Medieval Japan." PhD dissertation, University of Colorado at Boulder,
2005. 354 pp. [UMI
no. 311185]
Yayoi Uno
Everett
Assistant
Professor, Emory University. I am a music theorist who specializes in
cross-cultural studies in contemporary art music, with a particular
focus on Japanese composers, e.g., Toru Takemitsu, Joji Yuasa,
Yoritsune Matsudaira, Makoto Shinohara, who integrate resources of
gagaku with Western contemporary musical idioms. My publication on
Takemitsu appears in Hugh DeFerranti and Yoko Narazaki, eds., A
Way Alone: Music of Toru Takemitsu (Tokyo: Academia Press,
2000). I am currently editing and contributing to a book, entitled Interface
with East Asia: Cross-cultural Syntheses in Postwar Art Music
(Wesleyan UP, forthcoming).
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania (Ph.D. Princeton University, (June 2001) in Japanese Art and Archaeology) My field of research is early medieval Buddhist art. Publication: "Demonic Female Guardians of the Faith: The Fugen Jurasetsunyo Iconography in Japanese Buddhist Art" in Barbara Ruch, ed. Engendering Faith: Women and Buddhism in Premodern Japan (Michigan, 2002).
William
Wayne Farris <wwf1[at]utkux.utcc.utk.edu>
Institution: University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Field of Research: Social and Economic history of premodern Japan,
especially up to 1600.
Publications: Japan's
Medieval Population: Famine, Fertility, And Warfare in a
Transformative Age (University of Hawaii Press, 2006); Sacred
texts and buried treasures : issues in the historical
archaeology of ancient Japan (University of Hawai'i Press,
1998); Ancient Japan's Korean connection (Duke
University, 1995); Heavenly
warriors: the evolution of Japan's military, 500-1300 (Harvard
University, 1992); Population,
disease, and land in early Japan, 645-900 (Harvard
Yenching Institute,1985).
- Chinese Poetry And Prophecy: The Written Oracle In East Asia (Asian Religions & Cultures) by Michel Strickmann, ed. Bernard Faure (Stanford University Press, 2005).
- Double Exposure: Cutting Across Buddhist and Western Discourses (Stanford University Press, 2003).
- The Power of Denial: Buddhism, Purity, and Gender (Princeton University Press, 2003).
- Visions of Power: Imagining Medieval Japanese Buddhism (Princeton University Press, 2000). [New edition, orig. published in 1996.]
- The Red Thread: Buddhist Approaches to Sexuality (Princeton University Press, 1998).
- The Will to Orthodoxy: A Critical Genealogy of Northern Chan Buddhism, translated by Phyllis Brooks (Stanford University Press, 1997).
- Chan Insights and Oversights: An Epistemological Critique of the Chan Tradition (Princeton UP, 1993).
- The Rhetoric of Immediacy: A Cultural Critique of Chan/Zen Buddhism (Princeton UP, 1991).
- more publications (Stanford Center for Buddhist Studies)
My recent work is more focused on medieval Japan (and Japanese Tantrism) than this bibliography shows. I have just finished a book on Japanese Buddhism and Women (The Power of Denial: Buddhism, Purity, and Gender), due from Princeton next February [2003]; and I am trying to finish another one (tentatively entitled Resilient Spirits: Gods and Demons in Premodern Japan).
Andrey Fesyun
Institute of Oriental
Studies, Moscow, specializing in Japanese Buddhism. Translations from
Dogen's "Shōbō genzō", several works by Kūkai. I am interested in
Japanese philosophy (Nishida Kitarō), and have also translated essays of Mishima Yukio. At present translating the first
part of "Mahavairocana Sutra".
Karel Fiala
*Fukui Prefectural University. Field of research: Heian and Kamakura
literature. Translated Heike monogatari into Czech.
Now translating Genji monogatari. The first volume
of this translation has now appeared.
*Publications: Pribeh Prince Gendziho. Vol.
1. Prague: Nakl. Paseka, 2002. 380 pp; Bledy mesic k ranu : milostna
poezie stareho Japonska ["Pale Morning Moon (=Ariake no tsuki): Love
Poetry of Old Japan] (Prague, 1994) // Pribeh rodu Taira
[Heike monogatari] (Prague, 1993). More biblio on db2 page.
Norma Field
I am in the Dept. of East
Asian Languages & Civilizations at the University of Chicago. I
used to work on the Tale
of Genji and poetry of that and somewhat later
periods. I don't know if I will ever do research again in premodern
literature, but I find myself interested in it and am teaching Genji
for the first time in many years.
*The Splendor of Longing in the Tale of Genji (1987)
is out of print at amazon but said to be available at B&N.
Among recent publications (all pbk. editions): The
Comfort Women : Colonialism, War, and Sex (1999,
co-editor); From
My Grandmother's Bedside: Sketches of Postwar Tokyo (1997); The
Emptiness of Japanese Affluence (co-author, 1996);
In
the Realm of a Dying Emperor: Japan at Century's End
(1993)
* The
Splendor of Longing in the "Tale of the Genji"
(Princeton University Press, 2006). Paperback reprint, originally
published in 1987.
David Lee Fish <fish[at]tartan.sapc.edu>
Associate professor of music and Asian studies at St. Andrews College
in North Carolina and director of St. Andrews College Japanese Festival
Ensemble. Research area: kagura (performing arts of Shinto). Member of
Wakayama Shachu kagura guild (Tokyo).
Patricia
Fister
Associate Professor, International Research Center for
Japanese Studies
I am continuing to do research on women artists of the Edo period. I am
particularly interested in Buddhist nuns who were involved in the
creation of art (sacred and secular) and have been researching works in
the collections of imperial convents in Kyoto and Nara.
http://www.nichibun.ac.jp/research/staff1/patricia_j_fister.html
* Japanese
Women Artists, 1600-1900 (Spencer Museum of Art,
University of Kansas, 1988); パトリシア・フィスター著『近世の女性画家たち:
美術とジェンダー』 (思文閣出版, 1994) Webcat.
Philip Flavin
Ph.D., Music, University of California at Berkeley, 2002.
My primary interest is in Edo period music, particularly
sōkyoku-jiuta. After finishing my undergraduate education, I
attended the Seiha Ongakuin in Tokyo to pursue my interest in koto and
shamisen. After completing my studies at the conservatory, I remained
in Japan studying and performing koto and shamisen. After returning to
the States in 1990, I entered the U.C. Berkeley Music Department's
graduate program in 1992. My research thus far has focused on a
specific genre within sōkyoku-jiuta known as sakumono - a
specifically humorous genre. Other interests include the history of the
Tōdōza and the position of the blind musicians in
Edo period society, humor studies in Japan, and the print culture of
the Chinese literati and the guqin. From 2003 to 2005, I was a visiting
researcher at the Kyoto University of Fine Arts. During this time, I
also began to explore Noh (utai and shimai) and Chikuzen biwa.
Peter
Flueckiger
Assistant Professor of Asian Languages & Literature, Pomona
College
Tokugawa literature.
* "Poetry, culture, and social harmony in eighteenth-century Japanese
literary thought: The Sorai school and its critics (Ogyu Sorai, Dazai
Shundai, Hattori Nankaku, Kamo no Mabuchi, Motoori Norinaga)." PhD,
Columbia University, 2003. 351 pp. UMI 3088327.
Joshua
Fogel
affiliation = York University
all aspects of Sino-Japanese cultural interactions, modern Chinese and
Japanese history, historiography.
Traditions of East Asian Travel (Berghahn Books, 2006)
Politics and Sinology:
The Case of Naitou Konan (1866-1934) (Harvard, 1984)
Ai Ssu-ch'i's
Contribution to the Development of Chinese Marxism
(Harvard, 1987)
Nakae Ushikichi in
China: The Mourning of Spirit (Harvard, 1989)
The Literature of Travel
in the Japanese Rediscovery of China, 1962-1945 (Stanford,
1996)
lots of translations and edited volumes
Barbara Brennan
Ford
Curator, Department of Asian Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York
*"Tragic Heroines of the Heike Monogatari and Their Representation in
Japanese Screen Painting," Orientations (Feb.,
1997), pp. 40-57; East Asian lacquer: the Florence and
Herbert Irving collection, eds. James C.Y. Watt and Barbara
Brennan Ford. Metropolitan Museum of Art/Abrams, 1991; Japanese
art from the Gerry Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
eds. Barbara Brennan Ford, Oliver R. Impey. Metropolitan Museum of
Art/Abrams, 1989; The
Arts of Japan. The
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1987
James Ford
<fordj[at]wfu.edu>
I
teach East Asian Religions at Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem,
NC. My research focuses primarily on medieval Japanese Buddhism. I am
presently completing a manuscript on Jōkei (1155-1213) of the Hossō
school and issues related to the interpretation of "Kamakura" Buddhism.
I have a particular interest in kōshiki
liturgical texts and the importance of "place" in Japanese religiosity.
I presently serve as Executive Secretary of the Society for the Study
of Japanese Religions (http://www.wfu.edu/Organizations/ssjr/).
* Jokei and Buddhist Devotion in Early Medieval Japan (Oxford University Press, 2006)
Steve Forrest
I am teaching at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst
while (after something of a hiatus) wrapping up my translation of Noin
hoshi shū
into a complete dissertation (Harvard). My active research interests
are 1) waka and karon, especially mid- to late Heian, and 2) travel and
landscape in literature, especially the [Toh]Oku region and Ezo. Genji
monogatari has pulled me in too, though I sit on the fringe
and merely contemplate manuscripts for calligraphic enlightenment.
* Forrest, Stephen Michael. "The model life of an eccentric poet: Noin Hoshi and 'Noin shu'." PhD, Harvard, 2005. 437 pp. UMI 3174097.
Michael Dylan
Foster <michael.foster[at]ucr.edu>
PhD Stanford.
I am an Assistant Professor of Japanese in the Department of
Comparative Literature and Foreign Languages at the University of
California, Riverside. My research interests include both premodern and
modern literature with a particular focus on folklore studies
(minzokugaku) and folkloric "texts." Presently I am working on several
projects that explore attempts to define, classify and interpret
supernatural creatures (yōkai) and phenomena--in
early encyclopedias, anthropological works, art, and literature.
* Morphologies of mystery: Yokai and discourses of the supernatural in Japan, 1666--1999. PhD Stanford, 2003. 356 pp. UMI 3104220.
Sarah
Fremerman
I'm a Ph.D.
candidate in the department of Religious Studies at Stanford
University, specializing in medieval Japanese Buddhism, specifically
the cult of Nyoirin Kannon as it developed in Japan.
Bjarke
Frellesvig
University Lecturer in Japanese Linguistics, University of Oxford
Official Fellow in Oriental Studies, Hertford College
Main research interests: Japanese historical linguistics
* A case study in diachronic phonology: the Japanese Onbin
sound changes. Aarhus, Denmark : Aarhus UP,
1995. - 168 p.
ISBN 87-7288-489-4
Karl Friday
Dept. of History, University of Georgia
Publications include: Hired
Swords: the Rise of Private Warrior Power in Early Japan
(Stanford, 1992), Legacies
of the Sword: the Kashima-Shinryu & Samurai Martial
Culture (U. Hawaii, 1997), "Valorous Butchers: the Art of
War during the Golden Age of the Samurai" (Japan Forum
5.1 [1993]), and "Pushing Beyond the Pale: the Yamato Conquest of the Emishi
and Northern Japan" (Journal of Japanese Studies
23.1 [1997]); Samurai, Warfare and the State in Early
Medieval Japan (Routledge, 2003).
http://www.uga.edu/history/vitas/CVfriday.pdf
Harald Fuess <hfuess[at]dijtokyo.org>
German Institute for Japanese Studies, Tokyo - DIJ Tokyo. My main
research interest is in the history of Japanese society with special
emphasis on family relations. I have completed a book manuscript on the
history of divorce (1600-1940) and wrote several articles on
fatherhood,i.e., "A Golden Age of Fatherhood? Parent-Child Relations in
Japanese Historiography," Monumenta Nipponica 52, 3
(Fall 1997). Also, I edited a book entitled The Japanese
Empire in East Asia and Its Postwar Legacy
(Iudicium 1998). At the DIJ I organize a monthly study group on
Japanese History throughout the ages, and all those interested are
welcome to attend. The current schedule of presentations until the
summer is posted on http://www.dijtokyo.org
Naomi
Fukumori
* Assistant Professor, Ohio State University. Premodern Japanese
literature and language.
Publications: Re-visioning History: The Diary-Type Passages in Sei
Shonagon's Makura no soshi," Journal of the Association of
Teachers of Japanese (1997)
http://www.acs.ohio-state.edu/easc/faculty/fuku.htm
Mark Funke
I am a Ph. D. candidate at
the University of Sydney. My field of research is religion and politics
of the Nara period. I have a particular interest in the influence of
the Hachiman cult on the politics of this period.
Douglas S.
Fuqua
I am a Ph.D
candidate in Japanese History at the University of Hawaii. I am
currently conducting research for my dissertation at the University of
Tokyo's Historiographical Institute until March 31, 2002. My research
topic is maritime exchange in East Asia during the time of the
"kentōshi."
Daniel
Gallimore <gallimore_daniel[at]hotmail.com>
Lecturer in English at Japan Women's University, Tokyo
My doctorate at Oxford was on Japanese translations of Shakespeare, and
I am now researching the pioneer of Shakespeare translation in Japan,
Tsubouchi Shōyō (1859-1935).
Amaury A. Garcia
affiliation = Center for Asian and African Studies, El Colegio de Mexico
I am a PhD Candidate from El Colegio de Mexico, Mexico City.
My main interests are Edo period visual culture, mainly chonin
culture's image production. Also, the various relationships between
images and power structures, image control and
censorship. I've been working with ukiyo-e prints and Edo
period society, and currently I am finishing a research about the
discourses and control on makura-e prints.
Publications:
"Cultura popular y grabado
en Japón" (Popular culture and the prints in
Japan). El Colegio de Mexico, Mexico, 2005.
"Desentrando lo pornografico: las
estampas makura-e" (Unscrambling the pornographic: the makura-e), in Anales. No. 79.
Instituto de Investigaciones Esteticas, Mexico, 2001. etc.
David
Gardener
Stanford Ph.D. in
1995. Currently in Religion Dept. at Colorado College. I work primarily
in Nara and Heian Buddhist materials. I've published several pieces on,
and continue to work on, the life and writings of Kūkai.
Aileen Gatten
Position: Researcher, Center for Japanese Studies, University of
Michigan, U.S.A.
Publications: Translator, A History of Japanese Literature
by Jin'ichi Konishi, 3 vols., 1984, 1986, 1991; "The Order of the Early
Chapters in the Genji monogatari," HJAS 41, 1981; "Fact, Fiction, and
Heian Literary Prose," MN 53, 1998; etc.
Interests: Heian prose fiction, Heian social history, textual
criticism, paleography.
http://www.umich.edu/~iinet/cjs/faculty/profile/gatten.htm
Suzanne Gay
Associate Professor, East Asian Studies, Oberlin College, Ohio
Area of research: late medieval (1350-1550) urban history.
Monograph: The
Moneylenders of Late Medieval Kyoto (University
of Hawaii Press, 2001)
Arunas
Gelunas
Ph.D. student in Kaunas [Lithuania], dealing with the history of ideas. Have also
studied suibokuga at the Tokyo Geidai, in theory
and in practice.
Lisette
Gebhardt <L.Gebhardt[at]t-online.de>
Fields of research: Japanese literature in its relationship with
thought and religion; history of thought; identity discourses in Japan
and the shaping of the image of an 'indigenous' Japanese
culture;
Japanese intellectuals; New Age in Japan (for more information on this
research project see: url)
* Publications: Christentum, Religion, Identität.
Ein Thema der modernen japanischen Literatur,
F.a.M.: Peter Lang, 1999; Japans Neue Spiritualität.
Wiesbaden:
Harrassowitz, 2001; "Report from a research on the 'intellectual ikai'
of contemporary Japan", in: JAWS. Japan Anthropology Workshop
Newsletter
No.33, 2001; "The Other World in the Light of a New Science - Spiritism
in Modern Japan", in: Linhart, Sepp und Susanne Formanek (Eds.): Popular
Japanese Views of the Afterlife. Vienna: University of Vienna
(forthcoming).
Adrian Gerber
<Adrian.Gerber[at]efv.admin.ch>
University
of Berne, Switzerland. Currently working in a non-academic field,
teaching part-time University of Berne. Master (lic. phil.) in German
and Swiss Pre-modern History, Sociology and Political Science in Berne.
PhD at Chuo University, Tokyo (Prof. Minegishi Sumio), SOAS, London,
and Berne (Prof. Peter Blickle). PhD: "Gemeinde und Stand. Eine
Annäherung an die Geschichte der zentraljapanischen Ortschaft
Oyamazaki
im Mittelalter" (to be published end of 2002 at Lucius and Lucius)
analyses the medieval history of the jinin of Oyamazaki by putting
emphasis on the specific extra cultural position.
My fields of
interest are concepts of comparative social science ("double
hermeneutics"), history of Japanese research, conceptual history (Begriffsgeschichte),
as well as local history of modern Japan, community, local power,
trade, etc.
Andrew
Gerstle <ag4[at]soas.ac.uk>
I teach Japanese literature at the School of Oriental and African
Studies, University of London, and am currently Director of the AHRB
Centre for Asian and African Literatures. My research is focussed on
Tokugawa-period drama and literature. I have recently published,
Chikamatsu:
Five Late Plays
(Columbia UP, 2001). My current project is on Osaka Kabuki of the early
nineteenth century. The focus is on the visual representation of actors
and the actors relations with society.
* Three recent publications: 'Heroic Honor: Chikamatsu and the Samurai
Ideal', HJAS, vol.
57, no. 2
(Dec. 1997); 'Gidayū botsugo no Chikamatsu' in volume eight
of the
ten-volume Iwanami Kōza: Kabuki, Bunraku, 'Chikamatsu no
jidai (Iwanami Shoten, 1998); 'Takemoto Gidayū and the
Individualistic Spirit of Osaka
Theater', in Osaka, The Merchants' Capital of Early Modern
Japan, ed, by J. McClain and Wakita Osamu (Cornell, 1999).
*18th
Century Japan : Culture and Society (2000); Rediscovering
Bashō by Stephen Henry Gill, Andrew Gerstle
(1999); Circles
of Fantasy: Convention in the Plays of Chikamatsu (pbk.
reprint 1996)
www.soas.ac.uk/literatures/
www.soas.ac.uk/eastasiafiles/gerstle/
Rolf Giebel <rwgiebel[at]ihug.co.nz>
My chief interest is in Tantric/Esoteric Buddhism (not necessarily
confined to Japan), and I am currently engaged in translating several
of Kūkai's works for the BDK Tripitaka. However, my work as a
free-lance translator involves a considerable amount of work related to
premodern Japan, and so I have a strong interest in all fields of
premodern Japanese studies. Most recent publications: "A preliminary
textual study of the Susiddhikara-sutra with Sanskrit reconstructions
of fourteen verses" Tōhōgaku
99 (2000) [in Japanese]; Two Esoteric Sutras (BDK
English Tripitaka 29-II, 30-II). Berkeley: Numata Center for Buddhist
Translation and Research, 2001.
Robin D. Gill
<robingil[at]bellsouth.net>
(Key Biscayne, Florida). I am an independent writer with seven books
published in Japan/ese,* all of which have nothing to do with my
current interest: understanding and sharing the wit of premodern
Japanese poetry. My writing focuses on selected themes (kigo) in
hokku/haiku, which I divide into meaningful sub-themes (As opposed to
the phenomenological categories found in Shiki's Bunrui Haiku
zenshū).
Working through the layers of meaning and tracing the development of
lines of metaphor, not to mention catching allusions and borrowing,
take me back to the Man'yōshuū and over to senryū.
To adapt a
phrase from someone's haiku on neko-no-koi, my passion takes me
vertically and horizontally everywhere. The first two
translation-filled essays (books-to-be) of what should be dozens of
spin-offs from a large work (kokuraisan=in praise of olde haiku) in
progress, concern sea cucumber haiku and fly (hae/hae-uchi) haiku, or
"fly-ku." The former took me back to the Kojiki,
which has a setsuwa for the mouth of the namako. The latter includes a
major discovery I made in book 24 of the Yanagidaru,
a senryu Issa refit for his famous yare utsu na poem.
*Books include: Goyaku Tengoku
(Hakusuisha), which explores some patterns of mistranslation caused by
cultural stereotyping while pursuing the mistranslation of Peter Farb's
Word Play, Han-Nihonjinron
(Kousaku-sha), which
challenges reductionist assumptions on the relationship of culture and
nature in Japan and in the Occident (fudōron), and Eigo-wa
Konna-ni Nippongo!
(Chikuma-bunko), which deconstructs the antithetical stereotypes of the
English=Japanese language. (Books most easily found through Worldcat:
au "Robin Gill," lang "Japanese."). Recent publications available from www.paraverse.org:
Rise, Ye Sea Slugs! (A collection of haiku on
namako.) // Topsy-Turvy 1585, by Luis Frois, ed.
Robin Gill. (ISBN 0-9742618-1-5) 740 pp; Topsy-Turvy
1585: The Short Version (Paraverse Press, 2005).
460 pp.
Hank
Glassman
Assistant professor, Haverford College.
My principal interests are late medieval Japanese religious culture,
gender history, otogizōshi, and the Jizō cult.
Publications:
"The Tale of Mokuren: A Translation of Mokuren no soshi" in Buddhist
Literature,
vol. 1 (1999): 120-161. (translation) // "'Show Me the Place Where My
Mother Is!': Chuujoohime and Pure Land Buddhism in Late Medieval Japan"
in Richard Payne, ed., Shining Throughout the Six Realms: The
Cult of Amitabha
(Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, forthcoming 2001); "The Nude
Jizoo at Denkooji: Notes on Women's Salvation in Kamakura Buddhism" in
Barbara Ruch, ed. Engendering Faith: Women and Buddhism in
Pre-Modern Japan
(Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan,
forthcoming 2000); Minamoto Junko, "Buddhism and the Historical
Construction of Sexuality in Japan" in U.S.-Japan Women's
Journal,
no. 5 (1993): 87-115. (translation); "The Religious Construction of
Motherhood in Medieval Japan" (PhD dissertation, Stanford University. PDF
version online).
www.haverford.edu/east/glassman/
Carol Gluck
<cg9[at]columbia.edu>
Columbia University. My main field of research is modern Japanese
history, but the early modern (and to some extent, the medieval) period
is central to my current work on historiography. I am also interested
in comparisons with "early moderns" elsewhere, particularly in the
fields of social and cultural history.
Publications:
Japan's
Modern Myths (Princeton, 1987).
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/sipa/RESEARCH/cg9.html
Andrew Goble
<goble[at]oregon.uoregon.edu>
Head, Department of Religious Studies, Associate Professor of Japanese
History, University of Oregon.
Current research: Illness, mortality, and medical concepts in medieval
Japan, illness and treatment in the 16th century.
* Kenmu: Go-Daigo's revolution. Council on East
Asian Studies, Harvard University, 1996. (Harvard East Asian monographs
169)
http://www.uoregon.edu/~history/faculty/goble.html
Brian
Goldsmith
Ph.D. student at
Stanford working on late medieval history. My studies center
on the
institutional and economic history of Echigo in the Sengoku period.
Janet R.
Goodwin
Research field: early and medieval Japanese history
I'm retired from the University of Aizu, but still teach now and then
in the History Department at UCLA. In the past I've worked on Buddhist
institutions, especially their social and economic aspects (see Alms
and Vagabonds : Buddhist Temples and
Popular Patronage in Medieval Japan,
University of Hawaii Press, 1994). Currently I'm doing research on
sexuality and deviance in medieval Japan. I'm also a co-editor of H-Japan.
Marco
Gottardo
I am a PhD student
in Chinese and Japanese Religions at Columbia University, specializing
in Tokugawa period popular forms of religious practice. I am also very
interested in the interaction of sciences (western and asian) and
religions at the popular level, again mostly during the Tokugawa
period.
Patricia Graham
<pgraham[at]ku.edu>
affiliation = University of Kansas
My research interests are mainly in Japanese art of the Early Modern
period and later, especially literati and Maruyama-Shijo schools of
painting, arts for the sencha tea ceremony, and Buddhist arts and sites
of worship.
Selected Publications:
- Faith and Power in Japanese Buddhist Art, 1600-2005. Forthcoming (2007), University of Hawaii Press.
- Tea of the Sages: the Art of Sencha (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1998), 259pp.
- "Kenkyū shiryō: Kano Einō hitsu 'Higashiyama ki" (Research materials: Kano Einō's Painting of 'A record of Higashiyama'). Kokka 1327 (May 2006).
- "Naritasan Shinshōji and Commoner Patronage During the Edo Period," Early Modern Japan: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Fall-Winter 2004:11-25.
- "Shingon in Japanese Visual Culture, 17th to 20th Century," Bulletin of the Research Institute of Esoteric Buddhist Culture (Mount Kōya, Japan), October 2003: 119-138.
- "Karamono for Sencha, Transformations in the Taste for Chinese Art" in Japanese Tea Culture: Art, History, and Practice, edited by Morgan Pitelka (London: Routledge-Curzon Press, 2003), 110-136.
- "Early Modern Japanese Art History: An Overview of the State of the Field," Early Modern Japan: An Interdisciplinary Journal 10/2 (Fall 2002): 2-21. Available online. url
- "The Later Flourishing of Literati Painting in Edo-period Japan," in: Kobayashi Tadashi et al. An Enduring Vision: Paintings from the Manyo'an Collection from the 17th to the 20th Century. New Orleans: New Orleans Museum of Art, 2002, 69-87.
- "Kinsei Nihon no Bukkyō bijutsu ni okeru Chūgoku no eikyō" (Chinese Influences on Professional Buddhist Painting of Early Modern Japan), in: Uji: Manpukuji, ōbaku Bunka Kenkyūjo, ōbaku Bunka (ōbaku culture) 114 (March 1994): 42-45.
- "Edo jidai ni okeru sencha bijutsu to Chūgoku bunjin kyōmi" (Arts for Senchadō and Chinese Literati Taste in Edo period Japan), in: Nihon bijutsushi no sumiyaku (Currents in Japanese Art History, festschrift for Professor Tsuji Nobuo of Tokyo University), Tokyo: Pelican, 1993, 860-880.
- "A Heterodox Painting of Shussan Shaka in Late Tokugawa Japan," Artibus Asiae, Part I, vol. 51 no. 3/4 (1991): 275-292 and Part II, vol. 52 no. 1/2 (1992): 131-145.
- "Yamamoto Baiitsu no Chūgokuga kenkyū" (Yamamoto Baiitsu's Study of Chinese Painting), Kobijutsu 80 (Fall 1986): 62-75 (article translated into Japanese).
Ivan Grail
Graduate student, Harvard University
I am broadly interested in classical and medieval poetry and monogatari
as well as translation. My more specific research interests include Heike
monogatari reception and literary adaptations (especially
parodies) through all periods as well as Heike
poetry.
Bettina
Gramlich-Oka
Wesleyan University/University of Tübingen
I am
affiliated with University of Tübingen in Germany and am
currently
living in Huntington Beach, CA, working on my doctoral dissertation. I
study Tokugawa history and my thesis will be a biography on Tadano
Makuzu, her thoughts and her time, and the intellectual and political
world seen through her eyes, with special interest in the network among
the people she and her father (Kudo Heisuke) knew. My master's thesis
was about cholera epidemics during Bakumatsu, and is therefore not
really related to my new topic, yet I still deal with rangaku
to some extent.
Publication: "Solitary Thoughts: A Translation of Tadano Makuzu's
Hitori Kangae," trans. Janet R. Goodwin, Bettina Gramlich -Oka
, Elizabeth A. Leicester, Yuki Terazawa, and Anne Walthall,
[Part 1] Monumenta
Nipponica 56:1 (2001), 21-38. [Part 2] Monumenta Nipponica
56:2 (2001), 173-79.
Maribeth
Graybill
Senior Curator of Asian Art
University of Michigan Museum of Art.
Research field: Japanese painting, especially portraiture and narrative
Gender
and power in the Japanese visual field , edited by
Joshua S. Mostow, Norman Bryson, Maribeth Graybill (University of
Hawaii Press, 2003).
http://www.umich.edu/~iinet/cjs/faculty/profile/graybill.htm
Gabi Greve
Medical Doctor (1975)
Student of Buddhist Art at Heidelberg University (Germany)
Writing about Buddhist art (in German) see: http://www.akaikutsu.com/aka/topics/2002-12-topic.html
doing research about Bodhidaruma (Daruma San) see: http://www.amie.or.jp/daruma/daruma-new1.html
Resident in Japan since 1982
Caitilin
Griffiths
I will be starting my PhD in Japanese History in September
2001 at the University of Toronto.
Claudia Grimm
I am a postgraduate
student of Japanology in Cologne, Germany, and my fields of
specialization within Japanology are literature, art and Buddhism.
Right now I am doing research on the "Ten
Oxherding Pictures"
in Zen-Buddhism in Kyoto at the International Research Institute of Zen
Studies (IRIZ for short, "Kokusai Zengaku Kenkyuujo") located within
Hanazono University.
http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/ostas/japan/person/grimm.html
Gerald
Groemer
I am professor of Japanese Music History and Ethnomusicology at
University of Yamanashi. Currently my research focuses on
blind female musicians (goze),
street performers of Edo, and small-scale kabuki theater in Edo.
Niels
Gülberg
Associate
Professor, School of Law, Waseda University. I have worked on Heian
"nikki bungaku" (German translation and study of the Tōnomine
shōshō monogatari
which is a mid-Heian guide for letter-writing for noble ladies, not a
diary), on "wakan hikaku bungaku" (the influence of kanshi-poetry on
waka) and on setsuwa bungaku (German trans. of the Kohon
setsuwa shū).
Recent interests are Buddhist literary texts in Japanese which were
used in various rituals (hyoobyaku, ganmon, kyooke, wasan, and
kooshiki), Japanese Buddhist apocryphes (gikyō) and the institutional
history of temples and shrines. As a result of a three-years-research,
I started an online- catalogue of manuscripts and early prints of
kōshiki-texts, linked with a fulltext-database which solves the problem
of pre-modern texts in a software-free way. The database can be found
at:
http://faculty.web.waseda.ac.jp/guelberg/koshiki/datenb-j.htm
* Buddhistische Zeremoniale (kōshiki) und ihre Bedeutung
für die Literatur des japanischen Mittelalters. Münchener
ostasiatische Studien, Band 76. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 1999. 318 pp.
ISBN: 3-515-071474; Zur Typologie der
Mittelälterlichen Japanischen Lehrdichtungen:
Vorüberlegungen anhand des "Kohon Setsuwashū." Müchener
Ostasiatische Studien, Band 28. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 1991. 186 pp.
ISBN: 3-515-05856. [Author's dissertation from Munich, 1990. Contains
annotated translation of two books of Kohon setsuwashu.]
*Niels Gülberg also goes by the internet-friendly name
"Guelberg"
Mark
Hal <markhall[at]gol.com>
I am an archaeological curator at the Niigata Prefectural Museum. In
addition to helping with the exhibits and curation issues, I write the
museum's English web pages (www.nbz.or.jp/eng),
and do research on the chemical composition of Japanese earthenware
pottery (primarily Jomon and Medieval periods).
* New and forthcoming publications: "Pottery Styles during the Early
Jomon Period: Geochemical Perspectives on the Moroiso and Ukishima
Pottery Styles," Archaeometry, Vol. 43, 2001, pp.
59-75. (You can download a copy here)
// "Classification Maximum-Likelihood Clustering: An Example using
Compostional Data from Kasori E Pottery, Bulletin of the
Niigata Prefectural Museum of History, Vol. 2, pp. 7-22;
"Review of King Croesus' Gold: Excavations at Sardis and the History of
Gold Refining," forthcoming in Society for Archaeological
Sciences Bulletin.
(Ah yes, there is some relevance, thanks to the Edo period gold mines
on Sado Island) // "An ICP-MS Study of Jomon Pottery." Poster
presentation at the 2001 18th Annual Meeting of the Nihon Bunkazai
Kagakukai [Japanese Society for Scientific Studies on Cultural
Property], June 24th-25th, 2001; (with Hideaki Kimura) "Quantitative
EDXRF Studies of Obsidian in Northern Hokkaido," forthcoming in the
Journal of Archaeological Science; (with Ushio Maeda and Mark
Hudson) "Pottery Production on Rishiri
Island: Perspectives from X-Ray Fluorescence Studies," forthcoming in Archaeometry;
(Habu, Junko and Mark E. Hall) "EDXRF Analyses of Jomon Pottery from
Honmura-cho and Isarago Sites," Anthropological Science,
Vol. 109, pp. 141-166.
Sakurako Handa
<shanda[at]princeton.edu>
I am a fifth-year graduate student in the East Asian Studies Dept. at
Princeton University, focusing on Early Modern Japanese History. I am
working with Prof. David Howell on a dissertation concerning urban
society and urban life in 19th Century Osaka. While doing my research
in Osaka, I was affiliated with Osaka City University and Prof. Tsukada
Takashi's kinsei-shi
graduate seminar. The materials for my research range from documents
generated at the level of urban neighborhoods (such as the population
registers and mizuchō) to kabu-nakama
documents,
municipal decrees, diaries, leaflets, travelogues. While my work is
still in process, I am envisioning a complex portrait of
pre-Restoration Osaka, from the perspective of urban commoners and the
different levels at which they related to urban life... the
neighborhood, social relatinships and networks generated by commerce,
vis à vis the city magistrate, and the 'idea' of
the city of Osaka
generated in the sphere of shared information, knowledge, and culture.
Thomas Hare
Department of Comparative Literature, Princeton University
Specialization: Japanese literature through the fifteenth century, with
special emphasis on rhetoric and stylistics, Buddhism in Japanese
culture, dramatic literature and dramaturgy, and the music of Noh
drama. Cultural studies of ancient Egypt.
*Hare, Thomas, Robert Borgen, and Sharalyn Orbaugh, eds. The
Distant Isle: Studies and Translations of Japanese Literature
in Honor of Robert H. Brower . Ann Arbor: Center for
Japanese Studies, The University of Michigan, 1996; Zeami's
Style: The Noh Plays of Zeami Motokiyo . Stanford:
Stanford UP, 1986. [pbk reissue 1996] // more biblio at Stanford URL
http://www.stanford.edu/~thare
Thomas Harper
Former (now retired) Lecturer in Japanese, University of Leiden
Principal Interests: Genji monogatari and its
reception; Akoo Vendetta
Secondary Interests: Classical grammar; military history; Pacific War
Current Project: A narrative of the Akō vendetta
On the back burner: The Genji Apocrypha; a classical grammar.
Phillip
Tudor Harries
The Queen's College and the Faculty of Oriental Studies, Oxford
University.
* The
Poetic Memoirs of Lady Daibu [Kenreimon'in
ukyo no daibu shu] (Stanford, 1980).
* http://www.orinst.ox.ac.uk/members/harries.htm
Norman Havens
Department of Shinto
Studies and Institute for Japanese Culture & Classics at
Kokugakuin
University. My area of interest is the Ise cult and early modern
popular religion; I've been doing a series of translations for
Kokugakuin in recent years, including work on the Shintō jiten.
http://www2.gol.com/users/nhavens
Graham H
Healey
I am Senior
Lecturer in Japanese Studies and Academic Director of Distance Learning
at the School of East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield. I have
taught courses on the Evolution of the Japanese Language and on
Classical Japanese Literature from time to time over the last
twenty-odd years. I am currently teaching a module on Postwar Japanese
Cinema on the MA in International Cinema run by the University's
Department of English Literature, and am developing an interest in Nō,
Kabuki and Bunraku in Japanese film. Most recent publication: The
Iwakura Embassy, 1871-73. Five Volumes. The Japan Documents,
Tokyo, 2002. Co-editor-in-chief, translator of Vol 2, co-translator of
Vol 5.
Amy Heinrich
Director of the C. V.
Starr East Asian Library at Columbia University, and trained in modern
Japanese literature, especially tanka, but moving back into medieval
waka.
Gustav Heldt <heldt[at]virginia.edu>
University of Virginia
Areas of interest include early and medieval Japanese literature,
cultural history, and gender studies.
Publications: "Saigyō's Traveling Tale," Monumenta Nipponica 52:4
(Winter 1997). *JSTOR
// "Fujiwara no Shunzei," entry in Steven Carter, ed., Medieval
Japanese Writers ,
Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 203 (Brucolli, Clark, Layman:
1999); Numerous translations of noh plays for the National Noh
Theatre in Japan, academic articles on medieval Japanese poetics,
gender and Japanese history; Contributing to Haruo Shirane, ed., Traditional
Japanese Literature: An Anthology, beginnings to 1600.
Peter
Hendriks <Peter.Hendriks[at]anu.edu.au>
Australian National University, Canberra.
historical Japanese linguistics, history of Japanese dialects
Valerie
Henitiuk
I am a PhD
candidate in Comparative Literature at the University of Alberta
(Canada), currently on a research fellowship at Kokugakuin Daigaku in
Tokyo. My dissertation project deals with boundary images (both real
and metaphorical) in women's writing, with a focus on Heian literature.
My work has been published in META,
the Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, and elsewhere.
* "Translating
Woman: Reading the Female through the Male." [On translations
of Kagerō nikki, pdf file of 1999 journal
article.]
Jason
Herlands <herlands[at]umich.edu>
I am currently in the PhD program at the University of Michigan,
working out a dissertation topic on transgression and perversion that
crosses the (artificial) modern-premodern divide. I am interested in
the politics of gender transgression and literary representations of
such in the Genji, Heike, and Torikaebaya
monogatari
(among others), and am considering contemporary authors' uses of
transgression--a la sex-drugs-&-rock-n-roll, for example--in
their
works.
Christian
M. Hermansen
<Christian_Hermansen[at]hotmail.com>
Researcher at the NCC (National Christian Council of Japan) Center for
the Study of Japanese Religions. Co-editor of the center's journal Japanese
Religions. I have completed my Ph.D. in Japanese history with
a dissertation on hinin
in early modern Osaka which was accepted by the University of
Copenhagen, Denmark. I am interested in the social and political
history of Japan and the relation with religion and religious
practices, not only in the premodern but certainly also in the modern
era.
* "The Hinin Associations in Osaka, 1600-1868." Copenhagen
Journal of Asian Studies 15 (2001). [abstract]
* "On the Translation of God," English translation
of "Kami no honyaku kō" by Suzuki Norihisa (part
one) in Japanese Religions vol. 26 no. 2 (July
2001).
* "Rashōmon - Daemonernes Port," Danish translation of Kurosawa Akira's
manuscript for "Rashōmon" in Asiatiske skrifter no.
8.
Barrett J.
Heusch
Graduate student at UC-Berkeley.
Robert Hewitt <rsh2109[at]columbia.edu>
First year PhD Candidate of the Columbia University, Graduate School of
Arts and Sciences, East Asian Languages and Cultures, whose primary
interest in in Edo Period literature and Subculture.
William J.
Higginson <wordfield[at]att.net>
I've been translating (mostly haiku), writing (poems of many kinds),
and writing popular works about haiku for 35+ years. The
Haiku Handbook continues to sell. Recent works include the
pair The Haiku Seasons (a "monograph" on nature in
trad. J. poetry) and Haiku World (1000+
haiku from 600+ poets in 50 countries, arranged as a saijiki). Also
co-translated with Tadashi Kondo two modest contemporary haiku
collections. Currently working on a project for the Japanese Text
Initiative at the University of Virginia. Co-author, with Kris Young
Kondo, of a translation of Yamamoto Kenkichi's "500 Essential Japanese
Season Words." <URL>.
Further bio and selected publications: renku.home.att.net.
Masaki Hirano
Assistant Director, Japan Foundation New York Office. Please
visit www.jfny.org/jfny
for more information on the Japan Foundation's programs.
Dennis Hirota
<dhirota[at]let.ryukoku.ac.jp>
Professor, Department of Shin Buddhist Studies, Ryukoku University
Research
interests in Buddhist thought and Japanese arts and aesthetics (chiefly
nō, renga, and chanoyu), Japanese Pure Land Buddhist traditions.
Publications include Wind
in the Pines: Classic Writings of the Way of Tea as a
Buddhist Path (Asian Humanities Press, 1995); No
Abode: The Record of Ippen (rev. ed. University
of Hawaii Press, 1997); Tannishō: A Primer (Kyoto:
Ryūkoku University, 1982); Shinran: An Introduction to His
Thought (with Yoshifumi Ueda; Kyoto: Hongwanji International
Center, 1989); Plain Words on the Pure Land Way: Sayings of
the Wandering Monks of Medieval Japan (Ichigon hōdan; Kyoto:
Ryūkoku University, 1989); The Collected Works of Shinran
(head translator; Kyoto: Jōdoshinshū Hongwanji-ha, 1997); Toward
a Contemporary Understanding of Pure Land Buddhism
(editor; SUNY Press, 2000). In Japanese: Shinran:
Shukyō gengo no kakumeisha (Hōzōkan, 1998).
Scot Hislop
<lbcsah[at]pacific.net.sg>
Visiting Fellow, Department of Japanese Studies, National University of
Singapore.
Field: Japanese poetics and literary theories, premodern Japanese
history, focusing on Edo period.
* "In defense of skinny frogs: The poetry and poetics of Kobayashi
Issa," PhD, Cornell University, 2002. [UMI]
Nathan Hopson
<naynay[at]nnet.ne.jp>
Recently completed my MA at Sheffield University. Research interests
include all things Hiraizumi.
H. Mack Horton
<hmhorton[at]berkeley.edu>
Professor of Classical Japanese literature, Department of East Asian
Languages and Cultures, University of California, Berkeley. B.A.
Williams College, 1974; M.A. Harvard University, 1981; Ph.D. University
of California, Berkeley, 1989. My interests include Japanese poetry
(particularly linked verse and Man'yōshū),
diary literature, oral-performative arts, translation theory and
practice, and premodern Japanese architecture. My publications include The
Journal of Sōchō (Stanford, 2002), its companion
volume, Song
in an Age of Discord: The Journal of Sōchō and Poetic Life in
Late Medieval Japan (Stanford, 2002), and Traversing
the Frontier: The Silla Envoy Poems in Man'yōshū (forthcoming
from Harvard). My translation-adaptations include Naito Akira's Edo:
The City that Became Tokyo (Kōdansha, 2003) Nishi Kazuo's What
is Japanese Architecture? (Kōdansha, 1985), and
Hashimoto Fumio's Architecture
in the Shōin Style (Kōdansha, 1981) I am
currently at work on a book of essays on linked verse and on an
annotated translation of Man'yōshū.
Thomas Howell
Ph.D from the
University of Pennsylvania, on the practices of reading, writing, and
compiling in early and medieval Japan, with a focus on setsuwa and the Konjaku
monogatari shū. Interested in textual and oral authority,
authors and anonymity. Currently working on the Hōbutsushū.
Yumiko Hulvey
Associate Professor of
Japanese Literature, African & Asian Languages &
Literatures,
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL.
Fields of research: Heian and Kamakura prose and poetry, specializing
in Chūsei Joryū nikki bungaku; translating and tracing intertextual
allusions to the classical literary canon in narratives by Enchi Fumiko
(1905-86); examining sources for the origin of negative female images
such as the yamauba with feminist re-interpretations of the Japanese
creation myth, etc.
Education: 1989 Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, Oriental
Languages Dept: Diss. "The Nocturnal Muse: A Study and Translation of
Ben no Naishi Nikki, a Thirteenth-Century Poetic Memoir."
Publications: Translations of three narratives by Enchi Fumiko in Manoa:
A Pacific Journal of International Writing , University of
Hawai'i 1994, 1997, and 1998; Four entries in Japanese
Women Writers: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook ,
ed. Chieko Irie Mulhern, 1994; "The Intertextual Fabric of
Narratives by Enchi Fumiko" in Japan in Traditional and Postmodern
Perspectives, ed. Charles Wei-Hsun Fu and Steven Heine, 1995; "Ben
no Naishi" in Medieval
Japanese Writers , ed. by Steven D. Carter for
Dictionary of Literary Biography series, 1999.
*Sacred Rites in Midnight: Ben no Naishi Nikki. Cornell East Asia
Series. 2005.
G. Cameron
Hurst III
Professor of Japanese and Korean History at the University of
Pennsylvania and Director of its Center for East Asian Studies.
* Publications: Insei: Abdicated Sovereigns in the Politics
of Late Heian Japan, 1086-1185 (Columbia UP, 1976). Armed
Martial Arts of Japan: Swordmanship and Archery (Yale
UP). Co-translator of Fukuzawa Yukichi's Outline of a Theory
of Civilization, and co-author with Stephen Aldiss of Samurai
Painters.
* Chapters contributed to: Cambridge History of Japan,
Medieval Japan: Essays in Institutional History, Court
and Bakufu in Japan: Essays in Kamakura History, and The
Fourteenth Century: Origins of Japan's Medieval World.
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/ames/hurst.html
Janet
Ikeda
Associate
professor, Dept.of East Asian Languages and Literatures, Washington and
Lee University, Virginia. My interests are in waka studies and its
relation to warrior culture in the sixteenth century. I did my doctoral
dissertation at Princeton Univ. on the poet-warrior Hosokawa Yūsai.
Leo Alexander
Imai
The Queen's College, University of Oxford
I am currently writing a D.Phil thesis entitled "The Poetics of Ki no
Tsurayuki from a Comparative Perspective". I hope it will contribute to
informing the teaching of karon in Japanese Studies
programmes in the West.
Megumi Inoue
The School of Asian Studies, The University of Auckland, New Zealand.
"Oshichi, the greengrocer's daughter: A cultural history of sewamono,
1686--1821." Ph.D., University of Washington, 2004. 302 pp.
Chris
Isherwood
Mombusho scholar studying modern Japanese Lit under Prof
Komori at Tokyo University.
Itasaka Noriko 板坂則子
<itasaka[at]hi-ho.ne.jp>
Senshu University
I specialize in Japanese kinsei literature, the literature and culture
of the Edo Era, in particular gesaku writing, focussing on Kyokutei
Bakin--the author of Hakkenden & Yumiharizuki. I am interested
in
how Edo literature and culture are related to foreign literatures and
cultures, and in what ways they are unique.
*
www.isc.senshu-u.ac.jp/~thb0457/
Gergana Ivanova
University of Toronto
MA in Japanese
Linguistics, MA in International Studies
Currently a MA student
in Japanese Premodern Literature
My main interest is Makura no Sōshi. I
am working on its four textual traditions.
Nobumi
Iyanaga 彌永信美 <n-iyanag[at]nifty.com>
I
am an independent researcher in Buddhist studies. My major area of
interest is Buddhist mythology from India to Japan, focusing on
medieval Japanese Buddhism and culture. I did also some work on the
history of the image of Orient in Occidental world from ancient times
up to the Sixteenth century and published a book (in Japanese) on this
issue.
Some of my publications:
Daakinii et l'Empereur.
Mystique bouddhique de la royaute dans le Japon medieval, VS [Versus],
no. 83/84 -- Quaderni di studi semiotici, maggio-dicembre 1999 --,
special issue with the title "Reconfiguring Cultural Semiotics: The
Construction of Japanese", edited by Fabio Rambelli and Patricia Violi,
p. 41-111 (web
version)
// Le Roi Maara du Sixieme Ciel et le mythe medieval de la creation du
Japon, Cahiers d'Extreme-Asie, IX, 1996-1997, Memorial Anna Seidel.
Religions traditionnelle d'Asie orientale, II, (Kyoto) p. 323-396;
Daikokuten (Mahaakaala), Hobogirin, VII, Paris, Tokyo, 1994, p.
839-920; Daijizaiten (Mahe"svara) Hobogirin, VI, Paris, Tokyo, 1983,
p. 713-765. Gensoo
no tooyoo (Imaginary Orient), Tokyo, Seido-sha, 1987
[reissued 1996]; Daikokuten
hensoo -- Bukkyoo shinwa-gaku, 1 (Variations on the Theme of
Mahaakaala. Essays on Buddhist Mythology, I), Kyoto, Hoozookan, 2002; Kannon
hen'yoo-tan -- Bukkyoo shinwa-gaku, 2 (Metamorphosis of
Avalokite"svara. Essays on Buddhist Mythology, 2), Kyoto, Hoozookan,
2002. [Japanese title in notes]
For these two volumes, there is a special web site here.
I have a web page at: http://www.bekkoame.or.jp/~n-iyanag/
where you will find more complete bibliography and a link page.
Terrence
Weyl Jackson
I am affiliated with Indiana University and am currently at Tokyo
University working on my doctoral dissertation. I study Tokugawa Japan
and my thesis is relate to the social politics and ties within the
intellectual world during that period. I am particularly interested in rangakusha
and the history of science in Japan.
Sandra Jacobs
<kitsune[at]silcom.com>
Santa Barbara, California. My primary areas of interest are Heian
culture and gender studies, Japanese folklore and mythology, and
Japanese art.
Michael
Jamentz
A former gakusha no
tamago, now just a rotten egghead, I reside in Kyoto. As a lapsed
academic, I continue to work on a dissertation that I currently liken
to Zeno's arrow, increasingly finely calibrated and never reaching the
mark. The focus of my dissertation is the cultural legacy of poet,
historian, and painter? Fujiwara Michinori, Shinzei, and his
descendants in the 12th - 13th centuries. Shinzei, the de-facto ruler
in the mid-12 century, came from a family of lower-ranking nobles who
were also Confucian scholars and bureaucrats associated with the Insei
regimes of the period. Members of the Shinzei ichimon were waka and
kanshi poets, and creators and defenders of monogatari. They have been
associated with the production of the Heike monogatari,
various emaki and ornamental sutras, and the sculpture of the Kei-ha.
They also occupied the abbacies of Daigoji, Tōdaiji, Tōji, Kōfukuji,
Kōryuuji, Seiryōji, Hōryūji, Kizomizudera, and Ishiyamadera, Regeō-in,
etc. and led several important Buddhist schools. (Perhaps you can
imagine some of the problems of the dissertation. If it happened in the
12-13th century, this family was involved.) I spend my days teaching,
translating and attempting to document the extent of Shinzei ichimon's
influence, including their intimacy with the imperial house
(particularly the Nyoin), their creation of various literary genres of
shoudou, Buddhist preaching, (particularly the work of Chōken of Agui),
their association with the image of Fugen bosatsu and the Jūrasetsunyo
(often related to their preaching). I am happy to report this work is
now just about to be completed in my next lifetime.
Jinno, Hidenori
Lecturer at the School of Letters, Waseda University
My main research area is monogatari bungaku of the Heian Period. Up
till now I have done the research on mainly the style, narrator,
narrative voice and the "writing" of The Tale of Genji.
Now I am interested in problems concerned with readership and reception
of monogatari, and the development of medieval commentaries on Genji
monogatari.
Jacques Joly <jolyjacq[at]mbox.kyoto-inet.or.jp>
Professor, Eichi University, Amagasaki, Hyogo, Japan.
My main interest is in the History of Thought in Japan. My Ph. D.
(Doctorat de Lettres in Far Eastern Studies) at the University of Paris
7 in 1991 analysed the idea of shizen
in the thought of Andō Shōeki 安藤昌益] a mid-Tokugawa Confucianist
thinker. This study was later expanded in order to include a more
precise survey of the 18th Century Confucian discourse in Japan,
especially that of Ogyu Sorai. I also started to study the Japanese
history of thought from the Meiji era up to contemporary issues, as
well as some of their ideological avatars (such as constitution of
Toyoshi - Japanese type orientalism), a move which required me to
investigate more intensively the Japanese history--and more precisely
the political history --of the 19th and 20th centuries. In this regard,
I devoted myself to translating (in French) the main works of Masao
Maruyama (1914-1996) such as: Nihon seiji shisōshi kenkyū,
under the French title of Essais sur l'histoire de la pensee
politique au Japon (Vol I : 1996). Currently, I am
supervising a project of translating Selected Works of Masao
Maruyama.
Le
Naturel selon Ando Shoeki: Un type de
discours sur la nature et la spontaneite par un maitre-confuceen de
l'epoque Tokugawa: Ando Shoeki (1703 -1762). Vol 1, Paris:
College de France, Maisonneuve et Larose, 1996. 550 pp.
Robert A. Juhl
<AD552[at]mac.com>
I have a Ph.D. in Chinese and a number of publications on
historicalChinese phonology, which I wrote in the 1970s. Since the
1980s, I have
been a professional translator and writer in Japan (a partial list of
my publications, academic and other, is here).
However, I am gradually withdrawing from business and returning to
research. Recently I have been working on a study of the spectacular
aerial and terrestrial phenomena that took place at Enoshima in AD 552,
according to the Enoshima
Engi. My current project is a geomythological search for
similar
phenomena recorded in myths and folktales of Japan and southern China.
I welcome e-mail from anyone interested in geomythology.
First year PhD student in Asian Studies at UBC
Edward
Kamens <edward.kamens[at]yale.edu>
Professor, Dept. of East Asian Languages and Literatures, Yale
University, New Haven CT.
My research is on premodern poetry and prose (various periods and
genres).
*Utamakura,
Allusion, and Intertextuality in Traditional Japanese Poetry
(1997)
Approaches
to Teaching Murasaki Shikibu's the Tale of Genji
(pbk., 1994)
The
Buddhist Poetry of the Great Kamo Priestess: Daisaiin Senshi
and Hosshin Wakashū (1990)
The
Three Jewels : A Study and Translation of Minamoto Tamenori's
Sanbōe (1988)
Patti Kameya <pkameya[at]kent.edu>
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Kent State
University. My dissertation focused on the intersection between ideas
of virtue and eccentricity as portrayed in Kinsei kijinden
(Eccentrics of our times, 1790) by Ban Kokei. Additional and
tangential interests include Okinawa, gender, early modern cultural
exchange, and folklore studies.
Janice S. Kanemitsu<jskanemitsu[at]berkeley.edu>
I am a Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley. My research interests are reading
and writing by women in the Edo period.
Beth Katzoff
I am an Assistant
Librarian and Head of Public Services for Asia Collections at Kroch
Asia Library, Cornell University. I have a PhD in modern Japanese
history from Columbia University, but would like to be included in the
pmjs list so that I can see what sorts of needs premodernists have when
it comes to using their libraries.
Kanechiku
Nobuyuki <knck[at]waseda.jp> 兼築信行
Faculty of Letters, Waseda University.
My research is on medieval waka, and Fujiwara Teika, in particular.
http://www.littera.waseda.ac.jp/faculty/knck/
Kawazoe Fusae
河添 房江
Professor, Tokyo Gakugei University 東京学芸大学 教育学部 教授
Research area 研究テーマ
Genji monogatari, Heian literature generally, study of Heian literature
and culture, study of sexual differences in Heian literature
源氏物語を中心とした平安文学 平安文学と文化学の研究 平安文学における性差の研究
Main publications 主要著書
A History of Rhetoric in Genji monogatari (Kanrin Shobo, 1998)
『源氏物語表現史ー喩と王権の位相ー』 翰林書房、1998
Gender and Culture in Genji monogatari - The Birth of Women's Writing
(Chikuma Shobo, 1998)
『性と文化の源氏物語ー書く女の誕生ー』 筑摩書房 1998
Co-editor with Mitamura Masako and Matsui Kenji of journal "Genji
Kenkyu" (vols. 1-10), published by Kanrin Shobo, 1996-2005
源氏研究 1〜10、 三田村雅子・河添房江・松井健児 共編 翰林書房 1996〜2005
home page: homepage1.nifty.com/fusae/index.htm
publications [url]
Marc Peter
Keane <info[at]mpkeane.com>
I am presently a visiting scholar in the East Asian program at Cornell
University but am "normally" a garden designer and writer. I lived in
Kyoto for 18 years, returning to the US in 2002 to teach at Cornell
where I built an experimental teahouse and garden with students (www.t-house.info).
I am presently doing research for a book on the beginnings of the
Japanese tea garden.
Publications: Japanese
Garden Design (1996); Sakuteiki
(2001); The Art
of Setting Stones (2002)
Website: www.mpkeane.com
Adam L. Kern
<adamkern[at]fas.harvard.edu>
Associate Professor of Japanese Literature, Harvard University
My work focuses on the popular literature and visual culture of early
modern Edo. Having recently completed a study (with annotated
translations) on the kibyoshi entitled Manga from the Floating World,
I have two projects on the boiler: a monograph, emanating from my
dissertation, on the professionalization of authorship in the gesaku
of Santō Kyōden; and a more general book on the
popular culture of Edo-period Japan. My courses include a large
introductory lecture course entitled "Japan Pop from Basho to Banana,"
a course called "Japanese Literature 123: Manga," and graduate seminars
on various topics and texts in their original Edo-period kuzushiji form.
*Manga from the Floating World:
Comicbook Culture and the Kibyoshi of Edo Japan
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2006).
*Blowing Smoke: Tobacco Pipes, Literary Squibs, and Authorial Puffery
in the pictorial comic fiction (Kibyoshi) of Santō Kyōden
(Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University, 1997). 542 pp. [ [UMI]
*New Directions in the Study of Meiji Japan , ed. Helen Hardacre with
Adam L. Kern (Brill, 1997).
*New
Directions in the Study of Meiji Japan , ed. Helen
Hardacre with Adam L. Kern (Brill, 1997).
Timothy D. Kern
<timkern[at]nichibun.ac.jp>
Associate Professor, in the Office of Research Exchange at Nichibunken.
My professional responsibilities are to find out what is going on in
Japanese studies and coordinate research with institutions and
scholars, in and outside Japan. I received my MA from the Univ. of
Osaka, in Comparative Culture and my thesis was on Kyogen. Interests
range from setsuwa, monogatari, folklore, anthropology and popular
culture. Pertaining to pre-modern Japan, I am presently looking into
the function and meaning of the 'road' in narratives.
Robert Omar Khan
Visiting Lecturer in
Premodern Japanese at the University of Texas at Austin. My research
interests focus on the monogatari written in the style of the Tale
of Genji, especially those of the 12th and 13th centuries. I
wrote a study and translation of the late 12th century monogatari Ariake
no Wakare
as my dissertation at the University of British Columbia (1998. I also
have a strong comparative interest in medieval European courtly
narrative, deriving from an earlier incarnation as a romance
phililogist a decade or more go. One of my current research projects is
a comparative study of the similar cluster of themes and narrative
structures found in Ariake no Wakare and Le
Roman de Silence (Old French, 13th century).
*Portions of the Ariake no Wakare translation can
be found in Stephen Miller, ed., Partings
at Dawn (1996); Dissertation
abstract online // url
at University of Texas
Kikuchi
Shin'ichi <kikuchi[at]j-text.com>
Professor of Konan Women's University, Kobe
Field: Japanese literature, early modern (Edo/Tokugawa) - modern
(Meiji) ,
kanazoshi, buhenbanashi, koudan, dodoitsu, historical novels [*Japanese
notes*]
http://www.konan-wu.ac.jp/~kikuchi/
http://www.j-text.com/
http://www.koudan.com/
Cornelius J.
Kiley <ckiley1[at]comcast.net>
affiliation = Villanova University, retired
born 10/24/29
PhD Harvard University 70
contributor, v. 2, Cambridge History of Japan
author of several monographs on ancient and medieval Japan
Soo Kim <sooki[at]uclink4.berkeley.edu>
I am a Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley studying Japanese art history.
Keller
Kimbrough
I am an
assistant professor at the University of Colorado at Bolder. I completed
my Ph.D. at Yale University in 1999. My dissertation is titled "Imaging
Izumi Shikibu: Representations of a Heian Woman Poet in Medieval Japan" [Dissertation
abstract
online]. I am most interested in the Buddhist literature of medieval
Japan, including setsuwa, otogizoshi, and illustrated temple and shrine
histories, and I am currently revising my dissertation for publication
as "Izumi Shikibu and the Literature of Medieval Japan." I have an
article (titled "Voices from the Feminine Margin: Izumi Shikibu and the
Nuns of Kumano and Seiganji") coming out in vol. 12:1 #23 of Women
and Performance, and I am now finishing up the revisions for
a second article, tentatively titled, "Forging Identity: Sei Shonagon
and the Matsushima Diary."
*The PhD thesis contains translations of four otogizoshi: "Koshikibu,"
"Koshikibu (beppon)," "Izumi Shikibu," and "Kotohara."
Ayako
Kinoshita
Ph.D Candidate at Meiji University. Heian Literature
I am studying the relation between "The Tale of Genji" to its notes in
medieval kanbun writings and thought in the era of Saga and Uda. I am
also participating in the project of "Genjimonogatari Kochusyaku
Database" (the Database of the old commentaries of "The Tale of Genji")
at The National Institute of Japanese Literature.
URL: http://www.nijl.ac.jp/~t.ito/kinoshita/index.html
Lorinda
Kiyama <kiyama[at]leland.stanford.edu>
Ph.D. Candidate, Stanford University. Fulbright Fellow, Nagoya
University
M.A. (Stanford, 1998) was on Taira Yasuyori's Hobutsushu
(A Collection of Treasures).
Research on shodo bungaku (performative preaching),
late Heian through Muromachi periods.
Publication: translation of Saigyo's "Jigokue o mite" in the Fires
edition of Two Lines: "On Seeing a Painting of Hell," Two
Lines: A Journal of Translation (1999): 119-133.
Susan Blakeley
Klein
Associate Professor, Dept. of East Asian Languages and
Literatures, University of California, Irvine
Publications: Allegories of Desire: The Esoteric Literary
Commentaries of Medieval Japan (Harvard UP, forthcoming
2000); Ankoku Butoo: The Premodern and Postmodern Influences
on the Dance of Utter Darkness (1989); "Woman as Serpent: The
Demonic Feminine in the Noh Play Dojoji" in Religious
Reflections on the Human Body, edited by Jane Marie Law
(Indiana UP, 1994); Translation of Kakitsubata,
published in 12
Plays of the Noh and Kyogen Theaters , edited by
Karen Brazell (1989)
*further details on webpage
at Univ. of California, Irving.
Keith Knapp
<Keith.Knapp[at]Citadel.edu>
History Department. The Citadel, the Military College of South
Carolina. My field of research is the social and cultural history of
early medieval China. Although all my research has been on China, I'm
keenly interested in premodern Japanese history, particularly the Kofun
and Heian periods as well as setsuwa literature. At some point, I hope
to write something about the history of Chinese filial piety stories in
Japan.
Komoda Haruko
*Heikyoku specialist. Recent publications include:
"Kyoto daigaku-zou "Heikyoku mabushi" ni tsuite," Toyo ongaku
kenkyu no 55 (1990.8), // "Heikyoku no kyokusetsu to ongaku
kouzou," Heike biwa - katari to ongaku, Hitsuji
shobou, 1993; "Heikyoku (Nagoya no dentou)," Anata ga yomu
Heike monogatari 5 Dentou to keitai, pp.
57-72, Yuseido, 1994; "Nagoya heikyoku no ryuuha wo megutte," Toyo
ongaku kenkyu no. 62 (1997.8), pp. 1-20. [*Japanese
titles*]
Kondo
Miyuki <mkondo[at]bun.l.chiba-u.ac.jp>
Associate Professor of Japanese Literature, Division of Japanese
Culture Studies, Faculty of Letters, Chiba University, Chiba
Field : premodern poetry and prose
Publication: Iwanami Kouza Nihonbungakushi 2, ed.
Kubota Jun et al., Iwanami Shoten, 1996 // Home Page: http://bun.l.chiba-u.ac.jp/~mkondo/
[*Japanese
notes*]
Kondo
Yasuhiro <yhkondo[at]cl.aoyama.ac.jp>
Professor of Japanese Linguistics, Dept. of Japanese Literature,
College of Literature, Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo
Field: Japanese grammar
Publication: Nihongo Kijutsu Bunpo no Riron (A
Theory of the Descriptive Grammar of Japanese), Hituzi Syobo
Publishing, Tokyo, 2000. ISBN4-89476-122-X)
Home Page: http://klab.ri.aoyama.ac.jp/
[*Japanese
notes*]
Peter
Kornicki <pk104[at]cam.ac.uk>
Professor of Japanese history and bibliography. Faculty of Oriental
Studies, Cambridge University. In 1998 I published The
book in Japan: from the beginnings to the nineteenth century
(Leiden, Brill) and am now working on (1) Tokugawa medicine and medical
publishing, and (2) the Hyakumanto dharani, especially the connections
with queenship in the Nara period and the political uses of print and
Buddhism.
*Religion
in Japan : Arrows to Heaven and Earth (1996,
co-editor with I.J.McMullen); Meiji
Japan : Political, Economic and Social History, 1868-1912 ,
4 vols. (editor, 1998); Early
Japanese Books in Cambridge University Library : A Catalogue
of the Aston, Satow and Von Siebold Collections (co-editor
with N. Hayashi,1991); The
Cambridge Encyclopedia of Japan (co-editor with
R.J.Bowring, 1993)
Frederic Kotas
Japanese
Bibliographer, Wason Collection on East Asia, Cornell University My
dissertation (University of Washington) was on the several Heian ojoden.
I am interested in setsuwa literature, the
relationship between Buddhism and the arts, hell and paradise in
Japanese literature.
Chiaki Kotori
Boston College. I am currently pursuing a doctoral degree in
higher education.
I am also seeking some information on Japanese modern history.
Tzvetana
Kristeva
Department of Culture Resources, University of Tokyo
* Tsubetana Kurisutewa. Namida
no shigaku: ōchō bunka no shiteki gengo .
Nagoya daigaku shuppankai, 2001. 475 pp; Namida no katari:
Heian-cho bungaku no tokushitsu. [Narrating tears : discourse in Heian
literature ] (Kokusai nihon bunka senta, 1995), 24p . In Japanese;
Po sledite na chetkata: iaponskata liricheska proza X-XIV
vek (Sophia, Bulgaria, 1994, 1993) 313 p; "A sleeve is not
just a sleeve (in Early Japanese Culture)," Semiotica,
vol. 93, 1993 (3/4), Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 297-314.
Kubota Komei
<kubota[at]kanda.kuis.ac.jp>
Professor of Kanda University of International Studies.
My specialty is ethics, history of Japanese ethical thought.
Publication: Ooken to ren'ai [Kingship and Love],
Pelikan-sha,1993. In Japanese.
Lisa Kuly
I am a PhD candidate at Cornell University. My research focuses on
rituals of childbirth in Japan. From June 2006 to June 2007 I am a
visiting researcher at Bukkyo University, Kyoto.
Lynne
Kutsukake
Japanese studies librarian at the University of Toronto
Library
Christina
Laffin <christina.laffin[at]ubc.ca>
Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia, Department
of Asian Studies [url].
Currently researching Japanese medieval travel diaries by women and the
conditions surrounding their production. Interested in medieval poetic
practices, women's history, and theories of travel, gender, and
autobiography.
* The
Noh Ominameshi: A Flower Viewed from Many
Directions, ed. Mae Smethurst and Christina Laffin (Cornell
Univ East Asia Program, 2003). 362 pp.
* "Women, Travel, and Cultural Production in Japan: A Socio-Literary
Analysis of Izayoi nikki and Towazugatari." PhD dissertation, Columbia
University, 2005.
Robert
André LaFleur <lafleur[at]beloit.edu>
I am an associate professor of East Asian history and anthropology at
Beloit College in Wisconsin, and will be at Waseda University for the
2002-2003 academic year.
Jeroen Lamers
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 Shinchō-Kō ki ("Chronicle of Lord Nobunaga"), the
first and most important Japanese-language biography of Oda Nobunaga.
Koenraad
Lamote
I am a graduate
from the University of Sheffield, department of East Asian Studies
(SEAS). Earned my MA in Advanced Japanese Studies. The focus of my MA
thesis was on the Teaching of Ethics (shuushin) in The Meiji Era. This
study was not based on textbook samples, but rather on the actual
homework produced by the students of that era. To my knowledge, the
above has never been tried before. My main area of interest is
education in Meiji and late Tokugawa periods.
Wayne Lammers
Literary and cultural
translator, Portland, OR, USA. After teaching undergraduate and
graduate Japanese language and literature (mainly classical) for 8
years , I decided to become a freelance translator--initially working
primarily as the translator for Mangajin
magazine. Since the magazine suspended publication, I have worked
broadly on literary, cultural, language education, general business,
and manga materials. My dissertation was on Fujiwara Teika's
experiement with fiction, Matsura no Miya Monogatari.
Most of
my other literary work has been in modern literature, but both in that
work as well as in cultural and manga materials I encounter frequent
need for my premodern expertise. [http://homepage.mac.com/wlammers/]
*The
Tale of Matsura: Fujiwara Teika's Experiment in Fiction
(1992) // trans. of Ooka Shohei, Taken
Captive : A Japanese Pow's Story (1996)// trans.
of Shono Junzo, Still
Life and Other Stories (1992); Evening
Clouds (2000)
Douglas Lanam
I am currently a Ph.D student in Asian Studies at the University of
British Columbia, The main focus of my research is
Meiji-Taisho women's literature.
Andrea Landis
<landisan[at]umich.edu>
I am a Ph.D. student in the Department of Asian Languages and
Cultures at the University of Michigan. My area of interests include
late Edo and early Meiji fiction and book history.
Scott Langton
East Asian Languages
& Literatures, University of Oregon. PhD in Modern Japanese
Literature from Ohio State University (2000). Dissertation research
dealt with jidai shousetsu written in the early 20th century, focusing
on three authors--Nakazato Kaizan, Osaragi Jirō, and Yoshikawa Eiji.
Although my research has focused primarily on modern literature
&
culture, I am interested in pre-modern literature & culture as
well--monogatari, waka, noh, kabuki, renga, haiku, senryū, ukiyo zōshi,
jōruri, etc.
William Lee
<lee[at]msua.ac.jp>
I
am an assistant professor at Minnesota State University-Akita, a branch
campus of the Minnesota State system in Akita, Japan. I teach courses
on Japanese literature, theater, and other aspects of Japanese culture
to mosty American students who come to Akita for one or more semesters
of study. My doctoral research (McGill University, 1996) was on Genroku
Kabuki. Current research interests include kabuki, the folk performing
arts, traditional Japanese architecture, and (not related to the topic
of this list) popular culture.
Elizabeth
Leicester
I am a
doctoral candidate in Japanese history at UCLA, working with Herman
Ooms. My dissertation has the tentative title, "Underclass Prostitution
in Tokugawa Japan: Sexual Economy, Political Discourse, Social
Practice." The chapter on which I am currently working looks at the
establishment of an official pleasure quarter in 1820 Kanazawa as part
of the fiscal reforms of Kaga domain. Using commentaries from various
sectors, including the Confucian scholar of political economy, Kaiho
Seiryo, I look at how prostitution and the sexuality of lower class
women were discussed in the political arena, and what ramifications
this discourse had for policy and practice.
* "Solitary Thoughts: A Translation of Tadano Makuzu's Hitori
Kangae," co-translator. Part I, Monumenta
Nipponica 56:1 (Spring 2001); Part II, Monumenta
Nipponica 56:2 (Summer 2001).
Linda K.
Letten
I am a PhD
candidate at Latrobe University (Melbourne). My supervisor is Dr Raj
Pandey. My area of particular interest is the representation of women
in otogi zoshi in the Muromachi period. Presently,
I am
thinking about periodization, termininology, world views and
historiography. I translated Yokobue Zoshi as part
of my master's thesis several years back (at the U of Hawaii) and would
be interested in knowing what other otogi zoshi
have been translated. I understand that several people have worked on
them as part of their doctoral dissertations.
Jan
Leuchtenberger
Assistant professor of Japanese in the Department of
Language and Literature at the University of Puget Sound, Tacoma. Ph.D.
University of Michigan, 2005.
Robert W.
Leutner <rleutner[at]blue.weeg.uiowa.edu>
Associate Professor of Classical Japanese Language and Literature,
University of Iowa * http://www.uiowa.edu/~asian/faculty/leutner.html
Gregory P.
Levine <gplevine[at]uclink4.berkeley.edu>
I teach in the Dept. of History of Art at the University of California
at Berkeley. My research focuses on premodern Buddhist art and
architecture in Japan, specifically the visual culture of the Zen
Buddhist monastery Daitokuji in Kyoto.
Publications:
"Jukoin: Art, Architecture, and Mortuary Culture at a Japanese Zen
Buddhist Temple." Ph.D. diss., Princeton Univ., 1997. [Dissertation
abstract] // Review: Joseph Parker, Zen Buddhist
Landscape Arts of Early Muromachi Japan (1336-1573). Albany:
State University of New York Press, 1999. Journal of Asian
Studies
58/4 (Nov. 1999):1150-1153; "Switching Sites and Identities: The
Founder's Statue at the Japanese Zen Buddhist Temple Korin'in." The
Art Bulletin. (Forthcoming, Mar. 2001)
http://ls.berkeley.edu/dept/arthistory/levine.html
Michael Lewis
* Professor of History, Michigan State University.
* http://www.isp.msu.edu/AsianStudies/Publications/lewism.htm
Michelle Li
Postdoctoral fellow in
premodern Japanese Literature, Institute of International Studies and
the Department of Asian Languages, Stanford.
I received my Ph.D. in East Asian Studies from Princeton University in
May 2000 with a major in pre-modern Japanese literature and minors in
pre-modern Chinese and Japanese religions with an emphasis on Buddhism,
and pre-modern Japanese history. My focus in recent years has been on
the grotesque and other modes of representation centered on the
physical body in ancient and medieval Japanese literature. I am
especially interested in the places in texts where religion, history,
and literature meet. The book I am close to completing, Unfinalized
Bodies: Reading the Grotesque in Setsuwa Literature, develops
a theory of the grotesque in short tales from the Konjaku
monogatari shū
and other collections compiled between the tenth and fourteenth
centuries. (It is a reworking of my dissertation.) In addition to my
years at Princeton, my academic background includes a master's degree
from Ochanomizu University in Tokyo in modern Japanese literature,
particularly from the Meiji and Taisho- periods. I have also lived and
studied in Beijing, where I began formal training in Chinese. The first
time, in 1989, was during an especially intriguing period, during the
student protests and military crackdown by the government in and around
Tiananmen Square. Chinese language and culture, including Chinese tale
literature and its relationship to Japanese tale literature, remain
side passions of mine.
Daniela Lieb
<unrinin[at]hotmail.com>
Working at the university of cologne, dept. of japanology,
research-field: classical japanese literature, history.
LIM Beng Choo
<jpslimbc[at]nus.edu.sg>
Assistant Professor, Japanese Studies Department, National University
of Singapore.
Field: Premodern Japanese theater, especially noh in the late medieval
period. Current projects: social interactions among noh performers and
other members of late medieval Japan; Interpretation and translation of
noh plays into Chinese and English.
* "Kanze Kojiro Nobumitsu and Furyu Noh: A study of the late Muromachi
noh theater." Ph.D. dissertation, Cornell University, 1977. Abstract
on this site.
Ethan Lindsay
I am a Ph.D. student in the department of Religion at Princeton
University. My focus is Buddhism in premodern Japan, and I
plan to research the stories and practices surrounding "living"
Buddhist statues such as the Seiryoji Shaka.
Scott
Lineberger
PhD student at
Columbia University. For my dissertation I am analyzing the influence
of print culture on early Edo haikai and poetic commentaries,
specifically the works of Kitamura Kigin and Matsunaga Teitoku.
Yukio M.
Lippit <ymlippit[at]princeton.edu>
I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Japanese Art History program at Princeton
University, currently nearing the end of a two-year research stay in
Tokyo (affiliation: University of Tokyo). My dissertation concerns the
rise of an antiquities painting market, the practice of painting
authentication, and the production of the earliest Japanese painting
histories during the late 17th century.
Nicola
Liscutin
[Formally with] German Institute for Japanese Studies, Tokyo
- DIJ Tokyo [www.dijtokyo.org]
Although my interests now are indeed more in modern (contemporary)
women's literature, there are still strong connections (and
lingerings?) of my "premodern period" - a PhD thesis on sekkyobushi
(Cambridge) that needs to be rewritten for publication with Stanford
UP, four years of teaching classical literature at SOAS, a translation
with students of a Hiraga Gennai text that awaits finishing and
editing, PLUS a strong interest in anything that is new and exciting in
premodern literature studies.
Liu Yujen
2002 M.A. in Ming Paintings
and Buddhist Art, Graduate Institute of Art History, National Taiwan
University, now working in the National Palace Museum,Taipei.
Tullio
Lobetti <tullio_lobetti[at]yahoo.it>
MA in Japanese Language and Literature (University of Turin, Turin)
MA in Japanese Religions (SOAS, London)
Currently PhD Student at SOAS, department of Study of Religions
Main Resarch Topic: Ascetic practices in Japan
Other interests: Esoteric Buddhism; Japanese new religious movements;
the concept of "death" and its cross-cultural religious implications.
Angus Lockyer
<al21[at]soas.ac.uk>
Dept of History, SOAS
Lecturer in the History of Japan. My own research and teaching focuses
mainly on the 19th and 20th centuries, but I am also interested in
broader questions of method and interpretation--periodization (early
modernity, the usefulness of the medieval), scale (national as opposed
to local, regional, and world histories), and others.
Karin Lofgren
unaffiliated researcher, architect
My area of research is the Muromachi-Edo period merchant architectural
context of Kyoto. I cover a broad spectrum including politics, social
studies and economy to mention a few ingredients. I particularly
concentrate in the aesthetic ideals among the chonin and how they
formed their architectural surroundings/housing. The different habits
around formal representation and meetings have a central role in my
research, f.ex. how the arts/artifacts and habits around "tea"
transformed the appreciation of space. My Ph.D. dissertation was
presented in 2003 "Machiya - the Architecture and History of the Kyoto
Town House".
I am also practicing architect specialized in wooden constructions.
Work in progress: Editing my thesis into a book.
William Londo
<wfl[at]umich.edu>
I am a Ph.D candidate in Japanese history at the University of
Michigan. The topic of my dissertation is the development of the
religious complex on Mt. Koya in the course of the 11th century. I have
just returned from four years in the Kansai where I did the research
for my dissertation and was part of the editorial staff of the journal Japanese
Religions.
*Bill has kindly provided a "Hobogirin" font with many useful
diacritics for Windows and Macintosh. See the resources
page for instructions and download links.
Tom Looser
Degree in cultural anthropology from Chicago; I currently
teach at McGill.
My research interests include Edo-era theater and cultural history, and
contemporary Japanese culture (including film, anime and new media).
Argentina. My area of interest in Japanese studies is related to literature and oriental philosophy. I am a physician doing some studies on oriental philosophy and Japanese language.
Bryan Lowe
I am a PhD student in the department of Religion at Princeton University. I am interested in interactions between Buddhism and indigenous beliefs in the Nara and Heian periods particularly as seen as an exchange between the capital and the provinces.
Patrick Luhan
<PBL32[at]columbia.edu>
I am a first year graduate student at Columbia University under the
advising of Haruo Shirane. My main area of interest is early modern
Japanese literature. My previous research has focused on kabuki but my
interests extend to issues related to the creation of texts, literary
communities and collective understandings, fantasy, and the interaction
of text and image.
David Lurie <DBL11[at]columbia.edu>
Assistant Professor of Japanese History and Literature
Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University
www.columbia.edu/~dbl11
Ph.D. candidate in Japanese in the Department of Asian Languages at Stanford University.
The working title of my dissertation, which is still in the research stage, is, "Parody of a Classical Japanese Poetry Canon: Interpretation, Contextualization, and Translation." I am looking at the genre called "douke hyakunin isshu" or "mojiri hyakunin isshu" (as well as "hyakunin isshu uso koushaku") which flourished in the 17th-early 19th centuries, but continued even in Meiji and, indeed, still survives today. [keywords in Japanese] I started out principally in modern literature, but my interest in parody and satire took me from contemporary writers such as Ogino Anna to Edo gesaku. Last year I spent ten months studying at Shizuoka University with Konita Seiji, an Edo scholar, who introduced me to Santo Kyoden's work in the Hyakunin Isshu parody genre. I have always had a strong interest in translation, and in 1997 I won the First International Translation Competition in Shizuoka, which took me to Shizuoka University.
Dylan McGee
Princeton, Comparative Literature
Edo Literature and Translation Theory. Canon Formation. Yomihon.
Morishima Churyo, Ueda Akinari, Takebe Ayatari, Santo Kyoden, Kyokutei
Bakin.
Levi McLaughlin
PhD student at the Department of
Religion, Princeton University. I am interested in new religious
movements in the modern era and their connections to premodern
traditions and practices. BA, MA University of Toronto, research
student University of Tokyo 2000-2002, Research Assistant at the
Institute for Japanese Culture and Classics, Kokugakuin University,
2002-2004.
Tamaki Maeda
Ph.D. Candidate, Art History, University of Washington.
I am currently writing my dissertation on Tomioka Tessai (1836-1924),
focusing on his hybridization of yamato-e and literati painting. In the
course of my research, I became interested in the construction of
yamato-e since the Heian period to the modern era.
Lawrence E.
Marceau <l.marceau[at]auckland.ac.nz<
Senior Lecturer in Japanese, University of Auckland
My ongoing research interests include, but are not limited to,
woodblock-printed books and publishing in early modern (Edo/Tokugawa)
Japan, the relationship between literary thought and literary
expression during the early modern period, cultural contacts between
Japan and Yi Dynasty Korea and between Japan and Qing Dynasty China,
the Nagasaki School of Chinese-style painting, the "bunjin" aesthetic
in Japanese arts and letters, wagaku as a poetic movement, and the yomihon
as a prose narrative subgenre.
* Takebe
Ayatari: A Bunjin Bohemian
in Early Modern Japan. Center for Japanese Studies,
University of Michigan Press, 2004.
* The Floating World of Ukiyo-e: Shadows, Dreams and Substance.
Harry N. Abrams, 2001 (contributer).
* "Literati consciousness in early modern Japan: Takebe Ayatari and the
bunjin," PhD thesis, Harvard University,1989. 279p. UMI
* [keywords in Japanese]
Federico
Marcon
I am a PhD candidate in Japanese History at Columbia University,
and expect to receive my degree in May 2007. My dissertation, "The
Names of Nature: Intellectual Communities and Practices of Natural
History in Early Modern Japan," directed by Professor Carol Gluck, is a
history of Japanese honzōgaku
(usually translated as "materia medica" or "pharmacology," but better
described as "natural history" because of its broad scope) in the
Tokugawa period (1603-1867) and reconstructs the social and
intellectual processes that led to the formation and
institutionalization of natural history as an autonomous discipline by
the late-eighteenth century.
My interests are: intellectual and cultural history
of early modern Japan; history of Japan; East Asian history;
comparative intellectual history of Japan and Europe; comparative
social history of knowledge; history and philosophy of science; history
of
philosophy; history of East Asian religions; history of the book.
Elizabeth
Markham
Research
Professor, Center for Research in Ancient Asian Musics, Fulbright
College of Arts and Sciences, University of Arkansas.
I am an ethnomusicologist working in early East Asian Musics,
especially in the deciphering and analysis of the earliest sources -
musical notations and singers' manyoogana
text-copies - for Japanese Court Song. A second interest lies in
historical interrelationships between the Court repertories of Gagaku
and the Temple traditions of Buddhist Chant and their significance for
the development of Japanese music in general. I am also involved in two
collaborative projects: a newly established Ancient Asian Musics
Preservation Project at the Library of Congress and the Tang Music
Project (publication series Music from the Tang Court'
[Cambridge UP]). My most recent paper is entitled "The concept of a
`Basic Melody' in early Japanese court music: evidence in a Buddhist
notation?", in Studia instrumentorum musicae popularis,
ed. Erich Stockmann, Leipzig, June 2000.
Teresa
Martinez Fernandez <teresamarfer[at]yahoo.co.uk>
I am now at SOAS doing an MA in East Asian Literature. My main
interests are Genji Monogatari
and Heian period literature in general. At present I am writing my MA
dissertation on "enclosures", textual appearances of the fence "kaki"
and its variants, as in "kaimami", in some works of the Heian period
and in Kojiki. As an element of this I am presently looking for
information about the Ise priestess and the nature of her office in
relation to the emperor.
Kirk Masden
Kumamoto Gakuen
University. I am not a specialist in premodern studies. My primary
interest is in modern Japanese history, particularly after the Meiji
period. I have a strong interest in Nihonjinron (which often alludes to
premodern Japan) and in that sense am particularly interested in
following the discussions of specialists in premodern studies.
Susan
Matisoff <matis[at]socrates.Berkeley.edu>
Professor of Japanese, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures,
University of California, Berkeley. Main interests: medieval through
early Edo period narrative and dramatic literature, primarily: Heike
Monogatari, Noh, Kowaka-mai and Sekkyo-bushi.
*The
Legend of Semimaru, Blind Musician of Japan
(1978)
Valentina
Marziali
Graduate
student of Japanese in the East Asian Languages And Literatures
Department at "Università La Sapienza di Roma" (Rome,
Italy). My main
interest is in Japanese philology/classical literature and theatre. My
dissertation was on Heike monogatari's historical
episode of
monk Shunkan and the different ways it has been described from XIVth
till XXth century in the various manifestations of Japanese literature
and theatre: war tales, novel, poetry and no, bunraku and kabuki
theatre. I concentrate on translation: in June 2001 I published a
translation in Italian of Shunkan by Kurata
Hyakuzo, Asia Orientale, XVI, pp. 27-98.
Stacie
Matsumoto
Ph.D. candidate in premodern Japanese history and religions at Harvard
University.
Sachiko Matsushita 松下佐智子
PhD candidate, Faculty of Japan Centre, East Asian Studies, The
Australian National University.
I am interested in Japanese classical literature. I am writing my
dissertation, 'A Study of The Tale of Genji focusing on interior
monologue.'
Thomas
McAuley <T.E.McAuley[at]sheffield.ac.uk>
Lecturer in Japanese, School of East Asian Studies, University of
Sheffield, UK.
Research Interests: Classical Japanese linguistics/literature,
especially the nature of the linguistic and literary features used in
prose to convey the author's intended meaning(s) to readers.
Current Activities: At the moment I am engaged in writing a combined Classical
Japanese grammar textbook and reader for Curzon Press and
will be launching a website in May to put 2001 Waka on the Web as part
of the Japan 2001 celebrations.
Publications: "The changing use of honorifics in Japanese literary
texts," in (2001) Language Change in East Asia, Curzon
Press: 47-69
Dan McKee
I am in the first year of a masters/PhD program in Japanese
literature at Cornell University. I am currently working on the Fukutomi
Zōshi Emaki,
and am interested in the conjunctions of the literary and visual arts,
humor and the rise of commoner culture. My interests span from
Muromachi through Edo Japan.
Meredith
McKinney <meredith[at]braidwood.net.au>
Lived in Kyoto for approximately 20 years, and returned to Australia in
1998 to begin a PhD on Saigyo Monogatari at the Japan Centre at the
Australian National University (due for completion late 2001). In 1998
my translation of Saigyo Monogatari ("The
Tale of Saigyo")
came out in the Michigan Papers in Japanese Studies series (no. 25).
I've also translated and published a number of short stories and poems
from the field of modern Japanese literature (one of which, "Ravine",
has won this year's Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Japanese Literary
Translation Prize). Once the thesis is out of the way, I'm contracting
with Penguin Classics to do a new translation of "The Pillow Book".
* The translation of "The
Pillow Book" was published in autumn 2006. It is not yet available in
the U.S. but can be ordered from sites like Amazon.co.uk [link] or Amazon.co.jp. [link]. /ed.
Peter A.
McMillan
Kyorin University, Tokyo.
James
[I.J.] McMullen
University Lecturer in Japanese, University of Oxford; TEPCo
Tutorial Fellow in Japanese, Pembroke College.
* Japanese
Confucianism. Idealism, Protest, and the Tale of Genji: The
Confucianism of Kumazawa Banzan (1619-91)
(Oxford UP, 1999) // Genji
Gaiden : The Origins of Kumazawa Banzan's Commentary on the Tale
of Genji (OUP, 1991)
Christopher M.
Mayo
MA student in Japanese language and literature, Department of East
Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Kansas.
My interests include:
*the development of writing in early Japan
*the history of Japanese law, particularly the penal codes
Lori Meeks
<meeks[at]usc.edu>
Assistant Professor of Buddhism, University of Southern California
My primary area of research is Buddhism in the Heian and Kamakura
periods. I am especially interested in social history, particularly in
the relationships between and among gender roles, family structures,
social class, and Buddhist institutions. My dissertation, which I
defended at Princeton in 2003, was a study of the Kamakura-period
Shingon-Ritsu nuns' revival movement centered at the ancient Nara
nunneries Hokkeji and Chuguji. [2004/9]
Wolfgang
Michel
*Institute of Languages and Cultures / Graduate School of
Social and Cultural Studies, Kyushu University, Fukuoka-City, Japan
http://rc.kyushu-u.ac.jp/~michel/
Midorikawa
Machiko 緑川真知子
I was trained at Waseda University, where my PhD
thesis (2005) was on English translations of Genji monogatari.
I teach Genji monogatari as an adjunct lecturer (hijōkin)
at Waseda University, Kantō Gakuin University, Meiji Gakuin University.
Publications include: "Coming to Terms with the Alien: Translatiions of
Genji Monogatari" (Monumenta Nipponica
58:2 [Summer 2003]) , pp. 193-222.
http://www1.meijigakuin.ac.jp/~mm/research/midorikawa-gyoseki.pdf
Maria
Chiara Migliore
Ph.D.
February 1996, 'Gli statuti dei documenti ufficiali (kushiki
ryō) del
periodo di Nara (710-785),' Istituto Universitario Orientale, Naples.
My main interest is in Japanese literature in Chinese of Nara, Heian
and early Kamakura periods. In this moment I am concentrating in the
utilization of Chinese sources in Kara monogatari and in other works of
early Kamakura period (as for example Mōgyōwaka and
Hyakuei waka).
* Il viaggio a ritroso.Genesi e tipologia dei diari di
viaggio medievali giapponesi. Il Tōkan kikō
(Diario di un viaggio a oriente),
a cura di Maria Chiara Migliore, Napoli, Istituto Universitario
Orientale, Dipartimento di Studi Asiatici, collana "Serie 3",
8, 2002.
This contains the Italian translation of Tōkan kikō,
anonymous, 1242?, with an introduction, appendix and bibliography.
Yulia
Mikhailova <yulia[at]intl.hiroshima-cu.ac.jp>
Professor at Hiroshima City University, Faculty of International
Studies.
Before I moved to Japan in 1996 I was interested in intellectual
history of Tokugawa Japan, in particilar, in Motoori Norinaga, and also
did some research on rites and ceremonies related to the imperial
institution of ancient Japan. At present because I have to teach some
subjects on Russo-Japanese relations, I do research on mutual
Russo-Japanese images through graphic representations. The period of
study is modern, not premodern Japan. But I want to keep in touch with
those scholars who study premodern Japan, as I have some topics
unfinished. I have translated some works of Kada Arimoto, but have not
yet prepared them for publication. I am also happy to know that my old
friend Tom Harper is also a member of PMJS.
Selected Publications: "Motoori Norinaga: Life and Work" , "Social and
Political Ideas of Japan in the Period from 1860s to 1880s" (both in
Russian). Recent articles: Images of Enemy and Self: Russian 'Popular
Prints' of the Russo-Japanese War (Acta Slavica Iaponica, 16, 1998);
Japan and Russia: Mutual Images, 1904-39, in The Japanese and
Europe. Images and Perceptions, ed. by B. Edstrom, Japan
Library, 2000.
Herschel
Miller
Ph.D. candidate in premodern Japanese literature, Columbia University.
My principal areas of interest are: Buddhism in premodern literature,
particularly in relation to gender issues; and henge/henshin
(people transforming into animals, deties, etc. and vice-versa).
Ian Miller
Ph.D. Candidate, Columbia University. Modern cultural and intellectual
history.
Mary Cender
Miller
Ph.D. student in Japanese (Heian studies) at Indiana University
Stephen D.
Miller <smiller[at]asianlan.umass.edu>
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Editor and one of the translators of Partings
at Dawn: An Anthology of Japanese Gay Literatur e
(Gay Sunshine Press, 1996). My interests revolve around a number of
things: literature and Buddhism, classical poetry, the imperial poetry
anthologies, expressions of gay male sentiments in Japanese culture
(lit, film, TV), the thorny problem of translation (how to do it and
doing it), and the teaching of bungo at the university level. I am
(still) working on a manuscript on the relationship between Buddhism
and the sub-genre of waka known as shakkyōka.
Right now my focus is on the "Aishō" book of the Shūishū.
Most recently I've worked on some collaborative translations of a Noh
play (Shunzei Tadanori)
and 7 shakkyōka
with the poet Patrick Donnelly.
Christine
Murasaki Millett <cmmillet[at]fas.harvard.edu>
Ph.D. Candidate at Harvard in the Department of East Asian Languages
and Civilizations.
Areas of interest: Conceptions of death, grief, loss, and pilgrimage in
the premodern Japanese literary ( especially the Genji
Monogatari
and other classical works) and religious traditions. Other interests
include the poetic and religioussignificance of Basho's travel journals
and classical allusions.
Publications: "Bushclover and Moon: A Relational Reading of Oku no
hosomichi", Monumenta Nipponica, Vol.53:3, 1997;
"Inverted Classical Allusions in Higuchi Ichiyo's Takekurabe," US-Japan
Women's Journal (Nichibei Josei Janaru), Vol.14,1998
Jonathan
Mills < <jonzaemon[at]yahoo.co.uk>
I completed a master’s course at Tokyo Gakugei University in
2002,
having written my dissertation on the sources used in the jōruri Kanadehon
Chūshingura. I am currently living in Tokyo and am working on
research concerning the relationship between the Heike
Monogatari and eighteenth-century jūruri. I also participate
in a research group which focuses on transcription of and research
about the kusazōhi genre.
Lynne Miyake
<lmiyake[at]pomona.edu>
Associate Professor of Japanese, Pomona College. My graduate school
training was in Heian nikki bungaku and my dissertation was on a litte
known work, Tonomine Shosho monogatari.
I have since branched out a little and do work on Heian prose
narratives and on poststructuralism, narratology, feminist studies, and
cultural studies.
Avia Belle Moon
I studied Japanese art
at the University of California at Santa Barbara, as well as at
Kanazawa College of Art in Ishikawa Prefecture. I have been studying
the Japanese language for over ten years now. I have been researching
the Heian Period for the last four years and have just completed a
novel. Before that I was a freelance journalist for The Japan Times; I
have written a few articles on Japanese arts and culture, which you may
read, along with the excerpts from my novel at OydsseaPress.
D. Max
Moerman <dmoerman[at]Barnard.edu>
Assistant Professor of Japanese Cultural History Department of Asian
and Middle Eastern Cultures Barnard College, Columbia University
Luke
Morehouse <whysper_seed[at]yahoo.com>
Graduate student of Japanese in the East Asian Languages And
Literatures Department at the University of Colorado, Boulder. I
concentrate on translation and interpretation, but all aspects of
Japanese cultural, social, religious, and literary history interest me.
Recent translation projects include: Gyoga Manroku
(Stray Notes While Lying on My Back) by Masaoka Shiki, and some short
stories by Murakami Haruki.
Laura Moretti
Ph.D. candidate at
Universita' Ca' Foscari di Venezia (Venice, Italy) from April 1999 to
April 2001 at Tokyo University. My field of research is Edo period
literature, focusing at the moment on the development of intertextual
practices within the group of the so-called "nise monogatari" belonging
to the early kanazoshi.
David Moreton
Visiting Assistant Professor at Tokushima Bunri Univeristy, Tokushima,
Japan.
My research area is the Shikoku pilgrimage route with a focus on the
history of charitable giving (osettai), the history of non-Japanese
pilgrims and reasons for the present-day popularity of this pilgrimage
route. My main project at the moment is an English translation of the
'Visiting the Sacred Sites of Kukai: A Preparation Guidebook
for
Walkers of the Shikoku 88-Temple Pilgrimage Route' guidebook and
mapbook.(Shikoku Henro Hitori Aruki Dogyo Ninin). <url>
Hideyuki
Morimoto
University Library, University of California, Berkeley
Field of Research: information and library studies, especially:
informetrics; information retrieval system evaluation; and transborder
flow of information (including retrieval of Japanese studies
information)
Shigeki Moro
<moro[at]ya.sakura.ne.jp>
Ph.D. candidate in Buddhist studies under Dr. Koyu Tamura (Japanese
Buddhism/Tendai Buddhism) and Koitsu Yokoyama (Yogacara Buddhism) at
Toyo University, Tokyo. My dissertation is on the Shugo-kokkai-sho
which is the most comprehensive text of the debates between Saicho and
Tokuitsu. (Hoping to finish up this year!) I am interested in the
Japanese Yogacara school (Hosso-shu), especially its teachings (or
interpretations) on eka-yana (ichijo).
I am also interested in the computerization in the East Asian studies.
I participate in SAT
and INBUDS as
the web master.
Lists of my papers and books are available in Japanese
and English
on: www.ya.sakura.ne.jp/~moro/
Robert E.
Morrell
Prof. Emeritus,
Japanese Literature, Dept. of Asian and Near Eastern Languages and
Literatures, Box 1111, Washington University in St. Louis, MO 63130, USA
Interests: Buddhism in medieval Japanese literature: setsuwa, kana
hogo, shakkyoka, Kamakura's Tokeiji, etc.
Publications: Sand
and Pebbles (Shasekishu) (1985) // Early
Kamakura Buddhism: A Minority Report (1987) //
(with Earl Miner and Hiroko Odagiri), The
Princeton Companion to Classical Literature
(1985) // (with J. Thomas Rimer) Guide
to Japanese Poetry ; articles, reviews, etc.
Samuel C. Morse
<scmorse[at]amherst.edu>
Department of Fine Arts, Amherst College, Amherst, MA
My research focuses on the Buddhist sculpture of the Heian and Kamakura
periods as well as the ritual use of Japanese Buddhist art. With Anne
Nishimura Morse I am author of Object
as Insight--Japanese Buddhist Art and Ritual
(Katonah, NY: Katonah Museum of Art, 1996). I also serve as chair of
the Board of Directors at the Ruth and Sherman Lee Institute for
Japanese Art at the Clark Center in Hanford, California.
Leith Morton <morton
at flc.titech.ac.jp>
Professor, Foreign Language Research and Teaching Center, Tokyo
Institute of Technology. My prime area of interest is from Meiji
onwards but in recent years my research has also included waka (from Man'yooshu
onwards) and haiku.
Publications: Modernism in Practice: An Introduction to Postwar
Japanese Poetry (Honolulu: Univ. of Hawaii Press, 2004) // // Modern
Japan: The Insider View (Melbourne: Oxford Univ. Press, 2003) //
(edited volume) Takamizawa, Junko 'My Brother Hideo
Kobayashi' (Sydney:
Univ. of Sydney East Asian Series & Wild Peony Press, 2001)//
'The Canonization of Yosano Akiko's Midaregami',
Japanese Studies(Australia)
Vol. 20 No.3 (2000), pp.237-254 // 'The Clash of Traditions:
New Style
poetry (Shintaishi) and the Waka Tradition in Yosano Akiko's Midaregami
(1901)' in The Renewal of Song: Renovation in Lyric
Conception and Practice, (eds.) Earl Miner and Amiya Dev
(Calcutta: Seagull Books, 2000), 104-144; "A Two-Legged Mongrel: The
Art of Haikai," Ulitarra No. 8 (1995), pp.124-150;
"Courtly Love in France and Japan: An Introductory Study" in Variete:
Perspectives in French Literature, Society and Culture ed.
Marie Ramsland (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang,1999), pp. 307-324; An
Anthology of Contemporary Japanese Poetry (New
York and London: Garland Publishing, 1993) [O.P.]
* Also, I am current editor of the Journal of the Oriental Society of
Australia and would welcome submissions from pmjs members to our
journal (all submitted articles are subject to anonymous refereeing): Journal
Website
Helen E.
Moss
affiliation = IchiFuji-kai Dance Association, Ltd.
With IchiFuji-kai, I'm a performer and licensed teacher of Japanese
classical dance in the Souke Fujima tradition, and also lecture at
workshops and performances. As an independent scholar, I'm
interested in history, Kabuki theatre, costumes and costuming, makeup,
kimono dressing and sewing, fans and props, textile design and
production, etc.
Joshua Mostow
<jmostow[at]interchange.ubc.ca>
Professor, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
I work in the areas of premodern Japanese literature and art.
Particular interests include: inter-art relations (between poetry and
painting); Heian nikki;
issues of gender and sexuality in Heian and Edo periods; reception
history and cultural nationalism. My current project is a reception
history of the Ise monogatari, with particular attention to the
illustrative tradition--from the Heian period up to manga.
For list of publications, etc., please see
http://www.arts.ubc.ca/asian/faculty/mostow_pers.html
* At
the House of Gathered Leaves: Shorter Biographical and
Autobiographical Narratives from Japanese Court Literature
(Hawaii, 2004). 211 pp // Pictures
of the Heart: The Hyakunin Isshu in Word
and Image (Hawaii, 1996).
Paul Murphy
I am a journalist for the English-language Asahi Shimbun in Tokyo with
a strong interest in Japanese religion and politics.
Mari Nagase
<marihs47[at]hotmail.com>
Ph.D candidate, Department of Asian Studies, University of British
Columbia. Currently engaged in completing my dissertation, which
discusses the emergence of women kanshi writers in the late Edo period,
particularly introducing works of Hara Saihin, Ema Saiko, and Takahashi
Gyokusho.
I have recently been hired as Assistant Professor of East Asian History at Francis Marion University in Florence, South Carolina. I continue as a membre associé at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Centre de Recherches Historiques (EHESS/CRH) in Paris. As a former member of the EurAsian Project for Population and Family History, much of my work in the last 5 years has been in the family and demographic history of early modern (kinsei) Japan. I also work on labor and business using "hokonin ukejo"and other related documents. At present I have several projects in progress. I am working on the demography of several Kyoto neighborhoods around 1820-1870 using "Shumon aratame cho." I also use this type of document for Kyoto and other areas asavailable to research name changing and its relation to family, work and community structures. My latest project is a case study of an inheritance case in Kyoto 1819-1834 involving an adopted heir, a divorced wife and her son, one or more concubines (mekake) and their children and the suit brought by the former concubine against the new head in the magistrates court. There appears also to be a connection to the Eta Hinin and early developments in their emancipation. Another area I do not focus on much for research, but has proved an interesting supplementary source is katarimono from the kabuki tradition Tokiwazu school.
Mary Louise Nagata, Labor Contracts and Labor Relations in Early Modern Central Japan (London and New York: Routledge-Curzon 2005).
Other recent publications:
(1998) "Name changing patterns and the stem family in early modern Japan: Shimomoriya," in Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux and Emiko Ochiai eds HOUSE AND THE STEM FAMILY IN EURASIAN PERSPECTIVE/Maison et famille-souche: perspectives eurasiennes, Proceedings of the C18 Session Twelfth International Economic History Congress, pp. 291-319; (1998) co-author with Chiyo Yonemura, "Continuity, solidarity, family and enterprise: What is an IE?"in Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux and Emiko Ochiai eds HOUSE AND THE STEM FAMILY IN EURASIAN PERSPECTIVE/Maison et famille-souche: perspectives eurasiennes, Proceedings of the C18 Session Twelfth International Economic History Congress, pp. 193-214, // (1999) "Why Did You Change Your Name? Name Changing Patterns and the Life Course in Early Modern Japan," THE HISTORY OF THE FAMILY An International Quarterly, Volume 4, Number 3, pp. 315-338; (1999) "Balancing Family Strategies with Individual Choice: Name Changing in Early Modern Japan," JAPAN REVIEW, 11, pp. 145-166; (2001) "Labor Migration, Family and Community in Early Modern Japan," in Pamela Sharpe ed. WOMEN, GENDER, AND LABOR MIGRATION, London and New York: Routledge Press.[Published June, 2001] // Forthcoming, "Family Strategies in Stem Family Businesses in Ealry Modern Kyoto, Japan," in Eugenio Sonnino ed. LIVING IN THE CITY, Universita di Roma, La Sapienza; Forthcoming, "Leaving the Village for Labor Migration in Early Modern Japan," in Franz van Poppel and Michel Oris eds LEAVING HOME IN EURASIAN PERSPECTIVE, (NIDI? or Cambridge).
Kate Wildman
Nakai <kw-nakai[at]hoffman.cc.sophia.ac.jp>
Professor of Japanese History, Sophia University, and Editor, Monumenta Nipponica.
I teach premodern Japanese history in the Faculty of Comparative
Culture, Sophia University, and since 1997 have served as editor of
Monumenta Nipponica. Most of my time these days seems to be taken up
with matters related to the journal, but I continue to have a primary
interest in intellectual history, particularly various dimensions of
the reception of Confucianism in Japan and the ongoing reinterpretation
of the kamiyo myths.
Publications: trans. of Women
of the Mito Domain: Recollections of Samurai Family Life
by Yamakawa Kikue (Univ. of Tokyo, 1992) // Shogunal
Politics : Arai Hakuseki and the Premises of Tokugawa Rule
(1988) [*Japanese*]
Ellen
Nakamura
Lecturer in Japanese, University of Aukland, New Zealand. [url]
Haruko
Nakamura
Japanese cataloger and subject librarian.
Tamah
Nakamura
Kyushu University, International Student Center
Education: M.Ed., M.A. (Human Development); Ph.D. (candidate in Human
and Organizational Systems, Fielding Graduate Institute)
Courses taught: Gender and Contemporary Japan, Gender in a Comparative
Perspective, Intercultural Communication, Movement Education Part-time
lecturer for both international (one year abroad program) and Japanese
students.
Nakamura
Yasuo
My field of research is historical tales (rekishi
monogatari)
but I am interested in a variety of texts with a strong historical
flavor, from historical documents and diaries, to war tales (gunki). In
the case of waka, this means I find kodai waka are of greater interest.
I read The Tale of Genji as a monogatari which has
many
historical elements. My main research on Japanese literature, however,
in terms of an actual work, I do anything to do with databases of
Japanese literature. In particular I am recently more involved in
making databases out of actual old materials (kotenseki)
than in creating full-text databases. Please do look at the Koten
collection series published by Iwanami.
Profile
at NIJL [link in Japanese at top of page]
Chieko Nakano
<chiekon[at]u.arizona.edu>
Ph. D student , East Asian Studies, The University of Arizona,
areas of interest: art, religion, and popular culture in medieval
Japan.
Steven G.
Nelson <snelson[at]i.hosei.ac.jp>
Professor, Department of Japanese, Hōsei University.
After undergraduate study in musicology at the University of Sydney, I
came to Japan in 1980 and have been here since. Graduate work at
Tookyoo Geijutsu Daigaku (Tookyoo National University of Fine Arts and
Music); archival work for many years at the Research Archives for
Japanese Music of Ueno Gakuen University (Tookyoo). I began with a
vague interest in the early music notations of gagaku; this has
expanded to a broad interest in the pre-Meiji history of the
non-theatrical classical musical arts, especially gagaku, shoomyoo,
heike-biwa and jiuta-sookyoku (koto/shamisen music). I work mainly with
primary sources (music notations and writings on music in the broades
sense). After four years as Associate Professor at the Research Centre
for Japanese Traditional Music, Kyooto City University of Arts, in
April 2004 I took up the position of Professor in the Department of
Japanese, Hosei University, Tookyoo, where I teach undergraduate and
postgraduate classes on Japanese music history, the traditional
performing arts, and the translation of Japanese classical literature
into English. My 2004 undergraduate seminar focusses on literary and
musical studies of the Heian-period saibara repertoire. Other major
fields of interest include Heian-period diaries, ceremony and ritual in
the Tendai and Shingon sects, and medieval setsuwa and gunki
literature.
Laura Nenzi
Ph.D. candidate in Japanese history, University of California Santa
Barbara [Professor Luke Roberts].
Currently working on a dissertation about female travelers in the Edo
period. From January 2001 to August 2001 I was a foreign researcher at
the Historiographical Institute, University of Tokyo. I did my
undergraduate studies at the University of Venice, Italy, with Prof.
Adriana Boscaro.
Jamie Newhard
<jamie.newhard[at]asu.edu>
Arizona State University
Ph.D (Columbia University). Dissertation on medieval and early modern Ise
monogatari (and to a lesser extent Genji monogatari)
scholarship, focusing on commentators' handling of genre issues.
Jeff Newmark
Working on medieval
texts with David Bialock at the University of Southern California.
Translated selections from the Enkyō-bon variant of Heike.
David Neilson
I am a Ph.D. student
at the University of Oregon studying under Andrew Goble. My MA thesis
was a reexamination of the last decade of the life of Toyotomi
Hideyoshi. Specifically, I was attempting to discover aspects of his
personal life which may have contributed to his decline in his final
years. My primary interests lie in the Sengoku period and I anticipate
that my dissertation will deal with aspects of the process of
unification.
Kai Nieminen
<kaiminen[at]megabaud.fi>
Finnish translator & poet. Born in 1950.
Discovery of Japanese literature 1971. No academic curriculum, because
no teaching of written Japanese nor Japanese literature available in
Finland at that time. Private studies, the slow and rocky road. Japan
Foundation Fellowship in Japan 1979-80. Since 1975 published some 30
translations of Japanese literature, both classical, eg. Tsurezuregusa,
first third of Genji monogatari (working on the
rest right now), Basho's travelogues and haibun
prose, poetry by Ikkyu and Ryokan, some no and kyogen plays; and
modern, like -- to drop names -- Kokoro by Soseki, Sasameyuki
by Tanizaki, Tsugaru by Dazai, Tenohira
no shosetsu by Kawabata, Kitchen
by Yoshimoto. I'll send a complete bibliography to Michael Watson
although I'm unhappy to know it won't serve you much -- all my
translations are into Finnish. My basic interest lies in classics, but
time and again I've been flirting with modern literature, too.
13
books of poetry in Finnish. A collection translated into English
("Serious Poems", by Anselm Hollo; published by Rain Taxi, June 2000);
a selection translated into Japanese ("Mori de dare ka ga...", by
Jun'ichir kura; published by Honda kikaku, April 2000).
*lengthier bibliography
online
Akihiko
Niimi <zheyan[at]mx2.ttcn.ne.jp>
I am studying Japanese literature at Waseda University graduate school,
and teaching Japanese at Waseda Koutou Gakuin high school. My main
interest is the changes in monogatari texts and the history of
"kochūshaku". I am currently working on textual criticism of Utsuho
monogatari and Genji monogatari.
Web pages: kokugo
no jikan Genji monogatari kochūshaku data base: www.nijl.ac.jp/~t.ito/kinoshita/index.html
Takashi Nishiyama
<tnishiya[at]mit.edu>
Currently I am a postdoctoral fellow at the Dibner Institute
for the History of Science and Technology, MIT (completed Ph. D from
the Ohio State Univ). My research area is the history of modern Japan,
with an emphasis on the social history of technology during the 20th
century. I am interested in how the rise/demise of the imperial empire
influenced technology transfer in Japan before, during, and after World
War II. As a case study, I look at how and why the Japanese engineering
community responsible for wartime kamikaze aircraft (such as the Zero
fighter) was reborn as the creators of the Bullet Train.
Sachie
Noguchi
Formerly Japanese Bibliographer and Coordinator of the Japan
Information Center (http://www.library.pitt.edu/libraries/jic/jic.html),
East Asian Library, University of Pittsburgh. Also Co-director of the
Japanese Text Initiative (http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/japanese).
Now at Columbia University.
Peter Nosco
<peter.nosco[at]ubc.ca>
University of British Columbia (Asian Studies).
BA Columbia 1971; BA/MA (hon) Cambridge Univ. 1973/77; PhD Columbia
1978.
I work on the intellectual and social history of Edo-period Japan, with
interests in Confucianism, nativism, popular culture, underground
religious movements, and the construction of personal and collective
identity. Since 2003 I am Professor of Asian Studies at UBC and Head of
that Department.
Denise
O'Brien
Dept. of Anthropology, Temple University, Philadelphia.
I am a cultural anthropologist (Ph.D., Yale, 1969). I taught at our
Tokyo campus (Temple University Japan) from 1985-91. I have been
working on Heian culture and liteature, especially 10th/11th C women's
writings, for the last several years. For more details check our dept. web page.
I also am co-founder and manager (with Ted Bestor) of EASIANTH, an
electronic discussion group for anthropologists interested in East Asia.
*home page: http://www.temple.edu/anthro/dob.html
Yasuhiko Ogawa
<ogw5ootori[at]topaz.dti.ne.jp>
Professor, Department of Japanese Literature, College of
Literature, Aoyama Gakuin University
My main areas of research are the study of "Man'yoshu", the history of
classical scholarship in Japan, and Japanese bibliography (especially
about ancient scrolls). I am currently undertaking: 1) studies of
"Man'yoshu" as an ancient scroll (investigation into its manuscripts,
research into form and presentation of ancient Chinese and Japanese
scrolls, restoration of its original book, explanation of its editorial
method and political intention, and a study of its historical
significance), 2) investigation into annotated books of "Man'yoshu" and
learned books about "Man'yoshu" written from the 10th to 19th century,
so as to explain the history of classical scholarship in Japan, 3)
re-intepretation of poems in "Man'yoshu" from an historical viewpoint.
研究分野:『萬葉集』および萬葉学史(古典学史)、古代巻子本の書誌学的・書物史的研究。現在、『萬葉集』の伝本の歴史的検討、7〜8世紀の日本の書物文
化における画期的事件としての『萬葉集』の捉え直し、装丁・料紙・書をも含めての『萬葉集』原本(巻子本)の復元を進めている。
*A Study of Sanjonishi Sanetaka's Own Handwriting "Ichiyosho" (a
classed book of "Man'yoshu" compiled by Sanetaka in the 15th century).
Ed. Group for the Study of "Man'yoshu" in the Medieval Period (a joint
work). Tokyo: Kasama Shoin, 1997. *'Dori' (Essence of Things)
and 'Monsho' (Visible Traces of Acts): Sengaku's Intellect in
"Man'yoshu
Chushaku [Annotated Book of "Man'yoshu"]." Man'yoshu Kenkyu vol.23
(1999). *"The Layout of the Original Book of "Man'yoshu": The Height of
Waka Poem and its Preceding Explanation." Journal of Faculty of
Humanities (Japan Women's University) 51 (2002).
Mieko Okamoto
<mjo6[at]columbia.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.
David Olson
Technical translator. Translated text for the CD-ROM "Kokuhou
Butsuzou" ("Buddhist Images: A Guide to National Treasures of
Japan")
Keiko Ono
Princeton University, East Asian Studies
Lecturer in bungo and kambun.
I currently also offer the Reading course for Japanese in Academic
Style.
Herman Ooms
I teach Tokugawa History at the University
of California, Los Angeles. I was encouraged to join pmjs by former
students, especially since my current research (previously anchored in
what could be argued to be Early-Modern Japan) has shifted to a
decidedly pre-modern time period: seventh- and eighth-century Japan,
where I am researching, speading a rather wide net, matters related to
ideology: ceremonies, kami affairs, Daoist elements and the like.
* home page
at UCLA
Elizabeth Oyler
Assistant Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and
Cultures, University of
Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Area of specific interest: Heike monogatari
& medieval narrative.
Publications: Swords,
Oaths, and Prophetic Visions: Authoring Warrior Rule in Medieval Japan.
Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2006. [abstract
and chapter 1 at Press] //
"Daimokutate: Placatory Ritual and the Genpei War."
Forthcoming, Oral
Tradition; "Giō: Women and Performance in the Heike Monogatari."
Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 64.2 (December, 2004), 341-366; "The
Heike in
Japan." Oral Tradition.
18.1 (March 2003), 18-20. [Project
Muse]
David
Pacun
Assistant Prof. of Music Theory, Ithaca College
Currently researching the music Yamada Kosaku performed, published and
composed (for Michio Ito) during his visit to the US (1917-1919).
Pedro P.
Palazzo de Almeida
Student, School of Architecture, University of Maryland
I have begun studying Japanese architecture in 1999, and plan on doing
more consistent research as my proficiency in the Japanese language
improves. My main area of interest is the architecture of the Yayoi,
Kofun/Asuka and Hakuhou periods, especially concerning religious
buildings.
Published with Assistant Professor Sandy Kita the Course
Packet for Arts of Asia (Fall 2001 edition). Course
Packet for Arts of Japan (Spring 2002 edition) is in the
works, also in collaboration with same professor.
Jesse Palmer
affiliation = University of California at Irvine
I am in my third year in UC Irvine's Department of East Asian Languages
and Literatures, East Asian Critical Studies emphasis, working on
transnational Buddhist communities in East Asia. My research
focuses on the interaction between Japanese and Chinese Buddhism and
the deployment of the signifier of Chinese-ness in Japan from
Nara-Heian period through the Kamakura. Within this
framework, I am particularly interested in the travel narratives of the
Japanese monks and the way these were utilized in Japan, the material
culture and the exchange of goods that accompanied the various
diplomatic and religious missions from Japan to China, as well as
issues of orthography, particulary the kanbun/kana dichotomy.
Raj Pandey
I am senior lecturer in
Japanese Studies at La Trobe University in Melbourne. I recently
published a book on the works of Kamo no Choumei. The book is entitled Writing
and Renunciation in Medieval Japan . I am
currently working on representations of women in medieval writing. I am
focusing on women's sexuality, the notions of fujou
( impurity), itsutsu no sawari
and so on in order to understand how women's potential for Buddhist
enlightenment came to be articulated. I shall concentrate on setsuwa
literature and the various ojouden. I would very much appreciate
feed-back and suggestions.
*home
page
Antje
Papist-Matsuo <antjepapist[at]aol.com>
I work and teach as a research associate at the newly established
department of East Asian Art History at the Fine Arts Institute at the
Freie Universität Berlin. Currently I'm doing research on the
typological development of negoro lacquerware as topic of my PhD thesis
(advisor Prof. Roger Goepper, Cologne). I'm also interested in the
applied arts of Edo period and Japanese art after WW II (Gutai and
later).
Publications: (entries on Japanese lacquers, ceramics, prints and sword
fittings): Staatliche Museen zu Berlin/Preussischer Kulturbesitz
(Hrsg.), Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst Berlin,
München/London/New York 2000. (English version Museum
of East Asian Art Berlin,
Munich/London/N.Y. 2001) (with Khanh Trinh); "Modernes
Mäzenatentum.
Klaus Friedrich Naumann und das Museum für Ostasiatische
Kunst, SMPK,
Berlin", Ostasiatische Zeitung, Neue Serie, Nr. 1,
Frühjahr
2001, S. 8-21; "In neuem Glanz. Ein schwarz lackierter
Speisebehälter mit Perlmutter-Dekor aus dem frühen
18. Jahrhundert", Ostasiatische Zeitung, Neue Serie,
Nr. 2, Herbst 2001, S. 25-34.
Helen Sian
Elizabeth Parker <Helen.Parker[at]ed.ac.uk>
I am a Lecturer in Japanese in the School of Asian Studies at the
University of Edinburgh. My main area of interest is the traditional
performing arts and the relationships between them. I am also
interested in the use of multimedia resources in research on Japanese
theatre. I am nearing completion of my current project, Progressive
Traditions, which is a monograph and accompanying CD ROM on
relationships between noh, kabuki and bunraku, examining the treatment
of the Funa Benkei and Ataka/Kanjincho plots in these genres with
reference to their historical background and contemporary performance.
I maintain a website, Japanese
Theatre in the 21st Century
and a related e-mail discussion list (see website for details). Both
are intended for people interested in Japanese theatre as academics,
performers, theatre-goers or any combination thereof.
Ingrid J.
Parker
Associate
Professor of English & Foreign Languages (retired) at Norfolk
State
University (VA) and author of mysteries set in 11th century Japan.
My undergraduate background is from Germany (I read and write German),
my graduate degrees from the U.S. None of it involved Japanese studies.
I began research into 11th century Japan about 20 years ago because of
a professional interest in the literature. However, by the mid-eighties
I was reading for background for historical mystery novels set in Heian
Japan. I know little Japanese and read only translations. My current
interests pertain broadly to the culture and history of the period. I'm
trying to learn as
much as I can. My academic research/publication is on the poet Shelley.
The fiction is listed below:
Short stories:
"Instruments of Murder" (Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine Oct. 97);
"The Curio Dealer's Wife" (AHMM Nov. 97); "A Master of Go" (AHMM Dec.
98); "Akitada's First Case" (AHMM July/August 99) Shamus Award winner
in 2000; "Rain at Rashomon" (AHMM Jan. 2000); "The New Year's Gift"
(AHMM April 2001); "Welcoming the Paddy God" (AHMM Dec. 2001), and two
other stories are scheduled for publication in 2002.
Novels: Rashomon Gate* (June 2002, St. Martin's Press); The Hell Screen
(Spring 2002, St. Martin's Press).
* the title was chosen by the publisher!
Kendal
Korach Parker
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Department of Asian Art
Research interests include Genji-e and Muromachi through Edo period
Buddhist temple painting programs.
S. Lyle Parker
Ph.D candidate, Philosophy Department, Gakushuin University.
My field is Japanese intellectual history focussing upon the
development of warrior thought -- both ethical and strategic. I am
currently researching buke kakun from the Kamakura period through
Sengoku. My other research interests include oraimono, and the
transmission history of Chinese military thought in Japan.
Emanuel
Pastreich <epast[at]uiuc.edu>
Assistant professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures,
University of Illinois, Urbana, IL
Emanuel Pastreich works on 18th century Japanese literature,
particularly novels. His dissertation concerned the reception of
Chinese vernacular narrative in Korea and Japan (17-19 century). He has
spent almost six years doing research in Japan, two years in Korea and
one year in Taiwan. His work emphasizes a comparative approach to
pre-modern Japanese literature that takes into account literature in
the rest of East Asia. He has been assistant professor of Japanese
literature at the University of Illinois for two years.
Rachel Payne
Lecturer, Department of Asian Studies, University of Canterbury, New
Zealand.
D.Phil. (Oxford) on Theatre Reform in Meiji Kabuki completed in
December 2001
Field: Japanese drama and cultural history
Current project: History of Japanese theatre patronage, Noh masks in
Western collections, Meiji theatre reforms.
Tim
Pennington <tim[at]timpenn.com>
I'm a grad student in Japanese linguistics at UW-Madison, interested
mostly in Japanese pedagogy. I was in Japan for about four and a half
years, working a variety of jobs from day labor to technical
translation.
George
Perkins
Associate Professor at Brigham Young University. Ph.D. from Stanford
back when Leland was still alive.
My area of specialty is Medieval Japanese literature, I guess. My
translation of Masukagami
finally appeared last year. I'm thinking about maybe doing a
translation of "Heiji monogatari" next (with a colleague at Waikato
University in New Zealand, Mike Roberts) if we finally decide no one
else is already doing it, and the dissertation out of Berkeley is not
to be published finally. (If any of you know, please let me know.)
*The
Clear Mirror: A Chronicle of the Japanese Court During the
Kamakura Period (1185-1333) (Stanford, 1998).
Lynette
Perkins
My PhD is in Political Science, but I am currently doing a
translation (J to E) that has led me to research Edo period authors.
Gian Piero
Persiani <gp2029[at]columbia.edu>
PhD student at Columbia University. Interests include premodern poetry
and poetics, social history, philosophy of language, theory of
literature.
Gregory
M. Pflugfelder
Assistant Professor, EALAC/History, Columbia University
Publications: // Seiji to daidokoro: Akita-ken joshi sanseiken
undōshi (1986) // "Strange Fates: Sex, Gender, and Sexuality
in Torikaebaya Monogatari" (MN 47.3, 1992) // Cartographies
of Desire: Male-Male Sexuality in Japanese Discourse,
1600-1950 (Univ. of California Press, Sept., 1999)
Quitman E. Phillips
Professor of Japanese Art History at
the University of Wisconsin-Madison specializing in the late medieval
period. My focus has recently shifted from the Kano and Tosa schools
toward art related to popular religious practices.
Major publication: The Practices of Painting in Japan,
1475-1500 (Stanford, 2000)
Alexander Philippov
*St-Petersburg, Russian Federation.
Joan Piggott
Gordon L. Macdonald
Professor of Pre-1600 Japanese History & Director of the
Project
for Premodern Japan Studies. History Department. University of Southern
California. I work in the areas of classical kingship, church-state
relations, family and gender history, temple/estate history, and
urbanism. I have recently published The
Emergence of Japanese Kingship and "Chieftain
Pairs and Corulers: Female Sovereignty in Early Japan" in Tonomura,
Walthall, & Wakita eds., Women
and Class in Japanese History .
Dorothy Ko, JaHyun Haboush, and I are editing a volume of essays on
gender and Confucianism in premodern East Asia; and I am currently
working on two additional volumes--a new edition of Richard Miller's Japan's
First Bureaucracy and a volume of translated and annotated
historical essays tentatively entitled, Capital and
Countryside in Early and Classical Japan, 500-1200. I have
also completed a translation of the Shin sarugakuki
that I plan to publish with several essays concerning aspects of Heian
urbanism circa the year 1000. I wish that I could say the latter would
be ready in the second millenial year but I fear that would be too
optimistic.
Adrian
Pinnington
Waseda University.
Noel
Pinnington <noelp[at]U.Arizona.edu>
affiliation = Kyushu University and University of Arizona
Asst Professor of Japanese Literature, Department of East Asian
Studies, University of Arizona, Tucson. [Now
Research Interests: Pre-modern Japanese intellectual and literary
history.
Teaching: Pre-modern Japanese literature and language.
Work in progress: Death in the Japanese Literary Tradition.
Publications:
Traces in the Way: Michi
and the Writings of Komparu Zenchiku, Forthcoming from
Cornell East Asia Series.
A handbook of approaches
to teaching about Japan to non-Japanese, (co-edited with
Richard Bowring), Kyushu University Press, 2001.
"Crossed Paths: Zeami's transmission to Zenchiku," Monumenta Nipponica,
52:2 Summer 1997. [JSTOR]
"Invented origins: Muromachi interpretations of okina sarugaku," Bulletin of the School of
Oriental and African Studies, 61:3, 1998. [JSTOR]
* URL
at Department of Contemporary Asian Cultural Research, Kyushu
University.
Morgan
Pitelka <mpitelka[at]oxy.edu>
Assistant Professor, Asian Studies and History, Occidental College, Los
Angeles
My focus is Japanese history, particularly premodern Japan and its
modern afterlives. I am currently working on two projects. The first is
a monograph, tentatively titled Tokugawa Ieyasu: Shogun, Deity,
National Hero, focusing on three interconnected stories: the cultural
and social practices of Tokugawa Ieyasu; the social lives of objects he
collected in the Tokugawa period; and Tokugawa Yoshichika's founding of
the Tokugawa Art Museum in 1935. The second project is an edited volume
titled Alternative Histories of the Samurai: Cultural and Social
Practices of "Warriors" in Premodern Japan.
Publications: Morgan Pitelka. Handmade Culture: Raku Potters,
Patrons, and Tea Practitioners in Japan. University of
Hawai'i Press, 2005. Morgan Pitelka, ed. Japanese Tea
Culture: Art, History, and Practice. RoutledgeCurzon, 2003.
Jan Mrazek and Morgan Pitelka, eds. Situating Asian 'Art
Objects' in Ritual, Performance, and the Everyday.
Under advance contract to the University of Hawai’i Press.
Morgan
Pitelka. "Tea Taste: Patronage and Collaboration among Tea Masters and
Potters in Early Modern Japan." Early Modern Japan: An
Interdisciplinary Journal.
Fall-Winter, 2004; "Raku Ceramics: Tradition and Cultural
Reproduction in Japanese Tea Practice, 1574-1942," Ph.D. diss.,
Princeton University, 2001. [abstract`]
*Japanese*
URL: http://employees.oxy.edu/mpitelka/
Miika
Pölkki
I am a graduate student at the University of Helsinki. I am
researching the patterns of associative thinking in classical Japanese
literature (main text being Makura no sōshi). Main
research interest: Classical literature, Edo-period parodies of
classical texts, and general theory of poetics
David Pollack
University of Rochester
Currently working on a project, provisionally entitled "POWER,
SPECTACLE, THEATER, STAGE DESIGN, URBAN DESIGN," examining the
relationship between the city of Edo and the art and theater that
reproduced it -- not merely the city on stage and in art and lit, but
the city AS stage and art and lit.
*Reading
Against Culture : Ideology and Narrative in the Japanese
Novel (1992); The
Fracture of Meaning : Japan's Synthesis of China from the
Eighth Through the Eighteenth Centuries (1986, O.P.); Zen
Poems of the Five Mountains (1985)
www.courses.rochester.edu/pollack
Clare Pollard
<cpollard[at]cbl.ie>
Curator of the East Asian Collections, The Chester Beatty Library,
Dublin (www.cbl.ie)
My doctoral research was on Makuzu Kozan and Meiji ceramics, but I am
now particularly interested in Edo period emaki and
ehon and illustrated printed books.
Michael Pye <pye[at]staff.uni-marburg.de>
Professor of the Study of Religions at Marburg University, Germany,
until retirement in 2004. Guest Professor at Otani University, Kyoto
(2005-2008). Sometime President of the International Association for
the History of Religions (IAHR, 1995-2000). BA/MA Cambridge Univ.,
England, PhD Leeds Univ., England, Dr Theol h.c. Univ. of Helsinki,
Finland. Main fields of interest: Buddhist studies, history of Japanese
religions, contemporary Japanese religions, comparative study of
religions. Not an expert in pmjs, but a learner. Books very broadly
relevant to the list: Skilful
Means, A Concept in Mahayana Buddhism (2nd ed. Routledge
2004), translations from Tominaga Nakamoto (1715-46) in: Emerging from Meditation
(Duckworth and Univ. of Hawaii Press 1990).
Aragorn Quinn
I am an MA candidate in Japanese at the University of
Massachusetts, Amherst. I am currently researching Japanese-English
translation and translation theory.
Charles
J. Quinn <quinn.3[at]osu.edu>
East Asian Languages & Literatures
The Ohio State University
History of Japanese, teaching early texts/language; present-day
language pedagogy
Situated Meaning: Inside and Outside in Japanese Self, Society
and Language (ed. with Jane M. Bachnik, Princeton 1994),
articles on historical topics.
Hari
Raghavacharya
Dept. of Japanese Literature, Faculty of Letters, Hokkaido University
Phd candidate in Japanese philology. Currently engaged in completion of
my dissertation on "Philological study of Tsurayukishu". Compiled a
database of major manuscripts of TSURAYUKISHU, kana by kana, recording
errors (individual and collective) in manuscripts compared against a
base manuscript. Areas of interest, Waka, Classical dictionaries.
Robert B. Rama
< rrama[at]umich.edu>
I am a PhD candidate at University of Michigan doing research at the
University of Tokyo on the reception and adaptation of Wang Yangming
thought in Japan. I will examine the close connection between Tokugawa
studies of Chinese social philosophies and the traces of medieval Zen
poetics first formulated by Shunzei and Teika (among others) that
continued to serve as a vital force in the primary education of
urban-based thinkers in the early Tokugawa period. Literature and
philosophy were not distinctly separate enterprises for thinkers as
Sorai and Jinsai, and this is true as well for thinkers such as Banzan
and Miwa Shissai, who were interested in Yangming thought. Shissai's
translation of Yangming's work, bearing as it does the mark of an
education centered on poetics, thus provides an example of how ethical
and aesthetic ideals did not operate independently in the Tokugawa
period.
* Liars Monks and Tengu: A Graded Reader for Students of
Japanese. Crestec Publications, 1988.
Fabio
Rambelli
* Department of Cultural Studies , Sapporo University
* http://www.semioticon.com/people/rambelli.htm
Esperanza
Ramirez-Christensen
Associate Professor of Japanese Literature, Dept. of Asian Languages
and Cultures, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
*Heart's
Flower : The Life and Poetry of Shinkei (1994)
Christian
Ratcliff
I'm in the Ph.d program at Yale. I am working on the nature of cultural
commodification in the medieval period, especially the relations
between literary and non-literary pursuits (right now, kemari).
My focus is on the thirteenth-century figure Asukai Masaari.
Eric Rath
I am assistant professor of premodern Japanese history at the
University of Kansas. My speciality is late medieval and early modern
(16th-18th centuries) cultural history broadly defined to include the
performing arts, thought and food. I am currently completing a
manuscript on the professionalization of noh theatre from the time of
Zeami to the modern period focusing on how ritual, myths, and secret
writings have helped to form the ethos of the noh profession. My next
project is on secret writings and popular discourse on food in the
early modern period. I have studied and perform noh dance and chanting,
shoulder-drum (kotsuzumi), and nagauta shamisen.
*See longer bio. with bibliography at University of Kansas [url]
Vyjayanthi Ratnam see Vyjayanthi Ratnam Selinger
Rein Raud
Professor of Japanese Studies (University of Helsinki, Finland) and
Acting Professor of Asian and Cultural Studies (Estonian Institute of
Humanities, Tallinn, Estonia). The "cultural studies" mean what the
words initially meant and not what they have come to mean.
Main research interests: classical literature, worldviews and history
of ideas, general theory of culture. My book The Role of
Poetry in Classical Japanese Literature (Tallinn, 1994) deals
with the poetic language of the Kokinshū and with
its influence on the initial stages of development of Japanese prose.
*The Role of Poetry... (Tallinn, Estonia: Eesti
Humanitaarinstituut, 1994) was reviewed in German by Klaus Vollmer in
NOAG 153 (1993),113-116.
Jacob Raz <razjac[at]post.tau.ac.il>
at present: chairman, dept. east asian studies, tel aviv university
[nearly 500 students of japanese and chinese studies, including
languages]
B.A. tel aviv university, asian philosophy
M.A. tel aviv university, japanese aesthetics
PhD studies, Waseda University; PHD, tel aviv university, PhD
dissertation: Actor-audience relationship in the japanese traditional
theatre.
- 1977 - to date, teaching of various subjects on japanese culture,
theatre, poetry, aesthetics, philsophy [esp. zen], and anthropology.
- publications on japanese theatre, aesthetics, folklore, anthropology
[a major book in japanese: The anthropology of yakuza, published by
Iwanami Shoten], and zen buddhism.
- translated, with annotation and commentary, zen buddhist texts from
chinese and japanese in to hebrew, as well as japanese classic and
modern literature, poetry, diaries and so on [at present, translating
Basho's Oku no hosomichi]
- researching and teaching zen buddhism and psychotherapy.
- history of zen practice for over thirty years. Leading a zen dojo in
Israel.
Julia
Reuß [Reuss] <Julia-Reuss[at]web.de>
Museum Service Cologne, Germany
Cris
Reyns-Chikuma
Visiting Assistant Professor at Colorado College. I have a Ph.D. in
French (but really in comparative literature, comparing the concept of
holocaust in French, American and Japanese literatures); I am now
finishing my Masters in Japanese. At the same time I am looking for a
job in comparative literature. I am now teaching a course on "Japanese
Literature" and another class on "Orientalism: Japan/France/America" at
CU Boulder. I am primarily interested in Japanese cinema. And I am
co-organizing a colloquium on "Japanese Women Filmmakers" to be held in
October 2000 at CU Boulder and CC (Colorado).
Kenneth L.
Richard
Siebold University of Nagasaki, Dept. of Multi-Cultural Studies. Major
field for years has been the monogatari of the late Heian period,
post-Genji. See 'Mama Trauma in The Tale of Genji'
in Mothers in Japanese Literature (UBC, Asian
Studies 1997). Author of Depilautumn and other Poems by
Nakahara Chuya (Univ. of Toronto-Joint Centre 1981), Night
Blooming Plums-Poems from Yosa Buson (Aliquando Press 1988).
A translation of 'Desert Dolphin' by Masahiko Shimada appears
in Oxford
Book of Modern Japanese Short Stories
(Oxford 1997). He promises to have his web site for Japanese Literature
on line again, with gratitude to Michael Watson for listing it on his
site, as soon as Siebold University, new in 1999, can find 5mb or so of
available bandwidth. Working since 1971 at the University of Toronto in
Canada, Ken Richard has taken up a broader range of courses in
Comparative Culture in Nagasaki. In Sept.1999 he spoke at the
conference at UBC in Vancouver, Canada in honour of Prof. Kinya (Ken)
Tsuruta on 'Sadakichi Hartmann (1867-1944)-From Dejima Boy to
the Bundy
Drive Boys,' first in a series of reports on the cross-cultural
contributions of those born, raised, repatriated, or who passed through
Nagasaki.
http://www.genji54.com/
E. Michael
Richards
research and performances of new music by Japanese composers
including Akira Nishimura, Joji Yuasa, Tokuhide Niimi, Masataka Matsuo,
Mamoru Fujieda. co-organizer, with Kazuko Tanosaki, of Music of Japan
Today 2003 in Baltimore and Washington DC - http://www.research.umbc.edu/~emrich/mfj2003.html
Andreas Marcel
Riechert <riechert[at]pobox.com>
PhD candidate, Tübingen University, Germany.
Research interests: Edo period historical linguistics, confucianism (
esp. Kaibara Ekken); knowledge modelling, description logic;
cognitive science, semantics; natural language engineering (esp,
classical Japanese).
Jeremy
Robinson <robinsonj[at]wlu.edu>
Assistant Professor of Japanese Literature at Washington & Lee
University. My primary area of specialization is premodern
Japanese poetry, particularly that of the Man'yoshu, but my research
interests are broad, including the role of humor in Japanese
literature, the relationship between literary and performance genres,
and works which combine text and image.
PhD from Department of Asian Languages
and Cultures
at the University of Michigan. My dissertation concerned the
selective adaptation of Chinese philosophy and literary norms in the
poetry of the Man'yoshu poets Yamanoue Okura and Otomo Tabito.
Kenneth R.
Robinson
I am Assistant Professor of History at International
Christian
University, in Tokyo. My research focuses on foreign relations in the
fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, particularly Korean-Japanese
relations.
Laurel Rasplica
Rodd
East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of
Colorado, Boulder, CO
I have worked on both Buddhist literature and waka, have published a
translation of Kokinshu, am nearly done with a
first draft of Shinkokinshu,
and am working when I can find time on Yosano Akiko as well. I've been
too busy chairing our department at Colorado and serving as President
of ATJ for the past few years to make much progress on my writing, but
I am pleased to be working with graduate students in our new MA program
now. Classes with them are a lot more fun than meetings!
*Kokinshu:
A Collection of Poems Ancient and Modern (1984)
Roy Ron,
Ph.D <jmp7a[at]hi.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
Historiographical Institute, University of Tokyo <www.hi.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
Interests and research: medieval military history: Kamakura warriors,
also working on sengoku warriors and warfare.
Brian Ruppert
I am Assistant Professor of Japanese Religions at the University of
Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. My major area of interest is early medieval
Japan, focusing on the development of popular religion and esoteric
Buddhism. My studies in popular religion focus on the development of
Buddha relic veneration and of ritual exchange in early medieval Japan.
My studies in esoteric Buddhism are concentrated on the development of
scriptural treasuries in early medieval Japan. [url]
Recent Publications:
Jewel
in the Ashes: Buddha Relics and Power in Early Medieval Japan
(Harvard University Asia Center, Harvard UP, 2000). [info]
Barbara Ruch <
bruch[at]columbia.edu>
Professor Emerita, Columbia University (retired in 1999 from teaching)
(medieval Japanese narrative literature and cultural history; otogi
zoshi; Nara ehon; etoki; heikyoku; women in Japanese literature,
language, and culture; female religious experience in pre-Meiji Japan,
etc.). Currently, still continuing as full-time Director of the
Institute for Medieval Japanese Studies at Columbia, where since 1989
we began, and since 1994 have focused almost exclusively on the sorely
neglected area of religion, history, literature, and art represented in
Japan's thirteen remaining Imperial Buddhist Convents (monzeki amadera
in Kyoto and Nara). This work led also, since 1999, to a project of
restoration and conservation of the rich archives and secular and
religious art treasures held by these convents, which we run jointly
with the World Heritage Foundation of Tokyo (Hirayama Ikuo, president).
This spring of 2002 we are in the process of renovating and furnishing
a new Resource Center in Kyoto, at Daikankiji, the bodaiji of
generations of imperial princesses who became abbesses of nearby
Daishoji monzeki convent. This small house next to the hondo has been
donated to us as the Kyoto office for these research and conservation
projects and will be devoted to encouraging the study of the
literature, paintings and calligraphy created by these eminent nuns, to
the imperial treasures they hold as artifacts, fabrics, utensils, etc.,
as well as to the histories and biographies of imperial convents and
nuns from earliest eras up through the traumatic (for imperial nuns)
years of the Meiji Restoration. I am eager to hear especially from
scholars employed in the Kansai area as well as students there (or
heading there) for graduate work, whose research interests touch on and
whose work would therefore benefit from the sort of documents,
paintings, nuns' portraits, calligraphy, fabrics, utensils, games,
rituals, and customs, etc., emerging from our study of imperial
convents. For related matters see the Institute's homepage at www.columbia.edu/cu/ealac/imjs
which includes related publications. Watch for our new Institute
supported book: Engendering Faith: Women and Buddhism in
Premodern Japan due out the fall of 2002 from the University
of Michigan (Center for Japanese Studies) Press, edited by B. Ruch.
Bonaventura
Ruperti
*Professor, Dipartimento di Studi sull'Asia Orientale,
Universita Ca' Foscari di Venezia.
*
http://helios.unive.it/~dsao/webpages/ruperti_curr.html
Paul
Rouzer
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
Although I have worked and published in the field of Medieval Chinese
literature, I have been drawn increasingly of late to kanshibun. I am
currently researching the poetry of Rai San'yō and his generation.
Related Publications: "Early Buddhist Kanshi: Court, Country and
Kūkai." Monumenta
Nipponica, vol. 59, no. 4 (Winter 2004).
Ikuko Sagiyama
Associate Professor of Japanese Language and Literature,
Florence University, Italy.
My main area of research is Japanese classical literature, especially
Court poetry (waka). My last publication is a Italian translation of Kokinshū.
With some italian scholars, I am currently trying to organize a
research team to work on Man'yōshū.
*Kokin
waka shu. Raccolta di poesie giapponesi antiche e moderne.
Testo giapponese a fronte. [Facing Japanese (character text, not
romanization)] 688 p. Milano: Ariele, 2000. ISBN 8886480458]
Tatsuo F. Saile
<sanka[at]berkeley.edu>
I am a graduate student focusing on pre-modern Japanese literature and
Buddhist Studies at the University of Califonia, Berkeley. My primary
area of interest is the relationship between Japanese literature and
Japanese religion, particularly Buddhism. In attempting to understand
and define this relationship more closely, I have worked on a number of
different authors, genres, and time periods over the last several
years, including 17th century setsuwa and kana zōshi, nō drama, and the
waka poetry of the Sōtō-zen monks Eihei Dōgen and Taigu Ryōkan. My
other interests include the development of the genre of secular ghost
stories in Japan during the 17th and 18th centuries, early medieval
Japanese setsuwa collectionss, and particularly the evolution, both
doctrinal and ritual, of the various branches of Japanese esoteric
Buddhism (mikkyō).
* 永平道元, 大愚良寛
Sakurai Yōko
Faculty of Letters, Komazawa University
area of research: medieval literature, Heike monogatari in
particular.
* Heike monogatari no
keisei to juyō 平家物語の形成と受容. Kyūkō shoin, 2001.
Jonah Salz
<jonah[at]world.ryukoku.ac.jp>
Ryukoku University
Director, noho theatre group. Adviser, Traditional Theatre Training
Professor, comparative theatre, Ryukoku University
Ph.D. Performance Studies, NYU
Jordan Sand
Social and culture historian of modern Japan, in the History
and
East Asian Languages and Cultures departments at Georgetown University.
Main areas of interest: history of architecture, urban and domestic
space, material culture, museology.
Asuka Sango
<asango at princeton.edu>
I am a Ph.D candidate in Japanese Buddhism at Princeton University. My
major area of interest is early medieval Japan, focusing on the
relationships between Japanese Buddhist schools (especially Shingon
esoteric school) and popular religions.
Stuart
Sargent
I teach "Japanese Literature, Culture, and Society" at
Colorado State University. [url]
My research is in Chinese poetry (late 11th century), but I recently
published an article on Bashoo and Chinese poetry in Delos.
The article was adapted from a paper I presented at ICAAS in 1998.
Edith Sarra
*Associate Professor, Indiana University. Japanese language,
classical Japanese literature, feminist literary theory.
*Fictions
of femininity: literary inventions of gender in Japanese court women's
memoirs. Stanford UP, 1999.
Minae Savas
I am a graduate student at the Department of East Asian
Languages
and Literatures, Ohio State University. My major is Heian and Medieval
literatures. I am generally interested in women's issues in pre-modern
literature. For my thesis, I studied Noh play "Eguchi" with focus on
the protagonist, yujo. For my dissertation, I would like to explore
issues such as gender, sexuality, desire, power, exploitation, and so
forth in mainly Heian Nikki literature and Medieval Setsuwa and Noh
texts.
Bernhard
Scheid <bernhard.scheid[at]oeaw.ac.at>
I am a research fellow at the Institue for Asian Studies of the
Austrian Academy of Sciences, doing research on medieval and early
modern Shinto.
My main publications are a book on Yoshida Shinto, published in 2001
(for an English abstract see http://www.oeaw.ac.at/ias/Pub_einzeln/Pb2_Scheid01.html);
and a book on my previous research project, which deals with the
conditions of old age as mirrored in Japanese medieval literature,
published in 1996 (see http://www.oeaw.ac.at/ias/Pub_einzeln/Pb2_Scheid96.html).
My CV in English is available at http://www.oeaw.ac.at/ias/archiv/CV_Scheid.htm.
Anna
Schegoleva
I am a PhD student in Japanese religions at SOAS, University
of
London. In my prospective paper I am planning to look at the Japanese
ghost stories, mainly new urban myths, with respect to folk beliefs and
premodern concepts of the supernatural. Besides, I am interested in
tracing the motifs in all kinds of kowai hanashi and visual
interpretations of supernatural beings. My graduation paper at the
Japanese Studies Dept. of the Oriental Institute, St. Petersburg, was
devoted to tengu and their image evolution through Japanese cultural
history. Other interests include: musha-e prints and Kuniyoshi school,
mythology and folklore, fieldwork theory and method, censorship in art
etc.
John
Schmitt-Weigand
I am currently studying as a research student in the field of
late
medieval literature at Kanazawa University (Bungakubu/Kokubungaku
kenkyuka). I was originally enrolled as a Ph.D. student at the
University of Frankfurt am Main (Germany) where I also took my Master's
degree in 1998. My main field of interest is late medieval fiction
(so-called otogizoshi) in general and more particularly the question
what changes these texts underwent (in their language, narratological
structure, didactic contents etc.) during their reception and
commercial exploitation as material for illustrated Nara ehon booklets
and woodblock print editions in the 17th century. I am also interested
in all questions concerning the relationship of text and picture in
illustrated manuscripts, (picture scrolls, booklets) and other forms of
illustrated literature. It would be a great pleasure to get into
contact with anybody sharing these interests or doing research in a
similar or related field.
Gil
Schneider
Graduate of EAP European School of Management Studies (Paris)
and
Waseda University (Tokyo) where I obtained a LL.M. in Civil Law in
1986. Currently studying at Zurich University, Dept of Eastern Asian
Art, focusing on Japanese art of the Heian and Kamakura periods.
Ethan Isaac
Segal
I am a Ph.D. candidate in Japanese history at Stanford
University,
currently at the University of Tokyo Shiryo Hensanjo for my
dissertation research. My area of concentration is medieval Japan, with
the dissertation focusing on economic growth, trade, and the spread of
markets during the Kamakura and Muromachi periods. Other projects and
presentations that I have been involved with include tokuseirei,
gift economy, proto-nationalism, women's history, and gender history.
Gaynor
Sekimori
Associate Professor, Institute of Oriental Culture,
University of Tokyo. Appointed November 1, 2001.
Managing editor of new journal of Asian Studies to be published by the
Institute in 2003.
Completed PhD at the University of Cambridge; dissertation on Haguro
Shugendō and shinbutsu bunri, July 2000.
Research Fellow in the Centre for the Study of Japanese Religions at
SOAS October 2000-September 2001.
Reseach interests: Shugendō history and ritual. History of Haguro
Shugendō, particularly kasumi system.
Shinbutsu shugo, shinbutsu bunri.
Shugo/Shugendō art. Female exclusion (nyonin kinsei).
Eiji Sekine
Eiji Sekine is an Associate Professor of Japanese at Purdue
University. His major interest is in modern and contemporary literature
(author of Tasha no shookyo: Yoshiyuki Junnnosuke to kindai
bungaku, Keiso shobo, 1993, and author/editor of Uta
no hibiki, monogatari no yokubo,
Shinwasha, 1996) but is always interested in Edo literature also (some
articles written on Saikaku, Shunsui, and Chikamatsu). He is secretary
of the Association for Japanese Literary Studies and editor of the
association's newsletter and proceedings (P(M)AJLS).
He is the owner of the JLIT-L mailing list.
* c.v.
online
Kyoko Selden
Senior Lecturer (Japanese), Department of Asian Studies,
Cornell
University. My current interest is preparation of Japanese literature
readers with rubi and annotations.
Publications: Honda Katsuichi, Harukor: An Ainu Woman's Tale
(Ainu minzoku) [translator]. University of California Press, 2000; The
Funeral of a Giraffe: Seven Stories by Tomioka Taeko (Dōbutsu
no sōrei) [cotranslator]. M. E. Sharpe, 2000; Kayano Shigeru, Our
Land Was a Forest: An Ainu Memoir (Ainu no ishibumi)
[cotranslator]. Westview Press, 1994; The Atomic Bomb:
Voices from Hiroshima and Nagasaki [translator and coeditor].
M. E. Sharpe, 1989; Yoshiaki Shimizu ed. Japan: The
Shaping of Daimyo Culture 1185-1868 [translator of Japanese
language entries]. National Gallery of Art, 1988.
Lili Selden <LSelden[at]umich.edu>
Visiting Assistant Professor, Oberlin College
Dissertation title: "Discourses of Desire and Female Resistance in The
Tale of Genji"
Areas of special interest:
Production, consumption, and patronage of visual and literary arts in
Japan Censorship and revisionism in Edo, Meiji, and twentieth-century
historical and literary texts. Narrative voice, subject position, and
perspective in Japanese literature and cinema.
Vyjayanthi Ratnam Selinger <vselinge[at]bowdoin.edu>
Assistant professor, Asian Studies, Bowdoin College.
"Fractured Histories: Retrospections of the Past in the Gempei War
Tales" (PhD dissertation, Cornell University, January 2007).
url
at Bowdoin College.
Sudeshna Sen <sudeshna[at]darkwing.uoregon.edu>
Ph.D candidate, University of Oregon.
My dissertation focuses on a study of Sarashina Nikki
and issues of textual performativity and female subjectivity. I am also
interested in theoretical discussions regarding the status of the body,
agency and minor literature particularly from a post-colonial or
Deleuzian perspective.
Barbara Seyock
<seyock[at]gmx.net>
affiliation = Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich (Germany), Dep. of
Asian Studies, Institute of Chinese Studies
My fields of research are archaeology, early history and history of
Japan and Korea, Korean-Japanese relations, archaeology of maritime
East and South East Asia, historical archaeology, cartography, pirate
history, and trade history. I got my M.A. from Bochum University
(Germany) with the thesis "Die Residenz der Koenigin Himiko.
Historische Nachrichten und archaelogische Befunde" (The Residence of
Queen Himiko. Historical news and archaeological findings) and my Ph.D.
from Tuebingen University (Germany) with the thesis "Auf den Spuren der
Ostbarbaren. Zur Archaelogie protohistorischer Kulturen in Suedkorea
und Westjapan"(Tracing the Eastern Barbarians - On the Archaeology of
Protohistoric Cultures in South Korea and Western Japan).
Selected publications:
- "The Culture of Han and Wa around the Korean Straits. An
Archaeological Perspective". In: Acta
Koreana, 6:1 (2003) pp. 63-86.
- "Auf den Spuren der Ostbarbaren. Zur Archaelogie protohistorischer
Kulturen in Suedkorea und Westjapan." [=BUNKA -
Tübinger interkulturelle und linguistische Japanstudien, BUNKA - Tübingen
intercultural and linguistic studies on Japan, Band/Volume
8] LIT-Verlag, Münster-Hamburg-Berlin-Wien-London 2004. (ISBN
3-8258-7236-x)
- "Pirates and Traders on Tsushima Island during the late 14th to early
16th Century: As seen from Historical and Archaeological Perspectives",
in: Schottenhammer, Angela (ed.): Trade
and Transfer across the East Asian 'Mediterranean'. East Asian Maritime
History, vol. 1, , Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2005, pp.
91-124.
website: www.barbara-seyock.de
Peter D.
Shapinsky <pshap2[at]uis.edu>
I completed my Ph.D. in May 2005 at the University of Michigan and am
now teaching East Asian history at the University of Illinois at
Springfield.
My dissertation, "Lords of the Sea: Pirates, Violence, and Exchange in
Medieval Japan," explored the development of autonomous sea-based
domains by seafaring bands who--labeled pirates (kaizoku) by land-based
powers--appropriated land-based discourses of lordship and considered
themselves to be sea lords. The project focuses on the three
Murakami families (Noshima, Kurushima, and Innoshima)based in islands
and chokepoints across the Inland Sea region. This project
explores the discursive constructions of 'sea-people' and seascapes. It
examines the roles 'pirates' played in economic developments from the
14-16th centuries with a case-study of the shoen of Yugeshima and its
seafarers,
looking especially at the roles sea lords played in the shift from a
shoen economy to
a commercial economy and the rise of commercial shipping. The
project also examines the military aspects of sea lords as autonomous
purveyors of nautical violence and their roles in Japan's 16th c.
'military revolution.' Lastly, the project explores the
participation of sea lords in overseas networks and the suppression of
autonomous maritime power by Hideyoshi and later the Tokugawa.
My other current interests include medieval histories of gender, war,
and the hybrid
nautical culture that developed in East Asia in the 16th and early 17th
centuries, including portolan cartography, navigation, and shipbuilding.
Satoko Shimazaki
I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of East Asian Languages and
Cultures at Columbia University. I am currently at the Waseda Theater
Museum working on my dissertation, which will deal with representations
of female ghosts in Bunka-Bunsei period Kabuki and literature.
Akira Shimizu
<ashimizu[at]uiuc.edu>
I am a graduate student in history at the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign. My current research is focused on issues on
meat-eating practice during the Tokugawa period and relations between
food and identities.
Hiraku
Shimoda <shimoda[at]fas.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.
Wayne
Shimoguchi <wshimo[at]nucba.ac.jp>
Foreign Section Librarian at Nagoya Shoka Daigaku. I hope to be able to
tap into the collective wisdom of the members of this list in order to
better serve the information needs of our library patrons.
Christine
Shippey
I am a Ph.D. candidate at UC-Berkeley in the East Asian
Languages and Cultures Dept. I am researching irogonomi
and am particularly interested in Heian literature.
Haruo Shirane
*Columbia University, New York.
* Early
Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1600-1900 (2002) //
Traces
of Dreams : Landscape, Cultural Memory, and the Poetry of
Basho (1998) // The
Bridge of Dreams : A Poetics of the 'Tale of Genji'
(1987)
*Shirane, Haruo and Suzuki Tomi, Inventing the Classics:
Modernity, National Identity, and Japanese Literature, eds.
Haruo Shirane and Tomi Suzuki. ( Stanford UP, 2000) // Sozo
sareta koten: kanon keisei, kokumin kokka, nihonbungaku
(Tokyo: Shin'yosha, 1999).
Peter
Schroepfer <schroepfer[at]oranckay.net>
I'm a Koreanist. I did my BA and MA in Classical Korean Literature at
Yonsei University in Seoul. Currently I am finishing my Ph.D. at Leiden
University in the Netherlands. My speciality is pre-modern Korean prose
fiction, particularly popular fiction of the time dealing with love and
romance. Specialists of things Japanese venture ("advance," "invade,"
etc) into Korean studies all the time.... and it can't hurt me to pay
more attention to those islands over there way on the other side of the
East Sea.
Sudeshna
Sen <sudeshna[at]socrates.berkeley.edu>
I am a postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley. I completed my dissertation
titled " Playing Selves: Tracing a Performative Textual Subject in
Sarashina nikki" from University of Oregon in June 2002. My research
interests include nikki bungaku, premodern material and visual culture,
travel literature, film and critical theory.
Patricia Sippel
Toyo Eiwa University
My research interests are: taxes and fiscal policy in the Tokugawa
domain; the history of mining; the history of water management.
Larry V.
Shumway
Brigham Young University. I am an ethnomucologist with a
background
in Japanese traditional music as well as Tonga and the USA pioneer
west. At Brigham Young my teaching has been Asian subjects in the
humanities area and Japanese cultural history. My main work in Japan
has been with a 19th century genre of music known as kibigaku which was
a blending of gagaku and zokugaku. Kibigaku is currently found
primarily in western Japan, namely around Okayama and survives because
part of its repertoire is the ritual music for the Kurozumi-kyo.
Ilaria
Signorini
My major field is Japanese Religion, and particularly rituals
of
the family from pre-modern to modern time. I am currently doing
research at the University of Tokyo, (Dept. of Science and History of
Religions), as a Post-Doctoral researcher.
Aaron
Skabelund <aaron_skabelund[at]byu.edu>
Assistant Professor, Brigham Young University. Social and
cultural historian of modern Japan. Areas of interest include:
imperialism, human-animal interactions, and relations between
militaries and society.
Henry D.
Smith, II <hds2[at]columbia.edu>
Professor of Japanese history, Columbia University. My research
interests are in the history of Japanese urban and material culture in
the early modern and modern periods, in particular the long 19th
century (ca. 1770s to 1910s). Currently working on edited volumes about
Chushingura (both history and legend), and the history of modern
Japanese architecture from Meiji to the 1940s. For publications and
teaching materials, see home page at http://www.cc.columbia.edu/~hds2/
Michael J.
Smitka
Associate Professor of Economics, Williams School of
Commerce, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia
I am an economist at a liberal arts college interested in the auto
industry and in economic history. In the latter area I edited a reprint
series on Japanese economic history (7 volumes) for Garland Press,
including many articles on the Tokugawa and bakumatsu eras. I'd like to
write a piece comparing the Dutch Republic (de Vries and van der Woude,
The First Modern Economy) with what I see as similar
developments in 18th century Japan, but don't know when I will actually
get that done.
http://liberty.uc.wlu.edu/~msmitka/Smitka.html
Ivo Smit
<i.b.smits[at]let.LeidenUniv.nl>
Lecturer, Centre for Japanese and Korean Studies, Leiden University,
The Netherlands. FIELD: classical Japanese literature (esp. Heian and
Kamakura poetry). I try to focus on two areas: the relation between
Chinese and Japanese poetry, and poetic networks and the relations
between patrons and poets. In addition, I taught several courses on
Japanese film. Meanwhile, the magic year 2000 has come and gone. What
James Clavell failed to tell us is that when Will Adams (aka Richard
Chamberlain) he washed ashore in Usuki Bay in April 1600, he was
employed by the Dutch. The year 2000 therefore marked 400 years of
bilateral relations between Japan and the Netherlands. Together with
Leonard Blussé (Leiden University) and Willem Remmelink
(Japan-Netherlands Institute, Tokyo) I am one of the editors of a
memorial volume commemorating that history.
* The Pursuit of Loneliness: Chinese and Japanese Nature Poetry
(Stuttgart: Steiner, 1995). ISBN 3515066683; (co-edited)
Bridging the Divide: 400 Years The Netherlands-Japan (Leiden:
Hotei Publisihing, 2000). ISBN: 907482224X. For recently published work
see. For recently published work see biblio.
Sean Somers
<sean_somers2002[at]yahoo.ie<
I am a PhD candidate at the University of British Columbia, where I am
affiliated with the Centre for Japanese Research.
Areas of speciality:
- Meiji-jidai shōsetsuka. 芥川龍之介と古典
- Utsuho
monogatari
- Japanese poetics, 1400-1800 CE. 江戸時代の詩歌
- shodō history and stylistics
Joseph T.
Sorensen
Assistant Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and
Cultures, University of California, Davis. PhD dissertation Berkeley
(2005): "Optical Allusions: Screens,
Paintings, and Poems in Heian and Kamakura Japan."
[Previously, my
graduate work focused on Fujiwara no Teika, the Shinkokin period, and
poetry contests. My M.A. thesis was on "Monogatari nihyakuban utaawase"
which compared and contrasted poems from Tale of Genji,
Tale of Sagoromo, and other Heian and Kamakura
narratives.]
* http://japanese.ucdavis.edu/faculty/sorensen
David
Spafford <istodeiz[at]berkeley.edu>
I am a PhD student in Japanese history at UC Berkeley. I am
interested in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries,
territorial definition of domains, borders and gray areas, kokujin
and lesser bushi.
Maik Hendrik
Sprotte <maik.sprotte[at]urz.uni-hd.de>
Assistant Professor, Institute for Japanese Studies, University of
Heidelberg. Although mainly working in the field of modern Japanese
history (e.g. early socialism movementin the Meiji era, the
neighbourhood associations (tonarigumi) between 1941 and 1945), I am
interested in themes of premodern Japanese history as well.
My profile: www.japanologie.uni-hd.de/pub_sprotte.htm
Graham
Squires
I teach Japanese at the University of Newcastle, Australia. I
have
three main research areas all of which have some connection with
pre-Meiji Japan: firstly, the life and thought of the Meiji historian
Yamaji Aizan; secondly, the historical geography of Japan; thirdly,
inter-cultural
exchange in Japanese history. My major publications are: Yamaji
Aizan, Essays on the Modern Japanese Church: Christianity in Meiji Japan,
Translated by Graham Squires with Introductory Essays by Graham Squires
and A Hamish Ion. (Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, University
of Michigan, 1999) and 'Yamaji Aizan's Traces of the
Development of
Human Rights in Japanese History', Monumenta Nipponica,
Vol. 56, No. 2, Summer 2001, pp. 139-171. I also edit the newly
established journal, Inter-Cultural Studies, http://www.newcastle.edu.au/journal/ics/index.html
Mark Stanley
Documentary Producer and Digital Video instructor, University
of Minnesota.
Award-winning producer of fine arts programming and currently involved
with digital media design and programming. Have recorded Noh
performances while working at the The Minneapolis Institute of Arts,
and met Richard Emmert there. In 2000 recorded in DV format a rare and
excellent performance of the Kanze Noh Theatre Troupe here in
Minneapolis. Would like to create a English subtitled version of the
video, am open to collaboration and possible grants.
Matthew
Stavros <mstavros[at]gmail.com>
University of Sydney
I teach Japanese History in the Department of Japanese and Korean
Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia. Specializing in
premodern Japanese history, my primary research interests include
medieval and early-modern urban history, architecture, and the analysis
of space as a function of power. Other areas of inquiry include
premodern church-state relations, geomancy, and the accounts of early
Europeans in Japan. My dissertation (Princeton 2005) is entitled:
"Reading Ashikaga History in the Urban Landscape: Kyoto in the Early
Muromachi Period, 1336-1467." Please feel free to contact me at
<matthew.stavros[at]arts.usyd.edu.au>
Brian Steininger
Ph.D. student in Department of East Asian Languages &
Literatures, Yale University.
I am particularly interested in the parallel discourses of Chinese- and
Japanese-language poetics in the 9th and 10th century Heian court.
Lorraine
Sterry
I am a post-graduate student at LaTrobe University,
Melbourne,
Australia. I have just begun work on researching the writing of British
women travellers in Meiji Japan. I am particularly interested in the
way that they viewed Japan compared to their view of China or India. I
am interested in a wide range of writing, from the extensive writings
of experienced 'professional' travellers to intimate personal
diaries.
Amanda
Stinchecum
I am an independent scholar specializing in the history of
textiles
in Ryukyu/Okinawa (and, to a lesser extent, of mainland Japan).
Although trained in art history and classical Japanese literature, my
work spans a number of disciplines, including history, anthropology and
archaeologySince 1999, I have been working on a project examining the
ritual context of ikat textiles in Yaeyama (southern Okinawa). In
February I returned from a year as a Japan Foundation Fellow. I was a
research associate at the Ishigaki Municipal Yaeyama Museum in southern
Okinawa, where I pursued the history of an ikat-patterned sash to which
ritual uses have been ascribed. A second, ongoing
project deals
with textile production as part of the taxation system of Kinsei
Ryukyu. Few textiles from this region predate the 19th century, but
documentary sources exist from the 14th century on. Although no early
textile evidence has been found, excavated remains in Yaeyama suggest
ties to SE Asia and Micronesia.
* Recent publications include: "Yaeyama ni okeru kasuri no gishiki-teki
youto--sono jittai to Tounan Ajia kyouryuu no kanousei," Okinawa
bunka kenkyuu 25 (1999), 33-41; "The Mingei Aesthetic," Orientations
29:3 (March 1998), 90-96; "Irony in Textile Design: Sue no
Matsuyama--Images of Fidelity and Infidelity," in Amy Heinrich, ed., Currents
in Japanese Culture: Translations and Transformations:
337-351. New York: Columbia UP, 1997; "Zaibei Ryukyu/Okinawa
senshokuhin chousa: chuukan houkoku" (Survey of Ryukyun/Okinawan
textiles in America: interim report), Okinawa Bunka Kenkyujo,ed. Okinawa
bunka kenkyu 21 (Tokyo: Hosei University, 1995), 235-256; Mingei:
Japanese Folk Art, with Robert Moes, Alexandria, Va.: Art
Services International, 1995.
Address: 39 Remsen Street, #3A, Brooklyn NY 11201 USA
Jacqueline
Stone
Princeton University, Dept. of Religion. Major field is Japanese
Buddhism. Work to date has focused on Tendai, Nichiren, and Pure Land
traditions. Author of Original
Enlightenment and the Transformation of Medieval Japanese Buddhism
(Hawaii 1999). Current research includes project on deathbed ritual and
approaches to dying (including religious suicide) in the medieval
period.
Jack
Stoneman
PhD candidate, Columbia University Department of East Asian Languages
and Cultures. Presently conducting dissertation research as Japan
Foundation fellow under Araki Hiroshi of Osaka University. Interests
include pre-modern and modern Japanese literature, Asian art
history, Buddhism, translation, noh, ceramics, and Saigyo.
Mark Stought
I am an MA student in the Japanese Dept. at University of
Massachusetts-Amherst. My research interests are on Nanso satomi
hakkenden, as well as contemporary Japanese music and pop culture.
Roberta
Strippoli
Ph.D. candidate, Stanford University, and Substitute Assistant
Professor, IUO Napoli, Italy.
I have been interested for a long time in otogizōshi,
tales that found a written form mainly in the Muromachi period. While
not forgetting otogizōshi, I am
now working at my Ph.D. thesis on the shirabyōshi
dancer Giō in Heike monogatari and later literature.
Publications:
La monaca tuttofare, la donna serpente, il demone beone.
Racconti dal medioevo giapponese.
[The Errand Nun, The Snake Woman, The Drunken Demon: Medieval Japanese
Tales.] Venezia, Italy: Marsilio Editori, 2001; "Origine ed
evoluzione degli otogizōshi, racconti brevi di epoca Muromachi"
[Origins and Evolution of otogizōshi, Short Stories of the Muromachi
Period], Rivista degli Studi Orientali, LXIX:3-4,
1995 (1996).
*Roberta has provided us with a splendid Western-language bibliography of
otogizoshi. (ed.)
Kendon Stubbs
I am deputy university librarian at the University of Virginia and
coordinator of the Japanese Text Initiative at U.Va.'s Electronic Text
Center (http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/japanese).
Yui
Suzuki
From September 2006, I have joined the Dept. of Art History and
Archaeology, University of Maryland, College Park, as a full-time
faculty member teaching Japanese art history. I specialize in the
religious arts of Japan, particularly from the Nara, Heian and Kamakura
periods. I am currently working on a book manuscript titled, "The
Making of an Icon: Medicine Buddhas and Devotional Practices in Early
Medieval Japan."
Suzy Styles
2001 Summer Research Scholarship (Current). Australian
National University
Topic: Kitsune-nyoubo in folk tales and modern pop-culture.
Daniel J.
Sullivan <djsulliv[at]stanford.edu>
Graduate student at Stanford University, Department
of Asian
Languages. I am working on the influence of classical
Japanese
literature in the early works of Mishima Yukio.
Suzuki Kazuko
I taught at a university in Tokyo until I retired in 1999. My specialty
was contemporary British fiction. Publications: Japanese translations
of novels by Penelope Lively and Bernice Rubens, and short stories by
other writers; several books of reviews of novels by British writers.
Along with literature, I have been greatly interested in the history of
my own country, Japan--especially in its prehistoric periods.
Yui Suzuki
I am a PhD student in the department of Art History at UCLA.
My research interests are in the areas of religious images and ritual.
For my dissertation, I work on investigating the role of Yakushi images
in early Heian spirituality and practice.
John Szostak
University of British Columbia
I am currently teaching as a sessional instructor in Japanese
art history at the University of British Columbia. My primary
research area is nihonga of the late Meiji through early Showa eras. My
dissertation is entitled "The Kokuga Sōsaku Kyōkai and Kyoto Nihonga
Reform in the Meiji, Taishō and Early Shōwa Years (1900-1928)." I also
have a strong interest in painting of the Edo era (particularly the
Maruyama-Shijō tradition), ukiyoe culture, and Buddhist art and
architecture.
* 国画創作協会回
Akiko
Takata <Chilreio[at]aol.com>
Graduate student at Regional Studies East Asia program, Harvard
University.
I received a B.A. in Japanese History in 1998, and a M.A. in Japanese
Art History in 2001 from Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo. My M.A.
thesis was on the problem of the creation date of the Medicine Buddha
and its two attendants in the Main Hall of Yakushi-ji temple. I focus
on Buddhist art of the 7th and 8th century Japan but I am also broadly
interested in works from other time periods and areas.
Ginny Tapley
<ginnytapley[at]hotmail.com>
I am currently in the 4th (final year) of a BA Japanese at SOAS, having
worked previously as a translator (Spanish) and as a literary agent. I
hope to continue to postgraduate studies in Japanese literature, and
have a strong interest in translation. For my graduation thesis I am
researching the use of supernatural phenomenon as a literary device in
both premodern and modern Japanese literature.
Nicholas Teele
Doshisha Women's College
Have long been interested in waka, focusing on the Kokinshu.
In the last couple of years I have become fastinated with the
Saikoku-sanjusan-sho pilgrimage, and the goeika
associated with it.
Mark Teeuwen
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:
Elizabeth
ten Grotenhuis
Elizabeth ten Grotenhuis is Associate Professor for
Asian/Japanese
Art History at Boston University and also Associate in Research at the
Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard University. She is
author of Japanese
Mandalas: Representations of Sacred Geography, The
Revival of The Taima Mandala in Medieval Japan, co-author of Journey
of the Three Jewels, translator of Pure Land
Buddhist Painting and Narrative Picture Scrolls, and author
of numerous articles on Japanese religious art and garden design.
Sarah Thal
I am Assistant Professor of History at Rice University. While
most
of my work is on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, I am
interested in the role of religious practices in historical processes
in any period -- e.g., the writing of the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki myths,
or the redefinition of the gods at particular sites over time. I am
currently revising my dissertation for publication as Rearranging
the Landscape of the Gods: The Powers of the Sacred in Modern Japan.
Mathew
Thompson
I am a Ph.D. Candidate at Columbia University. I will be writing my
dissertation about the processes behind the cultural production of the
Gikeiki and other Minamoto no Yoshitsune legends in the Muromachi and
Edo periods.
Hans Bjarne
Thomsen <hthomsen[at]princeton.edu>
I am a Ph.D. student in Japanese Art and Archaeology department at
Princeton, and my dissertation will focus on Ito Jakuchu and the
eighteenth century Kyoto art world. Other interests include early
modern religious art and woodblock prints.
Karen
Thornber <thornber[at]fas.harvard.edu>
Ph.D. candidate, Harvard University, Department of East Asian Languages
and Civilizations. Research interests include: modern and premodern
Chinese and Japanese literature and literary thought, modern Korean
literature, literature of atrocity (atomic-bomb and Holocaust),
religion and literature in Japan.
Sybil
Thornton
Associate professor of premodern Japanese history at Arizona
State University.
My field of research is the Jishuh/Yugyoh ha. I teach courses in
premodern Japanese history, Asian civilizations, women, film, and oral
tradition. My introduction to and translation of Kohnodai
senki (Record of the battle of Kohnodai; 16th c.) will appear
in the next Oral Tradition (2000).
Robert
Tierney <rtierney[at]gol.com>
Ph.D. candidate in Japanese literature at Stanford University. Although
my primary research interest is in the field of modern literature, I am
currently researching the writing of Kojiki and early Japanese
nationalism.
Elizabeth
Tinsley <liztinsley[at]hotmail.com>
I am an MA student at Otani studying Buddhist Culture. I completed an
MA at SOAS in Japanese studies and studied art history for a year in
Tokyo. I am now researching the female deity Niutsuhime.
Eric Tischer
<eric.tischer[at]colorado.edu>
Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of
Colorado. I am a graduate student aiming for an MA in Japanese; my
primarily focus is on premodern and modern poetry. Some other interests
include theories of translation and the quixotic quest for poetic and
non-silly English equivalents to pillow words in the Manyoshu. My
thesis topic is Miyazawa Kenji's Haru to Ashura.
Ronald Toby
*Professor in the Dept of Korean Studies. Graduate School of
Humanities and Sociology, Faculty of Letters, Tokyo University.
Selected publications: State and Diplomacy in Early-Modern
Japan: Asia in the Development of the Tokugawa Bakufu (Princeton
UP, 1984; "Kinsei Nihonjin no etonosu ninshiki" (Early-modern Japanese
ethnic consciousness), in Yamauchi Masayuki & Yoshida Motoo,
ed., Nihon imeeji koosaku: Ajia Taiheiyoo no toposu
(Inter-implicated Japanese images: The Asia-Pacific topos). (Tokyo UP,
1997): 122-132; and "Imagining and Imaging 'Anthropos' in
Early-modern
Japan," in Visual Anthropology Review, 14, 3
(Spring-Summer): 19-44.
Profile and fuller bibliography at:
http://www.history.uiuc.edu/fac_dir/toby_dir/toby.htm
http://www.history.uiuc.edu/areas/japan/japan.html
Alison Tokita
Japanese Studies Centre, Monash University, Melbourne.
Research
interests: Japanese performing arts, especially sung narratives, such
as koshiko shomyo, heike narrative, most branches of joruri, biwa
music, naniwa-bushi etc. and music generally. Contemporary Japanese
music; the influence of Japanese music on contemporary Australian
composition; Australia-Japan cultural relations. Kiyomoto-bushi
: narrative music of the Kabuki theatre.
Basel : Barenreiter, 1999. 400 p. (Studien zur traditionellen Musik
Japans ; Bd. 8) NOTE: Summary in English and Japanese; bibliography (p.
[279]-290), discography (p. [291]-292) and indexes. ISBN: 3761814690.
More bibliography here.
Aldo Tollini
Teacher of Japanese classic language in the University of
Venice, Italy.
Specialist in the history of the Japanese language,the Japanese
classical language, and Japanese language teaching.
Hitomi
Tonomura <tomitono[at]umich.edu>
I am faculty in the Department of History and Women's Studies at the
University of Michigan. I am recuperating from a period of
administrative overload, and enjoying the time to think about aspects
of premodern gender relations once again. My current research includes
the historical construction of [a particular kind of] ideal masculinity
as it relates to the samurai and a comparative study of birth-giving. I
am also co-editing a volume on the meanings and practices of privacy
and the private in various pre- and early modern societies.
* Community and Commerce in Late Medieval Japan: The
Corporate Villages of Tokuchin-ho (1992); editor, Women
and Class in Japanese History (1999).
Zane Torretta
<ztorretta[at]hotmail.com>
First year PhD student at Columbia University in pre-modern Japanese
literature
Minna
Torniainen
University of Helsinki, Institute for Asian and African Studies. Right
now I am working on my PhD-thesis entitled "The Idea of Wabi in
Japanese Philosophy and Aesthetics - Through Chadoo-related Classical
Literature". Main sources used are included in Chadoo Koten
Zenshuu
(1956) by Tankoosha. Thesis is basically divided into two: Wabi as a
philosophical concept and wabi as an aesthetical concept. After
finishing the thesis, summer-autumn 2000, I am interested to continue
studying on 'the Concept of Spiritual training (shugyoo) in
classical
poetry (Shinkei), noh theatre (Zeami) and in chadoo (Nanpooroku and
Yamanoue Soojiki).
Page Traynor
A published novelist working on a novel set in Heian Japan, I
began
research on the period over thirty years ago. I am a trained
craftsperson of traditional Japanese dolls. My particular areas of
interest include the social history of women and spiritual beliefs.
Melanie Trede <mt54[at]nyu.edu>
As of this semester, I teach Japanese art history at the Institute of
Fine Arts which is the graduate school of art history at New York
University. I wrote my dissertation at Heidelberg on pictorialisations
of medieval narratives in the17th century, but am interested in all
sorts of fields including medieval arts and architecture and
contemporary visual culture.
* Now professor of Japanese art history, Institut
für Kunstgeschichte Ostasiens, University of
Heidelberg.
* Image,
Text and Audience: The Taishokan Narrative in Visual
Representations of the Early Modern Period in Japan.
(Europaische Hochschulschriften. Reihe XXVIII, Kunstgeschichte, Bd.
399.) Hamburg: Peter Lang Verlag, 2004. 379 pages.
Katja
Triplett
I graduated from Philipps University, Marburg Germany in 1996
and
joined the German Institute of Japanese Studies in Tokyo as a stipendee
in 1997. I am currently engaged in completing my dissertation on
Japanese legends of human sacrifice, while being an independent
researcher with residence in the Boston area. In my dissertation I
analyze the ways legends of human sacrifice have been interpreted by
Japanese scholars since the Edo-period as to the question of
historicity of a Japanese cult of human sacrifice. My main fields of
interest are mythology with a focus on setsuwa, engimono and
otogizōshi; the syncretistic nature of Japanese religion(s); Buddhist
iconography and religious art in general; museology and archiving.
Kristina Kade
Troost <kktroost[at]duke.edu>
Japanese Studies Librarian and Head, International and Area Studies,
Perkins Library, Duke University.
My research interests are in medieval Japanese social and economic
history, but for now, the focus of my efforts is on building the
Japanese collection at Duke and helping specialists find the
information they need.
Publications: 1997 "Peasants, Elites, and Villages in the Fourteenth
Century," November 1997 in The Origins of Japan's Medieval
World: Courtiers, Clerics, Warriors and Peasants in the Fourteenth
Century. Jeffrey P. Mass, editor. Stanford UP; 1996-2002
Japanese Studies Resources <url>
A comprehensive set of web pages for Japanese studies organized by
subject which combine bibliographies of reference works, basic
compendia and serials for a subject with links to relevant materials on
the web. There are also guides to language and biographical
dictionaries, serial holdings at Duke and serials indexes, East Asian
collections in the United States and cooperative collection development
agreements, web sites and Japan-related listservs with addresses and
subscription procedures; 1990 "Common Property and Community
Formation; Self-governing Villages in Late Medieval Japan 1300-1600."
Harvard University, PhD dissertation.
Carol Richmond
Tsang
I'm an assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago,
working in Japanese history (Ph.D. Harvard University, History and East
Asian Languages, 1995). At present I'm finishing up a manuscript on the
ikko ikki (covering roughly the years between 1465
and 1580), and have started on a project on the Kansho famine of
1460-61.
am a post-graduate student in the department of international communications at Aoyama Gakuin University. I am interested in the problems of translation of Japanese classical literature into foreign languages, especially into Russian. I am now analyzing the Russian translation of The Tale of Genji for my Ph. D. dissertation.
Ian Tullis
<itullis[at]berkeley.ed>
affiliation = UC Berkeley
I'm one of Mack Horton's graduate students, and I'm interested in
medieval and Edo literature. I've left behind a career in biology and
statistics, but I hope I'll be able to apply some techniques from those
fields to textual analysis.
John
D. Ullrich
I am a sixth year doctoral candidate in the EAS department of Princeton
University. I am in the process of writing up my dissertation on the
organization and activities of the Koufukuji clerical body between the
twelfth and sixteenth centuries. My advisor is Prof. Martin Collcutt.
Robert A. Ulmer
Currently working for a major Canadian bank, but still retains his love
of Japanese literature. Translations of Kajii Motojiro stories
("Lemon") published in Oxford Book of Modern Japanese Short
Stories (Oxford 1997), and ("Mating") in The Showa
Anthology
(Kodansha 1985). A Canadian who first came to Japan on a Monbusho in
1973 and completed his Ph.D. in Japanese language and literature at
Yale.
Hendrik
van der Veere
I studied Indology and Japanology at Leiden University,
teaching
there Buddhism and Japanese Religion now. My Ph.D. thesis was written
about Kakuban. I received full initiation (denbo kanjo) in Shingon's
Denboinryu (Buzanha) and am now doing research on the Shikoku
pilgrimage, Kukai's Hizoki and Jiun sonja, amonst other things. My main
interests lay in Tibetan and Japanese Buddhism and the devlopment of
tantric Buddhism.
Melinda Varner
University of Colorado at Boulder
I am a program associate for K-12 outreach related to Japan at the
Program for Teaching East Asia at the University of Colorado at Boulder
and an adjunct faculty member teaching courses on Japanese culture,
language and literature at Colorado State University. I completed the
MA program in East Asian Studies at Yale in 2000. In 2004, I
participated in the Kyoto Traditional Theater Training project's kyōgen
group and have been subsequently offering experiential workshops on
traditional Japanese theater to secondary and university students.
My research interests include noh and kyōgen, Heian poetics, medieval
tea culture and tracing classical themes in modern Japanese pop media.
Alexander M.
Vesey <avesey[at]stonehill.edu>
Assistant Professor of History. at Stonehill College.
[original profile:]
A graduate student in Princeton University's Department of East Asian
Studies, I am completing a dissertation on the social history of the
rural Buddhist clergy in the second half of the Tokugawa period. I
frame the topic within the context of the Edo period status system (mibun
seido)
to explore the nature of the clergy's place and function within village
society. Sub-topics examined within the study include the legal
parameters of the clergy's status standing, the role of ecclesiastic
education in the formation of status identiy, temples and clerics as
elite elements within village structures, and the clegy's function as
mediators in village disputes. Before coming to Princeton, I received
an MA in Buddhist Studies at the University of Michigan, and trained at
Tokufukuji in Kyoto.
Susan Videen <videens[at]slu.edu>
Since writing my book on Heichū, I have gone to seminary, been ordained
as a Unitarian Universalist minister, and work as a chaplain at St.
Louis University Hospital in St. Louis, MO.
* Tales
of Heichu. Harvard UP, 1989.
Keith Vincent
I am assistant professor of Japanese lit. at New York
University. My work focusses on transformations of narrative
voice, descriptive detail, and dicourse in the modern Japanese
novel. I'm also interested in Masaoka Shiki and the "reform"
of classical poetry.
Alicia
Volk <alicia.volk[at]aya.yale.edu>
Post-doctoral Fellow, Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese
Arts and Cultures and the School of Oriental and African Studies, London
Although my primary area of research is Japanese modern art, I have
tended to focus on topics that have strong links to the earlier arts of
Japan, especially painting and prints. My dissertation on the
Taisho-period oil painter Yorozu Tetsugoro, for example, examines the
revival of nanga and the "return to the East" movement in modern art,
and I am presently writing a text on 20th century byobu in relation to
traditional models as well as to contemporary art practices. From
summer 2006 I will be a Getty Fellow, and then move to Washington, DC
to take up a position as Assistant Professor of Japanese Art History at
the Univeristy of Maryland, College Park.
Recent publications include: Made
in Japan: The Postwar Creative Print Movement (University
of Washington, 2005); Japan
and Paris: Impressionism, Post-Impressionism and the Modern Era
(co-authored with Christine Guth and Yamanashi Emiko, Honolulu Academy
of Arts, 2004); "Yorozu Tetsugoro and Taisho-period Creative Prints:
When the Japanese Print Became Avant-garde" (Impressions no. 26, 2004);
and "Katsura Yuki and the Japanese Avant-garde" (Woman’s Art
Journal 24, no. 2, 2003).
http://www.sainsbury-institute.org/newfellows.html
Klaus Vollmer
Professor, Department of East Asian Studies, Munich University,
Germany. Major fields of interest and research: cultural history,
historiography, premodern Japanese literature (specially waka poetry).
Publications (in German) include two monographs on 'shokunin
utaawase',
articles on social history (focussing on marginalization and minorities
in modern and premodern Japan) and representations of Japanese culture.
Current projects include studies in sesshou kindan
(laws prohibiting the killing of animals) and traditions of meat eating
as well as a translation of articles by historian Amino Yoshihiko on
Japanese historiography into German.
*page at Hamburg
/ online bibliography
Charlotte
von Verschuer
In recent years I did seminars on: clothing of Nara and Heian
times), Translations of San Tendai Godaisanki
(1072), Owari no gebumi (988), Zenrin
Kokuhōki (1470), Fukaki Hōshiden
(Shunjō's Travel Diary in China, 1199 to 1211); seminars on the
Peasant's daily life from the first to the twelfth month in Heian time,
the Tenson Kōrin myth in Nihonshoki,
eating vessels of Nara - Heian, and the like. I love: mercury, not to
drink myself but to watch ancient Chinese and Japanese drinking it (and
then trembling); mountain villages in Japan where burn-and-slash
agriculture was practiced until after the war; Chinese Song dynasty ink
painting; Tamerlane; the Chinese Yunnan Province; traditional
agricultural tools in Japanese village and city Minzoku Shiryokan (I
have an Edo time hoe at my house).
* Publications include: Le commerce exerieur du Japon, des
origines au XVle siecle_ Paris: Maisonneuve et Larose, 1988;
"Japan's Foreign Relations 600 to 1200 A.D.: A Translation from
Zenrin Kokuhouki." Monumenta Nipponica 54:1 (1999);
"Looking from Within and Without: Ancient and Medieval External
Relations", Monumenta Nipponica
55(4) Winter 2000; "L'autre agriculture: les cultures sur
brûl;lis dans le Japon ancien", Journal d'Agriculture
Traditionelle et de Botanique Appliquée, 37(2), 1995.["The
other way:
burn-and-slash agriculture in Ancient Japan"] // Le riz dans
la culture de Heian, mythe et realite (Paris: Institut des
Hautes Etudes Japonaises, 2003).
Michel Vieillard-Baron <michel.vieillard-baron[a]inalco.fr>
Assistant Professor of Japanese Literature, Department of Japanese
Language and Civilization, Institut National des Langues et
Civilisations Orientales
(Inalco/Langues'O), Paris.
I work on Japanese poetics, focusing on Fujiwara no Teika. I have
published Fujiwara no Teika (1162-1241) et la notion
d'excellence en poesie, Theorie et pratique de la composition dans le
Japon classique
(Paris: College de France, Institut des Hautes Etudes Japonaises, 2001,
ISBN 2-913217-05-2). My other publications include: "The Power of
Words: Forging Fujiwara no Teika's Poetic Theory. A Philological
Approach to Japanese Poetics", in, Michel Hockx and Ivo Smits (eds.), Reading
East Asian Writing, The limits of literary theory (London:
RoutledgeCurzon, 2003); "Le cormoran, le heron et le lapin: a propos
d'un corpus de traites de poesie apocryphes attribues a Fujiwara no
Teika", in, Eloge des sources, Reflets du Japon ancien et
moderne (Editions
Philippe Picquier, 2004) and, "Voix croisees: la compilation du
'Shinkokin wakashuu' a travers les temoignages de deux
protagonistes",
in L'anthologie poetique en Chine et au Japon,
Extreme-Orient
Extreme-Occident no. 25, Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, 2003. I
am presently going to study Teika's commentaries on Kokin wakashuu,
reading the "Kenchuu mikkan" and the " Hekian-shou".
Institute for Asian and African studies, University of Helsinki, Finland
I am a graduate student in the Institute for Asian and African studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland. My PhD dissertation topic is the roles and representations of the kami in setsuwa literature, especially in Kokonchomonjō. Fields of interest: intellectual history, history of various schools of Japanese Buddhism, Shinto-Buddhist relations, Heian & Kamakura era prose literature.
Alexander Vovin <sashavovin[at]gmail.com>
affiliation = University of Hawaii at Manoa
profile = http://www.hawaii.edu/eall/ppl/indiv/Jap/VovinAlexander.htm
Jos Vos
I graduated in Japanese studies at the University of Oxford (U.K.) in 1999. Since 2003 I have been active as a full-time literary translator, specialising in translations from Japanese to Dutch. Three of my translations have so far appeared with Arbeiderspers, a leading Dutch literary publisher: two volumes of travel journals and haibun prose by Matsuo Basho, fully annotated--De smalle weg naar het verre noorden ["the narrow path to the far north"] and De herfstwind dringt door merg en been ["the autumn wind pierces marrow and bone"]--and the novel In za Miso Supu by Murakami Ryu (2005). The autumn of 2006 should see the appearance of the first comprehensive Dutch anthology of pre-Meiji era Japanese literature, under the title Eeuwige reizigers ["Travellers of Eternity"].
In March 2006, I started work on the first Dutch translation of The Tale of Genji, to be published in Amsterdam by the literary publisher Athenaeum-Polak & Van Gennep.
Michael
Wachutka
After studying Japanology and Sinology at Tübingen University
in
Germany, I obtained my MA in Comparative Culture/ Asian Studies from
Sophia University in Tokyo. As a Ph.D. candidate at the Japanese
Department in Tübingen, I am currently a research fellow at
the German
Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ) in Tokyo, working on my thesis on
the life, ideas and 'behind-the-scene' influence of the kokugaku
scholar Iida Takesato (1827-1900) and other members of his 'Great Japan
Academic Association' (Oyashima-gakkai). My general interest lies in
all areas of Japanese history, but my focus now revolves around the
shifting interpretation of Japanese mythology throughout the nativist
movement spanning late Tokugawa and Meiji times, the adaptation of
western academic ideas and methods by Japanese scholars in early Meiji
Japan, and the role of kokugaku scholars in Meiji
academic institutions.
Publications: Klaus Antoni; Hiroshi Kubota; Johann Nawrocki; Michael
Wachutka (eds.), Religion and National Identity in the
Japanese Context, (Tuebingen, Germany, 2002) (BUNKA
- Tuebinger interkulturelle und linguistische Japanstudien BUNKA -
Tuebingen intercultural and linguistic studies on Japan, Bd./vol. 5,
2002, 304 S., LIT Publishers, Hamburg, Muenster, London. ISBN
3-8258-6043-4, Distributed in North America by: Transaction Publishers,
New Brunswick (U.S.A.) and London (U.K.); Wachutka, Michael. Historical
Reality or Metaphoric Expression? Culturally formed contrasts in Karl
Florenz' and lida Takesato's interpretations of Japanese mythology.
Hamburg, London: Lit-Verlag, New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers,
2001. [BUNKA - Tubinger interkulturelle und linguistische Japanstudien/
BUNKA - Tuebingen intercultural and linguistic studies on Japan, vol.
1]; "Matching kami with Modernity: an early
Meiji
intellectual's thought on electric light", in: Antoni, Klaus/ Kubota,
Hiroshi/ Nawrocki, Johann/ Wachutka, Michael (eds.). Religion
and National Identity in the Japanese Context. Hamburg,
London: Lit-Verlag, New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 2002. [BUNKA
- Tübinger
interkulturelle und linguistische Japanstudien/ BUNKA -
Tübingen intercultural and linguistic studies on Japan, vol.
5], pp. 217-234.
Haruko
Wakabayashi
I have just relocated to Japan this summer after having
taught at
the University of Alabama for four years. Presently, I am teaching a
course on the History of Tokyo at IES (the Institute for International
Education of Students), and, at the same time, working on my own
research. My field is in medieval Japanese history; I am particularly
interested in studying social and cultural history with the aid of
visual sources. My dissertation was on tengu as a symbol of evil (ma)
in medieval Japanese Buddhism (Princeton, 1995), in which I used the
emaki, "Tengu zooshi." I am presently working on revising it for
publication. I have also been interested in how the medieval Japanese
perception of Other and Foreign is reflected in the images of oni (i.e.
demonization of Foreign). I will present a paper for the AAS next
spring on how much of an impact the Mongol invasions had on the
Japanese presentation (and imagination) of war (especially against
foreign countries). Lastly, I was recently asked to contribute an
article to a three-volume series in Japanese titled "Kankyoo to shinsei
(mentalite) no bunka-shi." I am supposed to write something on "shizen
kankyoo (natural environment) to shuukyooshi--aratana paasupekutibu
(perspective)." I have an year to work on this project, and would like
to do some reading in Western language on discussions about nature,
enviornment, ecology & religion. I would appreciate if anyone
could
suggest any work on this subject.
Publications: "Tengu zooshi ni miru Kamakura bukyoo no ma to tengu" in
Gomi Fumihiko & Fujiwara Yoshiaki eds., Emaki ni
chuusei wo yomu
(Yoshikawa kobunkan, 1995); "From Evil Conqueror to the Devil King:
Images of Ryoogen and the Transformation of Ma in Medieval Japanese
Buddhism" in Monumenta Nipponica (Winter, 1999).
Judy Wakabayashi
Department of Modern and Classical Language Studies, Kent State
University, Ohio.
Research interests: Japanese-English translation, history of Japanese
translation, translation theory and pedagogy.
Glynne Walley
<walley[at]fas.harvard.edu>
Graduate student, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard. I
have an MA in Japanese literature from Washington University in St.
Louis. My thesis was on the Akutagawa Prize in the 1980s. I am now
working on my PhD at Harvard, and am considering working on late-Edo
comic fiction. At the moment I am particularly interested in Hiraga
Gennai.
John R.
Wallace
Stanford University
Heian memoirs (nikki) and prose (monogatari)
Loren D.
Waller
I am currently enrolled in the master's program at Kyoto
Prefectural University. My graduate thesis will be on gender in the
Kojiki. I received my bachelor's degree from Willamette University in
Japanese Studies, where I wrote my thesis on The Tale of Genji
and Fujiwara no Michinaga. I am also interested in the Kokugaku
movement.
Anne
Walthall
*Professor of History. University of California at Irving.
*
http://www.humanities.uci.edu/history/faculty/walthall/
Sook Young Wang
王淑英
Professor
of Japanese Literature, Department of Japanese Studies, Inha
University, Inchon, Korea. My research is on medieval Japanese
literature: waka and renga. I have had several books published in Japan
and Korea, for example: Inventing the Classics: National
Identity, Gender and Japanese Literature [translation of
title], Seoul: Somyeong Press 2002, Jisanka Kochū
Sōran [A Comprehensive Survey of Classical
Commentaries on Jisanka Poetry] Tokyo:Tokai University Press 1995.
Takeshi Watanabe
Yale University
I am just completing a PhD dissertation on Eiga monogatari.
My dissertation examines the work's representation of burials in a
tamaya, the relationships between fathers and daughters, and mono no
ke. As an appendix, I have also translated the last ten books
of Eiga. I am currently working part-time at the Yale Art
Gallery.
Wang Yong
Professor, Zhejiang University
Author or co-author of numerous books in Japanese including
-- Chugokushi no naka no Nihon-zou
-- Shoutoku Taishi jikuu chouetsu
J. Paul
Warnick
Brigham Young University
Michael Watson
<watson[at]k.meijigakuin.ac.jp>
Professor
of Japanese studies and comparative literature at Meiji Gakuin
University (Yokohama). Resident in Japan since 1980. Research
interests: Heike monogatari, its narrative and
reception in the visual arts and noh. Doctoral thesis for Oxford (2003)
on the
narrative style of Heike monogatari.
Originally trained in medieval European literature
(Cambridge, Manchester, UK). [Recent
biblio].
Terry Waugh
I am currently a student at the University of Sydney,
Australia. My
areas of interest include Japanese Buddhist history as well as East
Asian medical history.
Johan Wellens
Research fellow at the Department of Oriental Studies, Section
Japanology of the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium.
Michael Wert
Ph.D student at UC Irvine. Working on Tokugawa
history. Will be
focusing on Oguri Kozukenosuke (Tadamasa) for my
dissertation.
Recently presented conference papers on peasant swordsmen living in the
Kanto plain during the 19th century.
William
Wetherall <bill[at]wetherall.org>
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.
C. Miki
Wheeler
I am a doctoral student at UC Berkeley. My M.A. thesis focused on the
origins, development, and essential characteristics of wakan
renku,
Japanese-Chinese linked verse, a form of linked verse most widely
composed from the late Muromachi to the Edo periods. My primary
interest, however, is self-writing in the Heian and Kamakura periods.
For my dissertation I am currently translating Tamakiharu,
the
"diary" of Kengozen, written around 1220 about the years surrounding
the Gempei wars. My advisor is Professor H. Mack Horton.
Leila Wice
<LRW15[at]columbia.edu>
Ph.D. candidate, Japanese History, Columbia University; currently based
at the University of Tokyo's Historiographical Institute. I am in Japan
through Spring 2001, conducting research for my dissertation on the
social history of clothing codes from the mid to late nineteenth
century.
Johannes
Wilhelm
Born 1970. Currently student of Japanese Studies, European
Ethnology and Comparative History of Religions at the University of
Bonn. Interests: Japan's maritime culture, history of European-Japanese
relations, Japanese folklore.
Duncan
Williams
I'm a Ph.D. candidate at Harvard, but I'll be starting as a Visiting
Professor of Japanese Religions and Culture next fall at Trinity
College.
Bruce
Edward Willoughby
Executive editor for the Center for Japanese Studies, The University of
Michigan. The Center publishes books on premodern language, literature,
culture, and history in its Monograph and
Papers series. It also publishes the John Whitney Hall Book Imprint.
Steve Wills
I'm a second-year MA student in Japanese history at Columbia.
Although I've spent more time working on Meiji and Taisho than anything
truly "premodern," I'm hoping to do more research in Tokugawa/Sengoku
Japan in the near future. As a fledgling historian, I'm still trying to
figure out where to concentrate my efforts, but I have an abiding
interest in applying an environmental history perspective to the
Japanese context. I'm currently trying to develop a thesis on the Kanto
Daishinsai that will incorporate environmental methodology, and I'm
hoping to expand this research to include disasters in premodern
periods. This is the closest I can come to an area of specialization,
but my interests are all over the map, including but not limited to
intellectual and cultural history, gender studies, literature, and
visual culture.
Bradley Wilson
I'm a graduate student working on my Masters thesis at Arizona State
University with an expected graduation date of May 2008. The
subject of the thesis will be pre-modern literature and the use of onmyūdou/onmyūji
as a device in the plot. A special focus will be placed on
the renowned Abe no Seimei.
Tricia
Wilson-Okamura
I am a PhD candidate in Classical Languages and Literatures,
specializing in Homer, at the University of Chicago. My interests are
in martial epic, particularly Heike Monogatari, and
Greek drama.
Andrea Winter
Erickson
I am a graduate student at the University of Oregon. My
interests are Genji monogatari, women and Buddhism,
and bunraku.
Pamela D.
Winfield
I am currently finishing my doctorate in the Department of
Religion
at Temple University. My area of interest is 'Religion and
the Arts of
Japan' in general; my dissertation is entitled "Kukai and Dogen on the
Art of Enlightenment," It's basically a comparative investigation into
issues of iconicity and iconoclasm in early Japanese Buddhism. From
2001-2002 I conducted dissertation research at Nichibunken under Dr.
Yoritomi Motohiro thanks to a grant from the Cross-Cultural Institute
(for grad students who don't know it, it's a pretty great deal). I then
pursued independent research while living in Kamakura and teaching at
Temple's branch campus in Tokyo. After I finish my degree in May
(insha'allah), I will start a tenure-track position at Meredith College
in Raleigh, NC.
John Timothy
Wixted <timwixted[at]hotmail.com>
Professor of Asian Languages and Literatures, Arizona State University
I have a published HJAS article on the Kokinshu prefaces, have taught
semester-long Genji-in-translation courses twice, have a continued
interest in kambun and Sino-Japanese cultural relations.
*"a study of Chinese Influences on the Kokinshu
Prefaces" in Laurel Raspica Rodd, tr., Kokinshu:
A Collection of Poems Ancient and Modern (1984).
Michael Wood
I am at the University of Oregon. I am just beginning my
doctoral
program and I am interested in primarily Heian poetics, issues of
patronage, etc. My master's degree work was on the Makura no
soshi.
Yuchao Wu
Graduate student at UMass Amherst
Mostly classical studies, late Heian and Muromachi --prose and poetry,
translation and script reading.
Diana E.
Wright
Asst. Professor Japanese History, Western Washington
University, Bellingham WA
PhD., University of Toronto 1996
Areas of specialization:
Edo Japan in general--Religio-political sphere & Women's
History in particular Publications:
"Female Combatants & Japan's Meiji Restoration: the case of
Aizu" War in History, (Fall 2000) // "Mantokuji:
More Than A Divorce Temple", chapter in Engendering faith :
women and Buddhism in premodern Japan,
Barbara Ruch, ed. (Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, 2002);
"Severing the Karmic 'Ties That Bind': The Divorce Temple
Mantokuji", Monumenta Nipponica 52/3 (Autumn 1997):
357-80.
Janick Wrona <wrona[at]ling.bun.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Linguistics
Kyoto University
Webpage: http://ling.bun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~wrona/
Research interests: Complement clauses and relative clauses in Old and
Early Middle Japanese, syntactic changes in Old and Early Middle
Japanese.
Recent publications:
Wrona (Forthcoming a), A Study in Old Japanese Syntax:
Synchronic and diachronic aspects of the complement system,
volume 4 in the series The Languages of Northern and Central
Eurasia, Alexander Vovin (ed.), Global
Oriental: London.
Wrona (Forthcoming b), " Specificational pseudoclefts in Old Japanese "
in Folia Linguistica Historica volume 26.
Wrona (Forthcoming c), "The Modern Japanese complementisers no and koto
and their Old Japanese precursors: A diachronic explanation of free
variation " in Anna McNay (ed.) Oxford Working Papers in
Linguistics.
Rose Wunner
Graduate student. M.A. at Berlin Humboldt University on Mori
Ogai.
Present research focusses on ethics and etiquette during the Meiji era
and their representation in the works of Mori ōgai. 1999/2000
at Tokyo
University, then Cambridge University, UK.
Publications: Mori ōgai: Studies and Translations
in Western Languages - A Bibliography. Berlin, Japonica
Humboldtiana 2 (1998).
* a translation of a play by Mori ōgai into German: Mori
ōgai: "Das
Perlenkästchen und zwei mit Namen Urashima" (Tamakushige
futari
Urashima). Kleine Reihe 2. Berlin:
Mori-ōgai-Gedenkstätte der
Humboldt-Universität, 1997.
Naoko Yamagata <N.Yamagata[at]open.ac.uk>
I am a classicist by training [BA (ICU), MA (Tsukuba), MA & PhD
(London)] and specialised mostly in Homer, but have done a little bit
of comparative work on Homer and the Tale of the Heike,
and am very much interested to continue my research in this area.
Professionally, I was a full time lecturer in Classics at University of
Wales, Lampeter, from October 1995 till the end of March 2000, and have
just moved to the Open University in London as a lecturer (staff tutor)
in Classical Studies.
Publications: Homeric Morality (Leiden 1994) //
'Young and old in Homer and Heike monogatari' in Greece
& Rome
40 (1993): 1-10; "Homeeros to 'Heike monogatari' ni okeru
kami no
kengen no hikaku--chooshizen genshoo wo ika ni yomu ka" [Epiphanies in
Homer and in the Tale of the Heike--Reading the Supernatural in
Literature]" Gengo bunka (Meiji Gakuin Univ.) vol.
14 (1997): 1-16; Review of Mae J. Smethurst, The Artistry of
Aeschylus and Zeami in Journal of Hellenic Studies
111 (1991): 218-19.
Hilofumi
Yamamoto
PhD student at Japan Centre, Australian National University.
Sharon
Yamamoto
I am a Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley studying Japanese art
history.
I am interested in the relation between gender and art practice,
patronage and reception in premodern Japan.
Yumiko
Yamamori
Ph.D. student in the study of history of decorative arts at
Bard
Graduate Center, New York. My major interest is the Meiji export
artifacts and their cultural context.
Yamashita
Hiroaki
*Professor Emeritus of Nagoya University, now teaching at
Aichi Shukutoku University in Nagoya. Field of study: Heike
monogatari and other gunki monogatari.
Author of numerous books and articles. Editor of Meiji shoin Heike
monogatari (1975), Shinchosha Taiheiki
(1977) and other texts. Co-editor of Shin-NKBT Heike
monogatari (1991, 1993) now available in revised paperback
edition (Iwanami bunko, 1999). Recent studies include Katari
toshite no Heike monogatari (Iwanami, 1994) and Heike
monogatari yasaka-kei shohon no sogoteki kenkyu (1996).
The only work to appear in English is "The Structure of "Story-telling
(Katari) in Japanese War Tales with Special Reference to the Scene of
Yoshitomo's Last Moments," Acta Asiatica 37 (1976):
47-69.
Kikuko Yamashita
<Kikuko_Yamashita[at]brown.edu> 山下貴久子
Associate Professor of East Asian Studies at Brown University. Area of
spedialization is Historical Linguistics.
X. Jie Yang
<xyang[at]acs.ucalgary.ca>
Associate professor at the University of Calgary, Canada, where I teach
Japanese language and Japanese literature. During graduate study in
Kyoto University I studied Genpei Josuiki, a
special edition of Heike Monogatari. In recent
years, I am much more interested in emaki
(picture scrolls). Currently I am invited as a visiting associate
professor at Nichibun-ken (International Research Center for Japanese
Studies) in Kyoto. My topic is "Picture Scrolls and the Multi-media." I
am working on a project as a continuation to my recent publication "kanaCLASSIC"
, to present the classical works as well as our academic knowledge
through the powerful new technology.
--kanaCLASSIC can be ordered from Amazon.com (link above). Further
information from: Institute
for Medieval Japanese Studies or Columbia
UP
http://www.ucalgary.ca/~xyang/
Toshiko
Yokota
PhD "Buson as Bunjin: The Literary Field of
Eighteenth-Century Japan"
Assistant professor at California State University, Los Angeles (Dept.
of Modern Languages and Literatures)
* http://www.calstatela.edu/faculty/tyokota/
Gerry
Yokota-Murakami
PhD: East Asian Studies and Comparative Literature, Princeton
University, 1992
Position: Professor, Osaka University
Major Publications:
(1) The Formation of the Canon of Noh: The Literary Tradition
of Divine Authority (Osaka UP, 1997)
(2) Translation Editor, Gender and Japanese History,
2 vols. (ed. Wakita Haruko, Anne Bouchy, and Ueno Chizuko, Osaka UP,
2000)
Joint Research Projects at ICRSJ (NichiBunKen, International Center for
Research in Japanese Studies):
(1) Women in Japanese Literature: Representation and Self-Expression
(with Haga Toru, 6/95-3/97)
(2) Japan's Transition to Modernity (with Inami Ritsuko, 4/97-3/99)
(3) Noh as Living Theater (with Jay Rubin, 7/00-3/01)
Current Interest: Revivals of noncanonical noh (fukkyoku)
URL: http://www.lang.osaka-u.ac.jp/~gyokota/
Joshua Young
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of East Asian Literature, Cornell
University.
I am currently working to finish a dissertation on performance theory
in writings on performed storytelling (wagei),
particularly rakugo, in Nineteenth-century Edo.
*"Crosscurrents: Language Styles and Codes in the Nineteenth Century:
Making the Scene with Shikitei Sanba" (abstract
of AJLS talk, 2000)
Reinhart
Zoellner
East Asian History, the University of Erfurt, Germany.
A feature of my URL
of possible interest to members of the mailing list is the section
called "komon sensu" which offers exercises in reading handwritten Edo
period sources.
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