Category Archives: culture

Fun Link Friday: Ukiyo-e Memes

Posted on January 8, 2021 by Paula

Being tethered to our computers for the last year, it seems like 2020 was also the year of the meme. Whether just trying to alleviate our anxieties and stresses or calling out poor behavior on the part of public figures, … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Women and Networks In Nineteenth-Century Japan

Posted on January 3, 2021 by Paula

Women and Networks In Nineteenth-Century Japan Bettina GRAMLICH-OKA is Professor of Japanese History at Sophia University (Tokyo).MIYAZAKI Fumiko is Professor Emerita at Keisen University (Tokyo).SUGANO Noriko was Professor at Teikyo University (Tokyo).Anne WALTHALL is Professor Emerita at the University of … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Pleasure in Profit: Popular Prose in Seventeenth-Century Japan

Posted on December 27, 2020 by Paula

Pleasure in ProfitPopular Prose in Seventeenth-Century Japan Laura Moretti In the seventeenth century, Japanese popular prose flourished as waves of newly literate readers gained access to the printed word. Commercial publishers released vast numbers of titles in response to readers’ … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Eating Wild Japan: Tracking the Culture of Foraged Foods, with a Guide to Plants and Recipes

Posted on December 20, 2020 by Paula

Eating Wild JapanTracking the Culture of Foraged Foods, with a Guide to Plants and Recipes Winifred Bird with illustrations by Paul Poynter From bracken to butterbur to “princess” bamboo, some of Japan’s most iconic foods are foraged, not grown, in … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Ishikawa Sanshirō’s Geographical Imagination: Transnational Anarchism and the Reconfiguration of Everyday Life in Early Twentieth-Century Japan

Posted on December 13, 2020 by Paula

Ishikawa Sanshirō’s Geographical ImaginationTransnational Anarchism and the Reconfiguration of Everyday Life in Early Twentieth-Century Japan Nadine Willems In modern Japan, anti-establishment ideas have related in many ways to Japan’s capitalist development and industrialization. Activist and intellectual Ishikawa Sanshirō exemplifies this … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Kyoto: A Literary Guide

Posted on December 6, 2020 by Travis

Kyoto: A Literary Guide Edited by John Dougill Reposting from the official blurb on the Camphor Press website: This fascinating selection of Kyoto-specific literature takes readers through twelve centuries of cultural heritage, from ancient Heian beginnings to contemporary depictions. The … Continue reading →

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Fun Link Friday: Ukiyo-Enerator

Posted on December 4, 2020 by Paula

In case you need some more things to do on the internet instead of thinking about what you should be doing, the Ota Memorial Museum of Art collaborated earlier this year to create a “Make Your Own Ukiyo-e” page. Just pick … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Turning toward Edification: Foreigners in Chosŏn Korea

Posted on November 29, 2020 by Travis

Turning toward Edification: Foreigners in Chosŏn Korea by Adam Bohnet University of Hawaiʻi Press, December 2020 Though not a book on Japan, Turning toward Edification promises to be a valuable volume for insights into how categories of identity (“ethnicity” if … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Comfort Women: A Movement for Justice and Women’s Rights in the United States

Posted on September 13, 2020 by Paula

Comfort Women: A Movement for Justice and Women’s Rights in the United States Edited by Jung-Sil Lee and Dennis P. Halpin. This new edited volume archives nearly thirty years of activism, records the achievements of the “comfort women” redress movement … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Marriage and Marriageability: The Practices of Matchmaking between Men from Japan and Women from Northeast China

Posted on August 16, 2020 by Paula

Marriage and Marriageability: The Practices of Matchmaking between Men from Japan and Women from Northeast China BY CHIGUSA YAMAURA How do the Japanese men and Chinese women who participate in cross-border matchmaking—individuals whose only interaction is often just one brief … Continue reading →

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