{"title":"Tales of Idolized Boys: Male-Male Love in Medieval Japanese Buddhist Narratives by Sachi Schmidt-Hori (review)","authors":"M. Childs","doi":"10.1353/mni.2022.0028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2022.0028","url":null,"abstract":"1 Rieko Kamei-Dyche, “Networks of Wealth and Influence: Spatial Power and Estate Strategy of the Saionji Family in Early Medieval Japan,” in Land, Power, and the Sacred: The Estate System in Medieval Japan, ed. Janet R. Goodwin and Joan R. Piggott, pp. 319–50 (University of Hawai‘i Press, 2018). Though it covers a slightly later period, Michelle Damian’s chapter in the same volume, “As Estates Faded: Late Medieval Maritime Shipping in the Seto Inland Sea,” pp. 351–76, addresses both commodity flows and the Seto Inland Sea estates, which Kawai discusses in chapter 10. 2 Amy Stanley, Stranger in the Shogun’s City: A Japanese Woman and Her World (New York: Scribner, 2020); Christina Laffin, Rewriting Medieval Japanese Women: Politics, Personality, and Literary Production in the Life of Nun Abutsu (University of Hawai‘i Press, 2013); Sherry J. Funches, “Finding Sanjō Genshi: Women’s Visibility in Late Medieval Japanese Aristocratic Journals” (PhD dissertation, University of Michigan, 2017). For an earlier work with a significant focus on poetry, see Edward Kamens, The Buddhist Poetry of the Great Kamo Priestess: Daisaiin Senshi and Hosshin Wakashū (Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 1990).","PeriodicalId":54069,"journal":{"name":"MONUMENTA NIPPONICA","volume":"77 1","pages":"115 - 118"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46103612","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Prisoners of the Empire: Inside Japanese POW Camps by Sarah Kovner (review)","authors":"Mahon Murphy","doi":"10.1353/mni.2022.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2022.0014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54069,"journal":{"name":"MONUMENTA NIPPONICA","volume":"76 1","pages":"411 - 414"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49000603","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Namban Trade: Merchants and Missionaries in 16th and 17th Century Japan by Mihoko Oka (review)","authors":"A. Clulow","doi":"10.1353/mni.2022.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2022.0005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54069,"journal":{"name":"MONUMENTA NIPPONICA","volume":"76 1","pages":"372 - 375"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49124824","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pleasure in Profit: Popular Prose in Seventeenth-Century Japan by Laura Moretti (review)","authors":"R. K. Kimbrough","doi":"10.1353/mni.2022.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2022.0006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54069,"journal":{"name":"MONUMENTA NIPPONICA","volume":"76 1","pages":"375 - 378"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49360458","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nihongi Banquet Poetry: Rewriting Japanese Myth in Verse","authors":"M. Felt","doi":"10.1353/mni.2022.0000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2022.0000","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:At three banquets in 882, 906, and 943, Japanese courtiers gathered to drink wine and write poetry about the deities and heroes enshrined in Nihon shoki, Japan's first official state history. These poems evince how members of the Heian court imagined the origins of the imperial system and demonstrate how the poets related those origins to their own lives. They also tell a very different story about antiquity and the creation of Japan than does Nihon shoki, whose narrative they adapted to conform with the circumstances of their own era. This article examines how and why these adaptations were made and what this shift in meaning reveals about the reading and reception of Nihon shoki during the ninth and tenth centuries.","PeriodicalId":54069,"journal":{"name":"MONUMENTA NIPPONICA","volume":"76 1","pages":"249 - 290"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46934623","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Edo Castle as a Consumer: Procuring Fish for the Shogun's Table","authors":"Yūjirō Ōguchi, M. Burtscher","doi":"10.1353/mni.2022.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2022.0001","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:What did the shogun eat? How were the foodstuffs for his meals obtained? What might the investigation of these questions tell us about the part played by Edo Castle in the larger Tokugawa economy? This article attempts to find some preliminary answers to these questions. Starting from the procedures surrounding the shogun's meals and the personnel involved in their preparation and service, it goes on to examine the consumption of fish as a particularly important foodstuff and to explore what the castle's purchase routes for seafood may tell us about the economic interchange between Edo Castle and the surrounding commoner society.","PeriodicalId":54069,"journal":{"name":"MONUMENTA NIPPONICA","volume":"76 1","pages":"291 - 328"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41706286","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Japan's New Regional Reality: Geoeconomic Strategy in the Asia-Pacific by Saori N. Katada (review)","authors":"Kristi Govella","doi":"10.1353/mni.2022.0021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2022.0021","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54069,"journal":{"name":"MONUMENTA NIPPONICA","volume":"76 1","pages":"440 - 443"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44244738","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Liminality of the Japanese Empire: Border Crossings from Okinawa to Colonial Taiwan by Hiroko Matsuda (review)","authors":"Kirsten L. Ziomek","doi":"10.1353/mni.2022.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2022.0013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54069,"journal":{"name":"MONUMENTA NIPPONICA","volume":"76 1","pages":"404 - 411"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43382637","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Green with Milk and Sugar: When Japan Filled America's Tea Cups by Robert Hellyer (review)","authors":"W. Farris","doi":"10.1353/mni.2022.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2022.0012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54069,"journal":{"name":"MONUMENTA NIPPONICA","volume":"76 1","pages":"400 - 404"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46950960","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reflecting the Past: Place, Language, and Principle in Japan's Medieval \"Mirror\" Genre by Erin L. Brightwell (review)","authors":"D. Spafford","doi":"10.1353/mni.2022.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2022.0004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54069,"journal":{"name":"MONUMENTA NIPPONICA","volume":"76 1","pages":"367 - 372"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42017353","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}