Bøger i Brill's Japanese Studies Libra serien

Authorizing the Shogunate is a study of the symbolic construction of warrior order in the Heike monogatari corpus.

Through close reading of photography-inspired texts by Tanizaki, Abe, Horie and Kanai, The Rhetoric of Photography in Modern Japanese Literature by Atsuko Sakaki examines the Japanese literary engagement with photography as a means of bringing forgotten subject-object dynamics to light.

In Turbulent Streams: An Environmental History of Japan's Rivers, 1600-1930, Roderick I. Wilson shows how rivers have played an important role in Japanese history and moves beyond conventional stories of technological progress and environmental decline to provide a dynamic history of environmental relations.

Through looking at fragments of poetry on garbage and as graffiti, as well as at lesser-studied sources, like inscriptions on pottery, architecture, and especially wooden tablets known as mokkan, this book explores how both writing and literature spread through early Japan.

"The 'Opening of Japan' has been central to the retelling of Japan's modern history. Reopening the Opening of Japan fundamentally reconsiders what that historical moment entailed. What did intensified connections between Japan and the world mean both inside and outside of the country, and what does this tell us about Japan's historical significance on a global scale? The chapters excavate a rich array of surprising cross-border connections, from the global trade in mummified mermaids to the Japanese-Russian intellectual links underpinning the work of Akira Kurosawa. Re-thinking connectivity through non-state transnational perspectives, the book guides readers to new ways of doing and writing history. Contributors are: Lewis Bremner, Natalia Doan, Manimporok Dotulong, Maki Fukuoka, Eiko Honda, Sho Konishi, Mateja Kovacic, Joel Littler, Chinami Oka, Yu Sakai, Olga Solovieva, and Warren Stanislaus"--

The first book that focuses on the founding of territories as a main motif of Japanese mythology and argues for paying more attention to the territorial cults and their basically horizontal world view in general.