Dear All,


We are delighted to announce that the latest issue of/Japan Review /is available
Open Access here:

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/Japan Review /36 features
six fabulous articles and reviews of fourteen books. This issue sees the arrival of Ted Boyle as editor of the journal, who worked in tandem with the outgoing John Breen here. The issue's cover, an 1863 map of the imperial palace, was selected by John, and represents Kyoto during a period of tumultuous change to the established order ... what on earth could he mean?!?

The wider impact of this transitional period on society is the subject of Simon Partner's piercing study of the Wakayama artist Kawai Koume, whose prodigious artistic production underwent a considerable shift in the aftermath of the Meiji Restoration. Two articles, by Timon Screech and Shiraishi Eri, challenge us to reflect on the symbolism associated with famous examples of early modern Japanese art, in their articles examining the production of Hokusai's/Great Wave/ and Kakizaki Hakyō's/Ishū Retsuzō/,respectively. Another pair of articles hone in on the role of women in Buddhism, with Patricia Fister recovering the history of Kyoto's imperial convents, while Monika Schrimpf details the relational boundaries experienced and produced by ordained Buddhist women in Japan today. Finally, Massimiliano Tomasi exhorts us to take Dazai's engagement and struggles with Christianity seriously.

The books under review in this issue range widely over disasters, mountains, seas, high modernism, imperial rule, witches, revolution, consumerism and Silk Road adventures. All of these articles and books are accessible through the links below.



*Articles*

Maritime Disasters and Auspicious Images: A New Look at Hokusai's Great Wave
/Timon Screech/
http://doi.org/10.15055/00007769


The Auspicious Dragon Temple: Kyoto's "Forgotten" Imperial Buddhist Convent, Zuiryūji
/Patricia Fister/
http://doi.org/10.15055/00007770


Art and Gender in an Age of Revolution
/Simon Partner/
http://doi.org/10.15055/00007771


Fictitious Images of the Ainu: Ishū Retsuzō and Its Back Story
/Eri Shiraishi/
http://doi.org/10.15055/00007772


"What is the Antonym of Sin?": A Study of Dazai Osamu's Confrontation with God
/Massimiliano Tomasi/
http://doi.org/10.15055/00007773


Boundary Work and Religious Authority among Ordained Buddhist Women in Contemporary Japan
/Monika Schrimpf/
http://doi.org/10.15055/00007774



*Book Reviews*

/Legacies of Fukushima: 3.11 in Context/, edited by Kyle
Cleveland, Scott Gabriel Knowles, and Ryuma Shineha
http://doi.org/10.15055/00007775


/Defining Shugendō : Critical Studies on Japanese Mountain Religion/, edited by Andrea
Castiglioni, Fabio Rambelli, and Carina Roth
http://doi.org/10.15055/00007776 <http://doi.org/10.15055/00007776>


/Mountain Mandalas: Shugendō in Kyushu/, by Allan G. Grapard
http://doi.org/10.15055/00007777 <http://doi.org/10.15055/00007777>


/Shinto, Nature and Ideology in Contemporary Japan: Making Sacred Forests/, by Aike P. Rots
http://doi.org/10.15055/00007778 <http://doi.org/10.15055/00007778>


/Parallel Modernism: Koga Harue and Avant-Garde Art in Modern Japan/, by Chinghsin Wu
http://doi.org/10.15055/00007779 <http://doi.org/10.15055/00007779>


/Japan's Occupation of Java in the Second World War: A Transnational History/, by Ethan Mark
http://doi.org/10.15055/00007780 <http://doi.org/10.15055/00007780>


/Thought Crime: Ideology and State Power in Interwar Japan/, by Max M. Ward
http://doi.org/10.15055/00007781 <http://doi.org/10.15055/00007781>


/Drawing the Sea Near: Satoumi and Coral Reef Conservation in Okinawa/, by C. Anne Claus
http://doi.org/10.15055/00007782 <http://doi.org/10.15055/00007782>


/Mountain Witches: Yamauba/, by Noriko Tsunoda Reider
http://doi.org/10.15055/00007783 <http://doi.org/10.15055/00007783>


/Mass Media, Consumerism and National Identity in Postwar Japan/, by Martyn David Smith
http://doi.org/10.15055/00007784 <http://doi.org/10.15055/00007784>


/Japan on the Silk Road: Encounters and Perspectives of Politics and Culture in Eurasia/, edited by Selçuk Esenbel
http://doi.org/10.15055/00007785


Resource Review: Brill Asian Studies Primary Source Database
http://doi.org/10.15055/00007786


/Like No Other: Exceptionalism and Nativism in Early Modern Japan/, by Mark Thomas McNally
http://doi.org/10.15055/00007787


/Revolution Goes East: Imperial Japan and Soviet Communism/, by Tatiana Linkhoeva
http://doi.org/10.15055/00007788 <http://doi.org/10.15055/00007788>


/Japan Review/ solicits outstanding manuscripts relating to all aspects of Japan, past and present, and is open to submissions from across the humanities and social sciences. Subjects, methods and approaches of particular significance may be examined as Special Issues of the journal or as Special Sections within it.

For submissions and informal inquiries, get in touch atjr-editors@nichibun.ac.jp

Best wishes everyone!

Ted

Edward Boyle
*Editor, /Japan Review/*
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