...Nobuko Miyama Ochner Records of Wind and Earth: A Translation of Fudoki with Introduction and Commentaries . By Michiko Y. Aoki . Monograph and Occasional Paper Series, Number 53. Ann Arbor : Association for Asian Studies , 1997 . xii, 347 pp. $36.00. Copyright © The Association...

...John Young Izumo Fudoki . By M. Y. Aoki . Tokyo : Monumenta Nipponica , 1971 . 145 pp. Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $7.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1972 1972 BOOK REVIEWS 675 bution of variants of a normative example. Dr. Ikeda refers to several...

... of 136 references to countries. Folklorists who depend upon indexes will be pleased with this volume. Japanologists will find the Japanese Index, pp. 349-356, of the most value. Here are listed titles of stories as they may appear in Japanese collections. FANNY HAGIN MAYER Whittier, Calif. Izumo Fudoki...

... in the mosaic of world history within the context of Central Eurasian connections would benefit by the lively prose of Walker's Aurel Stein: Pioneer of the Silk Road. DAVID M. KALIVAS Northeastern University JAPAN Records of Wind and Earth: A Translation of Fudoki with Introduction and Commentaries. By M I C H...

.... Berkeley, 1952. 87. This issue of the annual consists of three articles; Roy A. Miller, "A Note to Karlgren's Phonologie 17.1"; Donald Richardson, "Some Nara Fragments: The Bungo Fudoki"; Alex Wayman, "Introduction to T-on kha pa's.Lam rim chen mo." The first paper is a study of Karlgren's reconstruction...

... Phonologie 17.1"; Donald Richardson, "Some Nara Fragments: The Bungo Fudoki"; Alex Wayman, "Introduction to T-on kha pa's.Lam rim chen mo." The first paper is a study of Karlgren's reconstruction of the voiced stop finals in Archaic Chinese, parallel to the -p, -t, -k of his Ancient Chinese. In the second...

... , and Hitachi fudoki , stressing the significance of the origins and meaning of speech in all these works. Bialock argues that the Fudoki ’s Yamato-takeru story—admittedly spoken “in the language” (p. 127) of the Yamato court—represented an alternative mode for articulating movement, which he hints is an early...

..., and deities. I highly recommend it. The reinvention of the fudoki was entrusted to the labor of scholars and antiquarians whom domain lords had entrusted also with the compilation of historical and genealogical records. Chapters 2 and 3 follow the activities of one of these scholars, Kaibara Ekiken...

... and textual questions, a bibliography, two conversion tables to facilitate reference to Japanese editions of the texts, and, finally, three varieties of index. Cranston begins his anthology with "songs" {kayo, verse that was originally orally performed) from the chronicles and the fudoki (local gazetteers...

... Watari no Hitobito” [People crossing to the pure land of Fudaraku]. In Kazan Rettō no Shisō . Tokyo : Chikuma Shobō . Aoki Michiko Yamaguchi , trans. 1971 . Izumo Fudoki . Tokyo : Sophia University Press . Kenkyūjo Minzokugaku , ed. 1956 . Sōgō Nihon Minzoku Goi [Dictionary...

... of Japanese studies, makes a highly important ancient text accessible to both specialists and nonspecialists. It will be a standard English version of Fudoki for many years to come. NOBUKO MlYAMA OCHNER University of Hawaii at Manoa Japan, Internationalism, and the UN. By RONALD DORE. London and New York...

...: The Hitachi Fudoki and the Fujiwara” (Michiko Aoki, pp. 103–27), and chapter 9, “Sasaki Muneo: The Court-centered Polity” (Piggott, pp. 227–44). While some of the texts presented were already meticulously annotated by their original authors, as in the case of chapter 7, “Hotate Michihisa: Traffic Between...

....) accounts into a single record, arranged with judicious omissions according to Wheeler's conception of what is appropriate. Then to make the Narrative complete, it is supplemented by further interweaving of translations from "lesser Scriptures," comprising selections from the various Fudoki (Topographical...

... and the Imagination of Disaster . New York : Metropolitan Books . Edo Jidai Hito Zukuri Fudoki Hensanshitsu , ed. 1994 . Edo jidai hito zukuri fudoki: Furusato no hito to chie: Aomori . Tokyo : Nōsangyoson Bunka Kyōkai . Fagan Brian. 1999 . Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Niño and the Fate...

... for the tales, each entry followed by the corresponding tale numbers. Many of the sources are small regional collections, representing the work of ninety collectors. The introduction briefly traces the relationship of folk tales to such writings as Kojiki (712) and fudoki (gazetteers, eighth century) down...

... for a regionally based sociological history of religion in early modern Japan rmly grounded in local political, social, and economic organizations. The study is based on meticulous readings of rich primary source materials, the fudoki (gazetteers) commissioned by Tokugawa and Meiji authorities on rural...

... by the corresponding tale numbers. Many of the sources are small regional collections, representing the work of ninety collectors. The introduction briefly traces the relationship of folk tales to such writings as Kojiki (712) and fudoki (gazetteers, eighth century) down to the otogizoshi of the Muromachi (1336 1573...

.... But the work is also (dare I use the word?) a deconstruction of two of Japan's most hoary and hallowed literary genres, fudoki (gazetteers) and tabi bungaku (travel writing). It is filled with phrases such as "This is more or less the sort of thing they write in travel guides" (Westerhoven, p. 19) and "People...

... in Japan, even granting that it was in fact a novel. Moreover, when Igarashi attempts to elucidate the style of the work from the fact that Kukai said it was "narrated" and concludes that "like the Kojiki, the Fudoki and the Ujibumi" it was probably written in Japanese using Chinese characters (1:145), we...

... in Japan]. 1976 . In Mitsusada Inoue and Shōsuke Ōsone , eds., Nihon shisōtaikei , vol. 7 . Tokyo : Iwanami Shoten . Dekisai kyō miyage [Gifts of Dekisai from the capital]. 1916 . In Kyoto sōsho , vol. 7 . Kyoto : Rinsen Shoten . Fudoki [Chronicles of the provinces]. 1974...