..., also available as e-book). The Tale of Genji . By Murasaki Shikibu , trans. Dennis Washburn . New York : W.W. Norton , 2015 . xxxviii, 1,320 pp. ISBN: 9780393047875 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book). Chinese Literary Forms in Heian Japan: Poetics and Practice...

...Elizabeth Oyler Flowering Tales: Women Exorcising History in Heian Japan . By Takeshi Watanabe . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center , 2020 . 303 pp. ISBN: 9780674244405 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc., 2020 2020 Eiga monogatari...

...Arthur Waley The Gossamer Years; A Diary by a Noblewoman of Heian Japan . Translated by Edward Seidensticker . Tokyo, Japan and Rutland, Vermont : Charles Tuttle Co. , 1964 . 201 , Appendix. $4.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1966 1966 344 JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

...E. Dale Saunders Konjaku. Altjapanische Geschichten aus dem Volk zur Heian-Zeit . Translated by S. Tsukakoshi . Zurich : Max Niehans Verlag AG. , 1956 . 243 . Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1960 1960 BOOK REVIEWS 349 text. As we have seen, she is so faithful...

...Seiko Yoshinaga Gender and National Literature: Heian Texts in the Constructions of Japanese Modernity . By Tomiko Yoda . Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press , 2004 . xiv , 277 pp. $84.95 (cloth); $23.95 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005 208 T H E J O...

... as The Tale of Sagoromo . D'Etcheverry constructs similar arguments for motifs in The Tale of the Hamamatsu Middle Counselor and Nezame at Night . Even though she focuses on only one major motif from each work as it relates to The Tale of Genji , as befits a pioneering study of late Heian tales...

...Richard L. Wilson The Rise of A Great Tradition: Japanese Archaeological Ceramics from the Jōmon through Heian Periods . By Richard Pearson , , New York : Japan Society , 1990 . 112 pp. $22.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1991 1991 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 939...

...Aileen Gatten Saibara: Japanese Court Songs of the Heian Period . By Elizabeth Markham . New York : Cambridge University Press , 1983 . Volume 1: Text, xx, 411 pp. Plates, Figures, Bibliography, Index of Musical Terms and Personal Names, List of Characters for Musical Pieces. $49.50...

...W. Michael Kelsey The Human Comedy of Heian Japan: A Study of the Secular Stories in the Twelfth-Century Collection of Tales ., Konjaku Monogatarishū. By Hiroko Kobayashi . Tokyo : The Centre for East Asian Cultural Studies , 1979 . East Asia Cultural Studies, No. 19. xv, 359 pp...

...H. Paul Varley A Tale of Flowering Fortunes: Annals of Japanese Aristocratic Life in the Heian Period . Translated, with an Introduction and Notes, by William H. and Helen Craig McCullough . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 1980 . 2 vols. 444 pp. and 488 pp. Preface...

...Ivan Morris Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1970 1970 The Izumi Shikibu Diary: A Romance of the Heian Court . By E. A. Cranston . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1969 . x + 191 pp. Notes to Introduction, Notes to Translation, Bibliography, Index of First...

...Virignia Skord The Riverside Counselor's Stories: Vernacular Fiction of Late Heian Japan . Translated, with an Introduction and Notes, by Robert L. Backus . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press , 1985 . xxxiv, 234 pp. Introduction, Notes, Bibliography. $35. Copyright ©...

... of Heian Japan's Literary Diaries with Western Autobiographical Writings. By MARILYN JEANNE MILLER. New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1985. (Garland Publications in Comparative Literature.) x, 412 pp. Notes, Bibliography, Index. $55.00. Denning genres is a notoriously difficult and often...

... Western Washington University JAPAN Sugawara no Michizane and the Early Heian Court. By ROBERT BORGEN. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University, Council on East Asian Studies, 1986. (Harvard East Asian Monographs 120.) xviii, 431 pp. Illustrations, Charts, Notes, Bibliography, Glossary, Index to the Poems...

...D. L. Keene Shintei Heian-chō bungaku-shi . (A history of Heian literature, newly revised). By Igarashi Chikara . Tokyo : Tōkyō-dō , 1950 . 2 vols., 17 + 462 + 8 p. and 14 + 506 + 10 p. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1953 1953 362 FAR EASTERN QUARTERLY...

... that a greater range of non-heterosexual narratives be given voice through translation. ROMIT DASGUPTA University of Western Australia Writing Margins: The Textual Construction of Gender in Heian and Kamakura Japan. By T E R R Y KAWASHIMA. Harvard East Asian Monographs. Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center...

...Chieko Irie Mulhern Abstract My country “is now wholly given over to a d—d mob of scribbling women,” goes one of the most frequently quoted gender-related adages. Japanologists might be tempted to attribute this uncourtly utterance to a learned nobleman of Heian Japan (794–1185) embittered...

... a substantial medieval genre. Although present scholarship tends to seek authorship of the stories through analysis of social classes depicted in them, it is submitted that the more fruitful approach is rather through analysis of textual origins in pre-Muromachi literary traditions: Heian novel, Kamakura...

... poetry of the Japanese court in particular, for excessive artificiality, and for a lack of breadth, grandeur, and sustained power. The court poetry which was the supreme literary genre of the Heian and Kamakura periods is indeed restricted. In mode it is confined to lyricism; in form, to the 31-syllable...

...Conrad Totman Abstract A number of English-language scholarly studies of medieval Japanese institutional history have appeared in print in the past few years. This seems a fitting time to appraise their contribution to our understanding of Japanese history from late Heian through the Muromachi...