...Michael P. Cronin A Sense of the City: Modes of Urban Representation in the Works of Nagai Kafū (1879–1959) . By Gala Maria Follaco . Leiden : Brill , 2017 . xi, 251 pp. ISBN: 9789004345379 (cloth). Nagai Kafū’s Occidentalism: Defining the Japanese Self . By Rachael Hutchinson...

...Frank Hoff Kafū the Scribbler: The Life and Writings of Nagai Kafū, 1879–1959 . By Edward Seidensticker . Stanford, California : Stanford University Press , 1965 . vi, 360 . Illustrations, Appendix, Bibliography, Index. $8.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1966...

...Tomi Suzuki Fictions of Desire: Narrative Form in the Novels of Nagai Kafū . By Stephen Snyder . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press , 2000 . viii, 195 pp. $42.00 (cloth); $17.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 1197...

... legacies still inform some of our approaches to Japanese art. To that end, I have a recommendation, or rather, a request for Max Put more of the same, please! ALLEN HOCKLEY Dartmouth College Fictions of Desire: Narrative Form in the Novels of Nagai Kafu. By STEPHEN SNYDER. Honolulu: University of Hawaii...

...Roland A. Lange Geisha in Rivalry . By Nagai Kafu . Trans. by Kurt Meissner , with the collaboration of Ralph Friedrich . Rutland, Vermont : Charles E. Tuttle Co. , 1963 . 206 . $4.50. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1964 1964 BOOK REVIEWS 473 that "Japan...

... 1198 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES out that in Udekurabe "value has been hollowed out of the demimonde because, as Kafu discovered from Loti and Flaubert, desire in the modern world is no longer a question of loyalty and affection but has surrendered to or been infected by the mediation...

.... IKLE The University of New Mexico Geisha in Rivalry. By NAGAI KAFU. Trans, by KURT MEISSNER, with the collaboration of RALPH FRIEDRICH. Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle Co., 1963. 206. $4.50. This book is a translation of Kafu's novel Ude\urabe, the story of Komayo, a beautiful and talented geisha...

... student will find this a useful reference work. The more advanced scholar will find a few recently discovered pearls among the words of the text, and most enlightening visual information in the plates. SHERMAN E. LEE The Cleveland Museum of Art Kafu the Scribbler: The Life and Writings of Nagai Kafu, 1879...

... for their country, most worried about what would happen to their families, and many—like Nagai Kafū—were glad that the war was over (p. 91). Several also reported that some Japanese servicemen were determined to fight on, even after the surrender. Keene highlights the variety of his diarists' reactions...

... 1966 124 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES after reading Seidensticker's work that there are things still to be said about the importance, the "greatness," of Kafu as a writer and about the special nature of the form he used for his fiction. There is a certain prejudice at work in the book against that form...

... for and against pornography in manga narratives. Continuities between this and the Lady Chatterley trial are used to show the simultaneous stagnation and development in censorship trials over the last fifty years. Part three analyzes the two trials of Nagai Kafū’s notorious “Underneath the Papering...

... Kafu was based on the men's sophisticated adaptation of western literary practices. Focusing on Ogai's Gan and Kafu's Bokuto Kidan, Snyder shows how the authors used the device of the embedded narrative to accommodate their penchant for "violations of the narrative order" (p. 147). Carol Cavanaugh...

..., such as Higuchi Ichiyō and Nagai Kafū. Cynthia Gralla's book The Demimonde in Japanese Literature explores artistic engagements with the Japanese demimonde in modern Japanese literature, film, photography, and dance. The book offers close readings of artists and thinkers as diverse as Kuki Shūzō and Murakami...

... on Western concepts and returned to the old Japan from which they had started so gallantly some ten years before.7 Nagai Kafu is an example. An ardent devotee of Zola and Maupassant in his youth, he wrote ]igo\u no \ana {A Flower of Hell, 1902), a naturalistic novel fashioned after Zola. He was nearly moved...

... to Akutagawa Ryunosuke, Hayashi Fumiko, Higuchi Ichiyo, Kunikida Doppo, Nagai Kafu, and Shiga Naoya. None of the essays has been published before and "all were submitted by people who have recently done research on works by their chosen author" (preface). The book's primary intent is not "to promote a single...

... by go-betweens. 44 Kaizō , XXV ( 04 1943 ), 118 – 119 . 45 Nagai Kafū Nikki . VI, 148 . (Entry for April 7, 1943). 46 Ibid, p. 158. (Entry for June 3, 1943). 47 Ibid, p. 163. (Entry for June 25, 1943). 48 Ibid, p. 180. (Entry for October 12, 1943...

... not in- centrating on the character types and the lan- clude Nagai Kafu, and why they do not offer BOOK REVIEWS 355 more essays on Soseki, Tanizaki, and Mishima. created architecturally beautiful novels that re- One hopes that more essays on works by these vealed the "crepuscular" (p. 66) beauty of man's writers...

... to allow his narratives to take on a life outside his own. The considerations of Kafu and Tanizaki in part 3, "Traces of the Self," scrutinize the deliciously evil tricks these two gifted writers played with the emerging "I-novel discourse," subverting reader expectations of "truthfulness" and thereby...

..., 1917 in the magazine Bunmei resulted in the deletion of the final portions of chapters three, five, eight, and ten, portions which contain vital information on Komayo and other characters, as well as the erotic scenes which caused them to be censored. Kafu was sufficiently concerned about the deletions...

... writes: "The Meiji government became seriously interested in controlling the content of literature only when the literature itself had become a serious art form after some four decades of experimentation" (p. 14). Second, the writers he focuses on Soseki, Ogai, Kafu, and Tanizaki Junichiro are major...