...Edward Kamens Fictions of Femininity: Literary Inventions of Gender in Japanese Court Women's Memoirs . By Edith Sarra . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 1999 . xiii, 328 pp. $55.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2000 2000 442 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

...Susan Matisoff The Three Jewels . By Edward Kamens . Ann Arbor : University of Michigan, Center for Japanese Studies , 1988 . xii, 446 pp. $29.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 862 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Although the details may be a little...

..., Conn.: Yale University Press, 1997. xii, 324 pp. $40.00. It is difficult to do justice in a few paragraphs to the challenging, multilayered arguments that Edward Kamens presents in Utamakura, Allusion, and Intertextuality in TraditionalJapanese Poetry. Articulating in detail a sophisticated perspective...

...Joshua S. Mostow The Buddhist Poetry of the Great Kamo Priestess: Daisaiin Senshi and the Hosshin Wakashū . By Edward Kamens . Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies, Number 5. Ann Arbor : Center for Japanese Studies, The University of Michigan , 1990 . xi, 170 pp. Copyright...

..., and Intertextuality in Traditional Japanese Poetry. By E D W A R D K A M E N S . New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1997. xii, 324 pp. $40.00. It is difficult to do justice in a few paragraphs to the challenging, multilayered arguments that Edward Kamens presents in Utamakura, Allusion, and Intertextuality...

... from collaboration among art historians Carolyn Wheelwright and James Ulak, literary historian Edward Kamens, and art history graduate students Kendall Brown and Helen Mitsu Nagata. This collegial team made the decision to probe deeply into the qualities and meanings of just fifty objects selected from...

... to the aesthetics of suki, poets' fascination, and obsession with, once more, the thing or place itself that had so long served as figure. Finally, chapter 4 examines the creation of the Saisho shitenno, with its wall paintings of famous places, each accompanied by a waka. Here Kamens draws together concrete...

... on "ie and family life" and "ceremonial and the ie," may also be useful in classroom situations where the distinctive character of the Japanese ie is a central topic. RAYMOND A. JUSSAUME, J R . Washington State University The Three Jewels. By EDWARD KAMENS. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, Center...

... literal and theological, facing women in their practice of Buddhism; the adaptation of secular methods of poetic composition to religious themes and the history of such adaptations while also providing an important example (despite Kamens' own hesitancy on this point) of a mid-Heian woman's ability...

... to produce anything but excellent poems? (trans. Richard Bowring, Murasaki Shikibu: Her Diary and Poetic Memoirs [Princeton University Press, 1982], pp. 123-25). Given this distinction, the lack of attention paid to Senshi is rather surprising Kamens' bibliography lists only some ten articles (no books...

... famously hid his same-sex desire behind a mask of heteronormativity in Confessions of a Mask ( Kamen no kokuhaku , 1949). And in another postwar work of prose fiction, Masks ( Onnamen , 1958) by Enchi Fumiko, Mieko masks her rage and scheming to divert her perfidious husband's bloodline...

.... EDWARD KAMENS Yale University Japan's Economic Diplomacy With China, 1945-1978. By YOSHIHIDE SOEYA. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999- ix, 187 pp. $60.00. Contrary to the ambiguous title of his work, Japan's Economic Diplomacy, Yoshihide Soeya proves that Tokyo did not determine economic relations...

.... Adolphson, Edward Kamens, and Stacie Matsumoto, Heian Japan, Centers and Peripheries (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2007); and Herman Ooms, Imperial Politics and Symbolics in Ancient Japan: The Tenmu Dynasty, 650–800 (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2008). Finally, in her interpretation...

... to be freighted with ambivalence, if not tabooed in the last century and a half. Had this shift not occurred, what need would there be to explain the closeted ruminations in Mishima Yukio's famous novel Kamen no kokuhaku (1949; trans. Confessions of a Mask , 1958), for example. In this classic of queer...

... Ion, A. Hamish, 428 Jacobson, Helga E., 216 Jacobson, Lisa, 992 Jaffrelot, Christophe, 86 Janelli, Roger L., 982 Jayasena, Nalin, 476 Jeganathan, Pradeep, 460 Johnson, Donald Clay, 483 Jonsson, Hjorleifur, 798 Kaimal, Padma, 768 Kamens, Edward, 442 Kammerer, Cornelia Ann, 487 Kaplonski, Christopher...

... is that from Kamen no kokuhaku by Mishima Yukio. Meredith Weatherby's translation is nothing short of superb, and makes us wish that we had the complete work in English. And yet it is highly doubtful whether this excerpt, for all its virtues, is representative of even Mishima alone, much less of the work...

... nite no monogatari (Tale at a Promontory), Tokyo, Sakurai Shoten, 1947. 49 Mishima Yukio, Kamen no kokuhaku (Confession of a Mask), Tokyo, Kawade Shobō, 1949. 50 Mishima Yukio, “Kurosuwādo pazuru (Crossword Puzzle),” Bungei sbunjū , Jan., 1952, 254–265. 51 Shiina Rinzō...

.... Mountain View, Calif., Pacific Pub. Association [C1968] 1 v. (unpaged) illus. (A Destiny book D-123) 7812. Nguyen khac Vien. North Vietnamese medicine facing the trials of war. [Hanoi] Vietnamese Studies [1967] 100 p. 7813. Nonnemann, H. C. Wir fragten nicht woher sie kamen. Arzt in Vietnam. [Hamburg...