...Alexander C. Soper Abstract In an earlier publication I reported briefly on the irreparable damage caused to the Hōryūji Kondō by the fire of January, 1949. After the almost total destruction of the great series of mural paintings that had been preserved there since the eighth century...

...Dorinne Kondo Work and Lifecourse in Japan . Edited by David W. Plath . Albany : State University of New York Press , 1983 . xii, 267 pp. Tables, Figures, Index. $30.50 (cloth); $9.95 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1984 1984 206 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...Dorinne K. Kondo Becoming Japanese: The World of the Pre-School Child . By Joy Hendry . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press , 1986 . 175 pp. $18.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1988 1988 142 T H E J O U R N A L OF A S I A N S T U D I E S Hardacre...

...Nancy Rosenberger Crafting Selves: Power, Gender and Discourses of Identity in a Japanese Workplace . By Dorinne K. Kondo . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1989 . xiii , 346 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1991 1991 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 157...

... because it is so lively and clear. CHRISTOPHER CHASE-DUNN Johns Hopkins University About Face: Performing Race in Fashion and Theater. By D O R I N N E KoNDO. New York and London: Routledge, 1997. 277 pp. $17.95. About Face is a provocative new book that speaks "from the margins." Its subject diverges...

...Wallace S. Baldinger Katsushika Hokusai . By Ichitaro Kondo . English adaptation by Elise Grilli. Kodansha Library of Japanese Art, No. 1. Tokyo : Tuttle , 1955 . i, 10 . Biographical Chronology, Bibliography, 29 Color Plates, 15 Halftones. $1.00. Toshusai Sharaku . By Ichitaro...

... and Anne Foster . Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press . Barclay Paul D. 2004 . “‘Seiban Kondō’ no monogatari: Chūō sanmyaku ōdan ni inochi o kaketa Nihonjin no shōden” [The Saga of “Kondo the Barbarian”: A Japanese Life Spent Crossing Taiwan's Central Mountains]. Taiwan genjūmin kenkyū...

.... Crafting Selves is the vividly written account of the author's extended fieldwork as a part-time worker in a small confectionery factory in Japan. In this book, Kondo proves that fieldwork in Japan can contribute to the cutting edge of anthropological thinking. Her approach disputes positivistic claims...

...Lisa Yoneyama About Face: Performing Race in Fashion and Theater . By Dorinne Kondo . New York : Routledge , 1997 . i, 277 pp. $17.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1999 1999 844 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES exuberance. On several occasions Inouye uses...

.... 1991 1991 158 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Second, Kondo uses feminist and poststructuralist theories to argue that self is not a fixed, essential center of truth. People have power to continually reshape each other in multiple, contradictory, and changing ways. Kondo, a Japanese-American, shows...

..., was prepared to make a Shanghai trip, and so Kondo Eizo, a student recently returned from the United States who had come to Communism in New York, was selected. Kondo went to Shanghai in April 1921, and he has described his trip in some detail.52 According to his account, he met with a group of thirteen men...

... because it is so lively and clear. CHRISTOPHER CHASE-DUNN Johns Hopkins University About Face: Performing Race in Fashion and Theater. By D O R I N N E KoNDO. New York and London: Routledge, 1997. 277 pp. $17.95. About Face is a provocative new book that speaks "from the margins." Its subject diverges...

... the notion that the Japanese company is a harmoniously cooperative family, Dorinne K. Kondo compellingly delineates the tensions between authority and solidarity within an uchi, focusing on the micropolitical struggle between the owner of a small family business and his employees. The owner's discourse...

... . Kazuo Minami . 1997 . Edo no fushiga (Satirical art in the Edo period). Tokyo : Yoshikawa kobunkan . Kazuo Minami . 1999 . Bakumatsu isshin fushiga (Satirical art of the Bakumatsu and Restoration period). Tokyo : Yoshikawa kobunkan . Masayuki Minejima . 1984 . Kondō Hidezō...

...-kuan. This study of the Shoshikan with its careful collating and presentation of source material will be of particular interest for scholars of Buddhism. E. DALE SAUNDERS University of Pennsylvania Katsushika Hokusai. By ICHITARO KONDO. English adaptation by Elise Grilli. Kodansha Library of Japanese...

... by Western scholars. With its wide-ranging scholarship, clear-headed analysis, and lively style, The Similitude of Blossoms sets a high standard for these anticipated studies. JAMES O'BRIEN University of Wisconsin-Madison About Face: Performing Race in Fashion and Theater. By DORINNE KONDO. New York...

... THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES four remain unexcavated; the other two have vertical chambers, a form both temporally and "politically" correct for the early Yamato polity. More disturbing are Brown's misreadings of his sources. On page 125 he credits Kondo Yoshiro and Shiraishi Taichiro with seeing Yamato...

...; the other two have vertical chambers, a form both temporally and "politically" correct for the early Yamato polity. More disturbing are Brown's misreadings of his sources. On page 125 he credits Kondo Yoshiro and Shiraishi Taichiro with seeing Yamato headquarters as moving from the southern to the northern...

... been well illustrated in her discussion of the authenticity of Baizhang's monastic codes, which has been disputed by scholars such as Griffith Foulk. Following the Japanese scholar Kondo Ryoichi, Foulk argued some years ago that Baizhang's monastic regulations (Baizhang qinggui) are a myth manufactured...