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Journal of Asian Studies (1999) 58 (3): 843–844.
Published: 01 August 1999
...James O'Brien The Similitude of Blossoms: A Critical Biography of Izumi Kyōka (1873–1939), Japanese Novelist and Playwright . By Charles Shirō Inouye . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press , 1998 . $40.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1999 1999 BOOK...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2002) 61 (2): 731–732.
Published: 01 May 2002
...Matthew Königsberg Spirits of Another Sort, The Plays of Izumi Kyōka . By M. Cody Poulton . Ann Arbor : University of Michigan, Center for Japanese Studies , 2000 . xv , 346 pp. $49.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 731...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1979) 38 (3): 499–517.
Published: 01 May 1979
...David Pollack Abstract In Japan between 1770 and 1790, the craze for witty, comic verse forms such as kyōka and senryū, infected the ancient and noble tradition of poetry written in Chinese to produce kyōshi, “wild Chinese poetry.” Written in both Edo and Kyoto by poets of the lower samurai...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1999) 58 (3): 840–843.
Published: 01 August 1999
... of cutting-edge inquiry and scholarship. ANNE ALLISON Duke University The Similitude of Blossoms: A Critical Biography of Izumi Kyoka (1873 1939), Japanese Novelist and Playwright. By CHARLES S H I R O I N O U Y E . Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998. $40.00. Charles Inouye tells us in his...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2002) 61 (2): 722–724.
Published: 01 May 2002
..., 1999302 pp. $45.00 (cloth). Rigorous use of psychoanalytic and feminist theories, coupled with close textual analyses, make Nina Cornyetz's exploration of a literary trope of the "dangerous woman" a stimulating study. Cornyetz singles out three writers, Izumi Kyoka, Enchi Fumiko, and Nakagami Kenji...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1979) 38 (3): 449.
Published: 01 May 1979
... such as kyoka and senryu, infected the ancient and noble tradition ofpoetry written in Chinese to produce kyoshi, "wild Chinese poetry." Written in both Edo and Kyoto by poets of the lower samurai and educated townsmen classes, kyoshi ranged from silly puns and parodies of long-petrified Chinese verse forms...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1999) 58 (3): 844–846.
Published: 01 August 1999
... the perspective offered by his archetype to critique his subject. During the final stage of his career, Kyoka shifted his interest from the ethereal eroticism of his greatest stories to a more direct presentation of declining sexuality in the aging male protagonist. He finally managed to redirect his creative...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (2): 449–454.
Published: 01 May 2019
... instead creates the potential for dialogue and commentary. The importance of this distinction is apparent in Nakamura's treatment of Izumi Kyōka's Kōya Hijiri (1900) as a site of reproducing the homosocial bonds of hygienic discourse with the alluring, but invisibly infected, female body. Given...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (1): 266–267.
Published: 01 February 2012
... Higuchi Ichiyō's characters in its portrayal of a woman struggling to cope with the realities of a Meiji marriage. Izumi Kyōka, a name often associated with the shinpa stage, unravels a story of adultery using characteristically poetic language and image association in The Ruby , a work perhaps most...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (1): 253–255.
Published: 01 February 2014
... of these three strands of Japanese nature aesthetics and their syncretic synthesis during the Edo period. These strands converged in popular arts, which engaged people from all walks of life: haikai , senryū , kyōka , woodblock prints, and tea ceremony. These artistic genres were accessible and appealing...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2002) 61 (2): 721–722.
Published: 01 May 2002
... three writers, Izumi Kyoka, Enchi Fumiko, and Nakagami Kenji, to explore this trope, which is inextricably connected to the reconfiguration of the "premodern," spiritually empowered woman. Cornyetz inquires into the development of modern phallic subjectivity as she explores how the varying...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (3): 955–956.
Published: 01 August 2003
... to the argument of the book. Finally, women are almost completely absent from the discussion. With the exception of Heian ladies and some kyoka poets and rakugo performers, women appear to exist only as the targets, rather than tellers, of jokes in Japan. In other contexts, the author posits joking as a means...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2002) 61 (2): 732–733.
Published: 01 May 2002
... usage in general, Poulton (with one notable exception, pp. 103 9), offers scant proof for his claims, at one point even suggesting (p. 289) that the reader find and read a passage from Kyoka out loud for himself. This is all the more regrettable since debates about language usage (gembun itchi equals...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1997) 56 (1): 210–211.
Published: 01 February 1997
... at the back of the book). These authors include internationally known figures such as Kawabata, Abe, Akutagawa, and Oe; lesser-known but canonized writers such as Izumi Kyoka, Miyazawa Kenji, and Ishikawa Jun; popular writers of the likes of Murakami Haruki and Tsutsui Yasutaka; and virtual unknowns...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1993) 52 (4): 1033–1034.
Published: 01 November 1993
..., kibyoshi, kyoka, and ukiyoe, Seigle knows that the Yoshiwara was as much a product of Japanese imaginative practices as it was a material entity. A complex and thoughtful picture, marked out by numerous subheadings and well-organized sections, emerges from these multiple sources and points of contact...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (4): 1247–1249.
Published: 01 November 2010
... Shōyō's translation of Shakespeare; Yosano Akiko's poetry; Gothic literature by Tanizaki Junichirō, Izumi Kyōka, and Arishima Takeo; Ōshiro Tatsuhiro's Okinawan literature; and Murakami Haruki's journal of the Sydney Olympics. Whereas there have been many publications about images of the Other in Japan...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1999) 58 (4): 1143–1145.
Published: 01 November 1999
... ultimately the one mention of the bird of the title. The objective eye of the narrator in "Mars" has become the deeply entangled indeed barely surviving narrator of "The Raptor." The aspiring bicyclist of the final gasps of war in "Moon Gems," with his longing for the escapist world of the kyoka master...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1983) 42 (2): 417–419.
Published: 01 February 1983
... tradition, and the kyoka and senryu add a nice touch of humor. Yadoyano Meshimori (1753 1830) proves to be more practical than Tsurayuki: When it comes to poets, the clumsier the better what a mess if heaven and earth really started to move! (Watson, p. 362) 418 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Approximately...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1986) 45 (4): 847–849.
Published: 01 August 1986
..." is characteristically a refuge, a dream zone to which the spirit (or male ego, at any rate) may regress and find respite from the disorienting pressures of life in an era of overwhelmingly rapid progress. Among the nine pieces of modern fiction that Tsuruta takes as examples, some such as Izumi Kyoka's Koya hijiri...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1997) 56 (1): 211–213.
Published: 01 February 1997
... are represented (although only 24 are included in a "Biographical reference" section at the back of the book). These authors include internationally known figures such as Kawabata, Abe, Akutagawa, and Oe; lesser-known but canonized writers such as Izumi Kyoka, Miyazawa Kenji, and Ishikawa Jun; popular writers...