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...Chieko Irie Mulhern Naomi . By Junichirō Tanizaki . Translated by Anthony H. Chambers . New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 1985 . x, 237 pp. Introduction. $15.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1986 1986 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 863 in consumer preferences, with the goal...

...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...

...Chieko Irie Mulhern Facing Two Ways: The Story of My Life . By Shidzue Ishimoto , with an Introduction and Afterword by Barbara Molony . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press , 1984 . xxix, 373 pp. Photographs. $35 (cloth); $10.95 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian...

... this Japanese genre and to explain why it is a genre. Her ideas will have to be taken into consideration by scholars who wish to continue this exploration. KAREN BRAZELL Cornell University Pagoda, Skull, and Samurai: Three Stories by Rohan Koda. Translated by CHIEKO IRIE MULHERN. Rutland, Vt., and Tokyo...

...James M. Phillips BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 417 Indeed, it is difficult to fault Mulhern on any aspect of the translation. In semantic accuracy, faithfulness of tone, and nuances of style, her work ranks among the best. Nonetheless in the description of the Abbot Roen, Mulhern translates the phrase...

...Laurel Rasplica Rodd Japanese Women Writers: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook . Edited by Chieko I. Mulhern . Westport, Connecticut : Greenwood Press , 1994 . xi, 524 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1995 1995 566 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES manner...

... solely for herself the victim-author the moral prerogative to represent and judge the events she and her fellow hibakusha lived through. CHIEKO IRIE MULHERN turns to the popular-fiction form of Sanrio romances, which she sees as a new genre of woman's writing in Japan, relatively uninfluenced...

... that power by creating a multitude of narrative voices, and finally casts doubt on any voice, even her own. Chieko Irie Mulhern's article takes a somewhat sociological approach to the most reader-oriented of all genres Harlequin romances, which take their content from perceived interests and expectations...

... why it is a genre. Her ideas will have to be taken into consideration by scholars who wish to continue this exploration. KAREN BRAZELL Cornell University Pagoda, Skull, and Samurai: Three Stories by Rohan Koda. Translated by CHIEKO IRIE MULHERN. Rutland, Vt., and Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1985...

..., 524 pp. This volume consists of biocritical articles on fifty-eight Japanese women writers, ranging from the ninth century poet Ono no Komachi to the contemporary novelist, cartoonist, and songwriter Yamada Eimi (b. 1959)- Editor Chieko Mulhern states that criteria for inclusion in the anthology were...

... : Harvard University Press , 1991. Reprint. Modleski Tania . 1982 . Loving with a Vengeance: Mass-Produced Fantasies for Women . New York : Routledge . Mulhern Chieko Irie . 1989 . “ Japanese Harlequin Romances as Transcultural Woman's Fiction .” Journal of Asian Studies 48 ( 1 ): 50...

... readings and suggest illuminating critical approaches. In formulating this volume, Mulhern set an ambitious agenda: the entries, which range from five to twenty pages, survey the lives, the major works, and the translated works of each author, and attempt to offer "cultural and literary insights" as well...

... this novel useful and interesting, too, as an anatomy of the battle between the sexes in the modern domestic setting, in which it is difficult to tell the loser from the winner and the victim from the victimizer. CHIEKO IRIE MULHERN University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Going to War with Japan, 1937...

... figures. Robert Rolf's Masamune Hakucho is a good example of what can be accomplished within the confines of the Twayne Series. Although students ofJapanese literature are acquainted with Hakucho's name, he is not widely read either in Japan or abroad. As was the case with Chieko Mulhern's volume on Koda...

... Employment Law before ratifying it in May 1985. The republication of the English edition by Stanford University Press is a welcome step in the right direction. CHIEKO IRIE MULHERN University of Illinois, Urbana Sugawara and the Secrets of Calligraphy. Edited and translated by STANLEIGH H. JONES, J R . New...

... (trans The Roots of Wisdom: Saikontan [FRITS vos] HUNTER (comp Concise Dictionary of Modern Japanese History [w. DEAN KINZLEY] 1ROKAWA; JANSEN (ed The Culture of the Meiji Period [ j . VICTOR KOSCHMANN] ISHIMOTO, Facing Two Ways: The Story of My Life [CHIEKO IRIE MULHERN] JONES (ed. and trans Sugawara...

... in Comparative Perspective YEH, WEN-HSIN, Dai Li and the Liu Geqing Affair: Heroism in the Chinese Secret Service During the War of Resistance Japan ALLINSON, GARY D., Politics in Contemporary Japan: Pluralist Scholarship in the Conservative Era A Review Article MULHERN, CHIEKO IRIE, Japanese Harlequin Romances...

... Literary Diaries with Western Autobiographical Writings [KAREN BRAZEU] MUfO; MORRELL (trans Sand and Pebbles (Shasekishu): The Tales of Mujii Ichien, A Voice for Pluralism in 159 Kamakura Buddhism [WILLIAM R. LAFLEUR] MULHERN (trans Rigoda, Skull, and Samurai: Three Stories by Rohan Koda [EARL JACKSON, JR...

... ofKumazawa Banzan's Commentary on The Tale of the Genji [CHAOTE LIN] MULHERN (ed Japanese Women Writers: A Bio-CriticalSourcebook {LAUREL RASPLICA RODD] NESTER, European Power and the Japanese Challenge [GERALD D. SULLIVAN] OHNUKI-TIERNEY, Rice as Self [FELICIA G. BOCK] PARILLO, TheJapanese Merchant Marine...