...Aileen Gatten A Tale of Eleventh-Century Japan: Hamamatsu Chūnagon Monogatari . Translated and introduced by Thomas H. Rohlich . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1983 . xi, 247 pp. Works Cited, Index. $30. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1984 1984 336...

...Thomas H. Rohlich Murasaki Shikibu: Her Diary and Poetic Memoirs . By Richard Bowring . Princeton N.J. : Princeton University Press , 1982 . ix, 290 pp. Appendixes, Bibliography, Index of First Lines, Index. $25. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1984 1984 BOOK...

...Thomas H. Rohlich BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 551 organization. Actually, the CHLA rejected Marxist-Leninist theories and the call for a "proletarian revolution" because of their irrelevance to the Chinese community. Ironically, the political persecution of the CHLA may have been responsible for changing...

...Thomas H. Rohlich D'Etcheverry's research acknowledges the value of these tales in their own right as well as in their relationship and indebtedness to The Tale of Genji . An example is her analysis of The Tale of Sagoromo , in which she examines the tale's critique of the Sagoromo-Asukai...

... ' 339 poetry, but all waka should be translated in the same number of lines throughout a work. Rohlich's versions are anywhere from two to five lines long. Many are awkward or puzzling as English: "Day and night I stare / Into the snow darkening the sky; / It never stops" (p. 185). Others are truncated...

.... Princeton University A Tale of Eleventh-Century Japan: Hamamatsu Chunagon Monogatari. Translated and introduced by THOMAS H. ROHLICH. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983. xi, 247 pp. Works Cited, Index. $30. Until quite recently,, nonspecialists interested in Heian prose fiction have been obliged...

... byjapanese Women [VICTORIA VERNON NAKAGAWA] BOWRING, Murasaki Shikibu: Her Diary and Poetic Memoirs [THOMAS H. ROHLICH] BRANDON (ed Chushingura: Studies in Kabuki and the Puppet Theater [SUSAN MATISOFF] CAHILL, Sakaki Hyakusen and Early Nanga Painting [MELINDA TAKEUCHl] COBEN and FERSTER, Japanese Cloisonne...

... Hochstedler's translation of Yowa no Nezame monogatari [The Tale of Nezame: Part Three of Yowa no Nezame Monogatari] (Ithaca, N.Y: Cornell University East Asia Papers, 1979) and Thomas Rohlich's translation of Hamamatsu Chunagon monogatari [A Tale of EleventhCentury Japan: Hamamatsu Chunagon Monogatari...

... to the splendid translation and introduction, the authors are to be congratulated for the comprehensive and helpful list of characters for names and terms used in the text. THOMAS H. ROHLICH University of Iowa Japan in War and Peace: Selected Essays. By J O H N W . D O W E R . New York: The New Press, 1993. 335...

... translations are graceful and true to the original. This book is an important addition to our understanding of Heian literature and one that will serve scholars and students well in the future. THOMAS H. ROHLICH University of Iowa Chushingura: Studies in Kabuki and the Puppet Theater. Edited by JAMES R...

... Rohlich, Thomas H., 551 Rony, A. Kohar, 675 Rosenberger, Nancy R., 201, 1271 Ross, Heidi, 1256 Ross, Lester, 1212 1376 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Rowe, William T., 172 Roy, David T., 1356 Rozman, Gilbert, 517 Russell, Susan D., 1025 Sakai, Naoki, 573 Samanta, Suchitra, 779 Sarantakes, Nicholas Evan...