Search Results for shojo

.... It is argued that the genre developed in close connection to the culture of shōjo (female adolescence) as an antithesis to adulthood, in which women are expected to undertake domestic duties. The paper then incorporates contexts for male-oriented fan culture of shōjo and anime aesthetics that emerged...

... and cosplay without really mentioning skits or performances. Lunning's discussion of theater here resonates strongly with work on shōjo theory and discussions of place. There is an issue with the choice of wording throughout the text that makes me uncomfortable as both a Japanese studies person...

... . “ Yoshiya Nobuko's ‘Yaneura no nishojo’: In Search of Literary Possibilities in Shōjo Narratives .” U.S.-Japan Women's Journal English Supplement 20 : 151 –78. Dollase Hiromi Tsuchiya . 2003 . “ Early Twentieth Century Japanese Girls' Magazine Stories: Examining Shōjo Voice in Hanamonogatari...

... Worlds," focuses on anime's ubiquitous images of shojo (young girl), specifically in the work of perhaps the bestknown anime author, Miyazaki Hayao, and also in several romantic comedy series. Neither child nor adult, attractive, yet non-threatening, the shojo is an in-between existence or a liminal...

... by Minoru Shinoda in The Founding of the Kamakura Shogunate (New York, i960). 12 Baisho ron [Discussion of Plums and Pines], in Gunsho ruiju [Classified Collection of Japanese Classics] (Tokyo, 1904), XIII, 200. 13 The Shogun's attendance at this lecture is recorded in the Shojo Ko\ushi nempu [Personal...

... in the world as gutsy and adorable shōjo (girls) with attitude? With an array of possibilities, it appears that culture projects onto maiko fear and desire, just as was done onto moga (modern girls) in the 1920s. Bardsley presents a provocative, comprehensive look at the representation of maiko...

.... The most rewarding chapters are those which embed a genre within larger issues or theoretical frameworks. Susan Napier's finely nuanced analysis of girls' manga foregrounds shojo (premarital female) as a pivotal figure. Here are girls-next-door who fly, suck blood, read minds, and save lives. The mind...

... (in the performance experiments of Miyazawa Akio) and the “simplistic and ethnocentric” superflat theories of Murakami Takashi. (The gratingly sexual shōjo image of Murakami's Hiropon splashes across the cover, causing some to give me odd stares at cafés as I reread for this review.) Uchino Tadashi has been...

... nuanced analysis of girls' manga foregrounds shojo (premarital female) as a pivotal figure. Here are girls-next-door who fly, suck blood, read minds, and save lives. The mind boggles at the degree to which manga invites flights of fantasy in explorations of the young female in Japanese society. Paul...

... S aito 's “Magic, Shōjo , and Metamorphosis: Magical Girl Anime and the Challenges of Changing Gender Identities in Japanese Society.” It is a wide-ranging look at a popular and evolving genre that features a distinctive type of female hero figure, and has much to offer readers who enjoyed...

... to be continued off-stage, either as models for real males or as fashion in a Takarasienne's (or a fan's) daily life. In fact, insofar as it involved an understanding of "male psyche," the training of so-called shojo (postpubescent but unmarried females) to do "male" gender was advertised as a practical step...

... of birth, height, and weight while wishing for his “continued health” (Xu 2014 , 76). Ichirō also graced the cover of a 1941 photo album published by the Maruyama Zoo, the text of which further reaffirmed his status as the “number-one orangutan in East Asia” ( tōyō ichi no shōjō ) (Taihoku shiyakusho...

... symmetric, restructuring of female identities unfolded over the same period. One fascinating example is the emergence of the category of shōjo (girl) from around the turn of the twentieth century, on which see Suzuki ( 2009 ), especially part 1. 23 On the figure of the “beautiful boy” in Meiji...

... ) ; Innoshima Murakami monjo [Documents of the Innoshima Murakami], doc. 14, 3.21, Ōuchi Yoshioki shojō [Ōuchi Yoshioki letter], 557. This document is incorrectly dated in this volume, and should date from the late Meiō/Bunki (circa 1498–1504) eras. For this insight I am indebted to Wada Shūsaku. 4...

... Wandārando” (Encore/Déjà: Murakami Haruki and the “Hard-Boiled Wonderland”). Tokyo : Yōsensha . Masayuki Takagi . 1985 . Zengakuren to Zenkyōtō (Zengakuren and Zenkyōtō). Tokyo : Kōdansha . Treat John . 1993 . “ Yoshimoto Banana Writes Home: Shōjo Culture and the Nostalgic Subject...

... of the series, epitomizes the otomen . He is tall and cool, and the captain of the kendo team at his school. But right from the start of the series, the audience knows that he loves feminine things such as girls’ comics ( shōjo manga ), sparkly and cute stuff, sewing, and cooking. But Asuka is forced to hide...

... Naoharu . 1992 . Heian-chō zenki bungaki-shi no kenkyū [Studies in Early Heian Literary History]. Tokyo : Ōfūsha . Kuūsojinagai Hitaku . 1978 . Heian jidai kana shojō no kenkyū [Studies in Heian Period Kana Manuscripts]. Tokyo : Kazama shobō . LaMarre Thomas . 2000 . Uncovering...

... the Ryojin Hisho: Kusa no tori no shizukeki ni Jikyo hoshi no mae ni koso Shojo seze ni mo aigataki Fugen Satta wa mietamae. No matter how many times he is reborn, Fugen Bosatsu appears In front of the holy man reading the Lotus Sutra In the stillness of his hut. (Ryojin Hisho 2:168; Enoki 1979:80) An image...

... shimpo , February 16, 1913). The matter did not end there. On February 17, the Okinawa mainichi newspaper reported that Yamakawa Kamato, a twenty-year-old woman supposedly transmitting divine messages from the kami , had predicted a second fire (“Shinrei shojo ni tsukite,” Okinawa mainichi...