...Kojiro Tomita Jōdai Yamato-é zenshi . (Comprehensive history of early Yamato-é). By Saburō Ienaca . Tokyo : Takagiri Shoin , 1946 . viii, 534 p. 23 plates (45 illus.). 68 yen. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1951 1951 BOOK REVIEWS Jodai Yamato-e zenshi...

...Cornelius J. Kiley Abstract Historicalscholarship in postwar Japan has exhibited a renewed interest in the origins of dynastic rule in Yamato, and the process leading to the establishment of the Yamato rulers as sovereigns of an imperial polity in the seventh century. New theories of dynastic...

...Elizabeth de Sabato Swinton Painting in the Yamato Style . By Saburo Ienaga . Translated by John M. Shields . New York and Tokyo : Weatherhill/Heibonsha , 1974 . 162 pp. Plates, Appendix. $10.00. Narrative Picture Scrolls . By Hideo Okudaira . Translated and adapted...

...Sarah M. Nelson Paekche of Korea and the Origin of Yamato Japan . By Wontaek Hong . Seoul : Kudara International , 1994 . Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1995 1995 850 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES KOREA Paekche of Korea and the Origin of Yamato Japan. By W O N T...

...Sarah M. Nelson Relationship Between Korea and Japan in Early Period: Paekche and Yamato Wa . By Wontack Hong . Seoul : Pan Korea Book Corporation , 1988 . 279 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 636 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES This book...

...Richard H. Mitchell Requiem for Battleship Yamato . By Yoshida Mitsuru . Translated, and with an introduction, by Richard H. Minear . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 1985 . xxxvi, 152 pp. Translator's Introduction, Illustrations, Notes. $16.95. Copyright © The Association...

... in the 1920s will find it essential. PARKS M. COBLE University of Nebraska JAPAN Protohistoric Yamato: Archaeology of the First Japanese State. By G I N A L. BARNES. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, Center for Japanese Studies, 1988. xx, 473 pp. $15.00. In this "expedition into the archaeological record...

...Susan Downing Videen Tales of Yamato: A Tenth-Century Poem-Tale . Translated by Mildred M. Tahara . Honolulu : The University Press of Hawaii , 1980 . xvi, 318 pp. Appendixes. $15. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1982 1982 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 605 Shinto (end...

...Frederick S. Hulse Abstract Until 1945, the Japanese nation had never suffered a really major defeat. Humiliations, actual as well as imaginary, had been imposed, but never outright and final loss of a war, never invasion and occupation since the descent of the Yamato people themselves from...

... are presented with a theoretical distinction that locates the beginnings of lyricism precisely in the rift that divides it from myth. Mythology, lyricism's point of departure, is the subject of chapter 1, "Yamato Takeru: The Magical Metaphor." Levy takes the transformation of Yamato Takeru into a giant white...

... of Kaibara's works, Yamato Zokkun. The second part of the book is a translated version of Yamato Zokkun along with the Japanese text. Tucker presents common philosophical elements revealed in Kaibara's writing in Chu Hsi's Neo-Confucian thoughts; the concepts of "heaven and earth" (p. 54), and "humaneness (jen...

... form but at least in spirit, by such schools as the early Kano, the Sotatsu and the Ukiyo-e In recent times a strong revival of the spirit of Yamato-i may be noted The Yamato-e spirit has survived to this day, adapting itself to changes consistent with conditions in each period. From the above...

... in the form of authorship was contingent on the relative status of poet and patron, the social context in which the poem was composed, and the nature of the text in which the poem subsequently appeared. Within the Tosa Diary, all three contextual factors play a role in its account of poetry. Yamato Verse...

... then cover the Japanese past up to the abandonment of Nara in 784. J. Edward Kidder, Jr., gives encyclopedic treatment to the pre-Jomon, Jomon, and Yayoi periods, presenting the archaeological data with a degree of authority unequaled among Western writers. Brown then examines the emergence of the Yamato...

.... In 2016, the crisis spilled over into the public spotlight. That year, two parcel delivery drivers filed a lawsuit against Yamato Transport for unpaid overtime. The resulting judgment ordered the company to pay 24 billion yen in unpaid overtime to 59,000 employees. The amount of back pay owed...

... and its Queen Himiko is found in the Wei chih. The Koji\i is silent on these subjects, as is the Nihonsho\i, except for a debated footnote (Empress Jingo, 39th year). Where was Yamatai located in Japan? Was Yamatai located in Kyushu or on the Yamato plain? If in Kyushu, was it the state from which...

... of Yamato: A Tenth-Century Poem-Tale. Translated by MILDRED M. TAHARA. Honolulu: The University Press of Hawaii, 1980. xvi, 318 pp. Appendixes. $15. A dashing gentleman returns after a week of carousing to find that his sweetheart has become a nun. A young man enters the priesthood against the wishes of his...

...: Paekche and Yamato Wa. By W O N T A C K H O N G . Seoul: Pan Korea Book Corporation, 1988. 279 PP- Wontack Hong goes a step beyond the horse-rider theory in this scholarly and provocative work, which sheds new light on early Korea and Japan through careful reading of ancient documents. This book, a view...

... burial mound called Imaki zuka near one of the ancient capitals of Yamato, and some archeologists connect it with the tomb of Emperor Keitai (Sakamoto et al. 1967, 68:46). The word imaki was probably once a common noun meaning any new tomb. Then what does omoshiroki imaki (the happy times in Imaki) mean...

..., 1989- vi, 451 pp. $49.50 (cloth); $16.95 (paper). The first part of this study consists of a biographical sketch of Kaibara Ekken (1630 1714) with historical background about Neo-Confucianism in East Asia and its relation to Tokugawa Japan. This first part also analyzes one of Kaibara's works, Yamato...