.... Roland Barthes's analysis of fashion discourse provides a specific critical apparatus for situating Heian poetics and consumer discourse on common ground. I borrow his insights on how classes of commodities and language concerning their uses enter into creative cross-referencing, in a way that resembles...

...Thomas LaMarre Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Writing Doubled Over, Broken: Provisional Names, Acrostic Poems, and the Perpetual Contest of Doubles in Heian Japan Thomas LaMarre It has now become nearly impossible to think of writing in early...

...Carole Cavanaugh Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 Text and Textile: Unweaving the Female Subiect in Heian Writing Carole Cavanaugh Attention to appearance, design, adornment, and color culminated in the tenth and eleventh...

...Tomiko Yoda 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 Literary History against the National Frame, or Gender and the Emergence of Heian Kana Writing Tomiko Yoda A number of narrative tales and diaries written during the mid-Heian period are counted among...

... stretching back into the early twentieth century. All the essays share a common historic period. The remaining essays go in different directions. In“LiteraryHistoryagainsttheNationalFrame,orGenderandtheEmer- gence of Heian Kana...

... experiences of colonial racism. Dean Brink’s “Commercial and Heian Modes of Intertextuality in Tanka by Tawara Machi” is a shift in direction, but this essay also reads poet- ics in the moment. The poetics at stake are those of Tawara...

... they can be rewritten in another register. Carole Cavanaugh’s “Text and Textile: Unweaving the Female Subject in Heian Writing” shows what kind of writing can replace the reductive social-science terms that stabilize something...

... of Doubles in Heian Japan” is not altogether dissimilar. In the essay Thomas LaMarre explains that inter- pretation of Heian scripts has conventionally been the province of Japanese nativist discourses. To override a chauvinist frame he opts...

... in the problematic of race, literature, and nationalism. Tomiko Yoda teaches Asian languages and literature at Duke University. She specializes in Heian literature and critical history of Japanese literary scholarship. Xudong Zhang teaches...

... the political economy of men’s extramarital sex in Hanoi. Catherine Ryu is an associate professor of Japanese language and culture at Michigan State University. While her primary field is classical Japanese literature (Heian narratives), her...

.... Instead, he consistently refers to Japan in atemporal terms, terms that avail themselves of static metaphors of sight. Though Iyer often refers to Heian Japan (A.D. 794- I 190 ), it is because he sees this period as paradigmatically...

... and countermodernism(s). Thomas Lamarre put it well when he criticized the trend among the theoretical vanguard of Japanology to conflate Heian poet- ics with Barthesian écriture: “If Heian writing seems to dovetail nicely with écriture, it is because its...

... . Leiden : Brill . Shunpū Kuwata . 1916 . Mohan jitsurei nichiyō meika no tegami (Model Examples of Everyday Letters by Famous People) . Tokyo : Ōkura Shoten . LaMarre Thomas . 2000 . Uncovering Heian Japan: An Archaeology of Sensation and Inscription . Durham, NC : Duke...

... and the evolution of written legal codes in the ancient period suggests that primogeniture and father-to-son succession were not indigenous to Japan. For the Heian period, William McCullough has convincingly argued that among the aristocracy...

... locations. My subtitle thus echoes one used by Thomas LaMarre in a study of Heian Oppenheim ❘ Writing Soˇkkuram 549 poetry that, analogously, seeks to draw out its “extralinguistic register[s4...

... of traditional dress in the feminine sphere. Simi- larly, the parlor of Mrs. Okura¯ contains a standing silk screen (kich¯o)ofthe kind common in Heian palace architecture, thus reaching back to classi- cal antiquity for a decorative object associated...

... 465 Thomas LaManv is an assistant professor in East Asian studies, McGill University. He is com- pleting a manuscript on politics and aesthetics in Heian Japan. John Lie teaches sociology at the University of Illinois...

... 1204 interests me.” Yet shots of everyday life in Tokyo — trains and street traf- c, homeless drunks, interiors of humble restaurants — are accompanied by narration about Heian classical culture and assertion of an essentialist...

... by Machu’s ¯ private mythology and cyberpunk/science fiction. Shimada also parodies the revered Heian period monogatari. Putatively pure, unadulterated spaces, such as that advocated positions 9:3 Winter 2001 604...

...), “Gakka heian” (“Peace for the Entire Family,” 1943), and “Zakuro” (“Guava,” 1943). 20. De Groot, Religious System of China, 1:260. 21. Hamada Hayao, “Shji sichi shi no chin fujin ni tsuite” (“On Shji Sichi’s Madame Chin...