Ise monogatari Reader

Joshua S. Mostow, Ph.D. (1988), is Professor of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia. He has published monographs, translations, and many articles on Japanese premodern literature and visual culture, including Courtly Visions: “The Ise Stories” and the Politics of Cultural Appropriation (Brill, 2014). Yamamoto Tokurō, Ph.D. (2001) is Professor Emeritus of Kansai University. He is the leading authority on Ise monogatari and author of several monographs and articles, including Ise monogatari ron: buntai, shudai, kyōju (Kasama Shoin, 2001). Kurtis Hanlon is a graduate student in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia.

• AcknowledgmentsMatters TextualList of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsIntroductionJoshua S. MostowPart 1: Historical Context1 The Formation of the Ise monogatari and Its BackgroundImanishi Yūichirō2 The Significance of the Composition of the Ise monogatariGotō ShōkoTranslated by Imai Kazuhiko3 The Historical Reality of Ki no Aritsune and the Ise monogatariFujihara MikaTranslated by Yevheniy Vakhnenko and Kurtis HanlonPart 2: Antecedents and Descendants4 From Stories of Female Transcendents to the Ise monogatari: Taking Kaimami as a ClueYamamoto Tokurō5 Allusion to and Transformation of the Ise monogatari by “Murasaki Shikibu”Takahashi TōruTranslated by Tamada SaoriPart 3: The Ise and Noh6 Zenchiku’s Noh Play Oshio: Introduction and TranslationSusan Blakeley Klein7 The Structure of the Noh Play Kakitsubata: Zenchiku’s MethodŌtani SetsukoTranslated by Kurtis HanlonPart 4: The Commentary Tradition8 The Methodology of Late-Muromachi Ise Commentaries: Focusing on Sōgi and the Sanjōnishi SchoolAoki Shizuko9 Reading the Ise monogatari through The Tale of GenjiJoshua S. MostowPart 5: The Ise in the Early Modern Period10 The Landscape of “The Well-Curb”Fujishima Aya11 Playing Narihira: The Ise monogatari in Eighteenth-Century KibyōshiLaura MorettiAppendixFamily Tree of Principal PersonagesIndex of First Lines of PoemsSubject Index