Brill's Japanese Studies Library

Japanese Theatre and the International Stage

Capital Punishment in Japan

Koguryo: The Language of Japan’s Continental Relatives

An Introduction to the Historical-Comparative Study of the Japanese-Koguryoic Languages, with a Preliminary Description of Archaic Northeastern Middle Chinese. Second Edition

Imag(in)ing the War in Japan

Representing and Responding to Trauma in Postwar Literature and Film

Japanese Historiography and the Gold Seal of 57 C.E.

Relic, Text, Object, Fake

Harima Fudoki

A Record of Ancient Japan Reinterpreted, Translated, Annotated, and with Commentary

Japan on the Silk Road

Encounters and Perspectives of Politics and Culture in Eurasia

Listen, Copy, Read

Popular Learning in Early Modern Japan

Japan’s Sexual Gods

Shrines, Roles and Rituals of Procreation and Protection

From Outcasts to Emperors: Shingon Ritsu and the Mañjuśrī Cult in Medieval Japan

Values, Identity, and Equality in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Japan

Rhetoric of Photography in Modern Japanese Literature

Materiality in the Visual Register as Narrated by Tanizaki Jun’ichirō, Abe Kōbō, Horie Toshiyuki and Kanai Mieko

Mediated by Gifts

Politics and Society in Japan, 1350-1850

Parody, Irony and Ideology in the Fiction of Ihara Saikaku

Mutual Perceptions and Images in Japanese-German Relations, 1860-2010

Dancer, Nun, Ghost, Goddess

The Legend of Giō and Hotoke in Japanese Literature, Theater, Visual Arts, and Cultural Heritage

Women, Rites, and Ritual Objects in Premodern Japan

Not Seeing Snow: Musō Soseki and Medieval Japanese Zen

Engaging the Other: 'Japan' and Its Alter-Egos, 1550-1850

History of Russo-Japanese Relations

Over Two Centuries of Cooperation and Competition

Turbulent Streams

An Environmental History of Japan’s Rivers, 1600–1930

Ise monogatari Reader

Contexts and Receptions

Inscribed Objects and the Development of Literature in Early Japan

Sexuality, Maternity, and (Re)productive Futures

Women’s Speculative Fiction in Contemporary Japan

Graphic Narratives from Early Modern Japan

The World of Kusazōshi

Datsueba the Clothes Snatcher

The Evolution of a Japanese Folk Deity from Hell Figure to Popular Savior

Esoteric Zen

Zen and the Tantric Teachings in Premodern Japan

Vendetta of the 47 Rōnin in Modern Kabuki

A Translation of Mayama Seika’s Genroku Chūshingura

Drugs and the Politics of Consumption in Japan