Rethinking Japanese Modernism

CONTENTS......Page 6
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 10
LIST OF FIGURES......Page 12
PART ONE: RETHINKING JAPANESE MODERNISM......Page 14
JAPANESE MODERNISM RECONSIDERED......Page 16
REWRITING THE LITERARY HISTORY OF JAPANESE MODERNISM......Page 50
MODERNISM AND MODERNITY......Page 75
THE MODERN IN MEIJI JAPAN—AND ELSEWHERE IN TIME AND PLACE......Page 86
‘OVERCOMING MODERNITY’ AND CONFLICTING VIEWS OF JAPAN’S CULTURAL MISSION: INOUE TETSUJIRŌ AND SAWAYANAGI MASATARŌ......Page 96
AWAKENING BETWEEN SCIENCE, ART AND ETHICS: VARIATIONS OF JAPANESE BUDDHIST MODERNISM, 1890–1945......Page 118
PART TWO: MODERNISM IN JAPANESE FICTION FROM AKUTAGAWA TO SHIINA......Page 138
A MODERNIST NOSTALGIA: THE COLONIAL LANDSCAPE OF ENLIGHTENMENT TOKYO IN AKUTAGAWA RYŪNOSUKE AND EDOGAWA RAMPO......Page 140
COSMOPOLITANISM AND ANXIETY OF INFLUENCE IN AKUTAGAWA RYŪNOSUKE’S KIRISHITAN MONO......Page 161
LITERARY APPROPRIATIONS OF THE MODERN: THE CASE OF AKUTAGAWA RYŪNOSUKE AND AUGUST STRINDBERG......Page 177
MODERNISM AND ITS ENDINGS: KAJII MOTOJIRŌ AS TRANSITIONAL WRITER......Page 201
SHIINA RINZŌ: A JAPANESE LITERARY RESPONSE TO THE ‘OVERCOMING MODERNITY’ SYMPOSIUM......Page 214
PART THREE: MODERNISM IN PREWAR JAPANESE POETRY AND MUSIC......Page 242
MODERNISM IN PREWAR JAPANESE POETRY......Page 244
A MODERNIST TRADITIONALIST: MIYAGI MICHIO, TRANSCULTURALISM, AND THE MAKING OF A MUSIC TRADITION......Page 259
CHANGING THE SUBJECT: MODERNISM AND THE TRAVEL POETRY OF MORI MICHIYO......Page 283
ABORTED MODERNISM: THE SEMANTICS OF THE AVANT-GARDE IN YAMAMURA BOCHŌ’S ‘PRISMISM’......Page 299
‘OVERCOMING MODERNITY’ IN KENJI MIYAZAWA......Page 323
PART FOUR: MODERNISM IN JAPANESE PAINTING......Page 334
REORIENTING PAINTING......Page 336
TRANSCENDING THE BOUNDARIES OF THE ‘ISMS’: PURSUING MODERNITY THROUGH THE MACHINE IN 1920S AND 1930S JAPANESE AVANT-GARDE ART......Page 352
‘FAIR IS FOUL, AND FOUL IS FAIR’: KYOTO NIHONGA, ANTI-BIJIN PORTRAITURE AND THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE GROTESQUE......Page 375
PART FIVE: MODERNISM IN JAPANESE POPULAR CULTURE AND EVERYDAY LIFE......Page 398
JAPANESE MYTHOLOGICAL MODERNISM: THE STORY OF PUCK AND THE APPEARANCE OF KINDAIJIN......Page 400
TAKARAZUKA AND THE MUSICAL MODAN IN THE HANSHIN REGION 1914–1942......Page 421
THE DEPARTMENT STORE: PRODUCING MODERNITY IN INTERWAR JAPAN......Page 441
ABE ISOO AND BASEBALL—NEW SOCIAL RELATIONS BEYOND THE FAMILY-STATE INSTITUTION......Page 465
PART SIX: MODERNISM TO POSTMODERNISM IN JAPANESE THEATRE AND FICTION......Page 484
EVOLUTIONARY ASPECTS OF MODERNISM IN JAPANESE DRAMA......Page 486
INSTRUCTING, CONSTRUCTING, DECONSTRUCTING: THE EMBODIED AND DISEMBODIED PERFORMANCES OF YOKO ONO......Page 503
AFFECTIVE AND COGNITIVE MAPPING IN POST-1960s JAPAN: THE INFLUENCE OF AMERICAN MELANCHOLIC MODERNISM AND EMERGING POSTMODERNISM ON MURAKAMI HARUKI’S EARLY FICTION AND BEYOND......Page 515
INDEX......Page 534