Center for DENSHO Center for Japanese Studies University of Michigan Winter 2008 Winter 2008 Now Available from Center for Japanese Studies Publications

From the Director From the Executive Editor CONTENTS

CJS’s mission for promoting research on Japan for the One of our new publications, The From the has three elements: next generation of scholars – including the Bluestockings of Japan: New Woman Librarian 2 the Center “pro- groups of high-schoolers studying Japanese Essays and Fiction from Seitô, 1911-16, by motes and dissemi- who attend each year. Jan Bardsley [Michigan Monograph Series nates research on Three of our most public events in in Japanese Studies No. 60, 2007, xii + 308 Japan, fosters com- recent years have been initiated by Markus pp., 7 illustrations, ISBN 9781929280445 munication among Nornes (Screen Arts & Cultures and Asian (cloth), $70.00; ISBN 9781929280452 diverse disciplines, Languages & Cultures): a series of events (paper), $26.00], introduces English-lan- End of the Long Hot Summer – and encourages new associated with the visit of director Kiju guage readers to a formative chapter in the Remembering approaches in the understanding of Japan Yoshida and actress , a The Bluestockings of Japan: Mishima on Stage: The Black history of Japanese feminism by presenting Edward and its place in the world.” Lately I have Public Conversation with and for the first time in English translation a Seidensticker, New Woman Essays and Fiction Lizard & Other Plays 1921-2007 2 been especially gratified by the Center’s Michael Moore, and, most recently, a series from Seitô, 1911-16 Edited and with an introduction collection of writings from Seitô by Jan Bardsley by Laurence Kominz efforts in fulfilling the first prong – promot- of events involving actress . (Bluestockings), the famed New Women’s Foreword by ing and disseminating research on Japan. Each of these events has brought the study journal of the 1910s. Launched in 1911 as We promote and disseminate research of Japanese film to broad audiences that a venue for women’s literary expression in three primary ways. First, our included faculty, students, and researchers and replete with poetry, essays, plays, and Publications Program, headed by Executive as well as non-academics who were inter- stories, Seitô soon earned the disapproval Editor Bruce Willoughby and directed by ested, or at least curious, in Japan, culture, of civic leaders, educators, and even promi- Past CJS Events 4 Hitomi Tonomura (History), is committed to and film. I’m proud that our Center can nent women’s rights advocates. Journalists DENSHO producing important work by Japan schol- use events like these to dismantle the joined these leaders in ridiculing the Upcoming ars around the world. The recent catalog potential stuffiness of Ivory-Tower acade- Bluestockings as self-indulgent, literature- CJS Events 6 includes electronic publications and books mia while at the same time “actively pro- loving, saké-drinking, cigarette-smoking Faculty and on women’s Heian-Era memoirs, noh, ani- moting and disseminating research on tarts who toyed with men. Yet many young Associate News 7 mals in Japanese history and culture, and Japan.” Thanks to all of you – staff, stu- women and men delighted in the Student & one of my personal favorites, Tom Conlan’s dents, faculty, and a horde of volunteers – Bluestockings’ rebellious stance and paid Center for Japanese Studies Alumni News 7 University of Michigan fascinating State of War: The Violent Order for making these events happen. serious attention to their exploration of the Suite 3640, 1080 S. University of Fourteenth-Century Japan. Finally, the Center recently said good- “Woman Question,” their calls for women’s Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1106 Second, our faculty write and lecture bye to our administrator, Yuri Fukazawa. I independence, and their debates on on a diverse range of cutting-edge topics, was unable to convince Yuri, who moved women’s work, sexuality, and identity. such as Jennifer Robertson’s (Anthropology) away from Ann Arbor, that a daily 160- Hundreds read the journal and many study of robots, Maki Fukuoka’s (Asian mile one-way commute is perfectly accept- women felt inspired to contribute their own Announcements 8 Languages & Cultures) research on the use able. (Several of us actually tried to make essays and stories. of images in the Nineteenth and Twentieth that argument with a straight face.) Yuri is The seventeen Seitô pieces collected in Calendar 10 Century, and Michael Fetters’s (Family an amazing, dedicated, and thoughtful this book represent some of the journal’s Medicine) work on medical issues such as administrator – and on top of all of that an most controversial writing; four of these doctor-patient communication – all with a absolutely wonderful person. I rarely publications provoked either a strong repri- focus on Japan. attempt to speak for all of CJS, but I am mand or an outright ban on an entire issue Third, the Center actively promotes fairly confident that I am doing so when I by government censors. All consider topics and disseminates research through a vari- say that we will all miss Yuri. important in debates on feminism to this ety of free events aimed at both the aca- day such as sexual harassment, abortion, demic community and the public at large. Mark D. West, Director romantic love and sexuality, motherhood, One of our larger – and yes, free – events and the meaning of gender equality. aimed at a broad audience is our annual continued on page 9 Mochitsuki, which now attracts nearly 600 visitors. The Mochitsuki is a wonderful tool From the Librarian Center for Japanese Studies University of Michigan

In this issue, I would like to discuss two main topics. Winter 2008 The first involves the changes that the Asia Library has experienced as a result of the “Google Project.” This project has gained substantial notice both here and abroad and has prompted invitations to speak at various venues. Last spring, I was invited to be a panelist on the Japanese Language Materials sub-committee of the Council of East End of the Long Hot Summer — Remembering Edward Seidensticker, 1921-2007 Asian Libraries (CEAL) at the AAS meeting in Boston. In Anyone associated with CJS published widely in English and Japanese. addition, I was also invited to join the panel of the Japanese in the decade or so from the People knew when he was in his office Academic Resources of the Japanese Studies Association of late 1960s to the late by the clatter of his manual typewriter, sig- Australia (JSAA) at the Australian National University in 1970s would probably naling that he was at work on yet another Canberra back in late June and early July. have known, without essay or translation. In eleven years at It is evident by these invitations that not only the U.S., being told, what the Michigan, Seidensticker published ten but also the rest of the world is interested in the project and title of the first noon translations of modern Japanese short what U-M’s Asia Library, as a forerunner of the project, has lecture of the fall term stories and about twenty-five articles in to say about it. Recent updates to the project include digiti- was going to be and English on subjects ranging from the who was going to give Japanese concept of “pure” literature to zation of: 18,123 Chinese language materials; 16,217 it. The title was invari- U.S.-Japan relations. He also published Japanese language materials; and 1,000 Korean language ably “The Long Hot five book-length translations during this materials. At present, all of the BUHR library holdings (2.5 Summer” and the speaker was time: (1976), Mishima’s million volumes) are completed and the project is moving to the University of Michigan’s own The Decay of the Angel (1974), and three other libraries on campus. People with questions about how Edward Seidensticker, professor of Japanese literature, who had just works by Kawabata, House of the Sleeping to access or use these digitized resources from their person- returned from a summer (if not longer) in Japan. Beauties (1969), The Sound of the al computers should contact me ([email protected]) or Perry Each year’s “Long Hot Summer” lecture, delivered without Mountain (1970), and The Master of Go Willett ([email protected]). For more information on the notes to a standing-room-only crowd in the basement seminar room (1973). His research brought visibility to Google Project, visit http://www.lib.umich.edu/mdp/. This is of Lane Hall, began as a weather report before moving on to a high- the University as well. There was much Edward Seidensticker’s typewriter and a part of his frog collection. an ongoing project with new developments each day, so I ly personal summary of the latest political, cultural, and sports news rejoicing in Ann Arbor in 1968 when encourage you to take advantage of it. from Japan. Seidensticker, who had lived at least part of every year Seidensticker went to Stockholm with for that part of called Shitamachi surrounded by banks of chrysanthemums, The second topic of interest in this issue is related to in Tokyo since 1948, was one of the few non-Japanese who knew Kawabata for the Nobel Prize awards, (Low City), an area beautifully evoked in the organizers had arranged an alcove with Japan intimately. Since he was also a man of strong opinions and and again in 1970 when his Sound of the his history of early Tokyo, Low City, High a low hillock of greenery interspersed with The Gordon W. Prange Collection. Perhaps some of you may had a good sense of humor, his noon lecture was guaranteed to be Mountain won the National Book Award City (1983). It was in , one of his wildflowers and lilies, on which a large remember Mark West referring to it in his article in the provocative and entertaining as well as informative. Though the for Translation. favorite Low City locales, that he fell last color photograph of Seidensticker had been winter 2007 Densho. Unfortunately, this intellectual treasure content of each year’s “Long Hot Summer” varied, Seidensticker reg- Seidensticker came to Michigan from April, sustaining serious injuries from placed. In the photograph, taken in the has been virtually unused since it was acquired. That ularly touched on favorite topics, including the feckless liberalism of in 1966 and left in which he never recovered. Edward summer, Seidensticker stands on a balcony changed this past fall when CJS’s Toyota Visiting Professor, the Asahi Shinbun editors, the latest political scandals, and the 1977 for Columbia, but he repeatedly stat- Seidensticker died in Tokyo on August 26, overlooking the lotuses of Shinobazu Pond Mark McLelland, arrived from Australia. Since then, he has dreary regularity of the Yomiuri Giants’ baseball triumphs. Cultural ed that his favorite university of the three 2007. He was 86 years old. as the sun sets behind him. Elegant in been exploring the vast resources in the collection since topics ranged from the hottest Kabuki actors and Harajuku fashions was Michigan. In his 2002 autobiography, The Long Hot Summer came formally jacket and tie, he covers his mouth with nothing like this can be found in Australia – or, for that mat- to gossip about the royal family and updates on the ever-changing Tokyo Central, Seidensticker wrote that he to an end on November 4, 2007 when a his left hand. Sadly, the lecture is over. ter, in Japan. Professor Markus Nornes has also examined Japanese language. (Seidensticker published a “Long Hot Summer” preferred Michigan because the graduate group of Seidensticker’s friends organized a the Collection using the three volume index shelved in the article in the Fall 2004 Densho and a rumination on speaking and students were better than those at Stanford Shinobukai or memorial gathering at the Aileen Gatten Asia Library’s reference room. Since then, several graduate reading Japanese, “Troublesome,” in the Fall 2005 issue.) and Columbia and because the administra- Seiyôken Hall in Ueno. Over 200 people Adjunct Researcher, CJS students and other faculty members have also been using As a graduate student during this period and a fan of the “Long tion treated him well. He enjoyed strolling attended, including (of course) professors, Hot Summer” series, I was always struck by its uniqueness. Most around downtown Ann Arbor, buying flow- journalists, and translators, but also Photographs taken by Lynne Riggs (editor, Monumenta the resources so it seems as though news of the Collection professors, then as now, tended to stick closely to their area of ers at the Farmers’ Market, and exploring Seidensticker’s Tokyo neighbors and the Nipponica) at Edward Seidensticker’s memorial gather- is spreading. academic specialization when they gave public lectures, but the countryside. A native of Colorado, men and women whose shops, izakaya, ing in Tokyo. For those who are not familiar with the Prange Seidensticker did just the opposite. He never had much to say in his Seidensticker felt at home in Michigan, and little restaurants he had patronized for Collection, it contains: 18,047 newspaper titles; 71,000 “Long Hot Summer” talks about Tanizaki Jun’ichirô, Kawabata perhaps, he thought, because both states decades. There were speeches in Japanese book and pamphlet titles; 13,799 magazine titles; 10,000 Yasunari, Mishima Yukio, or other eminent Japanese writers whom formed part of the huge central basin of and English by friends and former students, news agency photographs; and 640 maps - many of which he knew well and whose works he translated, and he was close- North America. and a rakugo performance; later, a string no longer exist anywhere else in the world. According to mouthed about how his Genji translation was coming along. After his retirement from Columbia in quartet played Mozart. A long table held the University of Maryland (the original holder of the Deliberately un-academic and nonspecialized, “The Long Hot 1985, Seidensticker lived half the year in a display of his books, part of his vast col- Collection and its microfilms), “The Gordon W. Prange Summer” hinted subversively to its scholarly audience that beyond Tokyo and the other half in Honolulu, giv- lection of frog figurines, and numerous Collection is the most comprehensive collection in the the books and outside the university there was something really ing occasional “Long Hot Summer” lectures photographs of Seidensticker and of his worth investigating-Japan itself, that complex, maddening, endlessly at the University of . A few years beloved Siamese cat Hanako. The old fascinating country. ago he moved permanently to Tokyo, manual typewriter was there as well. continued on page 11 Although Seidensticker gently poked fun at academia, he was where he had long owned an apartment. Instead of the conventional Japanese a splendid teacher and a distinguished scholar and translator who Seidensticker had a particular affection memorial photograph of the deceased 2 3 Center for Japanese Studies Center for Japanese Studies University of Michigan University of Michigan

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PAST CJS EVENTS PAST CJS EVENTS 4th Annual Mochitsuki of Japan's postwar sexual minorities, Kaori Momoi and Kaz her was the acting and screen-writing CJS hosted its annual Mochitsuki on brought together a dynamic group of Utsunomiya Visit Ann Arbor class she joined at Ann Arbor’s young scholars (Jeffrey Angles, Western Community High School. This was January 5, 2008 in the School of Social Last fall, the Center for Japanese Studies Michigan University; Julia Bullock, Emory Momoi's first visit to a university and she Work Building. Just under 600 people brought two fascinating people to campus, University; Todd Henry, Colorado State left looking forward to the next event. attended the event that was free and open the motion picture star Momoi Kaori and University; and James Welker, University to the public. Guests were entertained by her manager Kaz Utsunomiya. It was an of Illinois-Urbana Champaign) who have koto and shakuhachi music performed intense and exciting four days of classroom “Language of Clothes” been investigating a range of archival again this year by the talented Miyabi. In visits and screenings, culminating with Workshop materials previously little studied. One addition, hundreds of people had the a public discussion at the grand CJS held an international workshop important resource highlighted in the opportunity to try making mochi using an Michigan Theater. titled, “The Language of Clothes: Status, event was the Gordon W. Prange collection usu and kine, make New Year’s calligraphy Utsunomiya is a leading figure in Kaz Utsunomiya,Abé Markus Nornes (Professor,ALC and Screen Arts Gender, and Law in the History of Attire in of early postwar “pulp” magazines and & Cultures), Kaori Momoi, Etsuko Yamanouchi (interpreter), and Mark messages, listen to Japanese stories, fold the music industry who got his start while West (CJS’s Director) pose for a photograph on the balcony of the Japan, from Ancient through Modern newspapers available in microfiche at the origami figures, and play Japanese games. pursuing a graduate degree in heat transfer Michigan Theater. Times,” taking place on September 10, Hatcher Graduate Library. “The Prange The Mochitsuki has become the single in London who happened to be classmates became a main theme of her discussions 2007, at Michigan League. The workshop collection is an astonishingly rich source largest annual event that CJS presents each with Queen’s Brian May. After working with with the Ann Arbor audiences. was co-sponsored by the Commemorative of data for understanding ordinary people's year. The success of the event is due to Queen just as they were starting out, he Japanese audiences are familiar with Organization for the Japan World thoughts and feelings about love, sex and the enormous support and assistance given soon landed a job at the newly founded Momoi's film and television career where Exposition, the Japan Society for the romance,” commented Dr. McLelland, by more than 60 volunteers from the Virgin Records, where he swiftly made his she has worked with some of Japan's Promotion of Science and the following “it is doubly important because it provides university and community. The event sim- way to the top management. Later, he finest directors, including University of Michigan units: Center for us with information not just about ply could not happen with these volunteers, worked for EPIC records and has since (, 1980), (The Japanese Studies, Office of the Vice heterosexual love but also about love many who offer their time and help year then gone independent. During his visit, Yellow Hankerchief, 1977), President for Research, Institute for between women and between men in after year. Utsunomiya talked to a full lecture hall of (Ai Futatabi, 1971), Shohei Imamura (Ee, Research on Women & Gender, the early postwar years.” As expected, the featured activity of enthusiastic students at U-M’s Stephen M. ja Nai Ka?, 1981), (Swallowtail Department of History, Women's Studies This event was co-sponsored by the Mochitsuki is, of course, the making Ross School of Business. His main theme Butterfly, 1996), and (Izo, Program, and East Asia Gender Forum. the Center for Japanese Studies; the of the mochi. In years past, CJS borrowed was the state of the music industry in the 2005). She has won many awards, includ- Professors Sachiko Takeda, Haruko Top: CJS’s mochi “masters,” Iku and Yasuhiko Habara oversee the Department of Asian Languages & the traditional equipment to make this pounding. age of digital downloads, illustrating his ing two Best Actress awards at the Japan Wakita, Osamu Wakita, Akiko Fukai, and Cultures; the Eisenberg Institute for possible. This year, the Japan Publications Bottom: Kenji Niki (Curator,Asia Library),Yasuhiko Habara, and Iku talk with colorful tales of his work with Academy Awards and Best Actress at the Mayumi Mori from Japan, and Liang Luo Habara pose for a photograph at the end of the 2008 Mochitsuki. Historical Studies; the International Trading Co., Ltd. (JPT) generously donated the likes of Queen, The Clash, The Rolling New York Film Festival. American audi- and Sumiao Li of U-M, offered papers Institute; the Lesbian-Gay-Queer Research an usu and kine to CJS for use at this Finally, on a sad note, the 2008 Mochitsuki Stones, and Nirvana. ences, however, may recognize Momoi as that explored topics on the meaning Initiative; and the Office of LGBT Affairs, event. The usu and kine arrived in marked the last time CJS’s mochi “masters” The main events of the Ann Arbor “Mother” in Rob Marshall's 2005 film, and practice of dressing, such as status- Division of Student Affairs. October 2007 through the kind would be lending their skills to the event. visit, however, were built around the Memoirs of a Geisha. specific sartorial regulation, artistry and assistance of JPT’s Ryogo Since CJS’s first Mochitsuki, Iku and great actress Kaori Momoi. Momoi was Momoi began directing television in aesthetics of clothing, and cross-gendered Watanabe and Shigenori Kon. CJS Yasuhiko Habara have graciously offered born in Japan, but moved to London at the 1990s, but kept that activity hidden costuming in the histories of Japan, would like to extend our heartfelt their experience and time overseeing the age of 12 to study at the Royal Ballet through male pseudonyms to protect her China, and England. Esperanza Ramirez- gratitude to JPT, Mr. Watanabe, Mr. the mochi making. This spring, the Academy (the trip where she first met Kaz career. She went public last year with, Christensen, Christian de Pée, David Kon, and Kenji Niki for their contri- Habara’s will return to Japan after Utsunomiya). She explained that she felt Faces of a Fig Tree, a feature film she both Rolston, Natsu Oyobe, Liang Luo, and butions to this very successful many years spent in Ann Arbor. like a duckling surrounded by all the white, wrote and directed. While at U-M, Momoi Sumiao Li of U-M and Ethan Segal of event. CJS appreciates CJS will miss them dearly. gazelle-like ballet students, but recognized wowed audiences with a screening of Faces Michigan State University commented on all of you. how to capitalize on her differences. This of a Fig Tree along with an earlier feature the papers. Hitomi Tonomura officiated Seminar on Queer film. Audiences were taken by her funny the workshop while Abé Markus Nornes History and articulate discussions, particularly at and Kevin Carr chaired the panels. It was On January 18, 2008, over 40 the main event at the Michigan Theater. a bilingual workshop that raised many people attended the seminar “New She talked about everything from the diffi- fascinating cross-regional, interdiscipli- Perspectives on Japanese Queer culties of being a woman director to the nary and comparative questions. On the History” held at the International frustrations and joys of anonymity in following day, a discussion forum was held Institute’s lecture room. The seminar Hollywood. In addition to her screenings for the interested students and faculty was convened by Mark McLelland, this and Michigan Theater event, Momoi members to meet with the Japanese pan- year’s Toyota Visiting Professor. Dr. attended a graduate seminar on transna- elists. The two-day event was brought to McLelland, a leading scholar in the study tional cinema to talk about the conditions merry closure over food, drinks and con- of the current globalizing film industry. But versation at Abé Markus Nornes' house. she said one of the highlights the trip for A young boy tries his hand at making Cover of the magazine OK: Ero and Thrill, special edition on Kaori Momoi and Abé Markus Nornes (Professor,ALC and Screen Arts mochi using an usu and kine. cross-dressing male prostitutes, 1949. & Cultures) during the onstage discussion at the Michigan Theater. 4 5 Center for Japanese Studies Center for Japanese Studies University of Michigan University of Michigan

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UPCOMING CJS EVENTS Faculty & Associate News Michael Martin (CJS MA, 2001) (Aerospace The following students entered CJS’s MA Engineering, PhD, 2007) recently relocated program in fall 2007. Their undergraduate Noon Lectures 15th Annual Michigan Kristine Mulhorn (Health Sciences & to Washington, DC, where he is continuing institutes are listed next to their names. for Winter 2008 Japanese Quiz Bowl Administration, U-M Flint) became a his scientific career as a National Research CJS’s Winter 2008 Noon Lecture March 15, 2008 marks the 15th year Visiting Scientist at the Tokyo Metropoli- Council Post-Doctoral Associate at the Erich M. Agana; University of , Series began on January 17 with a talk that the Japanese Teachers Association tan Institute of Gerontology (TMIG) in Naval Research Laboratory. Los Angeles given by history professor Ethan Segal of Michigan (JTAM) has presented this December, 2007. This is her third visit to Lindsey A. Akashi; Washington University (Michigan State University). The lectures annual event. This year will be the fourth TMIG where she is continuing her work Sherry Martin (Political Science, PhD) and Rachel M. Duplessis; Wayne State take place each Thursday through March year that CJS has hosted it on U-M’s on ICF, the International Classification of Tomoko Okagaki (Political Science, PhD) University 27 (with the exception of February 28). Central Campus. More than 400 elemen- Functioning, Disability, and Health. are in residence at the Program on U.S.- Jonathan L. Hop; University of Michigan Upcoming lecturers include: Jamie tary, middle, and high school students Japan Relations at Harvard during the Maria S. Mejuto Gonzalez; Autonomous Newhard (Washington University in St. are expected to take part in the quiz Jennifer Robertson (Anthropology) will 2007-08 academic year. Both are U-M University of Barcelona, Spain graduates and former students of Professor Nikki A. Nabozny; University of Michigan Louis), Susan Napier (Tufts University), bowl competition that will include extra have the following publications in 2008: John Campbell. Aaron S. Nelson; Rose-Hulman Institute of David Goodman (University of Illinois highlights like a kendo demonstration and “日本の最初のサイボーグミス日本。 優生学と Top: JTAM President, Erin Sullivan, welcoming the student Technology at Urbana-Champaign), Ellis Krauss Shigaraki-yaki demonstration by visiting 戦時中においての美、 身体と血としてのテク ノ competitors at the 2007 MJQB. Tomomi Yamaguchi (Anthropology, PhD, Katherine E. Pawelski; Michigan State (, ), Shigaraki-yaki artists, Shizuo Tamura and ロジー ” (Nihon no saisho no saibo¯ gu Misu Bottom:The 1st Place entry for “Cultural Displays” at the Nippon. Yu¯ seigaku to senjichu¯ ni oite no 2003) finished her three-year postdoctoral University and Sari Kawana (University of Eizan Okuda. For more information about 2007 MJQB. bi, shintai to chi to shite no tekunorojii. fellowship at the University of and Christopher J. Schad; Swarthmore College Massachusetts, Boston). the event, contact Jane Ozanich became an assistant professor of anthro- Szu Chieh Wang; National Chengchi ([email protected]). Japan’s First Cyborg?: Miss Nippon, Eugenics, and Wartime Technologies of pology in the Department of Sociology and University, Taiwan Anthropology at Montana State University Zachary T. Wilkinson; University of Beauty, Body, and Blood.) Ogino Miho, in August 2007. In addition, Professor Michigan ed., “Sei” no bunkatsusen—kindai nihon Yamaguchi contributed to a special issue of Leah M. Zoller; University of Denver no genda¯ to shintai (“性 ”の分割線－近代 Critical Asian Studies on the “Politics and 日本のジェンダーと身体 , The vectors of sex: Pitfalls of Japan Ethnography.” Jennifer The following students received their PhDs gender and body in modern Japan). Tokyo: Robertson (Professor, Anthropology) led the in August 2007: Seikyu¯ sha. Japanese translation of 2001c. issue featuring other former U-M PhD and “Ethnicity and Gender in the Wartime graduates: Elise Edwards (Anthropology, Christopher A. Ames (Anthropology); Japanese Revue Theater.” Forthcoming PhD, 2003), Ann-Elise Lewallen Dissertation Title: “Mired in History: in War and Militarism in Modern Japan: (Anthropology, PhD, 2006), and Bridget Victimhood, Memory, and Ambivalence in New Aspects. Guy Podoler, ed. Folkstone: Love (Anthropology, PhD, 2007). Okinawa Prefecture, Japan” Global Oriental. Leah Zoller (CJS MA) will marry Brian Margaret Florence Gibbons (Political

Ellis Krauss, Noon Lecture Speaker, March 20, 2008. Professor Robertson recently edited a Huneke on August 24, 2008. Both attended Science); Dissertation Title, “The Role of special thematic issue of Critical Asian the University of Denver. Brian is a graphic Litigation in Environmental Protest and Studies (Volume 39, Issue 4) on anthropo- designer in Ann Arbor. Policy Change in Japan” logical ethics and fieldwork in Japan (http://informaworld.com). Nearly all of Bridget K. Love (Anthropology); the contributors were her former PhD Dissertation Title, “A Kingdom of Mountain students: Ann-Elise Lewallen (“Bones of Bounty: Village Revitalization and Rural Contention: Negotiating Anthropological Depopulation in Japan” Ethics within Fields of Ainu Refusal”), Bridget Love (“Fraught Fieldsites: Study- Kan Takeuchi (Economics); Dissertation ing Community Decline and Heritage Food Title, “Essays on Time Preference and Combinatorial Auctions” Revival in Rural Japan), Elise Edwards (“An Ethics for Working Up?: Japanese Corporate Scandals and Rethinking Lessons about Fieldwork), and Tomomi Yamaguchi (“Impartial Observation and Partial Participation: Feminist Ethnogra- phy in Politically Charged Japan). STUDENT & ALUMNI NEWS

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From the Executive Editor Asian Studies, and affiliated with the professional playwright, and presents continued from page 1 Curricula in American Studies and Women’s what Mishima himself wrote about the Studies, at the University of North Carolina theatre and his place in it. Kominz demon- ANNOUNCEMENTS: Rebecca L. Copeland, Professor of at Chapel Hill, where she was the 2001 strates that Mishima took his theatrical Japanese Literature at Washington recipient of the J. Carlyle Sitterson Teaching writing, directing, and company leader- CJS Welcomes a New Asia Library Travel Grants Calling All CJS Alumni and University in St. Louis, describes The Award for Excellence in Freshman ship very seriously indeed. As enjoyable as Administrator Grants up to $700 are available to Former Visitors Bluestockings of Japan as follows: “Jan Teaching. With Joanne Hershfield, she is play writing could be for Mishima, it was help defray the cost of travel, lodging, Toshiko Graves joined CJS in October CJS would like to feature short Bardsley’s long-awaited study brilliantly co-director of the 2002 documentary film by no means merely a pastime or avoca- meals, and photo duplication for Japan 2007 as the Center’s new administrator. articles written by our former students and captures the excitement, danger, and occa- Women in Japan: Memories of the Past, tion. A foreword by Donald Keene places scholars at other institutions who wish to She manages the Center’s finances and visitors which focus on their experiences Dreams for the Future, and is co-editor with Mishima’s work in a personal perspective. utilize the collection at the University of sional disappointments the New Woman human resources. Born and raised in at CJS/U-M. Please contact us with your Michigan Asia Library from July 1, 2007 confronted in early twentieth-century Laura Miller of Bad Girls of Japan (2005). Laurence Kominz, editor, translator, Japan, Toshiko has fifteen years of experi- until June 30, 2008. More information stories at: [email protected]. Japan. Readers are given an intimate and Our other publication is equally impor- and author of the Introduction, is a stu- ence in teaching, administration, transla- about the library is available at incisive look into the New Woman’s social tant to the English-reading audience. dent of Donald Keene and a Columbia tion, and banking, both in Japan and in the http://www.lib.umich.edu/asia/, or by and political contexts, but more than that, Mishima on Stage: The Black Lizard and University Ph.D. in Japanese Literature. U.S. She can be reached at: contacting the Library Assistant at through Bardsley’s graceful and at times Other Masterpieces, edited by Laurence He is Professor of Japanese Language and [email protected]. 734.764.0406. gritty translations, we are allowed to hear Kominz, with a foreword by Donald Keene Literature at Portland State University, Interested scholars should submit a her voice. No examination of women’s his- [Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese and author of Avatars of Vengeance, CJS Announces its New letter of application, a brief statement to tory in Japan would be complete without a Studies No. 59, 2007, xii + 328 pp., 27 illus- Japanese Drama and the Soga Literary Outreach Coordinator the Center describing their research and chapter on Seitô. Similarly, no feminist trations, ISBN 9781929280421 (cloth), Tradition, (1995) and The Stars Who Heather Littlefield is the most recent their need to use the collection (not to library can be whole without Jan Bardsley’s $70.00; ISBN 9781929280438 (paper), Created Kabuki: Their Lives, Loves, and addition to CJS’s staff with her start date in exceed 250 words), a list of sources that The Bluestockings of Japan.” And Sally A. $26.00], presents nine remarkable plays to Legacy (1997), as well as numerous arti- late January. Densho readers may recog- they would like to access (applicants must Hastings, Associate Professor of History, English readers for the first time. These cles about and translations of Japanese nize Heather’s name as she is a 2007 CJS check availability of these sources in the Purdue University and Editor, U.S.-Japan plays, written between 1949 and 1962, drama. He studies kyôgen acting and MA graduate. Her responsibilities at CJS Library’s online catalog before submitting demonstrate Mishima’s breadth and origi- nihon buyô dance and directs student pro- involve overseeing outreach to the K-14 applications), a current curriculum vita, a Women’s Journal, writes: “Bardsley’s excel- populations as well as some community budget, and proposed travel dates. lent translations of declarations, essays, and nality as a playwright. Four are new kabuki ductions of kyôgen and kabuki. outreach projects. Heather can be reached The Center accepts applications until short stories from Seitô allow us to hear plays that combine classical language and Finally, five of our out of print at: [email protected]. May 31, 2008 by email at Japanese feminist voices from the early lyricism, the dance, music, and spectacle of Monographs and Papers are now available [email protected] or by mail at: twentieth century loud and clear. We feel traditional kabuki, and iconoclastic notions in both a searchable and downloadable the energy of the young women activists as of class and morality that are “pure format. They are: The New Religions of Asia Library Travel Grants they explore their potential as writers, sex- Mishima.” Five are shingeki plays, including Japan: A Bibliography of Western Center for Japanese Studies Suite 3640, 1080 S. University ual beings, and thinkers. Culling informa- the tightly written one-act Steeplechase, Language Materials by H. Bryon Earhart, The University of Michigan tion from a variety of memoirs, histories, which fuses contemporary psychological A Japanese New Religion: Risshô Kôsei-kai Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1106 and Japanese critical studies, she provides realism with the structure of a tantric in a Mountain Hamlet by Stewart Guthrie, biographical sketches for each of the con- Buddhist exorcism ritual, and The Black The Three Jewels: A Study and tributors whose work she translates. This Lizard, a campy, romping, romantic, detec- Translation of Minamoto Tamenori’s book marks a major step forward in the tive mystery full of trickery and disguise. Sanbôe by Edward Kamens, The Buddhist English-language materials available on the One unifying theme shared among all Poetry of the Great Kamo Priestess: history of Japanese women, and it will facil- the plays is the belief that deception and Daisaiin Senshi and “Hosshin Wakashû” itate the inclusion of Japanese women’s deceit are essential to human relationships. by Edward Kamens, and “The Sting of experience into the international history of These character traits appear as hidden Death” and Other Stories, by Shimao the women’s movement.” incestuous love that threatens to destroy an Toshio, translated by Kathryn Sparling. To The Bluestockings of Japan shows that upper middle-class family (The Lighthouse), see these and other electronic publica- as much as these writers longed to be New as weapons of choice for the powerless mis- tions, go to http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/cjs/. Women immersed in the world of art and tress of a business magnate (the modern For information on all the titles available philosophy, they were also real women who noh play Yuya), or as the means to facilitate from the Center for Japanese Studies, had to negotiate careers, motherhood, wholesome but socially forbidden romantic please go to our website at romantic relationships, and an unexpected liaisons (two kabuki comedies). Mishima on http://www.umich.edu/~iinet/cjs/publica- notoriety. Their stories, essays, and poetry Stage makes the genius of Japan’s leading tions/. document that journey, highlighting the postwar playwright more accessible and diversity among these New Women and dis- apparent than ever before. Bruce Willoughby playing the vitality of feminist thinking in Laurence Kominz opens the volume Executive Editor, CJS Publications Heather Littlefield, CJS’ New Outreach Coordinator Japan in the 1910s. with a biography of Mishima that describes Program Jan Bardsley is Associate Professor of the triumphs and bitter conflicts that 8 Japanese Humanities in the Department of Mishima experienced during his career as a 9 Winter 2008 Center for Japanese Studies CALENDAR University of Michigan Winter 2008

From the Librarian February April DENSHO continued from page 2 7 Noon Lecture*: “‘Kissing is a Symbol of Democracy!’ U.S. Popular No events Culture and the Emergence of the ‘New Couple’ in Occupied world of print publications issued in Japan,” Mark McLelland; 2007-08 Toyota Visiting Professor, CJS; Japan during the immediate post-World Lecturer, Sociology, The University of Wollongong, Australia May War II years, 1945-1949. The Collection 14 Noon Lecture*: “Voluntary Settlement and the Spirit of 19 Event: 4th Annual Ann Arbor Book Festival Street Fair, compromises virtually everything published Center for Japanese Studies Independence: Some More Evidence from Japan’s ‘Northern 10am-5pm; For more information, visit: http://aabookfestival.org/. on all subjects during this period – books, University of Michigan Frontier,’” Shinobu Kitayama; Professor, Department of Psychology; 1080 S. University, Suite 3640 The University of Michigan pamphlets, newspapers, periodicals, news Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1106 agency photographs, posters, maps and TEL: 734.764.6307 15 Dance Performance: Noism08: NINA materialize, sacrifice; FAX: 734.936.2948 Atistic Director Jo Kanamori; 8pm, Power Center; For more infor- *All noon lectures are free and open to the public. They run from 12noon to related archival materials...” EMAIL: [email protected] mation, visit http://www.ums.org/. A CJS-hosted post-performance 1pm in Room 1636 (SSWB) unless otherwise noted. The noon lectures are WEB: http://www.ii.umich.edu/cjs/ reception will directly follow the performance. Vandenberg Room, made possible in part by a Title VI grant from the U.S. Department of Originally the Prange Collection was put Director: Mark D. West Michigan League Education. into microfiche by Norman Ross in New Administrator: Toshiko Graves 21 Noon Lecture*: “Mixed Messages: Classical Literature in 17th York. Later, this work was transferred to Program Associate: Jane Ozanich and 18th Century ‘Books for Women,’” Jamie Newhard; Assistant Please visit CJS's website for up-to-date information: Outreach Coordinator: Heather Littlefield http://www.ii.umich.edu/cjs/events/calendar.html. Ann Arbor’s ProQuest. During this time, Student Services Coordinator: Azumi Ann Takata Professor, Asian and Near Eastern Languages and Literatures; Office Assistant: Sandra Morawski Washington University in St. Louis professionals in the field of Japanese Studies were aware of the difficulty in using the Collection due to a lack of Center for Japanese Studies Publications Program University of Michigan indexes or a printed manual. As a result, 1007 East Huron March the University of Maryland spent a great Ann Arbor, MI 48104-1690 TEL: 734.647.8885 6 Noon Lecture*: “The Virtual City: Akihabara, Anime, and deal of time creating the three volume index Otakudom,” Susan Napier; Professor, German, Russian, and Asian FAX: 734.647.8886 publication which resulted in a searchable EMAIL: [email protected] Languages and Literatures Department; Tufts University resource for users. Recently, some digitized WEB: http://www.ii.umich.edu/cjs/publications 11 Lecture: Visiting Shigaraki-yaki artists, Shizuo Tamura and tools have been made available online at: Eizan Okuda discuss their work including a tea ceremony demon- http://www.lib.umd.edu/prange/index.jsp. Publications Program Director: Hitomi Tonomura stration by tea master, Hiroko Nabeta; 7pm; Room 1636 (SSWB). Executive Editor: Bruce Willoughby Co-sponsored by CJS, U-M’s School of Art & Design, and the CJS Executive Committee: Kevin Carr (winter Michigan-Shiga Sister State Program As always, my office is open. semester), Shinobu Kitayama, Mayumi Oka, Kenji Niki (ex officio), Jennifer Robertson, Mark D. West 13 Noon Lecture*:“Reenacting a Failed Revolution: The February (ex officio), Jonathan Zwicker (fall semester). 26 Incident in Theatre and Film Since 1960,” David Goodman; Kenji Niki Professor, Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures; Regents of the University of Michigan: Julia Curator of the Japanese Collection Donovan Darlow, Laurence B. Deitch, Olivia P. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The Asia Library Maynard, Rebecca McGowan, Andrea Fischer 15 Event: 15th Annual Michigan Japanese Quiz Bowl; Modern Newman, Andrew C. Richner, S. Martin Taylor, Languages Building; 9am~2pm; For more information, contact Jane Katherine E. White, Mary Sue Coleman (ex officio). 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