An Ise Monogatari Reader

Contexts and Receptions
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-44762-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 69, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 679 g

Reihe: Brill's Japanese Studies Library

An “Ise monogatari” Reader is the first collection of essays in English on The Ise Stories, a canonical literary text ranked beside The Tale of Genji. Eleven scholars from Japan, North America, and Europe explore the historical and political context in which this literary court romance was created, or relate it to earlier works such as the Man’yoshu and later works such as the Genji and noh theater. Its medieval commentary tradition is also examined, as well as early modern illustrated editions and parodies. The collection brings cutting-edge scholarship of the very highest level to English readers, scholars, and students.

Contributors are: Aoki Shizuko, Fujihara Mika, Fujishima Aya, Goto Shoko, Imanishi Yuichiro, Susan Blakeley Klein, Laura Moretti, Joshua S. Mostow, Otani Setsuko, Takahashi Toru, and Yamamoto Tokuro

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mostow, Joshua S

Yamamoto, Tokur&

Yamamoto, Tokuro

Hanlon, Kurtis

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Matters Textual

List of Illustrations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Joshua S. Mostow

Part 1: Historical Context

1 The Formation of the Ise monogatari and Its Background

Imanishi Yuichiro

2 The Significance of the Composition of the Ise monogatari

Goto Shoko

Translated by Imai Kazuhiko

3 The Historical Reality of Ki no Aritsune and the Ise monogatari

Fujihara Mika

Translated by Yevheniy Vakhnenko and Kurtis Hanlon

Part 2: Antecedents and Descendants

4 From Stories of Female Transcendents to the Ise monogatari: Taking Kaimami as a Clue

Yamamoto Tokuro

5 Allusion to and Transformation of the Ise monogatari by “Murasaki Shikibu”

Takahashi Toru

Translated by Tamada Saori

Part 3: The Ise and Noh

6 Zenchiku’s Noh Play Oshio: Introduction and Translation

Susan Blakeley Klein

7 The Structure of the Noh Play Kakitsubata: Zenchiku’s Method

Otani Setsuko

Translated by Kurtis Hanlon

Part 4: The Commentary Tradition

8 The Methodology of Late-Muromachi Ise Commentaries: Focusing on Sogi and the Sanjonishi School

Aoki Shizuko

9 Reading the Ise monogatari through The Tale of Genji

Joshua S. Mostow

Part 5: The Ise in the Early Modern Period

10 The Landscape of “The Well-Curb”

Fujishima Aya

11 Playing Narihira: The Ise monogatari in Eighteenth-Century Kibyoshi

Laura Moretti

Appendix

Family Tree of Principal Personages

Index of First Lines of Poems

Subject Index

Über Autor(innen)

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 Tokuro, 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, kyoju (Kasama Shoin, 2001).

Kurtis Hanlon is a graduate student in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia.