Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
A Review of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, Massachusetts, United States) My research interests lie at the intersection of book studies and the…
A Review of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, Massachusetts, United States) My research interests lie at the intersection of book studies and the…
A review of Editing Identity: Literary Anthologies and the Construction of the Author in Meiji Japan, by Molly Des Jardin. Molly Des Jardin’s dissertation provides…
A review of The Joy of the Dharma: Esoteric Buddhism and the Early Medieval Transformation of Japanese Literature, by Ethan David Bushelle. Scholars have long…
A review of Uta Mokkan: a History of Early Japanese Poetry through Inscription, by Joshua Frydman. Joshua Frydman’s dissertation, Uta Mokkan: a History of Early…
A review of Iwase Bunko Library 西尾市岩瀬文庫 (Nishio City, Japan) A staggering number of manuscripts as well as printed books produced in pre-modern Japan remain outside…
A review of Sharebon and the Courtesans: A Phase of Edo Aesthetics as the Dispersal of Ideology, by Nahoko Fukushima. The aesthetics Fukushima finds in…
A review of Through the Hospital Gates: Hansen’s Disease and Modern Japanese Literature, by Kathryn Tanaka. Kathryn Tanaka’s dissertation examines the rise of “leprosy literature”…