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Editor-in-Chief and One of the Translators, A Kamigata Anthology: Literature from Japan’s Metropolitan Centers, 1600-1750, Honolulu: The University of Hawai’i Press, 2020

  • Co-authored critical introduction

  • Translation of Anonymous, The Tales of Zeraku (Zeraku Monogatari), 1655-1658

  • Outline (Indiana University webpage)

  • Review by Kris Kosaka in Japan Times (March 8, 2023)

Editor-in-Chief and One of the Translators, A Tokyo Anthology: Literature from Japan’s Modern Metropolis, 1850―1920, Honolulu: The University of Hawai’i Press, 2017.

  • Co-authored critical introduction

  • Translations: 

    • Episodes 13 and 14 of Shunkintei Ryūō’s The Bad Girl Prefers Black and Yellow Plaid (Adamusume Konomi no Hachijō), 1873

    • Episodes 11 and 12 of Kanagaki Robun’s Takahashi Oden the Devil Woman (Takahashi Oden Yasha Monogatari), 1879

    • Episodes 21, 22, and 23 of Sanyūtei Enchō’s The True View of Kasane Precipice(Shinkei Kasanegafuchi, composed 1859, published 1887-88.

  • Review by Michael Emmerich, Journal of Japanese Studies (Summer 2018)

  • Review by Iain Maloney in Japan Times (Jul. 15, 2017)

  • Review by T. S. Yamada in CHOICE, (October 1, 2017)

  • Book Workshop, the East Asian Studies Center, Indiana University, September 13, 2017. Coordinated by Zachary Scalzo. "A discussion on Sumie Jones and Charles Inouye eds., A Tokyo Anthology: Literature from Japan’s Modern Metropolis, 1850-1920."

 

Editor-in-Chief and One of the Translators, An Edo Anthology: Literature from Japan’s Mega City, 1750-1850, Honolulu: The University of Hawai’i Press, 2013.

 

Author/Translator, The Shirokoya Scandal: Two Views of the Case Judged by Magistrate Ōoka Tadasuke with critical introduction. Los Angeles, CA: Highmoonoon, 2010.

Guest Editor, Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature, University of Toronto Press, volume 54, 2008. https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/21635

Consulting Editor/Author, for Fedwa Malti-Douglas, editor-in-chief, Encyclopedia of Gender and Sex, 4 vols., McMillan Reference USA. Detroit: Thomson-Gale, 2007.

 

Author-Editor, Imaging/Reading Eros: Proceedings of the Conference on Sexuality and Late Edo Culture, 1750-1850 (Bloomington, IN, 1995), with Introduction. Bloomington, IN: East Asian Studies Center, Indiana University, 1996.

Coauthor, Principles of Classical Japanese Literature with chapter on “Language in Crisis: Ogyū Sorai’s Philological Thought and Hiraga Gennai’s Creative Practice.” Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985.

  • Review by Earl Jackson Jr., Journal of American Oriental Society 109(3), 1989, pp. 477-479.

  • Review by Wayne P. Lammers

  • Review by Thomas H. Rohlich

  • Review by Jean Moore, Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese, 20(1), pp. 97-100.

  • Review by Yoshio Iwamoto, World Literature Today, Winter 1986.

  • 書評:中西進,「日本文学解明へ日米共同研究:「集」を通し「個」を探る」,『日本経済新聞』,1981年9月29日.

 

Author, "Comic Fiction in Japan during the Later Edo Period." Dissertation. Ann Arbor, 1979. MI: Ann Arbor, 1979. Print.

共著,『米国議会図書館蔵日本古典籍目録』, 八木書店,2003年.

Coeditor, Beikoku Gikai Toshokan zō Nihon kotenseki mokuroku (Japanese Rare Books in the Library of Congress). Tokyo: Yagi Shoten, 2003.

 

編著,『銭湯新話』,学研,1996年.

Author-Editor, Sentō shinwa (New Tales from the Hot Springs) by Jūjitei Sanku and Utagawa Kunisada, 1827, a modern edition with critical introduction. Tokyo: Gakken, 1996.

 

『レトリックとしての江戸』(日文研フォーラム19),国際日本文化研究センター,1992年.

Author, Retorikku to shite no Edo (The Rhetoric of Edoism), Forum Series 19.  Kyoto: International Research Center for Japanese Studies, 1992.

Indiana University, Institute for Advanced Study

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