| Contents |
Inexorable modernity / Hiroshi Nara -- Potentially disruptive : censorship and the painter Kawanabe Kyōsai / Brenda G. Jordan -- "Modernité in art": Kojima Kikuo's critique of contemporary Japanese painting, 1931-1940 / Mikiko Hirayama -- The ascent of yōga in modern Japan and the Pacific War / Mayu Tsuruya -- Art and ethics in Watsuji Tetsurō's philosophy / Hiroshi Nara -- Contesting authority through comic disruption : mixed marriages as metaphor in postwar Kyōgen experiments / Jonah Salz -- An aesthetic of destruction: Mishima Yukio's My friend Hitler / David G. Goodman -- Remembered idylls, forgotten truths: nostalgia and geography in the drama of Shimizu Kunio / David Jortner -- Healing the (metaphysically) sick (theatre): the Buddhist Ibsen in Christian Japan / Kevin J. Wetmore Jr. -- The wild geese revisited: Mori Ōgai's mix of old and new / Keiko I. McDonald -- Public space and the nature of modern fiction: Izumi Kyōka's Noble blood, heroic blood / Charles Shirō Inouye -- Yokomitsu Riichi's two machines / John K. Gillespie. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2006031132 |
| ISBN | 9780739118412 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0739118412 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780739118429 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0739118420 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
