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Book SynopsisAn “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’yōshū 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, Gotō Shōko, Imanishi Yūichirō, Susan Blakeley Klein, Laura Moretti, Joshua S. Mostow, Ōtani Setsuko, Takahashi Tōru, and Yamamoto Tokurō
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 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 Yūichirō 2 The Significance of the Composition of the Ise monogatari Gotō Shōko 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 Tokurō 5 Allusion to and Transformation of the Ise monogatari by “Murasaki Shikibu” Takahashi Tōru 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 Ōtani Setsuko Translated by Kurtis Hanlon Part 4: The Commentary Tradition 8 The Methodology of Late-Muromachi Ise Commentaries: Focusing on Sōgi and the Sanjōnishi 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 Kibyōshi Laura Moretti Appendix Family Tree of Principal Personages Index of First Lines of Poems Subject Index
