An Ise monogatari Reader: Contexts and Receptions(69 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’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 Contents:
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 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

About the Author :
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 Tokurō, 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, kyōju (Kasama Shoin, 2001). Kurtis Hanlon is a graduate student in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia.