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Working Words: New Approaches to Japanese Studies
From the editors
Mizuta Noriko, Miya Elise Mizuta, Haga Kōichi, Natta Phisphumvidhi, v
ARTICLES
Working Words: New Approaches to Japanese Studies
Jordan Sand, Alan Tansman, Dennis Washburn, 1
音楽 Ongaku, Onkyō/Music, Sound
Hosokawa Shūhei, 9
史学 Shigaku/History
Thomas Keirstead, 21
懺悔 Zange/Confession
Christine Marran, 33
美人 Bijin/Beauty
Miya Elise Mizuta, 43
おたく Otaku/Geek
Morikawa Kaichiro, Dennis Washburn, 56
中流 Chūryū/Middling
Jordan Sand, 67
郷土 Kyōdo/Native Soil
Satō Kenji, Jordan Sand, 78
記憶 Kioku, 思い出 Omoide/Memory
Mariko Asano Tamanoi, 87
サブライム Saburaimu/Sublime
Alan Tansman, 99
科学 Kagaku, 究理 Kyūri/Science
Tsukahara Togo, Matthew Fargo, Jordan Sand, 109
文学 Bungaku/Literature
Dennis Washburn, 116
洋画 Yōga/The Western Painting, National Painting, and Global Painting of Japan
Bert Winther-Tamaki, 127
Translated Essays
Excerpts from The Legends of Japan (1929)
Yanagita Kunio, David Humphrey, 137
“Being” and “Doing” (1958)
Maruyama Masao, Dennis Washburn, 152
Group Characteristics Based on “Place” (1967)
Nakane Chie, Paul Roquet, 170
The First Stirrings of Folk Scholarship (Minkangaku) in Modern Japan (1983)
Kano Masanao, David Henry, 179
Plates, 192-199
Art in Focus
Voices of Mono-ha Artists: Contemporary Art in Japan, Circa 1970
Reiko Tomii, Hayato Fujioka, Rika Iezumi Hiro, Reiko Tomii, Mika Yoshitake, 200
What Is Mono-ha?
Mika Yoshitake, 202
Six Contradictions of Mono-ha
Reiko Tomii, 214
Dialogue 1
Sekine Nobuo, Koshimizu Susumu, Joan Kee, Rike Iezumi Hiro, 223
Dialogue 2
Lee Ufan, Suga Kishio, Mika Yoshitake, Reiko Tomii, Mika Yoshitake, 228
Dialogue 3
Haraguchi Noriyuki, Reiko Tomii, Rika Iezumi Hiro, 232
Roundtable
Haraguchi Noriyuki, Koshimizu Susumu, Lee Ufan, Sekine Nobuo, Suga Kishio, Hollis Goodall, Rika Iezumi Hiro, 235
Beyond Being and Nothingness: On Sekine Nobuo (1970–71)
Lee Ufan, Reiko Tomii, 238
On the Contributors, 262