Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction
Part One: Japanese Politics, Religion and Society
1. Politics and Religion in Japan
2. The Kojiki as Japan’s National Narrative
3. Prince Sh.toku and Japan’s ‘China Complex’
4. Japan’s Perennial New Man: The Liberal and Fascist Incarnations of Masamichi R.yama
5. From Mishima to Aum: Religiopolitical Violence in Late Twentieth-Century Japan
Part Two: Japanese Literature and Art
6. Japanese Poetry and the Aesthetics of Disaster
7. In Search of the Great Meiji Novel: From Ukigumo to Yoake mae
8. Nation and Region in the Work of Dazai Osamu
9. Ink Traces of the Dancing Calligraphers: Zen-ei Sho in Japan Today
10. Mishima, Bowie and the Anti-Metaphysics of the Mask
11. D.T. Suzuki’s Theory of Inspiration and the Challenges of Cross-Cultural Transmission 193
Part Three: Selected Reviews
12. Ninomiya Masayuki, La pensée de Kobayashi Hideo: Un intellectuel japonais au tournant de l’histoire
13. Doug Slaymaker, Confluences: Postwar France and Japan
14. Alex Bates, The Culture of the Quake: The Great Kant. Earthquake and Taish. Japan
15. Alan Tansman, The Aesthetics of Japanese Fascism
16. Japanese Literature as a Modern Invention: a review of Haruo Shirane and Tomi Suzuki (eds.), Inventing the Classics: Modernity, National Identity, and Japanese Literature
17. Haruo Shirane, Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons: Nature, Literature, and the Arts
18. Steven Heine and Dale S. Wright (eds.), Zen Masters
Bibliography of Roy Starrs Publications
Notes
Index