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