Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies (Series)

This series provides a venue for important works of scholarship in all fields of Japanese studies, most notably works in Japanese history and literary studies. Quality in scholarly content and production are of paramount concern.

Series Editor:

Markus Nornes, Director of Undergraduate Studies and Professor of Asian Cinema at The University of Michigan

Center for Japanese Studies

The Publications Program of the Center for Japanese Studies at the University of Michigan publishes research on Japan by scholars around the world. Works currently appear in print in three series (Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies, Michigan Papers in Japanese Studies, and Michigan Classics in Japanese Studies) and as nonseries publications. Center books have been reviewed in The New York Times, The Times Literary Supplement, Publishers Weekly, and World Literature Today, as well as in all the major journals on Japanese and Asian studies. Over one hundred universities and colleges have adopted Center titles as textbooks for classes on Japanese language, literature, and culture. The Center also publishes materials of special interest to industry, government, and the general public. The Center published its first book in 1950.

 

Other CJS series with UMP include:
Michigan Papers in Japanese Studies
Michigan Classics in Japanese Studies

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Japanese Tele-Mediality, Seriality, and Film as a Social Medium

Examines the divergent and convergent ecologies of the dissemination of Japanese films

Inner Worlds

Interiority and Capitalist Modernity in Japan

Explores the connections among interiority, capitalism, and fascism in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century Japan

Four Years in Izumi

Village Japan in the Early Sixteenth Century

An unparalleled view of village society in Japan’s tumultuous Warring States period

Supernatural Japan

Izumi Kyoka and the Global Fantastic

Izumi Kyōka’s influence on modern literature of the fantastic

Intersex Figures in Modern Japanese Literature and Art

How artists used metaphors of non-heteronormative bodies and sexualities to resist authoritative dicta

In the Presence of Gods and Spirits

Hirata Atsutane and His Collaborators

The legacy of Hirata Atsutane’s study of the Way of the Gods

Listening to the Voices of the Dead

The 3-11 Tohoku Disaster Speaks

An incisive observation of the traumas of loss and marginalization brought to the surface by the 2011 Tōhoku Disaster

Samurai with Telephones

Anachronism in Japanese Literature

What anachronisms reveal about historical narratives through Early Modern and Modern Japanese cultural products

The Time of Laughter

Comedy and the Media Cultures of Japan

How laughter shapes contemporary Japanese media

Toward a Gameic World

New Rules of Engagement from Japanese Video Games

Examines the ways in which Japanese video games engage with social issues and national traumas

Negative, Nonsensical, and Non-Conformist

The Films of Suzuki Seijun

The definitive study of the pathbreaking and controversial Japanese film director who expanded the form, rhetoric, and philosophy of popular genre movies

How Dark Is My Flower

Yosano Akiko and the Invention of Romantic Love

Explores romantic love in modern Japanese literature through the work of the leading poet in the Myōjō circle

The Three Treasures

A Revised and Illustrated Study and Translation of Minamoto no Tamenori's Sanboe

An updated, augmented, and illustrated study and translation of this landmark collection of Buddhist tales

Yosano Akiko and The Tale of Genji

Revised Edition

A major contribution to the study of an important Japanese woman writer and a masterwork of reader reception studies

Tokyo Boogie-woogie and D.T. Suzuki

A rare exploration into the unknown life of Alan Suzuki, the son of Daisetsu and the writer of "Tokyo Boogie Woogie"

Sojiji

Discipline, Compassion, and Enlightenment at a Japanese Zen Temple

An intimate and insightful look into the life of a head Sōtō Zen temple in 21st century Japan

Regimes of Desire

Young Gay Men, Media, and Masculinity in Tokyo

Explores the limitations of sexual expression in Tokyo’s “safe” nightlife district and in Japanese media

The Courteous Power

Japan and Southeast Asia in the Indo-Pacific Era

Examining the pivotal relationship between Japan and Southeast Asia, as it has changed and endured into the Indo-Pacific Era

Touching the Unreachable

Writing, Skinship, Modern Japan

How can one construct relationality with the other through the skin, when touch is inevitably mediated by memories of previous contact, accumulated sensations, and interstitial space?

The Buddhist Poetry of the Great Kamo Priestess

Daisaiin Senshi and Hosshin Wakashu

Provides new translations and sensitive readings of the devotional Buddhist poems of Senshi, the Great Kamo Priestess of the Heian period

Black Eggs

Poems by Kurihara Sadako

The poetic voice of one of Japan’s greatest 20th-century poets

Women and Networks in Nineteenth-Century Japan

Writing women back into Japan’s nineteenth-century history, enriching our understanding of the period

The Era of Great Disasters

Japan and Its Three Major Earthquakes

Uncovering the humanity and wisdom within the tragedy of Japan’s disaster responses to three major earthquakes