Contents

pp v-vi

Acknowledgements

pp vii-viii

Foreword

pp ix-xii

Introduction: The Paradoxes of Japan's Cultural Identity

pp xiii-xxxii

Part One - Japanese Politics, Religion and Society

pp 1-2

1 - Politics and Religion in Japan

pp 3-19

2 - The Kojiki as Japan's National Narrative

pp 20-32

3 - Prince Shōtoku and Japan's ‘China Complex’

pp 33-43

4 - Japan's Perennial New Man: The Liberal and Fascist Incarnations of Masamichi Rōyama

pp 44-62

5 - From Mishima to Aum: Religiopolitical Violence in Late Twentieth-Century Japan

pp 63-98

Part Two - Japanese Literature and Art

pp 99-100

6 - Japanese Poetry and the Aesthetics of Disaster

pp 101-114

7 - In Search of the Great Meiji Novel: From Ukigumo to Yoake mae

pp 115-141

8 - Nation and Region in the Work of Dazai Osamu

pp 142-151

9 - Ink Traces of the Dancing Calligraphers: Zen-ei Sho in Japan Today

pp 152-173

10 - Mishima, Bowie and the Anti-Metaphysics of the Mask

pp 174-192

11 - D.T. Suzuki's Theory of Inspiration and the Challenges of Cross-Cultural Transmission

pp 193-214

Part Three - Selected Reviews

pp 215-216

12 - Ninomiya Masayuki, La pensée de Kobayashi Hideo: Un intellectuel japonais au tournant de l’histoire

pp 217-220

13 - Doug Slaymaker, Confluences: Postwar France and Japan

pp 221-227

14 - Alex Bates, The Culture of the Quake: The Great Kantō Earthquake and Taishō Japan

pp 228-232

15 - Alan Tansman, The Aesthetics of Japanese Fascism

pp 233-238

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

pp 239-246

17 - Haruo Shirane, Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons Nature, Literature, and the Arts

pp 247-249

18 - Steven Heine and Dale S. Wright (eds.), Zen Masters

pp 250-256

Bibliography of Roy Starrs Publications

pp 257-266

Notes

pp 267-284

Index

pp 285-291