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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Early modern Japan"”.
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Shunpon: Intertextuality, Humour, and Sexual Education in Early-modern Japan
… Intertextuality, Humour, and Sexual Education in Early-modern Japan This dissertation explores the sexually explicit rewritings of earlier literature in early-modern shunpon production. The term shunpon is used today by scholars to refer to books containing shunga (images displaying explicit …
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Of Mice and Maidens: Ideologies of Interspecies Romance in Late Medieval and Early Modern Japan
… (irui kon'in) has long been a central theme in Japanese literature and folklore. Frequently dismissed as fairytales, stories of interspecies marriage illuminate contemporaneous conceptions of the animal-human boundary and the anxieties surrounding it. This dissertation contributes to the …
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Strategies of Adaptation: Constructing <i>Gōkan</i> in Late-Edo Japan
… book that epitomises the adaptive spirit of early-modern Japan through its serialised, eye-catching, and diverse storytelling. By engaging with early-modern discourse and contemporary theory alike, this dissertation makes three contributions. The first is towards our knowledge of the …
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Reading the Lines: Edo period nyohitsu and the construction of meaning through script form
This thesis explores nyohitsu 女筆 ‘woman’s brush’, a style of writing used in letters and taught through books taking the same name which were published in the Edo period, with its heyday between 1650 and 1750. Highly cursive and kana-dominant, it drew on Heian and medieval aristocratic writing …
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Valences of Vengeance: The Moral Imagination of Early Modern Japanese Vendetta Fiction
… successful vendettas were carried out over the nearly 270 years of Tokugawa rule, events which formed the ground for a vast number of semi-fictional retellings and purely fictional works, many of them penned by some of the period's most famous authors. As an act of virtuous violence, charged with …