An Ise monogatari reader : : contexts and receptions / / edited by Joshua S. Mostow, Tokuro Yamamoto, Kurtis Hanlon.

• Superior document: Brill's Japanese Studies Library ; Volume 69
• TeilnehmendeR: Mostow, Joshua S., 1957-; Yamamoto, Tokurō, 1949-; Hanlon, Kurtis,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Japanese studies library ; Volume 69.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (331 pages)

"An "Ise monogatari" Reader is the first collection of essays in English on The Ise Stories, a canonical literary text ranked beside The Tale of Genji. Eleven scholars from Japan, North America, and Europe explore the historical and political context in which this literary court roman...

Table of Contents

• Intro
• Contents
• Matters Textual
• Illustrations
• Notes on Contributors
• Introduction
• Part 1 Historical Context
• Chapter 1 The Formation of the Ise monogatari and Its Background
• Chapter 2 The Significance of the Composition of the Ise monogatari
• Chapter 3 The Historical Reality of Ki no Aritsune and the Ise monogatari
• Part 2 Antecedents and Descendants
• Chapter 4 From Stories of Female Transcendents to the Ise monogatari Taking Kaimami as a Clue
• Chapter 5 Allusion to and Transformation of the Ise monogatari by "Murasaki Shikibu"
• Part 3 The Ise and Noh
• Chapter 6 Zenchiku's Noh Play Oshio Introduction and Translation
• Chapter 7 The Structure of the Noh Play Kakitsubata: Zenchiku's Method
• Part 4 The Commentary Tradition
• Chapter 8 The Methodology of Late-Muromachi Ise Commentaries Focusing on Sōgi and the Sanjōnishi School
• Chapter 9 Reading the Ise monogatari through The Tale of Genji
• Part 5 The Ise in the Early Modern Period
• Chapter 10 The Landscape of "The Well-Curb"
• Chapter 11 Playing Narihira The Ise monogatari in Eighteenth-Century Kibyōshi
• Appendix Family Tree of Principal Personages
• Index of Poem First Lines
• Subject Index.