Publications
Select publications:
Articles in English
“Kôda Rohan’s Literary Debut (1889) and the Temporal Topology of Meiji Japan,” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 67:2 (December 2007), 375-419. Download Part: 1 2 3
“Meiji Japan’s Y23 Crisis and the Discovery of the Future; Suehiro Tetchô’s Nijûsan-nen mirai- ki.” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 60: 1 (June 2000), 5-43.
“In Praise of Female Valor: Meiji Women in Chikanobu’s Prints.” Chikanobu: Modernity and Nostalgia in Japanese Prints. Ed. by Bruce Coats. Leiden: Hotei; Abingdon: Marston, 2006, 145-151.
Major articles in Japanese
“Kôda Rohan to mirai (Kôda Rohan and the Future).” Bungaku 16:1 (January-February, 2005), 120-133. Download
“Mirai-ki no jidai” (The Era of Mirai-ki [Records of the Future]). Bungaku 9:4 (Autumn 1998), 28-38. Download
Translations
Hidden Flowers (Matsumoto Seichô’s Inka no kazari). Five stories from the collection co-translated from the Japanese with James Lipson. Matsumoto Seichô: Promotion of Research Fellowship Report, 8 (January 2008), 1-61. Kita-Kyushu: Matsumoto Seichô Memorial Museum.
The Icon of Liberty (Kôda Rohan’s Fûryûbutsu, 1889). Co-translated from the Japanese with James Lipson. The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature. Columbia University Press, 2005, 105-152.